After they entered the elevator, the thoughts kept circling in Jiang Cheng's mind. He stood near the front, with Wu behind him.
He could clearly feel a gaze fixed on his back.
It wasn't a cold gaze. At least, it didn't make him uncomfortable.
A strange thought suddenly occurred to him again. Had the Murderer given Wu a harsh lesson and corrected its obsessive, twisted personality?
If that was really what had happened, then it was quite a good thing.
"Why did you come back?" A line of writing appeared on the elevator door in front of Jiang Cheng. Unlike before, the handwriting wasn't messy this time. Each stroke was carefully drawn. It still wasn't very good, but at least it looked more deliberate.
Jiang Cheng couldn't help but pause. Without thinking, he replied, "Because you were still here."
After saying that, he seemed to realize the words could be misunderstood, so he quickly explained, "You chose to stay behind earlier and draw the Murderer's attention, which gave the rest of us a chance to leave. And I promised I'd come back for you after I got the others out."
No new words appeared.
The conversation ended there.
Wu had acted far too much like a normal person today, which left Jiang Cheng feeling extremely uneasy.
He couldn't imagine what kind of deranged things the Murderer had done to Wu.
And... when the elevator doors opened, Jiang Cheng looked all around but still couldn't see the Murderer.
Where had the Murderer gone?
The rain was still falling outside, which meant they were still trapped inside the Rain Night Murderer scenario.
But the strange thing was, the Murderer in the scenario had disappeared?
Jiang Cheng stood inside the elevator, not daring to step out.
Then a hand reached toward him, as