Though I'd made it sound so serious, the four of them soon grew serious, too.
They had already guessed that what I was about to say wouldn't be simple.
Chen Xiao Qiu nodded in agreement and immediately went to call Chen Yi Han.
Before she had finished the call, a loud thud came from outside the window. The next moment, screams rang out from the neighboring office.
I estimated where the sound had come from, and my heart sank. I rushed over at once.
The people in the neighboring office had all been startled. Some had gone pale, others ashen.
The two men were still holding it together. They approached the window timidly, while the female colleague backed straight into the doorway, clutching her chest and gasping for breath.
The old director appeared in the corridor and hurried over with a speed that belied his age.
The old director and I entered the office one after the other.
I was slower because, as I stood at the office door, I glanced down the corridor.
At the same moment the old director appeared, I sensed a trace of unfamiliar yin energy. It vanished almost immediately, but the fact that it had appeared meant a ghost had entered our office building.
"What just happened?" the old director demanded.
One of the two people by the window was making a call. The other had opened the window and looked as though he planned to climb out.
The old director reached the window and sucked in a breath. "Call an ambulance! Don't move him yet! Where's the infirmary staff? Go get someone from the infirmary!"
There was a shared infirmary in the building for all the departments. Since they were all government offices, sharing one wasn't a problem. Normally, the infirmary was just for