The Wrong Choice
Zhang Lei's words exploded in the darkness, igniting everyone's fear.
Is the ghost right ahead?
Although many people didn't voice it before, everyone's biggest worry was that in this completely unobstructed situation, what if they walked right up to a ghost without even realizing it?
Despite their worries, everyone still held onto a sliver of hope, believing they weren't unlucky enough to encounter such a thing.
However, harsh reality told them that there was no such thing as luck.
The worst-case scenario still happened.
On the fourth floor of the dormitory building, they encountered a real ghost, and the ridiculous thing is that it wasn't the ghost that sought them out, but rather they who sought out the ghost.
"Escape!"
Everyone had only one thought in their minds.
Without almost any hesitation, they turned and ran. From Zhang Lei's warning to their actions, less than three seconds had passed. This was something they had discussed beforehand: if danger arose, no one should hesitate; as many as possible should go.
Because this ghost is an unsolvable problem, even Ghost Tamer is only slightly better off than an ordinary person in its presence, but not by much.
A series of hurried footsteps echoed through the dark corridor.
The four Ghost Tamer turned tail and ran, sprinting through the darkness, trying to get as far away as possible from the terror that had vanished into the shadows behind them.
Zhang Lei was also horrified and turned to run away.
He had already learned a lot about this ghost from Headquarters, and it was precisely because of this knowledge that he did not join forces with others to try to imprison it.
This thing simply cannot be imprisoned.
Even if you succeed once, what awaits you is the second wave of attacks from this ghost, and the third wave, until all its targets are killed.
They ran for their lives, fear gripping them from behind. Everyone's heart was in their throats. They all knew that once this ghost targeted them, death was inevitable, with no room for struggle. The ghosts they controlled were nothing compared to this level of supernatural power.
"Damn it, how could I be so unlucky? The ghost is waiting for us ahead! Who will it attack this time? Me, or that guy Wang Jiang, or the other two?" Zhang Lei was running wildly, his breathing heavy with fear and trembling, but he didn't stop thinking.
This is his experience in dealing with paranormal events: no matter how terrifying the scene, you must never lose your composure.
"It'll probably choose me as its target, since I'm closest to that ghost, and I was the one who just touched it." Zhang Lei was covered in cold sweat; he felt lost.
I don't know where I am right now.
The dormitory building is large, and the corridors are wide. Although it is easy to find your way when you have a view, the excessive width becomes an obstacle in this dark environment.
"Bang!"
Zhang Lei seemed to have bumped into a wall at the corner; his head was buzzing, and he fell directly to the ground.
"We've reached the intersection we passed before." He felt his nose was bleeding, but he didn't care. Instead, he used the turn to roughly determine his location.
However, when he struggled to his feet, he suddenly found that the surroundings had become unusually quiet.
Before, I could hear the footsteps of other people running away, but now there's no sound at all.
"Have they separated?" Zhang Lei gritted his teeth. He couldn't care less about anything else and immediately walked to the right.
There were safety exits on both the left and right sides, and he decided to go to the right safety exit, which should allow him to meet up with Yang Jian on the second floor.
Once he left this floor, Zhang Lei felt he should be safe.
If the ghost is on this floor, it needs to go to the third floor, which will likely take some time.
Although there is no way to defeat this ghost, it attacks people one by one, so its killing efficiency is not very high.
Zhang Lei believed that as long as he didn't become the vengeful ghost's primary target, he was confident he could reunite with Yang Jian downstairs and escape this inevitable calamity.
"Wait, something's not right."
After running for a while, he noticed something was wrong.
Why haven't I been attacked yet, even though I just touched the ghost's hand and was almost certain it was right in front of me?
Not only do I not have it, but others probably don't either.
After all, we were all so close together at the time. If the ghost had to choose one person as its target, someone would inevitably be the unlucky one to be chosen.
"Could it be that what we just encountered wasn't a ghost? Or was it some kind of Ghost Tamer? No, absolutely not. There are only a few of us on this floor. Who would be so stupid as not to run outside but instead come upstairs on their own? It must have been a ghost, no doubt about it. But the ghost didn't attack us immediately. Damn it, I misjudged it."
Suddenly, Zhang Lei realized something and began to grit his teeth.
It's true that I encountered a ghost, but the four of us must have failed to meet the ghost's conditions for killing, which is why we were all unharmed.
