Chapter 33
"Strange, is the bathroom hidden so deep?"
Xiaobai looked around in confusion and began to wonder if she had taken the wrong road.
But there was clearly a restroom sign above the door when I entered the corridor!
There is no one here, not even a question for directions.
Forget it, she decided to go back.
Just as she turned around and was about to go back, she suddenly saw out of the corner of her eye a huge cardboard box placed at the stairwell door with a familiar print on it.
"Huh?" Xiaobai walked closer curiously and found that the print on the cardboard box was exactly the zz brand logo she had just seen.
There was no one around, but there was a big box at the door of the stairwell...
No way... someone must have dumped the body!
Xiaobai's imagination was greatly stimulated, after all, this was the plot of the TV series she had watched.
Urged by curiosity, she carefully lifted the lid, and her eyes immediately lit up.
The box was full of sunscreen, all of which were the icy sunscreen that she had wanted to buy for Jiang Jiang but couldn't afford!
"Wow! There are so many!" Xiaobai picked up one and turned it in his hand.
Each packaging box is well sealed and obviously brand new.
She was wondering who put these here when she suddenly heard footsteps and voices coming from the corridor not far away.
"The inspection has been strict recently, so I only got one box." A female voice sounded.
"It's too little. Can you get a few more boxes?" The man's voice sounded anxious.
Xiaobai subconsciously stood up and pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation that was getting closer.
"It's not possible during this period! As you know, a new employee discovered that goods were missing from the warehouse and almost reported it to the store manager. Fortunately, I was smart and fooled him, otherwise I would not have this box!" The woman said anxiously in a low voice.
"But this is really too little! There are many people who want it here. Wait for me to stock it up, and then you can think of a solution!" The man was obviously still not satisfied.
After a moment of silence, the woman finally spoke, "Then I'll think about it and see if I can find a chance to change it on the manifest..."
The two of them turned the corner of the corridor and met Xiaobai's eyes in the stairwell.
The air froze instantly.
Who would have thought that there would be a living person in this stairwell that has been deserted for years? !
The man was wearing a black uniform, it was unclear where it came from, and he was tall and strong.
The woman next to her was wearing a zz brand shop assistant uniform.
The female clerk saw that Xiaobai looked unhappy and was obviously worried that someone would hear about their story.
The man in black saw Xiaobai standing next to the box with a tube of sunscreen in his hand. The box on the ground was open.
As for whether Xiaobai heard their conversation, he felt that they didn't speak loudly, and even if the other party heard it, most people would rather mind their own business.
He had better mental quality than the female clerk, and spoke first, "This is our goods. If you want to buy it, you can go to the store." He winked at Xiaobai, indicating her to put the things back in the box.
Xiaobai blinked his big eyes, looking innocent, "Didn't you just get this from the warehouse?"
This sentence exploded in the corridor like a bomb.
The female clerk's face turned pale and her lips trembled constantly. She was obviously very scared.
The man in black's expression also darkened, but he quickly forced a stiff smile.
"Little girl, you heard wrong. We are the staff of ZZ and we are counting the inventory."
"Really?" Xiaobai frowned, looking confused. "But you just said that the store manager can't know about the missing goods!"
The female clerk's legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground.
She was in a very bad state of mind. She trembled and grabbed the man's arm, whispering, "It's over. This man must have been sent by the head office to inspect. I told you not to take so much at once. We must have been discovered..."
"Shut up!" The man in black glared at the female clerk fiercely.
They are very familiar with this corridor. There is no surveillance from the corridor to the stairwell, and no one will come here at all, so they usually trade here.
At the moment, this seemingly harmless little girl in front of them has become their biggest threat.
The man in black narrowed his eyes and forced a smile, "Little sister, you heard wrongly. This is our normal stocking process. If you want to buy, you can go to the counter."
He moved forward as he spoke, blocking the stairwell without a sound.
Xiaobai sighed while holding the sunscreen, his eyes full of regret, "But it's too expensive, I can't afford it at all!"
The female clerk beside him breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the person was not sent by the main store. She rolled her eyes and said to Xiaobai with a smile, "How about I give you a few of these new sunscreens?"
"Really?" Xiaobai's eyes lit up.
The man in black frowned unhappily, obviously not wanting to agree to this approach.
But when he saw the look in the shopgirl's eyes, he immediately understood what she was thinking and slowly moved his feet again.
"Of course it's true!" the female clerk said with a smile, "As long as you don't say anything you shouldn't say..."
Xiaobai lowered his head and touched his chin, seeming to be hesitating.
With her thin body and innocent expression, she looks like a naive little girl.
"How is it, little sister?" The female clerk smiled sweetly, "This is our store's newest model! It's worth several thousand!"
She said, walking over to the box, pulling out three bottles of sunscreen and shaking them, "Just think of it as making friends!"
Xiaobai began to waver. Her attention was completely drawn to the sunscreen dangling from the saleswoman's hand. "Are you really giving it to me?"
She asked doubtfully, seemingly oblivious to the vicious flash in the saleswoman's eyes.
"Of course!" The female clerk spoke gently, and while Xiaobai was not paying attention, she secretly winked at the man next to her.
The man in black held his breath and moved silently behind Xiaobai.
"I keep my word. I will give it away if I say so! Don't worry! Besides, this is the star product of our store. Everyone who has used it says it's good..." The female clerk was still chattering, trying to attract Xiaobai's attention.
Just as Xiaobai lowered his head to look at the sunscreen in the female clerk's hand, the man in black suddenly pounced on him and strangled Xiaobai's neck with his right arm.
