Wang Hao felt as if someone was throwing a handful of ice cubes at his head, and he was twitching from head to toe due to the cold.
The picture of him on the screen was not a static picture, but a moving picture.
That's a video.
The invisible progress bar was moving, and his mouth in the video opened and closed slightly, without any sound.
The progress bar seems to have reached the end and automatically replayed.
“Fuck… help… Oh my god… I’m crazy…” Wang Hao’s pale facial muscles trembled, “Come here… Come here quickly!”
When the people at the stairs heard Wang Hao's shouting, their reactions varied. Most of them not only did not dare to approach, but instead raised their self-defense items.
Chen Yang glanced at Wang Hao at the service desk. He didn't know what he had found on the display screen. His legs were weak and he was slumped against the wall, unable to stand up. He said to Chao Jian, "Go and have a look."
"Don't go! He did it on purpose, he wants to eat us!" Someone tried to dissuade him with a shiver.
Chen Yang pulled Chao Jian without stopping, the mute walked behind them, followed by Zheng Zhiqin, who was being pestered by Pan Lin, Yu Ge, Qiao Qiao and Xiao Li...
Fewer and fewer people were left at the entrance of the corridor. Some of them struggled in panic and chose to follow the main group.
When he reached the center of the hall, Chen Yang suddenly looked up.
There was a blurry figure standing next to the broken guardrail on the second floor. Chen Yang turned on the flashlight and shone it over. The man had some accessory on his chest, and there was a faint metallic glow.
Chen Yang confirmed the identity of the figure on the second floor. She was the female white-collar worker who was half a monster in the determined team and whose male colleague Wang Hao ate.
The woman met Chen Yang's gaze and hid in the darkness.
Chen Yang didn't look at it anymore. He quickly walked to the service desk and saw the lit monitor and the video being played at a glance.
The picture happens to be the back of the head turned to the front face.
"ah-"
“Ahhh!!!!!”
"Isn't that him? It's him! A ghost!"
The girl's screams almost pierced Chen Yang's eardrums. He found the mouse and clicked it, but discovered that the mouse light was not on and the computer was not turned on at all.
This video is a monster, but it is also a hint given by the rules.
The sound of crying made it difficult for people to concentrate. Brother Yu’s face turned pale with fear and he said, “Stop shouting, I can’t hear you anymore!”
Several men and women tried their best to hold back their voices, trembling and huddled together.
Chen Yang moved closer to the screen and stared at Wang Hao's mouth in the video. When his lips opened little by little, Chen Yang's breathing and heartbeat stopped.
Without hearing any sound, Chen Yang moved forward subconsciously. Just when he was about to kiss the screen, a strong force pulled him away.
The force did not disappear after it pulled him apart. Instead, it all gathered on his forearm, causing his entire arm to feel a little sore.
"What is he saying?" Qiao Qiao rested his left hand on his right elbow and placed his right index finger on his lips, as if thinking. "From the shape of his mouth, it seems to be a word."
Yu Ge said: "The first sound is b."
Chen Yang nodded. What Qiao Qiao said was not necessarily true, but what Brother Yu said was certain.
I don’t know about the rest.
The person's mouth on the screen opened and closed too small and too quickly, just for one second. During that time, you couldn't see whether the tongue in his mouth moved or how it moved.
Chen Yang quickly took out his cell phone to record the video. When he did this, a few people who were quick to react and in a good mood also followed suit to record.
I don't know if it's useful or what it's for, but I'll just record it first.
Not long after Chen Yang finished recording, the screen went dark.
The machine was clearly not turned on, but there was a sound of it shutting down, which sounded creepy.
Wang Hao climbed up from the ground, holding onto the wall, and said in a dry voice, "Now you believe that I'm not a monster, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a woman pointed at the black screen and said nervously, "Could it be that the one in the video is the real Wang Hao, and you are a fake one?"
Yet some people still believe it.
Wang Hao laughed angrily: "If I were fake, I would conceal this video that is unfavorable to me and not call you over."
"Believe it or not!" He scratched his hair that was wet with cold sweat, and his whole body looked like he had been fished out of ice water.
