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Chapter 94: Regrouping
"Get out!" I shouted loudly, suppressing the pain in my throat.
At that moment, the elevator door was only open a crack, making it impossible to squeeze through. As for prying it open with my hands?
How could that be possible!
You see, right now, Bingqing was the master of the entire elevator. If she didn’t want anyone to leave, trying to pry it open would likely result in a hand being crushed into pulp.
Just then, two small wooden blocks were inserted into the gap of the elevator door, and slowly, the door was pried open by them.
"Come out! My love!" Gu Zixu called out to Murong Duoduo as he pried the door open.
I was taken aback for a moment, but I didn’t think too much about it. I continued to control the Paper Figurine to restrain Bingqing's body while simultaneously grabbing the Frying Pan and getting entangled with Bingqing.
After Murong Duoduo bravely rushed out of the elevator, I quickly followed her. The Paper Figurine, having lost human control, instinctively continued to struggle with Bingqing.
The ghost I summoned was just an ordinary Yin Ghost; it couldn’t possibly defeat Bingqing. However, restraining her was still manageable. At worst, it would just mean Chen Xiong had one more soldier. With so many soldiers already under Chen Xiong's command, adding or losing one wouldn’t make much difference.
Once outside, I instinctively took Murong Duoduo's small hand and quickly ran toward the Main Entrance of the International Trade Building.
"You bastard, why are you touching my love!" Gu Zixu yelled at me and Murong Duoduo's retreating figures before following us.
I noticed that Gu Zixu used wooden blocks to pry open the elevator door; it was similar to a pair of pliers. Pliers are used to grip things, but Gu Zixu's wooden blocks were used for prying. The gripping part was long and large, while the handle was short.
Pliers are made by humans using the principle of leverage to save effort; however, Gu Zixu's method defied this principle and was scientifically impossible. It shouldn’t have been able to pry open the elevator door, yet he did it. This also indicated that Luban Technique was indeed powerful.
After rushing out of the Main Entrance, Captain Wang hurried over and asked, "What happened?"
I didn't answer him. Or rather, my throat hurt too much right now. The ice that had been lodged in my throat began to melt slowly after I left, but I knew that if I didn't get to the Hospital soon, I might end up mute.
After quickly getting into a car, I endured the pain and was about to speak to the driver when Murong Duoduo, who had also jumped into the car, hurriedly said, "Go to the Hospital."
Does this girl know I'm injured?
Well, it makes sense!
Although she isn't as bold as I am, being someone close to Shaosi Ming means her insight is naturally sharp.
Upon arriving at the Hospital, while receiving treatment from the doctor, I used talismans to burn and turn into ashes mixed with water; this would help dispel the Yin Qi from my body. Murong Duoduo also drank several bowls of it.
This trip lasted three days!
I had a bandage wrapped around my forehead and my right hand was in a cast because I was already injured and had forced myself to act, causing muscle and bone deformation that needed to be set with a cast.
It's worth mentioning that during these three days, Guo Yongjia and Yan Shan Shan came to visit me. After seeing Guo Yongjia, I took a serious look at him. He seemed different from before; I sensed a trace of Yin Qi between his brows. Fortunately, Yan Shan Shan showed no abnormalities.
On the fourth morning, I woke up early. After lying in bed for so long, I couldn't fall asleep anymore.
Around seven or eight in the morning, Yan Ruolan arrived. She brought me some breakfast. Since my throat hadn't healed yet, it was all liquid food. After carefully feeding me a bowl of porridge, she wiped the corners of my mouth with a tissue and said, "Pervert Cao, if Ernie doesn't want to, don't force it! Look at your injuries!"
I was about to retort when she quickly made a shushing gesture towards me and continued, "Seriously, how did you get hurt like this? Even if it was an attempted crime and you got beaten by a Woman, it shouldn't have hurt your throat! I think you should be more careful in the future; stop thinking about those lewd things all the time."
What does she mean by thinking about lewd things? What does attempted crime even mean? If I really went after that Woman, even if I failed, I shouldn't have gotten hurt! Besides, I'm sacrificing for my country here; I got injured while trying to save all the people in the city—this is work-related injury!
I really don't want to argue with Ruo Lan right now.
When Murong Duoduo arrived, it was already past nine in the morning. She looked a bit strange lately, and her complexion wasn't great. But I couldn't ask her about it; I guessed it might be because she had received a shock.
Captain Wang arrived around ten o'clock. He placed a box of videotapes into the accompanying VCR and said, "This is the tape from that night. We extracted the most important parts. The Director asked me to show it to you."
I nodded and asked Ruo Lan to step out first. After she left, I had Captain Wang press the play button.
On the television screen appeared the surveillance footage from the International Trade Building. There were 360-degree cameras all over the International Trade Building. That night, although the lights flickered as if the power was unstable, the surveillance footage still captured some content.
I focused on Guo Yongjia's footage, but from the very beginning, Guo Yongjia kept his head down playing with his phone. It's worth noting that once a Paper Spirit puts on clothes, it's impossible to distinguish them apart except by their face.
As for later in the elevator, there was indeed an additional Paper Figurine after a brief pause in the footage. I can be certain that within such a short time, Guo Yongjia couldn't have taken out another Paper Figurine and escaped. Moreover, a clothed Paper Figurine needs to be supported by bamboo or willow branches; he was carrying a backpack that couldn't possibly fit another Paper Figurine inside.
I wanted to ask Captain Wang if he had questioned Guo Yongjia about how he escaped, but I couldn't bring myself to do so and continued watching the footage. The video could be divided into many small segments; I held the remote control and kept skipping through the footage until I finally locked onto the Conference Room on the Twenty-Sixth Floor.
