A ghost storyteller can lose his life but cannot lose his job

Chapter 119 The Faceless Man

A weird feeling came over him. It would be strange if Zhong Xie didn't know that something happened in the staff dormitory. He stared at the live broadcast on his mobile phone screen, then reached out from the window of the toll booth and took out his raincoat and put it on.

The anchor was just broadcasting live in the woods. Probably because he couldn't tell the direction in the heavy rain and due to the instigation of the audience, he entered the staff dormitory near the highway toll station and encountered a strange thing.

Judging from the comparison between the live broadcast and Lin Youlan’s selfie, the host must have set a live broadcast delay, so it is very likely that we can know what happened before and after the photo was taken from the live broadcast.

"Don't scare me, host. I'm not a ghost story teller. I won't easily get involved in ghost stories."

As the anchor was talking, he wanted to turn around to see what the viewers meant by the female ghost. As soon as he turned around, he saw two women at the end of the dormitory corridor, holding up their phones and taking selfies.

They were holding a bloody head in their hands, using it as a fashionable item for selfies, as if they were preparing to post it on their Moments to show off.

The host's eyes widened for a moment, and he quietly shrank back to the corner of the stairs, wanting to quickly leave this strange building while the two female ghosts were not paying attention to him.

As he turned around, he completely turned off the sound of his live broadcast and tiptoed down the stairs.

The entire corridor on the second floor was extremely quiet, so quiet that he could hear the conversation between the two female ghosts.

"Hey, there seems to be someone else in this photo? There are no men on duty today, right?"

"No, no, it can't be a strange creature, right?"

"I seem to hear some rustling sounds coming from the front. Should we go over there and take a look?"

The anchor covered his mouth. He had quietly walked to the middle of the stairs and could even smell the fresh air coming in from the open dormitory door on the first floor.

That was the smell of heavy rain, which was continuously carried into the dormitory building by the strong wind.

At this time, the assistant who had just finished using the restroom on the first floor came out and saw the anchor standing on the stairs, so he smiled and asked, "Hey Brother Liu, didn't you say you wanted to go upstairs to take a look? Why..."

He stopped talking halfway because he saw the host Brother Liu's face turned pale and he tried hard to make a "hush" gesture to tell him to shut up.

"Yeah, there really is someone here."

A head fell from the gap in the stairwell, but the ends of the hair were just right to be entangled on the bottom railing, so the whole head was hovering in front of the assistant like a yo-yo, looking at the two with a smile: "It's raining so hard, why don't you stay in this dormitory to take shelter from the rain?"

At the same time, Zhong Xie, wearing a raincoat, had rushed out of the toll station. He asked Zhang Zita to stay alone at the toll station to look after the driver and the remaining toll collectors, and he went to the dormitory building to check the situation.

In this situation, dispersing again is not a good option, as the defense force in the toll station area is too weak. However, Zhong Xie certainly would not be able to take two ordinary people into the staff dormitory.

People might have started dying in the staff dormitory, and bringing ordinary people in would undoubtedly be sending them off. He couldn't completely ignore the toll station, so Zhang Zita had to stay behind.

Wearing headphones and listening to the voice from the live broadcast, he quickly ran into the rain and followed the direction where Lin Youlan and the other two had left.

One could sense the chaos on the host's side just by listening to the sound. It seemed that the host, Brother Liu, and his assistant wanted to escape directly from the dormitory door, but they didn't know what happened and the dormitory door suddenly closed. They had another race of life and death with the two and a half women, and as a result, the dormitory door on the other side was also closed.

He could no longer hear the noise behind him. The sound in the headphones suddenly became smaller, but it did not disappear completely. This meant that the live broadcast room was not "taken away". The host probably found a place to hide.

The 2.5 people of "Lin Youlan" did not seem to want to kill the two men quickly, but seemed to be playing with their prey, which gave the two anchors a glimmer of hope.

"Wait a minute, why haven't you arrived yet?"

Zhong Xie stopped while running in the heavy rain. According to his original observation, the staff dormitory was only a few minutes away from the toll station. With his running speed, he should not have run for so long even if he was disturbed by the rain.

He looked around, and all he saw was the same thick rain curtain, making it impossible to see what was happening five meters away. The wind in his face kept splashing rain into Zhong Xie's raincoat, making his face and eyes full of water.

Zhong Xie wiped the rain off his face and looked behind him. Through the heavy rain, he saw the shadow of a building looming, about a hundred meters away.

The building stood firm in the heavy rain, and just standing there gave passers-by a strong sense of security.

Why is the staff dormitory behind me?
Did I go too far or is there something wrong with this dormitory?

