68: Sixty-eight.

Anna’s side 68: Sixty-eight.

Anna’s side Several seconds later, the Headless Ghost responded.

“Gone…”

“Gone?

The visitor didn’t find the note?”

“Found it.”

“Found it?

The visitor didn’t discover the note?”

“Discovered it.”

“Discovered it?

The visitor didn’t see you?”

The headless body lifted its hand, scratched the hair on the head cradled in its arms, and said in a dazed tone, “Well…

it seems he didn’t see me.

He just came over, took the note, shut the cabinet, and left without giving me time to think…”

“Huh…” The Twisted Ghost shadow pondered for a moment, then suddenly shouted, “No good!

Quick, notify Dou Shu not to let the visitor go straight there!”

He picked up a phone from under a desk, dialed an internal number, and yelled into it, “Dou Shu, respond if you hear me!”

Seconds later, a noisy reply came, “Dou Shu here.”

“The visitor is now skipping the classroom and heading directly to you.”

“What!?

But I’m still looking—”

“Hurry up!

The visitor is almost there!”

“Understood!”

After hanging up the phone, the Twisted Ghost couldn’t help but scold his companion, “I’ve always told you not to close your eyes when observing the surroundings, but you never listen, and now look what happened!”

The Headless Ghost also responded quite aggrievedly, “The cabinet door creates a draft!

It’d be so awkward if the breeze blew into my eyes, and I couldn’t open them!”

“You’re a ghost!”

“So ghosts can’t get dust in their eyes?

Why don’t you talk about your own issue, if you had appeared sooner would the visitor have escaped?

You know I’m slow to react…”

“Hmm?

Weren’t you supposed to go first?”

“It’s not like I wanted to go first.

If you’re so capable, you do it first!

Oh~ I know why, it must be because your legs aren’t good and you’re slow!”

“Who are you calling ‘No legs’?!”

“I’m calling out the one who doesn’t have good legs!”

As the two ghosts started blaming each other, about to come to blows, Lu Li and the young man had already left the classroom area, arriving at a new scene.

An old dance studio.

“Brother, have you been here before?” the young man couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“No.”

“Then how did you know the note was in the cabinet?” His curiosity grew stronger.

“The bookcase is the most conspicuous thing in the whole classroom; it had to be hidden there.”

“But the clues…”

The young man wanted to say something but was interrupted by Lu Li, “That’s not important.

Getting the note counts as a success.

It’s like no matter the process, as long as the answer is right.”

Walking into the dance studio, they saw an old dressing mirror hanging on the farthest wall, with Lu Li and the oil lamp reflecting dimly in the mirror.

The room’s walls had a row of windows, but they were covered with newspapers, not letting in a sliver of light.

“There ought to be some clues here,” the young man analyzed, glancing frequently to his side.

As expected, Lu Li walked straight to the mirror again and picked up the second note placed under the mirror.

Just then, a white-dressed female ghost flashed into the dance studio, appearing in their line of sight.

One gaze filled with terror, while the other remained as calm as ever.

She heaved a sigh of relief.

Thankfully she hadn’t come too late and had caught up with the visitors.

Click—

Just as this thought came to her, the half-meter long false tongue hanging from the mouth of the white-dressed female ghost fell.

“Sorry, sorry…”

The white-dress female ghost apologized repeatedly, picking up the fake tongue and trying to stuff it back in, then hesitated…

The end of the tongue was dusty, and it seemed unclean to put it back in her mouth.

Two pairs of eyes watched it, and the atmosphere turned awkward in an instant.

“Are you a ghost?” Lu Li suddenly uttered.

“Um…no!

No, no…

I am a staff member here, still not skilled at my job, making a fool of myself,” the white-dress female ghost immediately denied, nodding repeatedly in apology, too embarrassed to admit her identity and turned to float away at a faster speed.

Escaping far enough along the corridor, she looked back anxiously to make sure the visitors weren’t chasing.

The white-dress female ghost passed through the wall and entered a dark room.

The room was small, containing only a table, a chair, a book open at the halfway point, and a telephone.

The female ghost picked up the phone and said anxiously inside, “I can’t stop it, that visitor is too fast!

He’s already left the dance room.”

A panicked cry came from the phone, “What?

Even you…

Boss, initiate the emergency alert plan!”

Seconds later, a cold, low voice came from the phone.

“Understood.

I will make this visitor stay here…

never to leave…”

“How did you know the location of the note again…” the young man watched Lu Li curiously as he approached.

“It’s simple; there will never be a useless room,” Lu Li said, brushing past the young man and walking towards the door.

A room set up eerily, obviously meant for a scare, if someone said there wasn’t a note hidden inside, no one would believe it.

“So…

it’s like that, huh…” Leather Jacket stammered, thoughtfully looking back every few steps as he followed Lu Li out of the dance room.

Lu Li and the young man walked along the corridor, arriving at the third scene of Ghost House—a medical room.

Dirty bed linens, walls covered in bloody handprints, and blood-stained surgical tools, everything here mimicked the style of an Asylum’s operating room.

“It seems there’s no—”

Mid-sentence, a noisy, static-filled broadcast voice sounded from the ceiling.

“Dear visitor, you have entered the ghost trap room.

Ghost trap room guideline: you must stay in the room for ten minutes before you can leave.

Leaving without permission will be deemed as violating the game rules—”

Lu Li looked puzzled at the young man, “Does Ghost House usually have this kind of game-like setting?”

“Ah?”

Suddenly asked, the latter stuttered, “Um…

usually, Ghost Houses do have these types of trap rooms…yeah…”

Lu Li nodded, ceased to speak further, and quietly surveyed the well-decorated operating room.

Lu Li’s progress paused temporarily, while the ghosts inside Ghost House gathered energy, readying for a comeback—

“Alright, I have made that visitor unable to move an inch, unable to leave the operating room…”

The boss’s deep voice came through the phone.

Three frustrated ghosts glanced at each other and started snickering.

“Hehehe, as expected of the boss.

So brave.”

“This lone human is hard to handle, let’s find the others.

The two girls are very frightening, very tasty hehehe…”

“I will leave them with a lifetime of psychological trauma…”

Having faced setbacks on Lu Li’s side, they planned a comeback on Joanna’s side.

…

Narrow walls were covered in complex and strange runes.

Several broken coffins stood against the wall, their rotted lids full of cracks and holes, a subdued sound of breath faintly emanating from within…

“Ah…” the girl shrieked and recoiled into her boyfriend’s arms.

“Don’t be scared, it’s all fake.” He lifted the oil lamp towards the coffin, its gap revealing the empty interior “See?”

Unlike the school theme of the right corridor, the left was clearly a different theme.

Walking past the cluster of coffins, fake severed limbs embedded in the wall appeared ahead.

Anna, hiding in the shadows and looking around with interest, suddenly felt a presence growing in front of her.

A ghost appeared?