Chapter 6: The Headman Dies
Chapter 6: The Headman Dies
When the slightly overweight employee saw that her best friend was still in the mood to joke with her, she immediately turned her head away and didn't want to talk to her.
However, out of the corner of her eye, she noticed something behind her and suddenly turned around.
Suddenly she saw a terrifying headless corpse standing behind her.
"what……"
The slightly overweight employee screamed in terror, and then she fell straight down, pulling her best friend, who had been holding her hand, to stumble as well.
A colleague suddenly had an accident, and it happened in full view of everyone. This made the dozens of young people present feel a little scared, but none of them quite understood what had happened.
Only a few people stared solemnly at the spot where the slightly overweight employee had just stood. They had just glanced back at the employee when the incident occurred.
But there was nothing behind her, nothing at all! Could it be that there was something unclean?
The thought sent chills down everyone's spines, especially the short-haired girl who had just been holding hands with the slightly overweight employee. She was the most affected. She clearly remembered her best friend saying that she felt a chill down the back of her head, and then she turned around and something bad happened.
"A ghost! A ghost!"
The short-haired girl was so frightened that she quickly got up from the ground and burrowed into the group of male colleagues for shelter.
Before she could even recover, she saw the young man's corpse standing upright next to her.
"Ah! A ghost!" The short-haired girl squeezed into the crowd again.
The others also witnessed this bizarre scene, and they all felt a sense of panic.
This young man definitely has a problem.
It's definitely not human. How can a person stand up so upright in such an illogical way? This is clearly a zombie transformation.
Coupled with the short-haired girl's scream, they had no choice but to believe that ghosts really existed in this world.
In an instant, everyone began to flee in panic, and the entire office hall became chaotic. Everyone was running frantically, afraid that if they were too slow, they would be targeted by the ghost.
However, soon an unlucky colleague was targeted by a ghost and became a corpse.
"Amin, what should we do? Have you called the police? When will they arrive?"
While anxiously asking A-Ming, Zhang He hurriedly ran towards the elevator.
As he ran, Amin replied, "I called several times, but the phone was always busy. You can't count on the police at all."
Suddenly, Amin stopped in his tracks, looked in another direction, his eyes filled with urgency.
"Zhang He, you go first and wait for me by the elevator. Li Yao is still in the general manager's office; I need to go find her."
He couldn't abandon Li Yao after this happened, and at the same time, he kept praying that nothing bad would happen to her.
"What are you doing? Are you crazy? What time is it and you're still thinking about that woman?"
Zhang He grabbed A Ming, trying to stop him from doing something foolish, but A Ming broke free and ran towards the general manager's office without hesitation, which made Zhang He curse him angrily from behind.
"Fang Shiming! You idiot! You deadbeat simp! Li Yao spends all her time hanging out with the general manager! She's never respected you, you big idiot!"
In fact, many people in the company knew about Li Yao's affair with the general manager and the chairman, but everyone pretended not to know. Zhang He even accidentally bumped into them, but he knew that Fang Shiming was blinded and wouldn't believe it, so he didn't say anything, and now there's no need to say anything.
Fang Shiming listened to the angry curses coming from behind, but he didn't take it seriously at all. All he could think about was Li Yao, and he just walked faster.
The general manager's office, which was originally only a dozen meters away, was right in front of him, but the distance was strangely distorted. Fang Shiming ran all the way, using all his strength, and it took him about ten minutes to reach the general manager's office.
Fang Shiming hurriedly twisted the doorknob, but he couldn't open it no matter what he did. He knew that this was the general manager's habit of locking the door from the inside.
Fang Shiming didn't care about anything else and kicked hard with his foot.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
I kicked it several times but couldn't get it open.
The general manager's office has excellent protective measures, even the soundproofing is excellent, and the sound is almost inaudible from the outside.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Fang Shiming's legs went numb from kicking, and he finally managed to kick the door open with almost all his strength.
boom~
The door slammed heavily against the wall, and Fang Shiming was also thrown to the ground. But he ignored the pain and scrambled forward.
But when Fang Shiming rushed up to the three of them, he froze on the spot, staring at them in disbelief.
"Damn it! Which bastard has the guts to barge in and cause trouble at this time?"
Get out! Get out of here right now! Disappear immediately!
The other two were equally angry, annoyed that someone had suddenly come to disturb them, and planned to settle scores with this clueless guy after finishing this game.
Fang Shiming stared blankly at the scene before him. He felt as if his whole world had collapsed and his heart had shattered, scattered all over the ground like these clothes. He looked at the woman he had longed for day and night with heartache.
He absolutely refused to believe it was real, that his aloof goddess was like this, and even regretted his own madness in coming here; he should have escaped with Zhang He.
However, the constant screams of terror coming from outside brought Fang Shiming back to his senses, making him realize that now was not the time to think about these things.
