Global recovery: A century of being stuck in the game

He then asked curiously as he followed her up the stairs.

"Aren't we taking the elevator?"

There are eighteen floors here. If I climb the stairs like this, how long will it take to reach the top floor?

Not to mention having to check out the situation here.

Tao Yao walked in front and did not pause for his question. She lowered her voice and said, "If you are not afraid of the elevator falling and causing death, you can take it."

Li Xia immediately waved her hand: "Then I won't sit down."

In this way, under Tao Yao's leadership, they quickly arrived at the tenth floor.

In fact, the investigation was somewhat different from what Li Xia had imagined. From beginning to end, the woman had no intention of going around the building to search, or she seemed to know which floor had no ghosts.

As the floors went higher, Li Xia felt the surroundings getting colder and colder. Although it was still within the tolerable range, the feeling was indeed somewhat uncomfortable and frightening.

He unconsciously moved closer to Tao Yao until his clothes touched her sleeve, fearing that she would disappear if he blinked.

Logically, he shouldn't be so scared, but it was too quiet here. Apart from his own light footsteps, he couldn't even hear Tao Yao's footsteps. If he couldn't clearly see the person in front of him, he would even doubt whether he had seen it wrong.

How can one be silent?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he shuddered all over. He looked at Tao Yao in a daze, seeming a little unreal, and his pace gradually slowed down.

Just when there was a full meter between the two of them, he suddenly heard a voice: "Don't let your imagination run wild, just follow me."

It’s Taoyao’s voice.

He suddenly came back to his senses, shook off the sinister thoughts in his mind, and followed closely in two steps.

"Miss Tao...how do you manage to walk silently?"

Tao Yao didn't even turn her head: "That's how I did it."

The voice was normal, gentle as usual.

Li Xia completely relaxed and wanted to ask something.

Tao Yao suddenly turned around and looked at him with a smile on her face: "But I need to remind you, if you encounter any doubts or abnormalities in this situation in the future, don't speak out. I am still me, otherwise you would be dead now."

Li Xia swallowed.

In fact, when he asked the question just now, he also thought that if Miss Tao was really not Miss Tao, and was replaced by a ghost silently, if he asked that, would the other party turn around, smile at him hideously, and then kill him.

But Tao Yao is different from others, and the Special Bureau cannot do without her, so he must figure it out and ensure Miss Tao's safety.

At that time, his belief was greater than his fear, but now that it was suddenly pointed out clearly, he felt a surge of fear belatedly and broke out in a cold sweat.

"I see……"

At this moment, a shrill scream suddenly came from upstairs: "Ah!!!"

Li Xia immediately took two steps forward and stood in front of Tao Yao: "There is danger!"

Tao Yao tilted her head slightly, her eyes narrowed slightly: "It is indeed dangerous. Are there any ordinary people in this building?"

Li Xia was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Since the incident here, it has been urgently closed and no one is allowed to set foot here. Apart from the two people who were sent in to investigate a day ago, there should be no other people."

At this point, Li Xia realized something: "That is to say, they may not be dead yet?" He looked a little excited, "Miss Tao, let's go and save them quickly!"

After saying that, he strode upstairs.

They are now on the tenth floor, and judging from the sound, it should be coming from the thirteenth floor.

Tao Yao knew that Li Xia was eager to save people, so she didn't say much.

After all, he was a defender of the country before he came to the Special Bureau, and protecting citizens is their instinct.

She followed, her eyelashes drooping slightly, her eyes focused on the ground.

It's a pity that some things can't be as simple as he imagined.

Because they were running, it took them less than a minute to reach the thirteenth floor.

Entering the passage from the stairs, the first thing you see is the bloodstains on the walls on both sides.

There was also a human figure formed by blood on the ground, but there was no corpse and the smell of blood was very strong.

From the taste and sight, the blood seemed to be freshly shed.

So much blood has been shed, but the person is no longer here. What does this mean?

It means the person is still alive!

Li Xia: "He's still alive and has lost so much blood. We have to find him quickly. Let's split up!"

Taoyao is very sure that Li Xia's rationality is not as good as her emotionality now.

