Chapter Thirty-One: Ghost Hits the Wall

  "Tian Qi, why are you following us back? Why aren't you accompanying your junior sister?" the fatty joked.

  "Don't pretend with me, or I won't let Yingying introduce a girlfriend to you!" It's been so long since he saw Yingying, although they also video chat online, but it's not the same as seeing her in person. He and Yingying haven't developed to that step yet, and their instructor is still around, how can he be so presumptuous? His heart was feeling depressed.

  Tian Qi sent the instructor and Yingying to a hotel that had already been booked, and tomorrow they would be taken to school. The instructor had accepted an invitation from a university, while Yingying was preparing to read for her Ph.D. at that university.

  After struggling for several days, the three young people were also physically exhausted. The boss who opened the company door was too lazy to turn on the lights and just walked forward with the flashlight function of his mobile phone. He wanted to take a good hot bath and go to bed until dawn. Tianqi and Chou Shen behind him had the same idea, and they didn't even bother to talk.

  "What the...? What's going on? Did I drink too much or what?" The fatty in front suddenly cursed.

  "What's wrong? Don't make a racket at this late hour and disturb the neighbors!" Tian Qi said.

  "We can't get to the top of these stairs!" The fat man's voice was already somewhat fearful.

  The first floor of the company is an office area, and the second floor is a residential area. They are connected in between, just one up and one down to get there.

  Tian Qi glanced at Chou Shen, and the two continued walking up the stairs. However, strangely, the staircase kept repeating itself, no matter how far they walked, they couldn't reach the end.

  "Turn on the light first!" Tian Qi realized something was off.

  Fatso hurriedly ran back to turn on the light, but soon Fatso came running back panting, "No way, can't even walk down the stairs all the way, this is really weird!"

  "Have we encountered a dead end?" Since they couldn't go up or down, Tian Qi sat down, and seeing this, the fatty also had no choice but to sit down.

  "This can't be happening, we just got back and ran into this. But when we left, the company was locked up tight. Did someone break in? My safe!" Fatso suddenly remembered the safe in his bedroom, which had nearly a million dollars in cash inside, although it wasn't all of their valuables.

  "Don't worry about your safe, if they wanted to steal money, they would have done it long ago. Why go through so much trouble to set up this trap?" Tianqi refuted Pangzi's statement, but if no one came in, how did they set up this trap?

  Tian Qi bowed his head and thought about how to solve the problem. From entering the door to going up the stairs, what were the places that didn't feel right?

  "Qiu Shen, what do you... eh, where's the person?" Tian Qi was just thinking of a solution with his head down, but didn't notice when Pangzi and Qiu Shen were no longer by his side.

  He watched as Baozi sat down, and although Chou didn't sit down, he stood by his side.

  "Deep hatred! Fatty!" Tian Qi didn't care about disturbing the neighbors at this time.

  But Tianqi shouted several times and no one responded.

  With a deep and bitter personality, he would silently go to check it out if he discovered something. But Fatso wouldn't do that. Although he had also followed him to see things several times, his fear of ghosts and supernatural things wasn't something he could get used to in a short time.

  It's no use just waiting here, Tian Qi thought for a moment and decided to head downstairs to see if he could run into them.

  Just now it was Fatso who used his mobile phone to shine the light, but now that Fatso is not around, he has to shine it himself. However, Tian Qi took out his mobile phone and found that it couldn't be turned on at all.

  The dark staircase had no light at all, and Tian Qi could only hear his own footsteps.

  "Tiān qí, jiù wǒ!" Just then, the staircase above echoed with Pángzi's voice, and Tiānqí heard it clearly.

  "Fatty!" Tian Qi couldn't care about so much anymore and hastily ran upstairs.

  The cry for help continued, and Tian Qi was getting closer and closer.

  "Tianqi, are you crazy?! I was chasing after you from behind and you didn't even react!" Just as Tianqi thought he was about to reach where Paozi was, his clothes were pulled from behind and he almost fell to the ground.

  "Fatty?" Although he couldn't see his face clearly, he judged by the voice and vague body shape.

  "It's not me! You ran really fast, how could I catch up with you?" The fatty was panting heavily.

  "Are you really Fatty?" Tian Qi had clearly heard the cry for help from upstairs just now, so if this was the real Fatty, then who was the one upstairs?

  "Of course I'm Fatso, don't believe me? Take a look," Fatso turned on the flashlight function of his mobile phone.

