The corridor was dimly lit and riddled with forks. Qi Gu left a little cinnabar mark at every junction, but after following his instincts all this way, he had not seen a single cinnabar mark again.
They had not backtracked at all.
For Qi Gu, whose luck was abysmal, this was decidedly unusual.
He had merely walked at random, yet out of countless routes, he had taken the only correct one.
Stranger still, after walking for over ten minutes, they had not encountered a single Horrifying Corpse. They could only hear their roaring and scratching.
"We should still be in the outer corridors. We'll need to go through another door to see the Horrifying Corpses," Lin Hanzhi surmised.
The two of them were practically running through the corridor.
Only by resolving things here as quickly as possible could they go out and help.
If they could not resolve matters here, killing every vicious ghost outside would still do no good.
At another fork, Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi both instinctively stepped toward the narrower path on the left.
They exchanged a glance and saw a hint of inquiry in each other's eyes, then said in unison, "Instinct."
Qi Gu looked thoughtful.
After another long stretch of corridor, they reached a spacious burial chamber. There were no lavish decorations inside. The coffin was simply larger than an ordinary one, though it, too, was made of ordinary materials.
They stopped before the coffin. By coincidence, the two halves of the Twin Hearts Pendant worn on their wrists, one on the left and the other on the right, struck together with a clear chime.
"The person buried in here..."
"That Director of Astronomy?"
Some viewers had already reached the safe-zone addresses provided by the Anomalous Affairs Bureau. Gathered in groups, they watched the