Chapter 6

Unaware of the situation, Yu Xing put away the wire, feeling that the person behind him seemed a bit off.

A slight chill suddenly ran down his back.

Is Zhao Yijiu raised on ice pops?

A walking human air conditioner!

Before he could turn around, a voice came from a distance: "Great! You're here! Zhang Shuya is missing, can you help me find her?"

Yu Xing turned his head to see Fang Rui running over, looking like he had finally found a savior. Fang Rui stopped, panting and leaning on his knees.

"It's almost one o'clock, and Zhang Shuya has disappeared. I can't find her anywhere!" Fang Rui, with his messy brown hair, looked at the two expectantly after catching his breath.

"Missing?"

Zhao Yijiu put aside his curiosity about Yu Xing and coldly looked at Fang Rui.

"Yes!" Fang Rui saw that one of them looked cold and the other looked confused, which made his forehead twitch—why weren't these two carefree guys concerned about the missing beauty?

Moreover, this place is very strange!

He could only scratch his head and explain: "At 12:35, I had a stomachache and went to the bathroom. I decided to search the men's room as well, and in the last stall, I found a battery."

"Ah... did you see anything scary?" Yu Xing asked curiously.

"Ah, well... after I got the battery, I thought I couldn't let Zhang Shuya wait outside alone, so I hurried back. But before I left, I seemed to hear footsteps faintly."

Yu Xing elongated his tone with an "Oh~" and quickly deduced a possibility.

Getting a battery would attract ghostly attacks, which was a rule he and Zhao Yijiu had summarized. If they were right, Fang Rui taking the battery would certainly attract the ghost's attention. If the ghost didn't encounter Fang Rui...

Then the closest person, Zhang Shuya, must have been attacked, just like Zhao Yijiu was attacked when he took the battery.

Of course, there was another possibility: Fang Rui could be the ghost among the six applicants, pretending to be innocent.

Zhao Yijiu urged, "Go on, what happened when you got back?"

"Oh, when I got back, I didn't see her, so I searched the area for a long time. That's when I ran into you two. Do you think she might have gone to another area? Hey, what are you two doing here at the entrance..."

Fang Rui suddenly realized something was off and looked at them suspiciously, "You're not thinking of leaving, are you?"

Yu Xing felt sad: "We can't leave. The door won't open, and we can't send any messages. We're trapped here."

He thought for a moment and said loudly, "Hey, I'll tell you a secret. There really are ghosts here. Do you believe it?"

"I believe it, I believe it!" Fang Rui nodded rapidly. To be honest, when he and Zhang Shuya found the two batteries in the hall, a human head popped out of the machine. Zhang Shuya thought it was a prop, but he saw that the head was not connected to any mechanical parts, but was empty underneath!

He told Zhang Shuya, but she laughed and said he was mistaken.

After nodding, he asked, "What about the windows? Can the windows be opened?"

"..."

"..."

Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu suddenly fell silent.

They had forgotten.

There were still windows.

The nearest window was right next to them. They went over and tried to push it, but as expected, the window frame was rusted shut, and no matter how hard they pushed, it wouldn't budge.

They could only see the heavy rain mercilessly beating against the dirty glass, with occasional lightning illuminating the sky and thunder rumbling.

They tried a few more windows along the wall, with the same result.

Zhao Yijiu pursed his lips. He had forgotten about the windows because he already knew that neither the windows nor the doors could be used to escape, so he didn't pay attention to them.

How could Yu Xing, who was so eager to leave, forget? There must be something wrong.

Is the other person like him...

"Ah!!"

At that moment, a sharp scream came from a few walls away, interrupting Zhao Yijiu's thoughts.

"A woman's scream," Yu Xing moved his gaze from the desolate scenery outside.

Fang Rui was startled: "It's Zhang Shuya, in the bathroom! Let's go quickly!"

He ran ahead, leaving Zhao Yijiu and Yu Xing to exchange glances.

Zhao Yijiu smiled sardonically: "Dare to go?"

Yu Xing shook his head decisively: "No, I'll pass... Hey, I didn't notice, my camera is out of battery!"

"Alright, you say you went." Zhao Yijiu showed his corporate-level understanding and took out the battery he got from the bathroom sink, which was the only one they had, and held it out to Yu Xing, "Battery, go and you get it."

Yu Xing looked pitifully at Zhao Yijiu with his powered-off camera and glanced at the battery.

At this stage, he felt that not following the rules given by Assistant Hao might not be a good thing. If it triggered some death condition, it would be over.

But Zhao Yijiu only had one battery, and if he gave it to him...

Yu Xing asked, "What about you? Your camera will also be out of battery in two minutes, right?"

Due to the different times they turned on night vision, the battery life would vary slightly.

Zhao Yijiu subconsciously touched his pocket, feeling the cold metal, and said coldly, "I'm safer than you."

"Then I'll go!" Yu Xing, full of survival instinct, quickly took the battery and started to change it as he walked, "Let's go."

Their discussion was quick, and Fang Rui had just reached the corridor.

When they caught up, they saw Fang Rui knocking on a room door: "The sound came from in here. What should we do? Is she in trouble?"

Yu Xing looked at the door.

A white sign read [Women's Changing Room].

"Damn, it's locked!" Fang Rui's voice was urgent, and no one wanted anything to go wrong, as it would mean the situation was getting worse.

The sound of knocking broke the silence, and Yu Xing perked up:

"Locked? Then I..."

"No time." Zhao Yijiu interrupted him, easily pushing the seemingly strong Fang Rui to the side and kicking the door open with his foot!

