What Mei Sheng saw was a diseased, necrotic kidney.
It lay submerged in a pool of unidentified, sinister-looking deep purple water, like a specimen preserved in formalin.
The Gold Generates Water Barrier stopped at that moment.
The killer had obtained the kidney water it wanted, even though the kidney had come not from an employee, but from the killing water it had created itself.
Mei Sheng stared at the female corpse and the kidney on the floor. Rather than delight at her plan's success, her face showed profound unease.
She suddenly felt that everything had gone a little too smoothly.
Using the Blood Jade Bead sin object to delay the barrier's spread until the killing water fell away from the corpse was not suspicious in itself.
Yet a thought surfaced unbidden in Mei Sheng's mind—had the killer really delivered the killing water to them?
Had the killing water fallen into the employees' hands because of an oversight, or was it another trap...
In any undertaking, plan for failure before planning for success.
Mei Sheng was also a highly experienced employee. She had survived in the Seventh Branch, where conditions were just as harsh and competition just as fierce as in Branch No. 9.
So when this thought occurred to her, she decided to make some changes to the original plan.
While she was thinking, the blood rain pattering down from the ceiling stopped as well.
Xue Tingtao was the first to emerge through the curtain of rain. He staggered over, supporting himself against the wall, his face as white as paper.
His face was full of relief at having narrowly escaped death, and he spoke with heartfelt gratitude toward Mei Sheng:
"Thank you... thank goodness you were here..."
Shi Man and Wei Guang arrived afterward, supporting an unconscious young woman