The vast shopping mall was eerily quiet, a silence so profound it was almost frightening. Not a single sound could be heard, only the footsteps of Yang Jian as he walked along.
Outside, the sky should have been at dusk, the sun shining through the glass windows, bringing a bit of light to the dim mall. But this light wouldn't last long. Once it got dark, with the mall's lights turned off, it would be pitch black here.
"Ssssh... Left, to your left, there's a person standing on your left," accompanied by the sound of an electric current, Yang Jian's satellite phone on his chest transmitted Jiang Yan's nervous voice.
A middle-aged man with a pale face and a body that exuded a foul odor was standing peacefully on the left side of the aisle, motionless like a puppet. Yang Jian strode forward, glanced to his left, and his gaze flickered slightly: "I see him."
He walked sideways, directly avoiding the middle-aged man. And the middle-aged man didn't move, not even when Yang Jian walked past him.
"You're too amazing, your deduction is right, really, really can, that ghost didn't attack you," in the monitoring room, Jiang Yan couldn't help but say excitedly when she saw this scene.
But Yang Jian wasn't so happy, he said: "No, I suspect these are not the real ghosts, they should just be controlled by the ghost. The real ghost must be hiding somewhere, or on someone. Don't waste time, the surveillance video in the monitoring room can be saved for fifteen days. I have previously understood the situation of this mall, from the case to the closure for repairs, it's about ten days' worth of events."
"As long as you look carefully, you will find the source," he continued.
"Don't worry, I know what to do," Jiang Yan replied, gaining confidence and less fear.
"Behind you, in the shop behind you, I saw a person," she urgently warned again.
Yang Jian immediately turned around to look. Behind the glass door of a shop, a young girl dressed in a vibrant outfit was standing there, unnoticed. The girl's skin was dark, indicating she had been dead for several days, longer than Wei Xiaohong's fake death, and had begun to severely decay. As she moved slightly, her once shiny black hair fell down like leaves.
The nose and eyes were dripping with foul-smelling corpse water. Yet, the corpse raised her hand as if to reach through the glass door and grab Yang Jian.
"Is there one inside the door too?" Yang Jian's expression changed, and he quickly turned around again. He walked backward sideways, ensuring not to turn his back on them, as that would invite an immediate attack. If one chose to flee out of fear, the outcome would be dire.
Having understood the pattern, Yang Jian felt the ghost was not difficult to deal with. "Zhou Zheng's three sentences were indeed very concise. As long as you can understand the pattern of the ghost's killing at the first moment, even an ordinary person can get out of here," Yang Jian thought to himself.
Of course, this was only for ghosts of this level. If it were to rise to the level of a ghost infant, which would kill indiscriminately, the so-called pattern could not guarantee 100% survival, but it could greatly increase the chances of survival.
After evading two ghosts that were close to him, Yang Jian increased his speed again. He could hear the footsteps approaching from all around and the eerie operation of the elevator.
Yang Jian knew that no matter which direction he faced, ghosts would appear, but the ones behind were farther away and needed some time to get closer. If he delayed too long and got surrounded... it would be a deadly situation.
Of course, Yang Jian dared to be so bold because he was a ghost tamer; an ordinary person would definitely not dare to play like this.
"The storage room is to the left ahead, go forward, but you have to be quick. The ghosts behind you are getting closer, and I also see ghosts constantly coming up from the elevator," Jiang Yan became nervous again, "I'm already checking the surveillance footage here, and I should be able to find where that ghost first appeared soon."
"I know," Yang Jian glanced around. Indeed, the elevator on the fourth floor was operating, and in the dim light, he vaguely saw two people on the elevator coming to the fifth floor. And the sound of the elevators on the third and second floors was still ringing continuously. Yang Jian saw vague figures moving in several places downstairs.
"How many people have gone missing in this mall?" Yang Jian was taken aback. Just a rough estimate, at least more than twenty people, and the number was still increasing, constantly appearing from all corners and floors of the mall... The smell of corpses in the air was getting stronger and stronger.
"This ghost really knows how to choose its place, choosing a place like this mall with a large flow of people. Under normal business conditions, it would be impossible to notice a dozen people going missing in a few days. In a place with less traffic, there would not be so many opportunities for the ghost to kill so many people."
"Now those dead people have become my trouble." With caution, he ran straight to the storage room.
