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"It's OK. The fire truck should be here soon. There are also special fire doors separating the floors of the office building, so it shouldn't be a problem."

Inside the hall, someone was directing the remaining people to evacuate. A security guard saw Anzhe standing still and hurried over to pull him.

"Go out, young man. Don't even think about going over to watch the fun. The fire up there is too big, and it's very likely to spread down."

Anzhe nodded to the security guard: "Got it, I'll be out right away."

"Well, be careful not to panic and bump into others."

The security guard said a few words in a hurry and went to direct the evacuation of other people. Anzhe looked at the crowd leaving the hall in a hurry, and when no one was paying attention, he quickly rushed into the emergency passage and ran upstairs.

At this time, it seemed that except for those trapped on the thirteenth floor and above by the fire, everyone else had left, so Anzhe took the black cat up the stairs quickly;

Only he knew that the people upstairs were not just trapped by the fire, but it was very likely that they had been dragged into the Nibelung!

The higher he went, the thicker the smoke in the corridor. The smoke was already flowing down the corridor. Anzhe bent down and covered his mouth and nose and continued to climb. He soon arrived at the safe exit on the twelfth floor which was completely covered by smoke.

Even he couldn't go any higher, because the passage further up was already filled with thick smoke and heat, and there was a severe lack of oxygen.

With a slight flash in his eyes, Anzhe skillfully took off his contact lenses. His golden eyes narrowed slightly, and he stepped forward and kicked open the isolation door of the safety passage on the twelfth floor.

Suddenly, a raging world of fire appeared behind the door, and all you could see and hear was burning flames and crackling sounds from explosions.

"Are you afraid of fire?"

The young man tilted his head slightly and looked at the space in front of him which was full of flames, and suddenly asked the black cat on his shoulder.

"Of course I'm afraid, but this level of burns won't kill me..."

The black cat answered, and Anzhe no longer hesitated and rushed in!

The space rippled at this moment, and Anzhe's figure rushing into the sea of ​​fire seemed to have escaped into a different space and disappeared in an instant!

squeak~

With a slight sound, as if there was an invisible force pushing, the isolation door that Anzhe kicked open suddenly and automatically closed again...

……

Kasumigaoka Utaha was in a bad mood at the moment.

She was tired after a long day and could have happily gone home to rest, but she didn't expect a fire to suddenly break out downstairs.

She was the first to notice the fire as she happened to be standing outside the passageway waiting for a meeting with Machida Sonoko, but by then it was too late;

The fire downstairs had fiercely occupied the entire floor, and thick smoke and flames were sweeping up everywhere, trapping them upstairs.

She had no choice but to rush into the conference room and interrupt the editors' summary meeting. Then a group of people were in a very bad mood as they watched the fire that was about to rush to the front of the conference room.

Machida Yuanzi said with a headache: "Why did the fire suddenly start? It's over... The report I just finished is still in the computer downstairs..."

The damage caused by this fire was really too great, and Naotsugu Tanuma and Taiji Tanuma on the side also had extremely ugly expressions on their faces.

"Instead of thinking about that, let's think about how to leave. The fire is burning fiercely and has already reached the thirteenth floor."

Utaha Kasumigaoka glanced at the door of the conference room, where the editors were cutting their wet suit jackets into strips to block the gaps in the door and windows to prevent the thick smoke outside from seeping in.

Machida Sonoko also took off her blazer, cut it into pieces, ran to the tea room on the side of the conference room to wet it, and distributed it to the people around her. She also handed a piece to Kasumigaoka Utaha, indicating that she should cover her mouth and nose with it.

"Still no signal on your phone?"

Machida Sonoko asked and everyone shook their heads and frowned.

When they realized that the fire was out of control, the people upstairs tried to call the police, but they found that everyone’s cell phone had no signal.

"It's strange... why can't the signal be received..."

The fourteen editors who were attending the summary meeting in the conference room were all talking quietly. Although they felt a little strange, they did not panic in the face of the fire.

After all, everyone has experienced fire drills many times. Although they were trapped, everyone remained calm and protected themselves while waiting for the firefighters to rescue them.

