Zhao Kaiming smiled, but as he was about to leave, he noticed the walls around him suddenly begin to decay.
The plaster peeled away quickly, and moss started to spread, while a stench of decay wafted through the air.
Through the private room’s glass door, he could vaguely make out the figure of a tall, thin person wearing a black robe who had appeared outside at some unknown time.
“This isn’t your doing, is it?” Zhao Kaiming turned back to ask.
Wang Yue’s expression tensed, and he immediately turned and dashed toward the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out onto the street.
At this very moment,
the street outside suddenly turned pitch black. The light from the entire world was vanishing, and even the pedestrians and vehicles on the road had disappeared without trace. What’s more, the darkness from all directions was rolling in like fog, continuously encroaching upon this place.
It was like the gaping maw of a monster, ready to devour everything in front of it.
“Of course, it’s not my ability,” Wang Yue said.
“Since it’s not, it seems we’re quite unlucky today. This is a paranormal event… and it’s a paranormal event targeting us,” Zhao Kaiming slowly retreated from the doorway.
The tall, thin man in the black robe standing outside the door was, without a doubt, a ghost.
A real ghost.
“Thump, thump-thump~!”
The next moment, a knocking sound came from the door.
It was heavy and oppressive, like a knock on the heart itself, almost leaving one breathless.
“Is this… Ghost Door Knocker?” Zhao Kaiming’s eyes suddenly narrowed.
He had heard the knocking before, during his call with Yang Jian earlier that day.
It was this sense of crisis that had prompted him to quickly arrange for Wang Yue and Wang Xiaoqiang to join forces, but he hadn’t expected that despite his swift action, he would still encounter this paranormal event.
“What is Ghost Door Knocker?” Wang Yue inquired.
Zhao Kaiming was not afraid but spoke very calmly, “In the paranormal events of Dachang City, only seven lucky individuals left alive, and Yang Jian was one of them. That paranormal event was named Ghost Door Knocker by the Ghost Tamer Department, Terror Level: A, Catastrophe Level. Oh, and the last Ghost Tamer, Zhou Zheng, also died in a university incident.”
“What? A Catastrophe Level ghost?”
Wang Yue’s face contorted with fury, “Zhao Kaiming, you damn bastard, you’ve screwed me over.”
“Sorry, I’m as innocent as you are. It seems Yang Jian has a way of manipulating the Ghost Door Knocker event, so the real enemy is him, not me. Now is not the time to be angry. Let’s find a way to survive first. The danger level of a Catastrophe Level ghost doesn’t need reminding,” Zhao Kaiming said.
“Your mother’s…”
Wang Yue was so angry he felt like killing someone,
but the current situation did not allow him to settle the score with Zhao Kaiming.
“Thump, thump-thump~!”
The second round of knocking sounded again.