Yu Xing put away the wire without realizing anything, feeling that the person behind him seemed a bit strange. Suddenly, there was a chill behind his back. Did Zhao Yijiu grow up eating popsicles? A self-walking air conditioner! He hadn't turned his head yet when suddenly a voice came from far away, "Great! You guys are here! Zhang Shuya is missing, can you help me find her?"

Yu Xing turned his head and saw Fang Rui running over, looking like he finally found a savior. Fang Rui stopped near them, panting and holding his knees. "It's almost time, Zhang Shuya is missing, and I can't find her no matter how hard I try!" Fang Rui said with a relieved breath, looking at the two of them expectantly.

"Missing?" Zhao Yijiu looked at Fang Rui coldly, putting away his curiosity towards Yu Xing.

"Yes!" Fang Rui saw that one of them was indifferent and the other was confused, and couldn't help but feel annoyed. How could these two old men not care about a missing beauty? And this place was very strange!

He could only scratch his messy brown hair and explain proactively, "At 12:35, I had a stomachache and went to the toilet for a while. I decided to search the men's room while I was there, and I found a battery in the last stall."

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

"Well...after I took the battery, I thought I couldn't let Zhang Shuya, a girl, wait outside for too long, so I hurried back. But before I left, I seemed to hear footsteps."

"Ah..." Yu Xing drew out his tone and quickly inferred a possibility. They had concluded that taking batteries would attract specters' attention. If they were right, Fang Rui taking the battery would definitely attract the specter's attention. If the specter didn't encounter Fang Rui...then Zhang Shuya, who was closest to them, would have been attacked, just like Zhao Yijiu, who was innocent but attacked when he took the battery.

Of course, there was another possibility that Fang Rui was the specter among the six applicants and was pretending to be innocent.

Zhao Yijiu urged, "Go on, what happened after you went back?"

"Oh, after I came back and didn't see her, I looked around nearby for a long time. Then I met you guys here. Do you think she might have run to another area? Oh, by the way, what are you guys doing here at the gate..." Fang Rui suddenly realized something was wrong while speaking, looking at them suspiciously. "Are you trying to leave?"

Yu Xing was sad to hear that. "We can't leave. The door won't open, and we can't send messages. We're trapped here.""He thought for a moment and exclaimed, 'Hey, let me tell you a secret. There really are ghosts here. Do you believe me?'

'I believe you, I believe you!' Fang Rui nodded vigorously. To tell the truth, when he and Zhang Shuya found the two batteries in the lobby, a head had 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 rather empty!

He told Zhang Shuya, who had laughed at him for seeing things.

Nodding, he asked, 'What about the windows? Can they be opened?'

...

Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu suddenly fell silent.

They had forgotten.

There were windows.

The nearest window was right beside them. They went over to push it, but as expected, the window frame seemed to be rusted shut. No matter how hard they pushed, it wouldn't budge.

They could only see the pouring rain outside mercilessly beating against the dirty glass, occasionally lit up by a lightning bolt and thundering loudly.

They followed the wall and pushed a few more windows, but the result was the same.

Zhao Yijiu pursed his lips. He had forgotten about the windows because he already knew that neither the windows nor the doors could be opened. That's why he hadn't paid attention to it.

Could Yu Xing, who was so eager to leave, also forget? There must be a problem.

Would the other person be like him...

'Ah!!'

Just then, a sharp scream came from a few walls away, interrupting Zhao Yijiu's thoughts.

'A woman's scream.' Yu Xing looked away from the desolate scenery outside.

Fang Rui exclaimed, 'It's Zhang Shuya, on the other side of the bathroom! Let's hurry over!'

He ran ahead, leaving Zhao Yijiu and Yu Xing looking at each other.

Zhao Yijiu smirked, 'Dare to go?'

Yu Xing shook his head decisively, 'I don't dare. I'll just...oh, I didn't notice, my camera's out of battery!'

'Okay, you said you went.' Zhao Yijiu took out the enterprise-level flashlight and handed the only battery they had left to Yu Xing. 'Take this battery with you.'

Yu Xing looked pitifully at his camera that had turned off and then at the battery.

At this stage, he felt like he hadn't followed Assistant Hao's "rules," which probably wasn't a good thing. If he triggered some kind of death condition, he would be in trouble.

But Zhao Yijiu only had this one battery to give him...

Yu Xing asked, 'What about you? Your camera will also run out of battery in two minutes.'

Because the time the night vision was turned on was different, there would be a slight difference in the battery life.Zhao Yijiu subconsciously touched his pocket and felt the cold metal. He said coldly, "I'm safer than you."

"Then I'll go!" Yu Xing was full of survival instincts and quickly took the battery and started walking, "Hurry up."

Their discussion was actually very quick, and Fang Rui had just arrived in the corridor.

When they caught up, they saw Fang Rui knocking on the door of a room, "The sound should be coming from inside this room. What should we do? Is she in trouble?"

Yu Xing looked towards the door.

The white sign read "Women's Changing Room."

"Damn it, it's locked!" Fang Rui's voice was urgent. No one wanted things to go wrong, which meant that things were developing in the worst direction.

The sound of knocking on the door broke the silence. Yu Xing perked up:

"Locked? Then I..."

"No time." Zhao Yijiu interrupted him, easily pushing Fang Rui, who looked very strong, to the side and kicked the door!

The door was kicked open violently.

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

They rushed in and looked around.

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

A body without eyes was leaning against the door frame, long curly hair messy on the side of the face, the eye sockets oozing blood, the blood snaking down the cheeks and forming a puddle on the ground.

