As it turned out...
The other employees on the drilling platform had not disappeared.
On the contrary.
It was these employees who had disappeared!
They had not returned all night, leaving the platform managers frantic with worry that something had happened to them in the storm.
They had organized a search.
At the same time, they had reported the situation to shore and requested assistance.
They had spent the entire night scrambling.
Then, out of nowhere, the missing employees had reappeared.
In fact.
People had been coming and going through the place where those employees had stayed last night, but the two groups seemed to have been in parallel dimensions.
Neither could see the other.
But that was not the strangest part.
The strangest part was that the satellite call those employees had made last night really had reached the people on shore!
Except that once the call connected, there had been nothing but silence.
Not a sound could be heard.
Then what exactly had been keeping in touch with those employees over the satellite phone?
Afterward.
Those employees never worked on an offshore platform again.
The final investigation concluded that excessive mental stress had caused mass hysteria among the employees, who had hidden in a corner where no one had found them.
They received compensation.
Some resigned, while the company assigned the rest new jobs on shore.
Afterward, the company held a meeting.
They invited a renowned psychologist to give a lecture and share professional advice.
A notice was issued.
Management at every level was instructed to pay greater attention to employees' mental health, learn from this incident, and prevent anything similar from happening again.
Following the stairs.
Jiang Qiao climbed to the third floor.
It was even more run-down than the second floor. The wooden floorboards had