Chapter 66
Reveals the True Face
"In other words..."
Chen Yu shrugged and asked, "Nobody has any objections?"
On the long table.
The other car owners responded as follows:
"We'll definitely cooperate with Minister Li's arrangements! Any arrangement will do!"
"President Sun's considerations are thorough; listening to him is definitely the right thing to do!"
"Yes, yes, we have no objections, we'll listen to our two elder brothers!"
"It's a privilege to be able to collaborate with the Cleaner Group and the Lighthouse Academy!"
Amidst the chorus of agreement, there was a hint of fear and obsequiousness.
Li Hairong listened with a cigarette dangling from his lips and his eyes half-closed.
Sun Xueming smiled and pushed up his glasses, seemingly quite satisfied with the reaction.
It is worth mentioning that.
The only female car owner at the long table remained silent throughout.
She sat in the corner, with only two girls behind her...
She was around thirty years old, wearing a beige turtleneck sweater with a long cardigan over it. Her long hair was neatly tied into a low bun at the back of her head, with a few loose strands falling smoothly beside her ears.
Her face was unadorned, but fair-skinned, and she wore a pair of thin gold-rimmed glasses perched on her nose.
There are three reasons why Chen Yu noticed her.
1. She was the only female car owner in the entire venue.
2. She was the only car owner besides herself who had not yet expressed her willingness to cooperate.
3. From the moment Chen Yu stepped into the restaurant, her calm pupils contracted for a moment, as if in surprise.
"Sister Josh, aren't we going to say anything yet? I think Minister Li is getting a little angry!"
"Yeah, didn't we just agree that we also had to..."
"Shhh."
The only female driver, Josh gestured for his two teammates behind him to be quiet.
Li Hairong was somewhat displeased: "Dr. Qiao, what do you mean by this?"
Josh smiled slightly: "Minister Li, I just think we should at least figure out what our upcoming cooperation plan is, right? After all, the situation last night... wasn't optimistic..."
Sun Xueming slowly stood up, looked at the people at the table, and then at the crowded people around him.
Based on the available information,
"The mission involved 48 people, but this morning it was confirmed that only 32 survived!"
His gaze was grim: "That's right, 16 people died overnight!"
hiss--
Someone gasped in surprise.
Sixteen people.
That makes up a full third of the total population!!!
"and,"
Sun Xueming then changed the subject: "Did any of you notice the changes that have occurred at this villa this morning?"
"change?"
Everyone looked at each other, their eyes scanning the surroundings.
Before anyone could answer, Sun Xueming continued, "All the reflective surfaces, regardless of size, shattered without exception, as if attacked by some enormous force..."
"Several decorative vases in the hallway and living room, heavy ceramic pieces, were also shattered; even several oil paintings on the wall had broken frames and peeling paint scattered all over the floor!"
"The absence of signs of a struggle indicates that this was definitely not man-made!"
"More likely, it's some kind of...existence we don't yet understand! It unleashed its hatred in the night!"
At the long table, Chen Yu silently unscrewed a bottle of water, took a sip, and quietly watched him show off.
But Sun Xueming's words made many people even paler.
Everyone felt a strong sense of unease.
"Damn it, if I hide in the room, some kind of ghostly thing will crawl in; if I go out, there are these things outside that can break walls? Is there any way I can survive?"
"Damn it! What are we going to do! I saw several mummified corpses in the lobby this morning! This means those ghostly things really do drain people's yang energy!"
"If a third of them die in one night, wouldn't the entire army be wiped out in three days?!"
Sun Xueming raised his hand and gestured for everyone to calm down.
He squinted and continued, "During my observation, I noticed an interesting detail: the deaths last night were all concentrated in the other seven teams."
crucial moment!
Li Hairong stood up abruptly and exhaled the cigarette smoke!
He was over 1.8 meters tall with a muscular physique that exuded a powerful presence!
"That's right, the only team with everyone surviving is the Seventh Team, Haicheng Film Academy!"
"And it seems there are four people staying in room 204? With so many people in one room, shouldn't the risk be much higher? What... is going on?"
After he finished speaking, the restaurant fell silent.
Immediately, many eyes focused on Chen Yu and the people behind him.
The meaning couldn't be clearer.
Many people looked at Chen Yu and his group differently, as if they were staring at aliens in human skin.
"Hey! What do you mean?!"
Li Mengyao's eyebrows shot up, and she took a step forward!
Although Lin Yue's face was pale, she nodded vigorously and said softly, "It was Chen Yu who saved me, otherwise I would have been kidnapped last night..."
Shen Qingci also took a small half-step forward: "According to your logic, is living a crime?!"
"No, no, no..."
Sun Xueming smiled slightly: "Of course there's no sin in living, but this phenomenon is so strange that it's hard not to have reasonable suspicions."
"Is there some kind of...ghost slave hidden in your team...as mentioned in the rules?"
"Whoosh—"
A violent panic erupted throughout the venue!
Chen Yu narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "Are you trying to diagnose a ghost out of thin air, President Sun? Your standard of reasonable suspicion is more arbitrary than that of a ghost."
Sun Xueming pushed up his glasses: "Of course we won't wrong an innocent person for no reason. Minister Li and I have already discussed a preliminary plan that can both verify innocence and optimize resource allocation."
Behind him, a thin middle-aged man chimed in, "Our plan is to exchange room numbers, and our Lighthouse Society will move into room 204!"
Behind Li Hairong, a man in sunglasses stepped forward: "Unit 205 will be occupied by our Cleaner Group!"
The cleaner convoy, the lighthouse convoy—everyone was shouting:
"Yes! Give up the room! Who knows how they managed to get safe?"
"Exactly! Those women looked off; they kept circling around that kid. Could they be possessed by some evil spirit?"
"Make them change it! If they're afraid to change it, they have something to hide!"
Chen Yu watched them quietly as their expressions gradually turned ferocious!
Until this moment!
These two teams have finally revealed their true colors!
Original origin...
They worked in unison, pressing forward relentlessly, probably because they had noticed the unique features of the second floor!
In truth, this was Chen Yu's oversight. To avoid attracting attention, he threw all the corpses drained by the [Grand Tutor's Container] and the remains of the ghost faces from the second floor downstairs...
The original intention was to avoid drawing attention to the second floor, but it backfired. Compared to the carnage and horrific traces on the other floors, the second floor looked as clean as a safe floor...