At last... before the ghost could come up, Qin Manjiang rushed into the stairwell.
He dared not stop or make any large movements. Desperately suppressing his breathing, which had grown somewhat heavy from tension, he continued up the stairs one step at a time.
He stopped just beyond the turn in the staircase. Now, with a turn of his head, he could see the locked iron door to the rooftop diagonally above him.
"Clack... clack..."
"Clack..."
Footsteps rang out on the stairs just four or five meters below!
Goosebumps rose all over Qin Manjiang.
In the dim stairwell, only the moonlight through the windows illuminated a few outlines.
The head nurse whose eye sockets were packed with eyeballs had come up...
Closer and closer... closer... and closer!
Qin Manjiang clamped a hand tightly over his mouth.
As long as "she" did what she had done on the fourth floor and turned to search the fifth floor instead of continuing upward, he could use that opening to go downstairs.
But this time... the ghost continued up without the slightest hesitation!
"Clack..."
"Clack..."
The terrifying click of high heels against the floor made his scalp prickle. The pale moonlight cast a distorted shadow onto the wall in front of Qin Manjiang.
The Vengeful Ghost was only a few steps away from reaching the next landing. Then, with one turn, she would see Qin Manjiang huddled on the stairs!
An icy chill seeped through the air toward Qin Manjiang, freezing him until even his soul began to tremble.
She was getting closer... and the shadow on the wall was growing larger!
His eyes slowly widened, but inwardly, he was counting down...
Five...
Four...
Three...
"Ring, ring, ring!!!"
A phone suddenly rang in the middle of the fifth-floor corridor!
The instant it rang, the