The Red Letter

The brief crisis of the night had passed.

The ghost wandering through the post office had not appeared again after its failed attack. That was good news, at least. It meant the ghost had not been fixated on them the entire time. Otherwise, the price they would have had to pay would not have been as simple as making a single move.

The three of them sat on the sofa in Room No. 7, each lost in thought.

As an ordinary person, Wang Shan did not dare join in such a discussion. He merely stayed in the room without making a sound.

"Containing this ghost will be extremely difficult. First of all, we can't leave after six in the evening. No one can be sure whether going out will trigger the rule that turning off the lights means certain death. It's very possible that we'll step outside and die immediately afterward, so we can't gamble on it." Yang Jian answered Sun Rui's earlier question.

"Since we can't leave at night, we can only act during the day. The lights in the post office are on during the day, and we can use that rule to avoid being killed when the lights go out."

"But the ghost doesn't appear during the day."

Li Yang immediately said, "Then we can only have a chance to contain it if we find it during the day. It's impossible to deal with that ghost at night."

"The ghost isn't on the first floor. It could be on the second floor, the third floor, or even the fifth." Yang Jian said calmly, "It's hiding somewhere in this post office, but personally, I think the problem is most likely on the fifth floor."

The old man codenamed the Door-Knocking Ghost had fallen to his death from the