In other words, the four of them were not alone just now.
But that doesn't make sense either.
There were four people, each of whom only controlled one ghost, so there were at most four ghosts. However, the information received from Headquarters indicated that the number of ghosts that ghost could suppress had reached five, and it would only be more, not less.
5 is definitely bigger than 4; even a kindergarten child wouldn't get this wrong.
"No, that's not right. The total number of ghosts on our side isn't 4, it's 6." Zhang Lei realized his special situation.
He once ate two ghosts while dealing with a paranormal event.
Although the ghost was eaten, it did not die or disappear. It should still be inside its own body, just suppressed by its other ghost. But even under suppression, those two ghosts should still be counted.
Therefore, to be precise, Zhang Lei's number of ghosts is 3.
The result is: six against five.
They were never alone; even if they had encountered a ghost head-on, they wouldn't have been killed.
However, it's too late to say anything now.
The group had scattered because of their escape.
"Damn it!" Zhang Lei was filled with remorse and wished he could slap himself.
He single-handedly ruined the chance for his group to survive, pushing everyone, including himself, to a dead end.
But now, no matter how much he regrets it, it's useless, because he can no longer gather these people together. All he can do now is go and meet up with Yang Jian to avoid being killed by that ghost alone.
This is not just for yourself, but also for others.
If Zhang Lei dies.
This ghost will grow to a very high level, making it even more difficult to fight.
Run!
Gritting his teeth, Zhang Lei couldn't care less about anything else and ran quickly towards the stairwell.
Nothing terrifying happened around them.
He was lucky; the ghosts didn't target him.
But Zhang Lei wasn't the only one left alone.
In the dark dormitory building, one of the Ghost Tamer who had been traveling with Zhang Lei and Wang Jiang earlier was now lost.
Actually, saying he was lost wouldn't be accurate. He could roughly determine his location; he was on the balcony of the dormitory building, and he could find the stairs to get out if he continued to walk to the left or right.
However, what terrifies him now is that he is currently alone.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, without a sound. He tried calling out to the side, "Zhang Lei, Wang Jiang," but no one responded.
Clearly, he was alone.
The ghost is on this floor; being alone in this situation would be fatal.
He could only pray that he wouldn't become the first target of the vengeful ghost, because he had already decided that if he acted quickly enough, he should be able to reach the second floor and meet up with that Ghost Eye Yang Jian, since that was what they had discussed before.
I still have hope of surviving.
Thinking of this, the Ghost Tamer acted swiftly.
But as soon as he turned around, he suddenly felt as if a person had appeared out of nowhere in the darkness behind him. A pair of cold, stiff hands grabbed his arms, stopping him from moving forward.
"How could this be?" The Ghost Tamer was enveloped in fear, his heart seemingly stopping at that moment.
"Let me go, let me go now!"
A sharp pain shot through his body. He felt a pair of cold, stiff hands forcefully probing into his ribs on either side of his arms, tearing through his skin, crushing his bones, and groping inside his body, seemingly searching for the traces of some ghost within him.
He began to struggle violently, screaming wildly, trying to break free and escape.
But it was to no avail.
At this moment, he was just an ordinary person. The demon inside his body was suppressed and made no sound. He was extremely weak and had no room to resist.
A moment later.
The Ghost Tamer coughed up blood, his body convulsed, and he no longer had the strength to struggle. At the same time, something was forcibly taken out by the hands in the darkness.
The heavy footsteps continued to echo in the darkness.
The ghost walked towards the staircase on the right.
The number of ghosts at this moment is 6.
A number that, while not many, is enough to instill despair.
In the place where the ghost had been, a mangled corpse hung on the balcony, blood flowing in the darkness, staining the surrounding area red. At the same time, a lot of blood dripped down the fourth-floor wall. On the corpse, the Ghost Tamer was still spitting out blood bubbles.
The last vestiges of life gradually faded away in the darkness.
Has anyone died?
At the top of the stairs on the second floor, Yang Jian saw blood dripping down the balcony corridor. His expression was extremely solemn because this was not the blood of the first corpse; it should belong to the second Ghost Tamer.
This means that someone else has been killed by a ghost while alone.
That ghost already has at least six members. If we don't join the others soon, we'll all be doomed once that ghost targets us.