I was still asking Xiao Chen questions, but he suddenly screamed in fear, which immediately made the hairs on my body stand up. I hurriedly ran out of the archive room with Lin Yingxue, wanting to see what Xiao Chen had seen!
When we rushed out of the archive room, we found that Xiao Chen had fallen to the ground in fear, his eyes staring at the direction of the stairs in front of him in horror, one hand pointing forward with trembling hands, his mouth open but unable to speak due to excitement.
"What's going on? What did you see?" Lin Yingxue stood in front of us with a dagger in her hand, and I helped Xiao Chen up and asked him hurriedly.
Perhaps our arrival made Xiao Chen feel a little calmer. He first looked up at us, and then told us what had just happened breathlessly.
At that time, we were looking for Director Zhao's file inside, and Xiao Chen was standing at the door, staring at the dark corridor at the other end of the stairs in front of him. After all, this was the task we assigned to him, and he also wanted to contribute to this crisis, so he was staring at the depths of the corridor diligently, not daring to slack off at all.
Just now, Xiao Chen suddenly heard a faint and strange smile coming from the dark corridor in front of him. At first he thought it was his hallucination and didn't pay much attention to it, but then he heard the laugh again, which made him nervous.
You know, we just came from that side. When we came over, there was no one there except the dead Xiao Wei. At this time, laughter came from there, which was definitely an extremely terrifying thing!
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen plucked up his courage and shone the flashlight in his hand into the dark corridor in front of him. The moment the light entered the corridor, Xiao Chen saw a man in black clothes and wearing an evil ghost mask standing at the edge of the corridor, facing him motionlessly with a low and weird smile!
Xiao Chen was frightened immediately and dropped the flashlight in his hand and screamed. Then we rushed over after hearing the news.
Hearing Xiao Chen's narration, I was shocked! The man wearing the evil ghost mask, the one who controlled the bomb, was actually in the corridor just now! And we didn't even notice it just now! If he had attacked us just now, I'm afraid we would not be able to stand here now!
Of course, there are still some things worth my consideration in this matter, but I only think about it quietly in my heart and have not made it public.
"Is the man wearing the devil mask still in the corridor?" Lin Yingxue asked Xiao Chen while she was about to look for the man wearing the devil mask with a dagger.
I hurriedly stopped Lin Yingxue, and Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "No, he ran out and ran downstairs when I shouted."
I looked at the stairs and said, "Don't chase him. This man wearing the devil mask is very insidious. Who knows what kind of trap he has prepared for us? Let's ignore him and continue going upstairs! I want to see what he wants to do!"
Although Lin Yingxue was somewhat unwilling, she still followed my arrangements and followed me up the stairs with Xiao Chen.
During this time, I asked Xiao Chen about the remaining floors. From Xiao Chen's answer, I understood that there was no place worth searching except the tenth floor and the president's office on the top floor, so we decided to go all out and check the tenth floor! Anyway, the man wearing the devil mask had already walked downstairs, so we were not worried about running into him on the tenth floor.
We ran upstairs quickly. Although I did not stop to check other floors, I still took a look when I passed by. I did not find any trace of anyone on other floors. Bai Longfei, the office director and the remaining security guard seemed to have disappeared, as if they had never appeared in the newspaper building.
Finally, the three of us finally arrived at the tenth floor. We didn't encounter any traps or anything like that along the way, but we found a bomb flashing red light at the stairs on the eighth floor. I don't know what the man wearing the devil mask meant by placing the bomb there.
After arriving at the tenth floor, I turned to the two people behind me and said, "Now we must focus on checking the office director's room. We must also carefully check the offices of the other three deceased persons. There are only twenty minutes left. The three of us should split up and bring all the useful information to the office director's room. I want to analyze who the real murderer of Director Zhao is in the shortest possible time!"
Lin Yingxue and Xiao Chen nodded at the same time, and then we walked towards one side of the corridor, which was the side where the offices of the office director, Ma Jie and Zhou Jingyi were located. I came to the door of the office director's room and pushed it open, ready to go in and check it out quickly, but the moment I pushed the door open, I vaguely saw a dark shadow in the room standing at the door of the office, completely blocking my way!
