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Mu and Qing began to suspect that this might be a trap.
Why did Sifei give her that painting that could establish a link right before the strange thing happened? Was it to force her to establish a link with Sifei?
But Sifei took the call right in front of her. If Yinyin were to violate Guihui, Sifei would definitely not agree.
This time, with Li Shi absent, Si Fei will most likely want to establish a connection with Mu and Qing. For them, establishing a connection is a way of building intimate relationships, which are slightly different from family, friends, and lovers in the human world, but are essentially about bringing people into their own circle.
Once a link is established, not only can abilities be borrowed, but one can even influence their own destiny, but there is always a price to pay. Even Sifei and the others themselves need to abide by their own rules.
If Sifei is going to give the painting that establishes the link to Mu and Qing this time, then Li Shi is the one who is suspicious.
Why didn't Li Shi, who always wanted to follow her, come this time?
Mu and Qing thought about it for a long time and found that Jiang Kaicheng's words made some sense. She was indeed dull-witted. Going to high school must have damaged her brain.
If you have the chance, you should find someone to analyze her situation. She's been hiding, and they'll probably find her soon.
For some reason, Jiang Mu's smiling face appeared in Mu Heqing's mind; he looked very experienced.
At this moment, Jiang Kaicheng had already opened the door to the storage room. He was still worried about his mother. He made several phone calls, but Ouyang Zhu did not answer.
Seeing that no one was outside the storage room, he went out again.
"Sis, stay here. I'll call you if nothing happens. By the way, what's your phone number?" Jiang Kaicheng was a decent guy; he was still concerned about Mu and Qing's safety at this moment.
Just because his mother called him "baby," he started treating her like his sister.
Mu Heqing gave her phone to Jiang Kaicheng, but still said, "I'll go with you."
If all else fails, I'll have to use this painting, but I don't know what will happen after I finish using it.
She doesn't know how long she can hide here. There's no food or water here, and she'll have to go out sooner or later.
Jiang Kaicheng didn't strongly dissuade him, but simply told Mu Heqing to stay close to him.
The two peeked around cautiously, but didn't see a single person.
Strangely enough, the Guihui Building is unusually quiet today.
In the past, when Mu and Qing came to Chairman Ouyang Zhu's office, it was always bustling with people, each with the frustration and exhaustion of a working person on their face. But when they saw Ouyang Zhu, they would smile and be all smiles, truly masters of changing faces.
“Let’s leave the group first. My mom is in the showroom near the group’s building, not in the group itself, so she should be fine,” Jiang Kaicheng said softly, trying to reassure himself.
Mu Heqing recalled Si Fei's phone call, which was clearly made by Ouyang Zhu, indicating that Ouyang Zhu had encountered a strange situation.
Sifei deduced that Yinyin was near Ouyang Zhu, and she rushed over; Ouyang Zhu should be alright.
At this moment, it's not appropriate to discuss this with Jiang Kaicheng; it's best to leave first.
Ouyang Zhu's office is on the 39th floor, and they are standing in front of an elevator.
Mu and Qing observed the display screen outside the elevator, which showed that it was stuck on the first floor without any movement.
"There shouldn't be anyone in the elevator." Jiang Kaicheng also noticed the elevator display screen and pressed the button.
The numbers on the elevator display screen jumped rapidly. The elevators of the Guihui Group were very fast, and the elevator doors opened in no time.
Mu and Qing stepped into the elevator first. The elevator was brightly lit, and a person was standing in the corner of the elevator.
The man had his head down, with his employee badge hanging around his neck. As soon as Mu and Qing entered the elevator, he quickly raised his head. His face was frighteningly pale, and black, shadow-like mist slowly flowed from his eyes and mouth, forming a black face that floated in front of him.
Mu and Qing were startled and quickly stepped out of the elevator.
Jiang Kaicheng saw it too, cursed, and started running with Mu and Qing.
The two were panting heavily, clutching their knees. Jiang Kaicheng's face was deathly pale, while Mu Heqing, having likely seen much of the world, remained relatively calm.
"You don't usually exercise." Mu Heqing saw that Jiang Kaicheng was about to faint and thought he was just tired from running.
Jiang Kaicheng's voice trembled slightly: "Sis, don't laugh at me, I'm scared."
It's understandable that normal people would be frightened by that scene.
“I’m scared too. If he gets close to us, will we end up like him?” Mu Heqing and Jiang Kaicheng were on the same page, and saying this offered him some comfort.
Hearing this, Jiang Kaicheng felt a bit better. He patted his chest and said, "It's okay, let's think of another way. Have you ever played those dodging games? It's a game with many paths, and you find the path without monsters, avoid the monsters, and you pass the level. Let's treat this as a game for now. I don't believe this place is full of these things."
Mu Heqing remembered that she did play this type of game when she was a child. She played it with her neighbor's older sister. Jiang Kaicheng brought up her childhood memories.
Jiang Kaicheng's self-brainwashing greatly alleviated his fear, and he seemed much better.
"You're actually better than my brother; you're more like a normal person. If he were here, he'd probably still have that indifferent expression," Jiang Kaicheng remarked. He thought to himself that he'd probably be the one clinging to his brother's leg by now, which would be too embarrassing.
"You have a younger brother?" Mu Heqing asked softly.
She spoke to ease Jiang Kaicheng's fear while remaining vigilant about her surroundings.
The two walked quietly through the building, first descending one floor of the stairs.
“After my mom and dad divorced, my dad remarried, and a few years later, my brother was born.” Jiang Kaicheng’s expression lightened a bit when talking about his family.
"Judging from your expression, things should be alright at home."
At least it wasn't a bitter and resentful expression.
