Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 142

Escape from the building

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Qin Manjiang's expression changed a little too. Something was wrong with this pressure.

Tang Baihe did not know what had happened, but the atmosphere felt strange. The temperature seemed to have plummeted after the sound of the elevator doors opening.

And in Qin Manjiang's eyes, things were even more wrong.

He saw streams of blood flowing across the floor from the distant corner. He could not see their source through all the turns, but it was most likely in the direction of the elevator.

Something had left the elevator and was coming their way...

"Inside."

Qin Manjiang pulled Tang Baihe into the advertising department, pushed the glass door shut, then switched off the lights.

They felt their way beneath a desk and immediately hid.

The sudden darkness after the lights went out made Tang Baihe's heart pound. She did not dare make a sound. Before today, she would certainly have thought Qin Manjiang had ulterior motives, but after that bizarre incident this morning, some incredible suspicions had already taken root in her mind.

The advertising department's main lights were completely off. Only the dim yellow accent lights on the ceiling remained, watching her in the darkness like tiny orange-yellow eyes.

The emergency exit sign by the office wall was also lit. Its green light was not strong, but in darkness like this, that hazy glow always set her imagination running.

Without realizing it, Tang Baihe clutched Qin Manjiang's arm tightly with both hands. She was beginning to regret it. Why had she worked overtime somewhere she was not even familiar with yet?

And after something so bizarre had happened that morning, she had actually thought nothing of it.

Whatever she was thinking, Qin Manjiang was feeling uneasy too.

*Was this what Yang had called a supernatural incident that had not

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