The corridor was very quiet, with only the sound of two people's footsteps and Buddhist music in the headphones. Bai Shi walked in front, holding his cell phone as a light, and Chi Shen followed behind him.
Hearing Bai Shi's words, Chi Shen looked at his back, thought for a moment, and asked, "Can you abolish Bai Ximing's position as the clan leader?"
Chi Shen didn't quite understand how these families operated, but from what he knew, young people probably had no say in these families.
Bai Shi also understood what he wanted to ask, and answered: "It was not allowed before, but it is allowed now. Second Grandfather passed away, and most of the other older generations have been imprisoned. Only young people like us who have not been involved in those things before are still here."
At this point, he paused, and his voice became a little louder: "Now the Bai family is under our control, and it should be under our control. The Bai family has been on the wrong path for so many years, and we want the Bai family to return to the right path."
Chi Shen touched his chin and said, "If that's the case, then you can decide for yourselves. Why do you need me? I'm not a member of the Bai family. It's not appropriate for me to be the clan leader."
Bai Shi shook his head: "You are the only one who is legitimately qualified to be the clan leader. After all, you are the eldest son. Although Bai Ximing has done many things that go against our ancestors and has led our Bai family further and further down the wrong path, you are innocent and you have the ability to become the clan leader. So after discussing it, we all think that you should be the clan leader."
Chi Shen paused for a moment while touching his chin, then raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a smile: "Is that so...?"
Bai Shi suddenly stopped and looked back at Chi Shen. Although the light was not good, Chi Shen, who was used to the darkness, could still see his eyes. Bai Shi's eyes were serious. "You may doubt our purpose, but I believe that with our ability, we cannot threaten you. It is precisely because of your strength that I convinced them to let you be our clan leader."
At this point, Bai Shi paused for a moment, and then said sincerely: "I believe that if it is you, you can bring the Bai family back to the right path and revitalize the Bai family."
After saying this, he did not ask Chi Shen to answer, but looked at the road ahead.
Just as they stood here for a moment, a fork in the road appeared in front of them. The stairs that originally went straight down forked and became two stairs. From the distance of one of the stairs, faint crying sounds were heard.
In fact, the stairs they walked on did not turn at all, but went straight down, deep into the invisible darkness. Judging from the distance they walked, they should have walked out of the building long ago, but they walked for so long that even the walls on both sides did not change at all.
Chi Shen naturally knew all this. He had walked this staircase more than once. It was a classic trap. As for the solution...
Bai Shi took out a white candle and muttered something. He put his mobile phone into his pocket with his other hand temporarily, took out a lighter from his pocket and lit the candle.
The candle flame flickered, then tilted slightly, pointing to the passage where there was no crying. Bai Shi hesitated for a moment, looked back at Chi Shen, and continued walking towards that passage.
"No problem," Chi Shen said, "Both ways are fine."
"Oh, thank you, thank you." Bai Shi's tone sounded a little embarrassed. He touched the back of his head and took out his cell phone to light the way for Chi Shen.
After walking for about ten minutes, this seemingly endless staircase finally came to an end. At the end was a door, a very ordinary gray safety door with a green emergency exit sign on it.
Bai Shi walked over cautiously and opened the door. This straight staircase seemed to be able to take them several hundred meters outside the building, but when they opened the door, they found an underground parking lot behind it. They did not walk out of the building, but came to the parking lot on the underground first floor.
The parking lot was very quiet and there were not many cars, so the car parked in front of them was particularly eye-catching.
It was a clean white SUV, which looked out of place in this old parking lot with many broken lights.
It looked like a normal person drove onto the set of a horror movie.
However, the people sitting in the car looked like those in a horror movie, cannon fodder at that.
Seeing them coming down, the window that was originally closed rolled down. Several people inside looked in their direction, looking a little panicked. A person sitting by the door quickly opened the door and waved to them: "Come in quickly."
Coming out of the stairs, Bai Shi was also refreshed, showing a little smile, and said to Chi Shen: "We are out, they are here to pick us up, we will go out directly... Oh, by the way, do you have any thoughts on your ghost friend, should we come back to see him after a while?"
"I don't think so." Chi Shen raised his eyes slightly and looked at the car thoughtfully, as if talking to himself, "Are you sure we can leave like this?"
Bai Shi was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't hear what he said clearly. He had already walked to the car door, but he still turned back to look at Chi Shen: "What?"
"Xiao Shi, get in the car first."
As soon as Bai Shi finished speaking, a woman got out from the passenger seat. She patted Bai Shi's arm and then looked at Chi Shen: "Hello, my name is Bai Jing, and I'm Bai Shi's cousin."
Chi Shen gave a polite and friendly smile that he had practiced and nodded: "Hello."
Bai Jing's expression changed at this moment, becoming a little strange, but she quickly adjusted herself and said calmly: "We take you away in the hope that you can become the new generation of the Bai family's patriarch. I need to confirm that you really have this idea before we can take you away."
"Sister Jing!"
"Get in the car!"
Bai Shi was about to say something when he was interrupted by Bai Jing. Bai Jing nodded towards the car, and immediately someone took out a few tablets and incense burners from the car as if by magic and placed them simply in the parking lot.
Written on those tablets were the names of several ancestors who founded the Bai family. Chi Shen had seen them in the family tree given to him by Wei Zhuo.
Bai Jing looked at Chi Shen and said, "If you burn some incense now and inherit the position of clan leader in front of the ancestor, we will take you away."
The man with the incense burner nearby lit a stick of incense and handed it to Chi Shen.
Chi Shen looked at the incense stick, still with a smile on his face.
Bai Jing looked a little nervous: "Bai Ximing is dying. He wants to exchange his life with yours. You will die if you stay here. We can take you away now."
Only then did Chi Shen nodded, as if he suddenly realized something: "Oh, so that's how it is."
Bai Jing frowned even more, and spoke very quickly, with some urgency: "So as long as you become our new clan leader, you can leave now. If you leave here, he can't do anything to you!"
Bai Shi also looked at Bai Jing, then turned to the incense burner, and finally looked at Chi Shen: "I am indeed here to take you away."
"This seems to be the best option for me, but..."
Chi Shen raised his head. In the dim light, there seemed to be light flowing in his eyes. His voice was soft, even gentle: "I refuse."
"You! Don't you want to live?" Bai Jing was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise.
Chi Shen didn't look at her, but looked in several directions in the parking lot. Those directions were all dark, and the lights happened to be broken, just right. "I think if you want to inherit the mantle of the Bai family's ancestors, you don't need something like a clan leader."
In the darkness, the dark camera slowly turned.
Behind the camera, Bai Ximing was sitting in the monitoring room. He was startled when he saw Chi Shen looking at him. He immediately said to the Bluetooth headset: "Push him harder!"
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