Chapter 48

In an inconspicuous small storage room in the mall.

Several cell phone lights lit up inside, and everyone present held their breath, their faces pale and full of fear.

They were Mr. Tang, Master Luo, Manager Li, Sister Li, and others.

In addition to them, there was a very special person, Yan Li.

Yan Li's face was particularly grim at this moment. He looked at the door in front of him, which he had smeared with fresh, crimson blood. The blood had coagulated and did not dissipate, as if seeping out from inside the door, continuously dripping, dripping with blood.

The blood had already pooled on the ground into a puddle.

"The commotion has stopped. It seems that the ghost can't get in for now," Yan Li said, letting out a sigh of relief. He looked at his hands, which were covered in blood, and his expression was not good.

"Master, is it safe now?" Mr. Tang asked, still shaken.

They had initially come to the fifth floor smoothly, planning to leave through the emergency exit. However, when they arrived on the fifth floor, they found that all the doors had been locked by someone.

They thought about breaking the locks to leave.

However, just as they were breaking the locks, something strange happened.

Someone behind them suddenly fell to the ground... without a head.

At that moment, they were so scared that they forgot about breaking the locks and fled in all directions. Fortunately, they met Yan Li, who led them into this storage room and closed the door, thus escaping the danger.

However, the situation did not calm down.

Just a moment ago, there were loud banging sounds coming from outside the door.

It seemed that something was trying to break down the door of the storage room, even damaging the lock.

That strength... was definitely not human.

The others saw that Yan Li's hands were bleeding, and he smeared the blood on the door, which finally calmed everything down.

"This situation won't last long. The ghost outside has already targeted us and knows we're here. It will continue to attack us... and I can feel that the ghost is waiting for us outside," Yan Li said.

His current situation was exactly the same as what Yang Jian had encountered before.

However, he did not realize what kind of existence this ghost was.

"What, what should we do now? Will I die?" Manager Li asked fearfully.

Yan Li snorted lightly: "If we die, it won't just be you. What are you so afraid of? I told you before that you can't trust charlatans. You invited a feng shui master to perform rituals, but when you really encountered a ghost, you ran away faster than anyone else."

He glanced at the corner.

Master Luo, who had been calm and confident earlier, was now trembling in fear, far from his usual arrogant and deceitful appearance.

"Master Yan, please think of a way. We can't stay here forever. As long as we can leave here, the price is negotiable," Mr. Tang said, growing more anxious.

He felt that the longer he stayed, the more dangerous it became.

Only by leaving this place and the mall would he be safe.

"Shut up, is this about money now?" Yan Li growled, also feeling very anxious.

Because he had no good solution.

The ghost in this mall was more difficult to deal with than he had estimated, and his limits as a ghost controller were approaching.

Just as they were at a loss.

Yang Jian was calmly walking up the elevator, holding a flashlight.

"Aren't you afraid?"

Jiang Yan, holding his sleeve, shrank her neck, her eyes darting around, afraid that a ghost might appear from some dark corner.

"Of course I'm afraid, but is being afraid useful?" Yang Jian said nonchalantly. "Being afraid won't stop you from dying. The more you fear a ghost, the more likely you are to die. You managed to hide in the toilet for four days without being attacked by the ghost, which was just good luck."

"But, to survive, luck is not enough. You also need to take action."

"Sitting and waiting to die is a sure path to death."

By the time he spoke, they had reached the fifth floor.

The journey had been quiet, with no unusual sounds.

Yang Jian shone his flashlight around and found no one.

However, at the entrance to the emergency exit, he saw a head.

Its face was pale, eyes closed, and the neck seemed to be broken, with no blood flowing out. If it weren't for the lack of a body, the head would look as if it were sleeping peacefully.

"This is one of Master Luo's group," Yang Jian's expression changed. "But he was killed by the ghost."

Jiang Yan, seeing the head, covered her mouth to stop herself from screaming.

Yang Jian had warned her not to make any noise, no matter what she saw.

"Where is the surveillance room?" Yang Jian asked.

"Over there..." Jiang Yan pointed ahead.

Following her direction, Yang Jian quickly arrived at the surveillance room.

The door to the surveillance room was open, with a key in the lock, and the lights were on, as if someone had entered.

"Wasn't there a power outage? Why are the lights still on inside?" Jiang Yan asked in surprise.

Yang Jian's eyes narrowed: "It's not a power outage. Someone deliberately turned off the lights in the mall. Generally, a mall wouldn't have a power outage. If there really was one, I wouldn't have come to the surveillance room."

However, when he walked in, he was stunned.

In front of the surveillance console, a person was sitting stiffly, motionless.

This person was wearing... a security guard uniform.

There were some water marks next to the seat, as if his trouser legs were wet, as if he had just come out of the toilet.

"It's a colleague."

Jiang Yan, who had not seen the photo in Yang Jian's phone, called out instinctively.

The person turned around at the sound and replied.

"Yang Jian, why are you here?"

"Liu Qiang..." Yang Jian's face darkened.

He still had the photo of the security guard in the toilet in his phone.

There was no third person in the mall wearing a security guard uniform besides Liu Qiang and himself.

"That's great, you know each other," Jiang Yan said with relief, feeling a bit safer now that she had found another living person.

"I'm the company's accountant, Jiang Yan. Nice to meet you."

She wanted to go up and greet him, but Yang Jian stopped her.

Yang Jian showed her the photo: "Look at this first. This was taken in the toilet earlier."

Jiang Yan looked at the photo.

In the dimly lit toilet, a person in a security guard uniform seemed to have just walked out, and only half of his body was captured.

Jiang Yan looked at the photo, then at Liu Qiang, her eyes widening in fear. Her hand, which had reached out, retracted as if it had been electrocuted, and she quickly hid behind Yang Jian, covering her mouth.

"Stand against the wall, don't move," Yang Jian pulled her over and leaned her against the wall.

Jiang Yan immediately pressed herself against the wall, not daring to move.

This woman was indeed smart, knowing what to do at the right time.

"What's going on?" Liu Qiang walked over, looking puzzled.

Yang Jian looked at him and said, "Nothing, the mall is haunted, and some people have gone missing, so we came to the surveillance room to check. By the way, why are you here?"

He spoke to Liu Qiang as usual.

But in his heart, he had already defined Liu Qiang as... a ghost.

Liu Qiang said, "Haunted? Where? I haven't seen anything. I saw the power outage in the mall, so I went to check the wiring. I saw that the lights in the surveillance room were still on, so I came in to check. I had only been sitting for a moment when you arrived."

"Is that so?" Yang Jian looked at him warily. "Have you seen anyone else besides us?"

"No, I didn't find them," Liu Qiang shook his head.

"Is that so? Can you help me check the previous surveillance footage?" Yang Jian asked.

"No problem, I'm good at this," Liu Qiang said.

He sat down and started adjusting the previous surveillance footage.

Yang Jian walked over and looked at his wet trouser legs: "Did you go to the toilet earlier?"

"No, why do you ask?" Liu Qiang replied.

"Just asking," Yang Jian said.