Chapter 475 Above the Posa (10) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

The building was surrounded by office workers who got up early to go to work but couldn't get into the office.

Qiu Zihan is only fifteen years old this year, and he exudes a youthful vitality that is incompatible with the zombie-like office workers around him. After seeing the panicked girl from last night, he left a word to Bai Jinshu and chased after her, quickly moving through the crowd, shouting "Make way" and "Excuse me" all the way as he ran.

I don’t know if the frightened girl in the white dress noticed that she was being stared at. Not long after Qiu Zihan ran out, she turned around with extreme alertness and disappeared into the crowd.

There are always a lot of people at this spot below the building.

An office building with dozens of floors is now completely blocked, and the employees who work here have gathered in the small open space in front of the office building.

The office workers gathered together, some were making phone calls, some were reading messages, some were chatting with colleagues, and some were even sitting down on the edge of the flower bed downstairs, taking out their computers and starting to work on the spot. This open space under the building is now used for all kinds of things.

The frightened girl tried to avoid him and soon disappeared from Bai Jinshu's sight. After Qiu Zihan ran out of his sight, no one knew where he went.

"Who did Qiu Zihan chase after?" Chang William was not there last night, and he hasn't reacted yet.

"Go after the person who made this place like this." Bai Jinshu said casually, then looked around and quickly locked onto a target, "Stand here and don't move."

"Excuse me, excuse me," he whispered to a white-collar woman who had just finished a phone call, "Excuse me, what's going on here?"

"We're surrounded by the police, can't you see it?" The white-collar worker just hung up the phone and turned around in an unexpected tone, "Who... who are you?"

She had a bad attitude at first, but her appearance was indeed a useful pass. After seeing Bai Jinshu's face, the white-collar worker's tone paused, became much better, and her words became polite.

Most people haven't woken up yet at this time. In addition to the comments about what happened last night for those who go to bed early and get up early, there are only two or three comments discussing the current live broadcast:

【This is a world where appearance matters. 】

【It’s so real.】

[Sister, you can’t hold back your smile. You can actually just smile. 】

On the screen, Bai Jinshu showed a timely embarrassment on his face: "I'm sorry to bother you. I received a notification from HR this morning to come here for an interview. I didn't expect to find the building fenced off after I arrived, and HR didn't reply to my messages, so I wanted to ask if anyone knows what's going on here."

"I'm here for an interview," the white-collar worker said in a bad tone just now, but now seeing that the other party's attitude was not a big deal, his face was a little embarrassed, and his tone softened a lot, "This place is surrounded by police, and we have all been notified to work from home. The company you want to interview with probably can't interview you, so you should go back early."

"HR hasn't notified me yet," Bai Jinshu sighed in embarrassment, "What if this place can be unblocked this morning and normal access can be restored? If I wait here a little longer, maybe the interviewer will have a good impression of me."

His words were so sad that the aura of a hapless job seeker suddenly overflowed, causing infinite sympathy from the white-collar worker opposite him.

"You'd better go back early," she advised. "This situation has been quite common in recent years. According to my experience, the earliest you can wait for the lockdown to be lifted is tomorrow."

"If it's slow, how many days will we have to wait?" Bai Jinshu asked.

"It won't be more than seven days at the latest..." The white-collar worker thought for a moment, "Just wait for HR to notify you. I was surrounded as soon as I came here this morning. I'm sure you won't be missed."

Bai Jinshu nodded and watched the white-collar worker leave.

The information revealed by this white-collar worker is that if someone strays into a location by mistake, the police will immediately take control of the area, and the time to unblock it will be at least one day and at most seven days.

Qiu Zihan, who had gone to chase the panicked girl, had not returned yet. Bai Jinshu did the same thing and talked to eight more people in the crowd, successfully obtaining different information using different identities.

In this world, "people from another world would occasionally enter here" seems to be common sense. Bai Jinshu asked in a roundabout way by taking advantage of his identity as a conversation starter. Nine people all gave different guesses as to why the building was blocked. Four of them guessed "maybe it's because people from another world entered their world from here."

Among these four people, no one mentioned the elevator. Even when the topic of how these people entered this world was raised, their attitudes were all unclear and they didn't understand. It can be seen that they actually didn't know how these visitors from other worlds got in here.

The white-collar worker whom Bai Jinshu interviewed at the beginning once said something like "It's quite common in recent years." Bai Jinshu tried to use this sentence to trick others and successfully concluded that this situation has indeed occurred frequently recently. However, the eight people he interviewed later all had more or less deviations in their descriptions of "recently." The shortest person said "Only in the past few months, right?", and the longest one swore that "It has been at least a few decades."

This is too far off. Bai Jinshu kept it in mind and put a question mark after this information.

Besides that, there's something else that's very strange.

Bai Jinshu lowered his chin silently and lowered his eyes in thought.