Chen Yang asked Wang Hao what happened. Wang Hao recalled all the details with a look of fear and told Chen Yang without reservation.
"It's just the back of the head, and you feel familiar with it?" Xiao Huanyu hugged Zhang Lan and said sarcastically, "Can most people recognize the back of their own head?"
"I like my back." Wang Hao opened his phone, entered the gallery, and turned the screen towards him.
Most of the photos on the screen are of the back.
"A friend helped me take the photo." Wang Hao usually doesn't like to explain things, but now he has to explain again and again to people who don't understand him. He is annoyed and in a bad mood. "You become familiar with it after watching it many times."
Chen Yang said: "You have also watched the video, why don't you send that sound and see if you feel anything?"
When Wang Hao was talking to Chen Yang, he suppressed his dissatisfaction a little. He treated others the same way as others treated him.
“No?” Wang Hao tried to pronounce it, “It seems to be this.”
Chen Yang looked at him: "Two words?"
"I don't know." Wang Hao's eyes were confused, he was not sure.
Chen Yang turned his gaze towards the others: "Does anyone know lip reading?"
No one answered.
"Mr. Chen," Zheng Zhitan said quietly, "your brother doesn't know how to do it?"
Chen Yang frowned, this question was inexplicable, and Zheng Zhiqin's eyes were even weirder.
"What do you mean? Why does my brother know lip reading?" Chen Yang asked back.
Zheng Zhitan smiled and said, "Don't react so strongly. I just think your brother looks very smart. He seems to know everything and can do anything."
The people around looked at Zheng Zhiqin in a very subtle way. His face was disfigured by a cane, yet he still praised him for being smart... Is he crazy
Pan Lin also looked up at Zheng Zhiqin worriedly, could there really be something wrong with his brain
Zheng Zhiqin looked at no one else but Chen Yang... the scar on his left ear.
This has nothing to do with love, nor is it a catalyst for adult sex. If I have to describe it in one word, it would probably be delicious.
Zheng Zhiqin simply wanted to taste it, just like a dish, a fruit, or a piece of candy.
Do you have sexual desire for fruits, vegetables and snacks, and want to grab them and have a meal? No.
So Zheng Zhiqin felt that Chao Jian’s reaction was a bit too big. He just wanted to lick Chen Yang, not to go to bed.
Chao Jian's possessiveness is too abnormal.
Love is sad.
Before he even gets the person, he has already become a psychopath.
Zheng Zhitan looked at Chen Yang who was looking at him. He curled his lips and scratched his left ear with his index finger.
At this moment, Chen Yang suddenly had an epiphany. He finally understood why Zheng Zhitan, who loved ugliness, stuffed his business card into his hand. It turned out that the other party was attracted by the scar behind his left ear.
"Is my scar ugly?" Chen Yang tilted his head and turned his left ear towards Chao Jian and asked in a low voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, his entire left ear was covered.
Chen Yang asked with a puzzled look, what
Chao Jian covered his left ear and said something, then took his hand away and pushed him away from the service desk: "Go to the third floor."
Chen Yang's mind was a little confused, with many things running through his mind: "Wang Hao's..."
"We can't see anything for now. Let's go to the company to look for information first, change our mindset, and watch the video again later. Maybe we will have a different impression." Chao Jian was leaning on a crutch with his left leg curled up, not quite on the ground.
Chen Yang said "hmm", yes, this principle is a bit similar to finding something.
Sometimes the more you want to find something, the harder it is to find. Finally, after searching everywhere you can, you realize that what you are looking for is right in your hands.
Or you saw it at some unexpected moment.
As Chen Yang walked, he couldn't help but ask, "Then can you lip read?"
Chao Jian's expression instantly darkened: "You took his words to heart, but mine fell on deaf ears."
"Don't ignore it. I remember you said many times that you only have one brain and it is not omnipotent. There are many things you don't know clearly." Chen Yang said, "I was just asking just now." Actually, he didn't know why he asked just now, and he asked without thinking.
