Yang Jian had not been careless; he had merely been a little impatient, wanting to resolve this matter as quickly as possible while the Ghost Painting's influence was still limited. That would have been safer.
But in his haste, he had overlooked the detail of checking the floor they had just been on, allowing the Ghost Painting's Ghost Domain to deceive him. Though this deception was not fatal, it could bring many bad consequences.
"Since we came to the wrong floor, shouldn't we immediately return to the fourth floor?" Wang Quan asked.
"Normally, that would be the correct way to think," Yang Jian replied. "But since the ghost chose to hide the fifth floor, it definitely won't let us enter that floor so easily. It probably won't be easy to return to where we were before."
With that, he turned and left.
Staying on this floor would only waste time. He was not sure whether the Ghost Painting's influence would expand as time passed.
When they returned to the stairwell, the stairs leading down had bizarrely vanished. It was as if no staircase had ever been built there; there was only a flat concrete surface. Yet the stairs beside it leading upward remained.
But this dormitory building only had six floors in total. Beyond that was the roof.
So no one knew where those upward stairs truly led. No one was willing to follow them up, just like the stairs from before that had led deep into darkness.
"The stairs down are gone?"
Wang Quan jolted, then immediately said, "But we can climb down from the sixth floor. I brought ropes—specially made ones. We won't have to worry about them snapping halfway."
As he spoke, he immediately had the two accompanying staff members take a golden climbing rope from their