Meanwhile, Qin Manjiang and the other three rushed to the steps outside Shopping Square. The Musical Fountain was just below.
Yet there was no one here.
Was the ghost here?
If it had only been Liu Jingqing, it might have been her imagination, but Qin Manjiang, Shen Hai, and Nie Yunzhen had also felt something watching them from the darkness, one after another. That made it unlikely to be their imagination. At the very least, something supernatural was here!
"Look!"
Just then, Nie Yunzhen pointed at the steps. Only a little light spilled onto the dim steps from the streetlamps in Central Park, nowhere near enough to see clearly.
But they could indeed make out something on the steps.
Nie Yunzhen took out her phone, turned on its flashlight, and shone it at those blurry "shadows" on the steps.
The moment the light fell on them, a chill ran through her.
These were... the steps were covered in densely packed, wet, bare footprints!
Had the ghost been pacing on these steps just now?!
Everyone shuddered in alarm and followed the footprints back to their source: the fountain pool...
Had the ghost climbed out of the pool?
Using her phone to light the way, Nie Yunzhen walked toward the fountain pool.
Everyone followed her. At that moment, no one noticed that Chen Zhiyuan and Zheng Jun were missing.
For one thing, after they had recovered from their paralysis, although Zheng Jun had suffered the worst fall, he had been on the stairs just inside the first-floor stairwell entrance. A few steps with the railing for support had brought him to the doorway.
When everyone regrouped, they saw his bruised and swollen face and knew he was hurt, but none of them knew his injuries were this serious.
Qin Manjiang had been