While Meng Yunqiu was speaking, Cen Yu could still hear the chaotic sounds from the other side, clearly indicating that something was wrong throughout the entire Lide Building.
It seemed that he had too many things to deal with on the other end, so Meng Yunqiu hurriedly gave a few more instructions and then hung up the voice call.
Pei Heng still remembered that Cen Yu's company was in the Lide Building, a notorious "sweatshop" where overtime was rampant, with an average working time of 11 hours. He also remembered that Pei Leyun had hinted to him more than once that Cen Yu wanted to work at his family's company, but at that time he had a bad impression of Cen Yu and never agreed.
Now that this has happened at the Lide Building... Pei Heng suddenly wondered if he should let Cen Yu work somewhere else.
"You work at the Lide Building?" Shen Wei was close by and could vaguely hear Meng Yunqiu's words about "working from home." In addition, he noticed that Cen Yu had only gone over to watch the video after hearing the words "Lide Building," so he immediately concluded that the other party's company was here.
“Yes.” Cen Yu took out his phone and simply searched for the words “Lide Building” on social media.
The video spread incredibly fast, especially the last few seconds which were captured as screenshots.
The man's folded limbs, his rolled-up white eyes, and his limp neck hanging on his chest all indicated one fact: he was completely dead.
The trending topics included "#Lide Building suicide", "#Lide Building video", and "the last few seconds of the video screenshot".
Cen Yu glanced at the comments below the video—
[...At first, when I saw the trending topics, I thought someone had jumped off a building because they couldn't stand working overtime, but this video is too weird, isn't it?]
Did you guys watch those few seconds? His limbs were completely bent backwards! Holy crap... it's scaring me...
[Debunking! Someone just analyzed it and found that the last few seconds were AI-generated, using a clip from a movie!]
[What rubbish about AI synthesis? I happen to know a little about this, and all I can say is that it's a very complex field, so those of you who don't understand it should refrain from making unfounded claims.]
【You know, then tell me why?? You pretentious bastard!】
[He's in the Lide Building... He's my colleague... We were just ordering coffee when he suddenly ran out laughing, and climbed straight up the emergency exit. He's really not very fit; my hands are shaking as I type this.]
Cen Yu glanced at the Weibo account of this colleague from the Lide Building, and after clicking on it, he found that the person did indeed work in the Lide Building and had even posted a picture of the view from the 43rd floor.
"Brother Chen, something's not right here, is it?" The guy behind the counter was also looking at the online comments. He glanced at Chen Wei and said, "Tell me, in those last few seconds, what normal person would fix their limbs like that?"
Shen Wei looked at the screen on his phone. In less than ten minutes, the video spread rapidly. When he refreshed the page, all the videos and screenshots on Weibo had disappeared, and the trending topics were quickly pushed up by other news.
But it was no use. Almost everyone in Shen Wei's WeChat groups was forwarding the video, with attitudes ranging from fear to indifference.
"Those who watch this video should be careful to have nightmares tonight," Shen Wei said, putting his phone in his pocket.
Clearly, he didn't mean to warn people against having nightmares.
Cen Yu looked at him, "Is there a problem with the video?"
"Jumping from the 49th floor, that person was bound to die anyway." Shen Wei took a piece of candy out of his pocket and put it in his mouth. "That thing was just putting on an act after it realized someone was filming."
He took a straw from behind the counter.
“It was a very simple matter.” Shen Wei placed the straw on the edge of the counter and then made a gesture as if he were falling off the counter. “Thud. It’s very simple. Whether it’s a personal grudge or pure malice, it’s very simple.”
"But after it discovered someone was filming, it suddenly broke the person's limbs." Shen Wei suddenly folded the plastic straw in his hand.
"The person filming the video will be frightened, and the person watching the video will know that no one would suddenly bend their limbs backward; there must be something haunting them."
Cen Yu looked at the plastic straw that Shen Wei had folded together in his hand and suddenly felt that for those things, killing a person might be as simple as folding a straw.
"It affects everyone who watches the video."
"Their inner fears and terrifying fantasies about it, in turn, fueled it."
Shen Wei threw the plastic straw into the trash can. "That's why I said they're likely to have nightmares tonight."
"Including us?" Chu Yichen asked.
“Not including Cen Yu,” Shen Wei said.
Cen Yu immediately became vigilant—
He always felt that Shen Wei was holding back some nice words.
“The thing in his dream is even fiercer; this thing doesn’t dare to mess with him.” Shen Wei clapped his hands, chewing on a candy and mumbling, “So hurry up and go to your house to meet that thing.”
...
Cen Yu and Pei Lejun's original rented apartment was not far from the Lide Building.
There were quite a few people working in the Lide Building. It wasn't time to leave work yet, but Cen Yu still ran into a few acquaintances. After thinking for a while, he realized that they were people he had seen in the building before.
There are many companies in the Lide Building. After seeing Cen Yu, some people still managed to muster up a bit to greet him, "Back from your honeymoon?"
"Where's Xiao Le? Didn't she come with you?"
Although the man asked this question, he was still a little unsure when he saw the three unfamiliar men following Cen Yu.
What he really wanted to ask was, "Did you default on a P2P loan? Are these three people debt collectors?"
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