Time rewound to five minutes earlier.
Liu Jingqing hid in the Ball Pit, racking her brains for a way to escape.
The water had already reached her chin and would soon cover her lips!
The ghost was still clinging to the ceiling directly overhead. Why on earth wouldn't it come down?
Did it have to force me to move before it could see me?
Liu Jingqing began to despair.
She had only two choices now. The first was to let the water cover her and drown.
The second was to escape the Ball Pit and be discovered by the ghost, which also meant death.
But compared with the first, the second offered at least some chance of survival, however minuscule.
Liu Jingqing had already secretly decided to make a desperate gamble.
Rather than drown, she would prefer to make one last effort before dying.
Wait a little longer... once the water reaches my nose, I'll climb out of the pool immediately and run with everything I've got!
She planned an escape route for herself. The stairs were naturally the most convenient, but "Zheng Jun" was in the stairwell, so she could only take the Escalator down.
Just then, the water rose higher...
Three...
Two...
Liu Jingqing's heart pounded. Just as she counted down to herself, preparing to leap out of the pool, suddenly, hurried footsteps came from the lower floors of the Shopping Mall!
There was no attempt to conceal those footsteps. They were so loud that even the rushing water failed to drown them out.
Who was it?
Soon, rustling sounds of crawling came from the ceiling.
It left?!
It really left?!
Liu Jingqing was both astonished and delighted.
After waiting ten seconds or so and confirming that the footsteps on the ceiling had truly receded, Liu Jingqing climbed