The "One-eyed Buddha Mother", who took pleasure in devouring humans, stared at Si Jiangchen with her bloody single eye and a malicious smile.
I was sheltered behind Si Jiangchen, completely lost in the conversation.
Si Jiangchen always referred to himself as an old man.
I thought he was only around thirty.
But now, according to what the so - called "Buddha Mother" said, he had actually lived for hundreds of years?!
My eyes widened in shock... Was he really an ancient zombie that had lived for thousands of years?!
I finally couldn't help but gently pinch his waist.
His muscles were firm and slightly warm. He didn't seem like the terrifying creature described in ancient books at all...
Before the androgynous voice could say anything more, Si Jiangchen reached out and grabbed into Li Chengxian's slit - like eyes.
Li Chengxian's body trembled violently as he let out high - pitched screams and curses. Si Jiangchen simply pulled me behind him with one hand, preventing me from seeing the horrifying scene.
Actually, I didn't need to see it with my own eyes. The smell of blood in the air and the sound of tearing flesh were enough for me to imagine the gory sight. I had to clutch the back of Si Jiangchen's clothes tightly and close my eyes...
For a moment, I felt as if this wasn't an office in a high - end building but a stinking slaughterhouse!!
With a cold snort from Si Jiangchen, Li Chengxian's hoarse curses suddenly stopped.
"Let's go, Xiao He."
Si Jiangchen's voice remained calm. He turned to me and said, "The building security should be here soon."
Under the candlelight, there were a few splatters of bright red blood on Si Jiangchen's handsome face. He looked as terrifying as a ghost but also had a fatal allure that made people sink into it involuntarily.
Li Chengxing was lying in the darkness where the candlelight couldn't reach. Only his limbs were still twitching slightly, like a half - dead toad.
Si Jiangchen casually tucked his right hand by his side, then put his arm around me with his left hand and led me out of the room towards the elevator.
The sprinkler system outside had stopped spraying water since the fire was out. There were puddles on the marble floor, reflecting the shadows of Si Jiangchen and me.
His right hand was covered in bright red blood, and occasionally a piece of minced meat would slide off.
"Don't go this way..."
I turned around and grabbed his bloody right hand, using my body and backpack to cover the bloodstains on his arm.
There were countless surveillance cameras here. He was a well - known figure. The slightest hint of trouble could start a flurry of rumors. In his current state, I could already imagine the shocking reports in the gossip magazines.
"It doesn't matter." Si Jiangchen smiled calmly and even lowered his head to bite my earlobe.
Just as we were taking the elevator upstairs, another elevator was already going up. It seemed that the security had noticed something strange on this floor and were coming up to investigate.
Si Jiangchen pressed the button for the 29th floor.
I looked at him in surprise, thinking he would quickly leave this place of trouble.
Si Jiangchen smiled and said, "I came here to bring Xiao He some supper, but I got dragged into this terrible thing. Xiao He has to compensate me!"
His calm expression and blood - stained arm created a strong sense of dissonance. On one hand, he was a man of great wealth in the world; on the other hand, he was a demon who devoured human flesh, blood, and souls.
"I want to go to the hospital..."
Now that my grandfather's soul had been retrieved, and Si Tong was being held by Wang Yingxiu.
When we got off the elevator on the 29th floor, we happened to see Wang Yingxiu floating up from the floor with a string of little ghosts like sugar - coated haws.
"Okay, let's clean ourselves up first."
Si Jiangchen ruffled my hair with his clean hand and then went to the bathroom.
There were a lot of dark red bloodstains on my clothes. Fortunately, I had brought my casual clothes in my backpack. I could just change out of this expensive but restrictive formal suit.
I was the only one in the executive department's office, along with the semi - transparent Sister Fang, who was sitting stupidly on a chair by the wall, staring at me.
"Tap, tap, tap, tap..."
I was taking off my short skirt and putting on my jeans when I heard a rapid and hurried footsteps in the corridor outside. Then the door of the executive department was pushed open with a bang.
Li Xinrui rushed in, her face as white as a sheet.
"You, why are you back?"
I was surprised for a moment, and then I understood how Li Xinrui had managed to escape from the spa.
The corpses and the flying - head demons there had been suppressed by Si Jiangchen and couldn't move. The situation of ghostly illusions and getting lost was gone. Since Li Xinrui's soul hadn't been captured by Li Chengxian in the mirror, she naturally seized the opportunity to escape.
But Li Xinrui ignored me. She ran straight to her desk, picked up the cold coffee in front of her, and poured it on the computer.
"Li Xinrui, what are you doing?"
I had never seen anyone pour coffee on a computer. I quickly tried to stop her. But the computer, which had been in sleep mode, got angry when it was doused with a cup of coffee full of milk and sugar. It flashed with sparks and emitted a puff of white smoke.
"Pop!"
The air switch in the office short - circuited and tripped.
After the room plunged into darkness, the green emergency lights instantly came on.
By the dim green light, I saw Li Xinrui grab her backpack and run towards the door.
But unfortunately, Sister Fang had already floated up and was hovering right above the office door...
Just as Li Xinrui reached the door, Sister Fang directly covered her eyes.
Li Xinrui let out a soft "huh" and turned back from the door. She walked all the way back to her own office area before she seemed to wake up from a dream and gave a start.
She glanced at me, gritted her teeth, and rushed towards the door again. This time, as expected, she was blocked back by Sister Fang.
After Li Xinrui came to her senses again and found herself still in front of the smoking computer, she suddenly let out a scream and lunged at me. "Du Xinghe, are you up to your tricks again?! Let me out! Let me out!!"
By this time, I had already changed my clothes. I took two steps back to avoid Li Xinrui's grasping fingers. She couldn't stop in time and fell onto Sister Fang's desk. I took the opportunity to twist her arm and pinned her down on the desk, unable to move.
"Li Xinrui, the bad things you've done are going to be exposed. Don't even think about escaping!"
I loved seeing how justice would eventually catch up with the guilty.
If Li Xinrui had just escaped from the building and not come back to the office, Sister Fang, as a bound spirit, wouldn't have been able to do much to her.
Unexpectedly, this woman actually wanted to come back to destroy the evidence of her crime. That's why Sister Fang caught her red - handed!
"It wasn't me! I don't know anything. It was Yang Fan who did it. It has nothing to do with me,"
Li Xinrui struggled, trying to get up from the desk. "It was him who took kickbacks from the company. I was just dragged into it!"
"Really?"
I hadn't eaten dinner and was so hungry that I was starting to break out in a cold sweat. I had to use all my strength to hold Li Xinrui down.
"But Sister Fang didn't say so... She said it was you who lit the incense and made her have hallucinations, and... it was you who made her drown in this office!!"