The office fell silent for a long time.
If Guo Yujie's theory was right, then the situation had become extremely dangerous and troublesome.
We'd discovered that the zongzi had gone bad before we realized there was something wrong with the fried chicken shop. Zheng Wei's mother had a problem, and the haunting at the fried chicken shop had probably started around the same time. That meant it wasn't just the small shops currently open for business. Those long-established restaurants and the chefs who worked in the food industry could all be affected. Every kind of food we ate carried a risk.
I felt a headache coming on.
"It should be easy to confirm," Chen Xiaoqiu said. "We just need to visit Zheng Wei's mother and see what's going on."
I let out a breath. "You're right."
Zheng Wei's mother was in the hospital. As colleagues who'd heard the news, it would be perfectly natural for us to visit her. That shouldn't make her suspicious, or alert the evil ghost that might be behind all this.
I considered how to bring it up with Zheng Wei and make it seem natural. At the same time, I thought about what I'd do if his mother really did have a problem.
There was no way I could "eliminate" an old lady in front of Zheng Wei.
My phone rang just then.
Wu Ling was calling.
I perked up.
I'd thought it would be easy for Wu Ling to help You Jing move on and then deal with her younger sister's problem. I was about to tell her about the suspicious details we'd just uncovered when Wu Ling's calm voice delivered some bad news.
"...I'm at the newly built residential complex, but I can't find Iron Alley. The terrain has been altered, and the