"Manager Xu, let’s cut to the chase, where exactly are you taking me?" Wu Liang strolled casually, suddenly catching Xu Qingling off guard with his question.
She then responded awkwardly, "What are you saying? Wasn’t I taking you to see the boss?"
As soon as she said this, Wu Liang stopped in his tracks.
With a dazzling smile, he pointed to the path he had come from and sarcastically remarked, "This road is unexpectedly long, isn’t it?"
Before Xu Qingling could explain further, Wu Liang continued revealing what he’d noticed.
"Each of my steps is exactly half a meter. According to my calculations, our straight-line distance should have exceeded the length of the Heaven and Earth building, yet there’s no end in sight ahead."
"Where exactly are we going?"
In fact, Wu Liang had sensed something was amiss a minute ago.
The straight-line distance he walked inside the building was actually longer than the building itself!
There are only two possibilities: either his sensory judgment has been compromised, or it’s a Ghost Wall.
He’s very familiar with Ghost Walls!
But there was no such feeling here, and even the Mist Ghost within the Ghost Compendium clearly indicated that no Fierce Ghost power was causing a Ghost Wall.
It could only be Xu Qingling playing tricks.
"Interesting, Mr. Wu actually discovered the problem so quickly, this is a first." Without any hesitation, Xu Qingling admitted that she was the one playing tricks.
But then she changed her tone, speaking slightly arrogantly, "This road is both real and fake, but once your steps reach a certain number, you’ll experience an intense pleasure."
"This pleasure will become addictive to the point where you won’t be able to resist, and then you’ll beg me to keep you at Heaven and Earth, just to experience that feeling again."
"Now, there are ten steps left, what will you decide? Forward and backward both count as steps."
With that, she quickly retreated fifteen steps, hoping Wu Liang hadn’t reacted yet.
Next, no matter if this guy runs forward or backward to catch her, as long as he reaches ten steps...
Most of the staff at Heaven and Earth have experienced this, without exception, everyone became captives of extreme pleasure, choosing to stay voluntarily to work.
That’s why even though the waiters knew about the anomalies in the entertainment venues, they chose to ignore and work silently.
And Wu Liang just shrugged after hearing this, seemingly indifferent, saying, "Ten steps? That’ll do."
Then he took his first step.
Neither forward nor backward, but sideways, jumping as if dancing.
Then the second step, the third step...
Increasingly perplexing Xu Qingling about what this guy was thinking, could it be he thought she was lying?
Until Wu Liang jumped to the corridor’s window on the ninth step, he slowly pulled out a few rod-like objects from his pocket, commenting thoughtfully,
"Alas, even though I don’t smoke, I suggest advising your customers not to leave their lighters on the table after lighting a cigarette, or they might be taken by someone else."
In his hand were four high-end lighters he’d swiped out of boredom at the gambling table earlier.
Afterward, Wu Liang abruptly crushed the bottoms of three lighters, splashing all the lighter fluid onto the nearby exquisite curtains and expensive carpet.
Next, under Xu Qingling’s incredulous gaze, Wu Liang lit the last lighter in his hand, placing it under the curtain with a slight smile, saying, "If you run now, you’ll make it."
Disposable lighters contain liquid butane that vaporizes quickly in the air, but unfortunately, the high-end lighters Wu Liang swiped contained a blend of oils that would not vaporize so quickly.
But Xu Qingling still gritted her teeth, saying, "Do you know what penalty you’ll face for setting fire to a building? Aren’t you afraid of burning yourself to death..."
Before she finished speaking, Wu Liang deliberately brought the lighter closer, and the inherently flammable curtains caught fire swiftly with the aid of the lighter fluid, the flames roaring like a rampaging dragon, sending waves of heat rushing forth.
Immediately, the carpet, also soaked with oil, started burning.
Suddenly, the entire corridor was filled with the stench of burning, and the fire spread rapidly.
Fear gradually replaced the disbelief in Xu Qingling’s eyes, as she hadn’t expected someone gentleman to choose such a self-destructive method!
"Hahaha! Let me guess, is it ineffective if you’re too far away? So do you choose to stay, risking getting burned, and gamble whether I take the final step, or escape?"
"Hurry and choose! If you’re late, you won’t get away! Hahaha!"
Looking at Wu Liang, who was standing amidst the flames, still laughing loudly, his voice was like the screeching of a ghost crawling out of Hell, making one’s scalp tingle.
Xu Qingling involuntarily stepped back two steps, fear overshadowing her curiosity about Wu Liang.
This guy is a lunatic!
No! He’s not just a lunatic!
As the man at the casino said, he’s simply a monster! A monster unrestricted by anything!
Meeting the boss? Gradually uncovering the mastermind behind the nightclub’s anomalies? Collecting evidence against them for their crimes? Bringing all abnormal personnel to justice?
At first, Wu Liang thought that way too.
But after repeated encounters, from the dancer to the casino man to Xu Qingling’s trap.
These experiences made Wu Liang realize—
There’s too much filth in the Heaven and Earth nightclub.
And it seems unrelated to Fierce Ghosts, most likely an Awakened with strange methods controlling things behind the scenes!
It’s impossible to investigate and confirm everything in one night, even deploying a small team of Awakened couldn’t flush out all the criminals hiding in dark corners.
The only way is to make things big!
Make it renowned, make it publicly investigated!
Make everyone find nowhere to hide!
"The city’s largest nightclub burns down, coincidentally I’m sent to a mission, even if the Paranormal Handling Department normally hardly intervenes in non-supernatural events, they won’t pretend not to see this, right?"
Since there are no Fierce Ghosts, there’s no food for me here.
If I really had to expend effort here dealing with them, Wu Liang would rather choose to let more people intervene for a quick resolution.
Instead of troubling himself, he’d rather toss the problem to others!
"Mist, protect me, prepare to jump out the window, let’s go downstairs to catch someone..."
"What did you say? Heaven and Earth is burning!?"
Had just finished midnight snacks, barbecue, He Zhan and the others were ready to rest when they suddenly received an emergency call, leaving him stunned.
Honestly, when Wu Liang was assigned this task, He Zhan had an inkling there must be a problem.
Heaven and Earth couldn’t possibly be completely clean, abnormality was within expectation.
But one thing was sure, the problem definitely wasn’t related to Fierce Ghosts, otherwise, they wouldn’t have sent Wu Liang, a newcomer to the department, to investigate alone.
Maybe this is just a test for Wu Liang.
He imagined Wu Liang returning empty-handed or facing difficulties in the investigation, no matter what, it would take a few days, with bumps along the way, before results manifested.
Now it’s gone, the mission spot!?
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"Captain He, could the fire be unrelated to Wu Liang? After all, he’s just an ordinary person." Priest and Cannon found this matter rather implausible.
But He Zhan adamantly retorted,
"I dare say not only is the fire related to Wu Liang, it’s possible this bastard started it himself..."