Kasumigaoka Utaha reached out and touched the door of the conference room, and found that the temperature of the door had risen a lot. It was obvious that the outside was completely covered by thick smoke, and there might even be a fire spreading up.

She then walked to the window and leaned out to call for help.

But when she looked out the window, she was suddenly stunned.

There was no one on the street outside, which was originally very prosperous and bustling!

The vehicles were parked in place, there were no vehicles on the road, the advertising screens between the buildings were still flashing advertisements, but strangely no sound was coming out, and there was no trace of pedestrians on the road!

I don't know when the sky became darker and darker, and the whole world seemed to be suddenly quiet at this moment, giving people an indescribable feeling of dead silence and depression.

"Where are the people outside?"

The girl let out a low cry, attracting the attention of the people around her. They all walked to the window of the meeting room and looked at the eerie silence outside and fell into confusion.

"H-Have they evacuated so far? This is too much. We don't have any bombs here..."

Machida Sonoko spoke in surprise, looking at the dead silence outside the window. For some reason, she suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

Everyone looked out the window. Maybe it was due to the thick smoke outside, but a layer of haze formed in the air, making it even harder to see what was happening further away.

People only saw some light flickering faintly, which seemed to be a flow of moving cars.

This made everyone feel a little relieved, but the next moment, Kasumigaoka Utaha's breathing stagnated and her pupils suddenly contracted!

She looked at the thick haze in the distance, and it seemed as if a huge and ferocious figure twisted and flew past in the air, and then quickly disappeared into the haze!

……

Chapter 63: The Terror in the Dark Room

The wet cloth in her hand felt cool. Kasumigaoka Utaha blinked her eyes and looked at the thick smog outside for five or six seconds, but she didn't find anything unusual.

The girl shook her head and looked away, feeling even worse.

Could it be that I am hallucinating and seeing things wrong?

If it weren't for the fire, she would have been returning home with Anzhe by now.

As for the losses of the publishing house, she didn't care at all. It didn't affect her much anyway.

I checked the temperature of the conference room door again. Even the door handle was very hot. I could imagine that the outside of the door must have been completely turned into a fire.

"We can only wait for the firefighters to come and rescue us, or we can rush out from the back door of the conference room. As long as we rush through the distance of more than 30 meters, we can go up to the rooftop via the stairs, which is safer than staying in this conference room."

Machida Sonoko made two suggestions, and many editors paused after hearing them.

“But it would be very dangerous to walk through the fire. Once the door is opened, thick smoke will definitely rush in. If we can’t get to the rooftop, we probably won’t be able to get back to this meeting room.” Tanuma Taiji said, adjusting his glasses.

"I also think that would be very dangerous. Let's stay here and wait for rescue."

Editor-in-chief Naotsugu Tanuma also spoke up, his face looking a little grim, because the loss this time was indeed quite big for him.

No one objected when they heard this, and the meeting room fell silent. One could even faintly hear crackling sounds coming from outside the door, and the temperature in the room slowly rose.

Everyone was in a bad mood because the lights in the conference room had been turned off long ago. The lighting in the room was extremely poor at this moment, and the only light coming in from the windows seemed extremely weak because of the strange gray sky outside.

The room was therefore very dark, and one could only barely see other people's faces when they were within one meter away.

In this situation, with the threat of a fire outside that could endanger lives, some people finally lost their patience.

"How long will this take? I didn't hear any sound of the fire truck..." said an editor, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Don't worry, it's only been more than ten minutes. They probably just haven't arrived yet. The fire door in the conference room should be able to hold up for a long time..."

Someone said this while checking the time on his phone. However, when the light of the phone came on, Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes suddenly shrank.

"Ms. Machida, how many people were there in the conference room just now?"

The girl pulled Machida Sonoko back two steps, looked around, and asked with a trembling voice.

"Huh? There are fourteen of us including me, what's wrong?" Machida Sonoko replied.

Kasumigaoka Utaha counted the figures hidden in the dim light around her and felt her throat a little dry!

