Just as the atmosphere between them grew a little strained, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded behind one of the red doors!
Was the ghost here?!
Nie Yunzhen's expression changed, but Shen Hai had already rushed out, pulled open a vermilion door, and slipped inside without so much as a glance.
Shen Hai's actions startled Nie Yunzhen. Was this man... really that bold? Was he... just going straight after the ghost?
Gritting her teeth, she followed Shen Hai through the vermilion doorway. Yet once inside, she discovered that beyond the door was another passage filled with all kinds of "red doors"!
The densely packed doors, coupled with the narrow passage that could only fit two people side by side... were exactly the same as in the passage before!
Just then, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded again from inside the wall to their left!
The ghost had gone next door again!
Without hesitation, Shen Hai swiftly pinpointed where the sound had come from in the wall. The door corresponding to that position was... the pink door!
He immediately opened the pink door and charged inside.
Another passage, exactly the same, with no difference at all from the previous two!
After the ghost led him around a few times, Shen Hai grew interested instead. He had figured it out.
If they kept opening doors, layer after layer, without ever catching up to the ghost, they would be trapped in these overlapping spaces until they died.
There was still no sign of the ghost in this passage, even though they had clearly heard footsteps before opening the door.
Was it running too fast? Or was there some other reason?
Shen Hai said to Nie Yunzhen, "Listen with me for where the sound comes from. Find the door whose color corresponds to that spot. Don't lose focus."