At this moment, outside the door of the storage room, a man with a dead expression and a pale, bloodless face was standing there stiffly. Although his head looked like a man in his thirties, his body was a woman's, wearing a long skirt and a pair of coffee-colored high heels.
Obviously, his head had been switched.
The man numbly knocked on the door, each knock sounding like a heavy hammer blow, making a loud noise, almost breaking the door.
And the man's arm was already a mess of flesh and blood, with large pieces of flesh falling off, even the bones were exposed, showing an eerie broken posture.
The human body is indeed not as hard as the door.
But all this did not hinder his determination to break in.
But those people hiding in the storage room, seeing the door shake and about to be opened, were scared out of their wits, sweating coldly and trembling all over.
"Again, it's coming again. Yan Li, think of a way quickly, the door is about to open, that thing is still outside, it really didn't go away..." Manager Li was terrified.
"Five million, I'll give you five million, as long as you can take me away from here, I'll give it to you." Boss Tang was no longer stingy, he quickly raised his hand and shouted the price.
Money is important, but one's own life is more important.
Yan Li's face was particularly ugly at the moment. He looked at his hands, which were covered in blood, soaked through the gloves, and continuously oozing blood.
The blood gathered on the ground could no longer be fully collected.
"I can't use this ability anymore, or I will die faster," he took a deep breath.
At this moment, the blood on the door had already flowed out and no longer seeped out, because his hand was no longer pressed against the door.
"Bang, bang bang!"
The loud noise of the door rang out again, the door frame vibrated, and the dust around fell from the top.
The force was getting stronger and stronger...
When they were all huddled in fear.
In an inconspicuous corner, the sister Li, who had not made a scream or said a word from the beginning, slowly stood up.
She closed her eyes, her face was bloodless, her body turned around in a strange posture, facing the group of people with their backs to her, and then slowly extended her hands.
But at this moment, suddenly there was a loud noise outside.
It was something falling to the ground and breaking with a crack.
Yang Jian's voice came from outside: "Hey, are you still alive inside? If you're not dead, open the door, I have a way to take you out of here?"
"What? There's someone outside." At this moment, Yan Li was the most shocked.
He heard the voice outside and couldn't believe it, there were so many ghosts in the mall, there shouldn't be any living people, even if there were, they should be dead.
"Yes, it's the voice of that little security guard, hurry up, open the door and see if he really has a way to leave here." Boss Tang had a good memory and immediately recognized Yang Jian's voice.
"Don't, don't open the door, who knows if the one talking outside is a person or a ghost." Manager Li was terrified.
Reminded of this, Yan Li also felt a chill and immediately became solemn.
Yes, there was no evidence that the little security guard outside was a person.
What if this was a trap?
Yang Jian finally threw the person at the door of the storage room down to the fifth floor. Although he couldn't die, it would take some time to come up, which temporarily eased the crisis.
However, hearing the words of these people in the storage room, his face turned black: "By the way, it doesn't matter if you don't come out. I saw the surveillance video before, the sister Li among you is also a ghost. I don't know if sister Li has started to act. If she has started to act, you will all die inside, so please make a decision quickly."
"Hmm?"
Hearing this, everyone in the storage room suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
What? Sister Li is a ghost?
Almost subconsciously, everyone looked back together.
But the next moment, they saw that sister Li had stood up behind them, and she... had no head.
"Ah ~!"
Several screams came from the storage room.
Yang Jian outside couldn't help but cover his ears.
This sound is loud enough, it's a pity not to sing high notes.
The next moment.
The door of the storage room was slammed open.
A group of people scrambled out, running away like fleeing, with tears and snot, and some people even wet their crotches.
"Hurry up, run."
"Help, I don't want to die."
Yang Jian reminded again: "It's okay to scream a few times, but don't run around. There are more ghosts outside, and the faster you run, the faster you die."
Boss Tang, Manager Li, and Master Luo and others scattered and ran a few steps, and immediately scared to collapse on the ground.
I don't know when, the corridor on the fifth floor was already full of people.
Front, back, left, right, almost every direction has people.
These people, one by one with pale faces, closed eyes, and a body that exudes a rotten smell, are stiffly approaching continuously, blocking all the ways to go.
They are all the people who went missing in the mall.
Today, they all appeared.