Outside the door, the grounds were in disarray, the clothes racks had toppled over, and faint traces of blood were still visible on the ground.
In the entire space of the sixth floor, not a single person was visible to the eye; figures like directors, cameras, and spectators were nowhere to be seen.
However, what horrified the man in the suit the most was the sight of a ghostly pale figure not far in front of him, moving towards the staircase.
Its form was hunched yet abnormally large; if its curled body were to stretch out, it would easily exceed two meters in height. The proportions of its arms and legs were exaggeratedly long, distinctly different from those of humans.
With the man in the suit’s rough door-opening action, the monster abruptly stopped its steps and turned its head around.
When that fierce face, lacking both eyes and a nose, appeared in his field of view, the man in the suit was immediately petrified, his previously confident demeanor frozen on his face.
The man in the suit made a few meaningless sounds from his throat and stood there dumbly, his mind completely occupied by a feeling named fear.
Immediately, the white monster turned around and hurried towards the direction of the cleaning room.
Its terrifying appearance, running on all fours, instantly scared the man in the suit so much that he wet his pants.
The incident happened too swiftly; the people inside the cleaning room hadn’t even reacted, yet danger had already descended upon them.
Ren Huixi was petrified, and the cleaner auntie was also stunned. At that moment, among the three, only Tang Yuan had barely come back to her senses.
In such a situation, there are generally only two reactions.
One is to push the man in the suit away and then close the door.
The other is to pull back the man in the suit and then close the door.
And as Tang Yuan, who had lived in modern society for over two decades, had not been exposed to any slaughter or darkness, she instinctively chose to pull back the man in the suit.
A loud noise erupted as the door to the cleaning room was shut; however, almost simultaneously, it was broken through by the Corpse Demon, propelled by its powerful attack force.
This door wasn’t made of solid wood but was a very fragile particle board door.
The next moment, half of the monster’s body burst into the cleaning room, causing everyone inside to scream in terror.
They all moved closer to the wall behind them, trying to get as far away from the monster as possible.
However, the area inside was only so big; Tang Yuan and the man in the suit, standing at the outermost part, were now less than half a meter away from the monster.
The man in the suit, now back to his senses, suddenly opened his mouth and let out a high-pitched scream, sharper than many women’s screams and jarringly piercing.
It was hard to imagine how such a big man could produce such a sound.
The monster, startled by his yell, immediately showed an expression of pain. It tried to free itself from the door but got stuck and could only twist its body in discomfort, emitting a series of pained noises.
It must be said that the man in the suit had a considerable lung capacity; his screaming continued for quite a while before it stopped.
Seeing that he had stopped, the Corpse Demon began to squeeze towards the room again, one arm seemingly about to reach in.
Having seen the previous scene, Tang Yuan suddenly had an idea, and said to the man in the suit beside her, "It, it seems really scared of your scream! Don’t stop! Keep screaming like you just did!"
The man in the suit was slightly startled, although he didn’t understand what the woman was talking about. But seeing the monster about to enter, he didn’t care about anything else and immediately opened his mouth to scream again.
Indeed, as his scream pierced the air, the Corpse Demon’s action halted again, its face tormented with pain as it roared continuously yet helplessly.
Seeing this, a hopeful expression emerged on the man in the suit’s face; he quickly took another deep breath and screamed again.
The response was the painful howl of the monster.
"Ah... cough cough cough..."
The man in the suit, desperate to live, screamed several times until he could no longer continue, and his voice was replaced by a bout of coughing.
"You guys scream too! Don’t just leave it to me, I’m not made of iron!" the man in the suit yelled at the three people behind him.
Standing behind, Ren Huixi, seeing that he could no longer scream, also put aside all pretenses of decency and tried to scream, letting out a high-pitched soprano.
The monster stopped moving again, letting out a terrible scream.
"It works, it works! It’s afraid of our screams! Everyone take turns, don’t stop!" Tang Yuan shouted excitedly.
The people inside the cleaning room suddenly saw a glimmer of hope for life, their eyes revealing an intense desire to survive.
Next, several people took turns screaming every time the monster made a move to come inside, even the cleaner lady joined in and let out a couple of screams.
To everyone’s surprise, she turned out to be a senior vocal artist who had practiced high notes, and among them, her voice was the loudest.
However, human strength has its limits. At such a critical moment, the fact that they found a temporary solution was rare, and they didn’t even think about using high-tech weapons like cell phones.
In fact, they didn’t even know what exactly the monster was afraid of, and some even thought it was scared of their fierce roars.
"Ah! Cough cough cough... I can’t do this anymore, why is this monster so persistent, it still wants to come in after all this." the man in the suit spoke hoarsely.
"Ah! Cough cough... Me too, let’s think of another way..." Tang Yuan also reached his limit.
Once the people stopped, the Corpse Demon, whose body was stuck, started to twist again, seeming to free itself.
While it was afraid of high notes, that was all it was—afraid. The high notes couldn’t cause any real damage to it; at most they just slightly hindered it, and it might even provoke it to become more frenzied.
"Ah... Do we have any weapons here? While it’s stuck, let’s quickly kill it!" Tang Yuan suggested.
"Ah... No, we’ve only got a mop here; how could we possibly kill it." Ren Huixi said.
"Ah... Let’s just try, maybe we can drive it away? It’s better than just sitting here waiting to die," the man in the suit said.
"Ah... here, the mop!" the cleaner lady handed over the mop from behind.
Tang Yuan took the mop, turned it around so the thick end was facing the monster’s mouth, and together with the other three, they jabbed it forward.
Then, something unexpected happened. What they thought was a desperate strike turned out to have an unexpected outcome—they actually managed to push the monster out with their combined effort!
But the next second, they sensed something was not right, because the way the monster went out did not seem like their own doing, rather it seemed like it was pulled out by some more formidable force...