Chapter 5

Today, Huang Zhiqiang was in a very good mood because he had successfully extorted Meng Gui. He managed to get a computer science graduate to work for him for five months for a total salary of 4,000 yuan, averaging 800 yuan per month. This created at least 10,000 yuan in profit for him, which was a great deal.

This was not the first time he had done such a thing. There were even new graduates who worked for him for a whole year and only received two months' salary. Under his threats and intimidation, they didn't dare to say a word before leaving the company.

Only by being ruthless could one make money; this was Huang Zhiqiang's business creed.

While waiting for the elevator, Huang Zhiqiang always felt as if someone was hiding in the shadows, watching him. But when he looked back, there was nothing around.

"Ding!"

The elevator arrived. After the elevator door opened, Huang Zhiqiang entered the empty elevator car. His driver, a bald and muscular man, had already gone downstairs to get the car, so Huang Zhiqiang was alone.

After entering the elevator, the light inside seemed to flicker. Huang Zhiqiang felt a chill down his back. He instinctively looked behind him again, but still saw nothing. At this moment, the elevator door closed. Huang Zhiqiang didn't think much about it, pressed the button for the 1st floor, and stood quietly waiting for the elevator to go down.

Huang Zhiqiang was on the 5th floor, but after pressing the button, the elevator didn't go down; instead, it went up, to the 6th, 7th, 8th... all the way to the 14th floor.

At first, Huang Zhiqiang thought he had mistakenly entered an elevator that was going up, but when the elevator showed the 9th and 10th floors, he suddenly felt something was wrong...

The building only had eight floors, so how could the elevator go to the 9th, 10th... even the 14th floor? What was the 14th floor? Heaven?

The light in the elevator flickered again, emitting a creepy buzzing sound.

A chill ran through Huang Zhiqiang's heart. Thinking of certain things, his face turned pale. Just as he was about to use the emergency phone to ask the property management what was going on, the elevator suddenly plummeted downward as if it had lost gravity!

14, 13, 12...

10, 9, 8, 7...

Falling from such a height, how could he survive?

"Ah! Ahh!! Ahhhh!!!"

Huang Zhiqiang screamed loudly, his legs trembling as he fell to the floor of the elevator. The elevator finally crashed to the 1st floor with a "Bang!"

After the elevator stopped, the still-shaken Huang Zhiqiang found that he was still alive. He quickly got up from the ground and pressed the button to open the elevator door, wanting to leave this eerie elevator.

At this moment, the elevator started again and began to go down.

-1, -2, -3...

The elevator went directly to the -4th floor and then stopped again.

-4th floor? The company had rented space in this building for several years, but he had never heard of four underground floors.

Huang Zhiqiang quickly grabbed the emergency phone in the elevator and anxiously asked the property management, "What's wrong with this elevator? How did it go to the -4th floor? Get me out of here quickly!"

"-4th floor? That's impossible. Don't worry, please explain what happened," the woman's voice on the phone asked Huang Zhiqiang curiously.

"I was on the 5th floor when I got off work and entered the elevator, but it went up to the 14th floor! Now it has dropped to the -4th floor..." Huang Zhiqiang explained his ordeal to the phone, then shouted loudly, "Get me out of here! I'm going to complain about you!"

"Mr. Huang, have you ever reflected on why you encountered such a strange thing?" the woman's voice replied calmly.

"What?" Huang Zhiqiang was puzzled by why the woman said that.

"Only those who have done wrong will encounter ghosts! You have extorted the salaries of so many college students. This is heaven's punishment! You should quickly pay back the salaries you owe them, or you will be haunted by ghosts!" the woman's voice continued.

"Who are you? Stop playing tricks on me! I'm not afraid of anything! When I get out, I'll find you and won't let you off easily!" Huang Zhiqiang trembled all over, his voice trembling as he threatened the phone.

"You don't need to find me; I'm right behind you." The woman's voice suddenly came from behind Huang Zhiqiang.

Huang Zhiqiang instinctively turned his head and saw a long-haired, white-clad female ghost standing behind him...

Could it be Sadako?

Of course, this female ghost was Meng Gui's ghostly avatar.

Just as the female ghost was about to part her long hair, revealing her pale face and bleeding eyes to continue scaring Huang Zhiqiang, Huang Zhiqiang had already fainted with a "Thud!" and a smell of urine spread from his body.

"Damn! So easily scared? He fainted just like that?" Meng Gui, disguised as the female ghost, looked at Huang Zhiqiang on the ground, feeling a bit disappointed, then slowly dissipated into the air.

After being scared, Huang Zhiqiang should voluntarily pay back the salaries he owed to Meng Gui and others, right? As long as this goal was achieved, that was enough.

The number "-4" in the elevator instantly turned to "1," and the elevator door opened normally.

"Free Ghost Domain ended."

"Target was scared to the point of incontinence, earning 20 ghost points as a reward, along with one Search Card, one Marking Card, one Surveillance Card, one Hallucination Card, one basin of blood water, and one blood lettering."

"Quite a generous reward!" Meng Gui counted the spoils of his first Free Ghost Domain, feeling very pleased. He had invested 10 points and earned 10 points, which was worth 1,000 yuan in cash, plus some card items, saving him from having to spend points to create a Free Ghost Domain in the future.

"Not every Free Ghost Domain will earn you points; some will make you lose everything," the Ghost System reminded Meng Gui.

"Impossible!" Meng Gui shrugged, not believing that scaring people could result in a loss.

"Hehe..." The Ghost System laughed twice and didn't say anything more.

"System, do you have a name?" Meng Gui asked the Ghost System.

"Name? Hmm... just call me System," the Ghost System paused and then answered Meng Gui.

"Are you male or female?" Meng Gui asked the Ghost System, as their communication was through telepathy, and the system's voice was an electronic tone, indistinguishable as male or female.

"Does it matter?" The Ghost System was probably not expecting Meng Gui to ask such a question.

"Of course it matters! If you're a beautiful woman, I can chat with you more often when I have nothing to do! If you're like me... then forget it, I'm straight..." Meng Gui laughed boringly.

"..."

The Ghost System decided to ignore Meng Gui.

...

The next day, Meng Gui waited all day, but Huang Zhiqiang never called to inform him to collect his back pay.

This guy still refuses to repent? This is too infuriating!

These few thousand yuan weren't that important to Meng Gui now, but he couldn't swallow this insult!

Meng Gui no longer needed to work, and he needed to practice and familiarize himself with the Free Ghost Domain while earning some points. Seeing that Huang Zhiqiang hadn't called him all day to pay back his salary, he decided to continue targeting Huang Zhiqiang until he surrendered and begged for mercy.

Huang Zhiqiang indeed had no intention of paying back the salaries. After being scared by the female ghost in the elevator last night, his first thought was not that he had done wrong and was being haunted by ghosts, but that he had bad luck. So, he didn't go to the company this morning. Instead, he drove to an ancient temple in the suburbs and asked an old Taoist priest to perform a ritual to drive away evil spirits. He also spent 1,000 yuan to buy a talisman to carry with him.

The old Taoist priest said that the talisman could protect him from evil spirits and would automatically fly out to burn any evil spirits that tried to approach him.

Tomorrow, at midnight, the first chapter will be updated. I'm asking for your support and votes, brothers and sisters!

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