Chapter 1 Not Over

Before Jiangcheng could react, the other party hung up the phone. It felt as if... she was running for her life. But who exactly was threatening Li Bai's safety?

Also, what did Li Bai mean when she said the mission wasn't over?

They had clearly already left that world, taken the bus, and returned to the real world. All four of them.

Fatty walked over, equally confused. "Doctor, what's wrong? Who was that just now? Was it Boss Lin and them?"

Coming back to his senses, Jiangcheng immediately found the number. Calling back now was impossible. If Li Bai was truly running for her life, calling would only expose her location. So, Jiangcheng chose to send her a text message to ask about the situation.

But to his surprise, the number at the top of his call log was a string of gibberish. Yet... yet he had clearly noticed when he answered that it was an unfamiliar number!

How could this be?

Could it be... could it be that the phone call was from a ghost?

Was it similar to the previous ghost phone calls, with the other party being a ghost that killed through the phone? Or... or was it really Li Bai, but Li Bai was already dead, and the call was from her obsession?

In any case, this matter was not simple, because he had never told Li Bai, Yao Shunyu his cell phone number. He only left his contact information with her.

Too many thoughts flooded Jiangcheng's mind at once, making his already unclear mind even more chaotic. He could vaguely sense that there was definitely a huge secret behind this phone call.

Since Li Bai said the mission wasn't over, then what about the other survivor, Yao Shunyu? What was Yao Shunyu doing?

This time, Jiangcheng abandoned his own phone and took Fatty's phone, directly entering Yao Shunyu's number. This time, it didn't show as an empty number, but the phone was turned off.

After thinking for a moment, he dialed the phone number Li Bai had left. As expected, Li Bai's phone was also turned off.

Both of them were turned off...

Even Fatty smelled something unusual. "Those two wouldn't... wouldn't they both be in trouble?" Fatty asked cautiously. He had a good impression of both of them, especially Yao Shunyu. He didn't want anything to happen to them.

Jiangcheng took a slow breath, trying to calm himself down as quickly as possible. He knew that something very strange and terrible must have happened. Li Bai and Yao Shunyu were probably more than just victims of an accident. They were very likely already dead.

All dead.

And their next target was him and Fatty.

The mission wasn't over... These six words had many meanings and could be interpreted in different ways. For example, the newspaper man had gone back on his word and used some inexplicable means to come to the real world to hunt them down. Or, the Demon Eye Bai Yu hadn't been completely eliminated; she had only faked her death and was now making a comeback. Or, the world they were currently in was an illusion, and they were still in the mission world, with everything before them being just an illusion...

Li Bai's statement was too ambiguous. Jiangcheng thought that she was definitely not deliberately mystifying things. The greatest possibility was that things had happened suddenly, and Li Bai herself hadn't figured out the situation.

A figure appeared in the corner. "That guy wearing a woman's skin must be dead." Wu's cold voice was unusually steady. Seemingly to verify the persuasiveness of his words, Wu opened his palm, and a doll-sized, tattered human figure floated in the air, displayed like a model.

Jiangcheng and Fatty recognized it at a glance. This was Bai Yu, without her human skin.

Taking Jiangcheng's phone, Wu looked at it, but didn't find anything strange. He didn't sense the aura left by those things on it.

Because of this incident, Jiangcheng and Fatty's mood was ruined. For most of the afternoon, Fatty kept coming up with hypotheses, and Jiangcheng tried his best to analyze them with him.

In short, everything had been wrong since they came out of the mission this time. First, Dahe Niangniang and the others on the bus disappeared, then Lin Wan'er's plan seemed to have gone wrong, and then Li Bai and Yao Shunyu, who had participated in the mission with them, had lost contact, as if an invisible force was cutting off his wings, constantly weakening his side.

And at this juncture, Jiangcheng couldn't think of anyone other than the Night Watcher who would do this.

But what needed to be clarified now was how exactly the other party had done this. He roughly knew the strength of Dahe Niangniang, about the same as Wu had been, absolutely not someone a judge like the head judge could deal with.

Despite his worries, they still had to eat. Fatty used frozen ingredients from the refrigerator to make a few dishes, but because neither of them was in the mood, they just ate a little to get by.

At night, for safety's sake, Jiangcheng moved the mattress out and slept next to Fatty's sofa. Worried that the other party would cause trouble through their phones, Wu collected both of their phones, putting one in each pocket of his trench coat. Calling would also have to be through him. He was worried he wouldn't have a chance to talk with the other side.

Jiangcheng and Fatty were talking quietly at night when suddenly, Wu appeared. Fatty jumped up instantly, striking a defensive pose. "What's going on?"

"Someone's coming." Wu ignored Fatty's performance and looked straight at Jiangcheng. "Someone you know."

Fatty's forehead veins bulged. "Li Bai, Yao... Yao Shunyu?"

"No, it's that woman's people." Wu said calmly.

"Lin Wan'er..."

Sure enough, after a while, Wu led two people up. The one in the lead was the boy, wearing a pair of thick gloves, followed by the cool guy in the cowboy hat. But this time, the atmosphere around them was very different from before.

Seeing Fatty, 13's tears were about to fall. He hugged him. "10, something happened! Sir... Sir and 3 are missing!"

Hearing this, Jiangcheng's expression changed. He asked, "What's going on? Explain yourselves clearly."

As early as on the bus, Jiangcheng had vaguely guessed that Lin Wan'er's plan was probably in trouble, those frozen out-of-control disciples had not been transferred to the bus, but he never thought that Lin Wan'er herself would be missing.

This was a quirky but also cautious woman, and her disappearance completely pushed the plan to the edge of uncontrollability.

"It's like this, a strange thing happened the day before yesterday. A geological survey team mysteriously disappeared in the mountains."

"After the news came, Sir was worried that it was a new supernatural event, so he took 3 with him to deal with it."

"They left in a hurry, going into the mountains overnight. Besides the two of them, there was a whole team, but on the night they entered the mountains, they lost contact with the outside, and then... then they could never be found again."