A bizarre and terrifying experience; I messed up the dungeon world.

There was a diary on the table.

He turned to the first page.

The handwriting was done with a ballpoint pen; the blue ink has faded to light gray.

"July 12th. Today, while working on the platform, we unearthed two sets of skeletal remains. The foreman told us to keep quiet and covered them with cement."

"July 15th. A friend said she recognized the two skeletons. They were the twin daughters of the Liu family, who had disappeared five years ago. The whole village thought they had run away to work elsewhere."

"July 18th. I went to ask the Liu family. Old Liu said his daughter was taken away by people from the village. He reported it to the police, but no one cared. He said that person was..."

Half of this page has been torn off.

"Damn it," Ma Tiezhu cursed, "The crucial information is gone."

Zhou Lang flipped through the next few pages, which were all blank, except for the last page which had a single line of text:

"I shouldn't have asked. The foreman warned me. He said that man is now a major shareholder in the cable car company."

This concludes my diary entry.

"The person who killed the twins is the major shareholder of the cable car company." Zhou Lang closed his diary. "The same person first killed two girls, and then indirectly caused the deaths of seventeen passengers."

"How utterly depraved this person must be..." Lin Xiaoxiao's voice came from behind, trembling with sobs.

"We need to find his name," Zhou Lang said. "The major shareholder of the cable car company will have business registration documents."

"Can I find it in this shopping mall?"

"The shopping mall was built above the cable car station, and the construction documents from back then should still be preserved." He looked up and said, "The property management office is probably on the third or fourth floor."

"There's something strange on the fourth floor," Han Yingying warned.

"They react slowly during the day."

Ma Tiezhu stretched his neck: "I'll go. I'm fast, and I can fight. I recognize things in the property management office; I worked in property management for a few years before."

"I'll go with you," Su Wan said.

Zhou Lang thought for a moment and said, "Okay. Han Yingying will come with me to the third floor to search. Lin Xiaoxiao and Chen Lei will stay on B1."

"I don't want to stay here!" Lin Xiaoxiao reacted strongly. "It's so scary down there, I want to stay with you—"

"B1 has not released any strange phenomena so far, so it is actually the safest," Zhou Lang said.

This statement is partly true and partly false. B1 is the twins' territory, but they haven't appeared yet. They're using passengers as a vanguard while they remain deeper inside. As long as you don't continue deeper into the tracks, there shouldn't be any immediate danger in the platform area.

Lin Xiaoxiao bit her lip and finally nodded.

Chen Lei didn't say anything, just stood there, his right hand back in his pocket.

The six people split into three groups to carry out the operation.

Ma Tiezhu and Su Wan went up to the fourth floor via the fire escape to find the property management office. Zhou Lang and Han Yingying went to the third floor. Lin Xiaoxiao and Chen Lei stayed on platform B1.

The hot pot restaurant area on the third floor remained unchanged; the string of dried chilies and garlic was still hanging on the door frame. Zhou Lang didn't go into the hot pot restaurant, but instead searched for other shops along the corridor.

A closed bookstore caught his attention.

The bookstore's roller shutter door was only half-closed, leaving a crack. He bent down and squeezed inside, with Han Yingying following behind.

The bookstore was a mess; bookshelves were overturned, and magazines and books were scattered on the floor. Zhou Lang rummaged through several bookshelves and found an old newspaper in a drawer behind the counter—a complete newspaper, not the fragments he had seen before.

Front Page Headline: [Sweetwaters Mountain Cable Car Accident: All 17 Passengers Killed; Investigation Underway]

The report contains many details. The cable car company is called "Ruian Tourism Development Co., Ltd.", and its legal representative is—

Zhou Lang's eyes were fixed on that name.

Wang Debiao.

"The villagers of Tianshuishan established Ruian Tourism Development Co., Ltd. in 2003 and obtained a cable car operation permit in the same year," the newspaper wrote.

Wang Debiao. A villager from Tianshuishan.

The diary says that the murderer of the twins was a villager who later became a major shareholder of the cable car company.

This is the person.

Zhou Lang folded the newspaper and put it away.

At that moment, a loud bang came from the fourth floor.

It wasn't the sound of a cable car; it was the sound of fighting.

"Ma Tiezhu!" Han Yingying's expression changed.

Zhou Lang rushed towards the fire escape stairs and climbed to the fourth floor in two quick steps.

At the end of the corridor, Ma Tiezhu was fighting a strange creature.

The passenger on the fourth floor—a middle-aged woman in a uniform—had woken up at some point, and unlike the previous semi-dormant passengers, she moved with lightning speed. Ma Tiezhu's martial arts skills were activated; his fists, glowing with white light, pounded into the female passenger's body, each punch sending her flying several steps back. But the woman would float back after being knocked away, unharmed.

Su Wan stood further away, holding a document in her hand. She had obtained the document while Ma Tiezhu was blocking the strange entity.

"Let's go!" Ma Tiezhu roared.

Su Wan ran towards the stairwell and handed the file to Zhou Lang as she passed him: "Found it."

Zhou Lang took the document and simultaneously pulled out some exorcism powder.

"Ma Tiezhu, get out of the way!"

Ma Tiezhu lunged sideways. Zhou Lang threw the exorcism powder at the female passenger—the powder exploded in the air, and the moment it came into contact with the eerie object, the female passenger let out a piercing scream, her body stiffened as if she had been electrocuted, and then she retreated rapidly.

three seconds.

The effect of the exorcising powder lasts only three seconds.

Three seconds is enough.

The four people rushed into the fire escape staircase and ran all the way to the third floor. The female passenger did not chase after them—its activity range was indeed limited to the fourth floor.

Ma Tiezhu leaned against the wall, panting. His shirt was torn in a large hole, and there were three bloody marks on his chest.

"This piece of junk is indestructible!" he cursed. "I could shatter a concrete slab with one punch, but hitting it is like a tickle!"

"Class A anomalies cannot be dealt with by force," Zhou Lang said. "Physical attacks are very ineffective against them."

"Then what's the use of this skill of mine?"

"You took the damage and bought time. You did a great job."

Ma Tiezhu paused for a moment, then stopped complaining.

Zhou Lang opened the documents Su Wan had brought back—the property management company's mall construction files, which included a foundation construction drawing and an equity structure table.

The equity structure table clearly states: Ruian Tourism Development Co., Ltd., with Wang Debiao as the major shareholder, holding 78% of the shares.

The construction drawings indicate the location for foundation pouring. One area is circled in red, with a note next to it that reads "Foreign object found, has been dealt with."

foreign body.

It's the remains of twins.

"The foreign object has been dealt with—they sealed the remains with cement," Zhou Lang said.

Han Yingying looked at the red circle on the blueprint: "This position corresponds to... the third pillar inside the tracks of platform B1?"

Zhou Lang calculated the scale: "About right."

They have to go back to B1.

The four people walked down. As they passed the second floor, they heard the sound of a cable car moving from the east side of the corridor, but it was far away. The passengers on the first floor remained stationary in front of the clothing store.

When Zhou Lang returned to platform B1, he knew immediately that something had happened.

Lin Xiaoxiao sat quietly on the waiting bench.

Chen Lei has disappeared.

"Where's Chen Lei?" Zhou Lang asked.