“My stepmother doesn’t care about us, she just watches over my dad. I like watching horror movies, but I’m also scared. My brother always keeps me company. He’s not afraid of anything. Even if a ghost suddenly appears, his expression doesn’t change. After I got married, he didn’t spend much time with me anymore. He was always busy with his own things. No, it seems like he stopped communicating with me much after he went to college.”
Mu and Qing tugged at Jiang Kaicheng's sleeve. There was a person standing in the corridor leading to the thirty-seventh floor, so the two of them could only go up to the thirty-eighth floor and no longer go down the stairs.
"You actually got married?" Mu Heqing asked in surprise.
Jiang Kaicheng doesn't seem to have grown up; he's still clinging to Ouyang Zhu.
“I knew you’d say that. Sigh, my mom doesn’t really care about me, can’t you tell?” Jiang Kaicheng clearly knew his place in Ouyang Zhu’s heart.
Mu Heqing knew what Ouyang Zhu cared about. She cared about Guihui. She might care about others, but not as much as Guihui. Guihui was her real child.
“I kept pestering my mom, hoping she would care about me more, and hoping she wouldn’t be too tired or lonely on her own.” Jiang Kaicheng’s voice was a little sad. “I did something wrong. I married a woman from a powerful family. I thought she would be happy, but she wasn’t. I was wrong. I hurt myself and others.”
Mu Heqing understood Jiang Kaicheng somewhat. She also wanted her mother to be happy, but she couldn't. During the period after graduating from high school, she wanted to return to normal, and she wanted her mother to stop crying in the middle of the night, but she couldn't do either of those things.
“A few years ago, that girl appeared. Actually, I didn’t have any objections. It’s good that my mother has someone to accompany her. But she shouldn’t have turned my mother into that.”
When Jiang Kaicheng saw what Ouyang Zhu looked like after being made up by Si Fei, he felt like a stranger to his mother for the first time.
He wondered, was it his mother, or someone else?
He was so horrified that even his own son wouldn't recognize him. He continued to whine and beg Ouyang Zhu, hoping she would return to normal, but he still felt uneasy.
“It’s my fault as her son. She has to face all of this alone. She’s not wrong, I’m wrong, and that girl is wrong too. She shouldn’t have come to my mother.”
Mu Heqing understood, but Ouyang Zhu had become deeply dependent on Sifei. No matter what Jiang Kaicheng did, as long as Guihui was above all else in Ouyang Zhu's heart, he could not drive Sifei away.
“Go this way, there are people over there too. Have all the people here turned into those ghouls?” Jiang Kaicheng pulled Mu Heqing to a corner again.
They are now hiding in a passageway, with people in front of them, a room to their left, and walls behind and to their right.
"What do we do?" Mu and Qing asked, as they were now at their wits' end.
Jiang Kaicheng pointed to the room on the left, "Go through this room, there are two doors, one on each side."
Mu and Qing stepped forward and quietly opened the door. The good news was that no one was inside.
She waved, and Jiang Kaicheng followed.
"Sis, in this situation, would calling the police be of any use?" Jiang Kaicheng suddenly asked.
Mu Heqing recalled Bao Yuxin, who had been abducted by Li Shi. The police had searched for her for so many days but hadn't found her. She felt that today's situation might be the same as Bao Yuxin's, and it wouldn't be of much use.
After all, what they're dealing with is too bizarre. They should consult a master, but no, even a master might not be of much use, as their expertise isn't relevant, and those guys aren't ghosts.
I can only hope for the best.
"It's hard to say," Mu Heqing replied.
Jiang Kaicheng shook his head. "Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore."
Mu and Qing opened another door to the room and peeked out. There were one or two people wandering around the floor.
She said, "We can't do this. This is only the 38th floor. We won't be able to get out even if we walk until dark."
If she and Jiang Kaicheng continue like this, they will eventually run out of energy.
"What should we do then?" Jiang Kaicheng asked. He was also a little tired. If he had known that something like this would happen today, he should have exercised like his brother.
“We need to find an empty elevator to go downstairs. This building is so big, and there are quite a few elevators. I don’t believe that every elevator will be occupied,” Mu Heqing said.
She turned to look at Jiang Kaicheng, who didn't say anything; he was silently making a phone call.
Jiang Kaicheng made several phone calls, his face gradually falling until it became a bitter expression.
"What are you doing?"
"Make a distress call."
"Is anyone answering?"
Jiang Kaicheng gave a wry smile: "No, but now I know that becoming the protagonist of a horror movie is such an unlucky thing."
He never watches horror movies again. What experience could be more terrifying than what he's going through now?
Mu and Qing took a deep breath. "There's no other way, let's keep going."
She and Jiang Kaicheng quietly left the room, avoiding several people with dark expressions, and pressed an elevator button.
The elevator came up, the door opened, and someone was there.
The two ran again, and after they finished running, they pressed the button for another elevator.
After repeating this process several times, they still ended up boarding an empty elevator.
Jiang Kaicheng looked grim, leaning against the elevator wall without saying a word.
Mu Heqing was also a little tired, with unease in her eyes. She still couldn't figure out whose ability could make someone else's face turn black again.
"bite--"
The elevator descended to the first floor, and Jiang Kaicheng dragged his tired body out of the elevator.
Mu and Qing followed them out of the elevator.
"We've finally reached the first floor, sis, let's go out quickly," Jiang Kaicheng said.
Just as Mu Heqing was about to nod, she looked up and saw a man with a dark face walking out from beside the elevator. The dark shadows around his eyes and mouth were facing Jiang Kaicheng.
When the dark-faced man saw Jiang Kaicheng, his speed suddenly increased. The black, shadow-like mist, like tentacles, connected to the man's eye sockets and mouth, while his dark face pressed against Jiang Kaicheng.
"Watch out!" Mu Heqing's scream caught in his throat.
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