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Ah Meng's cell phone has run out of battery.

Zhu Qi thought for a while, put the warm jade back into his clothes, walked slowly back to the duty room, avoided the chair Ah Meng had sat on before, and found the charger from the drawer.

A mobile phone in standby mode will not die so quickly, which means it has been in use.

After about 5 minutes, Zhu Qi couldn't wait to try to turn on the phone.As a thief and a liar, he has fully mastered some small skills in using the mobile phone. It didn't take long for him to successfully open Ah Meng's mobile phone.

There was nothing in the call log, and there was nothing special in the communication tool, but when Zhu Qi opened the phone photo album, he knew he had found what he wanted.

Ah Meng took a few videos, all of which are the duty room in the background.Judging from the date, it should have started a few days ago.Zhu Qi picked the earliest one and started playing.

On the screen, Ah Meng's eyes were bloodshot, with sunken eye sockets, unusually thick dark circles, and chapped lips. It was very different from what Zhu Qi saw at the barbecue stall.

"There's something wrong here." He stared at the camera nervously, and lowered his voice, as if he was worried about being overheard. "Every night, there are women crying... and children laughing. It's so noisy." The camera shakes for a while, as if Something was illuminated, but the light was so dim that everything turned into black fuzzy shadows.Zhu Qi leaned over and struggled to identify what it was. In the darkness, a pair of eyes suddenly appeared!

It was Ah Meng's eyes, he almost stuck to the camera: "Hush, listen..."

Zhu Qi was taken aback, and with trembling hands, he dropped the phone on the table.

It took a while for the video to finish playing. Ah Meng kept his eyes fixed on the camera without blinking, but there was no sound in the background.

Is he hallucinating?Zhu Qi muttered in his heart, turned the volume to the maximum, but it still didn't work, so he had to swipe his finger to turn to the next video.

This video is even more unexpected.If the last video can convey something, this one completely confuses Zhu Qi.

Ah Meng's fear and tension were swept away, replaced by exaggerated movements and demeanor that were almost insane.He swayed his body drastically, swung his arms, made various contorted postures, and chanted some sentences with unclear meanings, like some kind of cult prayers.

Zhu Qi listened intently, and finally heard the words in his mouth clearly: "Come, on the left, draw a dragon with me; on your right, draw a rainbow..."

Oh shit!Zhu Qi cursed secretly in his heart with no expression on his face.This kid is at this time, and he still has the mind to make a Douyin video!

That's right, this section is indeed Ah Meng filming the popular Douyin short video with great devotion, and rapping intoxicatedly.He didn't seem to worry about anything anymore, Zhu Qi was about to continue scrolling down, when his fingers suddenly stopped and he zoomed in on the screen.

On the screen, Ah Meng is full of energy and vitality, which makes Zhu Qi feel pity.However, at this time, he focused more on Ah Meng's neck.

There was a small cloth bag hanging there, and after zooming in, a symbol could be seen on it.Zhu Qi squinted his eyes for a while, and finally recognized that it was "Zhan" in seal script.

詹？

He immediately thought that Ah Meng had mentioned that the reason Wu Ge started this business was precisely because he met a talented man named Zhan Jiang, who was very young but very capable.This surname is not common, and coupled with this relationship, you don't need to think about it, this cloth bag must have been given to Ah Meng by Zhan Jiang.

Obviously, the things in the small cloth bag played a role, at least judging from Ah Meng's expression when he took the Douyin video, he is no longer bothered by those strange sounds.

This also made Zhu Qi discover another problem.

When I saw Ah Meng at the barbecue stall the day before yesterday, there was no such thing hanging around his neck.

Did you forget to bring it, lost it, or something more incredible happened?

Thinking about it, Zhu Qi continued flipping through Ah Meng's daily photos one by one.For a guy, he seems a little too fond of taking selfies.So Zhu Qi soon discovered that the day when Ah Meng no longer hung the small cloth bag around his neck was the day when he met him at the barbecue stall.

Recalling Ah Meng's enthusiasm at that time, Zhu Qi suddenly understood.His "talisman" was gone, so he naturally wanted to have several companions on duty to embolden him.

But obviously, the addition of a companion has actually become Ah Meng's life-threatening talisman.What happened last night?

Zhu Qi turned to the last video, which was recorded for four hours.He was silent for a moment, and finally started playing.

The phone was placed on the table, and the camera was facing the room.Zhu Qi saw that Ah Meng said something to him, opened the door and left, while he—he really didn’t want to admit it—sat in the duty room tremblingly, looking at the surveillance screen suspiciously, pitifully pale with fright Face.

Immediately afterwards, an even more embarrassing scene happened.Zhu Qi opened the window and greeted a paper crane falling on his hand.At that time, the smirk on his face instantly eliminated all the previous depression and terror.He watched himself reading that stupid letter over and over again, using all kinds of embarrassing means, trying to dig out Yuanyue's phone number from between the lines, and finally put the paper crane away carefully, Hanging the safety buckle around the neck, the whole process is like a little girl in Huaichun.

Although he hasn't finished watching it yet, Zhu Qi already has the urge to delete the video.

He suppressed his shame and delayed the progress a little.After Ah Meng came back, Zhu Qi fell asleep on the chair not long after.Time passed by every minute and every second, but Ah Meng sat motionless on the chair.Just when Zhu Qi suspected that the next scene would be the same, Ah Meng moved.

He stood up slowly, his movements were strangely stiff, not like a person, but like a puppet with inflexible joints.Zhu Qi didn't dare to breathe, because the next scene made his heart tightly gripped——

Ah Meng walked to his side slowly, pause after pause.

Zhu Qi could almost imagine that if he opened his eyes at that time, he would see Ah Meng's bluish face hanging above him, looking at him without blinking.

On the screen, Ah Meng leaned over his chest.Seeing this scene, Zhu Qi covered his mouth, his stomach churning.

However, what happened next was completely beyond Zhu Qi's imagination.

The moment Ah Meng bent down and was about to touch Zhu Qi, a dazzling golden light emerged from his body. This ray of light was menacing, as if turning into a sharp arrow, and like a bird of prey with its wings spread fiercely towards him. Ah rushed!

Ah Meng fell backwards in an instant, the mobile phone received the vibration at that time, and the lens shook slightly.

However, Zhu Qi who was sleeping didn't feel anything, just hugged his arms as if feeling cold, rubbed the clothes under him impatiently, and continued to sleep soundly.

After a long time, Ah Meng got up from the ground.Because of the impact just now, his arm was bent in the opposite direction. From the video, it seemed that his joint was seriously injured.But he didn't even hum, he just straightened his arm with the other hand, sat back in the original chair, and didn't move any more.