Just as she was bracing herself for a tirade, the door opened, the lights were on inside, and it was Cang Jin who opened the door.
He was dressed in black, just like usual, and asked in confusion, "Qingqing, weren't you inside your room? Why are you at the door?"
Suppressing her fear, Shen Muqing smiled and replied, "I wanted to go to the restroom but I accidentally took the wrong turn."
"How could you be so careless?" Cang Jin stepped aside to make way for her. "Come in, Qingqing, it's dangerous outside."
"Wait, I can't sleep, I want to go outside and take a look."
The corridor lights all came on, casting their light on Cang Jin's face, which remained expressionless.
"Looks like you've figured it out."
"Cang Jin, what are you saying? I don't understand."
Shen Muqing was already ready to run; as soon as she sensed something was wrong, she turned and ran.
"Didn't you already realize it?"
"Azure Ashes" changed its face, turning into a skull, and opened its mouth, which was made entirely of bones, wide open, saying, "Since you've found me, stay and keep me company."
Right now, Shen Muqing ran away without looking back. What sins had she committed to encounter ghosts one after another?
"Why are you running? I am the master here, and you can't escape my grasp."
The voices behind her seemed to come from near and far, as if they were speaking right next to Shen Muqing's ear.
"Would I be a fool not to run?"
Fortunately, Shen Muqing was wearing flat shoes, so running was not strenuous. There was danger behind her, and Shen Muqing had never run so fast before.
What should I do? I can't panic. I need to think it over carefully. Yes, relax and think it over carefully. There must be a way to solve this.
As Shen Muqing ran, she comforted herself, telling herself not to rush, because rushing wouldn't help.
"Egg! Get out here! Didn't you level up?"
She shouted, unable to think of any other solution, and could only place her hopes on the system.
"You damn system, if you don't come out soon I'm going to die, and your mission will fail!"
"Ding! Your system code 000 has been logged in."
After much anticipation, that damned hard-boiled egg finally appeared, while Shen Muqing was still running down the corridor.
The ghost behind her let the little Karami struggle unhurriedly, enjoying the girl's fear, his mouth widening even further, stretching across his entire face.
"Host, I am not a hard-boiled egg."
"...Is now the time to discuss this issue?"
"I'm just correcting the host's form of address."
"Still calling yourself a host? Your host is about to become a ghost master!" Shen Muqing cried out in despair.
"Host, only people with a lot of resentment will become ghosts after they die. People like you generally don't have a chance to become ghosts."
Egg was still seriously correcting her mistakes.
"You hard-boiled egg, if you keep dawdling, I'll turn you into a dead egg, you believe me?"
"Host, according to the system's recent detection, you seem to be experiencing a maze-like situation."
"Say something useful. Do you think I don't know this is a maze of ghosts?"
If they weren't currently on the run, Shen Muqing would definitely have given Egg a good scolding, as it was completely different from the cheat system in the novels she had read before.
This useless system, Egg, spouts a bunch of nonsense that doesn't work, and it's also incredibly serious.
"Host, I can sense your emotions. Please restrain yourself a bit." Egg's mechanical voice even carried a hint of speechlessness, which was quite a first.
"Tell me your solution quickly."
Egg: "Go left."
"Isn't there a wall on the left? How do I get there?" Shen Muqing cleared a gap to look at the left side, where there was a thick wall.
"Listen to me, turn left."
"Okay, I believe you!"
Then Shen Muqing closed her eyes and slammed her head against the wall. The expected pain did not come. When she opened her eyes, she found herself passing through the wall and arriving at the exact same place as before.
"run."
Following Egg's directions, Shen Muqing turned left and right until she arrived at a particularly bright spot ahead.
"Run in and you'll be able to get out."
"Egg, you can actually be quite useful sometimes."
The skeleton ghost kept chasing Shen Muqing. By the time Shen Muqing realized something was wrong, she had already left, missing a good opportunity. However, she had delayed for so long that her master should have finished dealing with the matter.
When Shen Muqing came out, she was on the stairs. It seems that this is when she and Cang Jin separated. But this is too surreal.
"Egg, can you find where Azure Ash is?"
Then came another busy signal. Shen Muqing didn't want to talk anymore; her sudden login and logoff were equally sudden.
Only the overhead light was on in the stairwell; it must be very late now, and she was the only one on the stairs.
After thinking for a while, Shen Muqing decided to go find room 404. The resort must have this room, and if she guessed correctly, Cang Jin should be in that room.
Sure enough, an eerie red light flickered inside room 404. The room was empty, with no bed or furniture.
Zhou Linqian stared intently at the person inside the formation and asked anxiously, "Master, why haven't you finished refining it yet? It's almost dawn."
The master, sitting on the ground, looked pained. “This person is too strange, like a ghost but not quite. Give me some more time.”
"Master, please hurry!"
"good."
Cang Jin was bound by several chains within the formation. The chains wrapped around him from bottom to top, and the more he struggled, the tighter they bound him.
Instead of resignation, a cold smile crept onto his face.
Suddenly, Cang Jin's ghostly figure appeared and disappeared, and Zhou Linqian was overjoyed when he saw it. "Master, are you about to succeed?"
"Almost there."
The master thought it would take some more time. This thing that was neither human nor ghost was too strange. He had originally planned to use his last move, but now it seemed that he had overthought it.
"Great! Hahahaha!"
More and more good fortune was converging on Zhou Linqian. He hadn't felt so relaxed and comfortable in a long time.
Joy turned to sorrow, the two extremes reversed, and that good fortune abruptly dissipated from Zhou Linqian.
He looked at the master on the ground in horror, "Master, what happened?"
The master, equally displeased, quickly stood up and shouted, "Oh no! Run!"
"What?"
Without time to think, the master hurriedly pulled Zhou Linqian toward the escape route that had been prepared in advance.
The moment their figures disappeared, a huge energy fluctuation emanated from the air.
The formation cracked and shattered bit by bit, revealing Cang Jin, his silver hair flowing, a sharp sword in his hand, speaking in a low voice.
"So you managed to escape."
His show of strength lasted only a second before he collapsed to his knees, clutching his chest. Those two humans were quite skilled; he wondered what kind of formation they used to trap him for so long.
Outside the door, Shen Muqing finally found room 404. Room 404 was not on the fourth floor but on the fifth floor. The fifth floor of the resort was not open to the public, which made Shen Muqing search for a long time.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw Cang Jin kneeling on the ground.
"Cang Jin, are you alright?"
Shen Muqing stepped forward to support him, and Cang Jin collapsed onto her, exhausted. "Qingqing, are you alright?"
(End of article)
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