Before his state locked, Shen Hai had found a comfortable position to sit in. Seeing this, he understood everything too.
"Hey, if things had gone smoothly, Chen Zhiyuan would have been here ages ago."
Qin Manjiang wasted no more time and immediately charged upstairs.
Shen Hai was right. This man had known all along how to distinguish the player playing the "ghost" from the real ghost. His suggestion to gather at the café had been purely for everyone else's sake.
Although, as far as Qin Manjiang knew, Shen Hai generally would not do something like this, that was indeed what he had done this time.
But Chen Zhiyuan had not come over...
Something was wrong...
Something had happened!
Qin Manjiang rushed out of the café. Just then, he suddenly discovered that the escalator above had started moving!
The person on the escalator was none other than Chen Zhiyuan!
Chen Zhiyuan had also fallen when the escalator suddenly started, but he quickly got back up. Turning around, however, he discovered that Nie Yunzhen had not followed him down. Instead, she had turned and rushed into the stairwell on the Fifth Floor.
He looked up toward the Seventh Floor. A Pale White figure was moving toward the Fifth Floor at tremendous speed!
And... judging by that Pale White figure's movements, it intended to enter the stairwell directly, with no intention of coming down the escalator...
Although the Permanent Item's effects on his mind had left Chen Zhiyuan unable to think deeply about anything, his instinctive fear remained. He was utterly terrified of that Pale White, distorted figure, but...
The moment when Nie Yunzhen had pulled him into the cleaning supply compartment resurfaced in Chen Zhiyuan's mind.
There was not much he could think of. He only dimly realized that Nie Yunzhen had