Chapter 480 Above the Posa (15) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Wen Qi's face looked bad, and the two policemen sitting at the small table also gave her strange looks.
Hadn't this group of people been waiting here for someone? Why did the companions who had been waiting for them look at them as if they had seen an enemy instead of a friend?
"Brother William." Qiu Zihan called out nervously in a low voice.
Chang William's fixed attributes can make his words credible to the audience. Their original plan was to let Chang William persuade Wen Qi, but now the police are next to them, they can't be so direct.
Now the police have noticed that something is wrong with Wen Qi, will Chang William have an accident?
"Don't worry, leave it to me." Chang William nodded.
[Oh no, I actually thought Chang William was very reliable. ]
[I also think his words are damn reliable. Am I blind? ]
[To be honest, it is indeed very reliable in terms of fixed attributes. 】
[For the first time, I find Chang William pleasing to the eye…]
A few lines of words floated across the screen. Below the words, William Chang cleared his throat and suddenly turned to look in the direction of Scario: "Qiqi, I know you don't want to see your brother, but no matter what, you've been away from home for so many days, your family must be worried. At least say a few words to him, don't just turn around and leave."
Qiu Zihan raised his head slightly and looked at Chang William.
The flowers that Chang William mentioned were not the ones they had agreed upon at the beginning, so he changed his plans.
Wen Qi's current behavior is very strange. If you want to convince her, you must not only comfort her and calm her down, but also appropriately throw out some information about yourself and Wen Qi so that she can reduce her guard against them.
All of this is difficult to achieve without exposing one's identity.
So Chang William changed his mind and decided that since he couldn't convince Wen Qi, why not convince the police?
As long as the two policemen here don't think anything is wrong, they can take Wen Qi out naturally and then slowly convince her later.
Chang William usually doesn't pretend to be cool or emphasize his noble birth when he speaks. But now, in order to prevent the police from investigating Wen Qi's abnormality, he pretends to be a yellow-haired man who tricked his runaway sister out of home for the sake of family unity. He is really itchy all over.
Fortunately, the fixed attributes worked as usual, and the police could hear something wrong in his language, but they just felt uncomfortable because he was the evil man who tricked his friend to go home.
Tang Ling raised his head slightly and glanced at Wen Qi's face, and felt that there was less "unhappiness" and more "fear".
When they got closer and observed carefully, they found that the girl actually looked quite heroic. The contours of her eyebrows and eyes were sharper and clearer than those of a normal woman. She had a very neutral appearance, but her dress and expression seemed too terrified. Her face was pale, just like when they ran into her last night.
Tang Ling grabbed her arm and could almost feel her whole body shaking unconsciously, and she subconsciously wanted to curl up into a ball.
This was a subconscious defensive posture, which really didn't seem like a pampered rich lady. Tang Ling had this thought in her mind for a moment, and immediately heard William Chang's voice continue to ring out: "You must be angry with me..."
He has the appearance of a playboy and he is quite capable of pretending to be melancholy.
"I didn't mean to lie to you," he sighed, "but if I didn't trick you out, your parents would have found someone to take you home."
He half-seriously pointed at the captain of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau next to him.
"That person was hired by your parents. Your brother didn't want to use force to bring you home, so we resorted to this last resort."
Huai Jiamu's temperament does not look like that of an ordinary person.
"Qiqi, we are all the same. I understand you," Tang Ling squeezed her arm and advised gently, "Don't quarrel with your family."
"Brother Fa Ye, your sister is here. Don't let us be the bad guys. Come here quickly and don't just stand there!" She winked at Bai Jinshu.
Bai Jinshu stood up with understanding, and pretended to care and stood in front of Wen Qi, just blocking the two policemen's sight so that they could not see Wen Qi's expression.
In front of him, Wen Qi looked up at her stiffly.
What are these people talking about?
They... Aren't they the ghosts I met at the elevator door yesterday? Do I know them?
No matter how slow she was, she should have realized by now that she was being scammed.
And it was done in a way that was totally unpredictable.
In addition to this group of "ghosts" in the convenience store, there were also policemen trying to catch her near the office building. If she didn't want to be caught by the police, she could only be taken away by this group of people.
She came here tonight originally intending to try to go back, but as soon as she stepped into this community she felt something was wrong. Her sixth sense told her that more than one person was looking at her.
Wen Qi is an extremely perceptive girl. She is extremely sensitive to all the gazes directed at her by others. She cannot show any sign of wrongness when these gazes are fixed on her.
So Wen Qi made a quick decision and pretended to be a passerby passing by here. This area was full of various office buildings. She remembered that there was a 24-hour unmanned convenience store that was lit in the dark last night.
Just pretend you're going to a convenience store to buy something.
She made up her mind and walked to the door of the convenience store. She keenly noticed that the person sitting at the small table inside the convenience store was also a policeman. She immediately turned around and ran.
