I work as a security guard at a cemetery, and I overhear the dead chatting about getting rich quick.

When Lin Ye arrived at the residential area, a large crowd had already gathered downstairs.

It was just dawn.

More than thirty households stood in the open space, some wrapped in blankets, some in pajamas, their faces all looking increasingly grim.

Officer He leaned against the police car, holding a cup of soy milk in his hand.

Seeing Lin Ye come over, she handed it directly to him.

Lin Ye took it and took a puff.

"Is everyone awake?"

"woke up."

"Do you remember what happened last night?"

"I don't remember any of them."

Officer He pointed to the old eighteen-story building.

"At 3:13 a.m., 36 households, 68 people."

"Open the door yourself, go downstairs yourself."

"There are elderly people and children."

"With eyes completely closed."

Lin Ye looked up.

"No one is hurt?"

"no."

"What about bumps and knocks?"

"No, not at all."

Officer He's expression became even stranger as he said this.

"There's an old lady who has trouble walking and has to hold onto the railing when she goes downstairs."

"Last night when she was sleepwalking, two people were standing on either side of her, sandwiching her in the middle."

"It's just like we rehearsed it."

In the monitoring room, Lin Ye watched the video recording from beginning to end.

3:13.

The first door opened.

Then the second door.

The third door.

more and more.

Some people will look back before they come out.

A middle-aged woman walked into the kitchen with her eyes closed and turned each of the gas stove knobs one by one.

A man unplugs an electric kettle that is charging.

Several households even turned off their air conditioners.

Then everyone went up the fire escape.

No one is using the elevator.

They didn't rush or push when going downstairs.

Children and the elderly are all in the middle.

After arriving at the open space, everyone stood still for five minutes.

Then queue up to go home.

Lin Ye paused the video.

"This isn't the first time, is it?"

Officer He glanced at him.

"We've found out."

"Eight households were there the day before yesterday."

"What about the day before yesterday?"

"Four households."

There's nothing further ahead.

In other words, this thing is rapidly getting stronger as the second spiritual tide erupts.

Lin Ye rewound the camera.

A seven or eight-year-old boy's shoelace came undone as he walked to the top of the stairs.

His eyes remained closed the entire time.

A woman next to him, whose eyes were also closed, stopped, squatted down, and re-tied his clothes.

Lin Ye stared for a few seconds.

"This doesn't seem like it's harming anyone."

Officer He smiled bitterly.

"Getting sixty-eight people out of bed in the middle of the night, isn't that enough?"

"If I really wanted to hurt them, none of them would have fallen last night."

He stood up.

"Take me inside and have a look."

The building was built more than ten years ago.

The fire protection system has been overhauled once.

The elevator has been replaced.

The hallway announcement system has also been changed.

Lin Ye walked down from the eighteenth floor, with Lingting always on.

Seventeenth floor.

There was no movement.

The fifteenth floor.

still none.

As I reached the corner on the ninth floor, a very soft sound entered my ears.

"Don't push..."

Lin Ye stopped.

Officer He almost bumped into him.

Lin Ye raised his hand to signal for quiet.

A few seconds later.

"The elderly go first."

"Don't let go, kid."

The sound was from afar.

It's not on the ninth floor.

Follow the old wiring pipes in the wall all the way down.

Lin Ye turned around.

"basement."

The two went down to the basement level.

The property manager was already there waiting.

He paused for a moment when he heard that the fire equipment would be inspected.

"This system hasn't been used for a long time."

An old-fashioned fire alarm broadcasting host was piled up in the corner.

The new control system is in the adjacent server room.

The old host was not disassembled, only the power was cut off.

The dust is very thick.

Lin Ye approached.

The sound became clear immediately.

"Don't take the elevator."

"Take the stairs."

"Don't panic..."

Intermittently.

It's very light.

It's like someone who's run out of energy to shout.

Lin Ye touched the cabinet door.

"Has there been any fires here before?"

The property manager's expression changed slightly.

"It happened once ten years ago."

Has anyone died there?

One person died.

The manager remained silent for a moment.

"Liu Jianguo, the former night shift supervisor."

