Long Yuehong slowly sat up, wiping the sweat from his forehead as he picked up the water bag beside him.

During this process, with the help of the faint moonlight shining in through the window, he saw Shang Jianyao, who was on night watch, sizing him up.

"Woken up by a fright?" Shang Jianyao asked with a smile.

Long Yuehong was startled and blurted out:

"Did you have that nightmare too?"

As soon as he said this, Long Yuehong realized something was wrong:

Hey, this guy is still on night watch, he hasn't slept at all, how could he have a dream?

Sure enough, as he expected, Shang Jianyao laughed:

"What nightmare did you have?"

The two's conversation attracted the attention of Bai Chen, another night watchman, and even Jiang Baimian, who was sleeping, slowly woke up.

Inside the entire room, only "Garibaldi" Giuseppe, who had exhausted his energy resisting his addiction, was still fast asleep.

Long Yuehong pondered for a moment and said:

"I dreamed of that Chief who entered Nirvana and returned to Silence.

"I dreamed that when his body was carried into the cremation tower, it showed a hideous expression, and then it let out a scream."

After a brief description, Long Yuehong looked at Jiang Baimian:

"Team Leader, have you had a similar nightmare?"

Jiang Baimian shook her head:

"I slept very well."

Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief while doing some self-analysis with slight disappointment:

"Maybe the scene of that Chief jumping off the building and committing suicide was too shocking, leaving a deep impression on me, so I combined it with the ritual of returning to Silence and scared myself."

"Now it seems, that may not be the reason." Shang Jianyao raised his hand and touched his chin, "Since you said so, it's mostly not that reason."

"Hey." Long Yuehong somewhat weakly stopped the guy from talking nonsense.

Jiang Baimian yawned, picked up the water bag, took a sip and said:

"Go to sleep, anyway, that Chief has turned into ashes, uh, relics, even if there is a problem, there is no problem."

"Ghosts do exist in this world..." Shang Jianyao said in a low voice.

Just as Long Yuehong was about to retort, Shang Jianyao gave an example:

"DiMarco."

Jiang Baimian and the others were temporarily at a loss for words.

After DiMarco's body was destroyed by the Old Task Force, he did exist as a "ghost" for a while.

He was an Awakened in the "Bodhi" domain, and so was that Chief, otherwise he wouldn't have mastered "Clairvoyance."

In other words, there was a good chance that the Chief's consciousness could survive independently for a period of time.

In layman's terms, this is a "ghost."

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian exhaled and said:

"Without a physical body, DiMarco couldn't survive for long.

"That Chief died last night, uh, entered a new world."

"He's definitely stronger than DiMarco." Shang Jianyao retorted.

"But it's impossible for such a big qualitative change to occur, unless he can still be active in the Ashlands after entering the 'new world'." Jiang Baimian turned her body and glanced at the night outside the window, "Go to sleep, go to sleep, why are we discussing ghosts in the middle of the night?"

Shang Jianyao stopped continuing this topic and said:

"I was thinking..."

"Stop thinking." Jiang Baimian responded with disgust.

However, her attitude was not too strong, and there was a lot of joking in it.

"I was wondering if Zenana Master needs to sleep..." Shang Jianyao seemed to be facing an eternal problem.

His question translated to how much sleep is needed for Awakened at the "Mind Corridor" level.

Bai Chen, who was near the door, immediately replied:

"Probably, at least DiMarco did."

If not, the Old Task Force would not have had the opportunity to destroy DiMarco's body at that time.

Shang Jianyao continued from this sentence:

"Then is Zenana Master sleeping now?

"He doesn't look like the kind of person who has a reversed day and night."

Uh... if Zenana Master is sleeping now, then he can't use "Telepathy" to monitor us and stop us from escaping? Hearing Shang Jianyao's question, Long Yuehong instantly flashed some thoughts.

So did Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen.

This is what Shang Jianyao wanted to express.

"Master Zen, are you sleeping?" Shang Jianyao asked the question to the air in front of him.

No one answered him.

Seeing this, Bai Chen said tentatively:

"Do you want to suggest escaping now?"

"Zenana Master is not watching us, it doesn't mean that there are no other monks watching." Jiang Baimian shook her head, "This is the headquarters of the Crystal Consciousness Church, full of experts."

"Yes, yes." Long Yuehong deeply agreed.

If it weren't for a series of bizarre events and coincidences that had happened since last night, he would have thought that staying honestly in Sika Luo Temple was the best choice.

Anyway, the Old Task Force's plan was to wait for the initial city to be in turmoil, so what difference does it make where they wait?

And if the initial city really has turmoil within ten days, no one in the Crystal Consciousness Church should be guarding them.

"How do we know if we don't try?" Shang Jianyao encouraged his companions.

"Try and die?" Jiang Baimian reflexively used a phrase she learned from the entertainment materials of the Old World.

She then said:

"Moreover, Zenana Master is good at 'Prophecy', maybe he prophesied that we won't be able to escape from here tonight, so he went to sleep with confidence."

