Ghost World Office

"If you don't see it, it's gone. I went to the toilet."

Mai Xiaobo said indifferently.After all, going to the bathroom while playing in an Internet cafe is a very normal thing.

"But……"

Jiang Peng muttered something in a low voice, and glanced at Cheng Qiangjun's computer screen while speaking.

"But what?" Jiang Peng hesitated to speak, and Tao Ye suddenly felt something was wrong.

So Tao Ye got up and walked to Cheng Qiangjun's seat to check his computer.

There is a video playback window on the computer screen.The video is completely black, as if it has been corrupted.

Holding his breath, Tao Ye stared at the screen for two seconds, and finally shifted his gaze to the earphones in front of the keyboard. He heard that the earphones seemed to be playing something.

Tao Ye reached out to bring the earphones on and put them on, and the ear-piercing cry for help immediately reached his eardrums.

"Ahhh! Brother Ye, save me!!"

Cheng Qiangjun's heart-piercing voice came from the earphones.

Tao Ye vigilantly checked the status of the computer and found nothing abnormal, but this video was really weird.

Cheng Qiangjun obviously disappeared just now... Unless this video has been modified by the power of law, it has characteristics that normal videos do not have.

For example... People in the video can chat with people outside the video in real time.

"What's the matter? What's the situation, Brother Ye."

Zhang Minghe moved closer to the earphone, curious to hear the voice inside, but was immediately stopped by Tao Ye with a wave.

Tao Ye pursed his lips and listened carefully to the movement in the earphones.

The video progress bar was still advancing every second, but there was no sound coming from the earphones.

"Hey?"

Tao Ye tentatively spoke softly into the microphone.

There was still a long silence in the earphones.

Just when Tao Ye was about to take off the earphones and check the source of the video again, a loud and piercing voice came from the earphones:

"Tao Ye, long time no see."

It seems that Tao Ye is right, this video has been processed.Through this video, people outside the video can talk to people in the video.

The only thing that can do this is the power of law, except for hackers.

At this time, Tao Ye had already guessed who the mechanical voice in the video was.

Who else, except Dan and the evil organization behind him, no one would target Tao Ye and the people around him like this.

"You are Dan."

Although he is not completely sure, Tao Ye believes that his guess is at least [-]% to [-]% correct.

Then the voice in the video rang:

"Tao Ye, you are very smart. We are all smart people, that's great."

It was Dan.When Dan spoke, the electric sound was very harsh.

This phenomenon is very common. Souls with a high degree of abnormality will interfere with the transmission of electromagnetic waves, so the voices of many abnormal souls sound like they have been specially processed.

Tao Ye squinted his eyes, and taunted the mechanical voice on the other side of the video:

"Don't talk nonsense, you don't deserve it."

Dangan laughed a few times, and the laughter full of electric sounds made Tao Ye's mental sanity go crazy——

"Cheng Qiangjun is here, if you want to save him, come to me."

As soon as Dan's voice fell, the video automatically disappeared on the desktop, as if it had never existed.

Tao Ye knew very clearly that no matter whether it was software or hardware, there was no way to directly track the source of the video, so he opened the browser history of this computer without much effort.

Under the noses of all of them, Dan kidnapped Cheng Qiangjun and sent such a weird video, which was obviously provocative to Tao Ye.

"Brother Ye, what's going on?" Zhang Minghe's tone was somewhat worried.

Zhang Minghe had been with Tao Ye for a while, and he knew that Tao Ye was an expert with supernatural powers, and it was usually not a trivial matter that could make Tao Ye look so ugly.

Mai Xiaobo had never seen Tao Ye like this before, and his eyes stayed on Tao Ye all the time.

But Jiang Peng recalled the place where the dream began—the horrible herbarium.

Although Jiang Peng couldn't remember exactly what happened, he watched the video disappear out of thin air on the computer, and that familiar, creepy feeling climbed up his back again.

"Cheng Qiangjun may have been kidnapped."

Tao Ye scanned the browsing history back and forth with his eyes, and said in a low voice.

"Then should we call the police?" Zhang Minghe took a deep breath and asked.

Although Mai Xiaobo is not a good citizen who abides by the law, he also feels that the police should be called first in this situation, so he took out his mobile phone and prepared to call the police.

Tao Ye stopped them: "It's useless to call the police."

At the same time, Tao Ye found clues in the few browsing records in the browser——

After Cheng Qiangjun got on the computer, he should have only used the browser a few times, and these few times were to browse game-related content.

Although it looks normal, the connection of these browsing records is a bit weird.

Tao Ye couldn't tell what was wrong at the moment, but he always believed in his intuition. If Dan asked him to find Cheng Qiangjun, then Cheng Qiangjun must be somewhere.

Several pages in the browsing history are all from different websites.

