“Just now, just now Teacher Zigui was still here, she was standing behind me, it was dark in the passage, and I even reminded her to watch her step.” Bai Xi looked nervous, her lips were white, and her eyes stared at the door leading downwards.

“You saw her, and you’re sure she was always behind you?” Xia Meng asked with a questioning tone.

“That… that’s not true, but I heard her answer me, she said ‘mm-hmm’, it was relatively dark in the passage, and my attention was all on the front and around, I didn’t pay attention to behind me.” Bai Xi’s answer was also reasonable.

“When in the passage, who was behind Teacher Zigui?” Xia Meng looked at everyone, she wanted to confirm which link went wrong, a living person couldn’t just disappear for no reason.

Hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao’s calm voice flowed out, “It was me.”

For some reason, Su An, who was always inseparable from Su Xiaoxiao, suddenly looked terrified after hearing his sister speak. He even reached out to cover his sister’s mouth, and his eyes secretly looked in one direction.

Jiang Cheng frowned, quickly capturing this detail. Following Su An’s gaze, Jiang Cheng confirmed that he was looking at the wooden platform set up not far away.

Around the wooden platform, various flags were planted, with intricate and chaotic patterns painted on them, making people dizzy. The overall feeling was somewhat like a stage set up by an old opera troupe, but even stranger.

Su An’s sudden action sent a chill down Jiang Cheng’s spine, as if there were things they couldn’t see standing on the stage at this moment, silently staring at them.

Jiang Cheng imagined this scene and immediately averted his gaze.

He didn’t want to be stared at by those things.

Originally, he thought that Su Xiaoxiao, warned by Su An, would stop talking, but Su Xiaoxiao just patted Su An’s hand, giving him a reassuring look, and the latter slowly moved his hand away again.

It was obvious that Su An was very worried about Su Xiaoxiao, so his actions were extremely reluctant.

“It was relatively dark in the passage, and my attention was also on observing the surroundings. I only knew that there was a person standing in front of me, but I wasn’t sure who it was,” Su Xiaoxiao looked at Bai Xi, “And in front of the front, was you.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone’s reaction was surprisingly consistent. Li Mengyao stood up and directly asked, “You didn’t even see the person in front of you clearly, but you saw the next person separated by one, that doesn’t make sense.”

“It is very strange, but that’s really how it is, I also don’t know how to explain it to you.” Su Xiaoxiao’s attitude was firm, and she didn’t seem to be lying.

Jiang Cheng had experienced a similar situation once before. In the tunnel during the May 5th incident, a ghost that could modify cognition appeared. That ghost mixed in with their team, followed them, but no one noticed.

“Teacher Zigui!” Lu Yu shouted towards the dark door.

“What are you doing!” Feng Jie, who was closest to her, darkened his face and immediately reached out to pull her away.

From the previous narrative, one could fully perceive the strangeness of the situation. There were people in front and behind, so there was no possibility of getting lost. This Teacher Zigui either encountered a ghost obscuring her vision and was trapped, or she had already been killed by a ghost.

Lu Yu kept struggling, so Feng Jie had to be a bit rougher, dragging her to the side. He was also being kind, not wanting Lu Yu to be in danger.

Fatty quickly walked over and rescued Lu Yu from Feng Jie’s hands, “Lu Yu, don’t worry, we’ll figure out a solution together.” Fatty grabbed her arm and comforted her.

“I want to go down and find Teacher Zigui, who is willing to go with me?” Bai Xi knew that her own strength was limited and turned to ask for help from everyone, “I’ll go down first, walk in the front, if you encounter danger, just run, don’t worry about me.”

“Bai Xi, I’ll go with you!” Lu Yu said firmly.

As expected, someone stood up to object. It was the experienced and prudent Xia Qiang. Xia Qiang was completely analyzing from an objective perspective, rationally pointing out that Teacher Zigui was obviously in grave danger and advising everyone not to take risks.

And this below… it was very likely a trap set by a ghost.

“I agree to go down and rescue people.” Su Xiaoxiao suddenly spoke, not at all avoiding, “My brother told me that this area is more dangerous than below.”

Hearing his sister mention him, Su An seemed scared, or perhaps shy, and hid behind his sister, but his height and build were there, making this pair of siblings look very strange.

The greatest benefit of team harmony is that you can talk openly and honestly, just like the current situation. After discussion, the team was divided into two groups.

One group, led by Jiang Cheng, would go down to find people.

The other group, led by Lin Wan’er, would stay above as the second echelon, ready to provide rescue at any time, as well as deal with emergencies.

“Don’t use your cell phones here. We’ll limit ourselves to half an hour. Whether we find anyone or not, we’ll come out within half an hour.” Jiang Cheng looked at Lin Wan’er, “Start timing from when we go down.”

“Be careful.” Lin Wan’er reminded.

Jiang Cheng’s team included Bai Xi, the siblings Su Xiaoxiao and Su An, as well as Xia Qiang, Yuan Xiaotian, and finally Fatty, a total of 7 people.

Xia Qiang and Yuan Xiaotian only decided to join after hearing that Jiang Cheng was planning to go down. It was obvious that they wanted to repay the favor from last time, which made Jiang Cheng and Fatty very touched.

Jiang Cheng didn’t plan to bring Fatty originally, after all, the situation below was unclear, and Jiang Cheng had already confirmed that Teacher Zigui was not right during the meal.

But Su Xiaoxiao’s words, and Su An’s performance, still prompted Jiang Cheng to change his plan.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng wasn’t sure whether any other ghostly things had mixed in with the people staying above.

After setting the time, they pushed open the door, and Bai Xi took the lead.

The group walked downwards along the winding stairs, holding torches.

It was pitch black below, as silent as death.

Feeling the silence around them, the emotion called unease fermented in everyone’s hearts. After simply identifying the direction, everyone agreed to go back along the path they had taken before.

Slightly muffled footsteps echoed in layers, entering their ears, giving them a strange feeling, as if there were not only them walking here at this moment, but also someone else, in the invisible darkness around them, following them, lifting their legs and putting them down together at almost the same frequency.

Bai Xi walked in the front as promised, followed by Jiang Cheng, Fatty closely behind Jiang Cheng, then Su Xiaoxiao, who was tightly holding Su An’s arm, Yuan Xiaotian, and Xia Qiang stayed at the end of the team.

The group’s formation was relatively tight, after all, the last person mysteriously disappeared in an environment where there were people in front and behind.

Fatty sniffed, “Did you guys smell anything?”

Everyone stopped, and after a moment, Jiang Cheng smelled a very light scent, and he subconsciously felt very familiar with it.

It was the smell of burnt meat.

It faintly permeated from the darkness ahead.