Chapter 1 Li Ang's Investigation

Li Ang coldly scrutinized the female corpse kneeling before him, ignoring the thick, pungent stench. He said calmly, "Around 1:00 PM on June 17th, Bao Fangtian, a 51-year-old woman, came to the Zushi Tianxia Building."

"Bao Fangtian suffered from a mild mental illness, and she came to Zushi Tianxia Building to seek treatment at a sanatorium called 'New Rising Rehabilitation Home' on the fifth floor of Building Two."

"In order to facilitate customer access, the businesses in Building Two specially built a dedicated elevator on the right side of the building, which only goes up to the seventh floor and below."

"Bao Fangtian, who had been to Zushi Tianxia Building several times before, entered the dedicated elevator. Although the sanatorium she was going to was on the fifth floor, she inexplicably pressed the button for the sixth floor."

"When the elevator doors opened, what appeared before her was not the corridor leading to the rehabilitation center, but a closed iron gate. It turned out that the occupant of the sixth floor had installed this iron gate outside the elevator specifically for theft prevention."

"Bao Fangtian, unaware of this, subconsciously thought that this was a newly installed iron gate for the rehabilitation center, so she stepped forward to see if the gate could be opened. She also knocked on the iron gate, trying to call the staff of the rehabilitation center."

"Just as she stepped forward to examine the gate, the elevator doors behind her automatically closed. Panicked, Bao Fangtian tried to stop the elevator doors from closing, but because of her stout figure and slow reaction, the elevator doors completely closed before she could turn around."

"Just like that, she was stuck in the gap between the iron gate and the elevator doors."

"The gap was extremely narrow, and the short, fat Bao Fangtian was squeezed between the crevices, unable to move, unable to squat, unable to sit, only able to stand, pressed tightly against the two steel doors."

"She cried out for help, but the sixth floor was uninhabited all year round, and the floors above and below were separated by thick cement slabs, so no one could hear her cries."

"Desperate, Bao Fangtian tried to reach through the iron gate to press the elevator button outside, but due to the narrow gaps in the iron gate and Bao Fangtian's short, thick arms, she couldn't reach the button no matter how hard she tried."

"The only chance for the dedicated elevator to pass the sixth floor was if someone took the elevator to the beauty salon called 'Xiang Yuan Beauty' on the seventh floor. However, Xiang Yuan Beauty was in poor business condition with few customers. Even if the beauty salon staff occasionally passed by, they would automatically ignore the knocking sounds coming from outside the old elevator."

"To make matters worse, the occupant of the sixth floor had also sealed off the fire escape通道 on the sixth floor to prevent vagrants from sneaking in. As a result, no one would come to this 'non-existent floor'."

"Soon, Bao Fangtian's family, realizing that she was missing, rushed to the Rehabilitation Home at Zushi Tianxia Building to inquire, only to learn that Bao Fangtian had not been to the Rehabilitation Home for treatment that day at all."

"There were no surveillance cameras in the entire building, and the sanatorium had no reason to lie. After a brief investigation, Bao Fangtian's family subconsciously thought that the old woman had suffered a sudden mental illness that day, didn't go to the sanatorium, and instead wandered off into the streets and got lost."

"The anxious family hurriedly printed missing person notices and went to look for her all over the streets, unaware that Bao Fangtian was trapped upstairs from the Rehabilitation Home."

"One day, two days, not eating, not drinking, and not noticing the passage of time, Bao Fangtian fell into despair, and finally died on the fifth day from organ failure caused by dehydration."

"The matter did not end there. Several days after Bao Fangtian's death, another person stepped into the elevator."

"That was Old Man Chen, whom I saw in the hospital before."

"Old Man Chen came to Zushi Tianxia Building to visit his daughter, but he may have remembered the address incorrectly and didn't go to the correct Building One, but instead came to Building Two."

"Even more coincidentally, Old Man Chen, who should have gone to the seventh floor, mistakenly pressed the button for the sixth floor."

