嘭!

嘭!

The Big Face Monster was slamming against the crack from the outside.

The body of one Big Face Monster had already begun to soften like plasticine, squeezing in from the gap.

But Li Cheng颐 could see nothing at this moment. He closed his eyes tightly.

After closing his eyes, he started counting!

'Count!'

"One, two, three, four..." He began to count softly.

After counting, he started humming a song!

After counting quickly to thirty, Li Cheng颐 quickly began to hum a song.

嘭!

He heard the sound of the Big Face Monster hitting the outside of the crack.

"Night is deep, night is deep, there's always someone outside the window..."

"Who is it, who is it, that's a chubby, big fellow..."

He began to hum the Gris lullaby, "Good Boerwu," sentence by sentence.

There was no way to put on the Flowery Scale Armor in the crack. He hummed the song while testing several times, but the gap was too tight, and the Flowery Scale Armor couldn't take shape.

Strangely, as he hummed, the Big Face Monster outside gradually stopped making noise and slowly quieted down.

As he sang the song for the third time.

The surroundings seemed to enter an extremely quiet environment.

The Big Face Monster completely disappeared.

Li Cheng颐 slowly, gently, opened a slit in his eyes.

He was still standing in the crack.

But in front of him, outside the crack, the Big Face Monster had completely disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

A red maintenance door directly opposite the crack was now open.

A pale young man in white was standing in front of the door, quietly watching him.

Buzz....

Slowly, an ear-piercing, irritating buzzing sound kept pouring into Li Cheng颐's ears from all directions.

He frowned, feeling his vision begin to spin.

The crack in front of him also began to rotate, and he was also rotating.

The young man outside the crack, along with the red door, slowly moved away, shrank, and blurred in the rotation.

Poof.

With a soft sound, like a line remaining when the TV is finally turned off.

All the images in front of Li Cheng颐 suddenly closed into a line.

Then it shrunk to a point and disappeared.

"Are you okay? Should I call an ambulance for you?" A concerned voice slowly approached from a distance, getting louder.

Li Cheng颐 shook his head and opened his eyes.

He was still standing outside the rice noodle shop, his body staggering, as if hollowed out.

He felt as if he hadn't slept for days and nights.

An old man with silver hair beside him was holding a shopping bag and looking at him with concern.

Obviously, he was a kind passerby who thought he was having some kind of attack when he saw him staggering.

"No, thank you, I... I'm fine. Just... too tired." Li Cheng颐 opened his eyes wide, looked at everything around him, and quickly replied.

No dead people!

The thought flashed through his mind.

There were no dead people at all, and he had left the Gris parking lot!!

This time! He didn't rely on dead people to escape! But purely relied on the last method of escape that Jia Ji'er had investigated.

He replicated the survivor theory and succeeded in one fell swoop, escaping the dead corner!

'I.... succeeded!!'

Li Cheng颐 lowered his head and looked at his hands. His right hand was completely numb, and the connection between his shoulder and chest had begun to burn.

But... he succeeded!! He successfully escaped!!

A sudden sense of relief, a rare sense of relief, slowly enveloped Li Cheng颐's body.

He seemed to have put down a heavy burden all at once, and his whole person felt much lighter.

"It's good that you're okay, young man. You should pay attention to your health even if you work hard." The old man reminded him, obviously, the young people he often encountered had given him a bad impression.

"I just exercised a little too much." Li Cheng颐 explained.

After saying goodbye to the kind old man, he stood there blankly for a while, feeling overwhelmed with emotions, but he didn't know what to do for a moment.

Go back to the hotel?

Or check out and go home?

He had already escaped from the Gris parking lot, so as long as he didn't encounter a new dead corner, there would be no danger.

'Finally... I can finally get a good night's sleep.'

Li Cheng颐 took out his phone and quickly shared the good news with Xin Dela and Song Ran. These two people clearly had nothing to do with whether he entered the dead corner or not, but they were the ones who helped him the most.

Two text messages were sent with a beep.

Immediately, Xin Dela's phone call came through.

"How is it? Go home to rest or continue company training?" His words were always concise.

"Go home first. Right now, I just want to take a good bath, get a thorough sleep, and not think about anything." Li Cheng颐 replied.

"Keep it up." Xin Dela didn't say anything else, perhaps he also understood Li Cheng颐's mood at this time.

Hanging up the phone, Li Cheng颐 showed a smile on his face and strode towards the chain hotel.

Check out, take a taxi, go home.

It was done in one go.

Back home, after opening the door and quickly dealing with his parents' inquiries, he quickly took a shower, got into bed, and fell asleep.

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In the suburbs of Suiyang, in a high-end large-flat community.

An old man with a stubble, who hadn't shaved for several days, was sitting by a recliner. The ashtray on the table next to him was filled with dense, light yellow cigarette butts, some of which hadn't been completely extinguished.

Not only the ashtray, but some cigarette butts had even fallen off the table and scattered on the ground.

Thick smoke lingered around the man, but he didn't care about anything. He held a phone in one hand and a new cigarette with a red light in the other.