Chen Yang saw that Chao Jian didn't say anything. He was about to explain again when he heard the other party say, "I can read lips."
He widened his eyes in astonishment: "You can? Then..."
Chao Jian didn't look at Chen Yang. He walked ahead with a crutch: "But I only know a few specific words."
Chen Yang asked without hesitation: "How many words?"
"Three words." Chao Jian didn't turn around, and there was no fluctuation in his tone. The people behind him would not know what emotion was on his face.
"Someone once told me this, so I can understand it." Chao Jian said again.
Chen Yang felt a twitch in his heart for a second. When he covered his heart, the pain disappeared, as if it was an illusion.
"Mr. Chen, I found something!" Brother Yu caught up with him. On his phone was a video recorded from a computer. The paused point was exactly where the person in the video opened his mouth. It was very accurate.
"I think the person above said bei, bei, take a look and see if it's true?" Brother Yu looked excited.
Chen Yang's focus unconsciously shifted to his left eyebrow. The small mole had been scratched and the area around it had become red and swollen.
"Bei?" Chen Yang tried to read it softly, "Bei..."
Others wanted to try if it was that sound but didn't dare to. The few who had recorded videos didn't do anything. They recorded it but didn't want to play it over and over again.
It’s like the back of their heads and faces are so close to the screen that it’s creepy to look at.
Qiao Qiao asked Xiao Li to play the video. When she saw the person in the video moving his lips to pronounce something, she used the word "bei" to add to the pronunciation: "It's a bit similar."
Xiao Li at the side followed the people inside and learned the lip movements. After learning it several times, he shouted with a red face: "Yes, yes, that's the sound!"
"It's bei!" Xiao Li jumped excitedly with his phone in his hand, and the pimples on his forehead seemed to have grown bigger.
The mute also tried it. She blinked at Chen Yang excitedly and nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
Yes. The mute wrote on the sticky note again.
Everyone entered pinyin on their mobile phones and then became bored.
bei has many characters.
Any one of them could be a clue. There are too many to count, not to mention the target in the circle.
The light of hope flashed and then went out.
When Wang Hao went upstairs, he was the last one. Yu Ge, who was walking in front of him, looked back at him and asked, "Why did a monster have to pretend to be you?"
"How would I know?" Wang Hao recalled with a shudder, "Maybe I was at the service desk."
"If someone else was there at the time, the face in the video would be that person," he said.
Everyone in the corridor felt a little suffocated, and they decided to stay away from the service desk during these four days.
Among the twenty people, no one's company is on the first floor. Most of them are on the second floor, and a few are on the third and fourth floors.
The mute was going to the fourth floor. She said goodbye to Chen Yang and went upstairs with Qiao Qiao and the other three.
Xiao Li took the initiative to greet: "Sister, are you born unable to speak?"
The mute shook his head in the dim light.
"Xiao Li, don't poke people's scars." Seeing that her colleague wanted to ask more questions, Qiao Qiao puffed out her cheeks and tried to stop him seriously.
"It's unfair, fairy, I feel so wronged." Xiao Li whispered to Qiao Qiao, "I wanted to chat with her because she was always alone, but now I don't know what to talk about and I can't find a topic."
"Then let's not talk about it." Qiao Qiao said, "Some people just like to be alone."
The mute smiled at her in a friendly way.
Qiao Qiao held her face in her hands like a crazy fan: "So cute, I want to kiss her."
"Why are you kissing? You might as well kiss yourself in the mirror. We're climbing the stairs, fairy. Hold on to your phone and don't drop it." Xiao Li supported the swaying Qiao Qiao like a worried old father.
Qiao Qiao listened to the sticky sound and took a picture of the two people hugging each other against the staircase wall with his phone: "Boss Zheng, do you want to have sex in the hallway?"
She has an otherworldly look, but speaks vulgar and blunt words. The contrast is particularly strong, but it is miraculously integrated in her clear big eyes, and even the hint of ridicule becomes innocence.
Zheng Zhiqin pinched Pan Lin's waist: "Okay, don't let your colleagues laugh at you."
