My Healing Games

Chapter 286 So I Was Already Dead (Third Update)

The red numbers on the elevator display slowly changed from -4 to -2, and after reaching this floor, the elevator stopped without warning.

The silver-gray elevator doors slowly opened, revealing a completely empty, dark stairwell.

"I heard from my mentor that the security company used to provide accommodation for its employees, allowing them to bring their families to live in the basement dormitories. Later, it seems that something happened, and the boss kicked everyone out, no longer allowing unemployed security guards to live in the company premises." Bai Sinian looked at the corridor outside, pressed her body against the elevator, and shrank into the corner of the elevator.

Do you know what exactly happened back then?

"It seems there was a girl who was murdered on the second basement level while walking home at night. If you keep walking down the corridor, you should still be able to see the girl's memorial tablet and photo."

"I didn't see the photo or the memorial tablet," Han Fei muttered to himself. "But I scared the girl away."

"What did you say?" Bai Sinian frantically pressed the elevator buttons. After a long while, the elevator doors slowly closed. "Every time the elevator passes the second basement level, it stops. It's very eerie. Someone even saw a girl standing outside the elevator. She seemed to be observing the people inside, as if she was looking for the murderer."

"So these things happened inside the building." Han Fei felt he had found the right person. With Bai Sinian as his guide, he could save a lot of time.

The two took the elevator to the fourth floor, but the old elevator stopped again when it passed the second floor.

Han Fei also found it strange that the elevator seemed to always stop whenever it encountered an even-numbered floor.

Compared to the underground floors, the stairwells on the ground floor are clean and tidy, with a light every few meters on the walls, illuminating the surroundings very brightly.

The building looks perfectly normal, just like a regular office building; there's nothing wrong with it. But in the deeper world, the biggest problem is that there's nothing wrong with it.

A faint, strange smell of burning plastic lingered in the air. Han Fei's nose felt uncomfortable, but he couldn't pinpoint the source of the smell; it seemed to be seeping from deep within the wall plaster.

"Has there been a fire here?"

"No." Bai Sinian scratched her forehead and straightened her security guard hat.

He stepped out of the elevator car and reached out to take the inspection form hanging next to the elevator.

The worn-out forms were covered with names written in red pen, but most of them had been crossed out.

"Who played this prank?" Bai Sinian took a pen out of his pocket. He was about to fill out tonight's patrol report when he suddenly realized that his name wasn't on it. "How strange?"

As Bai Sinian repeatedly flipped through the patrol sheet, the rustling sound filled her ears, and her expression grew increasingly strange.

"Impossible! Someone's playing a prank! Someone must be playing a prank!" His eyes slowly bulged outwards, and his normally normal face seemed to be covered with a layer of gray.

"What's wrong?" Han Fei asked, noticing that Bai Sinian seemed a bit off. His voice carried a hint of concern.

“Our building’s patrol reports are updated weekly. I entered the fourth basement level tonight on Wednesday, but now the dates on these reports have all changed to Thursday! And I can’t even find my name on them!” Bai Sinian’s speech quickened, and her emotions became increasingly unstable.

“If it were only a one-day difference, you should have seen your name if you flipped back, but actually your name isn’t in the entire patrol report, which means you must have entered the fourth underground level a long time ago and never came out.” Han Fei’s way of comforting people was quite direct.

"No! How could this be! I remember it very clearly!" Bai Sinian's facial skin slowly curled up. He gripped the patrol report tightly with his five fingers, then rushed towards a room on the second floor: "Master! Are you still there! Wang Shan! Sister Lan! Is anyone home!"

Bai Sinian finally stopped in front of a door. He shook the doorknob hard, but he just couldn't open the door.

It wasn't until Han Fei came over and helped him kick the door open.

As soon as he entered the room, Bai Sinian began rummaging through drawers, searching for something. He opened the drawers and scattered documents all over the floor.

"Why not?"

The drawer contained information on all the security guards, but not on Bai Si Nian. He was very unwilling to accept this, so he turned on the old computer on the table again.

The screen flickered several times, but it was finally usable. He frantically clicked the mouse, his eyes bloodshot.

There was nothing about him in any of the file backups, as if he had been erased by the company.

No, no, still no!

Looking at the computer desktop, Bai Sinian, in her final despair, opened the computer's recycle bin.

Looking at the junk that hadn't been thoroughly cleaned, he suddenly discovered a folder from a month ago.

Once opened, it contains a backup of the surveillance video.

Bai Sinian clicked on it with a try-it-out mentality, and a video started playing on the computer screen.

The elevator rose from the fourth basement level at midnight and finally stopped on the second floor.

Then, the patrol form hanging at the entrance of the building inexplicably fell to the ground, the paper was flipped over, and the names on it were roughly scribbled over.

Slightly visible shoe prints began to appear in the corridor, and a faint black shadow could be seen walking through it and stopping at the office door.

In the empty corridor, the office door lock suddenly began to vibrate violently, as if someone was frantically shaking the doorknob.

After a moment, the door was opened.

After the first video finished playing, Bai Sinian looked at the second video, which was also captured by a surveillance camera, with the camera positioned right above her head.

In the second video, the office at night looked like it was haunted; drawers were pulled open, cabinets storing documents were overturned, and various files were scattered all over the floor.

When everything returned to normal, the computer screen, which had been black, suddenly lit up, and files on the desktop were opened one by one, with the recycle bin being the last one to be opened.

Soon, the computer began playing surveillance video. In the final stage of the video playback, a face covered in blood and scars was projected onto the computer screen.

Then a line of text appeared on the computer screen—Do you remember now?
Following this camera angle, Bai Sinian slowly raised his head and looked at the monitor above him. The action he made at this moment was just like that of the ghost in the video.

A strong stench of decay emanated from his body, his bones began to shift and twist, and Bai Sinian's once handsome face was rapidly rotting. He stared at the video on the computer screen, at the ghost in the video, and at his own reflection on the screen.

He slowly opened his mouth, his voice tinged with bitterness: "So I'm already dead..."

The walkie-talkie on his shoulder emitted a hissing sound. He didn't know when it started, but no one had answered him since. It was as if he was always talking to himself.

“I remember now, everyone was taken behind the iron gate, but I was trapped and died in a room on the fourth basement level.”

"So it turns out I was the one most afraid of ghost stories, and I was the most timid security guard..." he kept muttering to himself, "No wonder I'm not afraid of ghost stories anymore..."

Are you on NetEase Cloud Music, feeling depressed?

Looking at Bai Sinian, who had completely changed and whose height was constantly increasing, Han Fei opened the spirit altar and released Ku and Li Zai: "Becoming a ghost is nothing. Many people can't even become ghosts. You are much luckier than them."

Pulling the bewildered Bai Sinian to his side, Han Fei used the secret of touching the depths of the soul to forcefully grasp his hand: "If you really feel lonely, we have a big family here that welcomes you to join us."

I highly recommend Cangshan Yue's "Rebirth: Like Flowing Water"~
A wounded middle-aged soul travels back in time to embrace the dappled sunlight of 98.

Suddenly I realized that I was in the prime of my youth then, the years were fragrant. I realized that making mistakes is what growth is all about, and that youth can be so vibrant.
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(End of this chapter)