At last... before the ghost could come up, Qin Manjiang rushed into the stairwell.
He dared not stop or make any large movements. Desperately suppressing his breathing, which had grown a little heavy with tension, he continued up the stairs one step at a time.
He stopped just beyond the turn in the stairs. Now, with a turn of his head, he could see the locked iron door to the rooftop diagonally above him.
"Clack... clack..."
"Clack..."
Footsteps sounded on the stairs only four or five meters below!
Goosebumps rose all over Qin Manjiang.
In the dim stairwell, only the moonlight through the window illuminated a few outlines.
The head nurse whose eye sockets were crammed full of eyeballs was coming up...
Closer and closer... closer... and closer!
Qin Manjiang clamped his hand over his mouth.
As long as "she" stopped climbing and turned to search the fifth floor, just as she had on the fourth, he could use that opening to go downstairs.
Yet this time... the ghost actually kept climbing without the slightest hesitation!
"Clack..."
"Clack..."
The horrifying sound of high heels striking the floor made his scalp prickle. The ghostly white moonlight cast a distorted shadow onto the wall ahead of Qin Manjiang.
The Vengeful Ghost was only a few steps from the next landing. Then, with one turn, she would see Qin Manjiang huddled on the stairs!
An icy chill crept through the air toward Qin Manjiang, freezing him until even his soul began to tremble.
She was getting closer... and the shadow on the wall was growing larger!
His eyes slowly widened, but inwardly, he was counting down...
Five...
Four...
Three...
"Ring, ring, ring, ring!!!"
A phone suddenly rang in the middle of the fifth-floor corridor!
The instant the ringing began, the ghost's shadow on