Coworkers

"Our company is in South City. You know the Yourun Building, right? Our company occupies floors 10 through 14."

"After I entered the building, I took the elevator up. I even made a point of checking the time in the elevator. It was 12:15. I remember very clearly."

"The elevator stopped on the tenth floor, where my workstation was. It was a huge open-plan office. The door was open, and inside, there was only one lonely light on. Not the ceiling lights—no, it was a desk lamp, a tiny one. The area around it was quite dark."

"The spot where that desk lamp was shining was my workstation." Wang Jie explained, "By its light, I saw that my desk was a mess. When I got closer, I realized that many of the documents and other things that had been on it were scattered across the floor, as if someone had rummaged through them."

"I was furious. I wanted to find my coworker right away and ask him what the hell he thought he was doing. Even if he was in a hurry, he had no right to go through someone else's things!"

"And besides, who leaves something like a company seal lying around? Of course it would be locked in a drawer."

"But I couldn't find my coworker. No—not that I couldn't find him. There wasn't anyone in the entire office."

"I called out a few times. It was very quiet nearby." At this point, Wang Jie suddenly looked up at Jiang Cheng with a strange expression and lowered her voice. "Can you understand that feeling? It was dark all around me, and there were vague shapes in the shadows, as if something were hiding there. It was a place I knew so well, but in that moment, it felt