The door, after a violent shake, was kicked open.

Yu Xing: Is this guy addicted to kicking doors...

They rushed in and looked around.

"Aah!!" Another scream, this time from Yu Xing.

A corpse without eyes was leaning against the door frame, with long, messy hair covering one side of the face. The empty eye sockets oozed blood, which trickled down the cheeks and pooled on the ground.

As Yu Xing screamed, he hid behind Zhao Yijiu, who could feel the trembling from the fingers gripping the back of his shirt.

This...

He couldn't help but doubt himself. If the other person was faking, would it be this realistic?

Glancing at the corpse, he pulled Yu Xing out from behind him and pushed him towards Zhang Shuya: "Aren't you familiar with corpses? Go see how she died."

"No, no!" Yu Xing, with remarkable agility, dodged Zhao Yijiu's push, refusing with fear, "No, no, I'm scared. No!!!"

"Are you a chicken?" Zhao Yijiu was frustrated. He had never seen such an unstable man, though the other's scream was more pleasant than a chicken's, it was still loud.

"I'm a chicken? I'm better than most." Yu Xing, indignant, pointed at Fang Rui, "You think he's calm, but he's already scared stiff."

Zhao Yijiu was taken aback and turned to look at Fang Rui.

Fang Rui's face was pale, frozen in place, staring at the corpse of the girl who had been chatting with him just twenty minutes ago, feeling the world was surreal.

Dead bodies aren't scary; what's scary is the cruel method of having eyes gouged out.

Even more terrifying is that the killer is nearby.

He finally came to his senses, realizing he was too scared to move, and weakly said, "Yeah... stop being chickens, care about me a bit..."

"Sure, I'm such a kind person, I'm best at caring for others." Yu Xing immediately went to support Fang Rui, but for some reason, Fang Rui thought: Who said he couldn't take care of girls at first, but now he's the best at caring for people?

"..." Zhao Yijiu stared at them for a few seconds, his gaze lingering on Yu Xing's hand on Fang Rui's arm, then walked to the corpse and squatted down to examine it.

"Eyes gouged out, deep into the brain." His voice was cold, like a machine without emotion, as he turned the corpse over, "No other wounds."

Yu Xing imagined Zhao Yijiu saying, "I'm a shrimp, I have no feelings," with a straight face, and felt his heart, which had been shocked by the corpse, start beating again.

So he had the energy to think: "Eyes... the ghosts here really like eyes. First, they write notes telling people to gouge out their own eyes, then they chase me to blind me, and now..."

Fang Rui, confused, listened: Not to mention, what have you guys been through since we split up!

"Ah, that's Zhang Shuya's camera, right." Yu Xing tilted his head and saw the camera on the floor under the bench.

Fang Rui had also recovered, and they walked over together. Yu Xing, while picking up the camera, was afraid that a hand would reach out from under the bench to pull him in, but fortunately, nothing happened. He stood up and fiddled with the camera.

"Out of battery." Yu Xing called out to Zhao Yijiu by the corpse, "Search her for a battery!"

Zhao Yijiu understood and muttered, "You're quite good at bossing people around."

"Hey!" Fang Rui's eyes widened in disbelief, "Do you really need to look for a battery on a dead person? She just died, isn't that disrespectful to the dead!?"

"Hmm," Yu Xing was surprised, "That's what you think?"

"Am I wrong?" Fang Rui's pale face, which now matched Yu Xing's, said, "We should respect the dead..."

"Friend." Yu Xing patted Fang Rui's shoulder and asked, "Respecting the dead is right, but not like this. Not touching her and letting her rot, is that respect?"

He gave a strange smile: "Getting clues and solving the reason for her death, so she doesn't die unknown, that's respect."

Fang Rui listened, suddenly noticing that this timid young man was actually over 1.8 meters tall, a bit taller than his own 1.82 meters. When he got serious, it was surprisingly intimidating.

"Oh, oh..." His mind couldn't keep up.

"No battery." On the other side, Zhao Yijiu had quickly searched the corpse and naturally heard Yu Xing's words, thinking to himself: Tsk, didn't expect this guy to be so serious.

"No battery..." Yu Xing's brows furrowed, "We concluded before that batteries attract ghosts, but her camera is out of battery, and she doesn't have a battery, meaning her death wasn't due to touching a battery. This means—"

"That there's another condition that triggers the ghost." Zhao Yijiu continued, based on Assistant Hao's instructions, leading to an ominous conclusion, "If the camera is out of battery for more than five minutes, the person will be killed by the ghost."

"Ah?" Fang Rui was relieved, "I put the battery in before I found you, so it's okay."

He was fine, but Zhao Yijiu wasn't.

Not good.

Because just now, his camera also ran out of battery.

Yu Xing also thought of this and asked, "What should we do? Go back for a battery?"

This "go back" referred to the office area, where they had already figured out the locations of the batteries in office 0203.

"Sure, I'll go now, five minutes should be enough." Zhao Yijiu said and ran out.

"You go first, I'll find you later!" Yu Xing was a step behind, not because he was afraid but because his physical condition was poor. The less than five minutes would be wasted if Zhao Yijiu waited for him.

Moreover, from what he had seen, Zhao Yijiu could run faster alone than with him.

After Zhao Yijiu's figure disappeared, Fang Rui sighed, "He's so brave and skilled. What do you think he does?"

"Don't know." Yu Xing, seeing Zhang Shuya's corpse on the ground, went over to straighten it and took a closer look.

She was indeed very beautiful.

A vibrant life... gone so aimlessly.

Fang Rui watched his actions in a daze: "Aren't you scared!?"