The two returned to the first-floor lobby. For once, Li Xijiu did not keep shouting. Instead, he looked at the split skin between his thumb and forefinger and said quietly:
"Brother Qin, I really thought I was about to die back there."
Before Qin Manjiang could answer, he murmured again, "This Game... really can kill people..."
Qin Manjiang glanced back at him.
People reacted very differently to fear. Some grew hysterical, some pretended to be calm, some wailed in terror, and some fell silent in despair.
Qin Manjiang could clearly sense Li Xijiu's emotions. He was using jokes to cover up his unease and terror. He was afraid, but even more afraid of holding Qin Manjiang back.
The guy's calves had been trembling the whole time, and Qin Manjiang had noticed all of it.
But he was no good at giving inspiring speeches.
"I'll get you out."
He said it earnestly once again.
Li Xijiu grinned, as though those negative emotions had never appeared. "Of course you will. You promised to take care of me!"
"Did I ever say that?"
"Trying to back out now? When we were kids, when we were nine, you..."
"Shh..."
Qin Manjiang covered Li Xijiu's mouth. Though Li Xijiu did not understand why, he obediently fell silent.
Qin Manjiang slowly walked toward the ticket counter, his eyes fixed on a diagram.
"Isn't that a floor plan of the cinema? What's wrong?" Li Xijiu saw the diagram too, but noticed nothing strange about it.
"It's only part of it. There are pieces missing." Qin Manjiang looked around.
Just then, the Vengeful Ghost's howling upstairs abruptly stopped.
Both men's breath caught. Was it coming?
"Hurry. Take down every floor plan on the first floor. You take the left, I'll take the right."
By the time Qin Manjiang