169: Money to buy life!

Office area.

Lui Li brought the Takeout Guy here to sit down, then went to pull out a document from below.

Seeing his familiar actions, it was clear he had done this kind of thing many times before.

“Officer, are the things I encountered today real? Do Immortal Cultivators and mages really exist in this world?”

“Then, do those demons and ghosts also exist? No, no, that’s not right, no spirits are allowed to become refined after the founding of the nation, so there shouldn’t be any monsters. But that’s not right either, those who became refined before the founding of the nation don’t count…”

The Takeout Guy had many thoughts, and his initial sleepiness was completely gone.

In its place was excitement.

Lui Li had no doubt that he would be too excited to sleep tonight.

“Alright, sign this confidentiality agreement and go back to rest. I’ve already told you what needs to be said. Remember not to tell anyone else about this, lucky fellow.”

Speaking of luck, this guy was truly lucky.

The first time he encountered a supernatural event, he met two great deities. Unlike them, the first thing they encountered was—a ghost!

The Takeout Guy was not ambiguous, quickly signing his name on the confidentiality agreement, then excitedly asked, “Brother, can you tell me, how many Immortal Cultivators are there in our country?”

“Why are you asking that?” Lui Li put the document back into the drawer, looking at him confusedly.

The Takeout Guy leaned in and said, “I don’t want to be the only one running on the ground with my legs when the apocalypse comes, while all of you are flying on swords or cars.”

Lui Li’s face darkened, “Apocalypse? The apocalypse is still a long way off. You don’t need to inquire about other things, I don’t know much either. Alright, it’s getting late, you still have to work tomorrow…”

“I’m just a Takeout Guy. I wake up whenever I want, and I work whenever I want. I think we can talk more.”

“No more talking. And also, don’t go around asking random people about this, understand?”

Lui Li was exasperated, pushing the Takeout Guy out and repeatedly warning him not to tell anyone else about today’s events.

“Zzzzzzzzzzz—!”

Just then, the lights in the office area began to flicker, and the Takeout Guy’s phone rang in his pocket.

He pulled it out and looked.

It was an unknown phone number.

“Hello, who is this?”

The Takeout Guy didn’t take it seriously, but a chilling voice came from the phone.

“The money for your life has been received. At three o’clock tonight, I will come for you, to take your life…”

After saying that.

There was another faint current sound from the phone.

The Takeout Guy looked at his phone inexplicably, muttering, “Is this a lunatic? Talking about money for my life in the middle of the night…”

Halfway through his sentence, he paused.

Everything he experienced today was incredible; there were Immortal Cultivators, there were mages, so it was also very reasonable for there to be ghosts.

Thinking of this, he quickly pulled out two crumpled hundred-yuan bills from his pants pocket.

He unfolded the bills.

There were two bloody handprints on them, and the bloodstains were getting redder, while the temperature in the room was getting lower and lower.

The lights, moreover, went out instantly.

Lui Li’s face was somewhat grim. He pulled out his phone and saw that it was already 2:57 AM, only three minutes until the ghost would come to take a life.

What made his expression even more solemn was that the signal on his phone was cut off at this moment, making it impossible to contact the director and other Ghost Controllers.

At this time, other Investigation Bureau staff in the office area were also frightened by the strange phenomenon around them and quickly ran to Lui Li’s side.

“Brother Liu, is a ghost coming? Our safety all depends on you!”

“Depend on me? You’ve probably found the wrong person.” Lui Li showed a smile uglier than crying. The ghost on his body had been stripped away, which meant he was just an ordinary person now.

And in the entire office area, there were no Ghost Controllers. All the Ghost Controllers had followed Chu Mo and the other two to the cafeteria.

So, tonight, if they didn’t handle it well, they would all be finished here.

“Quick, quickly go to the cafeteria. Director Zhao and them are all over there, and there are two other great deities. We still have time to go now.”

Having dealt with supernatural events quite a few times, Lui Li quickly recovered his composure.

He led all the staff in the office area, rushing towards the main door, heading to the cafeteria.

However, something strange happened.

No matter how they knocked, the main door just wouldn’t open, and what’s more, there was knocking coming from outside.

“Thump thump thump thump~”

“Thump thump thump thump~”

The knocking frequency became faster and faster, but it always maintained four sounds.

Everyone’s hearts felt as if they were being gripped, briefly stopping for a moment.

“Is…is it a person or a ghost outside?” The Takeout Guy’s voice trembled.

“A person knocks three times, a ghost knocks four times. It looks like it’s definitely a ghost.”

Although Lui Li looked quite calm, his heart had sunk to the bottom.

Because in this confined space, they couldn’t leave, and their phones had no signal.

If this continued.

Once the ghost entered, no one here would likely survive.

“To be wiped out by a ghost in the Investigation Bureau, if this gets out, we’ll probably be laughed to death!”

He laughed self-deprecatingly, picked up a pack of Liqun cigarettes from a nearby table, and put one in his mouth.

“Fire, give me a light.”

“Brother Liu, I thought you quit smoking? Why now…” A staff member next to him asked with a strange look.

“I’m under a lot of pressure, I want to smoke, can’t I?” Lui Li took the lighter from his pocket, lit his cigarette, took a deep drag, and then very skillfully put the lighter into his own pocket.

Seeing his lighter so smoothly taken, the staff member opened his mouth but said nothing.

With a ghost present.

Ordinary people couldn’t deal with it; only Ghost Controllers could deal with ghosts.

And here.

There was only one Ghost Controller.

“Damn it, I’ll hold off this ghost later, all of you run towards the cafeteria, and shout for help as you run, understand?”

As the time gradually approached 3:00 AM sharp.

Lui Li subconsciously clenched his fists.

The ghost was about to come in.

Although he was no longer a Ghost Controller, having dealt with these ghosts for many years, he also knew some techniques to stall for time.

As long as he stalled long enough, more people here would survive.

“I hope Director Zhao’s side can discover the situation here in time…”

“Hope for what? We’re already here!”

Just as Lui Li gritted his teeth, ready to fight the ghost outside to the death, a familiar voice sounded behind him.

He turned his head sharply.

A group of people had inexplicably appeared behind him.

It was precisely Zhao Haibing, Director and the other Ghost Controllers who had accompanied Chu Mo and the others to eat.

“You…how did you get in? The door wasn’t opened!” Lui Li looked in shock at these people who seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

Ning Haocheng walked out from the crowd, humbly waving his hand, “Don’t ask. If you ask, it’s because a certain low-key mage used spatial magic to transfer everyone here.”

Lui Li asked, not understanding, “But this place has already been enveloped by the power of this ghost. The cafeteria is at least eight hundred meters from here. How did you find out?”