Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

Shang Muchen happened to see a woman's figure walking towards the stairs.

He was absolutely certain that the person was Wang Ruolin—or, Li Qing—in any case, the two looked exactly alike.

At this moment, Shang Muchen couldn't care less about buying jewelry and chased after him as fast as he could.

The stairwell door was slowly closing. At the last moment before it closed, Shang Muchen grabbed the door and squeezed inside.

The sound of high heels clattered as they climbed upwards, and Shang Muchen followed suit.

I chased him from B1 to the first floor, but couldn't catch up; the footsteps were still going up.

Shang Muchen chased after her, panting heavily, until he reached the third floor before finally catching sight of the woman.

The woman's slender figure stopped at the glass door of the third-floor observation deck and glanced back at Shang Muchen.

Shang Muchen recognized the face clearly; it was undoubtedly Wang Ruolin.

He called out, "Joanna Wang!"

The woman seemed to nod slightly, pushed open the glass door of the observation deck, and walked out.

Shang Muchen quickly chased after him.

Wang Ruolin seemed to be intentionally urging Shang Muchen to come over, so she didn't walk very fast.

Before the automatic glass doors of the observation deck closed, Shang Muchen ran out of the building and arrived at the observation deck, but Wang Ruolin had disappeared.

The viewing platform is quite large, with the outer side filled with low-height green plants, creating a rest area, although it has now been cordoned off.

Upon seeing the cordon, Shang Muchen remembered that Manager Liang seemed to have mentioned that Wang Ruolin had committed suicide by jumping off the building, falling to her death on this viewing platform.

Does she have some kind of injustice?

You died with your eyes wide open, is there anything you want to say?

Since moving into the haunted house and getting used to seeing Sa Sanqi and Wang Jianshe, Shang Muchen is no longer so afraid of ghosts.

He stepped across the cordon and walked deeper into the viewing platform, calling out as he went, "Joanna Wang—Joanna Wang! Is there something you want to tell me?"

After calling out a few times with no response, he turned his head and suddenly saw Joanna Wang standing next to the fire escape.

She remained unhurried, seemingly summoning Shang Muchen.

Shang Muchen waved to her and called out, "Wang Ruolin, wait a minute! Tell me what's wrong, I can help you..."

I took a few steps toward her, and then Joanna Wang disappeared again.

It was completely dark by then, but the observation deck was not dimly lit. The streetlights, the building's landscape lights, and the surrounding neon lights illuminated the area well enough to see the path beneath one's feet.

Upon reaching the fire escape, Shang Muchen immediately noticed a graffiti depicting a black cow, about one square meter in size, painted on the inner wall of the fire escape.

The graffiti on this cow is exactly the same as the style of several other animal graffiti I've seen before.

Shang Muchen sighed slightly, nodded, and muttered to himself, "Alright, it really is this one."

Why am I no longer surprised by this?

As he spoke, he took out his phone and took a picture.

Suddenly, someone shouted from behind, "Stop thief!"

Immediately afterwards, a jumble of footsteps sounded, and a group of people rushed over.

When Shang Muchen turned around, he saw seven or eight security guards rushing up from different angles.

"Hey! I'm not a thief! I'm Shang Muchen!"

"Damn it! We've got your pick!" one of the security guards, who seemed to be the leader, cursed as he ran. "Captain Wu said that once we catch Shang Muchen, we'll beat him up first, then take him to the police station!"

Seeing that he was about to suffer a loss and could no longer reason with her, Shang Muchen quickly ran away.

The fire escape was right in front of him, and Shang Muchen started climbing it.

He used all his strength to climb for a long time, and when he reached halfway up the mountain and saw no security guards chasing after him, he stopped and looked down.

The security chief, accompanied by seven or eight guards, carrying batons and T-shaped batons, calmly circled the fire escape, hands on hips, faces upturned, laughing and pointing at Shang Muchen.

"Why did you stop chasing them?" Shang Muchen asked weakly.

"Keep climbing! Keep climbing! Why did you stop?" the security chief shouted with a laugh.

"Fine, I'll crawl!"

Shang Muchen angrily continued climbing upwards. After climbing for a while, he was already quite high. A cold wind was blowing. Suddenly, Shang Muchen understood why the security guards had stopped chasing him.

The fire escape stairs stop at about the sixth floor.

The sixth floor is also a platform, but it is much smaller than the platform on the third floor. It is an engineering area for installing equipment such as outdoor air conditioning units.

Three or four security guards were already waiting on the sixth-floor platform, shining flashlights down. One of them jokingly shouted:

"Shang Muchen! What's up? Hurry up and climb! Hold on tight, don't fall, I'll keep an eye on you, haha."

Now things are really messed up. He's stuck in two directions, unable to go up or down. Shang Muchen is trapped in mid-air, completely at a loss.

The head of security below shouted, "Shang Muchen! Come down here. I promise you, I won't beat you up. I'll just hand you over to Captain Wu."

Whether he beats you up or not is his business, hahaha!

Shang Muchen was stuck at a height of about the fifth floor, with nowhere to go. His mind raced as he tried to come up with an idea, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't come up with anything while suspended in mid-air!

Perhaps out of nervousness, or perhaps out of fear, Shang Muchen suddenly thought of his brother.

My older brother, Shang Muming, once said that no matter when you ask him for help, he will always help you.

But how can I beg him now? He only appears in my dreams!

My brother also said that reality is also a dream, and as long as you use dream control methods to manipulate reality, reality can be modified at will.

What did he mean by that?

In the ouroboros's dream, he did indeed successfully control the dream by manipulating the scenes he imagined in his mind, but that was in the dream.

Is it possible to do this in real life?

Feeling utterly cornered and with nowhere to turn, yet unwilling to be captured by Wu Biao in such a cowardly manner, Shang Muchen gripped the fire ladder tightly with both hands, sweat dripping down his chin from nervousness.

Stay calm, you must stay calm.

An itch ran through his head, and an unnamed anger rose within him, yet Shang Muchen found himself unexpectedly calm because of it.

Shang Muchen began to try to create an illusion in his mind, in which he escaped the fire escape and wandered in the corridor.

My feet are no longer on the iron bars of the fire escape, but on solid ground...

Since there's nowhere to escape anyway, I might as well start fantasizing.

The itchy feeling in my brain became clearer and clearer, and an indescribable burning sensation rose from my tailbone, ascended along my spine, and slowly rose to my brain.

Suddenly, a feeling of exhilarating freedom exploded in my brain, like a popcorn machine that had been holding back for a long time suddenly bursting open with a bang, releasing countless colorful popcorn.

At that very moment, a large glass window next to the fire escape where Shang Muchen was suddenly flung open.

The window was large enough for Shang Muchen to crawl through.

Without a second thought, Shang Muchen didn't have time to wonder why the window was open. He stepped onto the windowsill, grabbed the window frame, and squeezed into the building.

The security guards upstairs and downstairs were dumbfounded. The head of security on the third-floor platform shouted, "Chase after them! What happened?! The roast duck that was almost in our mouths has flown away! Hurry up!"

Shang Muchen scrambled through the window, jumped off the windowsill, and found himself in an office area.

At the main entrance of the office area, Wang Ruolin was standing there, seemingly waiting for Shang Muchen.