Excessive ferocity due to caution

Through the cold, rusty iron gate, Fang Jie stared at the mangled corpse before him, his legs going weak.

Working inside Building 2188, he had seen dead people before, but this time was different…

The deceased was Meng Cunhua, a top executive of the company.

He is the company's second-in-command.

Besides being the boss, Meng Cunhua wielded the most power, and he could interfere in almost every matter, big or small, within the company.

Just now on the rooftop, Meng Cunhua was able to resist the ghost's attack by using his personal belongings. Even after the ghost infant evolved with its resentment, it could not harm him in the slightest!

But now...

But he saw Meng Cunhua, who had been so arrogant and domineering just moments before, being hacked to death by a heartless man with a rusty broken knife in front of the cold iron gate!

At this moment, Fang Jie had already forgotten the story he had prepared before coming, and what benefits he wanted from Meng Cunhua...

He stared at Zhao Yi, who was crouching on the ground picking up the diary from the pool of blood, and said in a trembling voice:

"You did this on purpose?"

Zhao Yi glanced at him and smiled.

"Don't get your hands dirty."

"Company rules state that you can't have blood on your clothes... Otherwise, why would Meng Cunhua have brought you to the rooftop?"

"Don't you want to think about this problem?"

Fang Jie's eyelids twitched violently:

"Didn't you choose the time and place?"

Zhao Yi took out a clean, folded piece of toilet paper from his pocket and carefully and slowly wiped the blood off the diary.

"Did Meng Cunhua tell you?"

"You...believe him?"

His soul-searching question left Fang Jie speechless.

Yes.

Meng Cunhua wanted to kill him.

Since last night, Meng Cunhua has been lying to him, not a single word of truth has come out. That's why he recorded everything that happened that night on his phone before he came over.

He didn't believe Meng Cunhua at all.

"But you did scheme against him."

Fang Jie wasn't stupid; Meng Cunhua's death was clearly Zhao Yi's deliberate act.

From the moment they met, Fang Jie saw Zhao Yi checking the time, and Zhao Yi checked it again after they came up to the rooftop.

Facing Fang Jie's wary gaze, Zhao Yi countered with a question:

"You don't really think your little secret can feed him for life, do you?"

He stood up, walked up to Fang Jie, and stared intently into his eyes.

"Within the rules of the game, there is only one way for you to threaten Meng Cunhua... and it doesn't even endanger his life. It's just a minor mistake like changing an employee's job, which is probably not a capital offense for someone in his position."

"Conversely, he has at least a hundred ways to threaten or even kill you!"

"All the company rules are his weapons."

"What are you going to use to compete with him?"

Fang Jie opened his mouth, but couldn't refute Zhao Yi. However, he quickly remembered something else and said worriedly:

"Meng Cunhua is the manager of the 2188 Building. His disappearance for too long will inevitably attract the attention of the security personnel. Although you did not kill him directly, we also left our posts when he disappeared, which may bring endless trouble..."

Zhao Yi handed him the diary, and Fang Jie took it with a bewildered look, not understanding why.

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Yi tapped the surface of the diary with his finger and said:

"Take the diary to the supervisory department, hand it to them, and say that it contains evidence of Meng Cunhua violating company regulations."

"The supervisory department will investigate soon. If they can't find Meng Cunhua, they will conclude that he fled to avoid punishment..."

Fang Jie's eyes lit up!

"Great plan!"

"Not only did they shift the focus of their investigation, but they also excluded us from the list of suspects!"

"After all, we're the whistleblowers!"

Zhao Yi said casually:

"yes……"

"When it's time, go hand in your diary. I'm going back to work... otherwise I won't be able to sleep tonight."

Fang Jie had previously helped Zhao Yi with his work, and he knew that Zhao Yi worked 16 hours a day.

If it dragged on for too long, it would not only attract the attention of the monitoring department, but also shorten his own rest time, so Fang Jie did not think much about it.

Three hours later, he hurriedly left the scrap collection building with his diary.

After he left, Zhao lit a cigarette and used a candle to heat the black smoke on his hands, making the things that were eager to try to escape shrink back.

The white-clad female ghost appeared beside Zhao Yi at some unknown time, and said in a chilling voice:

"He took the diary to the supervisory department, and in order to gain more credit for the company, he probably won't reveal your name."

As a former employee of the 2188 Building, she knew all too well that many workers there would stop at nothing to climb the ladder of power!

Meng Cunhua is one of the most representative members of this group.

Zhao Yi calmly said:

"Fang Jie will definitely take all the credit for himself."

"But it doesn't matter... I'm leaving here anyway."

The white-skirted female ghost asked in surprise:

"You obtained their deadly artifacts?"

Zhao nodded.

They took the ghost infant, who had barely regained some of its strength, to the room on the 5th floor.

Zhao Yi handed the two dead items to the black cat and the black-haired mouse. Suddenly, a large cloud of black mist condensed on the two items and poured into the bodies of the black cat and the black-haired mouse. Then, their fur became more and more shiny and their aura became much more terrifying!

"Gentlemen, I have completed my mission. It is now your turn to fulfill your promise."

Zhao Yi sat on the sofa with his legs crossed.

The black cat and the black-haired mouse exchanged a glance and said:

"We've been trapped here for many years."

"Instead of continuing to drift aimlessly in this dark and hopeless place, cooperating with you and taking a gamble might be a good choice."

"Let's talk about how to get into the archives department first... Let's be frank, even a decade or two ago, it would have been a pipe dream for us to just walk right in and take the files!"

"Back then, we were able to retrieve our files from the archives thanks to a secret passage left behind by a certain senior colleague."

Zhao Yi raised an eyebrow upon hearing this:

"Has anyone ever escaped from the 2188 Building before?"

When the old senior was mentioned, the black cat and the black-haired mouse showed great respect.

"Yes."

"He successfully escaped the 2188 Tower purely through his own planning, spending eleven years in the process!"

"It was only after we accidentally discovered the notes he left for those who came after him that we truly learned the secret of this building..."

"We got scared... so we started thinking of ways to escape the building!"

"If it weren't for that damned informant, Meng Cunhua, we would have escaped the building by now!!"

At this point, both the cat and the mouse became angry.

The black-haired rat slammed its paw hard on the ground, leaving a small paw print on a damp piece of cardboard with a soft smack.

Zhao Yi stared at the claw marks on the cardboard and asked:

"So... what exactly is going on with the 2188 Building?"

The black-haired rat said in a deep voice:

"The 2188 Tower, from... well, that was decades ago, I forgot."

Zhao Yi: "..."

"Let me explain; I remember some of it."

The black cat jumped onto a wooden cabinet, lay down there, and groomed its crotch.

"The 2188 Tower is the embodiment of a curse from some being."

"Its main body is on the thirteenth floor."

PS: Second update, 2200 words/