Xu Youqing, who was running at the back, glanced over his shoulder. Yang Liuye's corpse, whose head the ghost had just twisted a hundred and eighty degrees, leaving her neck wrung like a twisted rope, twitched eerily...
Xu Youqing shuddered in alarm and said, "The ghost looking for us is Miss Yezi!"
What?!
The others couldn't help looking back as well.
Just then-
"Rumble-"
Outside, amid the torrential downpour, a terrifying ghostly figure appeared atop the wall!
She wore a bloodred dress, her body and exposed arms abnormally long and thin. She wasn't the female ghost from the first round... she was another ghost!
Wait, the Opening Lines said... [The second time, Older Sister didn't get any.]
Was that "Older Sister"?
No way... did more Vengeful Ghosts appear with each successive round?
Then who could possibly clear this game?
Even Shen Hai could no longer spare any attention for opposing Qin Manjiang. Uncovering this curse's hidden secret was the most pressing matter.
But with one fewer candy each round, and elimination meaning death, even if they agreed not to sabotage one another and to help each other instead, they would only possibly help after securing a candy for the current round themselves.
In other words... fundamentally, they would always be competitors in this game.
Just like now.
All five ran as fast as they could.
One minute to hide... and turn into an object inside the villa.
How were they supposed to transform?
Everyone was pondering that question.
Did they have to touch other objects? Would they turn into whatever they touched?
And what exactly counted as "inside the villa"?
If the front courtyard and back courtyard counted, wouldn't turning into a weed in the yard make them invincible?
The more Qin Manjiang thought about it, the more something seemed