After seeing Lao Wang out, Han Mengyao couldn't wait to go to the monitor screen and start watching the replay of their time in the corridor.
But apart from them hiding and evading, there was nothing unusual in the video.
"Is this camera broken?"
Mi Yesi felt like her eyes were going to go blind, but she still found nothing.
"It shouldn't be a problem with the camera,"
Han Mengyao frowned; her ominous premonition had come true.
“If the camera is malfunctioning, then Ying Xu and I should be able to see it, since we still have this.”
Han Mengyao raised her hand and pointed to the glasses on her face.
"Yes, there's nothing wrong with either of your glasses."
Because her glasses had unfortunately been destroyed, Mi Yesi subconsciously ignored their existence until Han Mengyao pointed them out, at which point she suddenly realized:
"So... the ghosts here can turn invisible?!"
As soon as Mi Yesi finished speaking, she felt a chill run down her spine.
"Click"
The sudden sound of gears behind her startled Mi Yesi. She instinctively lunged forward and grabbed Han Mengyao, all the while bracing herself:
"Sister Meng, don't be afraid, I... I'll protect you!"
"Qianqian, you've finally arrived!"
At the same time as her panicked voice rang out, Han Mengyao greeted her joyfully.
Mi Yesi froze, slowly turning her head to meet Ji Qian's inquisitive gaze.
[Hahaha, what a social media fiasco!]
We are professionally trained and generally don't laugh unless we can't help it.
[Stop talking, Mi Yesi is so embarrassed she could practically dig out a magic castle!]
A moment of stubbornness has led to permanent silence.
Compared to the thrilling experience of Han Mengyao's team, Ji Qian and her group's journey was remarkably smooth sailing.
If it weren't for the fact that Xu Qi's search for the peace charm had taken up too much time, they should have arrived five minutes ago.
It was precisely because the trip had gone so smoothly that Ji Qian couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when she saw the disheveled state of Han Mengyao and the other two:
"Sister Meng, what happened to you? Are you hurt?!"
Before Ji Qian could take two steps forward to check Han Mengyao's condition, she heard a very delicate scream from behind her:
"Oh dear, what's wrong with Sister Yao Yao!"
Wang Yingying was even faster than Ji Qian, and she darted to Han Mengyao's side in just a few steps. Her movements were so agile that you couldn't tell she was wearing ten-centimeter high heels.
Wang Yingying reached out to put her arm around Han Mengyao's shoulder, but Han Mengyao dodged her.
Without giving Wang Yingying another chance to attack, Han Mengyao decisively changed the subject:
"Shouldn't we use a secret signal?"
"Oh right, I remember Director Liu and the others said they were going to send the code to the group chat."
As Ji Qian spoke, she took out her phone and opened the group chat. Sure enough, she saw the legendary 'dynamic password' in the latest group message.
"On the Tree of Wisdom... the Fruit of Wisdom."
"...You and me under the Tree of Wisdom?"
"Playing games on the Wisdom Tree".
"So much joy...?"
As the last syllable faded, Xu Qi and Ying Xu, who were responsible for giving the code, both wore expressions that were hard to describe.
"Haha, that's great! Which of you two is the bigger flower?" Ji Qian couldn't help but laugh out loud.
[Help! I'm suddenly being attacked by childhood memories!]
[Hahaha, what an adorable code! Director Liu, you're on a winning streak!]
[I've seen the look in their eyes; it's definitely a code word that someone born in the 1980s could recognize.]
I told you we should have continued using the song's code; look how awkward this has become!
[Hey up ahead, watch out, Director Liu might bring out a dinosaur to carry a wolf!]
Director Liu is quite meticulous; he specifically chose one with a rhythm that foreigners can't replicate.
"Qianqian, come and take a look at this."
Ignoring the trio crouching in the corner, Han Mengyao waved to Ji Qian.
Ji Qian leaned closer and discovered that the screen was playing a video of Han Mengyao and the others walking by.
The video was only a little over ten minutes long, but its contents sent chills down Ji Qian's spine.
"Can this be played back in slow motion?"
"Can."
Seeing Ji Qian's furrowed brows, Han Mengyao knew that Ji Qian must have noticed a detail they hadn't seen before, so she obediently slowed down the playback speed.
"Stop! This is it."
Ji Qian pointed to the upper right corner of the screen, where there was a window with a smiling woman's face reflected in the glass.
Han Mengyao estimated the height of the window and found that the woman was at least three meters above the ground, so she could not possibly be a staff member who accidentally wandered into the shot.
For some reason, they didn't notice anything amiss until Ji Qian pointed it out.
Ji Qian took a picture of the woman's face with her phone, then gestured for Han Mengyao to continue playing.
Before long, Ji Qian found a second face on the metal pillar of the chandelier.
This time it was a man's face with a fierce expression, a stark contrast to the woman with a strange smile on her face in the window.
In the following ten minutes, Ji Qian discovered different figures on the vases in the corridor, on the metal picture frames on the wall, and even on the glass door of the fire cabinet.
In summary, in those short ten minutes, they were attacked by five different ghosts in succession!
Despite all these anomalies, Han Mengyao and the others were completely unaware of them before Ji Qian arrived.
"That's strange, how come we didn't notice?"
Han Mengyao frowned. She initially thought there was something wrong with her glasses, but after Ji Qian pointed out the location of the ghost, the glasses seemed to have returned to normal.
“That’s really strange,”
Ying Xu climbed out of his 'sad corner', came to the screen, pointed to the first woman's face that appeared on the screen, and said:
"I paid special attention to this place when I first saw it, because there was clearly nothing there at the time."
"So it really wasn't my imagination after all..."
Han Mengyao lowered her head and murmured. Just as she was about to ask another question, she heard a familiar male voice coming from behind Ji Qian:
"It's normal that we can't see them. After all, the glasses that Director Liu gave us are only basic yin-yang eyes. They'll be useless if we encounter a ghost with some real power."
Xu Qi also got up from the ground at some point. He huddled behind Ji Qian, only peeking out his head.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Xu Qi didn't continue to explain, but instead turned to ask Ji Qian:
"How long has your seal expired?"
Ji Qian lowered her head and roughly calculated: "It should be more than three months. I haven't sealed it since Master Bu Chang left."
"That's about the right time."
Xu Qi turned to the side and leaned close to Ji Qian, staring intently into her eyes as if searching for something.
Xu Qi's gaze was so focused that it made Ji Qian feel uncomfortable.
Just as Ji Qian was about to raise her hand to slap him, Xu Qi suddenly straightened up and hid behind Ji Qian again.
Only after confirming that he couldn't see the horrifying scene on the screen under Ji Qian's cover did Xu Qi confidently state his conclusion:
Your eyes are gradually recovering.
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