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Chapter 185 Their Code Phrase

She was silent for a moment.

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The way she looked at Ludwig now carried a bit of subtle, unreadable coldness – a chill that ran deeper than her ghost makeup.

Then, the “ghost” let out a quiet chuckle. “Not much. Thirty bucks a day.”

“Thirty? That’s actually kind of decent…” Jean blurted instinctively.

After all, plenty of people didn’t even make ten bucks a day.

The ghost woman’s gaze snapped toward her – sharp, probing, and oddly hostile.

Jean immediately picked up on the sudden shift.

Her eyes narrowed. The corners of her lips lifted slightly as she met the woman’s stare head–on, completely unfazed.

Then

Ludwig stepped forward, placing himself between Jean and the ghost. He blocked that unfriendly gaze

without a word.

His voice was calm, but there was a

you’re both so interested in my pay, how

between the two of them, her tone almost

if Jean had been clueless, she couldn’t miss the signs

contact from Abyssal Choir planted inside the

meant Ludwig hadn’t just asked about wages out of nowhere that had been

wonder the ghost had reacted so stiffly when Jean chimed in –

the passphrase, she must’ve assumed she wasn’t in on it – hence the I could kill

Just then-

the shoulder. “Come on, let’s go learn how to apply for

caught on instantly and played along. “Sure,

now.”

ghost led them to a shadowy section of the haunted

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door swung open in front

was

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back, her face mostly swallowed by the shadows.

it felt like she was

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