"Boss!"

Suddenly, from the living room behind him, a man with a buzz cut and a black jacket quickly walked out and said excitedly beside the old man.

"Found it!"

"Found it???" The old man was stunned, and a little light slowly appeared in his eyes.

"Is there news about Dongdong? Where is she!?" He suddenly stood up, his voice low and roaring, like a lion suddenly awakened.

The buzz cut man was startled, but he still stood in place, forcing himself to answer quickly.

"No... Boss, not Dongdong, it's the person you ordered us to find. His information, we found it through another channel!"

"Not Dongdong..." The old man's spirit faded again.

He was Meng Dongdong's father, Meng Mingcheng.

His daughter had been missing for a long time, right in his own home, surrounded by a bunch of people protecting and accompanying her day and night.

But in the blink of an eye, she disappeared while going to the bathroom, and to this day, there was still no news.

He mobilized all his contacts, spending money desperately, and sending people to look for her everywhere.

But after searching until now, there was still no news...

"You mean, you found the information on those two people that Dongdong mentioned?"

He hadn't found his daughter's whereabouts, but finding the other two people might allow him to learn about his daughter's situation from them!

Meng Mingcheng actually had an ominous premonition in his heart, but he didn't want to think about it, didn't dare to think about it.

"Both of them were found?" He quickly regained his senses and asked.

"Yes, one has been missing and dead for a long time. But the other is still active, over at the New Century Building. Our brothers saw him." The buzz cut man quickly replied.

At the time, Meng Dongdong had roughly determined Li Cheng頤's appearance through profiling and AI image generation.

Although it was later blocked, the photo was still left behind.

"Saw him?" A gleam of light gradually appeared in Meng Mingcheng's eyes.

He stood up and paced back and forth, extinguishing the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray before he had even taken a few puffs.

"Just him alone?" He suddenly stopped and turned to ask.

"Not just him. Our people followed that person all the way and should have determined where he lives." The buzz cut man introduced, "Knowing where he lives makes it much easier to find out other information later."

"That's right... that's right..." Meng Mingcheng thought for a moment, with a hint of hope in his eyes.

"You take some people over there later and find out about that kid's family situation."

"What does the boss mean?" The buzz cut man asked in confusion.

"Everyone has weaknesses. For most people, their weakness is their family. Control his family, and then..."

Suddenly, he stopped.

"No, no, no... why did that person come out? Dongdong hasn't come out yet!?"

A terrifying thought appeared in Meng Mingcheng's mind.

He froze for a moment, standing in place.

Unknowingly, scenes from his daughter's childhood to adulthood, from being cute and innocent to being graceful and beautiful, flashed through his mind.

Tears began to slowly fill his eyes, overflowing from the corners of his eyes.

His lips trembled, he squinted his eyes, constantly trying to suppress the tears with deep breaths, but it was to no avail.

"Boss..."

The buzz cut man sighed.

"Then I'll take people over there myself?"

"..." Meng Mingcheng paused, silent.

After a long silence, he tremblingly picked up a pack of cigarettes from the table again, trying to take one out, but he failed twice.

His hands seemed to be coated with lubricant, and the cigarette kept slipping down, unable to be held.

"Xiaolin, how have I treated you?" He suddenly asked.

"Boss... you've treated me very well." The buzz cut man's expression changed slightly, as if he understood something.

"Then, do me a favor." Meng Mingcheng said in a deep voice.

"...Arson... is that okay?" The buzz cut man bit his lip slightly.

"Make it clean, use a gun first." Meng Mingcheng turned his back and looked at the huge white star in the sky.

"Okay." The buzz cut man nodded. "Then, about A Zeng... do we need to tell him?"

A Zeng was the bald Brother Zeng whom Meng Mingcheng had previously ordered to find someone to investigate the information.

"No need, the fewer people who know about this, the better." Meng Mingcheng shook his head.

"Understood." The buzz cut man took out his phone, pressed the power button, and watched the screen slowly go dark, showing the xf symbol, which was the phone manufacturer's power-on and power-off logo.

He looked up at his boss, turned around, and silently left.

First a shooting, then staging an accidental fire, this was not unfamiliar to him.

It's just that this time, the other party also had someone behind them, and the danger was much higher than before. Once something went wrong...

The buzz cut man knew that the boss would take care of his old parents and younger brother. His life was worthless, and it would be worth it if it could exchange for a bright future for his younger brother.

'Must be fast. Use a silenced gun from a distance, solve it with one shot, then cause a short circuit fire. The whole time must be controlled within ten minutes.'

The buzz cut man calculated the plan in his mind. He was very good at shooting. He was a sniper in the army before he retired. Although he was not a top ace, it was still easy to hit the target 100% of the time at a distance of one or two hundred meters with the help of the auxiliary system.

He walked out of the living room, went out through the half-open door, and stood in front of the elevator.

Hiss.

The elevator door opened, and a long-haired young man in a blue tracksuit was standing in the elevator car, looking down at his phone.