I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 859 Guilt
"Are you the administrator here?"

"I'm from the security department. I usually do all the miscellaneous tasks like reception."

Ah Qing's pace was very fast, and Li Luo could only speed up his pace to barely keep up.

Although the other party is not very talkative, he can always answer every question very efficiently.

Passing through the flashing lights, the two soon arrived in front of a building.

A Qing did not go in either. He just stood in front of the building, looking at the electronic screen in his hand from time to time.

"What are you doing?" Li Luo was a little curious, but she didn't ask any questions. She just waited quietly.

But looking at the sealed building, Li Luo quickly thought of something.

"Is this the meeting room where the disappearance occurred?"

She whispered it, and Ah Qing heard her muttering, nodded, and confirmed: "That's right."

It turned out that this was the meeting room. Li Luo looked around curiously and found that there was nothing special about it.

"Why are you waiting here?" Li Luo couldn't help but ask A Qing beside him out of curiosity.

"The surveillance in the conference room is broken, and there's no one watching. Every evening at 7 o'clock, there's a sound coming from inside. I'm afraid of accidents, so I'm keeping an eye on it here." A Qing answered Li Luo's question concisely.

But when he said this, his expression was somewhat complicated, as if there were some more important reasons.

"The surveillance is broken? Why don't you send someone to fix it?" Li Luo asked in confusion.

"I can fix it myself, but it's a crime scene and I can't just enter. I can only report it to DreamNet and ask a specific maintenance person to come and fix it. But I've reported it for a week and still no one has come."

Having said this, A Qing's expression became solemn. He stared at the building, as if he was looking at a dangerous enemy.

Li Luo also noticed Ah Qing's uneasiness. She thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know something about this?"

She could guess that there must be many hidden secrets behind this disappearance case that happened more than 20 years ago, and the security guard from the Mengdu Research Institute in front of her might know something.

After hearing Li Luo's question, A Qing did not answer immediately, but looked at the building, as if recalling something.

After a moment, he pointed to the door of the conference room, and his tone suddenly became a little lonely: "Twenty years ago, when the disappearance case happened, I was standing there."

At this moment, the initial solemnity on his face had disappeared, replaced by endless guilt.

"My colleagues and I had already noticed something was wrong in the conference room, but I asked him to stay and I went to report it. The result was..."

When he said this, his voice trembled a little, as if he didn't want to touch those painful memories.

"If I had stayed, Lao Ping wouldn't have disappeared..."

"Is your colleague called Lao Ping?" Li Luo asked softly.

"Yes, Li Ping, the Ping in Ping'an. He is much older than me. He takes good care of me at work and rushes to do everything. But he doesn't like new things and is a bit old-fashioned..."

Recalling Lao Ping's appearance, A Qing smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Neon lights flickered, and the security guard of Mengdu Research Institute seemed to always be bearing a guilt that was unimaginable to others. Only when facing outsiders could he express his inner pain.

For the past twenty years, A Qing has been regretting why he let Lao Ping stay.

Lao Ping is still so obedient. Even though he is much older than him, he still listens to him.

"Why didn't he reject me at that time? If he had rejected my arrangement, this wouldn't have happened..."

Ah Qing didn't understand why tragedy always befell good people. To others, the missing case was just a slightly weird story, but to him, it was a shadow that had been lingering in his heart for twenty years.

Now that the surveillance camera is broken, listening to that familiar voice every night drags him back to that evening twenty years ago again and again.

A living person who was chatting and laughing with me not long ago disappeared without a trace in an instant, and there was no news of him anymore...

Ah Qing seemed to have opened up a chatterbox, and kept telling Li Luo about his guilt.

He couldn't tell these things to people around him. For a middle-aged man, confiding these things would only make others think he was pretentious.

But I just can’t forget it.

Time has not diminished the shadow of twenty years ago in the slightest. Instead, the guilt has grown deeper and deeper, trapping Ah Qing in that evening twenty years ago.

Listening to A Qing's story, Li Luo also sighed.

Ultimately, only those involved can understand the pain of these tragedies.

She could only comfort him, "If you had stayed and Lao Ping had left by chance, he would have felt guilty. No one could control these things. You just made the right choice at the time."

"Isn't that what the abyss is like? Every choice has a price, it's just that the size of the price is different..."

Hearing Li Luo's comfort, Ah Qing shook his head and sighed helplessly: "It's really embarrassing that I have to rely on young people to comfort me... I have been in the abyss for so long, and there are still many things I can't figure out."

"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Life doesn't have many twenty years. If you keep getting stuck, it will be over." Li Luo said indifferently.

"Are you comforting me or making fun of me?" Hearing Li Luo say this, Ah Qing suddenly laughed: "I never thought that you are so young, but more pessimistic than me."

"Being too optimistic in the abyss is not a good thing." Li Luo said with deep understanding.

"That's true." Ah Qing nodded thoughtfully, obviously agreeing with what Li Luo said.

He picked up the electronic screen again and checked the time.

"18:57."

Although the conversation with Li Luo made Aqing feel much better, he still sighed softly.

"The time is almost up."

"Ah."

The two of them waited quietly until seven o'clock, watching the numbers on the electronic screen jump to "19:00".

However, the expected scream did not come. A Qing was stunned for a moment and repeatedly confirmed the time.

"Did you bring your electronic screen? What time is it now?" He asked Li Luo with an uneasy look on his face.

Li Luo took out his electronic screen and showed it to A Qing.

The number above is also set at "19:00".

After making sure that it wasn't his electronic screen that was at fault, A Qing looked sharply towards the building, then rushed over, kicked open the fences surrounding the building, and went straight to the door.

Without hesitation, he tore open the seal, then exerted force and pushed open the long-sealed door.

"Laoping! Is that you?"

The guilt accumulated over the past twenty years turned into an anxious inquiry. The voice traveled through the long river of time and landed in the conference room that had long been forgotten by everyone else.

(End of this chapter)