Although Yang Jian had braved the threat of death and successfully passed by the ghost, safely descending the stairs, Li Yang and the foreigner named Jimmy clearly did not have that kind of courage.
Faced with the ghost slowly climbing the stairs, they became terrified. Their fear made them shrink back, and they no longer knew what to do. The two of them seemed frozen in place.
The terrifying footsteps behind them were rapidly closing in and would not stop because of this.
But Yang Jian acted first. The headless ghost shadow stretched along the nearby wall like a walking silhouette. It swiftly reached the two men, directly covering them and forcefully restricting their movements as it tried to pull them away from the dangerous staircase.
Under the ghost shadow's control, the two began retreating quickly. Although Li Yang struggled, his resistance was not strong and remained manageable.
The ghost shadow took them around the ghost from the Ghost Painting Incident.
The narrow staircase only allowed one person to go up or down. Normally, people passing each other on the stairs would have to turn sideways and squeeze past one another, but ghosts would not make way on their own.
The ghost with indistinct features and red clothing was still slowly climbing upward. Its not particularly large body stood in the middle of the stairs, blocking the way. To get past, they could only force their way through as Yang Jian had done, or fearlessly climb over its head. As for whether such nearly face-to-face contact would trigger an attack, they had no choice.
To some extent, the strange footsteps behind them were even more dangerous than the ghost in the Ghost Painting Incident.
Getting close to the ghost in the painting did not necessarily mean being attacked, but once