Zhong Xie frowned, but seeing that there was only endless heavy rain around him, he could only run towards the dormitory step by step.

It feels like a wilderness traveler who encounters an inn just as night is about to fall. Even if he notices that there is something wrong with the inn, he has no choice but to go in and take a look.

Soon, the staff dormitory appeared in front of Zhong Xie. The building was not very tall, with only four floors. As the dark clouds blocked the sunlight, the entire dormitory building was shrouded in darkness and heavy rain, making it look particularly gloomy.

The doors on both sides of the dormitory building were locked. There were only three or four rooms on the first floor with windows, but they were all covered with anti-theft fences.

Zhong Xie tried it and was surprised to find that his strength was not enough to pry open the security fence. He could only find other ways to get in.

He climbed up the security fence and wanted to go directly to the second floor to break the window glass and enter the dormitory building, but after he started climbing, he realized that the pressure of the heavy rain was unprecedentedly great.

The thing pressing down on Zhong Xie seemed not to be rain, but molten lead and iron, with extremely high density. It didn't hurt him, but it had a strong pulling force that wanted to pull him off the fence.

Zhong Xie became ruthless, tensed all his muscles, and climbed up quickly. Soon he was standing on the upper edge of the security fence, holding on to the outer wall with his hands, he jumped up with all his strength to reach the outer edge of the window sill.

According to the height he predicted, his jumping ability would allow him to easily grab the second-floor window, but this was not the case in reality. He only had a few fingers holding onto the outer edge, and there was no support under his feet.

The rain continued to hit the window. The already smooth outer edge of the window became even more slippery after being soaked in water. Zhong Xie used all his fingers to exert force, but he still slowly slid under the impact of the rain and was about to fall from the second floor.

At this time, he heard the low-voiced conversation between his assistant and the anchor in his headphones.

"Did you hear something coming this way?"

"Shh!"

Before Zhong Xie could react to the live broadcast, he heard the window on the second floor open.

A hand grabbed his hand that was clinging to the window sill and pulled him up with force.

Zhong Xie wanted to look up to see who that person was, but the rain was getting heavier and he couldn't open his eyes.

It was not until half of his body was hanging on the windowsill that he was able to open his eyes and see everything in front of him.

The windows were wide open, but the door was closed.

The room was empty, as if the person who had just pulled him was a ghost.

Zhong Xie climbed into the room from the window, closed the window, then took off his raincoat which was soaked by the rain and threw it aside.

The raincoat didn't help in the end, as all his clothes were soaked.

He stood at the windowsill and looked at the room with the help of the flashlight on his mobile phone. There were not many things in the room, only a small bed, a desk and a wardrobe. It was obvious that the room was designed to provide employees with a place to rest during the day, not for them to live here.

Zhong Xie bent down to look at the ground. He saw a wet footprint extending from the door to the window, then seemed to stop at the windowsill for a while, and then the footprint disappeared completely.

There was no one in the room except him, but Zhong Xie was sure that something had helped him to climb up to the second floor and enter the dormitory room.

Judging from the wet footprints, it seemed that this person walked in from the corridor, and when he saw that he was hanging on the windowsill and in danger, he stepped forward and pulled him up to the second floor, and then disappeared.

No, not disappeared.

Zhong Xie turned his head and looked at the wall below the window sill. He also saw a wet front half shoe print on the wall, which meant that the guy may have climbed onto the window sill and jumped down directly. Judging from the guy's rain-stained footprints, "Ta" was not always in the dormitory building, but came from outside the dormitory building?
After helping me, you jumped out of the window and left?
Zhong Xie leaned over to look downstairs. There was no one there, so he looked up again. He just happened to see a dark figure in the rain, climbing up quickly on the raindrops and soon disappearing into the dark clouded sky.

Zhong Xie: “???”

What is all this mess?

He felt the weirdness of the dormitory building, but he was not afraid at all. Instead, he returned to the room with even more excitement and opened all the cabinets in the room.

In the closet he found a unisex work uniform, a work ID with a photo, and a spare key to the room in the corner.

He grabbed his work ID, which showed a pretty woman smiling at the camera.

Name: Guo Bingbing
This is the room of employee Guo Bingbing. Apart from this, Zhong Xie did not find any useful information.

Although he could feel that there was something wrong with the entire dormitory building, he didn't think it was related to the dormitory building's "past".

This place doesn't look like it's hiding any secrets, such as how many people died in the past, and then vengeful spirits were born, causing it to be haunted, and in the end it was discovered that the survivors of that year were deliberately making things mysterious and punishing those who had a guilty conscience.

Heavy rain.

Some weird creature sneaked in.

It's that simple.