But it was normal to be anxious, so she grabbed his arm and said, "Don't worry, take your time to look for it."

Hearing her voice, Li Xia gradually regained his senses. He took a deep breath and said, "We can't act separately. Let's search together and search all these houses."

The most important thing is Taoyao, he can't be the last one.

If anything happens because of the separation, he might as well die!

Taoyao nodded: "Yeah."

It just so happened that she also wanted to figure out what was going on.

Businessmen rent this place as offices.

The main doors are double-opening glass doors.

Because the evacuation was so urgent, many doors were not locked in time.

Li Xia was still calm. He checked every door that was not locked. However, he did not notice that the bloodstain did not extend outward.

If a person gets up from the ground and leaves, there will definitely be bloody footprints left behind, but except for the place just now, there is no trace of blood along the way.

Isn't this strange?

Of course, Li Xia’s behavior may also be affected by the negative energy here.

Soon, the thirteenth floor was searched, but they found nothing. Just when Li Xia was feeling a little disappointed, a figure walked down from upstairs.

He was a young man in police uniform, about 28 or 29 years old.

"Who are you? How did you get in? It's very dangerous here, get out of here!"

As soon as he saw Li Xia and Tao Yao, the young man's face turned stern and he warned them seriously like an old man.

After much difficulty, he found a living person. Li Xia was delighted, but he did not show it on his face. He handed his ID to the young man and said, "I am from the Special Operations Bureau. I have come here to help investigate the situation here."

The man took the ID and looked at it for a moment, then handed it back with a smile on his face: "So you are from the Special Operations Bureau. Thank you for your hard work. My name is Luo Rui, please take care of me."

Li Xia put away the documents and said, "Don't be miserable. This is what I should do. Didn't I ask you to come in and check the situation? No matter whether you have any findings or not, you must go out and report. Why haven't you gone out all day?"

Hearing this, Luo Rui sighed: “I also tried to go out, but we couldn’t get close to the door at all, so we couldn’t get out at all!”

This was within Li Xia's expectations. If she could get out, how could she choose not to go out?

"Where's the other person? Why isn't he moving with you?"

Luo Rui replied: "This place is too big. In order to search as quickly as possible, we can only act separately..."

At this point, his face turned pale, and he said in pain: "She was killed last night, and almost all the blood in her body was drained. I... couldn't save her..."

At the end of his speech, he covered his face with his hands, tears rolled down his cheeks and from his chin, and he looked very painful.

"It's all my fault... If I hadn't suggested breaking up, maybe she wouldn't have been in trouble. It's all my fault, it's all my fault..."

Seeing him suddenly pounding his head like crazy, Li Xia hurried over to pull him back and comfort him, "Don't be like this. No one wants this to happen. Don't blame yourself too much. The most urgent thing is to find a way to leave here and pass on the message."

Luo Rui sniffed, wiped his tears with his hands, and gritted his teeth: "Yes! I want to avenge her..."

Li Xia breathed a sigh of relief: "Have you found anything in the past two days?"

Luo Rui nodded: "I was wandering around the building alone last night and heard someone talking about pretending to be a ghost to scare people. Those things that happened before were just pranks by them, not that anyone died."

Li Xia frowned: "How is this possible?"

At the same time, his gaze towards Luo Rui also changed.

He wondered if Luo Rui had suffered such a huge blow that he had gone mad?

If not, then he is most likely being controlled by the ghost behind him.

If it was the former, it would be fine. But if it was the latter, I'm afraid none of the people present would be in good shape.

Regarding the strange incident in Sunshine Building, the bureau has repeatedly confirmed that there is absolutely no possibility of any mistake.

"What I said is true!" Luo Rui said very seriously: "Don't disbelieve me, I saw with my own eyes that people like the deceased were planning together, and they are all still alive!"

Li Xia: “…”

If you are still alive, will you be unable to get out?

They are human beings. How could they be trapped here by unnatural means?

It's crazy.

He had a headache. In view of Tao Yao's reminder just now, he did not argue with Luo Rui. Instead, he agreed with him: "How unreasonable! How dare they do such a thing, wasting police force and manpower. They are simply parasites of our Li country. We must arrest them today and let them be punished!"

