Chapter 20: Ghost Mansion Part 4 I'm just a corpse craftsman, trying to make a living...
The group followed Ruan Meng to the Human Resources Office.
Because of what happened just now, Sun Jie was terrified and asked, "Brother Ruan, are you some kind of celestial master?"
"I don't deserve that," Ruan Meng said, sucking on his lollipop. "I'm just a corpse carver, trying to make a living."
Sun Jie swallowed his saliva and asked, "Can you bring a corpse back to life?"
Ruan Meng pushed open the office door and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no one else inside.
Then he turned around and said, "It's impossible to live. In this world, when people die, they are dead. I can only let them jump around a few more times."
There were piles of documents everywhere in the office, and there was a huge junk box in the corner, which contained some newly made work badges.
This is the first place you go when you first join the company.
But everyone was frightened at the time, so they didn't take a close look at the place.
The body of the woman in the "red suit" still retained some residual memory. She staggered to the corner, dragged out the storage box, took out five silver work badges from it, and handed them to Ruan Meng.
Sister Zhang, with her sharp eyes, spotted some rusty old work badges at the bottom of the box. Suddenly, something occurred to her, and excitedly, she grabbed the box and began to search inside.
After a while, she stood up holding one of the badges, almost stumbling: "This, this is my daughter's ID card!"
"Why is her ID card here?" She rushed towards the man in the red suit and said, "What did you do to her?!"
Ruan Meng stretched out his arms and grabbed her from behind. "Sister, calm down first. The rest of you, go guard the door and don't let anything else hear."
The woman's face was full of despair and regret. She was very smart and always remained calm in the face of difficulties. It was because of this that she was keenly aware that her daughter might no longer be alive.
Sister Zhang was like a lioness caught in a trap. She waved her claws in vain, knowing that she could do nothing at the moment.
She just regretted having a big fight with her daughter before going out the morning before yesterday.
If only I could turn back time.
She would definitely hug her tightly and tell her daughter that she loved her no matter what.
"Sister Zhang, take a look at this."
Xiaoyu took out a stack of papers from the glove box and found the one with the same name as the old ID card.
This is an employee contract termination form, which details the administrative regulations violated by this employee - she placed something that should not be there at her workstation.
The accompanying picture shows that the employee simply forgot to put away a small photo frame.
Inside was a very ordinary photo of a mother and daughter.
Sister Zhang silently shed a line of tears and almost rubbed the paper into her chest.
…
According to the rules, the elevator should be the only way out.
Ruan Meng has special abilities and naturally becomes the backbone of the team.
Of course, that strange woman doesn't count.
In order to avoid being played around by the rules, Ruan Meng asked others to wait in the elevator first, while he went to the formal employee office area first, perhaps he could get the employer out.
The time misconception had been corrected, and they deliberately chose the correct time to leave the company. The lady at the front desk still smiled warmly and did not stop them.
The corridor was clearly lined with incandescent light bulbs, but nothing could dispel the cold and damp atmosphere.
Xiaoyu held Sister Zhang's arm tightly and said, "If the elevator door opens later, let's not leave yet. Let's wait for Brother Ruan to come and listen to him."
The others nodded in agreement.
The elevator slowly descended from the 24th floor.
People were anxious and their moods were in turmoil.
The hope of escape lies ahead, and the night before dawn is always the most anxious and unbearable.
None of them dared to sleep during these two days. Even when they rested in a safe area, they could only nap for two or three hours.
Ah Zhe's eyes were bloodshot, and he stared blankly at the elevator door. "Brother Ruan said that although the rules can be deceptive, generally speaking, they won't create low-quality lies. Therefore, the black elevator must be safer than the red elevator."
Judging from the current situation, the Ginkgo Building security rules warn humans to stay away from the company from the beginning, which is a relatively "benevolent" existence.
"The reason why Xiaoyu's boyfriend died was because he was a new employee at the time and not a formal employee of the company."
Sister Zhang understood and thought, "Only the building rules mention the safety of black elevators. So, to take advantage of this rule and leave, I first need to become someone it can protect."
Sun Jie struggled to join in the discussion. "So, we can just take the black elevator down now? Is it really that simple?"
Xiaoyu felt uneasy: "Let's wait for Brother Ruan to come before we act on our own."
"He went to the official employee area." Ah Zhe suddenly turned his head and looked at her with a vicious look: "Why do you think those official employees couldn't escape?"
Sun Jie thought both sides made sense: "Is there danger there? Damn! Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
"I don't want to either," Azhe lowered his head in regret. "He is different from us. He may have a way to get out, but we can't wait any longer. I am an ordinary person. I just want to survive!"
Sister Zhang pressed her lips into a line, her eyes flickering behind her glasses, and I don’t know what she was thinking.
"bite!"
During the argument, the elevator door in front of them opened.