He wanted to turn around and leave, but he couldn't bring himself to abandon Li Yao. So he rushed up and kicked the uncle and nephew to the ground.
He pulled Li Yao up from the ground and grabbed the woman's business attire from the ground as well.
"Hurry up and put these on! There's a ghost outside. If we don't leave now, we'll all die here."
Fang Shiming urged Li Yao to hurry up while stuffing clothes onto her, but he was met with a loud slap.
pop~
A slap was deeply embedded in Fang Shiming's face.
"Are you out of your mind?! Who do you think you are?"
Li Yao didn't listen to what Fang Shiming was saying at all. She glared at him with a venomous look that seemed to want to devour him. She was so ashamed and angry that she couldn't hear anything.
Fang Shiming, who had been slapped, surprisingly stood his ground and slapped Li Yao hard across the face.
"Are you deaf? There are ghosts outside! Everyone's screaming for their lives, can't you hear a thing?"
Fang Shiming felt like his lungs were about to explode with anger, and he even wanted to beat himself up. He hated himself for being so foolish as to come looking for Li Yao. This kind of two-faced and despicable woman should just be left to fend for herself.
Fang Shiming finally hardened his heart and decided to ignore Li Yao's life or death. He walked out of the office alone, not in a hurry to escape. He felt that his heart was dead, and it seemed that nothing was that important anymore.
At this moment, the three people in the office also came to their senses from the intense excitement. They began to realize that something was wrong. The terrified shouts and cries for help outside were proving that what Fang Shiming said was true. This place was really haunted, and if they didn't run away, they would really die.
The three of them panicked immediately, hurriedly grabbing their clothes and putting them on, shouting in alarm as they watched Fang Shiming walk further and further away.
"Wait for me! Fang Shiming, wait! I'll forgive and forget what happened earlier, and I'll give you a raise!" The general manager shouted anxiously, afraid that Fang Shiming would wander off and they would be abandoned and then haunted by ghosts.
"Fang Shiming, take me out of here, and I'll give you lots and lots of money! I'll make you the general manager of the company, and I'll give you five million!" The chairman shouted as he put on his clothes, but fearing he might be a step too slow, he simply put on his underwear and chased after him.
The other two didn't even bother to put on their clothes and chased after them. They knew better than to say which was more important: their lives or their pride.
Li Yao chased after Fang Shiming's retreating figure desperately, but didn't utter a sound. She simply didn't have the face to do so. She had always known that Fang Shiming had a crush on her, and even hated his behavior. She also knew that the reason Fang Shiming barged into the office was actually to save her.
He saw something he shouldn't have seen, and she hurt him too. She really couldn't bring herself to ask him for anything.
The three, disheveled, ran frantically and finally caught up with Fang Shiming, following him toward the elevator shaft.
The entire company was in chaos. People would run past them every now and then, glancing back in terror as they fled, as if something terrifying was chasing them. But then they would suddenly collapse and die inexplicably.
"If you don't want to die, don't look around aimlessly, and don't look back. Whether you listen to me or not is up to you. If you're looking for death, no one can save you."
Fang Shiming coldly reminded the three people behind him. At this moment, Fang Shiming's mind was exceptionally clear. In those few short minutes, he had recalled everything he had seen.
At least five or six people died before his eyes, all of them suddenly and mysteriously, but they were not without warning and had many common characteristics.
Fang Shiming kept replaying every detail in his mind.
From the moment the thick fog enveloped the building, something strange began to happen. First, the temperature dropped, then there was a strange stench in the air, until footsteps appeared. Perhaps that's when the ghost appeared, which is why you could only hear the sound but not see the person.
So why was Zheng Qiang the first to die? Did Zheng Qiang do something, or was it a random killing by a vengeful ghost? No, it couldn't be that Zheng Qiang did something to be killed. The vengeful ghost didn't come to find Zheng Qiang alone, otherwise so many people wouldn't have died.
Fang Shiming's understanding of ghosts was still at the level of folk tales and ghost stories, and he was completely unaware that the ghosts they encountered were not the same as the ones he knew.
But from the reactions of those victims before they died, a pattern emerged, especially the chubby girl who was right next to him at the time. He heard her say that the back of her head felt cold.
This could be a harbinger, the initial feeling of being attacked by a vengeful ghost. She looked back and died. Her final scream was probably not from pain, but from fear, because the emotion remaining in her eyes at that time was fear. So, at the moment she turned around, she must have seen the vengeful ghost and was fatally attacked.
If all the deceased looked back one last time before dying, what does this consistent commonality signify?
Will you die if you see a ghost? Or will you die if you turn around?
If you don't look back, will you still die?
Fang Shiming couldn't make a judgment, but he wanted to take a gamble. After all, the worst that could happen was death. That's why he told the three people behind him not to look around or turn back. He wanted to verify his conjecture.
If any of the four of them die, then his guess is wrong, but if they are all safe, there might still be hope of escape.
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