Wang Jie was taken aback for a moment, then waved his hand, hurriedly explaining, "You've misunderstood, that's not what I meant, I wanted to..."

　　"Ring ring ring—"

　　Suddenly, an alarm clock rang in the office, exactly the same as the one that woke them up in the morning.

　　Upon hearing the alarm, Wang Jie seemed startled, her face turned pale, and after saying a few words like "Then I'll leave it to you," she hurriedly left.

　　"Damn it!" Yuan Xiaotian rummaged through the bottom drawer of the cabinet, found an old alarm clock, turned it off, and threw it on the table.

　　Zhou Tong picked up the alarm clock, looked at it, put it down, and turned her head to say, "It's the same as the alarm clock in our room."

　　"I can understand the alarm clock in the morning, its purpose is to wake us up, but what is the purpose of setting an alarm at this time?" Fatty asked.

　　"There must be a reason," Jiang Cheng said, stroking his chin. "It should be reminding us to pay attention to something, or that something is about to happen."

　　"Where did Miss Li go?" Lin Muyun asked. After Wang Jie appeared, everyone's attention was focused on her.

　　Hearing Lin Muyun mention Li Mengyao, Jiang Cheng noticed that the tall woman in the white shirt and black glasses was not in the room.

　　The door was half open.

　　"Where is she?" Xia Qiang, who was standing by the table studying the alarm clock, also realized it.

　　Feng Jie, who was standing near the door, said, "Li Mengyao saw that Wang Jie was in a bad state and was worried that something would happen to her. She said she would see her off and remind her to avoid taking the elevator during this time."

　　Although Li Mengyao had only been gone for a few minutes, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense because of this.

　　It was hard to say why, it was just a feeling.

　　"Brother Qiang, I'll go get her back." Yuan Xiaotian nodded to Xia Qiang and immediately walked towards the door without waiting for a response.

　　"I'll go with you," Feng Jie said with a grim expression.

　　Suddenly, a burst of rapid phone calls interrupted everyone's thoughts.

　　Yuan Xiaotian and Feng Jie also stopped and looked back, as if the phone call had a kind of magic.

　　It was a red phone, a very old-fashioned landline, placed on the desk. Jiang Cheng walked over, picked up the phone, and immediately a man's voice came from the other end, sounding a bit serious, "Is this Senmei Consulting?"

　　Jiang Cheng glanced at the Senmei Creative Advertising poster hanging on the wall and replied, "Yes, who is this?"

　　"We are from the City Public Security Bureau. We want to understand some information from you." The man's voice was deep, giving people a reliable feeling. "Wang Jie... do you know her?"

　　"She's one of our clients," Jiang Cheng replied truthfully. "Not well."

　　"It's like this, we found your company's number in Wang Jie's phone. According to the last text message on her phone, she made an appointment for your company's consulting services, the time..." The other side paused, and continued, "Should be half an hour ago."

　　"Before her death..." Jiang Cheng's pupils suddenly shrank.

　　"Miss Wang Jie was murdered in the company last night at midnight, and the last phone call and information on her phone are related to your company." The other side's tone was full of probing, "So I hope you will cooperate with the investigation, and please call me in time if you have any information related to Miss Wang Jie."

　　"Definitely."

　　After hanging up the phone, Jiang Cheng stood up abruptly and walked out the door. Xia Qiang and the others had already rushed out to find someone.

　　Fatty Huai Yi followed closely behind Jiang Cheng.

　　"Wang Jie died last night, so who was that just now?" In Huai Yi's pupils, besides fear, there was more doubt.

　　"Who else could it be? A ghost." Fatty didn't understand why Huai Yi would ask such a question, wasn't it obvious?

　　"But... the mission has just started, how could it be so fast, this doesn't make sense," Huai Yi argued.

　　Xia Qiang and his party hurried back from the other end of the corridor.

　　"How is it?" Jiang Cheng asked.

　　"Didn't find her." Yuan Xiaotian was sweating profusely. "Brother Qiang judged that they wouldn't take the elevator, and most likely went down the stairs."

　　Jiang Cheng took a quick look and knew what Xia Qiang and his group were planning, but now was not the time to argue. "Two safety passages, one team is responsible for one, chasing down the stairs." Jiang Cheng took the initiative to say, "Meet on the first floor."

　　"Thank you." Xia Qiang clasped his fist and immediately took his men to the passage on the left.

　　Jiang Cheng and his group of three went to the one on the right.

　　But the two teams chased all the way downstairs, and couldn't find anyone, not even a strange trace.

　　They asked the security guard in front of the office building if a tall woman in a white shirt and black-rimmed glasses had come out just now. The other party shook his head, saying that so many people came and went, he couldn't remember them all, but if they wanted to find someone, he suggested they go to the security room and ask, where there was surveillance.

　　After speaking, the security guard pointed to the top of his head. Sure enough, there was a surveillance camera pointing at the gate.

　　Arriving at the monitoring room, the staff on duty helped to pull up the monitoring video in front of the building, and slowly dragged the progress bar forward, but they didn't find Li Mengyao's figure.

　　"She should still be in the building," Yuan Xiaotian analyzed.

　　"Could it be... the elevator?" Huai Yi opened his mouth, his eyes looking through the glass of the monitoring room, towards the elevator in the lobby, where there were still a few people waiting for the elevator.

　　"Xiaotian, you and I will take the elevator." After thinking for a while, Xia Qiang made arrangements.

　　"Understood, Brother Qiang."

　　After speaking, Xia Qiang turned his head to look at the remaining people and began to assign tasks. "Feng Jie, you and Zhou Tong stay and protect the mission target." After a pause, he continued, "If something happens to Xiaotian and me, do not come to the rescue. Your only task is to protect the safety of Young Master Lin and Miss Lin, and take them out of this haunted event, understand?"

　　"Understood."

　　Xia Qiang looked at Jiang Cheng and said in a very polite tone, "Mr. Jiang Cheng, if there is an accident, please look at Miss Lin's face..."

　　Before Xia Qiang could finish speaking, he was interrupted directly by Jiang Cheng, "Stop, stop, your Miss Lin has no face here, but she has a lot of grudges."

　　Xia Qiang was a little embarrassed for a while.

　　"But it's considered fate that everyone met in such a place. I have a good heart, and I will try my best to help where I can." Jiang Cheng continued.

　　"Thank you."

　　The preparations were quite sufficient, but as the elevator went up and down several times, when the elevator door opened, Xia Qiang and Yuan Xiaotian were both fine, nothing happened.

　　They tried to change elevators again, but the result was still the same.

　　"Keep looking, the safety通道 (ān quán tōng dào, safety passages), and those rooms adjacent to the office. I don't believe that a living person can just disappear!" Yuan Xiaotian seemed to have a good relationship with Li Mengyao. Seeing that all kinds of methods were useless, his eyes turned red as if he was going crazy. "The mission has just started, I don't believe Mengyao, she... she will have an accident."

　　"No need to look." Xia Qiang said with firm eyes: "She is already dead."