Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 958

An unexpected turn

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The two of them hid in a small compartment off the Fifth Floor corridor.

It was where the mall's cleaning staff stored their equipment. They would have to wait until the ghost left the fifth floor and headed farther up before they could run downstairs.

Right now... they absolutely could not let the ghost discover them.

Both of them held their breath.

Dark and cramped, the little compartment was an uncomfortable place to be.

Even worse was the psychological torment.

Unable to see what was happening outside, neither Nie Yunzhen nor Chen Zhiyuan knew where the ghost was now.

Logically, after Shen Hai said those things in the Seventh Floor Broadcast Room, the ghost should have targeted the person whose location it had confirmed.

But now...

When faced with the unknown, people found it difficult to take that first step.

Inside the cramped cleaning cupboard, Nie Yunzhen listened carefully for any movement outside. Although she had indeed seen the ghost climbing the escalator from the fourth floor, she had not heard it make a sound then either. In other words... perhaps this ghost made no footsteps?

If they could not use its footsteps to determine whether it had left, they could only rely on luck.

Although the ghost had most likely gone straight to the seventh floor, what if it had noticed something unusual and lingered on the fifth floor for a while?

Two more minutes. Just two more minutes...

Just then, Shen Hai's voice rang out through the mall again!

"Meet at the usual place."

What was going on?!

Nie Yunzhen's eyes widened. Was Shen Hai not afraid of dying?

He still had not left the seventh floor?

This was nothing short of a provocation!

He was openly telling the ghost, *I'm still on the seventh floor. Come and

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