Behind him, Meng Le and Ju Lei were both stunned.
Seriously, boss?!
How could you just look around and then leave?!
Weren't you here to save us?
As they watched Che Quan head down the stairs without looking back, Meng Le and Ju Lei sank into deathly silence and confusion.
As luck would have it, Zhang Yun's ghostly shriek rang out again just then. "This isn't somewhere you can come and go as you please..."
Meng Le and Ju Lei felt dizzy and terrified at the sound.
But Che Quan was not shaken in the slightest. Instead, he stopped, turned back, took the baseball bat from Meng Le, and swung it cleanly toward a spot in the darkness.
It struck something with perfect accuracy.
Zhang Yun's scream rang out instantly.
It sounded like it had really hurt.
Meng Le and Ju Lei silently swallowed.
"Zhang Yun" seemingly hadn't expected a player to be able to hit her. After the pain struck, she let out a furious shriek and charged straight at Che Quan.
Although Meng Le and Ju Lei couldn't make out her lightning-fast ghostly form, they could hear Zhang Yun's screams, one after another, without end.
Throughout it all, Che Quan remained expressionless and unhurried. Every blow landed.
Meng Le and Ju Lei stared, dumbfounded.
Soon, "Zhang Yun" had been beaten into submission, though not completely. She still tried to ambush the three of them with her sinister tricks.
Her familiar clapping sounded in the darkness.
Normally, it would have sounded unremarkable. Now, however, Meng Le and Ju Lei involuntarily began to lose focus when they heard it, as though their souls had been numbed in an instant, leaving them entirely at her mercy.
It was like being hypnotized.
An ancient voice, drawn-out and eerily deep, summoned them to