Unexpectedly, he failed to escape and was caught by a group of "ghosts" that he had just seen last night.
The girl beside her, who was either a human or a ghost, grabbed her arm tightly, leaving her with nowhere to escape. Wen Qi's mind was full of a mess of terrifying associations, and finally stopped at one question -
How do these people know her name is Wen Qi?
She was silent for too long, and Chang William's fixed attribute made the two policemen lose their vigilance. After watching the excitement curiously for a while, they immediately looked away and began to monitor the office building through the lobby glass of the building in front of them again.
"Don't talk here, there are outsiders here," the long-haired young man in front of her called Brother Faye spoke softly, his tone was completely different from the gentleness of the man who claimed to be her friend before, "Qiqi, I know you don't want to go home, so go to your brother's house first. I won't tell my parents that I found you."
Wen Qi felt a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.
This long-haired man...also appeared in front of the elevator yesterday. She is the only "person" in this world. Now she is in a dilemma. Either she follows these "ghosts" or she is exposed and caught by another group of "ghosts".
She had no choice.
Just then, the man who had been leaning against the freezer suddenly stood up.
"Wen Qi?" His voice was low and slightly smokey, but he didn't smell like cigarettes. "Let me be frank. Zhang Xu taught us to do this. If we continue to be stuck here, it will be twelve o'clock. Let's go first."
Zhang Xu taught.
Wen Qi's eyes suddenly widened and glared at the person who spoke.
Huai Jiamu looked back calmly.
Zhang Xu taught that when Wen Qi’s disappearance was reported to the Abnormal Management Bureau, he was mentioned in the case description as “one of the two people who made a bet with her.”
"...Okay." Wen Qi pulled the corners of his mouth stiffly and slowly took a step to the side.
*
As midnight approached, there were almost no pedestrians on the street. Only a vague sixth sense told everyone walking on the street that the eyes staring at them in the dark had not left.
Tang Ling held Wen Qi's arm in an intimate manner, and as they walked forward, he whispered in an imperceptible voice, "Trust us, we are also from the world you came from, and we have no ill will towards you. There are police officers around here staring at passers-by, can you feel it? Don't be so obvious."
Huai Jiamu directly said the name of the person who made a bet with Wen Qi, which was equivalent to directly revealing that he and Wen Qi were from the same world. As expected, Wen Qi followed them out of the convenience store.
But she didn't know what this name meant to her. As soon as she walked out of the convenience store, she asked questions like a barrage of questions, "Who are you? How do you know that Zhang Xu taught me? He told you that my name is Wen Qi? Why are you here..."
Her questions were too many and too frequent, and her expression was too urgent, so Tang Ling had to calm her down first.
Wen Qi barely suppressed the fear and urgency on her face: "Who are you then?"
"Someone came to rescue you," Qiu Zihan couldn't help but interrupt, "It's very dangerous here. Someone paid to send someone in to take you out."
"I don't want to go back!" Wen Qi suddenly struggled violently.
"Fuck, Qiu Zihan, just shut up..." Tang Ling cursed inwardly, "Calm down, calm down! We didn't say you have to go back, okay!"
While holding Wen Qi down, she glared at Qiu Zihan fiercely.
Qiu Zihan shrank his neck, feeling guilty and dared not speak.
The only visible woman present was Tang Ling. She held Wen Qi tightly, said a few words of comfort, and then looked to Chang William for help.
Chang William's prepared speech still came in handy.
"Ms. Wen Qi, didn't you recognize who I was just now?" He cleared his throat proudly, "My family once cooperated with your company on a small project. This project was led by a famous philanthropist I know. His most famous deed was that he once bought a cultural relic that was lost in a foreign country during the war at an overseas auction for tens of millions of yuan, and then donated it to the museum without blinking an eye. Among that batch of donated cultural relics, I was also a member..."
Yes.
The solution everyone came up with was to let Chang William build relationships and get close to the other party.
It doesn’t matter whether these things have happened in the real world. As long as Chang William says it, there is a certain probability that Wen Qi will believe it. Even if she doesn’t believe it completely, she will believe part of it.
Anyway, every word Chang William said was just flattering and bragging. No matter whether Wen Qi believed the flattering part and thought that Chang William would definitely not harm her since they were related to her, or Wen Qi believed the bragging part and thought that Chang William was so capable and there was no need for him to lie to her or harm her, the exploration team members all suffered.
Chang William completed the task very well. He tried to get close to others and boasted without thinking. He started by saying that he had cooperated with your family's company before, that he had taken photos with your mother, and had dinner with your father. He almost said that he had held you in his arms when you were a child.
This caused investors on the barrage to collapse:
[I take back what I said a dozen minutes ago about William Chang being reliable.]
【I take back what I said about him being reliable. 】
[Who will shut him up...]
