Just then, a pale hand slowly reached out from behind her.
Liu Jingqing noticed nothing until that hand suddenly seized her shoulder!
Liu Jingqing's face instantly went white with fright.
She shuddered all over, despair spreading through her body.
But the owner of the hand that had grabbed her actually spoke!
"You're hiding here?"
Liu Jingqing turned around in delighted surprise. "Miss Nie!"
"Miss Nie, are you all right now?"
She had just seen Nie Yunzhen fleeing from at least two ghosts with her own eyes. She had never expected that Nie Yunzhen would not only escape their pursuit, but even find her!
Since Nie Yunzhen happened to be here too, Liu Jingqing said excitedly, "Miss Nie, we can try taking turns ringing the hanging bell. After I rang it just now, it stopped making any sound. If you go ring it, that should lift the restriction. If it works, we can finish the task of ringing it three times very soon!"
Nie Yunzhen looked down at her and nodded. "Yes... that's a good idea."
Liu Jingqing nodded too. "If the ghosts in the third stage couldn't potentially disguise themselves as players, we should have regrouped right from the start..."
"Actually, I've had a thought all along," Liu Jingqing said, looking at Nie Yunzhen. "Maybe... something like the Red Map doesn't exist in the ghosts' field of vision at all."
"And they can't see those points of light either. Otherwise, with only a three-minute delay, there's no way the ghosts would take so long to find us."
Nie Yunzhen watched her and asked, "Then do you think the ghosts have some other way?"
Liu Jingqing shook her head wearily. "I can't really say. It's just... earlier today, didn't everyone in the entire square look at us? Although they all only