"How could this happen?" Fatty blurted out, "She was...she was wearing that outfit. Didn't they say..."

"There are pros and cons. Ordinary sculpture ghosts can't see it, but that doesn't mean all ghosts can't see her. This outfit might become a priority target for another kind of entity." In contrast, Wang Qi's voice was more composed, as if he had foreseen Shen Mengyun's fate.

Similar to Wang Qi's thinking, Jiang Cheng immediately thought of the eye pattern on the work uniform. Perhaps... it was a warning.

A warning to those who wore this uniform that they would be targeted by another terrifying thing.

"It's that half-body statue ghost..." Huai Yi said thoughtfully.

This was an incomplete answer, because all the sculpture ghosts had been eliminated, but they hadn't seen the source of the urban legend.

That strange half-body statue.

"Doctor, look quickly!" Fatty pointed to the ground. From his angle, he could just see a line of bloody footprints extending from the frame supporting Shen Mengyun into the distance.

Strangely enough, they hadn't seen the footprints or bloodstains when they were further away.

It was as if they had all suddenly appeared as they got closer.

Jiang Cheng stared at the bloody footprints on the ground. The footprints were strange, alternating left and right, with no fixed stride length.

Judging from these footprints, one could imagine how strange the person walking must have looked.

They were also dragging one leg from time to time, leaving a long streak of blood on the ground, which was very eerie in the dim setting.

Coupled with Shen Mengyun's missing legs, a chilling image appeared in everyone's mind.

After killing Shen Mengyun, the half-body statue ghost tore off her legs and attached them to itself.

Then, like a child learning to walk for the first time, it staggered away on Shen Mengyun's legs.

The footprints disappeared near the stairs.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Cheng stepped forward and took off the work uniform remaining on Shen Mengyun's upper body. The hem of the uniform was soaked in blood and still dripping.

After doing all this, Jiang Cheng squatted down in front of Shen Mengyun and closed her eyes for her.

Fatty's nose twitched. He felt that Shen Mengyun was pitiful, and the doctor was also pitiful.

Following the footprints, Jiang Cheng was the first to walk over, with the others behind him. Huai Yi looked at the bloody footprints on the ground, which seemed to have some minced meat stuck to them.

Arriving on the first floor, the footprints extended all the way to the end of the corridor on the other side.

Finally, they stopped in front of a door.

Everyone was familiar with this door.

Behind the door was the sculpture hall.

After going around in circles, they were back.

"It deliberately led us back." Wang Qi stared at the footprints. There were still bloodstains on the doorknob. It was all too obvious.

This time, no one suggested knocking. The door was ajar, and it opened with a push.

The inside was still the same as before. In the dim setting, various sculptures were placed around, making this the best hiding place for the half-body statue.

Or rather... its hunting ground.

The male teacher had died here in the first place.

Standing in the middle of the sculpture hall, Jiang Cheng took out the work uniform that only had a top half left, put it on meticulously, and even straightened the collar.

Huai Yi could feel that after putting on this work uniform, Jiang Cheng's aura had become different from before.

Wang Qi narrowed his eyes. From that moment on, he smelled a different scent on Jiang Cheng, as if he had become a different person.

Or rather... something on him had opened its eyes.

Jiang Cheng didn't think so much. His purpose in putting on this work uniform was simply to lure out the half-body statue ghost, then break its neck and smash its head.

Shen Mengyun had saved him, twice.

He wouldn't accept her dying without knowing why.

As soon as he put on this work uniform, Jiang Cheng immediately felt a strange sensation, and his body turned cold. Sure enough... the side effect of wearing this outfit was that the half-body statue would notice him.

Among a group of people, he would become the half-body statue's priority target.

That... was good.

Jiang Cheng's perception was not something Shen Mengyun could compare to. In less than 10 seconds, Jiang Cheng found the strange one among the dozens of sculptures in the hall.

This statue was hidden between two other statues, almost shrouded in shadow, with only a little bit of its outline exposed.

And that exposed part of the outline looked like a person tilting their head, sticking out half a face, peeking.

At the same time, an icy chill permeated Jiang Cheng's entire body. He felt like he was frozen, unable to move or speak.

Huai Yi and Fatty quickly noticed the abnormality in Jiang Cheng.

"Don't touch him." Wang Qi stopped Fatty, who was anxious and wanted to pat Jiang Cheng.

"This should be the ability of that ghost." Wang Qi followed Jiang Cheng's gaze, which was fixed on two sculptures that didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

"You guys wait for me here, don't move." Wang Qi walked towards the direction Jiang Cheng was looking, reminding Fatty and Huai Yi that once Jiang Cheng shifted his gaze, they should immediately point out the new direction to him.

Arriving at the position Jiang Cheng was looking at, Wang Qi quickly checked the vicinity. He also touched some empty spots with his hands and the tools in his hands, as if he believed there were invisible things that couldn't be seen with the naked eye.

Before he could finish checking, he saw Fatty waving his hands at him repeatedly, signaling him to look in another direction.

