"Take everyone you want. I'll guard one Hot Pot Restaurant by myself. No ghost will come looking for me."
Gu Qingyun, usually all smiles, put down his phone with a grim expression. His movements were slow, utterly devoid of his usual composure and laziness.
Li Yi's tone was nasty and impatient. Something unknown had clearly happened to him.
But the real point of hesitation was Branch No. 2.
Gu Qingyun stared fixedly at the deep crimson pattern spreading out from the second floor. He had no idea what it was, but the suffocating aura it gave off was filled with extreme danger.
Even from across an entire street, merely looking at it made his eyes sting. Worse, he felt a panic as if he were about to be swallowed by that bizarre pattern.
"Vice Branch Manager, should I bring the others over?" A young man with a long ponytail approached after seeing Gu Qingyun finish his call and asked.
Gu Qingyun said nothing. He simply kept his unblinking gaze fixed on the second floor.
That window had long since been shattered, allowing everything happening on the second floor to be seen clearly from the tea house's second floor.
What would happen to Tong Guan, Xu Chan, and Hou Guisheng... As the last In Charge member still stationed outside, the responsibility on his shoulders was even greater.
Branch No. 1 had not deployed everyone this time. Including Gu Qingyun himself, there were only eleven people, and Gongsun Liang had already died during the initial stage on the second floor.
Branch No. 3 had only sent Hou Guisheng, so there was no need to mention them further.
Fourth Branch, which originally had the largest numbers, had thirty people leave with Xue Tingtao. Yet, following Hou Guisheng's orders, they had left Wangdu Hot