Murong Duoduo and I encountered a group of ghosts surrounding us in the Conference Room. They clearly came out to protect the Conference Room.
If that's the case, then Chen Xiong was very likely in the Conference Room at that time.
I knew that cameras couldn't capture ghosts. However, my perspective was different; while cameras couldn't capture ghosts, they could capture glass. On the Twenty-Sixth Floor, almost all partitions were made of glass, and glass walls could vaguely show ghostly figures.
However, the camera in the Conference Room rotated 360 degrees; in other words, the footage wasn't stable.
Inside the Conference Room, there was a long table, and I watched for a long time. The camera was mounted above this long table. When it rotated to face the glass opposite the long table in the Conference Room, I quickly pressed the pause button.
Through that dim footage, I could see a blurry shadow.
Upon seeing that shadow, I couldn't help but sit up straight!
In the image, there was a man whose head had been skinned. A large portion of the top of his head had been chopped off, as if it had been sliced flat with a single blow. The area above his forehead was completely flat, and his facial muscles were withered and somewhat deformed, resembling an old man covered in wrinkles, or perhaps a skeleton dressed in human skin.
“Zombie!” At that moment, Murong Duoduo exclaimed.
Zombie?
I understood why Murong Duoduo thought that way.
Although the glass image was quite blurry, it was clear that the person sitting at the Conference Table was indeed a ‘human’ with a body.
It is well known that Chen Xiong is dead, having died of natural causes. But why? Why does he still have a body? And why is the top of his head flattened? Was it blown open by a lightning strike?
But if it was struck by lightning, how could it be flat?
If Chen Xiong truly crossed over with both soul and body during the tribulation, and had already become a Zombie during the Three Directions Emperor Formation, then Chen Xiong would not be able to avoid committing crimes; after all, Zombies need to consume Human Blood. Moreover, a Zombie's body is very stiff and could not possibly sit down.
In other words, the current Chen Xiong cannot be a Zombie, but if he is not a Zombie, then why does he have a physical form? This point also puzzled me.
Next, I pressed the play button again. As the camera rotated, the image continued to change. Next to the Conference Table, I recorded a side view of Chen Xiong. I pressed the pause button.
On the glass wall, there was a reflection of Chen Xiong, but the shadow became very ethereal and elusive. It looked as if two people were overlapping each other, yet they did not completely overlap. The image appeared as if one person's photo had another person drawn on top of it, without complete alignment, creating a butterfly shadow.
This could indicate two possibilities: there are two ‘people’, or perhaps one corpse and one ghost.
The camera could not capture the ghost directly, but it could use light to reflect the ghost's shadow onto the glass surface.
I continued to play the video, but the screen flickered. Would there be any gaps? When I played it back to when Chen Xiong was on screen, I was shocked to find that Chen Xiong's head was completely bald, and he had short hair.
"This!" Captain Wang was momentarily speechless.
I was also taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly used the remote control to rewind to the scene in the Elevator. Before the Paper Figurine appeared in the Elevator, Guo Yongjia had been carrying a backpack. However, when the Paper Figurine appeared, no one noticed that there was still a bag in the Elevator, and that bag belonged to Guo Yongjia.
Strangely, after a while of flickering, both the Paper Figurine and the bag in the Elevator disappeared almost simultaneously.
I checked the time and recalled when Chen Xiong first appeared on the glass wall, then I couldn't help but grip the remote tightly.
"What's wrong?" Murong Duoduo noticed my unusual expression and quickly asked.
I ripped off the plaster bandage from my neck and said in a hoarse voice, "That bastard Guo Yongjia!"
"Master Cao?" Captain Wang said in confusion. "What happened?"
I didn't answer Captain Wang but pressed the remote with frustration, only for it to finish playing.
"What about the rest?" I asked Captain Wang.
Captain Wang replied, "The International Trade Building lost power completely afterward; there was no recording."
"What about Guo Yongjia? When did Guo Yongjia leave?" I asked urgently.
Captain Wang thought for a moment and said, "Probably around four in the morning. Why?"
I didn't respond to Captain Wang; instead, I let my hands drop weakly, causing the remote to fall from my grasp as I fell into deep thought.
What is Guo Yongjia really doing?
What is he thinking?
Chen Xiong has an army and is continuously growing. The urgent task is to eliminate him before Chen Xiong can harm anyone.
But what about Guo Yongjia? Although he has a bad heart and is quite malicious, there’s no reason for him to be confused about the gravity of the situation at this time. After all, he is still a human!
But why? Why is he aiding evil? Why is he helping Chen Xiong create a body?
Indeed!
Now I can be sure that on that day, Guo Yongjia entered the International Trade Building in the form of a Paper Spirit. Then, the spirit left the Paper Figurine, and after the Elevator stopped on the twenty-sixth floor, he used a secret method to enter the body of the Paper Figurine and took away the bag.
Although it wasn't captured in the Surveillance Footage, this can be confirmed.
Guo Yongjia definitely went to find Chen Xiong, and he succeeded in finding him. They reached some kind of agreement where Guo Yongjia helped Chen Xiong create a paper body, and Chen Xiong must have promised Guo Yongjia something in return.
But I don’t understand. I don’t understand Guo Yongjia's purpose in doing this. After all, Chen Xiong is the Ghost King! Isn’t this like seeking skin from a tiger? Moreover, if the entire city really becomes a Hell City, what benefit would that bring to Guo Yongjia?
For a moment, my mind was in chaos. I could feel that something significant was about to happen.
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