"Fang Xiujie!"
With Sister Yao clinging to Ning Yan and crying nonstop, Ning Yan was too panicked to think clearly. Under Sister Yao's influence, she had even started crying herself without knowing why. In her confusion, she could only turn to Fang Xiujie beside her for help.
Fang Xiujie looked sorrowful. He gazed at Ning Yan and Sister Yao, hesitating several times before finally saying to Ning Yan, "Ning Yan, perhaps three years ago, we already..."
"Cough-cough, cough-cough, cough-"
Just as Fang Xiujie began to speak, coughing sounded from very close by.
"It's that coughing! The coughing we heard in Building Two!" Qiu Lei, the younger sister, couldn't help jumping to her feet, cutting Fang Xiujie off completely.
Everyone's attention was instantly diverted.
Although the coughing sounded close, it didn't seem to be coming from inside the lobby of Building 1. It sounded more like it came from outside.
Coughing wasn't exactly a unique trait, but when Su Bai had rescued Feng Ling earlier, the female ghost who had gripped her throat and tried to kill her had been dragged into a pit beneath a tree by a Ghost Creature that kept coughing.
If the commotion Su Bai caused hadn't startled that coughing Ghost Creature, the female ghost would probably have been buried outright. Given how deep that pit was, she might not even have been able to move.
The players looked outside through the glass entrance doors and saw a humanoid black shadow standing a short distance from the entrance to Building 1. It held a shovel and certainly looked like the Ghost Creature Su Bai and Feng Ling had encountered earlier.
"I think I've seen him before." Feng Ling no longer had time to consider what Su Bai had said. Instead, she hurriedly shared everything she knew, including