"Some of the corridors are so dark I can't make anything out. Come take a look."
Lao Zhang worked for several minutes before finally pulling up the surveillance footage from half an hour earlier for every floor.
Qiao Ziruo hurried over and began carefully checking them one by one.
Her heart pounded. The time she had wasted here was already more than enough for that ghost to come downstairs.
It just didn't know which floor she was on yet. Hopefully, it would spend a little longer searching...
Qiao Ziruo suppressed the terror in her heart and began dragging the surveillance playback slider.
Second floor, people...
Third floor, people...
Fourth, fifth, sixth... people came and went on every floor.
There was no sign of the ghost at all.
That couldn't be right... wait, it preferred darkness to light. What if I focused on the darker floors?
Which floor had its corridor lights off right now... the twenty-seventh?
The eerie green emergency lights made the corridor look particularly unsettling. The surveillance camera's resolution wasn't very high, either, and under these lighting conditions, noise covered the entire screen.
But... Qiao Ziruo really saw it!
A Vengeful Ghost with only half a body left dragged its spine and head slowly along the corridor!
It's it. That's it!
Wait... could it be looking for its own body?
The thought flashed through her mind!
Qiao Ziruo instantly understood many things.
Yes... that had to be it! His upper body had vanished, leaving only a spine connected to his head, dragged along by his lower body as he searched everywhere for his upper half.
But just then, Qiao Ziruo suddenly heard a sound-
"Tap-"
"Scrape-"
"Tap-"
"Scrape-"
It was here!
Qiao Ziruo's scalp prickled. The ghost had found its way here after all, and it was in