Chapter 36

However, there is one thing that can now be confirmed: the Red-Clothed Ghost really cannot leave the 8th floor to kill people. △

It can be said that as long as he and Lengyue don't foolishly come back to provoke the Red-Clothed Ghost, they won't be in any danger.

In summary—his and Lengyue's lives are now safe.

But just staying alive isn't enough; they must also find a way to eliminate the threat permanently. After all, the content of their probationary period assessment isn't just about surviving, but solving the problem.

And this "problem" likely includes getting rid of the Red-Clothed Ghost.

They can only consider their trip to Qihé Women's College a complete success if they completely eliminate the Red-Clothed Ghost. Otherwise, he might have to go through another probationary period. If that were to happen, he might as well commit suicide.

In any case, he must pass this probationary period and complete his regularization this time!

After placing Lengyue in the corridor like a dead body, Xia Tianqi limped to another staircase. There, he found the possessed girl and dragged her down without any gentleness.

Treating a girl so roughly was actually a last resort for Xia Tianqi, given his current physical condition. It would be unrealistic for him to carry her down comfortably.

To put it bluntly, if someone saw this scene, they might think Xia Tianqi was a deranged killer.

After placing the girl in the corridor like a corpse, Xia Tianqi began his new round of attempts to wake the two unconscious people, shouting loudly and continuously while also pushing and hitting them.

But no matter what he did, the two remained as lifeless as corpses, lying on the corridor floor with no sign of waking up.

In the end, Xia Tianqi got annoyed and stopped trying to wake them, as it was clear they wouldn't wake up anytime soon.

In fact, his urgent desire to wake them up was mainly because he wanted to find a way to completely eliminate the Red-Clothed Ghost through them.

The girl was a student here and was close friends with the first victim, Wang Yiran, so she might know something about the 8th floor, such as why it was abandoned.

As for Lengyue, as an exorcist, she would certainly have more experience than he, a complete novice.

However, even if these two could help eliminate the Red-Clothed Ghost, he couldn't rely on them at the moment. They looked like dead pigs, and he had to call 120 to save them.

"What is a genius? A genius is someone who can still perform when others can't."

Xia Tianqi patted his chest to encourage himself, feeling he couldn't delay any longer to avoid unforeseen circumstances. Although he knew the Red-Clothed Ghost wouldn't come down to kill, the thought of a ghost maliciously staring at him from above made him feel very uncomfortable.

As the old saying goes, it's not the thief stealing that you fear, but the thief who keeps thinking about it.

"Ah."

Sitting on the staircase, Xia Tianqi sighed with a pained expression. He wanted to light a cigarette to ease his worries but found that his cigarettes were gone, leaving only a lonely Zippo lighter in his pocket.

"What use are you without cigarettes?"

Muttering to himself, Xia Tianqi idly lit the lighter, and the red flame gradually grew larger.

The darkness was driven back a bit, and his shadow was stretched out.

Staring at the flickering flame in his hand, Xia Tianqi suddenly had an idea and excitedly slapped his hand.

"Right, there's still the option of setting a fire. Why didn't I think of that before!"

Xia Tianqi suddenly thought of burning down the 8th floor of the dormitory.

Of course, this wasn't a random guess. From the Red-Clothed Ghost's behavior, he could see that it was deeply connected to the 8th floor, which, in his previous speculation, was the only key point that connected all the roots.

This was evident from the fact that the 8th floor had been abandoned.

After thinking it through, he immediately went to the duty room downstairs to find his phone and called the bar attendant's sister, trying to find out why the 8th floor was abandoned.

However, to his disappointment, the bar attendant's sister knew nothing about it and only told him that the 8th floor had been abandoned by the school many years ago.

After ending the call with the bar attendant's sister, Xia Tianqi fell into a brief contemplation.

If the 8th floor of the school dormitory had been abandoned for many years, even if the possessed girl woke up, she probably wouldn't be able to provide much useful information. Lengyue, looking half-dead, would also be hard-pressed to help. So, instead of waiting, he might as well do something himself.

For example—set a fire!

Think about it, if he burned the entire 8th floor, would the Red-Clothed Ghost disappear?

There were many flammable items here, and he had also prepared kerosene beforehand.

With seven or eight bottles of kerosene and all the bedding and other items in the dormitories, he believed that if he was patient, he could make the 8th floor burn completely.

After making up his mind, he took the backpack with the kerosene and started collecting flammable items in the dormitories.

Once he had gathered enough flammable materials, he began the task of setting the fire. However, he underestimated the difficulty of starting a fire. After struggling for over an hour, he failed to start the fire and only filled the dormitory with smoke.

In the end, he had to abandon the plan.

This was inevitable, as he couldn't directly set a fire on the 8th floor and could only try to throw flammable materials up there.

"Damn, I really wonder how those people who can set an entire building on fire with a single cigarette butt do it!"

Xia Tianqi, out of breath, came down from the 8th floor. For some reason, he lay down next to Lengyue and the girl, apparently deciding to join them in "drying out."

Perhaps because he was too tired, he soon fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, it was already the afternoon of the next day. Checking his phone, he found a missed call from an unknown number.

Looking at the unknown number, Xia Tianqi hesitated for a moment but eventually called back out of habit.

Then, a high-pitched voice came from the phone:

"Congratulations on passing the probationary period. Please come to... sign the regular employee contract by tomorrow night!"

Hanging up the call in a daze, Xia Tianqi was at a loss for a long time. He hadn't eliminated the Red-Clothed Ghost, so how did he pass the probationary period?

Did he just need to survive without being killed by the Red-Clothed Ghost to pass?

After thinking for a while and getting nowhere, he decided not to overthink it. The content of the probationary period might have been to survive a few days in the women's college dormitory without being killed.

"Whatever, I'll ask them about it later. Since I've passed the probationary period, there's no need to stay here any longer."

Glancing at the two still deeply unconscious, Xia Tianqi called 120, thinking that if he left them lying there any longer, they might really be in danger.