It was... Teacher Zi Gui!!
Caught off guard by that face, Jiang Cheng instinctively leaned back, trying to get away. But the portly man beneath him had no idea what was going on, and their movements clashed. They nearly fell over.
Luckily, the portly man was remarkably nimble and managed to set Jiang Cheng down just in time.
"Doctor, are you all right?" the portly man asked, looking at Jiang Cheng, who was still shaken.
Fortunately, Jiang Cheng had seen his share of extraordinary situations and soon calmed down. As the others gathered around, he explained, "I just saw Teacher Zi Gui, on a bench at the street corner outside."
At those words, Bai Xi and Lu Yu were the first to erupt. "Teacher Zi Gui?!"
"Wasn't Teacher Zi Gui already dead?" Yuan Xiaotian asked in shock. "We just saw her body downstairs. It was burned so badly..."
Lin Wan'er motioned for everyone to quiet down and asked Jiang Cheng to explain carefully.
By then, Jiang Cheng had calmed down completely. He stood up and told everyone what had happened: the traffic outside, unreal as a scene from an old movie; the Newspaper Man who had suddenly appeared on a bench by the road; and, finally, the Newspaper Man vanishing before Teacher Zi Gui turned her charred face toward him.
"That Newspaper Man again..." Zhou Tong's voice trembled.
Someone then mentioned that one of them had taken photos downstairs. Only then did Xia Qiang remember that he'd snapped a few pictures of Teacher Zi Gui's body before they left.
He immediately took out his phone and opened the gallery, but the sight that greeted them left everyone stunned.
The photos showed nothing but a dilapidated room.
The body that had been lying on the ground... was gone!
Every single photo