Nightmare Apostle

"What, is it not possible?" Yang Xiao countered.

He sighed inwardly, these guys’ quality was still too poor. If Ye Zheng were here, there would be no need to explain; it should be something obvious at a glance.

Back at the Cultural Palace, Yang Xiao ran into Guo Tiejun with slicked-back hair, waiting outside the door, as if he was waiting for him.

Seeing Yang Xiao approach, Guo Tiejun immediately stepped forward and said that someone from the factory’s security department came to ask them both to cooperate in an investigation, specifically naming Yang Xiao and Ye Zheng.

Since Yang Xiao wasn’t present, Ye Zheng had gone instead, accompanied by Zhao Xuejun and Zhang Xiaomin.

"Security department?" Yang Xiao was startled. He had just left the security department and hadn’t heard Chief Zhou mention this.

"Which way did they go?" Yang Xiao pursued further.

"That way." Guo Tiejun, influenced by Yang Xiao’s emotions, became somewhat nervous and pointed towards the direction the group had departed.

Following the direction pointed out by Guo Tiejun, Yang Xiao’s unease grew even stronger as that direction wasn’t towards the security department at all.

Most likely, something’s happened... Yang Xiao felt increasingly restless. He couldn’t understand why Ye Zheng, of all people, would make such a basic mistake.

And there was Zhao Xuejun; he was one of the better ones among them, having passed two tasks smoothly.

If both Ye Zheng and Zhao Xuejun got trapped, he feared he wouldn’t escape this time either; none of the remaining people were reliable.

Making a swift decision, Yang Xiao decided to lead people to pursue them, taking Guo Tiejun and Hu Weimin along the path Ye Zheng’s group took.

But Guo Tiejun said they’d been gone for at least half an hour, enough time for ghosts to attack them several times.

As they pursued, Yang Xiao thought over things in his mind. So far, they hadn’t encountered any ghosts during the day, and the information obtained from Chief Zhou didn’t indicate any daytime ghost encounters. Something was off about today.

The road led toward the front of the factory. As Yang Xiao’s group approached the perimeter of the front factory, they could see some familiar figures from a distance.

There was Ye Zheng, along with Zhao Xuejun and Zhang Xiaomin, returning along the road.

"Captain Ma, why are you here too?" Zhao Xuejun, walking at the front, asked in surprise when he saw Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao ignored him and looked directly at Ye Zheng, as he knew her the best among them.

If Ye Zheng was a ghost in disguise, just a few words would reveal her true identity to Yang Xiao.

But to Yang Xiao’s surprise, upon assessment, the three of them seemed fine. Ye Zheng even pulled out some papers with messy handwriting from her pocket.

"It was someone from the front factory’s security department, not Chief Zhou’s team, but Director Zhai."

"The factory’s security department is divided into front and back sections; we went to the front factory’s security department."

"Chief Zhou mainly handles factory security, patrolling, resolving cases, and arrests, whereas Director Zhai handles technical matters and interrogations, detainee supervision, and detention, with clear division of labor," Ye Zheng explained.

"Director Zhai had us over mainly to ask about what happened with Master Sun last night. They wrote a report and wanted us to see if there was anything to add."

"There’s no detention area in the rear factory, so Master Sun is temporarily held in a cell at the front factory security department."

"We saw him; he was in a sour mood, shouting and screaming upon seeing me, as if he’d seen a ghost," Ye Zheng continued.

Yang Xiao took the papers Ye Zheng handed over, filled with Master Sun’s accounts of the previous night’s events.

He confessed to being a habitual thief in the factory but insisted that he encountered a ghost and saw Old Zhang’s ghost last night.

However, Master Sun also admitted that due to his angle, he couldn’t see the ghost’s face clearly but was adamant it was Old Zhang.

Because he recognized Old Zhang’s clothes, especially those big leather shoes, Old Zhang’s prized possession, a rarity in the factory, always polished to a shine before wearing them.

At that moment, Yang Xiao suddenly recalled the terrifying scene he witnessed in the chess room the previous night, where ghostly legs walked toward him.

And under those ghostly legs was a pair of big leather shoes.

It seems correct that the ghosts he encountered twice at the Cultural Palace last night weren’t the Source Ghost but rather Old Zhang, the maintenance worker who disappeared in the residential building and whose body was finally found in the cinema.

According to Yang Xiao’s judgment, Old Zhang, along with female worker Pan Xiaoxiao and Zhang Xiujuan, likely all became Chang Ghosts.

As for why Chang Ghost Old Zhang attacked them twice without taking a life, Yang Xiao couldn’t say.

However, it made him inexplicably recall that mission on Japan Island, the Jiu Mountain Family’s Secret Realm, and the Eightfold Kashi Mountain Hotel.

During that mission, the first ghost child appeared to scare them away, while the subsequent female ghost was the real murderous Fierce Ghost.

Since the female ghost could turn invisible, it posed significant trouble, making it one of the riskiest missions Yang Xiao had ever undertaken.

The Chang Ghost represented by Old Zhang gave rise to similar suspicions in Yang Xiao, but he didn’t dare to gamble on the inner workings.

On the way back, Yang Xiao let the others return first to continue exploring the Cultural Palace, while he took Ye Zheng to the clinic.

By then, it was already 5 p.m., and according to the time, Liu Hongwei had been asleep for a whole day, yet when they arrived, Liu Hongwei was still lying in bed, sleeping.

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