Ye Huohuo faced such a powerful Yin spirit alone for the first time. Lihua was no longer an ordinary vengeful ghost. Her Yin energy permeated the entire seventh floor, every room, and even every corner.
The sunlight outside was increasingly tilting westward, and Ye Huohuo knew that her time was running out.
If Lihua was not dealt with before sunset, then once the sun went down, the entire Li Corporation building might become her territory, and even all the living people here would die.
Just now, she had left her life-saving talismans for Li Mohan and the other two.
People were selfish. Compared to the lives of others, or even her own life, Ye Huohuo cared more about those three people, or rather, Li Mohan.
She didn't understand why she had tried so hard to survive before, but now she was willing to sacrifice her life to save someone she had only known for a day.
She had neither the time nor the energy to think about those things. She attributed it all to the姻缘线 (yīnyuán xiàn - fate string), after all, men and women tied by the fate string were husband and wife whose hearts and fates were connected.
She walked through the thick Yin energy, paying attention to those who were alone and hiding.
She sent them to places with more people.
Every living person was a lamp of Yang energy. The more living people gathered together, the more Yang energy there would be, and in such a place permeated with Yin energy, it would be safer.
As she continued sending people, more and more gathered together. Finally, the entire floor of people was gathered by her in a large conference room.
This large conference room could normally accommodate dozens of people, but now it was packed with over a hundred. There were not enough chairs, and many people sat directly on the floor.
At this point, they didn't care about the demeanor of white-collar professionals in a large company. They were all scared to the point of collapsing.
Those people had never seen such a situation before. Moreover, there were more women on this floor, and most of them were crying uncontrollably. Seeing colleagues and friends made their cries even more uncontrollable, echoing through half the floor for a time.
Ye Huohuo was getting anxious. She knew that people's negative emotions were the best nourishment for ghosts. Lihua's soul body had already been repaired by that powerful Yin Sha energy to be much stronger than before. Now, if they added the sorrow, fear, and resentment of these people, she would be even more unable to deal with her.
Fortunately, this conference room was surrounded by three layers of soundproof, explosion-proof glass. The ghostly wails had shattered the other glass, but this one remained intact. This was also why Ye Huohuo had gathered people here.
From here, one could see the situation outside, but not hear any sounds from outside. Similarly, from the outside, this place was the same.
Ye Huohuo asked them to be quiet, but after shouting a few times, her voice was drowned out by their chaotic cries. Helplessly, she picked up a display stand by the wall and smashed it forcefully onto the floor.
It was a stainless steel display stand, and she managed to break two of its legs. The loud noise finally made the crying people stop and look at Ye Huohuo.
"It's her, it's her who led that female ghost here! Just now, in the bathroom, it was her who wanted to close the window and trapped that female ghost on our floor!"
Unexpectedly, before Ye Huohuo could speak, a girl from the bathroom spoke first.
At this moment, everyone inside was so scared that they had lost their minds. Upon hearing what this woman said, they immediately focused all their resentment onto Ye Huohuo.
"I knew it. Nothing usually happens here, but as soon as this woman arrived today, so many things happened. First, she was slow to serve customers and made it to the trending search, and after finally suppressing the trending search, now there are ghosts."
"I heard she's been a jinx since childhood. Anyone who encounters her has bad luck!" a woman with smudged makeup from crying said while sobbing.
"It's a shame for our CEO Li to be implicated by her!"
"It's not just CEO Li who's implicated. She has implicated our entire Li Corporation. If we don't survive today, so many of us will not let you off even as ghosts!"
"..."
For a time, all the accusations were directed at Ye Huohuo.
People's words could distort the truth and destroy a reputation. Being spoken of like that, Ye Huohuo even began to doubt if all the misfortunes that Li Corporation encountered were due to her bad luck.
She began to blame herself unconsciously, her mind gradually becoming blank, and a voice kept echoing in her ears: You jinx, you bring disaster wherever you go. The people you care about most suffer the most tragic fate!
Do you remember how your parents died? They died horribly, their bodies twisted like pretzels, bloody and mangled. Now, even Li Mohan, who is supposed to be blessed with good fortune, cannot withstand your Yin Sha destiny and is about to meet his doom!
You are useless for anything other than implicating others!
Just as Ye Huohuo was on the verge of collapse under the crowd's accusations and her extreme self-blame.
A pair of light brown eyes flashed in her mind, and a low, magnetic voice sounded in her mind, "This is not your fault. Someone is targeting our Li Corporation. You are helping me!"
The voice was clear and cold, but those eyes held warmth.
Ye Huohuo was awakened by those eyes and words, and she silently thought, "That was close!"
She almost lost her mind.
She quickly pinched her brow, composed herself, and shouted, "All of you, shut up!"
After her shout, the entire large conference room fell into dead silence.
"When something happens, you look for someone to blame. Is this the motto of your Li Corporation? The previous trending search was because your own people made a mistake, what does it have to do with me?
This situation was also caused by someone setting a trap for Li Corporation long ago. I was invited by CEO Li to handle matters." Ye Huohuo said with a cold face and sharp eyes, exuding an aura of authority.
Everyone was stunned by her demeanor.
She looked at the woman who had spoken about her first, "How did you know I closed the window to keep that female ghost on this floor? Could you see it at that time?"
"I, I guessed. Otherwise, why would you close the window and then paste a talisman on it?" the woman said, her eyes darting around, stammering slightly.
Ye Huohuo slowly walked towards her. Although she was not taller, when she stood in front of the woman, she gave a feeling of looking down from a height.
"You saw me paste the talisman? Then you should know that with the current situation, I am the only one on this floor who can handle it. They say there is strength in numbers. Why didn't you try to get everyone to help me deal with the ghost, so that everyone would be safe?
Instead, you said those things, making everyone see me as an enemy, preventing me from dealing with the ghost peacefully. What are your true intentions? Or did someone promise you something to make you do this?"
Ye Huohuo's gaze was like a knife, and her words were even more like knives, mercilessly exposing the woman's thoughts to everyone.
Now, the others also woke up. Among them, some more shrewd individuals pushed out the woman who had called Ye Huohuo a jinx earlier.
"They two are not from our company. We don't know them!"
"Are they spies?"
Seeing this, Ye Huohuo became even more certain that everything today was premeditated, and she had been a pawn in the opponent's scheme all along.
From the time she exorcised ghosts for Li Moyan's film crew, no, since she met Li Mohan, she had entered this game.
She was a chess piece used from beginning to end.
If it weren't for her, the bronze ornament where Lihua resided would not have been brought into the Li Corporation building.
If it weren't for her, Lihua would not have been influenced by the malevolent energy in the fierce painting to become so difficult to deal with.
The reason Lihua has become so powerful now is that both the bronze ornament and the fierce painting are indispensable, and both of these items were brought by her.
This means that this extremely difficult vengeful ghost was created by her.
Who is that person?
What is the purpose of setting up such a grand scheme?
With such profound magical skills and such deep schemes, could it be the mastermind who caused the death of her entire family?
The mystery grew, but the mastermind remained hidden in the mist, leaving no trace. She, however, was being toyed with.
The more Ye Huohuo thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She clenched her fists tightly by her side. If she survived this time, she would definitely find that person!
Just as she was about to interrogate the two spies, the dark energy outside the glass wall grew thicker and thicker, almost making it impossible to see anything. Moreover, streams of black airflow were constantly crashing against the glass wall.
It seemed that Lihua had sensed their location. The outermost glass had already developed cracks. Everything was becoming urgent.