Zhong Xie took off his wet shirt, wiped his body with the towel hanging on the hanger, and then wanted to change into the work clothes.

Unfortunately, it was too small for him to wear, so he could only wring out his original clothes and hang them on the hanger to dry for a while.

However, he did not wait and released Kuster directly. He walked out of the room with his upper body naked and let Kuster lead the way to search the dormitory building.

However, after half an hour he searched the entire building and found nothing else.

He was the only one in the entire building. There was no Lin Youlan, no Jiang Shuran, no anchor Brother Liu, and no assistant.

And there aren't any weird creatures.

The live broadcast on the mobile phone was disconnected shortly after Zhong Xie entered the dormitory building. It seems that someone reported that the live broadcast content involved bloody violence, or someone may have called the police and the Ghost Story Bureau banned the live broadcast.

It is also possible that the host himself has gone offline. In any case, there are only five simple words "The host is gone" in the live broadcast room.

Zhong Xie strolled from the fourth floor to the first floor again, and confirmed that there was nothing unusual in the dormitory building, so he had to return to Guo Bingbing's room.

His shirt was not dry yet, so he took out his cell phone to check the messages. He had been trying to contact Lin Youlan and Jiang Shuran for the past half hour, but received no response.

Zhang Zita, on the other hand, was able to answer his questions normally, which somewhat dispelled his suspicion that there was something wrong with him.

But this time when he turned on the phone, he noticed something wrong.

When did he make a video call to Lin Youlan?
We talked for another three minutes?

Zhong Xie frowned and took the initiative to make a video call, then he saw the words "You have hung up" displayed on the phone.

I hung up?

Shouldn’t it normally be “the other party has hung up the phone”?

The weird feeling of being in the dormitory building reached its peak at this moment. The depression in Zhong Xie's heart made him not want to stay in this room anymore, so his blood boiled, he grabbed his shirt and his raincoat and jumped down from the second floor to the ground.

After breathing in the fresh, rain-soaked air from outside, Zhong Xie suddenly felt much better. When he opened his phone again, he saw many chat records between himself and Lin Youlan.

Zhong: What's going on over there? Why did you take so long?

Lin: There was a strange creature in the dormitory. I have already dealt with it. I will go back to the toll station later.

Zhong: I'm here to see you. Wait for me in the dormitory building.

Lin: Okay.

five minutes later.

Zhong: There seems to be other people in this dormitory building, a host and his assistant. They are both scared. Let’s take them with us later.

Lin: OK, where are you? Why didn't I hear your voice? When did you enter the dormitory building?

Zhong: I just came in. I chased the anchor to the second floor and stopped him. You guys wait for me at the first floor door.

There were no other chat records after that, probably because "Zhong Xie" and "Lin Youlan" had already met, so there was no need to talk about things on the phone.

Zhong Xie felt even more uneasy. After realizing that "he" would no longer contact Lin Youlan via mobile phone, he quickly opened the chat with Zhang Zitai on the app.

Sure enough, the chat history has changed.

Zhong: Come quickly, there was an accident in the dormitory building, Lin Youlan and Jiang Shuran were both injured, and a strange creature escaped.

Zhang: Is it serious? I'll come right over. What about the drivers and toll collectors at the toll booth?
Zhong: Don't worry about it, just come to the dormitory building. That strange creature has no face, don't look it in the eye, and don't believe what it says.

Zhang: Right away!

Someone stole my "identity"?
After reading the two chat records, Zhong Xie made a judgment in his mind, but he didn't know why the chat records between "Zhong Xie" and Lin Youlan and Zhang Zita were displayed on his mobile phone.

But he has realized the seriousness of the problem. That guy wants to trick Zhang Zita from the toll station into the dormitory building, so the toll station is in a state where there is no ghost guard.

Drivers and toll collectors are likely to be in danger!

Thinking of this, he looked back at the dormitory building and ran quickly towards the toll booth.

There is nothing to investigate here, so let's go back to the toll station first. Maybe we can run into some strange creatures that want to harm ordinary people.

Zhong Xie ran wildly in the rain, heading towards the toll booth, until his front was blocked by a large cloud of white bullets.

"caught you!"

Zhang Zitai's voice rang in his ears, and Zhong Xie suddenly realized something. He hurriedly dodged to the side to avoid the energy attack of the barrage machine.

Looking at the craters on the ground, Zhong Xie couldn't help but curse in his heart that Zhang Zitai was so cruel, but another thought emerged in his mind.

Taking advantage of the interval between attacks, he took out his mobile phone and turned on the selfie mode, and he finally couldn't let go of the tension in his heart.

Sure enough, in front of the camera was a face without any facial features.

Now he is the Faceless Man.

(End of this chapter)