In Ghost Blows Out the Lamp, Lao Hu, Fatty, and the others had encountered the Soul-Hanging Ladder in the Dragon Ridge Labyrinth. In the end, Lao Hu had calculated the gate of life using yin-yang and the eight trigrams, and they had only escaped by jumping down.
But this staircase...
There were walls on both sides, not sheer drops.
It was different from the one in the Dragon Ridge Labyrinth.
"How about this? I'll keep going. You wait here and see whether I come up behind you."
Gu Cheng thought for a moment before speaking.
He wanted to test whether this was the Soul-Hanging Ladder.
"Why would you end up behind us if you kept going forward?"
Fatty asked curiously.
"I suspect this is some kind of mechanism whose design has been lost. If I'm right, I'll end up behind you if I keep going."
Gu Cheng answered.
Everyone immediately felt a chill.
"How is that possible?!"
"We'll find out whether I'm right by trying it."
"Young Master Gu, let me come with you."
Fatty said.
Gu Cheng shook his head. "You and Lao Hu stay here. If anything happens, you're the two who can hold things together."
With that, he took his flashlight and prepared to set off.
But CoCo suddenly said, "I'll go with you!"
"You?!"
Gu Cheng frowned. "What would you come along for?"
CoCo said, "I want to see what this legendary Ghost Wall is all about, too."
Gu Cheng considered it. Having some company wouldn't be bad.
Especially a pretty girl.
"All right, then. You'd better stay close. Don't get lost."
"Hmph, worry about yourself!"
The two started down the stairs.
Neither spoke along the way.
After about two or three minutes, everything ahead was still pitch-black.
He glanced back and got a fright.
Even