"Was this round really only this difficult...?"
In the quiet room, Ye Lin set aside his earlier speculations. Without enough clues to confirm them, all he could do was consider the problems posed by this round.
Seated at a somewhat rotten table, he glanced at the Wristwatch on his wrist.
It was almost midnight now. About six hours had passed since they had hidden inside the houses. Aside from the ghosts battering the doors at the beginning, nothing unusual had happened since. Judging by the current situation, they should have been safe.
And yet, he kept feeling that it was too easy. A faint unease lingered in his heart, as though he had overlooked something.
Spend the night alone, survive until dawn...
The danger of the former might be possession, allowing a ghost to slip in among us. The latter might involve ghosts deceiving us by falsifying the time.
But as long as we don't go outside and stay here long enough, we can avoid both.
So what exactly is the danger?
He tapped lightly on the table. Suddenly, his brow lifted as a possibility occurred to him.
The ghosts appeared suddenly... but the Ancestral Hall probably wasn't a trap...
If it were a trap, they could simply have waited until we all went inside. The ghosts outside appeared because someone must have triggered something, making them show up early.
Ye Lin frowned slightly, linking together everything that had happened since they arrived and reviewing it again and again. A few seconds later, the scene in his mind froze on the moment they rushed out of the Ancestral Hall.
Wait...
At the time, only the Little Child Ghost had been inside the Ancestral Hall. There had been no other ghosts.
But by the time they rushed out, Wang Tao and