"Ah~" Xiaobai was startled by being strangled suddenly, and subconsciously let out a short scream.
In the empty stairwell, the scream produced a strange echo, scaring the man so much that he quickly covered her mouth with his other hand.
"Shut up!" The man gasped, his arm muscles bulging. He instinctively increased his strength, and Xiaobai's cervical vertebrae made a "cracking" sound under the heavy burden, but he didn't notice it because he was too nervous.
The female clerk stood aside with a pale face, and kept muttering to herself, "It's all your fault. If you hadn't suddenly appeared, we would have no choice but to do this."
The man's arms unconsciously tightened because of Xiaobai's struggle, and sweat slid down his temples.
He had cooked accounts, stolen goods from stores and sold them at low prices, altered invoices, and cheated people, but this was the first time he had killed someone.
His hands began to tremble, and he had to cover Xiaobai with force and strangle Xiaobai's neck tightly.
Suddenly, there was a crisp "click" sound, and the man subconsciously took two steps back due to the force.
Time seemed to stand still and the air was eerily quiet.
The man looked at the round object in his arms blankly, not realizing what it was.
"Ah!!!" The female clerk saw everything clearly and let out a heart-wrenching scream, the sound of which made Xiaobai frown.
"It's so noisy!" Xiaobai frowned and complained dissatisfiedly.
Because Xiaobai started talking, the man was so scared that his breathing became rapid and his hands trembled constantly. He felt like holding Xiaobai's head in his hands was like holding a hot potato.
A head actually started talking!
"Ghost...ghost!" The man finally came to his senses and threw the head away with his hand.
Xiaobai's head drew a beautiful parabola in the air, fell to the ground with a "bang", bounced twice elastically, and finally rolled to the feet of the female clerk.
"Hey! You guys..."
Xiaobai's headless body angrily put his hands on his hips, pointing his finger precisely at the two of them, "Can you be gentle with my head?"
The two men couldn't stand it any longer and ran away from the stairs.
noob,"……"
Tsk tsk tsk.
Xiaobai's head sighed.
"Really!" He walked over, bent down, picked up his hair, and skillfully placed it on his neck. "It messed up my hair. Jiang Jiang will be disgusted again soon!"
She carefully put her head back on her neck, twisted it left and right to confirm the position, took out a small mirror and adjusted her hair. Finally, she nodded with satisfaction and turned to look at the box of sunscreen.
"Um..." she called towards the stairs, "Do you still want these?"
Of course no one answered.
Only her echo floated in the empty corridor.
"You said you would give it to me, so I'll take it!" Xiaobai happily picked up the cardboard box and walked towards the exit humming a song.
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Jiang Jiang stood on the rest bench, cold sweat soaking his back.
She had been standing here for more than ten minutes, but the disappeared Xiaobai still hadn't returned.
Xiaobai is very clingy to her and depends on her very much, it is impossible for him to leave without saying a word!
Then, there is only one possibility, Xiaobai had an accident!
Fear gradually spread to the top of his heart, and Jiang Jiang tried hard to restrain himself and stay calm.
"Excuse me, have you seen a girl this tall? Hair that goes past her shoulders, around twenty years old?" Jiang Jiang saw a cleaning lady passing by and hurried over to ask, his voice trembling slightly with anxiety. "She's wearing a white top and pants..."
The cleaning lady shook her head, and Jiang Jiang's heart sank even more.
She asked passers-by again if they had seen Xiaobai.
Everyone who asked shook their heads.
She looked around. The mall was bustling with people, but that familiar figure was nowhere to be seen.
A terrible thought flashed through my mind. Could it be that crazy woman Lin Yue who kidnapped Xiaobai?
"Calm down! You must calm down!" Jiang Jiang pinched his palm hard, forcing himself to think.
If it was really Lin Yue's people who did it, it would be impossible that they wouldn't have captured it with so many surveillance cameras in the mall.
She walked quickly to the service desk, ready to ask someone to look at the mall's surveillance video.
Just as she was about to reach the mall's information desk, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye.
Xiaobai was holding a large cardboard box and staggering down the escalator with a silly smile on his face.
"Xiaobai!" Jiang Jiang almost rushed over, with tears in his voice.
"Jiang Jiang!" Xiaobai's eyes lit up. He clumsily put the box on the ground and rushed over with open arms.
Jiang Jiang was knocked back two steps, but he held the person in his arms tightly.
The familiar smell of Xiaobai finally made her heart settle down, but then she felt a surge of inexplicable anger.
"Where have you been?!" She pushed Xiaobai away, her voice rising with fear, "Do you know how long I've been looking for you? Why did you just run away without saying a word?"
Xiaobai was stunned where she was, and then she felt wronged. She lowered her head and stammered, "Jiang Jiang, I'm sorry..."
Xiaobai looked pitiful. He pulled Jiang Jiang's arm and shook it, begging for Jiang Jiang's forgiveness.
This coquettish look made Jiang Jiang laugh and angry, and he finally sighed.
Only then did she notice the box Xiaobai was holding.
"What is this?" she asked, pointing at the box.
Seeing the box, Xiaobai's eyes sparkled and he danced with joy, "Jiang Jiang! This is a gift from a kind-hearted person!"
Jiang Jiang raised her eyebrows and opened the box half-believingly.
There are dozens of the latest models of icy sunscreen neatly stacked inside, all from the zz brand.
The zz brand is an international brand, and each of its skin care products costs hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
"You said someone gave this to you?" Jiang Jiang lowered his voice.
Xiaobai nodded seriously.
Jiang Jiang, “…”
I don't believe you!
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