He chatted up ten people in total. These ten people were specially selected by him after observation. They basically included men and women, young and old, high status and low wealth. The content of the conversations was different, but he asked each person the same question, "Why is the building fenced off?"

Regarding this question, except for the four people who thought that someone from another world had come here, the remaining six people gave different guesses and answers, but the strange thing was that no one guessed that it was a murder.

This is not normal.

In a normal modern society, if a place is suddenly cordoned off by the police, the first reaction of the onlookers is "Did someone die?" If the place is blocked for other reasons, and these other reasons are not announced in time, then the rumor that "someone died in xx place and even the police are here" may spread even faster and wider than the truth.

Now the whole building has been cordoned off, but no one among the onlookers speculates that someone has died. This is unreasonable.

Is it that they don't know something that is common sense in this world, or do the police in this world have other hidden secrets?

Bai Jinshu looked around thoughtfully, and there were fewer people around as far as he could see.

As time went by, it was estimated that most companies had issued notices to work from home, and the workers gathered downstairs of the office building gradually dispersed, and Qiu Zihan also ran back from a distance.

"I lost her," he panted. "I don't know what happened to that girl. She ran really fast and hid in the crowd. I think I know why my sister didn't catch up with her last night."

The girl was clearly wearing a skirt that made it difficult for her to move around in, but she was running abnormally fast. Qiu Zihan kept following her but still lost her.

"It's okay," Bai Jinshu glanced at the time, "It's almost eight o'clock, let's go back first."

The restaurant where Qiu Zihan works has to open at 8 o'clock, and the owner of the pharmacy will also arrive at this time.

There is nothing more to know about this building.

The group of three returned along the same route. The old man from the pharmacy had already arrived at the store and was sitting behind the counter flipping through an ancient book. When he saw them coming, he just raised his head and didn't say much.

Zhao Yinglai came over and whispered, "The old man thought I was the one keeping watch last night, and asked me what happened to the window. I lied and said that I heard a crisp sound and the glass broke while I was sleeping last night, but it was too dark at night, so I didn't see who broke it or how it broke. He didn't say anything after hearing it, but just said that he would find someone to reinstall it in the afternoon, and he didn't ask me to pay any money or anything."

Bai Jinshu nodded. Zhao Yinglai had finished what he wanted to say. He also told her about what they discovered when they went to the building.

"You saw that girl again? She actually survived last night?" Zhao Yinglai muttered in a low voice, "How dare you go back to the scene? Aren't you afraid of being caught by the police?"

"So I suspect she really strayed in by mistake," Bai Jinshu tapped the table with his fingers, "Do you remember her expression last night? She looked very scared."

If that kind of fear was acted out, then even Bai Jinshu, an actor who makes a living by acting, wouldn't be able to see any acting in it. The frightened girl must be an actress.

"If she wanted to enter this world on purpose, then after she found out that she had really entered another world, even if she realized it belatedly and felt fear, her subconscious reaction should have been filled with understanding or surprise? After all, this has a success rate, but it doesn't guarantee success," Zhao Yinglai guessed, "but last night there was only fear in her eyes, which shows that she was terribly scared by us."

Many people actually treat the "entering another world" mentioned in the elevator game as a joke, not to mention that she had injuries on her legs, so this behavior might have been involuntary.

The panicked girl accidentally entered this world, so she naturally didn't know that she would be arrested by the police if she didn't have a job. It's no wonder that she returned to the place where she entered after hiding for a night.

"I guess she wants to go back," Bai Jinshu yawned. "The elevator game is a two-way spiritual game. If you come through the elevator, you can go back through the elevator."

The frightened girl didn't dare go back last night, maybe because she was afraid of meeting these "ghosts" again, or maybe because it was easier to feel fear at night than during the day. In short, when she came back during the day, she found that the elevator she came from was surrounded.

That means she won't be able to go back in the short term.

"It doesn't matter if I didn't catch up with her," Bai Jinshu shook his head, "I'll meet her again later."

If this girl was smart, she should have discovered after last night that the night in this world was not safe. She entered here accidentally and had not made any preparations to survive in another world. If she wanted to hold on until the building was unsealed, she had to find a way to survive during the day.

Most jobs require certain identities and thresholds, so doing odd jobs like them and being a waiter is a good choice.

If she wanted to survive here, they would meet for the third time sooner or later. Moreover, after the identity of the panicked girl was revealed, there was actually no need to ask her.

The panicked girl is just like them, an outsider who knows nothing about this place. Instead of asking her, you might as well ask Yuan and A Lian from last night.

After a few words about what happened in the morning, the pharmacy was officially open for business, and they could boil water to receive patients and boil medicine. Because Bai Jinshu and Chang William were late in the morning, the old man in the pharmacy naturally thought that it was Zhao Yinglai who was on duty, so he asked her to go home and sleep early, and by the way, he also asked about the scar on Chang William's neck.

