"What an airtight coffin..."
Ji Li stood in the corridor on the fourteenth floor of the North Building, his clothes soaked through as the bone-chilling cold steadily eroded his body heat.
The four surrounding high-rises were like an enormous coffin, sealing him within their midst.
The time was 6:52 p.m.
Ji Li's cane had been lost beneath the bed in Number 1414, while his backpack had been left in the Restroom of Number 1413. At this moment, he was traveling light.
The winter rain drifting down through the narrow strip of night sky outside fell unevenly across the aged buildings. This place truly had become a Ghost Building.
He would leave the supernatural events in Rooms 1414 and 1413 to Mei Sheng for now.
Mei Sheng was among the second batch of employees to arrive at the Seventh Branch, after Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo. Her personality, abilities, and insight were all excellent.
She could only be an ordinary employee at the Seventh Branch, but at any other branch, she would be more than qualified to serve as a manager.
With everything behind him entrusted to her, Ji Li could completely put his mind at ease. Perhaps this was also a choice forced upon him by circumstance.
Because he knew very well that, in this mission, the true source lay outside rather than inside.
There was still some time before their agreed meeting time of 7:00 p.m. These eight minutes presented Ji Li with two options...
Either he could go to Number 6002 and investigate what was so special about Pang Guijuan;
Or he could go to Room 1818 and investigate the Big Eye Doll, as well as whether it was the location of the final hidden employee who had remained silent all this time.
Given the current situation, the