Chapter 14 Unsettling Discovery

The one who did all this didn't seem to be in a hurry. Even the buttons and shoelaces were meticulously fastened, neatly and tidily.

Just the thought of such a scene unfolding was enough to give anyone nightmares.

"How could this happen?" Yuan Xiaotian exclaimed in disbelief. "We were only gone for a short while, and Teacher Zigui, she… she only disappeared for a short time! It doesn't make sense time-wise!"

Lowering his head and staring at the corpse, Jiang Cheng fully understood Yuan Xiaotian's feelings.

It really didn't make sense.

At most, Teacher Zigui had been missing for no more than half an hour. Within that half hour, to abduct someone, and at the same time complete a series of cremation and dressing, was almost impossible.

Another strange thing was that although Teacher Zigui's corpse was charred beyond recognition, the body temperature wasn't high. It was even a bit damp, as if it had been lying there for some time.

At least for a few hours.

Jiang Cheng surveyed the surroundings, and a guess slowly surfaced in his mind.

It was obvious that the corpse lying in front of them now was the missing Teacher Zigui, but the one who ate with them was not. It was a ghost disguised as her.

In other words, Teacher Zigui encountered a ghost shortly after entering this world, and was then killed, her body dumped here. The ghost that killed her then disguised itself as her and infiltrated the group.

But after realizing that Lin Wan'er had seen through it, the ghost left silently.

Following this line of thought, it made sense.

"Mr. Jiang, what are you thinking about?"

Xia Qiang's voice suddenly rang out, interrupting Jiang Cheng's thoughts. Jiang Cheng turned his head to look at him and realized that everyone was staring at him. The gazes gave him a bad feeling. "I don't understand why Teacher Zigui would become like this," Jiang Cheng frowned slightly and said vaguely.

It wasn't that he didn't want to tell everyone the truth, but Jiang Cheng suspected that there was more than one ghost hiding among them, even… that the ghost was now by his side.

Su An was very nervous at the moment, tightly grabbing his sister Su Xiao's arm, his eyes darting around. "Mr. Jiang, let's leave quickly. This place makes him very uneasy." Su Xiao gestured for Jiang Cheng to look at Su An's condition.

Glancing at his phone, there was little time left. The group turned to leave.

Before leaving, Xia Qiang found a good angle and took a few photos of the corpse with his phone. At the same time, as if seeking peace of mind, he closed the heavy wooden door after walking out.

Bai Xi didn't seem to have recovered from the initial shock. He lowered his head and sobbed softly, his body trembling non-stop, like a soulless walking corpse.

Fatty came to his side to comfort him. The two walked at the back of the group.

This time, Jiang Cheng walked at the front, planning to lead the way and leave quickly. But before he could take a few steps, Su Xiao and Su An caught up. Su An's expression was indescribably panicked.

"Is he alright?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Su Xiao's face was also full of strangeness. "I don't know why, but my brother, after leaving that room… seems even more scared."

"I asked him what was wrong, but he wouldn't say," Su Xiao frowned, her eyes full of worry as she looked at Su An.

Su An was tall, but at the moment he was hunched over, clinging to Su Xiao's side. Jiang Cheng keenly noticed that, taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Su An would occasionally glance back, as if there was something he feared behind him.

Looking back, there was only endless darkness besides them.

Could it be… that something was hiding in the darkness, following them?

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng didn't dare to hesitate and immediately quickened his pace.

"Doctor," Fatty pulled Bai Xi over, his tone somewhat urgent, "we might not be able to get out within the agreed time. Should we send a message to Boss Lin first, so they don't worry?"

Fatty's suggestion was appropriate, but after thinking about it, Jiang Cheng still gave up. "Not for now, let's speed up."

Jiang Cheng casually comforted Bai Xi, but as soon as he turned around, he found that Su Xiao and Su An, who were originally behind him, were gone. He was shocked and immediately searched, using the light of the torches to find the two at the very back of the group.

At this moment, Su An still looked terrified, but now his eyes were no longer looking at the darkness behind them, but staring fixedly at someone beside him.

Jiang Cheng's heart skipped a beat.

He suddenly understood something. The thing Su An feared wasn't in that room, nor was it in the darkness following them, but… it was right beside them!

Bai Xi!

He was also a ghost!

Just now, Bai Xi and Fatty were in the back, and Su An pulled Su Xiao to the front of the group. Now that Bai Xi had come over, Su An was afraid and hid at the back of the group again.

That explained it.

"Mr. Jiang, your face looks terrible," Bai Xi's words reminded Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng used a slightly sad look to look at Bai Xi, sighed, and said, "The people who came this time are all my friends, and this mission is also aimed at me. Teacher Zigui is gone, and I don't know how many people will survive until the end of the mission." Jiang Cheng's expression was very genuine, looking very remorseful.

Bai Xi's eyes also turned red when he heard this. "Teacher Zigui was very good to us. After the last mission, we went through two more missions. In these two missions, if it weren't for Teacher Zigui protecting us, Lu Yu and I would definitely… definitely not be alive now."

Jiang Cheng was now sure that there was definitely something wrong with this Bai Xi.

No, not only Bai Xi, but even Lu Yu outside was very suspicious.

It wasn't that Jiang Cheng looked down on these three people, but in the many missions he had experienced, these three were among the weakest in terms of ability and experience.

For such three people to team up in a dungeon, especially a dungeon on a bus, it would be a miracle to clear it once without any casualties. Twice? Dream on.

Jiang Cheng now even suspected that Teacher Zigui's corpse was fake. These three people were all ghosts in disguise.

Continuing to think along these lines, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but feel a chill run down his back. Apart from Lin Wan'er and the others whom he had seen recently, Xia Qiang and the Lin siblings were also unreliable.

But now that Jiang Cheng was underground, he didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble. After going out, he would indirectly ask Xia Qiang and his group what they had experienced during this time, and perhaps he could find loopholes in their stories.

But if that were the case, the number of ghosts hiding among them far exceeded his expectations. Jiang Cheng even suspected that the number of ghosts was comparable to the number of people.

He just didn't know if there were any ghosts infiltrating Lin Wan'er's group. If that were the case, it would be terrible.

Su Xiao also seemed to see that the problem lay with Bai Xi. She and Su An hung at the back of the group, and when Xia Qiang spoke to her, she was perfunctory.

It was in this tense atmosphere that Jiang Cheng led a group of people and ghosts, each with their own ulterior motives, and found the stairs leading upwards.