Chapter 1514: Chapter 913: Old Guai_5
Jiang Qingluan tried to decline, but she really couldn’t refuse. Seeing Liu Jian about to call the hospital himself, Jiang Qingluan had no choice but to say she’d contact the hospital, reassuring Liu Jian to wait patiently.
Liu Jian believed her, but Jiang Qingluan knew it was just a delaying tactic and wouldn’t last long. She was also waiting for news from Yang Xiao.
During this time, Liu Jian, to distract himself, started chatting with Jiang Qingluan and eventually brought up business matters. Although Liu Jian wasn’t very pleasant, he had the advantage of being very observant.
Although Jiang Qingluan handled it well, he still noticed a flaw. It seemed that Jiang Qingluan was not well-informed about the company’s business or its internal affairs.
After realizing this, Liu Jian felt a chill. He tentatively probed Jiang Qingluan about personnel changes within the company, but Jiang Qingluan didn’t answer, rather using an excuse to leave.
"Don’t go, why don’t you know anything?" Liu Jian questioned, "You... you’re not from the company, who exactly are you?"
"Master Liu, we’re new here," Jiang Qingluan replied calmly.
"Impossible!" Liu Jian, not being a fool, immediately thought about his recent bout of diarrhea, suspecting that Jiang Qingluan and her group had poisoned him.
"Xiao Sun! Sun Xin! Come quickly!!" Ignoring Jiang Qingluan’s explanation, Liu Jian immediately shouted towards the door, "They’re fake! They’re impostors!"
At the same time, Liu Jian stood up, trying to run outside. There was no room for hesitation now. Jiang Qingluan said nothing, throwing a quick punch to Liu Jian’s ribs, and tripping him with a swift leg maneuver. Liu Jian fell forward, pushing open the door, with half his body outside and the lower half still inside.
His left cheek was cut by a calendar nail behind the door, causing blood to gush out.
At this moment, Sun Xin also heard the cries and hastened over. Just in time to see Jiang Qingluan step out and kick the struggling Liu Jian on the ground, making him instantly silent. From Sun Xin’s perspective, Liu Jian’s face was covered in blood — it looked like a scene of a violent attack.
The sudden change caught Sun Xin off guard, but what unsettled him more was Jiang Qingluan’s face suddenly looking up and the gaze directed at him.
At that moment of eye contact between them, Sun Xin felt a chill in his heart, instinctively stepping back half a step. He hadn’t expected such a cold side from such a pretty girl, one could say she was filled with murderous intent.
His instinct drove him to abandon his master, turn around, and run.
"Stop him!" Jiang Qingluan shouted while chasing after him.
If Sun Xin manages to run out, he will surely call the police, and then things will be really troublesome when the police arrive.
Not to mention that they can’t even clarify their identities, their understanding of this era is extremely vague and limited.
Sun Xin was fast, but someone was faster. A figure dashed over, knocking him down.
It was Zhou Hai.
Zhou Hai grabbed tightly onto one of Sun Xin’s legs. Sun Xin lifted his other leg, kicking Zhou Hai’s head and face fiercely, but Zhou Hai wouldn’t let go. Finally cornered, Zhou Hai bit down hard, almost biting off a piece of Sun Xin’s flesh through the pants.
Zhou Hai had always been a well-behaved kid, never fought, and lived a timid life, almost never having conflicts with others until now. This time he had to step up.
He remembered the few words Zhang Jianjun taught him: In the Nightmare World, to survive, you must have value. Those without value are only waiting to die.
Soon, Jiang Qingluan arrived, kicking Sun Xin unconscious. Zhou Hai was still biting Sun Xin’s leg, not letting go.
"Alright, get up," Jiang Qingluan extended a hand to pull Zhou Hai up from the ground. But as Zhou Hai stood, Jiang Qingluan suddenly felt dizzy, staggering, almost falling to the ground.
Luckily, Zhou Hai was quick-eyed, quickly grabbing Jiang Qingluan’s arm, panicked, "Miss Jiang, Miss Jiang, are you okay?"
Now Jiang Qingluan’s vision blurred, Zhou Hai’s voice seemed near and far in her ears. She knew her body was reaching its limit.
This feeling was familiar, it was the precursor to her spiritual power running out. The time left for her master and others to heal her spiritual power was too short.
Her master had warned her back then, that with her current state, she could only hold on for three days at most, and now, it was the fourth day.
Jiang Qingluan leaned back on a chair, gasping heavily. Her head hurt badly, with only one figure in her mind—Yang Xiao.
He was the last hope for all of them. No matter the outcome, Jiang Qingluan wouldn’t complain, but she didn’t want Yang Xiao to die. After all, he was in this ghost place because of her.
"Yang Xiao, you must win..." Jiang Qingluan murmured to herself in a voice only she could hear, then her body leaned uncontrollably forward, hitting the table and fainting.
"Miss Jiang! Miss Jiang!!" Zhou Hai tried to wake Jiang Qingluan, but it was all in vain.
Faced with reality, Zhou Hai looked around. Now, he was the only one conscious in the office. Jiang Qingluan was no longer someone he could rely on; he was on his own.
Slowly, Zhou Hai’s always slightly hunched back straightened, and his gaze became resolute.
Mr. Zhou died. Munan died. Brother Zhang also died... when they first arrived, they were 13. Now, there were only a few left.