Pan Lin glared at Qiao Qiao in shame and anger, then regretted it a little. He was ugly to begin with, and that expression was even more unbearable to look at.
Fortunately, Zheng Zhitan didn't see it.
Qiao Qiao made faces at Pan Lin, but Pan Lin didn't dare to do so. He was jealous and envious and thought, Qiao Qiao is so pretty, the male colleagues in the company spoil her like a little princess, and the female colleagues don't hate her. He wish he could be half as pretty as her.
Pan Lin suddenly shuddered. No, he couldn't become handsome. Zheng Zhitan wanted him just because he was ugly.
So now that he has a lot of money, he still doesn't dare to correct it.
When they reached the fourth floor, Mute separated from Qiao Qiao and the others. She walked through the corridor alone and went to her own company. Her figure was small, and her footsteps followed the light of the flashlight, firm and steady.
"She's so brave." On the opposite corridor, Qiao Qiao muttered in admiration while holding a constellation book. Oops, "I forgot to ask her what her constellation is."
Xiao Li sighed: "It's better not to ask. What if the horoscope book says that her fortune is bad?"
"Yes." Qiao Qiao turned around and asked Zheng Zhitan, "Mr. Zheng, what's your zodiac sign?"
Zheng Zhiqin swiped his card at the door and said, "Shouldn't you say, Mr. Zheng, it's a good thing you moved the body down, otherwise it would be terrible for us to enter the company now?"
Qiao Qiao rolled his eyes and repeated, "Boss Zheng, it's a good thing you moved the body down, otherwise it would be too scary for us to enter the company now."
"Heh." Zheng Zhitan chuckled.
Pan Lin's sense of crisis came at an inopportune time and for no reason. He put his arm around Zheng Zhiqin's arm and said, "Honey, I want to go to your office."
Zheng Zhitan raised his flashlight and scanned the area: "Go to your own seat and look for clues, dear."
"I'm scared." Pan Lin's eyes were filled with tears.
Zheng Zhitan said: "Many people don't even have a colleague now. They can only go to the company by themselves. We have four people."
"But our company is too big." Pan Lin sobbed.
Zheng Zhiqin pointed his flashlight at Qiao Qiao and Xiao Li: "They are not sitting together, they are all alone." He pinched the boy's face with a strong force, "Be obedient."
Pan Lin noticed Zheng Zhiqin's harshness and coldness. He shrugged, took his hand away, and left with his head down.
Third floor, Changxiang Technology.
Chen Yang sat down at his seat. He found a place to set up the flashlight and touched the edge of the table covered with water vapor. "It feels like there was a sudden power outage while I was working."
An object was thrown over from the other side and happened to fall into Chen Yang's arms. He grabbed it and saw that it was a ball of paper.
I opened it and found it was a takeout order.
The order was placed at around 6:40 last night.
I ordered two servings of duck blood vermicelli, two cups of corn juice, and four barbecued pork buns.
The weird thing about this takeout order is…
Name: Zao Zao.
Address: Block A, Science and Technology Park (call us when you arrive).
Note: My brother wants the duck blood vermicelli slightly spicy, without coriander and green onion. Can the delivery guy buy a box of milk slices on the way here? Thank you for your hard work.
The phone was the one he was using now.
Chen Yang's blood pressure is a little high. In the previous mission, the NPC was able to call out their names, which is even more weird.
"Okay, let's role play. We are the employees of the elephant." Chen Yang took a deep breath and stuffed the takeout order into his backpack. "Why is my takeout order with you?"
Chao Jian opened the first layer of the cabinet at his feet: "I have a habit of collecting takeout orders."
Chen Yang said: "Why don't I know?"
"I just found out about this too." Chao Jian said as he looked at a drawer full of takeout orders.
"… "
Chen Yang heard the sound of Chao Jian searching and started looking for something himself.
There weren't many things on the computer desk, so the search was completed quickly. The focus was on the small cabinet. Chen Yang opened all four drawers and searched them one by one with a flashlight.
The first two layers are data, and the last two layers are...
Chen Yang jumped up suddenly!