"About to see his daughter and full of anticipation, Old Man Chen could never have imagined that when the elevator doors opened, what would meet his eyes would be a standing female corpse that had turned completely black."

"The elevator doors had already opened, and Bao Fangtian's corpse, having lost its support, automatically knelt forward, staring fixedly at Old Man Chen in the elevator with its terrifying, empty eyes."

"Suddenly encountering such a fright, Old Man Chen, as an ordinary person, almost lost his mind."

"His legs trembling, he cowered in the corner of the elevator, not daring to move at all."

"The elevator doors were about to close, but they were blocked by Bao Fangtian's corpse kneeling on the ground. Click, click, click, the elevator doors closed mechanically again and again, unable to close."

"One person and one corpse faced off at the elevator entrance on the sixth floor for a long time. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Old Man Chen endured his fear and picked up Bao Fangtian's corpse, stuffed it back into the gap in the iron gate, and returned to the elevator, pressing the down button."

"The elevator doors finally closed. Seized by panic, Old Man Chen, distraught, no longer bothered to visit his daughter. He fled Zushi Tianxia Building in a panic, without even informing the staff of Zushi Tianxia Building that a female corpse was trapped on the sixth floor."

"Old Man Chen, relying on his remaining sanity, returned home and lost his mind, unable to lift his hands or speak."

"He was not possessed by a ghost. The residual spiritual energy reaction on his body was only the emotion of unwillingness and fear left in the sixth-floor elevator room before Bao Fangtian's spiritual body dissipated."

"Perhaps before the doctor can come up with a solution, the relevant departments of the Republic will first find Old Man Chen and cure his dementia caused by residual spiritual energy."

Truth Investigation Progress 100%

Regular Task "Between the Cracks" Completed

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"Hoo..."

Li Ang exhaled a breath of stale air and walked straight out of the elevator, which had descended to the first floor, leaving that tragedy behind him.

After a long time, the first unfortunate person to open the elevator doors saw the black female corpse lying horizontally in the elevator room and let out an ear-splitting scream that pierced the silence of Zushi Tianxia Building.

Li Ang, arriving on the street, disappeared into the crowd, walking forward with the bustling renliu until he reached the street corner south of the Dongda Anorectal Hospital in Yin City.

He wasn't lying to Wang Congshan. He really wanted to eat a bowl of sour and spicy fatty intestine noodles from the fatty intestine restaurant next to the anorectal hospital.

In a face-sized bowl, sweet potato noodles were crystal clear, rapeseed oil and red peppers shone brightly, bits of pickled mustard tuber floated on top of the red oil, and the fatty intestines in the center were piled extremely high.

While chewing on the fatty intestines, Li Ang looked at the bustling streets with heavy traffic and endless pedestrians, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

First of all, the tasks issued by the system are not necessarily combat-type, and may simply be reasoning and decryption. Subsequent tasks may also appear that contain both decryption and combat elements.

Secondly, having a spiritual energy reaction does not mean that a spirit will appear. Some spirits may also dissipate on their own over time.

Finally, if non-normal death events have a chance of triggering tasks,

then the potential number of tasks in Yin City, an international metropolis with a total population of over 20 million, is beyond my imagination.

Li Ang drank the sour and spicy soup in one gulp and opened the task reward in his mind.

Name: Bian Lian Mask (Face-Changing Mask)

Type: Armor

Quality: Ordinary

Defense: Weak

Effect 1: When worn, a random mask pattern will be engraved.

Effect 2: When worn, the wearer can choose to enhance or weaken their presence in the eyes of others.

Equipment Condition 1: The wearer possesses a physiologically anatomical face

Equipment Condition 2: Intelligence attribute greater than or equal to 5, Perception attribute greater than or equal to 6

Note: Fang Xiangshi (Demon Expeller) wore a bear skin, had golden four eyes, a dark upper garment and a lower skirt, held a ge and a yang shield, commanded a hundred subordinates to perform the seasonal Nuo exorcism, in order to search the house and drive away the plague.