[Task Coordinates: Jianye Building Basent Level One, Room 004 Storage.]
[Task Na: Peeking From the Crack in the Wall;
Task Level: Anxiety-Inducing (High);
Task Background: His fate was tragic, wife gone, children lost. His na beca synonymous with loneliness, destined to go unnoticed by all throughout his life. Most unfortunate of all, he was forgotten in a corner following an accidental incident. Yes, he’s still there, hidden in the deepest recesses of the building.
Task Description: Let him rest in peace forever;
Task Reward: 300 Different Dinsion Energy points;
Task Penalty: Beco a substitute, to exchange for his freedom;
Task Tip: 1. The Evil Spirit cannot be locked down, he’s already pitiable, please spare him; 2. The secret lies in his eyes;
Note: Perhaps you should bring so tools.]
After leaving the community gates and while waiting for the others, Yan Junze pulled up the task list from the Spaceti Atlas and gave it a careful read.
This ti, the task was to give the Evil Spirit eternal rest, aning, the poor guy must be in quite an uncomfortable state. He needed a resolution to his predicant, perhaps that would allow him to finally relax and rest in peace.
The newly ford Spirit Exploration Team mbers were all very punctual. Before 9 o’clock, a taxi stopped at the entrance to the community. The rear door opened, and Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin jumped out one after the other.
Both were dressed in dark sportswear for ease of movent and carried small backpacks behind them, bulging with stuff like caras and flashlights.
Then, the passenger door opened and Zhou Heng first stretched out an "elephant leg" onto the ground. Under the watchful eyes of the three, he gradually shifted his broad cross-section of a body out of the car.
The mont he got out of the car, it visibly lifted, a true embodint of the phrase "a load off."
After paying the taxi fare, Zhou Dali patted his behind and said to Yan Junze, "Are we on ti? It’s so late, how about we grab so late-night snacks before we start?"
"Diet." The two girls denied in unison.
Zhou Dali touched his belly and muttered quietly, "You girls are either on a diet or on the way to start one. Luckily, I ca prepared."
With that, he took out a few packs of biscuits from his backpack, tore them open and started chowing down vigorously.
Ever since the strangeness descended, the streets at night had very few pedestrians, but there were more patrolling security cars. One would occasionally see patrol cars with flashing lights driving by, silent on the streets.
Each of the four people carried a backpack, making them especially conspicuous on the sparsely populated streets at night, so they didn’t linger and imdiately crossed the road. They walked a hundred ters more and arrived at the entrance of Jianye Building.
The vehicle access was blocked by an electric gate, beside which was a small iron door. It was slightly ajar and opened with a push.
However, right next to the small iron door was the guard room, where a middle-aged man in a security uniform was imrsed in a TV drama. The plot involved the ssy entanglents of "I love you, but you don’t love , you instead love him, he falls for my sister, I have my sister pretend to love him, he dumps you, and you co back crying, begging for my love."
For the security uncle, the storyline was captivating. As he was glued to the TV, the small iron door behind him was slowly pushed open.
Yan Junze and his team tiptoed with hunched backs and slipped into the courtyard of Jianye Building.
Looking back, they realized soone was missing, and Yan Junze instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Ruixin, co here quickly!" Bao Jie also noticed the discrepancy and called out quietly, looking back.
At that mont, Jiang Ruixin was peeking out from behind the window of the guard room, engrossedly watching the drama alongside the middle-aged man.
After realizing it, Jiang Ruixin hurried over, complaining, "Just to join you guys in Spirit Exploration, I missed today’s Episode 21 of ’I Love You So Much Yet You Hold Hands with Another in the Park and I Damn Well Want to Punch You to Death.’" (Salute to Brother Erguo’s head! (づ￣3￣)づ╭❤～)}
Zhou Dali and Yan Junze looked at each other, completely baffled.
"You’re saying this drama is called..."
"I love you so much, yet you’re walking in the park holding soone else’s hand, I seriously want to punch you to death," Bao Jie repeated fluently, then added, "I was following this show last month, but I stopped. Mainly because the plot was a bit far-fetched."
"Just hearing the na is far-fetched enough," Yan Junze shook his head.
Zhou Dali forcefully held back his laughter, finally managing not to laugh out loud.
The four of them entered Jianye Building.
The building was 35 stories high, with around 50 companies having offices inside. However, Yan Junze and his group didn’t plan to go upstairs. Instead, they bypassed the elevator and took the stairs down to the basent level.
The stairwell had sound-activated lights, so to avoid drawing attention, everyone moved silently.
At the stairway entrance, Jiang Ruixin distributed a small flashlight to each person, which she’d procured from their family’s supermarket.
Yan Junze led the way as all four descended the stairs to the basent level.
The stairs were quite clean, it seed like housekeeping was up to snuff here, not even a scrap of broken cardboard or paper could be seen.
When they reached the stairway entrance to the basent level, they shone the flashlight and discovered the door was locked with a U-shaped lock.
Yan Junze glanced at Zhou Dali, who crouched down, opened his backpack, and pulled out a pair of bolt cutters, saying, "I turned my dad’s toolbox upside down, these are the strongest equipnt I could bring."
"We owe you big ti for this one," Yan Junze took the opportunity to pat his shoulder, letting the guy feel pumped up for a while.
Otherwise, given Zhou Dali’s faint-heartedness, if he got scared later and wanted to back out, he’d certainly run faster than a rabbit, which wouldn’t be good for the team’s overall movent.
Zhou Dali let out a he-he and, holding the bolt cutters, squatted in front of the basent level door and started fiddling with it.
While he was busy, Yan Junze called up the Spaceti Atlas in his mind and, after Zhou Dali snapped the U-lock, set up the starting point for a Rewind. He then set the endpoint for 40 minutes later.
Of course, if they had to Rewind a certain segnt of ti due to an ergency in this period, it wouldn’t an the entire Rewind tiline would vanish, but rather its length would be appropriately shortened.
If they had to Rewind several tis, due to the consumption of Different Dinsion Energy, the final length of ti they were able to Rewind could potentially be only a few minutes.
After the door opened, a gust of cold air blew out from the dark corridor, making everyone standing at the top of the stairs shiver involuntarily.
Only Zhou Dali, brushing the dust off his hands, was completely unaffected by the chill thanks to his robust constitution.
"It feels like there’s a freezer inside!" Bao Jie guessed.
"Dali, aren’t you cold?" with her hands crossed in front of her chest, Jiang Ruixin shivered as she curiously asked.
"Heh, I can’t feel the cold at all," Zhou Dali said, his confidence soaring at that mont.
"Then you go in front, block the wind for us," Yan Junze said.
Zhou Dali’s face stiffened, "You know... actually... it’s a little cold. Also, my eyesight isn’t very good."
"I’ll go then," Yan Junze said with a smirk.
Bao Jie turned on the portable video cara she had brought. A beam of light from the top of the cara illuminated the darkness of the basent level a bit more.
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