The monitoring room is next to the security room in the office building.
Chi Shen first knocked on the door politely, but as expected, there was no response.
He waited at the door for a while, then took out the key borrowed from the manager and opened the door of the security room.
There was no one inside. The surveillance screen flashed a gray light, illuminating the small place.
Chi Shen smelled a bloody smell. He looked down and saw bloodstains on the floor and chairs in the monitoring room.
There wasn't much blood, just a few scattered drops. Chi Shen felt that it was not something that he needed to take care of, so he pretended nothing had happened. He calmly sat on the chair in the monitoring room, leaning against the chair and looking at all the monitoring screens.
The cameras in the hot spring hotel are not arranged very well and can only monitor some important places, such as the hotel lobby, various gates, elevators and corridors.
Chi Shen quickly found traces of his friends among these screens.
Bai Wan and the female ghost in red were circling outside the hotel, seemingly playing some strange game. The female ghost in red was responsible for taking off part of herself, and Bai Wan was responsible for putting it back on her. Behind the two of them was a sneaky chef holding a kitchen knife.
"Is this some new man-catching-ghosts...ghost-catching-ghosts game?"
Chi Shen stroked his chin and looked at them. He felt that they seemed to be having a good time. He gave up on caring about them and turned to look to the other side.
At the entrance to the outdoor hot spring changing room, Chi Shen saw two male students walking with Guimian. Guimian looked quite tall, with tattered white clothes draped wetly on his tall and thin body, which looked even more eerie in the black and white surveillance video.
The two male students also looked like they didn't want to get close to him. They stayed far away from him, but didn't dare to really leave. The ghost face seemed to be saying something, and the two male students nodded repeatedly beside him, as if they trusted him but were also afraid of him.
"Does he look like this?" Chi Shen took a look at Ghost Face. He looked more like a ghost on the screen, but he had to admit that this face still looked quite handsome, with the kind of classical aesthetic of a wide forehead and square face. Chi Shen thought back to Ghost Face's previous round face that was like a pancake, and found that the two faces were not completely unrelated, but at least had little connection. It was impossible to tell that Ghost Face would look like this when he was alive.
But Chi Shen didn't pay attention for too long. He just glanced at him casually and then shifted his attention to his next friend...oh, old friend.
Zhong Jingzhu was in the hotel corridor.
He did not wait obediently in the room. After all, he was the elder among their group and was not someone who would sit and wait for death. He thought that he should also shoulder the responsibilities of an elder and not let the younger generation do all the work.
However, as soon as he walked out of the room, he seemed to encounter some trouble. He saw that the person in the corridor did not seem to be a human, and went up to talk to him.
Chi Shen watched the sudden change in the expression of the hotel staff in front of him, from the polite smile of an ordinary staff member at the beginning, to horror, and then the whole face melted like a plastic man baked at high temperature, revealing the blood-red interior.
When the truth that he was dead was revealed, he turned into a monster.
Zhong Jingzhu tried again and found that his attack was ineffective against the monster, so he immediately ran towards the door.
Chi Shen felt that he was not in danger for the time being, but he was being chased by a ghost. If he was seen by a second ghost——
As soon as he raised his hand, he saw Zhong Jingzhu appear in the hotel lobby in one step, and then the ghost chasing him also ran out. Then, the dazed young lady at the hotel front desk turned her head and looked at them, her face turned into horror.
Soon, the receptionist's face began to melt.
Chi Shen originally wanted to raise his hand to change the picture, but when he saw this scene, he raised his hand and took out his cell phone helplessly and called the female ghost in red.
"Yes... Let's go to Zhong Jingzhu first. He just came out of the hotel lobby. If you go back now, you may still run into him."
The red-clothed female ghost on the other end of the phone promised solemnly, saying that she would definitely be able to save Zhong Jingzhu. Chi Shen felt that with Bai Wan around, this should be a sure thing, so he looked at the next scene.
Zhong Yi had already broken out of the door with a hoe, and Wan Zhong Jingzhu appeared in the hotel lobby. He ran to the front desk and found that there was no one there. There were some strange liquids on the tables and chairs. He frowned and looked for a while, then suddenly walked into the hotel building, as if he wanted to find Chi Shen and the others.
This guy looked even less dangerous.
Chi Shen continued to search in the surveillance screen, looking for the figure of his last friend.