While Yu Xing screamed, he had already hidden behind Zhao Yijiu. Zhao Yijiu could even feel his trembling fingers grabbing his back clothes.

This...

He couldn't help but doubt himself. If the other party was a fake, would it be so realistic?

Glancing at the body, he pulled Yu Xing out from behind him and pushed him towards Zhang Shuya, "You're familiar with corpses, go up and see how she died."

"Ah, no!" Yu Xing, who was quite agile, dodged Zhao Yijiu's actions in a frenzy of fear, "No, I'm scared. Don't do it!!!"

"Are you a screaming chicken?" Zhao Yijiu was headache-inducing. He had never seen such an uncalm man before. Although the other's screams were better than a screaming chicken, they were still noisy.

"I'm a screaming chicken? I'm already doing pretty well." Yu Xing pointed to Fang Rui at a safe distance, "You think he's calm, but he's actually scared out of his mind."

Zhao Yijiu was stunned and turned to look at Fang Rui.

Fang Rui's face was pale, stiff in place, staring straight at the body of the girl who was laughing and talking with him twenty minutes ago, feeling like the world was surreal."Dead people are not scary, what's scary is the cruel way of having their eyes gouged out.

What's even scarier is that the thing that killed them is nearby.

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He finally regained his senses, only to find himself too scared to move. He weakly said, "Yeah...stop bickering and show some concern for me..."

"Alright, I'm such a kind person, showing concern for others is what I do best." Yu Xing immediately went over to help Fang Rui up, but for some reason, Fang Rui couldn't help but comment, "I don't know who said they couldn't take care of girls in the beginning, but now they're suddenly good at showing concern?"

"..." Zhao Yijiu stared at them for two seconds, his gaze pausing on the hand that Yu Xing was using to support Fang Rui's arm. He didn't bother saying anything and went to crouch down next to the body to investigate.

"The eyes were gouged out, very deep, straight into the brain." His voice was cold and emotionless, like that of an unfeeling machine. He turned the body over with his hand. "There are no other wounds."

Yu Xing imagined Zhao Yijiu saying in a serious tone, "I'm a shrimp, I have no emotions." He felt his little heart, which had been scared by the body, start beating again.

So he had some energy to think, "Eyes...the ghosts here really like eyes. There was a note that said to gouge out your own eyes, someone chasing after me and poking out my eyes, and now this..."

Fang Rui listened with a confused expression on his face, "No, what exactly did you guys experience after we split up?"

"Oh, that's Zhang Shuya's camera." Yu Xing turned his head and saw the camera lying on the ground under the bench.

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

"It's out of battery." Yu Xing raised his voice and said to Zhao Yijiu next to the body, "Can you check if she has any batteries on her?"

Zhao Yijiu understood immediately and muttered under his breath, "You're pretty good at bossing people around."

"Hey!" Fang Rui widened his eyes, unable to believe it. "Do we really have to look for batteries on a dead person? She just died, isn't that disrespectful to the dead?"

"Um," Yu Xing was surprised, "Is that what you think?"

"Am I wrong?" Fang Rui's face was still pale, almost the same color as Yu Xing's skin. "We should show some respect for the dead..."

"Friend." Yu Xing patted Fang Rui's shoulder and asked, "Showing respect for the dead is necessary, but not in this way. Not touching her and letting her remain as she is until she rots, is that showing respect?"Yu Xing revealed a strange smile, "Getting the clue and solving the cause of her death, instead of letting her die without anyone knowing how she died, is what respect truly means."

Fang Rui listened blankly and suddenly realized that the timid young man in front of him was also over 1.8 meters tall, even slightly taller than his own 1.82 meters. This rare seriousness actually gave him a sense of oppression.

"Oh, oh..." His mind was a bit slow to react.

"No battery." On the other side, Zhao Yijiu had quickly searched the body. He naturally heard Yu Xing's words and thought to himself: "Huh, I didn't expect that. When he's serious, he actually seems quite reliable."

"No battery..." Yu Xing's eyebrows furrowed slightly. "We've concluded before that the battery would attract Specters, but the camera has no power, and there's no battery on her body. This means her death wasn't caused by touching the battery, which means—"

"It means there's another condition to trigger the Specter." Zhao Yijiu continued, "According to Assistant Hao's instructions, we can draw an unfavorable conclusion: if the camera has no power for more than five minutes, they will be killed by the Ghost."

"Ah?" Fang Rui couldn't help but feel relieved. "Before I found you guys, I had already replaced the battery. That was lucky."

He might be fine, but Zhao Yijiu wasn't.

Not good.

Because just now, his camera had also run out of power.

Yu Xing also thought of this, and Zhao Yijiu had given him the battery. He asked, "What should we do? Go back and get the battery?"

This "go back" referred to the office area, where they had already familiarized themselves with the location of the batteries in office 0203.

"Okay, I'll go now. Five minutes should be enough." Zhao Yijiu said as he ran towards the exit.

"You go first, I'll find you in a bit!" Yu Xing was a step slower. It wasn't because he was afraid that he let Zhao Yijiu go first, but because he had poor physical strength. In this less than five minutes, it would be a waste of time for Zhao Yijiu to wait for him.

Moreover, as things stood now, it would be much easier for Zhao Yijiu to run into a Specter by himself than to bring Yu Xing along.

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

"I don't know." Yu Xing glanced at Zhang Shuya's body on the ground, walked over to help her up, and took a closer look.

She was indeed very beautiful.

Such a vibrant life... died in such a daze.

Fang Rui stared blankly at his actions, "Weren't you afraid!?"