Excessive ferocity due to caution

They arrived at the outside of a small, locked room on the fifth floor.

There was a lot of garbage piled up at the entrance, mostly discarded tables and chairs from the office building. The ghosts inside had blocked the entrance with these things so that Qu Yousi, who patrolled the junk collection building, couldn't find them.

With a wave of her hand, the white-dressed ghost separated the trash.

Zhao Yi stepped forward and knocked on the door.

Ka—

The door opened by itself.

"Liang Jingyi, I can smell you and that little rascal from afar... Hmm, you've brought a new friend?"

An aged voice came from behind the door, and Zhao Yi entered the room carrying a candle.

In the filthy room, besides piles of completely rotting, foul-smelling corpses, there were two creatures with glowing green eyes lurking in the corner...

Zhao Yi touched the chandelier in the room.

Snapped!

The light flickered a few times before finally turning on, but the lighting effect was very poor and unstable.

As the lights came on, Zhao Yi finally saw clearly the guy with green eyes!

A black cat and a black-haired mouse.

Their eyes all glowed green, and they looked at Zhao Yi with a mixture of wariness and curiosity.

"How interesting..."

"stranger……"

Zhao Yi tidied up the dusty sofa, plopped down, and said:

"As far as I know, although there aren't many strangers in this building, a few people always come in every now and then."

"The corpses on the ground and the fresh, mangled limbs in the corridor outside are proof of this."

Why are you all so surprised to see me?

The black cat strolled gracefully in the room, then suddenly transformed into a streak of light and darted in front of Zhao Yi, its sharp claws reaching for Zhao Yi's neck!

It coldly said to Zhao Yi:

"Outsider, you should get your attitude straight. Here, we only need one thought for you to die!"

Zhao Yi smiled slightly:

"Yes."

"Your claws are sharp enough to easily cut through my flesh and break my bones, but can your claws shatter the rules of the 2188 Building? Can your claws break the shackles that the 2188 Building has placed on your souls?"

The black cat's green-glowing eyes hesitated for a moment.

Despite being the stronger party, its aura was completely suppressed by Zhao Yi at this moment!

After a moment of silence, the black cat retracted its claws.

"Why did you come here?"

Zhao Yi picked up a cat hair from his body, examined it, and raised an eyebrow, saying:

"You haven't been eating well lately; you're even shedding fur."

Wow!

The black cat bared its teeth at Zhao Yi, who quickly raised his hand and laughed:

"Okay, okay... just kidding."

"To be frank, you two used to work in the archives, and I'd like to ask you how to access the files there?"

As soon as Zhao finished speaking, the black-haired rat squeaked twice and couldn't help but mock:

"Someone actually tried to steal files from the archives... Hahaha!"

As it spoke, it burst into laughter, and after laughing for a long time, it said to Zhao Yi:

"Why don't you guess how the black cat and I died?"

chap——

Zhao Yi elegantly struck a match and lit a cigarette.

"You guys also want to escape from 2188 Company?"

The black cat sharpened its claws on a corpse:

"Even we who work in the archives can't take the files out of there, so what makes you think you can?"

Zhao Yi used the rotting head of the corpse in front of him as an ashtray, lit some ash, and said:

"Because the steward will help me."

"By the way...you should know him. His name is Meng Cunhua. He used to work in the archives department, and now he's the supervisor."

Upon hearing that Meng Cunhua had become the supervisor, the black cat and the black mouse angrily rushed to Zhao Yi, staring intently at him with their eerie green eyes.

"What did you say?!"

"Say it again?"

Zhao Yi calmly said:

"Meng Cunhua was appointed as the supervisor."

With a terrifying meow, the black cat leaped in front of a corpse and frantically tore it apart with its sharp claws!

Rats were scurrying around the room, their murderous intent palpable!

"This... damn guy..."

"Kill! Kill!!"

Seeing their chaotic scene, Zhao Yi laughed:

"It seems that Meng Cunhua's promotion was not without reason."

The black cat roared angrily:

"The three of us made a pact to escape from Building 2188 together, but he betrayed our agreement and chose to betray us!"

"That... damn bastard!!"

They were cursing wildly in the room, while Zhao Yi stared at the rotting human head in front of him, deep in thought.

After a long while, he looked at the frantic cat and mouse and said:

"If you help me get in there, I can find your files and take them out with me."

The cat and mouse stopped yelling and turned to look at Zhao Yi:

Are you sure?

"Young man, let me tell you the truth: you can only take one file out of the archives at a time!"

Zhao held a cigarette between his fingers, the red embers of the cigarette sparkling brightly in the white smoke. He said earnestly:

"Bring out your files first, and mine last... This is my way of showing sincerity."

Perhaps moved by Zhao Yi's clear, straightforward, and calm gaze, the cat and mouse returned to the corner they had been in.

"We can help you get to the archives..."

"But you need to find our dead items first."

Zhao Yi raised the coffee cup in his hand:

"Something like this?"

The black cat nodded:

"right."

"I died of asthma, and the item that led to my death was an empty spray bottle. The rat died of a heart attack, and the item that led to its death was the cell phone it had used before it died."

"These things aren't at the junkyard, but in the archives building's storage room. You need to go there and retrieve these two dead items before we can help you!"

"But it's very difficult for ordinary staff to get close to the archives building... Come back to us after you get these two items!"

Zhao nodded and threw the cigarette butt into the back of the man's head, which had been ripped open.

"OK."

"See you later."

Without further ado, he got up and walked towards the door. As he passed the white-skirted female ghost, he thanked her, then turned to the ghost baby and said:

"Give me some time, just a few days... I'll let you see Meng Cunhua."

The ghost baby nodded, its face full of murderous intent, baring its teeth and wailing loudly.

After leaving the scrap metal collection building, Zhao Yi strolled under the cold moonlight, stepped on some overgrown weeds, and took out his phone to call Meng Cunhua.

Soon, Meng Cunhua's voice came:

"Is this Xiao Zhao?"

"How's it going? Did you get the knife?"

Zhao Yi said with a hint of provocation:

"Steward, we haven't received the knife yet... but I've discovered something strange."

Meng Cunhua's voice rose slightly:

"What strange thing?"

Zhao Yi:

"A diary, written by a woman."

"Your name seems to be on it..."

PS: Second update.

Two updates today.

It's almost August.

An extra chapter will be added next month.