"That day, the electrical meter box on the third floor caught fire, and he knocked on every door."

"Most people have come down."

"He went back to find a place that no one was coming out, but the smoke was too thick, so he didn't come down again."

Officer He looked at Lin Ye.

"It's him?"

"It feels like it."

Lin Ye didn't rule out the possibility of a definitive answer.

What a lingering soul can leave behind has a lot to do with the obsessions it held before death.

Liu Jianguo's last thought was probably still about evacuation.

There's just one thing that doesn't make sense.

If it's simply a lingering obsession from that past fire, why was there no movement for ten years, but suddenly started pulling everyone down from the building these past few days?

Lin Ye walked around the basement.

No open flame was detected.

The gas company was also called in.

The entire building was inspected.

normal.

Circuit.

normal.

Firefighting.

Aside from the old host, there are no problems.

By noon, Officer He was leaning against the stairwell eating bread.

"They don't really just drag people out to practice once every night, do they?"

"That makes it quite responsible."

"Don't tell."

Officer He glanced upstairs.

"If property management companies had this kind of execution capability, they wouldn't even need to notify people about fire drills."

Lin Ye didn't smile.

He always felt that something was missing.

If Liu Jianguo's lingering spirit is merely repeating his actions from ten years ago, his path should be the same as it was back then.

The monitoring system shows that residents will turn off the gas before going downstairs.

The fire was caused by an electrical circuit.

Why turn off the gas?

In the afternoon, Lin Ye asked the gas company to retrieve the underground pipeline network map.

An old supervisor happened to pass by on the north side of the building.

It was buried very deep.

No leaks were detected during the day.

By nightfall, neither the Seventh Division nor the police had left.

Lin Ye simply moved a chair and sat in the lobby on the first floor.

Officer He glanced at the time.

"Do we have to wait until 3:13?"

"uncertain."

"Can I take a nap?"

"what ever."

"Call me if you need anything."

Officer He had just closed his eyes.

A sound suddenly came from underground.

Click.

It's very light.

Lin Ye suddenly looked up.

It is not the soul.

It is a metal.

His spiritual hearing instantly pressed down to the ground.

soil.

Concrete.

pipeline.

There was also a surge of spiritual energy.

After the second spiritual tide, many previously dormant small spiritual veins underground began to become active.

One of them was squeezing past the gas main pipe.

The pipe wall is under stress.

A second sound was produced.

Click.

Lin Ye stood up.

"stand up."

Officer He opened his eyes.

"arrive?"

"More troublesome than that."

Lin Ye had already started walking outside.

"Contact the gas company, the supervisor on the north side of the pass."

"Now?"

"Now."

"reason?"

"The pipe is going to burst."

Officer He didn't waste any words and immediately picked up the phone.

Almost at the same time.

The entire building fell silent.

Followed by.

The sound of a door lock being opened came from the second floor.

Click.

Third floor.

Fourth floor.

more and more.

Officer He looked up.

"It's starting again?"

Lin Ye glanced at the time.

9:47 PM.

It was more than five hours earlier than the previous three times.

The first group of residents have already entered the stairwell.

With eyes closed.

His expression was calm.

Even though the old fire department's loudspeaker was clearly not powered, Lin Ye heard that hoarse voice again.

"Go downstairs."

"quick."

This time, it was much more urgent than this morning.

Lin Ye suddenly understood.

It is not repeating the past.

It knew something was going to happen to the building.

"Don't wake them."

A police officer standing nearby was about to wake a man when his hand froze in mid-air.

"What?"

"Let them go."

"This is sleepwalking."

"They are more orderly than when they are awake."

Lin Ye pointed outside the door.

"They'll meet you at the exit."

"Tell everyone not to turn on the lights or use any electrical appliances."

"The main switch is cut off from the outside."

Officer He realized what was happening.

"Gas?"

"It may have already leaked."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was overjoyed.

Firefighters, gas company personnel, and police officers acted simultaneously.

Residents left in batches.

The sixth floor.

The seventh floor.

The tenth floor.

Everyone followed the fixed route downwards.