He looked at every screen, but couldn't find where this last friend was.
Ji Xingchen disappeared from the surveillance screen.
Chi Shen was not in a hurry. He slowly called up the restaurant's surveillance video, adjusted the time back, and found the footage where Ji Xingchen appeared. Ji Xingchen was taken away by the manager who came to see him.
He looked at the time and checked the surveillance footage of several intersections. He soon discovered that Ji Xingchen had walked all the way to the office building. The last scene was Ji Xingchen and the manager pushing open the door and walking into the monitoring room.
Chi Shen sat up straighter and glanced at the bloodstains on the ground.
Then he fast-forwarded the scene of the corridor of the monitoring room that he had been watching for a long time. He saw the manager walk out of the monitoring room quickly, but he did not see Ji Xingchen come out of the monitoring room.
From the time Ji Xingchen came to the monitoring room to the time he came back to the monitoring room, it was only about twenty minutes, but Ji Xingchen disappeared.
Not only was Ji Xingchen missing, but judging from Ji Xingchen's actions when he first entered the monitoring room, someone opened the door for them, so there should be another person in the monitoring room. That person did not appear in the monitoring footage from beginning to end, nor did he go out from here. They did not come out until Chi Shen arrived.
So where did they go?
When Chi Shen came in, he observed the layout of the entire monitoring room. There was not even a window here. There was only one door to come in, and the ventilation vent did not seem to allow an adult to pass through.
Since they didn't go out, the biggest possibility is that they are still in here.
Chi Shen didn't look back, but instead showed an interested smile.
He had encountered this situation before, more than once, in that death game.
After entering a room, he looked at the timetable and found that a ghost came in and did not leave. When he turned around, he found that the ghost was standing behind him.
Or when flipping through photos, they found that a photo with a time stamp recorded the shadow of a ghost entering the room, but in subsequent photos, the ghost was not seen coming out, and then one of them had been replaced by the ghost.
Later, he felt that this kind of experience was a common occurrence and there was nothing to be surprised or scared about.
As for now, encountering this situation again, Chi Shen couldn't help but smile. He seemed to sigh a little, but didn't do anything. Instead, he slowly stood up and walked out of the monitoring room.
“Not here.”
Chi Shen walked out of the office building leisurely.
"He's already gone."
The door of the monitoring room closed automatically behind him with a click.
Chi Shen didn't look back, and didn't even blink.
The moment he stepped out of the office building, the glass door seemed to be twisted for a moment, but Chi Shen didn't care. He seemed to be talking to himself: "There's nothing here, and there's nothing there. He's hiding too well. Forget it, let's find Ji Xingchen first. He's too weak. We really should put him away."
He returned to the hotel entrance and saw from afar a large group of ghosts chasing Zhong Yi out, and Ghost Face was leading two male students towards this side.
When the two male students saw this, they immediately turned pale and ran away. When they turned around, they found that the main door leading to the outside of the hotel had been closed.
Zhong Yi also saw Chi Shen, and he shouted, "Quick, help me open the door!"
Chi Shen did not move. He turned his head and looked at the camera on the street lamp above him at the intersection. He suddenly smiled. The smile was gentle and kind, as if a long-lost friend was greeting him: "I found you - Jiang Haotian."
In the monitoring room, another person appeared on the chair where Chi Shen had sat. From the back, it was a young man. The monitoring system was originally silent, but when Chi Shen's face appeared on the monitoring screen, he was suddenly startled, and then his face was filled with fear.
"No...I won't be afraid of you anymore."
The man's voice also sounded very young, but his face was indeed that of an old man, and his hair was also gray. The lights in the monitoring room were not on, and the gray screen reflected his face very scary. He bit his hand viciously until it was bloody, and said neurotically: "I don't have to be afraid of you now. This is my place, my world! Yes, it is my world. Who are you? You are powerless in that kind of place. You can't break those worlds, and you can't break mine either. I am the master here."
He put down his hands and quickly tapped the keyboard, and his bloody hands quickly recovered.
While typing on the keyboard, he sneered: "You are no longer the same as before. You have weaknesses now."
He reached out his hand and stroked the fresh blood on the chair, the smile on his face became even colder: "Come on, let me see who is stronger between us now. I have wanted to eat you for a long, long time."
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