I can't stop... calm down.
Follow the rules and keep moving.
Luo Chengyou kept stepping forward.
Once he entered this alley, he could no longer stop. Whatever lay ahead, he could only keep walking forward.
But he had barely taken two steps when he suddenly heard a woman's voice shouting anxiously from the alley entrance behind him: "Luo Chengyou! Don't go in! Those patches of black stuff are Pathogen!"
Was that... Xu Tingfang's voice?!
But why was Xu Tingfang here?
Luo Chengyou did not stop, but he was not walking fast. He moved forward at an extremely slow pace.
She isn't Xu Tingfang. She's a ghost trying to lure me into looking back, isn't she?
This trick is hardly anything new.
In the Ghost Stories he had participated in before, ghosts had used this sort of trick countless times.
Yet just as Luo Chengyou thought this, he heard the girl behind him shout anxiously, "I'm not a ghost! I really am Xu Tingfang!"
"As soon as I arrived in Sick Village, I was randomly assigned to the Library. My rule was that I could leave the Library once I found the Administrator."
"I found him in the basement. After he showed me the way, the fog around the Library cleared. No... there isn't any fog in this village at all. It's our vision that's foggy!"
"I saw you standing at the alley entrance from far away, about to walk inside. You can't go in! Come out, quick!"
"I can see the right path now. There's no fog in my eyes. Just follow me!"
Xu Tingfang spoke loudly.
Luo Chengyou kept walking, listening carefully to every word Xu Tingfang said.
If he could still use the [Mind-Reading Mirror], he would not have to agonize over this.
But he could not use