If it is true, this is also a serious incident, which has frightened many people and forced many companies to close down, causing heavy losses. The losses those people paid are so great that they cannot even pay them back in their next lifetime.

After getting approval, Luo Rui nodded repeatedly: "I'll take you to find them now!"

Li Xia: “Okay!”

It took a little longer to get from the thirteenth floor to the fifteenth floor.

After all, they have climbed so high, and Li Xia is deliberately delaying time.

He didn't want to go with Luo Rui, so he looked in Tao Yao's direction from time to time.

Then the man looked straight ahead and didn't notice him at all.

Li Xia began to feel helpless.

It shouldn't be.

Miss Tao is so smart, can't she see the trick here?

Why didn't she react?

Could she really solve the mystery behind this?

"They were in that room, which was the bathroom on the 15th floor. Five people were squeezed into one toilet. Our people searched again and again at the time. Maybe that's why they overlooked it."

After all, when they were evacuating, there was a loudspeaker system, and everyone in the entire building could hear it. In addition, the public security department searched every floor, so it was common sense that no one would be missed.

But what if these people had the intention from the beginning and deliberately hid in the toilet without making any noise and refusing to go out?

Luo Rui believed in this reason so firmly that Li Xia began to doubt whether he had been wrong just now.

The thought only flashed through his mind before he suppressed it fiercely.

The three of them came outside the toilet.

The toilet door was closed, which was more consistent with Luo Rui's statement.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Open the door! Open the door quickly! You have committed a crime. Do you know that?"

There was no movement from inside, so he knocked on the door more and more vigorously.

He shouted several times, but there was no movement from inside. Luo Rui began to get impatient and started kicking the door.

"Bang! Bang!"

The toilet door was not strong to begin with, and after a few kicks, he heard a "thump" sound, and the door was kicked to the ground. Then he rushed in: "Come out quickly! If you turn yourself in, you can get a lighter sentence!"

The voice fell, and there was no echo for a long time.

Luo Rui didn't believe it and simply opened the doors of the compartments one by one.

There was no one inside, so the door would open easily. He looked around and his face turned paler. "How could this be? I clearly saw them in the bathroom, and I even heard them plotting. How could there be no one inside? No, I must have remembered it wrong. It's not the thirteenth floor, it's the fourteenth floor. It must be the fourteenth floor!"

He turned around suddenly and grabbed Li Xia's arm: "You must believe me, it's on the 14th floor, you will know everything if you come with me!"

He seemed afraid that Li Xia would not believe him, and his originally pale face turned red because of his anxiety.

Li Xia patted his arm and said, "Okay, calm down first, let's go to the fourteenth floor and take a look."

He is now certain that Luo Rui acted like this because he was provoked.

In order to prevent him from continuing, Li Xia could only comfort him first.

Luo Rui was very happy to gain his trust, and pulled Li Xia to leave: "Then let's go quickly, don't let them run away!"

Tao Yao did not follow the two of them in. She waited in the aisle outside.

When Li Xia was being pulled out, he happened to pass by her position. Seeing Tao Yao, he stopped and questioned Tao Yao with his eyes.

He did not forget that the real leader was Taoyao.

Tao Yao spread his hands, said nothing, and walked over.

Li Xia actually doesn’t know what to do now.

If possible, he wanted to send Luo Rui, who was almost going crazy, out first. Having him here might affect their actions.

But he couldn't get out, so he could only hold him steady.

On the fourteenth floor, the same scene was played out again.

Luo Ruiren was almost on the verge of collapse. His face flushed red. He grabbed Li Xia as if he was holding on to his last straw, and kept murmuring, "Believe me, you must believe me. I am not lying. It must be on the 15th floor. No, it could also be the 16th floor..."

Li Xia really doesn't have time to play hide-and-seek with him here.

Luo Rui had gone crazy. The hand that was holding his arm kept exerting force, causing him to grit his teeth in pain and quickly pull his hand away.

Then he froze.

Why are Luo Rui's hands cold?