[Although you can't shut up William Chang, you can mute him. ]
[Who in my family understands... I muted the sound when I was watching the video, and when William Chang was talking, I felt like there was a voice in my head.]
[Don't hide yourself anymore, you are the closeted Chang William. ]
【You are William Chang, a closet person. 】
【You are in the closet. 】
【You are in the closet! 】
…
In the unknown space, Chang William talked for a long time, but Wen Qi remained unmoved, and the expression on her face even became more distant.
Chang William's plan to get close to others seemed to have failed, but also seemed not to have.
Because Wen Qi seemed to really believe that he was a rich man who had dual citizenship and titles in multiple countries, had properties all over the world, and who spent his daily meals and chats with a group of wealthy friends who were at the top of the pyramid.
But she didn't feel at home, instead she felt even more repulsed.
"So how did you know that Zhang Xu taught you?" After leaving the police's sight, Wen Qi finally didn't have to maintain superficial peace and asked quickly.
"You disappeared so suddenly," Chang William laughed. "You disappeared last night, and your parents reported it to the police. Everyone knew that you made a bet with Zhang Xujiao and Zhang Weijing and played the elevator game, and then they sent someone to rescue you..."
Before he could finish his words, Wen Qi interrupted him very quickly: "Impossible!"
"Who are you?" She looked at everyone with all her might, "My parents can't call the police, nor can they send anyone in to look for me!"
"Why?" Tang Ling was stunned. "But, it was your parents who called the police?"
What the Special Investigation Bureau says can't be false, right?
"Tsk," Wen Qi sneered, "Zhang Xujiao and Zhang Weijing called the police, right? They must have been scared to death when they saw me disappear."
The exploration team members and the investors in front of the screen frowned together.
Is there any hidden secret?
[Isn't this another internal fight among the wealthy families? ]
[Isn’t Wen Qi a biological child? ]
[Is it because the illegitimate child is not accepted? 】
[Opening, opening, what else is possible? Let’s all place our bets! 】
[I'm here! What kind of adopted child is Wen Qi? Is she the child of a distant relative who died? Is she the child of her ex-wife or ex-husband?]
[Oh my god, this guy is quite experienced.]
【Thank you, thank you. I have seen it all. 】
【Now that you know everything, what should we guess? 】
[In front! You can also guess the real daughter! The cat replaces the prince! ]
[It has to be friends of the foundation, they are well-informed. I will still play online with you in my next life. ]
Although people were having fun in the barrage, the atmosphere in the unknown space was not relaxing.
"I won't go back with you." Wen Qi took a step back, a hint of vigilance on her face, "Just go back and tell them that I'm dead."
"Really?" Bai Jin said slowly, "A child is a piece of flesh and blood of his parents. How could they ignore you? Your parents will be sad."
"What do you know!" Wen Qi's tone suddenly became fierce, "You know nothing!"
"Of course I don't know, then why don't you tell us." The long-haired young man crossed his arms across his chest, looking relaxed and contented.
"Why should I tell you this?" Wen Qi was very alert. "Are you deliberately provoking me?"
"We're holding you now," the long-haired young man in front of him said with a tut. "To be honest, you're being held by us now, right? Do you think I'm asking you questions?"
Wen Qi paused.
"No, I'm asking you," the other party smiled friendly, "Do you really think you can get out of here?"
Wen Qi belatedly began to look around.
She was led by these people from the beginning, and her mind was full of the words of the man named Chang William. She didn't have time to pay attention to where she was taken. Now when she looked up, she found herself standing at the corner of a three-way intersection.
The street on the left was covered with thick fog, and there seemed to be something strange in the fog. The street on the right was empty, but invisible shadows often floated by. The third street looked safe, but that meant they were taking the same route to get here. If they went back along the same route, they would immediately come into the police's sight.
Her arm was still held by their men, and she had nowhere to run if she wanted to escape along the same route.
"You have been hiding here for a day, right?" As she looked around, the man sighed again. He was obviously a bad guy, but his tone was full of pity and sympathy, which was much more sincere than William's artificial soft voice. "You found that this is another world, and you also found that you who do not belong to this world will be arrested by the police. Have you drunk water and eaten all day? You are hungry and tired, and you have to hide from the natives here. You hid for a whole day and didn't dare to come out until the sun went down. You walked into the convenience store just now to see if you can steal something to eat?"
Wen Qi's neck stiffened, like a cat whose tail was caught: "What does it have to do with you?"
Unfortunately, her stomach did not cooperate. As soon as she finished speaking, it cried out in response, and the sound was very clear in the silent night.
Wen Qi gritted her teeth, raised her head and was about to speak, when a hand appeared in front of her.
"Eat," the owner of the hand shook the bread in his palm, "water."
Another person standing behind him handed him a bottle of mineral water.