The moment I spotted the shadow, I didn't have time to see who it was, and my heartbeat instantly accelerated several times! It was as if the person standing in front of me was a real god of death!
I have always believed that humans have a sixth sense. Without seeing clearly what was in front of me, my body instinctively lunged forward, flew into the air, and finally fell heavily to the ground one meter behind me.
However, when I rushed behind me, I heard a loud noise coming from the door where I was standing just now, and the entire ground began to tremble slightly!
I fell to the ground and didn't care about the pain. I wanted to get up and run away immediately. But as soon as I got up, I saw a figure rushing over from a distance and pounced on the dark shadow standing at the door. Then, a series of teeth-grinding sounds of bones rubbing against each other came from the door, and then a very familiar scream came almost at the same time!
At this point I basically understood what was going on, and I immediately picked up the flashlight and shone it towards the door of the office in front of me. I saw Lin Yingxue standing at the door of the office with a cold face. At her feet, the office director who had parted ways with us before was lying on the ground, covering his arm and howling desperately!
There was a lot of blood on the office director's body, but there were no obvious scars on his body. The blood must not be his own. There was also a bloody axe that looked very heavy on the ground next to him. It seemed that he must have wanted to kill me with this thing just now. Fortunately, I reacted in time and escaped the disaster, otherwise, if the axe had hit my head, it would probably have split me in two.
The office director's hand seemed to be broken by Lin Yingxue, and his entire arm was in an extremely twisted posture. Even I felt a little pain when I saw it. No wonder this fierce office director screamed in pain like this.
"Are you okay?" After subduing the office director, Lin Yingxue came over anxiously to check if I had any injuries. I smiled and said, "It's okay. Fortunately, you came in time, otherwise I would have died."
As we were talking, Lin Yingxue and I had already started walking towards the office director's room, because we had already guessed what had happened inside. Sure enough, after we entered, we found that the room was now covered in blood. The last security guard who had left with the office director before was now lying in a pool of blood, with his head split in half from the middle, and bright red blood constantly oozing out of it. The scene was terrifying to me! I didn't expect that this office director was such a cruel person!
Xiao Chen also heard the noise and rushed over. After seeing the body of the other security guard, he became extremely angry. He grabbed the office director by the collar and asked him why he did this.
The office director didn't know what was going on at this moment, and suddenly he laughed like a madman. No matter how Xiao Chen pulled him, he didn't care at all, and he didn't even seem to feel any pain in his twisted arm.
I sighed slightly, pulled Xiao Chen away, and then stared at the office director and asked, "Tell me, how did Director Zhao die? Did you kill him?"
The office director laughed loudly and muttered, "You're all going to die! Hahaha! No one can escape, you're all going to die!"
Looking at the state of the office director in front of me, I knew that I would not be able to get any clues from him before one o'clock, so I asked Xiao Chen and Lin Yingxue to take him away first, and then the few of us quickly searched the offices we were in charge of for clues that could help us investigate the truth about Director Zhao's death.
Lin Yingxue and Xiao Chen quickly carried the office director out. In order not to be disturbed by the office director's laughter, I closed the office door and quickly searched the room for what I needed.
Since the new office director has only been in office for a month, there is almost nothing related to Director Zhao here. I threw everything in all the drawers and bookshelves on the ground and searched frantically. Finally, I found something similar to a work schedule in a hidden drawer. Director Zhao's name was written on it. It looks like this thing should belong to Director Zhao.
But just as I was about to open the work schedule to check, I suddenly noticed a problem: the crazy laughter of the office director outside seemed to have stopped!
Although it was a good thing for me that the office director stopped laughing, I always felt that this incident happened too suddenly. So I walked out of the office with doubts, wanting to see what was going on outside.
When I walked out of the office, with the help of the flashlight, I saw the office director who was dragged out by Lin Yingxue and Xiao Chen in the dark corridor. He was lying on the ground motionless and seemed to have fainted. Lin Yingxue and Xiao Chen were completely missing!