Shi Jinzhe conducted two consecutive tests, each lasting exactly five minutes, not a second more or less. When he tested it for the third time, as soon as he let go, the snake's tail reappeared.

"I estimate it will only last fifteen minutes, no more than that." Shi Jinzhe asked, "Does this have anything to do with your molting?"

“Perhaps, but I didn’t expect to shed my skin at this time.” Sheh carefully put away the snake skin, recalling her desire to frantically drink blood yesterday. She said, “Maybe it has something to do with your blood. I don’t have that kind of desire for others.”

"You always say I have a very nice smell, is it from my blood?"

"Yes, it smells delicious." Shekh said, flicking his tongue as if he were about to devour it.

Shi Jinzhe took a step back, distancing himself from her. If his blood truly had something special about it, then what happened in the maze earlier…?

He still remembers the scene when he found the statue. It was trapped under a stone slab, especially the body, which was completely blocked by the heavy stone slab.

How could a stone statue that couldn't be broken by such a large stone slab crack so quickly because of a small stone?

Suddenly, Shi Jinzhe realized that he had overlooked many details because of his fear.

Shekh emerged from the broken stone statue; the stone shard was very thin, and she easily broke free by twisting her body a few times.

The thin stone slabs couldn't stop her, and the thick stone slabs couldn't crush the statue. In fact, when he found the statue, apart from a break at the earring, there wasn't even a scratch on it.

Shi Jinzhe raised his hand to rub the teeth marks on his neck; he had been injured at the time, and the stone statue was covered in blood.

He wondered, what if Shekh wasn't able to emerge because the statue hadn't broken...?

"Shekh, were you conscious while you were inside the statue?"

Shi Jinzhe doesn't like to pry into other people's past, and he won't ask about things that others don't bring up, but now he has no choice but to ask.

He suspected that his blood was his unknown skill.

“No.” Shekh touched the double S earring on his left ear. “Something flowed into my body from here, and that’s when I woke up.”

Shi Jinzhe stared at the earring on her left ear. This earring was not only stained with blood, but he had also kept it hidden in his arm for quite some time.

Shekh's awakening was not accidental; it was her own blood that roused her.

Shi Jinzhe: "I don't even know what my skill is, it's been hidden so well."

He looked at the two old teeth in his palm. Could it be that they were replenishing energy and promoting evolution?

This skill wouldn't be called selfless dedication, would it? Dedicating oneself to others and sacrificing oneself, without any skill, just relying on sheer luck.

Shekh was so fond of the new skin on the tip of his tail that he kept kneading it in his hand. When he heard Shi Jinzhe say this, he glanced at him and said as if he had thought of something, "You didn't get infected immediately yesterday."

"Then maybe he also has immunity to pathogens." Shi Jinzhe wasn't quite sure about this. If he really had immunity to all diseases, he might only have temporary immunity or something like that.

He had no idea how this skill was equipped to him, and Shi Jinzhe couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He found a leather sheath that held a knife, put the two fangs inside, and put it in his pocket.

Fearing that Shehe might go hungry after not eating all day, Shi Jinzhe quickly prepared food for her.

The two stayed indoors, and no one came looking for them; they peacefully passed the eighteenth day.

On the nineteenth day, the Azure Warehouse area was completely covered by fungus, and a large number of hairy monsters gathered around the Azure Building. Sher discovered that they were practicing Jenga.

"The third one in the left group has been stacked."

"Hmm, what's the sum of the three on the left and the two on the right?" Shi Jinzhe pulled her fingers off the windowpane. "Calculate it, don't count."

"I don't want to calculate."

"Then let's count." Shi Jinzhe followed her wishes, and when he heard Shehe say five, he asked the next question.

Downstairs, the hairy monster wobbled and stacked things high, serving as a teaching tool for the two people on the ninth floor all morning.

During lunch, one group stacked four of them, successfully reaching the height of the third-floor window of the Azure Building.

A couple of employees' family members living on the third floor turned their heads and saw a hairy face through the window.

Beneath the downy hair was a face drained of nutrients, with grayish-brown gums protruding and cheekbones jutting out, making the angles of the bones appear extremely sharp.

The hairy monster knocked on the glass of the window and peered inside, its head craning as if it wanted to squeeze through the window and into the room.

The tapping gradually changed from knocking to slapping, and the glass vibrated with the force of the tapping.

No matter how impatient the hairy monster was, its fake smile remained at the same angle, as if it were glued on.

The wife turned deathly pale, too terrified to call for help; her mind went blank, and she was completely unable to react.

She only remembered to run after the ceramic bowl she hadn't held fell on her foot. She patted her husband on the back, "Don't just stand there, run!"

The two fled in haste. The husband protected his wife, and before closing the door, he turned to look at the monster. Its eyes were wide open, almost bulging out, staring intently at the two of them.

Seeing the two flee, he frantically pounded on the window, as if shouting for them not to run away.

The two found their father, who worked at Azure, and begged him to move them to a higher floor, as the third floor was too low and the monster could already climb up.

"It's already an exception that we were able to bring you in. This isn't a hotel, where you can't just stay wherever you want. These rooms for you are vacated from the staff offices. The rooms upstairs are for several senior executives and experts from the research center."

"But...but I heard that someone moved into the ninth floor the day before yesterday, and those two people weren't even employees of Azure..."

The husband stammered in rebuttal, "Dad, you're a core employee, after all. They let unrelated people stay here without even mentioning you..."

"What do you want me to do? Make me lose face and beg the chairman?"

"...If we can't get to the ninth floor, could you secretly let us on another floor? Don't you have authority over floors below the seventh?" The wife carefully protected her belly. "I'm four months pregnant already, and I really can't take this shock. My heart almost jumped out of my chest."

"Yes, Dad, Weiwei really can't take a scare. You know she's not in good health, and she's a twin. You saw how reluctant Mom was to leave before she passed away; she even came up with several names for her."

The young couple's words struck a chord with the father. Before his wife passed away, she had named their two children. If something were to happen to her, she would probably be very sad in the afterlife.

The father was torn. Azure had been strictly monitoring the entry and exit of people on each floor for the past year, with only the floors below the fourth being relatively relaxed. If someone were sent up there and discovered, it would be no small matter.

Screams could be heard coming from other rooms. His daughter-in-law shrank back in fright, and he was also worried about his grandchildren.

My daughter-in-law's health is really not good. When we brought them in half a month ago, Mr. Lan only dared to let her stay in the isolation room for two minutes because of Weiwei's health condition.

It would be dangerous if this startled you.

After much deliberation, the father agreed to the request. He quietly escorted the people to the seventh floor, saying, "This is my office. Please don't wander around here, understand?"

The two happily promised, "We will absolutely not wander off or say anything out of line."