On the shelf, the last item was a black notebook. Opening the first page, the delicate handwriting read Tong Jianhui.

The name was familiar; she was confirmed as the last missing girl.

According to Yuan Xiaoyi, Xiao Hui was a top student. Aside from classes and club activities, she had almost no other hobbies. If you wanted to find her, the library was a sure bet. She spent all day there.

But when they opened the notebook, hoping to see what was written inside, they were surprised to find that the pages seemed to have been soaked in water, the contents a blurry mess.

They had achieved their purpose in coming here. Now they could confirm that the five missing girls were real, not just figments of Yuan Xiaoyi's imagination.

The knife marks on the wall and the broken mirror fragments all told them that something terrible had happened here that night.

They all felt that this might be the truth that those who cleaned up the scene later truly wanted to hide.

"This isn't a place to linger. Now that we've found most of the clues, let's get out of here," Gao Yan said, glancing at the clothes scattered on the floor, a hint of unnaturalness in his eyes.

This exploration had yielded significant results, but it also served as a warning.

"Wait," Jiang Cheng called out, then quickly began gathering the items on the floor, stuffing the clothes and shoes back into the bag.

But just as Jiang Cheng repeated his trick, holding up Shen Mengyun to put the bag back in its place, an accident occurred.

Shen Mengyun trembled, and then fell straight down from the shelf. Fortunately, Jiang Cheng was quick, catching her in his arms, but even so, they stumbled backward quite a distance before falling together.

"How could you be so careless?" Gao Yan quickly walked over.

But after seeing Shen Mengyun's expression clearly, Gao Yan's eyes changed slightly. Her face was filled with fear, and her shoulders were still shaking uncontrollably.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Cheng immediately noticed Shen Mengyun's odd behavior. She clung to him like a kitten, her lips pale.

"Someone," Shen Mengyun said, her eyes filled with terror, "There's someone!"

Hearing this, Gao Yan immediately became alert, shining his phone around, and said urgently, "Where is someone?"

After a while, Shen Mengyun calmed down, stood up, took a deep breath, and pointed to a shelf not far away, saying, "Right...right there, that person was standing behind the shelf. I was standing high up, so I saw them."

Everyone looked in the direction Shen Mengyun pointed, where there was a shelf.

It was similar to the one in front of them. The area around the shelf was dark, and the lower levels were filled with boxes. From their perspective, they couldn't see behind the shelf.

What's meant to be will be, and what's not, won't be. Without discussing it, Jiang Cheng and Gao Yan slowly walked towards the shelf. Perhaps the earlier incident had left a shadow in Shen Mengyun's mind; this time, she chose to follow behind Jiang Cheng.

The three of them approached the back of the shelf.

"Phew..." Gao Yan, standing next to the shelf, breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, and turned to say, "Miss Shen, there's no one here. Could it be that you're too nervous and saw wrong?"

Closer now, they could see the variety of items on the shelf: boxes, deflated basketballs and volleyballs, and even a few flowerpots mixed in.

With all these things, in the dark, it wouldn't be surprising to mistake them for a person's head from a distance.

"Did I really see wrong?" After seeing the situation on the shelf, Shen Mengyun also began to doubt what she had seen.

The best way to tell now was to go back to the original position, let Shen Mengyun climb up again, and take another look to confirm, but everyone instinctively rejected this option in their minds.

This place was definitely strange, and unless absolutely necessary, everyone felt it was best not to make trouble.

Although it wasn't convenient to have Shen Mengyun go back and reenact the scene, Jiang Cheng didn't plan to give up just like that. He thought for a moment and asked Shen Mengyun, "Where exactly did you see the person just now?"

Shen Mengyun recalled for a moment, then pointed to the third level, to the side of a box, and said softly, "About here."

After saying that, she added with an uncertain tone, "I only vaguely saw a shadow, like a person's head hiding behind it. I was too nervous at the time, so..."

Jiang Cheng roughly estimated that, according to this height, if someone was really standing behind it, that person would be about 1.6 meters tall to be able to allow Shen Mengyun to only see the top of their head through a gap in the third level.

And that height... wasn't that too much of a coincidence?

"Brother Jiang, let's get out of here quickly," Gao Yan urged, as if he had noticed something.

Even Shen Mengyun's face was pale, and she kept looking towards the door, as if worried that another figure would suddenly appear behind it.

"Shine the light for me," Jiang Cheng said without hesitation, quickly walking behind the shelf. The area behind the shelf was messy, with almost no place to step.

But fortunately, the items piled up were mostly easy-to-move cardboard boxes and old balls, which were generally low, so it was unrealistic to hide someone in there.

Turning his head to look at the shelf Shen Mengyun had been standing on earlier, and combining it with the position where Shen Mengyun said she saw the person, Jiang Cheng stepped over the obstacles and walked to the area she mentioned.

Shining his phone around, he lightly swiped his hand across the surface. The shelf was covered in a layer of dust, obviously untouched for a long time.

Jiang Cheng lowered his head, as if unwilling to give up. But when he nudged a box on the ground with his foot, the scene that followed made his pupils shrink sharply.

A pool of water appeared next to the box.

At the same time, Shen Mengyun's voice came over, slightly panicked, "Yes, right...right there, the person I saw earlier was standing in your position!"

After a few seconds, Jiang Cheng regained his composure. Due to the angle, the water stain couldn't be seen from Shen Mengyun and Gao Yan's positions.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Cheng decided to tell them about this discovery, also wanting to test their reactions.

Sure enough, the moment the water stain was discovered, both Shen Mengyun, who said she saw the person, and Gao Yan, suddenly turned pale.

They also wanted to deceive themselves into thinking that it was just a warehouse leak or something, but how could there be such a coincidence?

"So... there's been someone standing here all along, watching... watching us?" Gao Yan's tongue was trembling slightly.

Suddenly, their fear of the surrounding darkness was magnified countless times.

After all, it was just suspicion at first, but now it had been confirmed.

The group quickly left the warehouse as if fleeing for their lives, starting to return along the same route. Walking in the deep corridor, Jiang Cheng turned on his phone to illuminate the road ahead, while Gao Yan kept a close watch on their back.