Under Scarao's murderous gaze, Zhao Yinglai left in fear, turned around and went to the restaurant where Tang Ling worked to give her a message, using his actions to show that he did not go back to sleep, but was really working.

Chang William, who was boiling bitter medicine, looked very envious.

The work at the pharmacy was unremarkable. It was still the same as yesterday, picking, boiling and packaging medicines. However, there was one less person today, so Bai Jinshu took on the work of picking and packaging medicines, which was much more efficient.

Fortunately, the old man doesn't care about these things.

When there were patients, he would take their pulses and prescribe medicine. When there were no patients, he would sit behind the counter and flip through an ancient book whose paper and binding looked very old.

Around 1:30 p.m., Zhao Yinglai, who had gone out to "rest," finally came back after a tour, bringing with him Bo Jiren, the only member of the exploration team who had finished get off work.

The noodle shop where he works receives a limited number of customers every day and closes when the bone soup they prepare early in the morning is consumed. Apparently business is good today, as he got off work shortly after noon.

When Zhaoying came back, the old man just received a phone call. It seemed that someone on the other end of the phone needed emergency treatment. The old man greeted Bai Jinshu and Chang William, and hurried to the pharmacy with his medicine box.

Zhao Ying came and just happened to meet the old man who was about to go out. The two greeted each other. She pushed the door open and sat on the recliner familiarly. She casually asked, "Where did the old man go?"

"Emergency," Bai Jinshu was filling a prescription, "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"How can a Chinese medicine doctor go to an emergency? Isn't that the job of Western medicine?" Zhao Yinglai rocked the recliner and muttered, "I was wondering why he took the bus."

Bai Jinshu put down the prescription and said, "Did you meet him just now?"

"Yes, I met him. I bumped into him when I just came in," Zhao Yinglai replied casually, "and I saw a driver coming to pick him up."

In addition, the driver was also looking at her. Zhao Yinglai was very sensitive to other people's gazes. When she noticed the driver was looking at her, she looked back and then realized that the person getting on the bus was the old man from the pharmacy.

And she didn't know if it was her illusion, but the driver of the car that came to pick up the old man seemed particularly strange.

The medicine box the old man carried when he went to see patients was a very large box. It was inconvenient to get on and off the bus with that box. A normal driver would get off the bus to help passengers with their luggage, let alone a car carrying a doctor to an emergency room.

If you pack your medicine box early, you can hit the road sooner.

But for some reason, the driver showed no signs of getting off the car. Instead, he watched coldly as the doctor struggled to put the bottle on for a long time. If Zhao Ying hadn't passed by and lent a hand, the old man would probably have taken a much longer time on his own.

As a driver of a vehicle carrying a doctor to the emergency room, isn't this too calm?

Zhao Yinglai silently muttered to himself about the driver's strange behavior, but didn't take it to heart.

"Since he's in the emergency room this afternoon, does that mean there won't be any patients?" Chang William suddenly looked up, "Then we can rest after we finish boiling this batch of medicine!"

He was dizzy from the smell of Chinese medicine.

"Your boss has left? It seems we came at the right time," a familiar voice came from the door, and A Lian and A Yuan walked in, "I was worried that I would run into him."

"Alian?" Zhao Yinglai looked up, "Why did you come out during the day?"

She remembered that A-Lian said last night that they only dared to act at night because the police would chase them during the day.

When Chang William in the room suddenly saw A Lian, who was labeled as "murderer" by Scarao yesterday, his expression froze for a moment, and then he suppressed it.

"There was a small accident. Our hiding place was discovered and the police were called. We have to leave there quickly, otherwise we will be caught." A Lian said as she quickly entered the pharmacy. A Yuan behind her also hurried in and closed the door of the pharmacy.

"Are you all right?" Bo Jiren asked with concern, "Did the police catch up with you?"

Bo Jiren was not there last night. He just heard from Qiu Zihan in the group that they met two people. These two people first tied up Chang William, and then he convinced them that they were all people who had mistakenly entered here. Finally, they told everyone a bunch of true and false information about this place and then left.

Bai Jinshu's later speculation about A-Lian's identity is currently only known by Zhao Yinglai and Chang William who were present at the time.

"We didn't catch up with them," A-Lian said worriedly, "but I'm worried that they will search us house by house..."

She hesitated, "It will be troublesome then."

"Ayuan and I don't have any other friends here, and it's going to be hard for us to find a suitable hiding place like the one we had before. After thinking about it, we can only come to the pharmacy to seek refuge with you." She looked harmless, and her expression was pitiful when she said this. "Can you take us in for an afternoon? We'll find another place to stay at night."

We just met yesterday, and he almost killed one of their team members. Does that mean we are already "friends"?

In the normal process of interpersonal communication, this probably does not even reach the level of "good acquaintances".

