He was alone in the room. Fatty Huai Yi and Xia Qiang were nowhere to be seen.
Looking at the familiar surroundings, Jiang Cheng couldn't help feeling that something was off.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Cheng swung his legs out of bed, went to the door, and opened it. Beyond it was the apartment hallway,
Everything was exactly as it had been when he woke up yesterday, except that this time, no one was in the hallway.
Perhaps they'd heard Jiang Cheng open the door. A moment later, several nearby doors opened.
Fatty cautiously poked his head out from behind one of them, wariness written all over his face.
Huai Yi, Xia Qiang, and Lin Muyun were there too.
Everyone came out and gathered together.
Aside from Li Mengyao, whose death had already been confirmed, no one had died the previous night.
Everyone was there.
Even an old hand like Xia Qiang had no idea what was going on.
"What on earth is happening?" Fatty couldn't help asking.
When he woke up, he'd found himself back in his apartment room. He'd sat on the bed for a full minute before daring to believe it was real.
"Last night, Captain Xia, Lin Muyun, and I were on watch," Jiang Cheng said. "We heard an alarm, then lost consciousness. When we woke up, everything was like this."
"Did you do anything at the time?" asked a woman named Zhou Tong.
She looked just as bewildered. Given that Xia Qiang and Jiang Cheng had been there, the first group on watch was the strongest of them all. They shouldn't have done anything strange.
"We were only discussing the mission. We didn't even leave the sofa," Lin Muyun said. His brow furrowed slightly. He was clearly a little flustered too, but he