When the face condensed upon the door amid grotesquerie and terror shifted from a waiting expression to a relaxed one, the door quietly opened.
This time, Li Guanqi was the first to step through.
As he took that step, he had actually been hopeful. After all, fifteen minutes had passed since Jiang Yingying entered.
That nearly matched Xu Chan's record.
Yet even so, Jiang Yingying's fate was not much better than Xu Chan's. She was still dead. Though her death had not been gruesome, it was far stranger.
Jiang Yingying's corpse lay blocking the main entrance, positioned exactly as though she had just entered.
There were no obvious fatal wounds anywhere on her body. The only visible injuries were the bloodstains on the cursed item over her chest and the cuts across her outstretched palms.
Jiang Yingying had used a cursed item, yet she had still died—mysteriously, in a way that could not be investigated.
Li Guanqi had actually expected this outcome. Rationally speaking, it had already been no easy feat for someone of Jiang Yingying's caliber to last fifteen minutes.
As the manager of Branch No. 5, all he could do at this point was reach out and close Jiang Yingying's eyes, which had refused to rest in death.
But at the instant he closed them, he did not know whether it was an illusion or something else. As his hand passed over Jiang Yingying's eyelids, he felt something dart past beneath them at an extremely fast speed.
Li Guanqi frowned sharply and forcibly pried her eyelids open again. But her eyes were clearly black and white, her pupils dilated and hollow.
There was nothing there.
"She moved around. There are footprints throughout the entire area, yet she died after returning to where she started."
It was Fang Shenyan