He had no time to think, because the number on the elevator display had already changed to "3"!
The mall had seven floors in total.
Was a person using the elevator?
He couldn't be sure... but surely no one was that bold?
No...
I was just about to use it myself. Maybe someone had the same idea, except I wanted to take it down, and they wanted to take it up...
At a time like this, who would take the elevator up from basement level one?
Zheng Jun's hair stood on end.
Even stranger, the elevator hadn't stopped on the first floor. What floor had the person pressed, then? The seventh?
Was it the player playing the "ghost"? Or a real ghost?
Was it going to search downward from the seventh floor, one floor at a time?
Many thoughts flashed through Zheng Jun's mind in that brief moment. He darted into the stairwell beside him, but the elevator didn't stop on the third floor. It kept going up.
Zheng Jun let out a huge sigh of relief.
But just then, Zheng Jun's phone suddenly lit up!
His heart nearly stopped from fright. He hurriedly looked at the screen. It was a call!
The caller was Liu Jingqing?
What's that famous writer calling me for?
Zheng Jun was full of doubts.
After all, there was an unwritten rule in [Eye Realm]: once you entered a Ghost Story Game, even if your phone still had a signal, it was best to turn it off and not answer anyone's calls.
"Mimicry" was one of a ghost's basic abilities. Generally speaking, ghosts were highly likely to deceive players through cell phones, telephones, and other communication devices.
Unless things reached a critical point where making or answering a call was absolutely necessary...
Zheng Jun thought