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The two men kicked open each door they passed and searched for surviving residents.

However, after searching all four rooms, they found no one and heard no cries for help, suggesting that the residents on the 16th floor had already left their homes.

This is clearly wrong.

There are 45 people in total across these floors, but only 32 have been found so far, leaving 13 people short.

Not to mention the missing police officer, bringing the total number of missing persons to 14.

But they neither left the 16th floor nor were they at home. Did they just vanish into thin air?

With these questions in mind, Du Wang, under Liu Qiang's gaze, kicked open the last door of the short corridor.

"Bang!"

"Who is it!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the door was kicked open, a woman's questioning voice suddenly came from inside.

Then a female police officer in uniform appeared in their field of vision, holding an extendable baton with a serious expression.

Seeing this, Liu Qiang took out his identification and showed it to the other party: "We are here to provide support. You are Chu Wen, right?"

"right."

Chu Wen took a closer look. Although she didn't recognize the person, the identification was genuine, and the person's position was several levels higher than hers.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great, sir, there's a wounded soldier here who needs help."

As she spoke, she led the two into the living room.

A woman wrapped in a bathrobe was seen leaning against the sofa, her face streaked with tears, trembling as she held a pair of scissors.

Compared to her mature appearance, she was exceptionally thin, with her legs, as thick as her arms, exposed from under her bathrobe.

But what caught Du Wang's attention the most were the marks on her neck and her short, unevenly cut hair.

"What attacked you?" he asked.

Upon hearing this, the woman clutched her head in terror, crying out, "It's a ghost! There's a ghost in the house!"

Chu Wen shook her head and explained, "When I came here just now, I found her lying in the bathroom with a clump of hair wrapped around her neck, having difficulty breathing. It was probably an accident caused by postural hypotension leading to unconsciousness."

"No!" the woman in the bathrobe shook her head vehemently, protesting, "It wasn't an accident, it really was a ghost!"

Liu Qiang pulled out his pistol and slammed it in front of the woman: "Alright, calm down, tell me carefully what you saw."

Perhaps shaken by the Equalizer of All Beings, the woman in the bathrobe trembled slightly, her emotions calming down a bit as she recalled:

"I was taking a shower in the bathroom at first."

Then I found strands of hair on the ground, the same color as mine.

"I thought it was because of work stress lately that I lost a lot of hair, so I didn't pay attention to it."

"But the more I wash my hair, the more hair I get. Even though I haven't washed my hair, it's piled up into a small mountain."

At this point, the woman swallowed hard and said in horror, "So I tried to find out where the hair came from."

"It turned out... the hair was spreading from the sewer, and it was moving!"

"It must be a ghost!"

The woman looked up, crying and pleading, "It must be a ghost! Please let me go, take me out of here!"

She clung to Liu Qiang's arm, pleading with a sob in her voice.

"Don't panic."

Liu Qiang forcefully pressed down on the woman's body and snatched the scissors from her hand.

Du Wang carefully observed the woman from the side, but he didn't see anything strange about her, nor did he see any black mist.

He asked Chu Wen, "How did you manage to pull her out of her hair?"

She explained, "I cut my hair with scissors. As for her saying her hair was moving, I didn't see it."

Liu Qiang and Du Wang exchanged a glance and gave each other a meaningful look.

Du Wang turned around and went to the bathroom to check the shower room.

There was no trace of hair left, but the lingering black mist in the sewers confirmed that the woman was right.

The entire 16th floor's drainage system seemed to have become a hiding place for ghostly parasites.

This is a bit tricky.

They can't possibly lift up every single drainpipe.

Back in the living room, Liu Qiang was reassuring the other party: "Listen, you all stay here for now. We'll leave together once we've found the other residents."

"No, I don't want to! I want to leave!" Unable to bear the psychological pressure, the woman in the bathrobe ran wildly out the door.

No one stopped her.

She sprinted to the first floor, exhausted, and ran out of the Youth Commune, where she saw the long-awaited sun and the crowd of onlookers.

"Alright, you're fine now." The police officer quickly stepped forward and gently helped her into the car.

Lying in the back seat of the police car, she felt a great sense of security.

The woman's fear finally subsided, and she leaned back lazily against the seat, her long hair draped over her shoulders, and closed her eyes.

……

"She's asleep?" Chu Wen stared incredulously at the woman lying in Du Wang's arms.

She watched as the woman's expression changed from panic to calm, and from calm to peaceful sleep.

"Are you a hypnotist?"

Du Wang said, "Just a little trick."

Liu Qiang walked over and instructed, "Chu Wen, carry her near the door and wait. No matter what happens, don't move, understand?"

"clear."

Although I don't understand why they didn't just take everyone away from the building, but...

Judging from the vague evacuation order from the beginning, the inexplicable increase in hair in the bathroom, and the seemingly miraculous hypnotic techniques...

All of this seems to indicate that this mission is no ordinary one.

Chu Wen's lips were dry, and she couldn't help but recall the various supernatural legends circulating in the police station recently.

I heard that the authorities have secretly established a mysterious organization specifically to handle these kinds of matters.

Did I run into him?

After settling Chu Wen in, Du Wang and Liu Qiang crossed the corner and entered the corridor.

"Your eyes have been repaired, haven't they?" Liu Qiang asked in a low voice.

"I've kept it." Du Wang nodded.

"That's good. Keep a close eye on them." Liu Qiang took a deep breath. "We don't have enough information about ghosts and monsters yet, so we can't rule out the possibility that they've been parasitized."

Yes.

The mythological prophecy clearly stated: "The Yin and Yang are in pairs, the divination is ominous, beware of others."

Although I still don't understand what "Yin Sha Shuang Sheng" means, I'm careful of others.

This means that the parasites of ghosts must be related to humans.

Liu Qiang said, "The 16th floor is definitely the core of the Ghost Realm. Its control over this floor far exceeds that of the 14th and 15th floors."

"I suspect it's parasitic on some woman's hair, so we can't let them go to the 15th floor to look for Jiu Er."

Du Wang nodded: "That's what I think too, but it clearly spread into all the rooms through the sewers, so why didn't it kill anyone?"

Liu Qiang said, "Perhaps there are some restrictions, or perhaps there wasn't enough time. In any case, we need to be careful."

Although he is usually carefree and short-tempered, he becomes exceptionally serious and calm when it comes to carrying out a mission.

The two continued kicking down the door to rescue the suspects, deliberately making noise, while simultaneously playing police alerts on their phones on a loop.

However, there was no reaction from the other rooms, as if everyone was living in a dark forest and no one dared to speak first.

"That's strange."

Liu Qiang was full of doubt; it was the first time he had ever encountered such a quiet ghost.

Du Wang, however, finally made a discovery.

He stared at the door at the far end of the long corridor and said, "I know where the residents are hiding."