"What?" Wen Qi looked up at the two men, "Bribe me?"
"Let's get this straight," the long-haired young man glanced at her, his tone somewhat speechless, "Are you worthy of our bribery? How much are you worth?"
Wen Qi: ...
That's true.
She mumbled a few words, but still reached out to take the bread and took a big bite, mumbling: "Who knows what you are planning."
"You should say thank you when you take something from someone else." The long-haired young man said calmly.
Wen Qi: “…Thank you.”
It must be said that compared to Chang William's previous attempt to get close to her, she was more accustomed to the attitude of this long-haired man called "Brother Faye" towards her.
The bread was filled with purple sweet potatoes, probably bought from a convenience store. It had been held in the hand all the way and had been stained with a little warmth from the buyer's hands. Wen Qi took several bites and finally felt her stomach, which had not eaten a drop of water for a day, slowly moving.
The water next to her was handed to her by the man standing behind "Brother Faye". It was mineral water from the convenience store freezer. The water, which was below normal temperature, slid down her throat into her stomach, which made her brain a lot clearer.
This group of people knew Zhang Xujiao's name, so they must be from the same world as her, and they must be related to her disappearance.
However, the long-haired young man did not look like he had come here specifically to find her, and he had entered earlier than her, so it was impossible that he had come here for her. On the contrary, Chang William, who showed his close relationship with Tianquan in every word, had not been seen yesterday. He seemed to be the one who came to find her, but Chang William's identity was not ordinary, so how could he have come here just to find her?
Wen Qi was overwhelmed by the news. She couldn't figure it out, so she just gave up. She wolfed down a piece of bread, wiped her mouth, and looked up at the long-haired young man: "I won't eat your food for nothing. Ask whatever you want. Apart from going back with you, I can tell you everything else I know."
"There's nothing to ask," Bai Jinshu touched his chin, "You're just ignored at home and bullied outside. Last night, you were pestered by the two Zhangs. I remembered the popular elevator game. They wanted to force you to play a supernatural game. You grabbed at straws and thought that it would be great if you could really leave here. So you reluctantly played the game. Unexpectedly, the game was really successful."
There is nothing new under the sun. After a few words, it is easy to guess Wen Qi's situation. No matter what her identity is, she is definitely not taken seriously by her parents. The two people who called the police were more anxious than her parents, so they couldn't be close friends. They must have made a big fuss and are feeling guilty. After knowing these key points, the following content is easy to understand, and there is really no need to ask.
What is valuable is the identity behind Wen Qi and the meaning it represents.
Her lack of attention does not conflict with calling the police. It is even possible that the team Huai Jiamu was in was sent in so quickly not because Wen Qi's disappearance was a big deal, but because the person the captain had offended finally seized the opportunity to disgust him, so he couldn't wait to kick their entire team in.
Wen Qi is not important, she is just a high-sounding excuse for leaving the team. If she can be found, that's good, it's part of the job. If she can't be found, it's even better, and the blame is all put on the captain.
From this perspective, Wen Qi does not seem to be of much help in the exploration at the moment, and taking Wen Qi back is the best solution for the Abnormal Investigation Bureau team.
Considering that Huai Jiamu is now the resentful captain, Bai Jinshu decided that it would be best to find a reason to keep her.
"Then you..." Wen Qi lost the ability to organize her words, "Then he."
She looked at William Chang decisively, and missed the right person perfectly: "Isn't he here to take me back? Didn't Zhang Xujiao call the police..."
"Your parents and the two Zhangs did call the police," Bai Jinshuo said, "but the people who came in didn't just come to look for you. They mainly came to investigate several unsolved cases related to another dimension. You were just a bystander."
He deftly reversed the order of precedence.
Hearing that they were only looking for him by chance, the vigilance and confusion on Wen Qi's face instantly disappeared a lot: "Then I'll wait for them to go back."
"But there are many murderers on the run here," Bai Jinshu sighed, "These murderers are extremely vicious. If they accidentally kill you, this is a different world. If your body is found, the people here will not only not track down the real murderer, but may also secretly dispose of the body of an outsider."
Wen Qi: "...You are threatening me."
"Yes, I threatened you," Bai Jinshu admitted frankly, "but have you ever thought about it? So many fugitives on the run have not been caught. Is it because they hide well, or because they played the elevator game like you and went to another world?"
It was easy for Wen Qi to enter, and it would be even easier for a fugitive who wanted to escape from his crime to enter.
At this point, the vigilance on Wen Qi's face had almost disappeared, and was replaced by a dilemma about whether to trust these people and follow them.
"Besides..." Bai Jinshu dragged out his tone, "Now even if you want to go back, you can't. The office building is blocked."
He threw out his final chip.
"Follow us, at least you will know how to survive in this world without being discovered."
"...Okay." Wen Qi thought for a moment, looked up and agreed to them.
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