Hide and Seek: The Mad Girl Sees All novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108

Chapter 108

jane drifted forward a few meters, her soul gliding effortlessly through the narrow path between the ghosts

She turned around and didn’t see Lyra anywhere.

Jane’s soul quickly looped back, weaving through the horde of ghosts, and spotted Lyra still standing in place, blocked by an impenetrable wall of ghosts.

“What’s going on?” Jane asked.

Lyra shrugged. “They’re not letting me pass.”

Jane glanced down at the ghosts’ faces, empty, lifeless, packed shoulder to shoulder, leaving no gaps at all.

“Did you try another spot?” Jane asked.

“Yeah, I tried left and right, but it’s totally blocked everywhere. No matter what, they won’t let me through,” Lyra replied.

Lyra took a couple of steps back, tilting her chin toward Jane. “Jane, float out for me.”

“Huh?” Jane blinked, confused.

“Float all the way through and then come back out. I want to see how you do it,” Lyra said.

Jane did as she was told.

Her soul drifted toward the ghosts, and they automatically parted to let her through. Jane glided right in, made a loop, and

came back out.

She came and went as she pleased, the ghosts clearing a path for her the whole time.

Lyra watched the whole thing, then stuffed her hands back into her pockets.

“Got it. The rule for this ‘wall’ is simple. Ghosts can pass, but living people can’t,” Lyra said.

Jane’s soul hovered in front of her, pausing for a couple of seconds. “Then you wait out here. I’ll go in and take a look myself.”

Lyra shook her head. “No can do. There’s a range limit between the card and your soul. If you go more than twenty meters. your soul gets snapped right back into the card.”

She waved the C Tier Tricolor Mimic card in her hand. “If you float in, you won’t get far before you get yanked back. It’s pointless.”

Jane’s soul froze in place.

Lyra stared at the wall of ghosts, her mind racing.

Lyra wondered, ‘Should I just charge through?

She thought, ‘Ghosts are transparent, so in theory, I should be able to walk right through them.

She lifted her foot and took a half-step forward, but the ghosts didn’t budge an inch.

“Nope, that’s not it,” Lyra thought.

Lyra pulled her foot back. The ghosts were just standing there like a bunch of statues, but what if a living person tried to

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Lyra wondered. Would passing through their souls wake them up? Red said it really rattles ghosts when someone walks through them.”

If hundreds of ghosts suddenly woke up at once and she was right in the middle of them, just thinking about it made her skin crawl.

“Forget it, I can’t just force my way through,” Lyra muttered.

She stepped back, switching gears.

Lyra thought, ‘Veilmist.”

She tapped the back of her hand, and her figure vanished from sight.

Jane, clear the way,” Lyra called out.

Her voice drifted through the air, and Jane’s soul immediately floated forward. The ghosts parted, making way for her.

Lyra, still invisible, followed right behind Jane. Right as she was about to step in, the ghosts snapped shut again.

They packed themselves tight, shoulder to shoulder, sealing off the path completely.

Lyra’s foot hovered in midair. Even though they couldn’t see or feel her at all, the ghosts still managed to block her way with uncanny precision.

“What the hell…” Lyra muttered under her breath.

Back in the game mission, once she used Veilmist, the Red-Cloaked Wraith couldn’t even sense her, not even a trace of her

presence.

But these ghosts were different.

They didn’t need to see her, didn’t need to sense her at all. Their blocking had nothing to do with vision or spirit sense.

Lyra wondered, “Then what is it?”

Lyra wondered, ‘Is it body temperature, a heartbeat, or the flow of blood?”

She thought, ‘Or maybe it’s simpler: being alive itself is the signal.

Fifteen seconds later, the invisibility faded, and Lyra reappeared right where she’d been.

“That didn’t work,” Lyra muttered.

She took a couple of steps back. “Jane, come out. Let’s get some distance.”

They stepped out of the ghosts’ line of sight, and the dense crowd of figures faded into blurry shapes in the distance.

Jane’s soul turned to her. “So, what’s your plan?”

Lyra didn’t answer right away. Instead, she fished a green flare out of her pocket, pulled the pin, and a column of green smoke shot up into the sky, piercing through the gray mist above.

“Just letting everyone know I’m safe,” Lyra said.

She tossed the spent flare aside and reached into another pocket, pulling out a Transform Card.

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“Since I can’t get through as a living person.” Lyra said, holding up the Transform Card and giving Jane a playful grin.

“Guess I’ll try being a ghost instead,” Lyra said.

Jane’s soul flickered in surprise. “You can turn into a soul?”

“It’s a Transform Card, a game item. It lets me change my form,” Lyra explained.

Lyra gripped the card and willed it to activate.

“Transform Card, activate,” she said.

A wave of white light spread out from the card, enveloping her whole body.

Her body felt weightless; she couldn’t feel the ground beneath her feet, and the wind on her face felt like nothing. She looked down, her hands were see-through, and she could spot the ground right through the back of them.

Jane watched her, clearly intrigued. “You actually turned into a soul?”

“Yeah!” Lyra wiggled her transparent fingers. “Feels pretty strange, honestly. My body doesn’t weigh a thing.”

She stomped her foot, and her toes slipped right through the ground an inch or so, she hurriedly pulled them back.

“Let’s go, let’s try again,” Lyra said.

They moved forward again, the ghosts coming into view. Jane floated ahead to clear the way, and the ghosts parted. Lyra followed right behind, slipping into the passage.

This time, the ghosts didn’t close up.

The ghosts on either side held their positions, empty eyes staring into the distance, not even reacting as the two souls slipped by.

They made it through.

Lyra and Jane exchanged a glance.

Jane’s soul smirked.

Lyra grinned, her transparent face splitting into a wide smile, showing a row of spectral teeth.

They kept floating forward.

That was when Lyra realized the wall of ghosts was way thicker than she’d imagined.

This wasn’t just a couple of rows.

It was row after row, packed so densely she had no clue how many layers deep it went. As she drifted through the narrow gaps, she was surrounded by ghosts on every side, left, right, front, back, everywhere she looked, it was nothing but ghosts.

It was about ten meters thick, she had to drift through a solid ten meters of ghosts before the crowd finally started to thin

out ahead.

“How many ghosts is that, even?” Lyra wondered.

“Thousands? Tens of thousands? Seriously?” she thought.

Every single one of them was facing outward, totally vacant, not a single twitch.

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No, they ARE the wall.

At last, they floated past the very last row of ghosts.

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The mist faded, nearly gone. Overhead, the gray haze became a thin veil, and shapes in the distance grew clearer.

Lyra stopped and looked around.

Devastation was everywhere.

The ground was cracked and broken. Half the road had caved in, exposing the pitch-black earth beneath

To the left, an apartment building was tilted at a forty-five-degree angle, every window shattered. Black veins crawled across the walls, spreading out like blood vessels.

To the right, a bus lay flipped in the middle of the road, its body crushed flat. The metal was coated in a layer of gray-green growth, hard to tell if it was moss or something even stranger.

Jane’s soul floated next to her, and together they looked so small and insignificant in the midst of all that destruction.