Tao Ye took a deep breath and concentrated on reading the URLs of these web pages from beginning to end.

"You stay here and don't move. I'll go out to find Cheng Qiangjun."

The moment he read the browsing records, Tao Ye suddenly understood the meaning of the browsing records.

He got up from the computer, put on his coat, told the rest of the people not to move around, and went straight out of the Internet cafe.

As soon as he left the Internet cafe, he called Lu Yi.Lu Yi picked up the phone, and Tao Ye told him what happened in the Internet cafe today.

"Where are you going to find Cheng Qiangjun?" Lu Yi asked.

Tao Ye stopped a taxi and said into the phone microphone:

"Don't worry about it so much, I'll send you an address, come here quickly. If Shen Zhu is here, take Shen Zhu with you, and Lao Xu will not take it with you."

After speaking, Tao Ye hung up the phone and sent Lu Yi an address.

This address is a hospital on the outskirts of City S, more than 40 minutes' drive from the city center.

Tao Ye is not familiar with this hospital, but it can be seen on the Internet search engine that this hospital has been abandoned for more than 20 years.

While driving, the driver talked to Tao Ye:

"Young man, what are you doing there so late?"

Tao Ye was silent for two seconds. He didn't want to talk to the driver at first, but after thinking about it, the taxi driver is the group of people who know the city best, so he continued following the driver's words:

"Master, what happened to that hospital?"

Taxi drivers have a very sensitive sense of smell. Once they find that passengers tend to chat, they will change from the masters of the steering wheel to the protagonists on the talk show stage.

The driver Taotao kept telling Tao Ye the story of this hospital.

This hospital is a staff hospital of a large enterprise.The performance of this enterprise is very good and the number of employees is large, so this hospital has been prosperous for a long time.

Not only the employees of the enterprise, but also the residents living near the enterprise, usually go to that hospital for medical treatment.

When talking about this hospital, memories of the prosperous past appeared on the driver's face.It can be seen that this driver has also been to that hospital to see a doctor.

"Why did it go bankrupt in the end? Was it because the company didn't perform well later?" Tao Ye asked the master a question, guiding him to continue talking.

The driver sighed and said slowly:

"It's not..."

The profit of this enterprise has always been very good, and it moved to the high-tech zone two or three years ago to expand the production scale.

And this hospital closed down more than 20 years ago. It is impossible to close down because of the decline of the enterprise.

According to the driver's master, there has been a major accident in this hospital.

"What's the big deal?" Tao Ye asked.

The driver turned his head and glanced at Tao Ye, stepped on the accelerator, and the taxi sped along the newly repaired elevated road in S City.

"Young man, you are not a native of City S. You don't even know that."

"This hospital is very evil, and it's all in the newspapers."

The suburbs of City S used to be the industrial area of ​​City S, and the number of residents there was much more than it is now.

Therefore, the number of patients in this hospital is very large, even surpassing some of the top three hospitals in the city center.

Just over 20 years ago, several accidents occurred in this hospital.

The first time was just after the Spring Festival holiday that year, and the workers who returned home returned to S City one after another.At that time, the flu was raging, and a large number of patients poured into the hospital.

"This flu is terrible. It's easy to get a high fever and burn your head."

The driver said while recalling.

It stands to reason that the outpatient building of this hospital was relatively large at that time.

But no one expected that a new batch of medical equipment had arrived in the hospital that day, and the warehouse manager had a fever, so he didn't ask for leave or come to work.

The workers who came to deliver the equipment couldn't find the handover person, let alone where the key to the warehouse was, so they piled up dozens of boxes of medical equipment on the fire escape stairs.

In the meantime, the stairs for the patients in the hospital were being painted.As a result, most of the patients were led to the narrow fire stairs piled with dozens of large boxes by unsuspecting security guards.

Originally, under the guidance of the security guards, these patients could pass the fire escape stairs smoothly.

But in the crowd, someone suddenly shouted:

"There are thieves!"

The crowd on the narrow stairs became agitated instantly, crowded and pushed.

The first person to stumble was holding a child, and she stepped down the stairs and fell on top of the people behind her.

Then, the dense crowd of patients fell down on the stairs like dominoes.

The stampede happened so fast that the security guards couldn't even react, and the situation was out of control.

This incident caused an uproar in S City at that time, and those corpses that were trampled indistinctly during the stampede were sent to the square at the side entrance of the hospital for family members to identify.

In this accident, 37 people were killed in the end.

Listening to this vividly described story by the driver, Tao Ye felt very ordinary.

Similar tragedies happen everywhere.

"Isn't this just a stampede? Then the hospital won't go bankrupt." Tao Ye couldn't understand why a stampede would cause such a large hospital to close down.

The driver gave Tao Ye a sideways look, and continued:

"It's more than that, young man..."