Fourteen editors, which means there are fifteen in total including herself;

But why did she count three times and there were... seventeen people in the room?

Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but swallow her saliva. She had felt that there seemed to be too many people, but because she couldn't see their faces clearly, she didn't care and naturally didn't count them.

But when the phone lit up just now, she saw a slightly unfamiliar face, a girl she didn't know;

Although she didn't know these editors, this girl didn't wear the kind of business shirts that Machida Sonoko and the others wore, but an ordinary T-shirt...

At this time, as Kasumigaoka Utaha's words rang out, the other editors also noticed this situation, and for a moment the entire conference room became extremely quiet!

“Who, who…”

Naotsugu Tanuma suddenly felt someone putting his hand on his shoulder. He made a strange sound and subconsciously turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, shining it at the person behind him.

Suddenly, a hideous, pale and terrifying smiling face appeared in front of him!

Although the woman was grinning, Naotsugu Tanuma recognized her.

Three years ago, he turned this girl into his first plaything, and took away everything that belonged to her just like he did to Yumiko...

Then, after learning everything, the girl suddenly disappeared when she was about to come to his office one day. Her body was found in the park downstairs the next day. The cause of death was sudden myocardial infarction.

After that, Naotsugu Tanuma laughed for several days because the methods he had prepared to deal with this woman were no longer useful.

But now...

Looking at the terrifying grinning face in front of him, Naotsugu Tanuma felt his heart skip a beat!

As his pupils shrank, the woman smiled and opened her mouth, but her mouth kept opening wider and wider, soon exceeding the size of a human face...

The people in the conference room suddenly heard a howl from Naotsugu Tanuma, which sounded extremely desperate and frightened. Then a sound of bones being chewed was heard, which made people feel creepy!

Taiji Tanuma, who was closer, felt a warm liquid splashing on his face.

He wiped it in panic, but smelled a bloody smell...

Everyone in the conference room was frightened, but no one knew what had happened, because when everyone heard the screams and looked back, Naotsugu Tanuma was still standing there.

"Uncle!? What happened to you? Are you okay?"

Taiji Tanuma was shocked by the blood on his hand. He took out his mobile phone and shone it on Naotsugu Tanuma, and found a wound on the latter's wrist.

"No, it's okay... I just accidentally scratched my hand with a nail..."

Blood was flowing from Naotsugu Tanuma's fat hand. Everyone patted their chests when they heard this, thinking to themselves, "It's just a scratch on your hand, you don't have to scream so miserably..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha was slightly stunned;

She was startled and her thoughts were interrupted. Now she suddenly realized that there were only sixteen people in the room...

"Sixteen?"

The girl spoke in doubt, and Machida Yuanzi patted her chest and said, "Shi-chan, did you count wrong?"

Tanuma Taiji on the side also smiled and said, "Yes, I counted them too, there are only fifteen people."

As they were saying this, Kasumigaoka Utaha and all the editors present were suddenly speechless. They stared at Tanuma Taiji with wide eyes, with a frightened expression.

"What, what's wrong?"

Seeing everyone shining their cell phone flashlights in their direction, Taiji Tanuma made a strange sound.

The people opposite him, including Kasumigaoka Utaha, all swallowed their saliva, and someone said in a dry voice:

"You, behind you..."

Tanuma Taiji's whole body stiffened involuntarily;

The next moment, a hand slowly stretched out from behind him and slowly hugged his neck, and a cold feeling suddenly came from behind!

The temperature of that body was as cold as that of a dead person...

……

Chapter 63+1 The Other Side of the World

It’s hard to describe what kind of scene it was, but everyone who saw it felt their bodies go cold.

The temperature in the conference room, which had become stuffy due to the raging fire outside, began to drop rapidly, making people feel numb as if they were immersed in cold lake water.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was surprised to find that her clothes had become wet, and there were drops of water floating in the space inside the conference room!

"Who are you?"

Machida Sonoko looked at the figure behind Tanuma Taiji with trembling lips. It was a girl with disheveled hair that reached her waist and her body was wet.