Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 894

That sudden scream sent a jolt through the crowd, causing the besieging cat players to scatter in panic. No one had expected they would run into a ghost during an innocent game.

The person who screamed earlier had turned into a twisted, ghostly shadow. It was clear—this had to be a ghost. Who would have the mood to continue the game?

The scene descended into chaos, and the "ghost" with whom Scott collided was equally baffled and scared as everyone else. He looked at his body full of terror, questioning himself, "I'm a… ghost? S-Since when did I die?"

Meanwhile, Calvin witnessed everything from above the tree. His gaze zeroed in on the person before decisively saying, "He's one of the missing persons!"

Shannon was startled. "Are you sure?"

"I'm confident!" He gritted his teeth.

He had always been excellent at recognizing faces, let alone someone on the missing person list. After an in-depth, personal investigation of all the victims, he naturally knew their faces like the back of his hand.

It was precisely because of his confidence that he felt a surge of rage. If one of them had turned into a ghost, did that mean the rest of the missing persons on the list had… died?

A chill ran down his spine as he recalled his undercover colleague being one of the 17 victims.

Shannon gazed at Calvin's side profile and the soul beneath the tree. It was clear that it had been scorched by the spiritual energy from the emerald pendant. After some thought, she decisively alighted from the tree with him.

The moment her feet hit the ground, she swiftly yanked a length of red strings from her bag, tossing it toward the ghostly figure. With a swift tug, the unstable ghostly form was instantly bound by the string, its movements now restricted.

She then slapped a soul-taming talisman onto the ghostly figure and removed her cap and mask, announcing to the scattering crowd, "Settle down, everyone! He's not a ghost!"

Due to the chaos earlier, most people had already run off at the first opportunity, but a few remained nearby. At the sound of the voice, they instinctively turned their heads. When they saw Shannon, they froze for a moment, surprised.

"Shannon Jensen?"

At first, she had assumed it was a result of the spiritual realm's influence. But now, she realized that the realm had managed to mask the essence of their souls, making it impossible for her to distinguish between the living and the spirits.

"A living soul? Does that mean I'm alive?"

The living soul was clueless about what it meant. It was called "living" for a reason, but why was he neither alive nor dead?

The look of utter confusion on his face led Shannon to suspect that the spiritual realm not only managed to conceal a soul's state and energy but also manipulated one's memory.

"Don't you remember how you went missing for a few days?" Calvin questioned.

The living soul was perplexed. "I was? I thought I'd been playing Cat and Mouse all this time. I was originally in the mouse group, but after I got caught, I became a cat. So, I just started hunting mice with the cats…"

He strained to recall his memories, but all that surfaced was the endless cycle of hunting mice. It appeared that there were so many mice in this game that it was never-ending.