Chapter 560: Figure appearing in Chapter 557:
Chapter 560: Figure appearing in Chapter 557
Yang Jian wasn’t careless, he was just a bit anxious. He thought it would be safer to resolve the situation as quickly as possible while the influence of the ghost painting wasn’t too great.
But this haste, neglecting the detail of the floor they had just examined, meant he was deceived by the ghost painting’s Ghost Domain. Although the deception wasn’t fatal, it could lead to many unfavorable consequences.
"Since we’ve come to the wrong floor, shouldn’t we immediately return to the fourth floor?” Wang Quan said.
Yang Jian replied, “Normally, that would be the correct assumption. However, since the ghost chose to hide the fifth floor, it definitely won’t allow us easy access to that level. Getting back to where we were probably won’t be so simple.”
Having said that, he turned and walked away.
Staying on this floor was only wasting time, and he wasn’t sure if the influence of the ghost painting would grow stronger as time passed.
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When they returned to the staircase entrance, the stairs leading down had eerily vanished, as if they had never been built, leaving only a smooth cement surface. However, the stairs leading up to the next floor were still there.