It's not chaotic.

No one fell.

On the eleventh floor, a little boy suddenly opened his eyes.

He was stunned for two seconds.

The next moment, he turned around and ran upstairs.

The police officers shouted from below.

"return!"

The little boy rushed upwards crying.

"Doubao is still at home!"

Lin Ye had already caught up with them.

"What kind of bean bun?"

"My cat!"

"..."

He knew it.

Lin Ye took two steps to cross half a flight of stairs.

The difference in physical condition becomes completely apparent after the body undergoes a thorough cleansing and marrow cleansing process.

Eleventh floor.

The twelfth floor.

Thirteenth floor.

If he had been drinking like that before, his lungs would have started burning long ago.

His breathing is still steady.

The little boy had just run up to the fourteenth floor when he was pulled back by the boy.

"key."

"The door isn't closed!"

Lin Ye carried him inside.

A faint odor could already be smelled in the room.

Gas has started being supplied to the building.

"Bean bag!"

A cat was meowing coming from under the bed.

Lin Ye bent down, pulled out an orange cat, and put it in the child's arms.

A muffled thud suddenly came from downstairs.

boom.

The pipe support broke.

In Ling Ting's ears, the crack in the ground instantly widened.

Lin Ye's expression changed.

"Walk."

He grabbed the child and rushed out.

The fire door on the fourteenth floor got stuck due to a slight vibration in the building.

Can't push.

The child cried even harder.

"uncle……"

"Don't cry."

Lin Ye placed his hand next to the door lock.

It wasn't smashed.

The gas can already be smelled on this floor; hitting it with metal is not a good idea.

Ling Ting sank in.

Locking tongue.

Door frame.

Deformation location.

A few seconds later, he found the thinnest stress seam.

"Hug the cat tightly."

"oh."

Lin Ye grabbed the doorknob and braced his feet against the wall.

Spiritual energy flowed into his arm.

He twisted it sharply along the seam.

click!

The locking tongue came out directly from the deformed latch.

The door opened.

The two rushed downstairs.

Just as the last resident was being ushered out of the lobby, the sound from the old public address system in the basement suddenly stopped.

Lin Ye slowed his pace.

A very soft voice came from inside the wall.

"The number of people is correct."

next second.

boom!

The basement level suddenly shook.

The gas main pipe completely ruptured.

Fortunately, the main valve has been shut off.

The residual gas only triggered a small-scale deflagration.

The fire sprinkler system activated instantly.

The fire was contained in the underground equipment area and did not spread to the upper floors.

Lin Ye carried the child out of the building.

The orange cat in the boy's arms was already terrified and its fur stood on end.

Officer He ran over, glanced at the cat, and then looked at Lin Ye.

"Weren't you going in to arrest someone?"

"By the way."

"Is it even considered a person?"

Lin Ye put the child down.

"Family members"

Officer He couldn't help but laugh.

After the fire was completely extinguished, Lin Ye went back to the basement.

The old fire alarm control panel, which had been without power for ten years, was deformed from the heat of the explosion.

He stood in front and listened for a long time.

There was no more sound.

Liu Jianguo is gone.

I'll go back to the Seventh Division tonight.

Lin Ye didn't go to sleep first.

According to the new agreement, he gave a brief account of what had happened to all the spirits.

When Wan Ling was talking about how he could detect the crack in the gas pipeline through the ground, he suddenly interrupted.

"etc."

"What's wrong?"

"When did you hear that pipe was most likely to break?"

"almost."

"and then?"

"Notify the valve to be shut off."

Wanling remained silent for a while.

"You're going to use this to save people?"

"Otherwise what?"

"waste."

Lin Ye raised an eyebrow.

"You think you could use ancient gas pipes for fighting?"

I meant the seam.

Wanling's voice slowed down.

"There's a crack in the thing."

"It also has spiritual energy."

"Of course, people do it too."

Lin Ye didn't say anything.

"Starting tomorrow."

I'll teach you something.

"What?"

"The Flow-Severing Hand".

Wanling chuckled.

"Since we can hear when it will stop."

"next time."

"Just let it break yourself."