"Some of the corridors are so dark I can't make anything out. Come take a look."
It took Lao Zhang several minutes to finally pull up the surveillance footage from half an hour ago for the different floors.
Qiao Ziruo hurried over and began carefully checking them floor by floor.
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 forced down the fear in her heart and began dragging the surveillance timeline.
Second floor, people...
Third floor, people...
Fourth, fifth, sixth... Everyone coming and going on every floor was human.
There was no sign of the ghost at all.
That can't be right... Wait, it likes darkness, not light. Should I try focusing on the darker floors?
The floor with its corridor lights off right now is... the twenty-seventh?
The eerie green emergency lights made the corridor look particularly sinister. The surveillance camera's resolution wasn't very high either, and under these lighting conditions, the entire screen was covered in noise.
But... Qiao Ziruo really saw it!
A Vengeful Ghost with only half a body left was dragging its spine and head along, walking slowly through the corridor!
It's that one. That's it!
Wait... Could it be looking for its own body?
The thought flashed through her mind!
Qiao Ziruo instantly understood a great many things.
Yes... That must be it! His upper body has vanished, leaving only a spine connected to his head, dragged around by his lower body as he searches for his upper body.
But just then, Qiao Ziruo suddenly heard a sound-
"Tap-"
"Scrape-"
"Tap-"
"Scrape-"
It's here!
Qiao Ziruo's scalp prickled. That ghost had found