Everyone sat down on the ground, and the two girls no longer maintained their solitary image, just sitting down as well.

They leisurely took out food from their backpacks. For the first time in a day and a night, they finished a meal properly.

As Qin Chingching was eating, she suddenly started to cry.

She was still biting into bread, eating and crying at the same time: "I never knew that just sitting here eating bread could be such a blissful thing."

She didn’t look good in this state, but no one laughed at her.

Because as they looked at Qin Chingching, almost everyone had tears in their eyes.

Only Gu Shengyin continued to eat calmly, with a calm expression on her face.

Then she noticed that everyone was looking at her. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Gu Shengyin’s first reaction was: Could something have appeared behind me again?

She didn’t look back. Instead, she swiftly rolled away from her previous spot, decisively and cleanly.

Then looking up, she saw nothing.

Gu Shengyin: "..."

She looked at everyone: "Why are you all staring at me?"

The other five were clearly bewildered by her earlier action, stunned for a while before realizing that Gu Shengyin had misunderstood something.

"Hahaha..." A burst of laughter erupted.

They felt that it had been a long time since they had laughed so freely.

Zhang Chao managed to stop laughing with difficulty.

He wiped the tears from the corner of his eye: "Leng Shi, don’t misunderstand, there are no ghosts here. We just feel really grateful to you along the way. If it weren’t for you, we really don’t know how many times we would have been dead."

After he finished saying this, the others couldn’t help but nod in agreement.

Qin Chingqing also followed up: "Really, thank you, Sister Leng Shi. I know I have a difficult personality, and in such a situation, you didn’t abandon me. I’m truly grateful."

The others also expressed their thanks one by one.

Even the usually silent Qing Ge stiffly said thank you to Gu Shengyin.

After going through this incident together, it seemed the barriers between them had lessened significantly.

Gu Shengyin glanced at the corridor and noticed that the old woman had disappeared.

Perhaps she knew there was nothing she could do to them and therefore left.

Qin Chingching noticed Gu Shengyin’s action and also looked up to glance back.

She suddenly stood up and walked a few steps up, distancing her view from the corridor.

"Finally able to relax, I certainly don’t want to see those things again," she complained softly.

Everyone agreed with this sentiment.

So, together, they all walked up a few steps, putting the dim corridor behind them.

At this moment, Qin Chingqing suddenly looked up.

She whispered, "I wonder what’s up there?"

Her words stirred curiosity in the others.

Then they all turned their gaze to Gu Shengyin.

It seemed they had grown accustomed to letting Gu Shengyin be their leader along the way.

Gu Shengyin was also curious.

She asked the system, "System, do you know what’s up these steps?"

The system honestly shook its head: "I don’t know."

Gu Shengyin: "..."

The system expressed its own helplessness: "If it’s not something that appeared in the plot, the system has no way of knowing."