Shen Mengyun glanced at Jiang Cheng with a complicated expression. The dripping sound grew closer. "Looks like it's this thing." She said softly, "Drop the things and let's go."

Jiang Cheng seemed a little reluctant. Gao Yan, seeing this, was furious. "I say, Brother Jiang, what time is it? You're still thinking about these goggles?"

It was certain that the goggles were a clue, otherwise, the thing behind them wouldn't be chasing them so relentlessly.

But to everyone's surprise, even after they threw away the goggles, the thing making the dripping sound wasn't ready to let them go.

"Drip."

"Drip."

...

The sound was closer, now coming from the darkness behind them.

Gao Yan, unsure if it was the tension playing tricks on him, vaguely saw something standing behind a distant corner during his last look back.

The reason he said vaguely was that only half of it was visible, the other half hidden behind the wall, almost blending into the darkness.

"Damn it." Gao Yan gritted his teeth. While running, he said to Jiang Cheng and Shen Mengyun, "What's going on? Why is it still after us?"

"Does someone have to die for it to let us go?" Gao Yan's eyes focused on Jiang Cheng's back as he said this.

If the ghost had to kill someone to let them go, then that person would definitely be Jiang Cheng.

After all, he was the one who took the things.

And to a large extent, he was the one who found the clues.

As if sensing Gao Yan's gaze, Jiang Cheng suddenly turned around. Gao Yan actively avoided his gaze at the moment their eyes met.

Immediately afterward, to the shock of Gao Yan and Shen Mengyun, Jiang Cheng took out a rolled-up, white piece of clothing from inside his coat.

It was a white coat.

Inside the white coat was a carving knife.

"Holy crap!" Gao Yan's eyes almost popped out. "When did you take that? How did I not know?"

Jiang Cheng seemed to know that this would be difficult to explain. He touched his nose and said, "I figured if I was going to take one thing, I might as well take more. We're here anyway."

"We're here anyway..." Gao Yan's mouth twitched. He now completely understood why the ghost was chasing them so relentlessly.

Putting himself in its place, if someone came and emptied his house, he would chase after them and fight them to the death.

"Against the wall." Shen Mengyun ordered Jiang Cheng. "Hands up."

Jiang Cheng reluctantly turned to face the wall, then turned his back to Shen Mengyun and raised his hands. "Be gentle," Jiang Cheng said, wiggling his body. "I'm afraid of pain."

"Just be still!" Shen Mengyun was also helpless with this man. She thought it would be safer to search him, who knew if he had stolen anything else.

Fortunately, this time, Shen Mengyun quickly searched his upper body, especially inside his clothes, and there was indeed nothing else.

But then Gao Yan, who was standing guard, seemed to remember something. "Goggles, carving knife, white coat... and running shoes and a notebook!"

Shen Mengyun, who was searching Jiang Cheng's body, also felt something hard on Jiang Cheng's lower back. "What's this?"

"Tsk." Jiang Cheng reluctantly pulled out a black-covered notebook from inside his pants. According to his original plan, he wanted to throw them away one by one, hoping that one of them would get rid of the ghost.

Holding this still-warm notebook, Shen Mengyun gasped and asked, "What exactly are you trying to do?"

Jiang Cheng lowered his hands, turned around, and simply stopped pretending. "Didn't you see? The ghost is after these things. That's enough to show their value."

"But you have to be alive to take them!" Gao Yan regretted it immensely. If he had kept a closer eye on him earlier, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.

"How would we know if we didn't try? At least now we know that these things are really useful, maybe they're the key to solving the mission." Jiang Cheng said frankly.

"Alright, now is not the time to talk about this." Shen Mengyun interrupted.

Originally, Jiang Cheng had planned to throw the items away one by one to test the ghost's bottom line, but Gao Yan strongly opposed it, and Shen Mengyun also dissuaded him, so he had no choice but to give up.

After placing the notebook, carving knife, and white coat on the steps they passed, sure enough, after a while, the relentless dripping sound behind them disappeared.

The group cautiously walked back, turned a corner, and a half-open door appeared in front of them.

The door looked familiar. When they pushed it open, they found a corridor outside. There were no lights, but it was shrouded in a layer of gray light.

"This is..." Gao Yan's eyes twitched slightly.

"It's the way we came in." Jiang Cheng turned the door around, and everyone could clearly see the marks left by the knife.

This was the door to the warehouse, and they had just come out of it.

"We've been wandering around in this warehouse all this time?" Shen Mengyun frowned. Although she had had similar guesses, the realization of the guess still made her feel a chill down her spine.

Now that the door had appeared, it meant that the ghost wall had disappeared. Without lingering, they immediately found the stairs at the end of the corridor and hurried away.

Climbing out of the window of the women's restroom, several figures flashed out behind the trees about 20 meters away.

It was Fatty, Huai Yi, and others.

As Shen Mengyun walked over and was about to say something, she scanned the crowd and her face turned cold. "Why is one person missing?"

The woman who lived in the same room as her whispered, "Wang Qi said he was bored here, so he went for a walk nearby."

Seeming afraid of being blamed, the woman named Shi Xiaoya quickly explained, "I tried to persuade him, we all tried, but he wouldn't listen. He almost fought with Mr. Huai."

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng turned his head and looked at Huai Yi. "What happened?"

Huai Yi said with an angry look, "It's just like she said. Fatty and I were worried that he would cause trouble, so we told him to wait here obediently, but he wouldn't listen. He said that staying here was a slow death, and he wanted to wander around."

It was too late to say anything now. Finding the person was the most important thing. And judging from the faces of Huai Yi and Fatty, it was clear that they hadn't gotten any benefits from this man named Wang Qi.

Although Huai Yi's door was disconnected, he was still quite skilled, and with Fatty's help, Wang Qi still managed to leave...

Jiang Cheng looked at the darkness around him and suddenly became interested in this Wang Qi.

"Did he say where he was going?" Jiang Cheng turned back and asked.

Fatty and Huai Yi were silent. Shi Xiaoya stammered and couldn't give a clear answer. In the end, Wen Liangshan raised his hand in a very sycophantic manner. "I... I know a little."

"If you know, then say it quickly!" Gao Yan was in a bad mood. He was annoyed by his ingratiating look, and his middle-parted hair made him look like a traitor from decades ago.

Wen Liangshan swallowed. "I... I only heard it by chance. Not long after you left, Wang Qi hid behind a tree, muttering to himself, saying something like... followed all the way, why did it suddenly disappear here?"