Ten o'clock.
Hu Liena and Yan arrived beneath the Paranormal Forum Tower right on time.
Almost simultaneously, a dazzling red light flashed in midair.
The red light faded, and Yang Jian appeared out of thin air beside them.
The Ghost Eye on the back of his hand swiveled, radiating an utterly chilling sense of scrutiny.
Meanwhile, on the twentieth floor of the tower.
Lin Cheng rubbed his slightly throbbing temples and sat up on the broad leather sofa.
He wore an extremely casual set of cotton pajamas, and his hair was somewhat disheveled. He had none of the imposing dignity expected of a powerful figure; instead, he looked like a languid young man who had just woken up.
"I should've set the time a little later. I'm dead tired."
Lin Cheng yawned as he spoke.
"System, check in."
[Ding! Check-in successful.] [Rewards obtained: 1% Ghost Submarine paranormal power, one Custom Golden Communication Earpiece.]
At the system notification, Lin Cheng's still-drowsy eyes instantly lit up.
"I waited a whole month, and I finally got the Ghost Submarine from a check-in again."
With this one-percent infusion, the paranormal strength of the Ghost Submarine within him officially reached sixty-one percent!
This seemingly insignificant one percent brought a qualitative leap.
Deep within his Ghost Domain, the boundless dark-blue sea expanded outward by another hundred kilometers!
A terrifying, soul-shaking sound rose from the depths of the seabed.
But as the Ghost Fish stirred and a reset took place, the sound finally vanished into the deepest reaches of the ocean floor.
Lin Cheng made no preparations. Without even changing out of his slippers, he simply stepped forward.
Dark-blue ripples spread through space.
The next second, he appeared out of thin air outside the ground-floor entrance of the Paranormal Forum Tower.
At the sight of