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Chapter 428 Gu Mian, who is reckless
"Is it here?" At this moment, Gu Mian was in the warehouse on the second floor of the mall, peering out the window.

There wasn't a soul in the dark alley. It was almost midnight. Chu Changge and the others left at 9:30, so it had been more than two hours.

Xiao Qiao, who was standing obediently by the window, stared intently at the street below: "They didn't come."

Liu Ruyan leaned lazily against the shelf behind the two of them.

Gu Mian remembered that she always seemed to be in this half-dead state. He had never seen Liu Ruyan being chased by a ghost and screaming. He must see it when he has the chance.

At this moment, Mingyue was desperately grabbing the fortune teller in front of her, trying to pull her away.

Feeling a sudden, strong pull from behind, the fortune teller yanked her clothes forward without turning her head, jolting Mingyue, who had just grabbed her, to stumble. Mingyue's hands, which had been tightly gripping her clothes, naturally loosened their grip.

Unprepared for this situation, Mingyue suddenly fell to the ground.

Before she could even get up, she reached out again, unwilling to give up, to grab the fortune teller's ankle, but she missed; the fortune teller had already run several meters away.

Mingyue looked up in astonishment at the fortune teller's retreating figure, only to see the man running away without turning back.

The crawling sound was already behind her.

"I saw it," Xiao Qiao's voice came from the side.

Gu Mian followed Xiao Qiao's gaze and saw a figure running frantically in this direction. It was obviously a fortune teller fleeing for her life, and behind her was a humanoid figure crawling like a spider.

The humanoid figure behind was moving quite fast, and the fortune teller was still dozens of meters away from the back door of the mall. If Gu Mian's prediction was correct, the fortune teller would definitely be caught by the ghost within those dozens of meters.

Strangely, there seemed to be another person behind the human figure. She was stumbling towards them, and upon closer inspection, the figure looked somewhat familiar.

Mingyue staggered behind the ghost and the fortune teller. She didn't understand why the ghost didn't attack her, and instead went straight for the fortune teller without even stopping.

Logically, one should immediately turn around and run away after surviving such a close call.

But Mingyue quickly realized that the ghost wasn't interested in her; it was only interested in the fortune teller in front of it.

She secretly followed behind the man and the ghost, not keeping up, but stumbling along to see what was going on.

The fortune teller was slower than the ghost. Just as the frantically crawling humanoid figure behind him was about to catch up, the fortune teller suddenly found strength from nowhere and darted forward, disappearing directly into the back door of a shopping mall ahead.

Mingyue watched carefully from behind. She saw the fortune teller disappear after entering the gate, while the ghost lingered at the door for a while, as if hesitating about something, before also entering the gate a few seconds later.

Seeing the bright moon emerge from the darkness, I thought, "Why are you running so desperately when you're bound to be chased by ghosts sooner or later?"

As she muttered to herself, she stepped toward the door where the person and the ghost had disappeared: "Judging from the speed at which the fortune teller ran, she shouldn't die anytime soon. However, she might very well be killed by the ghost in this mall. So I'll follow behind her and hide in this mall. The ghost probably won't expect anyone to be hiding in the place where it killed someone."

At this moment, Gu Mian was already standing at the elevator door on the second floor. Although the lights were off, the elevator still had power and was now stopped in front of him.

Xiao Qiao had already gone downstairs to hide and was preparing to close the door. Just as Gu Mian stopped at the elevator door on the second floor, Mingyue had already passed through the warehouse, opened a small door and entered the supermarket's first floor. She heard hurried footsteps coming from the first floor, obviously the sound of the fortune teller fleeing for his life.

She crept forward a few steps, looking for a secluded spot.

At this moment, the fortune teller had arrived at the elevator on the first floor and was anxiously pressing the button next to the elevator door. She kept looking back and saw the ghost that had fallen behind her crawling rapidly towards her.

Mingyue was hiding behind a clothes rack in the distance, secretly watching all of this: "Taking the elevator when being chased by a ghost is the most foolish thing to do. The time it takes to wait for the elevator is enough for the ghost to catch up with her. I don't know what she is struggling for in her death throes."

The elevator was still slowly stopped on the second floor. It seemed to be slow to react, remaining there for several seconds before it began to move downwards at a leisurely pace.

The red fluorescent numbers flashed continuously in the darkness, looking quite eerie.

The fortune teller clenched his fists, looking as if he couldn't wait to pry open the elevator door.

The elevator doesn't take long to descend from the second floor to the first floor of the mall; it only takes a few seconds.

But those few seconds alone are enough to kill someone.

Mingyue saw the crawling figure getting closer and closer to the fortune teller in front of the elevator, but the fortune teller seemed to be dumbfounded and stood motionless at the elevator door.

Sure enough, just as the elevator was descending, the ghost rushed up to the fortune teller, no more than a meter away. Mingyue saw the ghostly figure stop in front of the fortune teller and stretch out its withered hand to her.

Just then, Mingyue suddenly saw the fortune teller's back pressed tightly against the elevator door, his mouth open, and he quickly yelled, "If you don't come down, I'm going to die!"

what?
Just as Mingyue was wondering, the elevator behind the fortune teller suddenly made a "ding" sound.

Then the door opened.

The elevator was brightly lit, and you could see everything inside very clearly.

Inside stood a doctor wearing a white coat and carrying a guitar case. He was looking straight ahead with a gentle smile.

"That doctor?" Mingyue asked in surprise upon seeing this person. "He's not dead? The ghosts didn't kill them?"

But why is he here? And you shouldn't have that expression when you see a ghost!

Just as Mingyue was wondering why the doctor hadn't been killed by the ghost, she witnessed an astonishing scene the next second.

The ghost, which was standing in front of the elevator and reaching out to the fortune teller, suddenly stopped, turned around abruptly, and ran away.

The doctor in the elevator recklessly chased after them.

Wait! What's going on?

(End of this chapter)