Darkness

"You're right!" Zhou Tong nodded. "That's exactly what happened!"

Just imagining the scene made Huai Yi's limbs go cold. Even more terrifying was that with so many of them there, not one had noticed a ghost standing behind them.

There had been no footsteps. Nothing at all.

As everyone pondered the matter, footsteps sounded in the corridor. There seemed to be quite a few people. A few seconds later, Wu Bin arrived with several officers.

Xia Qiang went to meet him.

"Captain Xia, have you run into some trouble?" Wu Bin asked. From his microexpressions, Xia Qiang could tell that deep down, he was uneasy.

"We ran into a bit of trouble, but it's been taken care of." Xia Qiang thanked him. "Thank you for your cooperation, Captain Wu. I still need a little more time, though."

"No problem. If there's anything you need us to help with, please let us know," Wu Bin said sincerely.

After calling over the shop owner and asking him a few questions, Jiang Cheng, Xia Qiang, and the others left. They rode in the car Wu Bin had arranged, but instead of returning to the crime scene, they went straight back to their office.

The mood during the drive was rather tense. Wu Bin tried several times to lighten things up, but everyone was lost in thought. Only Xia Qiang occasionally gave him a polite response.

"Young man, what are you looking at?" Wu Bin turned his gaze toward Jiang Cheng. The young man kept looking around, sometimes glancing behind them. His strange behavior filled the veteran detective with an indescribable unease.

"Nothing," Jiang Cheng replied calmly.

After a brief silence, Wu Bin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, hunched his shoulders and asked in a low voice, "Is something following us? Something