Amidst the chaotic gazes filled with expectation, worry, fear, and hesitation, a red light suddenly unfolded, filled with "colleagues" with blurred faces, with barely enough space for one person in the middle.
Everyone froze in place. Azhe, who was closest to the elevator, even began to feel weak in the knees.
The things inside made unclear communication sounds, pointing at the people in front of them, indicating that there was still room for one more person.
Sun Jie didn't dare to look at it at all, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Don't... communicate..."
The red elevator remained stationary.
They said, there is still one person missing, come up.
Come up.
Ah Zhe staggered backwards, and when he passed Xiaoyu, he somehow managed to pull the other person over like crazy and pushed him into the elevator door!
Xiaoyu had never expected to encounter such a thing. In an instant, despair surged in her heart, and she subconsciously grabbed Sister Zhang's hand tightly, but soon she let go again.
Just as they entered the compartment door, Sister Zhang did something unexpected - she rushed in first and pushed Xiaoyu out.
By the time Xiaoyu realized what was going on, the elevator door had already creaked shut.
"Sister Zhang!!" She screamed and tried to stop the elevator door from closing, but was stopped by Sun Jie.
She knelt on the ground weakly, muttering: "I hurt her..."
At the moment the elevator closed, Sister Zhang actually smiled at Xiaoyu.
Perhaps, she was not completely selfless, but subconsciously felt that this path would lead to her daughter.
Sun Jie supported Xiaoyu: "This is not your fault at all."
He had long felt that the salesman was not a good person. Which good person would wear a suit every day?
Azhe's eyes were sunken and he squatted beside her, pulling his hair.
He murmured, "I didn't mean to do it, I didn't mean to do it... I just wanted to live, I wanted to live, is that wrong?! I'm not wrong!"
He calmed his guilt well, stood up slowly, and pressed the down button of the elevator again.
At this moment, the lights in the corridor flickered again, and on the other side, an invisible sense of oppression quietly spread.
"Squeak"——
The door of the "supervisory room" at the end opened and a man walked out.
The middle-aged man, covered in a dark green military coat, seemed a little cold. He frowned and walked towards the crowd: "Who was making a fuss just now? No noise is allowed in the corridor."
Azhe's eyes lit up: "It's the supervisor! The supervisor is trustworthy, the supervisor is trustworthy!"
He ran over and tried to grab this glimmer of hope: "I'm a company employee, please take me out!"
The supervisor had a very ordinary face, no weird smile, no extra arms, he was as normal as could be.
He glanced at Azhe with a cold face and said, "Come with me."
As he said that, he took out the key chain from his waist, opened the door of the fire escape, and walked in by himself. Azhe's face was ecstatic and he couldn't wait to follow him in.
Xiaoyu wiped the tears from her face and looked at Sun Jie in surprise.
"Are we going too?"
Ruan Meng hasn't appeared yet.
Perhaps as Ah Zhe speculated, there were extremely terrifying things in the official employee area, which even Ruan Meng, an insider, was unable to get away, let alone take care of the two of them.
If they miss this escape route, they will have to "work" in the company for another day, and their condition will become abnormal sooner or later!
The two of them supported each other and walked towards the stairwell.
Suddenly, Xiaoyu thought of something. She stopped and looked up at the sign that said "Supervisory Office".
"Wait, I think something's wrong..."
She wondered, "We're off duty now. Logically, the supervisor should have reminded us to go to the supervisor's office and apply for overtime, right?"
Sun Jie paused, obviously thinking of this as well.
The supervisor suddenly turned back and put his face to the crack of the door: "Aren't you guys coming together?"
The sense of disharmony was so strong that Sun Jie and Xiao Yu felt creepy and began to retreat frantically.
While fleeing, Xiaoyu once again looked at the security rules on the wall -
"I know!" she screamed. "The rules only say the 'supervisory office' is trustworthy, and they don't mention the people in it at all!"
Sun Jie sweatdropped: "We have a preconceived notion!"
So, who is this person?!
Seeing the supervisor's face darken and he was walking towards them with his military coat covering his face, a cleaner in a yellow cleaning uniform came out from nowhere, pounced on him and grabbed his ankle.
There were obvious stitches on the cleaner's neck, probably from being sewn up after his head was beaten off.
Ruan Meng was still carrying someone and yelled anxiously in the elevator, "Come here quickly! Didn't I tell you not to wander around?"
Sun Jie and Xiao Yu finally saw the light. They ran over desperately, and the elevator door opened with a ding. Ruan Meng grabbed the two of them and dragged them into the door.
Sun Jie bent over and gasped for breath, but before he stood up, he heard the sound of the small fish beside him shaking like sieve chaff.
"Brother Ruan... why is this elevator red?"
Sun Jie's breathing stopped.
He suddenly thought of a question.
Is Ruan Meng, who came out of the formal employee area, still the same Ruan Meng as before?
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