Both of them were in a dilemma. To test their guess, they first had to find a ghost. They wanted to confirm if this was truly a path to survival, yet they didn't want to encounter a ghost.
"Let's take it step by step," Wenqin Tan Jiu said. "Let's not actively seek out the ghost. If our guess is wrong, actively seeking it out would be a fatal mistake." As he said this, his expression became hesitant. "Actually, I'm starting to doubt..."
Doubt what? Jin Ye Bai wondered, looking at Wenqin Tan Jiu.
"Whether the ghost really crawled out of the photo," Wenqin Tan Jiu recalled. "On the bus, the ghost was definitely getting closer to us, looking like it was about to crawl out of the photo. But we didn't actually see it emerge. Could it have just been trying to scare us?"
"If we'd actually seen the ghost crawl out of the photo, it would have been too late for us," Jin Ye Bai said, imagining the scene. "We'd have been face-to-face with the ghost, with basically no chance of survival."
