"Get your fur clean right now, or you won't get lunch."
Shang Xinci's words were like a royal decree. March and October hurriedly cleaned up the mess, obediently collected the scattered fur, and packed it together into the trash can.
Shang Xinci was very satisfied. She patted the two little guys on the head and said, "If you're going to fight, then fight. Just don't make a mess of the house. Otherwise, you can fight outside. If you fight inside again, it'll be cat meat hot pot and stewed bird soup. Understand?"
In March and October, they suddenly shuddered and stood up straight, trembling. In fact, they had been scared to death for a while.
Xia Qianzhen and Yun Zhiqi had calmed down and sat together, chatting about Xia Qianzhen's story after she met Zhong Jiudao.
Yun Zhiqi hadn't completely let go of the situation yet. Hearing Xia Qianzhen speak of Zhong Jiudao with such a sweet expression, she felt a surge of anger and listened with a dark face next to Xia Qianzhen, who was describing it so vividly.
Not wanting to interrupt her, he could only listen to Xia Qianzhen keep talking.
It wasn't until Bai Ningbing said it was time to eat that Yun Zhiqi was finally relieved. She quickly returned her body to Tu Yier, as she was about to break down if she listened any longer.
Tu Yier opened her eyes and found herself sitting next to Xia Qianzhen. She rubbed her eyes, yawned, and said in a soft voice, "How strange. I went to bed very early last night, but I fell asleep sitting next to Sister Xia."
Xia Qianzhen patted her head and said gently, "Lunch is ready, Yi'er."
Tu Yier nodded, then cheerfully took Xia Qianzhen's hand and walked towards the dining table.
Zhong Jiudao, following Chi Miaomiao's instructions, came to the Ghost Hunting Bureau to represent the Ninth Squad and attend the Ninth-Tier Squad meeting.
Seeing that the other team captains all had their own teammates sitting behind them, Zhong Jiudao looked behind him but found no one there. He sighed inwardly, feeling like an empty-nest old man.
Qianqian, I miss you so much, I want to go home, sob sob...
At this moment, Zhong Jiudao missed Xia Qianzhen terribly; this middle-aged man couldn't bear to see anyone alone.
The conference room was set up with a large round table, around which sat the captains of ten level nine teams. Wang Yi sat at the head of the round table and glanced at everyone. To fit the atmosphere of the meeting, he specially put on a pure black eye mask.
"Everyone, a week has passed since the Battle of Wild Mountain. According to Yan Luo, the captain of the Ninth Squad, the problem of the Corpse Demon that has plagued Longxia for decades has been completely resolved. From now on, no more Corpse Demons will be born, and Longxia has truly entered an era of great peace."
As soon as he finished speaking, applause broke out around him, and everyone was happy that the era of the ghouls had come to an end.
Wang Yi waited for the applause to end, then tapped on the table. The conference room door opened, and a young woman walked in. She was wearing a business suit, silver-rimmed glasses, light makeup, and lipstick—the kind of image a powerful career woman would project.
The woman walked up to Wang Yi, and Wang Yi's strong voice rang out again.
"This is a representative from the Longxia Research Institute."
The woman bowed slightly to the crowd, glancing at everyone present. Her voice was very magnetic.
"Hello everyone, I am a representative of Longxia Research Institute. My name is Yan Tu, and I am an intelligent AI android."
"Next, I will explain to you the strange phenomena that have recently occurred in various parts of the country."
With a wave of her hand, Yan Tu lit up the four holographic projection screens in the center of the round table. She then moved her right index finger across the screen, and soon an image was displayed.
"This is a video that has recently gone viral online. It was filmed in an abandoned hut on the border of Yunnan Province."
In the video, two boys and a girl are walking ahead. The boy who is filming is very young and should be a college student. The group of young people are carrying bags and are walking deeper into the cabin.
The small house was dilapidated and looked abandoned for a long time, with the flashlights in the hands of the young people flashing everywhere in the dark corridor.
This is clearly an adventure video.
The girl walking ahead shone her flashlight at the end of the corridor. Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed at the end of the T-shaped corridor, and the young man noticed it.
The four people didn't scream. Instead, they immediately ran towards the end of the corridor. It was clear they weren't novices at exploring. The end was a horizontal corridor. The dark figure they had just seen had run from the left to the right, so they turned right and gave chase.
The boy running in front turned right first, but crashed into a wall, scraping his face badly and causing blood to flow immediately.
The three people behind were startled by the scene. The only girl carefully helped the boy who had fallen to the ground up, took out first aid supplies from her bag, and cleaned and stopped the bleeding from the boy's face.
"Hiss—how did a wall suddenly appear here? You all saw it just now, didn't you?"
The cleaning process was a bit painful, and the boy couldn't help but gasp. He looked at his companions and found that their faces were all ashen.
The boy with a camera on his forehead said, "I only followed you because I saw it."
Another boy in front of the cameraman stammered, "Did you see clearly? It's a woman."
"Really?!" The cameraman took off his head-mounted camera and showed the footage he had just recorded to his three friends.
If you slow down the time when the shadow appears, it really is a woman, just like the boy said!
A sense of fear immediately welled up inside her, and the girl slightly raised her hand and said, "I have a bad feeling, should we leave?"
The boy with the scraped face shook his head and glanced at his three companions.
"No, the deadline is fast approaching. We must finish filming this adventure video. If we can win first place, the prize money will support us to film a video in the Western Regions!"
The four of them formed a group and signed up for the school's photography competition. With the deadline for submitting their materials fast approaching, they finally found a suitable filming location for their subject matter based on comments from netizens: this small house on the border right below them.
This wasn't their first time filming an adventure video; they'd encountered strange things before, but nothing quite matched the thrill this time, which lasted less than a minute.
Even before stepping inside, the cabin instilled a strong sense of oppression in the four of them, filled with a chilling and ominous atmosphere that involuntarily instilled fear within them.
Before the video was taken down online, many netizens who watched it said they were very scared and even had terrifying nightmares that night.
The boy's words calmed the other three down, and they chose the prize money, which they didn't know they could possibly win, over their fear.
Because of the boy's injury, they retreated from the end of the area, and after adjusting themselves, the four of them walked towards the end not far away.
When they reached the end, the four of them were once again overwhelmed by the fear they had managed to suppress. The right-hand wall that had injured the boy with a thick skin had vanished, replaced by a long corridor just like the one on the left!
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