Wang Qi frowned. The new position Fatty pointed to was much closer to Jiang Cheng.

It was not difficult to guess that only the person wearing the work uniform could see this half-body statue ghost, and after seeing it, this person couldn't move, nor could they communicate with their teammates to report the other party's location.

What was even more terrifying was that the half-body statue ghost was constantly approaching the person wearing the uniform in an incomprehensible way.

When it truly arrived in front of them, Shen Mengyun's fate would befall them.

But... what was the pattern?

Wang Qi didn't waste any more time. He quickly returned to Jiang Cheng's side. Since the ghost couldn't be observed, he had to start with Jiang Cheng's reaction.

On Jiang Cheng's side, he had also figured out the ghost's pattern of movement. Every time he blinked, the half-body statue ghost would move a certain distance towards him in a bizarre way.

Now, the other party was less than 15 meters away from him.

At most, three more blinks and it would teleport in front of him.

At this distance, Jiang Cheng could clearly see its ugly appearance. The upper body was indeed a statue, but the lower body was two long legs.

The long legs were covered in blood, forming a strong contrast with the original fair skin. Those were the legs it stole, Shen Mengyun's legs.

The half-body statue and the two long legs were combined in an almost crude way, with the connection in the middle a bloody mess, as if they had been glued on.

At this moment, the half-body statue's pair of gray-white eyes was also staring intently at Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng understood that it was waiting for him to blink.

When he stared at the half-body statue, it was also unable to move, but compared to living people, the half-body statue ghost possessed a natural advantage: it didn't need to blink.

Theoretically speaking, as long as a person encountered the half-body statue ghost alone, their only ending was death.

It wasn't strong in itself. As long as Jiang Cheng had the chance to get close, one scythe strike would solve the problem, but its ability was terrifying, especially in certain specific scenarios, making it very tricky.

At this time, a problem was placed before Jiang Cheng. There was only one work uniform, which meant that no matter how many people survived, only one person could see the half-body statue ghost at the same time.

And the person who saw the ghost alone would be killed by the ghost because they couldn't communicate with their teammates and couldn't move.

So, the question was, how could they survive?

In other words, where was the path to survival?

The person wearing the uniform would be killed by the ghost. If they didn't wear it, although they wouldn't be killed by the ghost, they wouldn't be able to complete the task, since the prerequisite for completing the task was to kill the half-body statue ghost.

This brought them back to the original problem.

If they couldn't even see the ghost, how could they talk about killing it?

But Jiang Cheng was clear about one thing: there would be no unsolvable tasks, so the ghost must be seen, and there must be a way to kill it.

With the next blink, the half-body statue ghost was even closer. This time, it was standing in the corner to Jiang Cheng's right, less than 10 meters away from him.

Sensing Wang Qi, Fatty, and the others busying themselves around him, Jiang Cheng slowly came up with a new guess, and as soon as this guess appeared, Jiang Cheng felt at least 90% confident.

Just now, he had tried to guide Wang Qi to attack the half-body statue's position, but he found that Wang Qi not only couldn't see the half-body statue, but also couldn't touch it.

He saw out of the corner of his eye that Wang Qi even passed through the position where the half-body statue was standing, as if the other party was a phantom.

But using Wang Qi, Fatty, and the others' ideas wasn't wrong. He had to try another guess. If... if he could guide Wang Qi, Fatty, and Huai Yi, that is, everyone existing other than him, to look at the location where the half-body statue was hiding at the same time... what would happen?

Was there a possibility that the half-body statue would not only be fixed in place, but also... reveal its true form?

During this time, Jiang Cheng blinked again. In the next instant, the half-body statue finally appeared in front of Jiang Cheng.

The distance between the two was only 1 meter, almost face to face. The gray-white eyes on the statue's face gleamed with an eerie light, staring at him without moving.

This was the moment Jiang Cheng had been waiting for!

Wang Qi was a very smart man. After noticing that Jiang Cheng's gaze was focused on a point in front of him, he immediately signaled Fatty and Huai Yi.

The three of them stood in three different positions, and then simultaneously looked at the spot Jiang Cheng was staring at. In less than a second, the figure of the half-body statue actually appeared in the open space in front of Jiang Cheng in a bizarre way.

First, the long legs appeared out of thin air, and then little by little, the upper half of the statue began to manifest until it appeared completely.

Those long legs were still dripping with blood, making Fatty's heart clench.

At the moment the half-body statue fully materialized, Jiang Cheng's frozen state suddenly disappeared. He stepped forward quickly, grabbed the statue's head with both hands, and exerted force.

But no matter how hard Jiang Cheng tried, the statue's head wouldn't budge.

This made Fatty and the others anxious, because every second that passed, variables could appear. They clearly had tools, why not use them to smash its head!

In the shocked gazes of Fatty and the others, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind Jiang Cheng. The shadow quickly stretched out two hands and covered Jiang Cheng's hands.

The next second, accompanied by a "crack" sound, Jiang Cheng let out a low roar, and forcibly pulled off the half-body statue's head.