Building 4, Room 404 (4)
"Hello, what is your name?"
"…I have nothing more to tell you."
"Nothing else is needed, I just want to know your name."
The next morning, Ji Yunding got up early and began to ask the names of the residents he had visited yesterday one by one.
In the past, in Ji Yunding’s eyes, the pixels of this world were so low that they were blurry, and things that had nothing to do with her had no meaning to her.
She does her own thing, runs on her own track, and only looks up at the world when necessary.
But slowly, things became different.
This didn't take long, except that they were stunned when they were asked their names.
They have been here for quite some time, and have seen many investigators from all over the place. Some have been helped by them, some have died in front of them, and some have killed them.
But who would go out of their way to see the names engraved on the roadside tombstones?
After running all the way, Ji Yunding breathed a sigh of relief.
In this case, if you check the ghost story archives later, you should be able to find the names of all the victims.
In order to confirm the situation one last time, Ji Yunding walked back to the first floor, stood at the entrance door, and opened it.
The scenery outside the door was normal, but when Ji Yunding stood here, the temperature around him became slightly colder.
At the corner, dark shadows seeped out from the doors that could not be knocked open, staring at Ji Yunding from afar, waiting.
Ji Yunding just checked the surroundings carefully, and finally lowered his head and found the problem on the ground.
The carpet inside the door had been changed in direction at some point, with four large characters printed on it: "Stay Safe". Judging from the direction, it was meant for people walking from inside to outside.
The words on the carpet are large enough and conspicuous enough, but they are very easy to be instinctively ignored.
If I leave here, where will I live?
Ji Yunding had no interest in exploring this matter. He just closed the door, walked down the stairs to Bai Yuxuan's room, and knocked on the door.
The door opened, and there was an extremely bright and clean window in Bai Yuxuan's room.
Before Bai Yuxuan could say anything, Ji Yunding kicked the door, and the huge force of the door knocked Bai Yuxuan out.
...This kind of strength is not what an ordinary investigator should have.
"I'm leaving." Ji Yunding said as if to make an announcement, and then took out a dagger, "Before I leave, I'll kill you."
It's a weird story full of loopholes, with all the difficulty put on the point of "leaving", and some weird core rules are rigidly integrated without any construction adjustment.
There were no restrictions on the strength of outsiders, the rules were so simple that they seemed to be written just to pile up taboos, and there was no logic at all. There wasn't even a killer move to confuse investigators and put them in trouble.
If only a stronger investigator had come earlier...
Boring, uninteresting, frustrating - it's all annoying things. Ji Yunding's mood now can be said to be extremely depressed.
"you……"
"Because of this weird talk, I'm in a bad mood now."
Ji Yunding approached step by step, his tone very calm.
She was still not used to expressing her feelings, but something was completely different.
Bai Yuxuan sighed: "Forget it, let this body be injured. It has been used for a while anyway."
She wiped the blood that had just been knocked out and looked at Ji Yunding who had stopped, without any panic.
She had a rough idea of what Ji Yunding had done in the past few days. In her opinion, it was absolutely impossible to do anything to Ji Yunding.
While Ji Yunding was stopping, Bai Yuxuan stood up and opened the bedroom door.
Dongdong, Dongdong...
Ji Yunding was well prepared and jumped directly onto the bookshelf. The upside-down monster that he saw on the first day came out of the bedroom and looked at Ji Yunding from a distance, with a hint of human sadness.
From the looks of it, the two rigid rules related to "heights" should be related to it.
But why did it respond to the document format that Ji Yunding was talking about?
"You are Bai Yuxuan."
Ji Yunding spoke in a firm tone, but the upside-down monster did not respond. It just moved closer to Ji Yunding little by little, with a bit of reluctance in its movements.
Advanced mathematics, college English and postgraduate entrance examination textbooks.
How can a weirdo who doesn't even know how classes are divided in university know that he can answer that he lives here because of "internship"?
Because these are all true.
As a senior in college, you may be looking for an internship because you failed the postgraduate entrance examination, or you may be accumulating work experience because you passed the examination, but in any case you have to write a graduation thesis.
Ji Yunding stared at the distorted human soul stuffed into a strange body for a long time.
"I'm sorry, you didn't want me to die, but I couldn't save you."
It stopped moving and let out a low growl.
At the same time, a shadowy figure floated in from outside the door and looked at Ji Yunding from afar.
The spirits, with different and strange appearances, are probably waiting here to snatch a body that can enter human society.
And those residents, driven by the core's strangeness, walked to the door one after another and just looked at Ji Yunding.
"Bai Yuxuan" walked behind the crowd, breathed a sigh of relief, and knocked on the door intermittently with his hands.
It didn't know where Ji Yunding came from, but judging from her skills and strength, she would definitely not be stopped by these extremely biased rules that were created to satisfy the need to "send monsters into the human world."