"Hold."
Chen Yang shouted to Jian with a dry mouth: "Book."
"My book is here." He leaned on the edge of the table, "My book on the bedside..."
He walked around to Jian, picked up the book in the third drawer, and ran his fingertips over the words "Quantum Theory: The Relationship between Consciousness and the World": "It's not your book."
"Isn't it?" Chen Yang took the book and turned to a page, touching the lower left corner, "There is no crease here." He turned to other pages, "No mark."
"It's indeed not my book. That's good." Chen Yang wiped the sweat off his forehead. The configuration of this task was too terrible.
"What about you? What personal things of yours appeared here?" Chen Yang looked at Chao Jian curiously.
"It's not something important." Chao Jian avoided his gaze.
The matter of the book made Chen Yang pause for a long time before he continued to search for clues. He found the notebook again, with his handwriting in it. It was full of trivial things, very jumpy, as if he would write down a little bit whenever he remembered.
3.12, stomachache, don’t want to go to work.
5.26, the new uncle next to me is left-handed, has smelly feet, and doesn’t want to go to work.
…
Today is very boring. The development of the new product is as slow as an old ox plowing a field. It is probably going to fail. The uncle said he wanted to pursue Sister Qin. He threatened to lose weight and said he would not take the elevator to work and would insist on climbing the stairs every day. In the end, he got into the elevator with me after get off work... I don't want to go to work.
…
My younger brother has someone he likes, but he doesn’t want to tell me. He’s having a secret crush on someone, a one-sided love... He doesn’t want to go to work.
…
Chen Yang found that at the end of every page was "I don't want to go to work". He squinted his lips. Going to work was indeed not a happy thing.
"Chao Jian, there is a line in my notebook. Let me read it to you." Chen Yang read from the notebook, "My younger brother has someone he likes, but he doesn't want to tell me. He's secretly in love with someone, unrequited love."
Chao Jian, who was sitting opposite, saw Chen Yang stand up and stick his head out, so he moved the flashlight away from himself.
"It's not a secret love." Chao Jian's face was hidden in the darkness, his hands on his legs were shaking a little, he frowned and uttered four words in an inaudible voice.
Chen Yang didn't hear Chao Jian's voice. He put the notebook away, thought of the uncle in the notebook, pondered for a while, and then went to search the other's desk.
Finding nothing, Chen Yang turned to the drawer and found a medical card.
Qingcheng Huaning Hospital.
Chen Yang was holding the card in a daze. He was not sure if there was such a hospital in Qingcheng in reality, or what it did. It was not mentioned in the notebook either.
There is a refrigerator in the company. The power outage was not long ago, so there was no peculiar smell inside. Chen Yang took out the fruit cake and put it in a bag. He couldn't help but open a box of round cherries, but when he touched them, he found that they had been washed.
"Do you want to eat it?" Chen Yang handed one to Chao Jian.
"No." Chao Jian sat in the office chair, flipping through folders without raising his eyelids.
Chen Yang leaned on the edge of the table and ate cherries: "Next year, when your legs are completely healed, we can look for jobs together and work in the same company. It will feel good too."
Chao Jian's voice was mixed with the rustling sound of paper rubbing against each other: "I can't sit in an office."
Chen Yang joked: "You know all this? Can you predict the future?"
"Aren't you going to be a security guard at the rehabilitation center?" Chao Jian said impatiently, "Security guards have to stand guard and patrol, how can they sit in an office?"
"I didn't say I was going." Chen Yang said, "The rehabilitation center recruited people in April and May, but they definitely won't recruit next year." His mouth was full of the sweetness of cherries. "Speaking of which, I haven't contacted Brother Qi for a while, and I don't know how he is doing."
After Chen Yang finished talking, he went to visit the company, the front desk, the office with thirty or forty monitors, the small conference room, the large conference room, the department director's office...
After shopping, Chen Yang returned the same way and started searching from the first one.
The front desk was next to the company's gate and the table was rather messy. Chen Yang found the registration form, first glanced through it, and then began to check it carefully.
"Mr. Chen! Mr. Chen!"
