"Is there something on my face?" Xishan felt his face with his left hand. He did not dare take his right hand out of his pocket at all. The gift he had received was rather unusual, and could easily make people mistake him for a pervert.
"Sorry for offending you earlier," Fan Li immediately apologized to Xishan. "You weren't trapped in the elevator—you deliberately slipped inside those monsters?"
"The three of us only drew one pair of parents after us, but you managed to gather an elevator full of monsters. So this was a trap you set?" He Jing worked with Zhuo Jun and had firsthand experience of just how devious and cunning the students of Class Thirteen were.
"I wouldn't call it a trap." Xishan recalled what had happened earlier. He had enthusiastically accompanied Gao Ming's parents to look for Gao Ming, explaining many of the building's taboos to them. Yet the middle-aged couple had acted as though they had entered their rebellious phase, running straight toward every danger. In the end, they had even performed a soul-summoning ritual inside the elevator. Only after trying to dissuade them for ages had Xishan realized that the sacrificial offering they were using was him.
Having nearly become a living sacrifice, Xishan wiped the blood off himself and chose to change the subject. "I risked my life and picked up some information. Gao Ming's fathers and mothers are everywhere in the building. They're using the elevator to gather the resentment from every floor, seemingly to contaminate something together."
"Could they be trying to contaminate Gao Ming's soul?"
"I don't know, but I keep feeling..." Xishan said uncertainly, "Those mutated parents seem to be deliberately tempting Gao Ming to kill them. This could very well be an open trap. If Gao Ming doesn't