But there were at least 40 or 50 people here. In its opinion, it would not do such a thing as wasting time on useless tasks like remembering names, especially for newcomers who were not used to the work of investigators, even if they were geniuses.
Ji Yunding listened to the thudding sound, squatted on the bookshelf, and casually flipped through the postgraduate entrance examination textbooks next to it.
It’s filled with notes.
"Please tell me how long this sound will last." Ji Yunding looked at the residents and took a deep breath. "For you, for their lives."
What needs to be done will not be resolved just because she runs away; the person who is being tortured will not disappear just because she closes her eyes.
The lifeless derivative monsters looked up at Ji Yunding and remained silent.
That’s okay, not everyone has that kind of courage.
Ji Yunding squatted on the wardrobe and stopped talking. He just stared at the monster occupying Bai Yuxuan's body and the spiritual monsters floating in the air.
Dongdong, Dongdong, counting down for someone's life.
"Five seconds left."
Among the residents, someone spoke and quickly walked out, as if trying to escape Ji Yunding's sight, but in the end, he exploded in front of her.
Ji Yunding bowed his head slightly to show respect, and whispered: "Four, three, two, one..."
………………
Standing among the corpses, Ji Yunding couldn't tell what he felt at the moment.
The residents' resistance was very weak, and killing them was like attacking training dummies. The feeling was real only when the blood splattered on their bodies.
They're all dead. She killed them all.
The real Bai Yuxuan was the last to die, and she helped Ji Yunding a lot before her death - because her body was taken away, she seemed to be one of the core anomalies here.
However, even though Ji Yunding repeatedly questioned the monster that occupied her body, the answer she got was still that too much time had passed and she could never get her body back.
So, she gave up.
Ji Yunding straightened the twisted and strange corpse and carefully placed flowers on it.
As for the core weirdness, Ji Yunding didn't feel anything, but they were quite familiar with the structure here, so it took a little time to chase them.
Ji Yunding had just taken out a strong rope from his bag, tied it up and let it down from the window, when he suddenly remembered something, turned around and ran to Room 404.
If the senior’s body was taken away by some monster, he should still be alive.
"Senior Corpse, follow me back to the research group."
After saying that, Ji Yunding carried the corpse, who was still confused about what was happening outside, on his shoulders, grabbed the rope and slowly slid down from the window to avoid being judged as "jumping from a high place".
This was the city center, and generally speaking, it was inappropriate to run wildly on the road carrying a corpse, but Ji Yunding's phone was in forced ghost story mode, and his backup phone was accidentally dropped and damaged during the fight just now - Ji Yunding's phone had been used for a long time, and it died at this inopportune time.
Fortunately, Ji Yunding's investigator certificate was not lost. He stopped a traffic police car and asked them to cooperate with the official business, and soon returned to the research group.
“Team leader!”
"Okay, I know you've beaten the monster again, performance..."
Ji Liuxing had just finished speaking when he looked up and saw Ji Yunding, covered in blood, carrying a corpse. He was silent for two seconds and then spoke in confusion.
“…What kind of research material is this?”
"No, this is Senior."
Ji Yunding quickly explained, recounting the incident at a very fast speed. Ji Liuxing frowned, took off his gloves and tapped the corpse's forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Within a week, there is still hope of saving him."
Using the same method as before, they got the corpse's name out, called the person from the research team over, captured him, and then handed him over to the medical team along with the corpse - the whole process took less than half an hour.
"No wonder there are recent reports that the resignation rate of ordinary investigators has increased. This is troublesome..."
Ji Liuxing sighed and was thinking about how to investigate when he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with Ji Yunding.
"Bad mood?"
"No, I just killed a lot of people today... I will adjust as soon as possible."
Ji Yunding shook his head and avoided Ji Liuxing's gaze.
All investigators have to go through this step - the feeling of powerlessness of not being able to save everyone. The more experienced and capable the investigator is, the deeper this feeling of powerlessness will be.
Ji Liuxing knew this very well. This feeling of powerlessness could not be solved by just a few empty words.
This is an objective, unavoidable and unchangeable reality.
"We need to investigate all the people who have entered similar ghost stories... let's start with you." Ji Liuxing smiled and tried to divert Ji Yunding's attention. "But, it's really difficult to pretend to be you."
As he spoke, Ji Liuxing gently touched Ji Yunding's forehead with his fingers. His fingers were very cold, like a corpse.
After a few seconds, Ji Liuxing withdrew his hand.
"Alright, a very healthy original human."
"Team leader, you just touched the body."
Facing Ji Yunding's complaints, Ji Liuxing looked at Ji Yunding's current appearance - only the area around her eyes looked like it had been wiped with a sleeve or something, other parts of her face were splattered with blood, and there were even a lot of blood clots on her hair.
She must have worked so hard, but fortunately she doesn't seem to be in too bad spirits.
"Sorry, I'll pay more attention next time. Go and have a rest."
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