With the immediate danger averted, neither of them dared delay any longer. They rushed into the Main Building.
Qin Manjiang almost immediately collapsed into a sitting position on the floor. His stamina had reached its limit.
But that was not the worst of it. Perhaps from overworking his brain, Qin Manjiang now felt a throbbing pain deep inside his head, as though something was about to emerge.
Go ahead and rest...
The thought appeared in his mind for no reason. Qin Manjiang bit down hard on the tip of his tongue, and the pain forced him back to alertness.
No, I can't rest...
Although he had no idea where that thought urging him to rest had come from, Qin Manjiang's subconscious had no desire whatsoever to do so.
"What... happened to you two?"
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the stairs.
Both of them started in alarm. Chen Zhiyuan?!
Hadn't he already died?
Had he turned into a ghost too?
It was one crisis after another. Qin Manjiang gritted his teeth. This time, even he felt a little despair.
Yet when he and Jian Cunxin looked toward the foot of the stairs, they found that Chen Zhiyuan did not seem to be a ghost.
He had tied Nurse Liu's hands behind her back and was sitting at the foot of the stairs himself, looking at them in surprise.
"You're not dead?" Qin Manjiang asked.
"I hid inside the Congealed Jade Gourd." Chen Zhiyuan looked them over. "What about you two? You're drenched in sweat. Did you run into a ghost?"
"More or less." Qin Manjiang really could not manage any more words. He glanced at Jian Cunxin, then closed his eyes to rest.
Jian Cunxin understood and told Chen Zhiyuan about the Basement and what had just happened.
But she