Excessive ferocity due to caution

Zhao Yi recognized that broken sword.

The picture was sent to his phone by Meng Cunhua, the manager of the 2188 Building.

He wanted the knife in the heartless man's hand!

Zhao Yi carefully backed away and slowly walked up to the rooftop. The ghost baby, having calmed down, handed Zhao Yi the broken coffee cup it was holding after seeing him walk onto the rooftop.

"Waaaaah..."

The ghost baby tried to explain to Zhao Yi.

But Zhao Yi was clearly not listening.

He took the coffee cup from the other person. Although the surface was badly cracked, he could still vaguely make out a Winnie the Pooh pattern on the cup.

As Zhao Yi held the cup in his hand, he could clearly feel the heat emanating from the laptop on his body. Zhao Yi tried the hand position, and it perfectly matched the body of the coffee cup in his hand.

It seems that all those who died in the office building had been holding this coffee cup before they died.

Just like Zhao Yi now.

As he gripped the cup handle tightly, a gentle, feminine force flowed into Zhao Yi's body like water. Gradually, a lot of reddish-brown coffee appeared in the cup. Zhao Yi's eyes lost their luster and became increasingly vacant. He also brought the coffee cup to his lips.

At this moment, the candle that Zhao Yi had been tightly holding in his other hand began to flicker incessantly, its blue-purple light shining brightly. Zhao Yi's hand holding the coffee cup trembled wildly, and his confused eyes instantly cleared!

Looking at the coffee that was about to reach his lips, Zhao Yi seemed to be deep in thought and changed the way he held the cup.

"You are very cautious."

The woman's cold voice came to Zhao Yi's ear.

The cold wind made Zhao Yi shiver involuntarily, but his expression remained calm and composed.

"If I hadn't been careful, I wouldn't have made it this far."

"You're so resentful, were you an employee who died at the company before you died?"

A white figure slowly floated in front of Zhao Yi. Her mouth was covered in blood, and her originally delicate face was made extremely ferocious by the influence of resentment!

The pale, bloodless skin looked even more eerie under the cold moonlight, and the eyes, with only whites and no pupils, seemed to be able to steal one's soul.

The two looked at each other, the candle in Zhao Yi's hand flickering.

At this moment, the ghost baby stepped forward, tugged at the white-clad female ghost's skirt, and chattered and babbled as it communicated with her.

After a long time, the murderous aura emanating from the female ghost gradually weakened.

"I'll let you off the hook since you saved that little rascal."

She tried to crawl back into the coffee cup, but Zhao Yi grabbed the female ghost's hand and, under her cold gaze, said earnestly:

How can I escape from Building 2188?

Upon hearing Zhao Yi's words, the female ghost froze on the spot. She scrutinized Zhao Yi from head to toe, her tone laced with sarcasm:

"Is it too late to regret it now?"

"When you signed the contract and started working at Building 2188, you should have known that you wouldn't be leaving the company alive!"

"You should have been prepared long ago!"

Zhao Yi took out a pack of cigarettes, raised an eyebrow at the female ghost, and said:

"Would you mind if I had a cigarette?"

The female ghost shook her head stiffly.

Zhao Yi put the cigarette in his mouth, struck a match, took a deep drag, and laughed:

"You don't need to be so sarcastic."

"I'm the same as you... the same as everyone else."

"If you entered here prepared to lose your life and everything, how could you harbor such heavy resentment?"

The female ghost remained silent.

Zhao Yi pointed at the ghost infant and its mother, whose body had almost become a dried-up corpse, and said:

"She's also a member of the company, right... Judging from the extreme oppression and exploitation of lower-level employees by the company's upper management, they absolutely do not allow pregnant women to stay in the company, because a woman's pregnancy will affect her work. When recruiting employees, they will definitely screen the employees' health."

"So this woman was definitely not pregnant before she joined the company... but she gave birth here, which means she worked at the company for a long time, at least more than a year."

"For ordinary employees like us, the catering staff do not receive adequate time guarantees. After working for up to 16 hours a day, men simply do not have the energy or opportunity to date female employees, let alone have sex and get them pregnant."

"Therefore, it is not difficult to deduce that the man who got this poor woman pregnant was a high-ranking executive at 2188."

"Look... we're all just pitiful people being exploited by 2188."

Exhaling a smoke ring, Zhao Yi walked to the barbed wire fence next to the rooftop, looked up at the stars and moon at a 45-degree angle, his face seemingly covered with a layer of frost:

"Although I don't know you, judging from your motive for murder, you must have been working long hours and drinking coffee, eventually leading to mental exhaustion and sudden death. Before you died, you even drank chicken coop coffee from this Winnie the Pooh coffee cup I'm holding... Am I right?"

Zhao Yi's words completely baffled the white-skirted female ghost.

Holy crap...

You're the ghost, aren't you?!

"I……"

For a moment, she was speechless.

Because Zhao Yi's speculations... were all true.

The wind on the rooftop was cold. After a while, the white-dressed ghost slowly concealed the ferocity on her face and returned to the appearance of an ordinary girl.

She has a very ordinary face, nothing special.

As the night breeze blew gently, the female ghost floated to Zhao Yi's side, gazing at the brightly lit building in the distance, and said:

"They went to great lengths to transform that building into a beacon for the city, portraying this hell on earth as a paradise that working people dreamed of. People outside were desperate to get in, while those inside were racking their brains to leave..."

Zhao glanced at him and asked:

Why did you enter the 2188 Building?

The female ghost remained silent for a long time this time.

"My younger brother is getting married and he's asking for a dowry of 300,000 yuan."

"He has no money, and neither do his parents, so they told me to ask my boyfriend, Anan, for money."

"I know An Nan can't afford the money, and I don't want to torment him, so I broke up with him and came here alone to earn enough for my brother's dowry."

After a pause, the female ghost suddenly became sentimental:

"Isn't this absurd?"

Am I stupid?

"Am I...deserving of this?"

P.S.: There will be one more chapter tonight.