"'Prophecy' always has errors and ambiguities." Shang Jianyao raised an example based on his rich reserves of Old World entertainment materials, "Maybe, the real meaning of 'Prophecy' is that we won't escape from the door, but we can climb out the window, we can climb down layer by layer."

"That's a bit dangerous." Long Yuehong said truthfully.

He was mainly referring to himself.

Shang Jianyao's gene modification had a good effect, his balance ability was extremely strong, not much worse than a monkey, and he could walk on the collapsed buildings like walking on flat ground when he was in the Redstone Collection.

And Zenana, who was in charge of guarding the Old Task Force, was careless but still didn't allow them to bring military exoskeletons to the room, only allowing them to carry light weapons.

"It's also possible that Zenana Master is not sleeping at all, and has been secretly watching us, wanting to grasp our escape plan and find out what hidden abilities we have." Jiang Baimian urged impatiently, "Go to sleep, go to sleep."

"Telepathy" is not omnipotent, if several members of the Old Task Force have never thought about a certain ability, then Zenana will not know.

Seeing that the Team Leader was immovable, Shang Jianyao sighed "ai" with some disappointment.

Long Yuehong had already calmed down from the bad mood brought by the nightmare, lay down again, pulled up the quilt, and prepared to continue sleeping.

Just then, they heard a "dong" sound from the door of their room.

It seemed that someone was knocking on the door outside.

"Dong!"

Another knock echoed, and Jiang Baimian, who hadn't lain down yet, became unusually solemn.

Shang Jianyao turned to look at the wooden door and said in a sinister tone:

"The ghost is here..."

Bai Chen originally wanted to open the door to see who was looking for them in the middle of the night, but when she glanced over, she noticed the unusual reactions of Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao.

"What ghost or not..." Long Yuehong muttered and sat up.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian asked Shang Jianyao in a deep voice:

"Is there no one?"

No one... Long Yuehong's expression suddenly froze.

"There is no human consciousness outside." Shang Jianyao no longer used the tone of telling ghost stories, but answered seriously - after there was this kind of "interaction" of knocking on the door, even Awakened who could hide their consciousness could no longer hide it from his perception.

This made Long Yuehong and Bai Chen even more frightened and tense.

They saw from Jiang Baimian's reaction and the questions she asked that the Team Leader also thought that there was no one outside!

In the next second, another "dong" sound rang.

"Open the door and take a look." Jiang Baimian pulled out her "Ice Moss" pistol.

Shang Jianyao had wanted to do this for a long time, and suddenly reached out and pulled open the door.

The corridor outside was dark and quiet, with street lights spaced far apart, and the wind carrying the heat of the night passed through unhindered.

Indeed, no one was there.

Long Yuehong brushed himself out of bed and picked up his gun.

"No one is there." Shang Jianyao stretched his upper body into the corridor, looked left and right, and said in a drawn-out tone, "Who's knocking on the door?"

No one answered him.

This psychological quality... Long Yuehong finally calmed down his excessive emotions and thought with some envy.

"Wait a little longer." Jiang Baimian instructed Shang Jianyao.

She wasn't too nervous, after all, this was the headquarters of the Crystal Consciousness Church, and Zenana was a compassionate monk.

As long as this Zen Master didn't blacken on his own, the probability of a serious problem wouldn't be high.

The Old Task Force waited for a while, but didn't hear the "dong" sound again.

"No fun..." Shang Jianyao shook his head and closed the door.

"Dong!"

As soon as Shang Jianyao closed the door, there was another knock.

This scared Long Yuehong so much that he almost jumped up.

Jiang Baimian pondered for a moment:

"See how long 'he' will knock."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao became excited again.

The "dong" sound rang from time to time, and it didn't appear for a long time until the seventh one ended.

This made Giuseppe wake up in a daze.

"Seven knocks on the door." Jiang Baimian concluded.

She looked at Bai Chen and the others, pondered for a moment and said:

"What do you think is going on?"

Shang Jianyao already had a draft in his mind and answered directly:

"The Night of the Return of the Soul! The Chief's Night of the Return of the Soul!"

"Then why is he knocking on our door?" Long Yuehong asked in a slightly terrified tone.

"Because he left the note to us!" At this time, Shang Jianyao's logic was always very clear.

"Then why is it seven knocks, no more, no less?" Long Yuehong asked again.

Shang Jianyao smiled:

"Seven-storied Pagoda!

"Seven is the lucky number of the Crystal Consciousness Church."

"But nothing happened after we opened the door..." Long Yuehong was "struggling to the death".

"Something will happen when you open the door after seven sounds." Shang Jianyao struck a pose that said if you don't believe me, I'll open the door for you to see now.

At this time, Jiang Baimian cleared her throat and said:

"I remember that Awakened in the 'Bodhi' domain can interfere with matter after entering the 'Mind Corridor'. Could it be that someone was manipulating the air just now, changing the wind pressure, and creating a movement similar to knocking on the door?"

As soon as she finished speaking, there was another sound from the door:

"Dong!"