Who moved her body?

The lights on the staircase leading to the basement sensed someone approaching and suddenly turned on. Guan Jie pressed himself against the wall, cautiously lowering his center of gravity, ready to act at any moment in case of any unknown danger.

However, Guan Jie did not encounter anyone.

The staircase winds back and forth three times, and at each turn the handrail is decorated with a small ghost statue holding a skull, just as eerie as the house itself.

The shadowy staircase looked somewhat menacing under the lights that turned on whenever someone approached. The last little devil offering a gift had a mouthful of fangs and a piece of intestine from some unknown creature hanging from the corner of his mouth.

The light outside the basement door suddenly turned on, shining directly onto the kid's face.

The section of intestine at the corner of the little devil's mouth that Guan Jie couldn't bear to look at was actually blood red, the color so realistic it looked like someone had stuffed a fresh piece of intestine directly into the little devil's mouth.

Guan Jie felt nauseous and almost vomited.

There is no time.

Ignoring his churning stomach acid, Guan Jie took out the access card Xu Haiyang had given him. The heavy door slid slowly to the left after the card reader successfully recognized the card. After Guan Jie entered, the door slowly slid back into its original recess.

This is an almost sealed room, with no windows or extra doors. A vent for ventilation is the only connection between the room and the outside world.

The empty room contained only a small round table with a computer on it; Shanshan was not there.

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"Type these into the computer..." Guan Jie remembered Xu Haiyang's instructions and quickly typed in the codes he had no idea what they meant.

Three seconds passed, and nothing changed.

"Could I have remembered wrong? No!" Guan Jie's palms suddenly started sweating. He watched the time slip away, feeling as if someone was gripping his heart.

Just as Guan Jie was hesitating about whether to try again, the floor in the center of the room moved around, and after the floor stopped moving, a glass dome that was two meters long and one and a half meters wide slowly rose up.

Shan Shan lay inside, her hands, feet, neck, and waist tightly bound with leather straps. Her red dress was stained with blood, making her look even paler.

"Xiao Xian, Xiao Xian." Guan Jie gently tapped the glass.

"How could this happen? What did they do to you?" Guan Jie looked at Shan Shan lying in the small glass enclosure in front of him with heartache, being treated like a madwoman.

"I'm going to get you out of here. You wait, Xiao Xian."

Guan Jie swallowed the bitter taste in his throat and clenched his fist, smashing it against the glass dome.

One punch, two punches.

The sound of bones colliding with glass filled the room with a captivating cruelty, and Guan Jie's skin cracked during his third fist-on-glass confrontation, adding a tantalizing element to the atmosphere.

"Guan Jie, no..."

Guan Jie's fist stopped outside the glass, and he smiled.

"Xiao Xian, is it really you?"

Shanshan, no, it's Song Xiaoxian. Song Xiaoxian opened her eyes and then closed them helplessly, as if opening her eyes had exhausted all her strength.

"Guan Jie, I looked so beautiful in my wedding dress, it's a pity you didn't see it... I had the people at the wedding dress shop take pictures of me... you..."

Guan Jie burst into tears as he hugged Song Xiaoxian through the glass.

"I saw it, I saw it."

Song Xiaoxian laughed, her pale lips trembling violently.

"You applied the lipstick crookedly, you...you...you're not laughing at me, are you..."

Guan Jie shook his head desperately.

"Silly girl, how could I laugh at you? I thought you did it on purpose. I'll get you out of here right now, and I want you to wear your wedding dress for me again."

Guan Jie raised his fist, and Song Xiaoxian opened her eyes and shook her head vigorously.

"It can't be opened, you fool. Go quickly, they'll kill you... I knew it... I knew you still loved me... I can finally say goodbye to you... I..."

"You've always been so willful. This time, I absolutely cannot let you leave me. I must rescue you. If that doesn't work, dying together with you would be a blessing."

"Don't die." Song Xiaoxian raised her wrist, and Guan Jie pressed his face against the tip of Song Xiaoxian's fingers through the glass.

"You live on, live well for me, find a woman who loves you...get married and have children...I will bless you from heaven."

Guan Jie sat on the floor, his hands placed beside Song Xiaoxian's hands.

"You're the only one in my heart, Xiao Xian. Don't say things like that anymore. I couldn't protect you last time, but this time, I won't leave you again."

"It's so good to be able to remember the past. Guan Jie, now I understand something: forgetting is more terrifying than death. For the past five years, I've always felt uneasy, always feeling an emptiness in my heart... Remembering our past, I'm not afraid of anything anymore. My heart... is full of you, our love... For our love, you must live well, and for me... see this beautiful world..."

Song Xiaoxian closed her eyes again, her breathing becoming increasingly heavy.

Guan Jie looked at the door and shook his head.

He regretted losing Song Xiaoxian for five years, and he also regretted almost marrying Zeng Meiqian.

Guan Jie asked himself, "I keep saying I love Song Xiaoxian, but Song Xiaoxian is still alive, and I'm going to marry another woman. How can I let down two good women?"

Self-blame and remorse made Guan Jie lose his mind. At this moment, all he wanted to do was look at Song Xiaoxian more and say a few more words to her.

At this moment, the door slid slowly, and Song Xiaoxian, inside the glass dome, opened her eyes in despair. Tears welled up like dewdrops suddenly appearing on dry leaves, a beauty that seemed somewhat abrupt.

Guan Jie smiled and moved his palm across Song Xiaoxian's cheek through the glass.

"I will never leave you, Xiaoxian. I only love you, and always will."

Song Xiaoxian smiled, a blush of happiness appearing on her pale lips.

When the door was a third open, a security guard in a restricted area uniform poked his head in and said, "Young Master sent me. Hurry up and come with me, or it'll be too late."

Guan Jie looked at Song Xiaoxian and said softly, "I'm not leaving. I'll stay here and protect Xiaoxian. Please thank Young Master for me. I won't betray him. I did everything secretly; it has nothing to do with him."

The man walked a few steps to Guan Jie's side, certain that Guan Jie would go with him.

"If you don't leave, you and Miss Shan will both die. If you leave, Miss Shan can still be saved. Don't you really want to save Miss Shan?"

Guan Jie turned his head to look at the person who had come in, and then looked at Song Xiaoxian.

Song Xiaoxian forced a smile and gave Guan Jie a quick laugh.

"I believe you, hurry up and leave here with him."

Guan Jie remembered overhearing Dr. Chen and Situ Feng's conversation in the shadows on the first floor.

"Shanshan's brain nerves have already begun to be damaged. If new cells are not injected soon, Shanshan's body will be devoured in less than half a month."

In other words, to save Song Xiaoxian, she needs to be injected with the "new cells" that Dr. Chen mentioned in time; otherwise, Song Xiaoxian's life will be in danger.

Guan Jie turned to look at Song Xiaoxian, "Wait for me, I will definitely get you out of here. I want to see you marry me in a wedding dress with my own eyes."

Song Xiaoxian nodded.

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