With the immediate danger averted, neither dared delay any longer. They rushed into the Main Building.
Qin Manjiang almost immediately collapsed into a sitting position on the floor. His stamina had reached its limit.
But that was not the worst of it. Perhaps from overtaxing his mind, Qin Manjiang now felt a throbbing pain deep in his brain, as though something were about to emerge.
"Go ahead and rest..."
The thought appeared in his mind out of nowhere. Qin Manjiang bit down hard on the tip of his tongue, forcing himself awake with the pain.
No, I can't rest...
Although he had no idea where that thought urging him to rest had come from, Qin Manjiang's subconscious wanted nothing to do with it.
"What... happened to you two?"
Suddenly, a familiar voice rang out from the stairs.
Both of them started in alarm. Chen Zhiyuan?!
Wasn't he already dead?
Had he become a ghost too?
One crisis after another. Qin Manjiang gritted his teeth. This time, even he felt a little despair.
Yet when he and Jian Cunxin looked toward the staircase, they discovered that Chen Zhiyuan did not seem to be a ghost.
He had tied Nurse Liu's hands behind her back and was sitting at the foot of the stairs, looking at them in surprise.
"You're not dead?" Qin Manjiang asked.
"I hid in the Congealed Jade Gourd." Chen Zhiyuan looked them over. "What about you two? You're drenched in sweat. Did you run into a ghost?"
"More or less." Qin Manjiang really could not manage another word. He glanced at Jian Cunxin, then closed his eyes to rest.
Jian Cunxin understood and told Chen Zhiyuan about the basement and what had just happened.
But she had questions too, questions only Qin Manjiang could explain.
"Mr. Qin took