There were cries and messy footsteps. It was a young female white-collar worker. Chen Yang did not go out immediately. He closed the door and asked about the situation through the door.
The young female white-collar worker was crying out of breath, and she said intermittently that her colleague had died.
Chen Yang glanced at Chao Jian who was coming over, looked at him for two or three seconds, then opened the door and went out. Led by the young woman, they went to the next room.
As soon as I entered, I smelled blood.
The dead one was the middle-aged man with a beer belly. Most of his head had been eaten and his brains had been sucked out.
Chen Yang swallowed his saliva and shone the flashlight on the dead man's shoes: "Your colleague stepped on the water and violated the taboo."
"Did you step on it? I don't know." The slender body of the young female white-collar worker was shaking like a sieve. "I don't know..." She pointed randomly, tears of fear streaming down her face. "I was there, I wasn't next to him, the places where the light from the phone couldn't reach were all dark, I was looking at my seat, my back was to him..."
Chen Yang sorted out his logic while listening to the incoherent words of the young female white-collar worker.
"Dengdengdeng..."
Just then, another set of footsteps sounded in the corridor outside, even more chaotic than that of the young woman.
Chen Yang wanted to pull Chao Jian, who was standing at the door, in. He reached out his hand, but the other party grabbed him and pulled him outside.
The person in the corridor turned out to be from the fourth floor... Pan Lin!
Pan Lin stumbled over here as if he was being chased by a ghost. The light from his cell phone was shaking violently due to his trembling. He saw Chen Yang and Chao Jian. His tearful eyes suddenly widened and he almost pounced over.
Pan Lin sat down on the ground because of the crutches. He was stunned for a few seconds, then climbed up using his hands and feet: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen..."
“Mr. Chen… Mr. Chen… wuuuu…” Pan Lin cried so hard that her face twisted into a knot. “Mr. Chen… I… wuuuuu… Mr. Chen…”
Chen Yang's counting habit came back. He counted how many times Pan Lin called him "Mr. Chen". He called him that so many times, as if they had a very close relationship.
In fact, we didn't say much.
Chen Yang looked towards the other end of the corridor: "Where is Mr. Zheng?"
Somehow, Pan Lin cried even harder, twitching and looking like he could faint at any time.
Chen Yang had many guesses in his mind. Sex life was not harmonious? Was she abandoned? Then she shouldn't have come to him in such a hurry.
"Boom!"
The crutch poked the ground hard, carrying with it the boy's temper and viciousness.
Pan Lin's crying stopped abruptly. He raised his arm and wiped his face, then gave the thing in his hand to Chen Yang.
"What is this?" Chen Yang took it. The tentacles were wrinkled and felt hot and wet.
A piece of paper.
Chen Yang asked Chao Jian to hold the flashlight. He spread out the paper and saw the contents clearly. In an instant, his blood started flowing backwards.
"Does President Zheng know?" Chen Yang asked, holding the paper tightly.
Pan Lin sobbed and shook his head: "This is what I found on his desk. I don't know if he knows about it."
"Where's Qiao Qiao? Why don't you discuss this with her?"
"I'm not sure whether she is good or bad." Pan Lin said hesitantly.
Chen Yang looked into the boy's panicked eyes and asked, "You dare to come to me alone, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
"Don't you get killed for breaking a taboo? I didn't tread water. I was paying attention. I didn't dare to stop or look back. I just kept running forward..." Pan Lin's back was shaking as he pressed against the glass wall.
Chen Yang spread the paper under the flashlight again, leaned his shoulder against Chao Jian, and looked over with him.
This is an employee leave request form.
The leave period is from 0:00 today to 8:00 next Thursday, a total of seven days.
The reason was hospitalization due to allergy.
Where the supervisor signed, there was a row of red words: Approved, followed by something like "pay attention to rest and take good care of yourself."
The manager's signature consisted of only three characters written in a flamboyant style: Zheng Zhitan.
The person who asked for leave was... Li Zheng, also known as Xiao Li, Qiao Qiao's colleague.
He shouldn't be in the company today.