Bai Jinshu looked up at her and said nothing.

There were four people in the pharmacy now, three of them knew that her hands were stained with blood, and she acted pitifully and pretended to be blind, and only Bo Jiren really believed that they were desperate.

"That's easy now," he said a little worriedly, "but it won't be convenient when the owner comes back later."

These two people are wanted by the police. They should help if they can, but there is no need to drag themselves into the water.

The owner of the pharmacy was just going out to see patients, it's not like he wouldn't be back. When he comes back, it will be difficult to explain to these two people.

"That's fine, we'll leave when the owner comes back." Yuan nodded.

"Just take us in for an afternoon, and we'll find another hiding place at night," A-Lian blinked and gave Bo Jiren a wink, "Thank you, what's your name? Let's be friends!"

Bo Jiren didn't know anything yet. Based on what Qiu Zihan said in the group chat, he thought A Lian was just a stray intruder who was unlucky enough to be caught by the police once. Without thinking, he replied, "Bo Jiren, I know your name is A Lian. My friend told me."

"Then I'll call you Brother Jiren?" A-Lian smiled. "Do you also work on that restaurant street?"

Why ask so many questions?

Zhao Yinglai winked at Bo Jiren.

"I..." Bo Jiren was stunned by the look and did not tell the truth about his situation. "I came here to help. I was not here last night."

To support his statement, he quickly stepped behind the counter and filled the prescription with Skao: "I'll work first."

There were no girls among the four people present during the day, so A-Lian couldn't call Chang William all the time like she did last night. She could only look around, find a small stool, and sit next to Chang William: "Brother William, can I help you fan the fire?"

"No, no need." When Chang William saw her face, the wound on his neck ached slightly, and he quickly refused. "I'm fine here alone. The smell of Chinese medicine is too bad. You should sit at the door. It's well ventilated there."

"Okay," A-Lian stood up, but did not walk towards the door. Instead, she walked behind the counter and looked at it with great interest. "Can I take a look? What is this, an ancient book?"

"It's probably a prescription or something like that," Zhao Yinglai said casually, "The book looks old, so it should be an old item."

This store has been open for more than 400 years, so this book may be more than 400 years old as well.

"What is this?"

A-Lian looked at the stack of papers beside her curiously: "Is it a prescription?"

"Well," Bai Jinshu glanced at them, "those are the ones that haven't been caught yet."

She uttered an "oh", as if she didn't expect Bai Jinshu to speak, and retracted her hand that was reaching for the prescription: "Then I won't look for it."

"Aren't you going to look for it anymore?" Bai Jinshu stopped grabbing the medicine and looked at her, "I thought you were coming for these prescriptions."

"How could that be?" A-Lian opened her eyes wide in surprise. "I was trying to avoid the police."

"Really?" Bai Jinshu retracted his gaze and said calmly while picking up the medicine, "I thought you had no shortage of places to hide, just like last night."

The two men were very skilled at breaking into the pharmacy yesterday. If Chang William did not have that fixed attribute, he might have become the ghost of these two men's men. And if the person who stayed in the pharmacy last night was not Chang William, but the real owner, then this pharmacy would have become one of the hiding places for these two men.

Killing the indigenous people and then taking over their houses should not be a difficult task for A Lian and the others. It would be easy to find the next hiding place and they would not have to hide in the pharmacy for an entire afternoon.

Then they would come here, maybe for other things in the pharmacy.

In addition, Bai Jinshu and Zhao Yinglai had speculated last night that A Lian and A Yuan came here intentionally. They must have come to another world for a certain purpose. Could it be for these prescriptions?

"Of course not," A-Lian's expression was genuinely surprised, "We really came here to hide from the police."

She blinked and whispered, "And believe it or not, we didn't plan to kill Brother William last night. It was an accident."

"Accident?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

Isn’t this too unexpected?

Who would be so surprised as to tie up Chang William and prepare to strangle him to death?

【"Accident"】

[What an unexpected surprise (good reading)]

[You lie without blinking, sister. ]

[It's okay, sister. They don't believe me, but I believe you. Chang William, I believe everything you did was an accident.]

[You weren't here last night, right? ]

[He's not here, what's wrong? ]

[Yesterday, these two people smashed the glass of the drugstore and tied up Chang William. If it weren't for Chang William's fixed attributes, he would have died last night. ]

【ah? 】

[And this A-Lian is not a good person. Ao Shen said that she has killed someone. ]

【ah? ? 】

[Oh, yes, this is another world, and they all entered it by playing a psychic game. ]

【ah? ? ? 】

How much did I miss in one night?

On the live broadcast, A-Lian blinked and said, "Really? Since you guys have taken us in for the whole afternoon, I'll give you a tip."

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows: "What?"

“The people of this world,” she said softly, “cannot be killed.”

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