A ghost!?
Everyone jolted and rushed toward the voice.
Even An Ke had no time to think and hurried over.
Inside the truck, He Zheng stood rigid as a statue, his twin axes still held in a fighting stance.
His face was drained of color, his lips trembled nonstop, and his eyes were fixed on the weeds beside the road.
Even when the others arrived, he did not dare look away, as though terrified something might burst out of the darkness.
"He Zheng!?"
Startled, Huang Liang quickly drew the pistol from behind his waist and aimed a powerful flashlight at the grass.
The beam was blinding.
But there was nothing within the circle of light, only a few clumps of waist-high weeds swaying in the wind.
"He Zheng, could you have seen it wrong?"
Huang Liang was about to step forward and pat him when He Zheng suddenly seemed to deflate, collapsing onto his backside.
"I didn't see it wrong!"
"A ghost... fuck! I really saw a ghost! That thing ran out right past my face...!"
He swallowed hard, clearly still shaken, his words tumbling out incoherently.
Ye Lin frowned. They had found nothing, but from what he knew of He Zheng, the man was no coward. If something had frightened him this badly, he must have seen something.
"An Ke, can ghosts show up at A-rank difficulty too?"
Ye Lin turned to ask her, and his words made everyone's hair stand on end.
The difficulty was already high enough. If anything else showed up, few of them would make it out alive. Especially something like a ghost...
An Ke opened her mouth, looking hesitant. Finally, after glancing at her watch, she said with certainty:
"No. The Three Major Events can occur at A-rank difficulty, but each trial only has