  Indeed, under the illumination of light, what appeared before his eyes was undoubtedly Fatso. However, Tian Qi always felt that something wasn't quite right, as if he had missed something.

  "Hurry up and follow me down, Chou is waiting for you downstairs," said the fatty as he turned around to head down.

  It was at this moment that Tian Qi discovered something unusual - under the light, Fatso didn't have a shadow!

  He is not human!

  Tian Qi took out his black stick and prepared to strike.

  The "fat man" in front also made a discovery, turned his head, looked at Tian Qi, and smiled strangely. His face began to turn green, gradually turned black, and disappeared into the night.

  Tian Qi immediately rushed upstairs, and Pang Zi's voice had already stopped making a sound.

  "Ah yo, you stepped on me!" Tian Qi was anxious and didn't notice his feet, so he ended up stepping on Pangzi.

  "How dare you hit my butt! It hurts me to death!" Tian Qi took out a black stick and hit the fat man's butt once.

  He was hit by the black stick and nothing happened, which means that the fat man in front of him is the real one. Tian Qi also let out a sigh of relief, fortunately he discovered it in time earlier, otherwise he would have followed the fake fat man down, and his soul might have been taken away.

  "How did you end up here?" Tian Qi ignored Pangzi's cries of pain and asked, wanting to know why he had suddenly left his side.

  "I was just about to ask you, I was sitting there, feeling a bit sleepy and dozed off for a moment. As soon as I closed my eyes, I opened them again, but the two of you had disappeared. I got anxious and ran upstairs, but ended up spraining my foot, so I called out for you." The fatty said this while rubbing his foot, which Tianqi had stepped on earlier, now both feet were paired up in pain.

  "I just saw someone who looks exactly like you downstairs, of course, he's not human. Did you hear his conversation with me?" Tian Qi walked up a little further and soon saw the fat man, normally he should have been able to hear it.

  Fatso shook his head, "I didn't hear anything."

  "In that case, it means these things can only affect one person. Have you seen anything?" Tian Qi asked.

  The fat man shook his head again.

  Tian Qi was speechless, this wasn't right, if you had to say who the weakest of the three people was, it would be Fatso, how could he not be affected?

  "Heavenly Brother, where did you hide him?!" Tianqi was still thinking when suddenly, Pangzi sat up and pinched Tianqi's neck with both hands.

  "Fatty, I am... Tian Qi!" The sudden change of events was unexpected, and Tian Qi had no defense.

  "Tell me or I'll strangle you to death! Where did you hide it?" The fatty continued to exert his strength.

  There's a saying that it's not the ones who are good at fighting that you should be afraid of, but rather the ones who don't care about their own lives. Fatso didn't know what he was up against with Tianqi and actually used all his strength. Don't look down on him just because he doesn't exercise often, his weight is still there after all.

  "Let go quickly! I... can't... breathe!" Tian Qi's hand holding the black stick hit Fatty, but Fatty still didn't have any reaction.

  Just as Tian Qi thought he might really not make it this time, the fat man suddenly let go of his hands and fell backwards.

  "Are you okay, Tianqi?" Qiu Shen asked with concern as he looked at Tianqi who was coughing violently.

  "It's good that you showed up in time and knocked Fatso out, otherwise it would have been hard to say what might have happened." Tian Qi considered himself lucky to have escaped a disaster.

  Just like Tian Qi, Chou Shen also encountered the same thing, but he didn't meet a fatty, instead he met Tian Qi.

  The two men helped Fatso up and leaned him against the wall. He was indeed unlucky, first spraining one foot, then having Tianqi step on his other foot, and finally being knocked unconscious by Qiu Shen.

  "You said this black jade can help us get out?" Tian Qi picked up the fat man and touched the box containing the nourishing jade.

  "I don't know, we can try," said Qiu Shen.

  Just as Tian Qi opened the box, the black jade emitted a dazzling light. The two of them couldn't help but close their eyes. When the light disappeared, they found themselves at the staircase entrance, and it turned out that they hadn't gone up at all. Pangzi was leaning against the side.

  "What's going on? Ah, my foot, the back of my head!" The fatty woke up half an hour later, and Tian Qi and the others had already carried him to bed.

  "We've been calculated by someone," Tian Qi said with a sigh of relief as he saw the fat man wake up, but he couldn't think of who would design such harm for them.