The Rotting Head

Yang Jian looked at the vanished corpse, his expression becoming increasingly serious. It seemed that this group of people had really gotten themselves into a big mess. The ghost that had been lurking in the mall seemed to have truly made an appearance. But where could the ghost be now?

The surroundings were dimly lit. Although it wasn't completely dark, one could only make out the silhouette of a person, not their facial features. At this moment, Boss Tang, Manager Li, and Master Luo and his group were no longer concerned about why the lights had gone out. After seeing the corpse disappear, panic began to set in their hearts, and they subconsciously felt that something was amiss.

Was it haunted?

The two candles on the altar from the ritual were still burning, their orange-yellow flames flickering in the dimness. But the mall was so large that the two candles were not enough to fully illuminate the entire area, only barely lighting the surroundings. With people blocking the light and casting swaying shadows, it only added to the eerie atmosphere.

"Quick, let's get out of here. The ritual wasn't successful, and that filthy thing has been angered. If we don't leave now, something terrible will definitely happen," Master Luo shouted.

Facing such an uncanny event, there was a high probability that they had really encountered a ghost, and he didn't dare to stay here any longer.

As soon as these words were spoken, a female employee immediately screamed in fear and began to flee from the area. In an instant, they were like headless flies, running around in all directions.

But then they discovered a serious problem: the mall had been locked, including the main entrance and all the safety passages.

This was done at Master Luo's instruction during the ritual.

"The key, where is the key? Security, open the door quickly," Boss Tang tried to open the main door and urgently called out when he saw it was locked.

"I said it before, if you're going to do a ritual, why lock the door? If you want to lock the ghost inside, don't you think about the fact that you're also inside? Now you're in trouble, right?" Yang Jian said, shining his flashlight on them.

"Young man, where is the key to the main door? Quickly, open the door," Boss Tang said in a panic.

Yang Jian shook his head and said, "I don't have the key. I'm new here, and it's only my second day of work. Sister Li is in charge of the keys. I can only lock the door and can't open it. Besides, isn't the Master Luo beside you someone who can perform rituals and catch ghosts? Why don't you let him show his skills and catch the ghost, so we'll be safe?"

As he spoke, he looked at the pale and sweating Master Luo.

"You dare to say that, it's all because you made trouble just now and prevented me from completing the ritual. Otherwise, how could this situation happen? Now that thing has been angered, it's not that easy to deal with," Master Luo said angrily, directly blaming Yang Jian.

"Are you really going to shirk responsibility onto me like this? Don't you have any sense of whether you can catch ghosts or not? Look at how scared you are, and you still dare to say that? With your cowardice, if a ghost really comes, you will definitely be in big trouble."

Yang Jian glanced at him with a hint of ridicule and said, "Master Luo, don't talk nonsense. Although I can't deal with the thing here, if it wants to harm people, it doesn't have the ability."

"Boss Tang, rest assured, I guarantee that you will leave safely and nothing will happen."

Boss Tang trusted him deeply and said, "Everything is in the hands of the master."

"No, no problem."

Master Luo once again demonstrated his potential as a swindler, full of confidence.

Yang Jian shook his head. The ability to fool Boss Tang like this showed that Master Luo indeed had some skills.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a sound rolling over, moved the flashlight, and shone it on the ground.

Under the light, a head with a deathly pale face rolled towards them.

This head, with neatly arranged hair, looked like a female employee, seemingly the female cashier who had just screamed about the disappearance of the corpse... Wei Xiaohong.

"My God."

Master Luo was so scared that his legs were in disarray, and he fell back, leaning against the wall and sitting on the ground.

His pants were wet with urine.

He peed his pants in fear.

Boss Tang and Manager Li's eyes widened, their faces full of fear.

It was not so scary when the corpse just disappeared, but seeing an employee who was just alive in front of them now only had a head rolling over.

Everyone realized that this was definitely not as simple as a common ghost encounter.

"Has that ghost... started to kill people?"

Yang Jian frowned deeply. He did not use the power of his ghost eye, and he would not borrow the power of the fierce ghost unless it was absolutely necessary, especially when there was no benefit.

Out of curiosity, he walked over and shone the flashlight on Wei Xiaohong's head.

"There's no blood on the neck."

He squatted down and fiddled with the head, gently pinching it, and a piece of flesh was torn off, and a nauseating stench of decay came.

"And it doesn't seem like it just died... it seems like it has been dead for several days, but why has the head been preserved so well after several days of death?"

"This is impossible. She was still alive before, how could she start to rot in the blink of an eye? That ghost didn't use the ghost domain, it couldn't have made the body rot so quickly."

Yang Jian fell into deep thought.

What is the ghost that is lurking in the mall?

Without enough information, and he has never even seen that ghost.

He couldn't figure out the ghost's abilities or the patterns of its actions.

And he didn't want to exert himself without the conditions being met, so as not to waste his abilities.

He stood up and turned around, saying, "There is indeed a big event, there is really a ghost in the mall. I suggest you leave and run away from here now."

"But the doors here are locked, how can we go? Where is Sister Li, doesn't she have the keys? Can you help us find her and let her come to open the door?" Manager Li said.

Yang Jian looked at him and said, "The mall is so big, who knows where Sister Li has been scared to, I'm not going to look for her, if you want to go, you go, but out of kindness, I can remind you that although the first floor is locked, the safety passage on the fifth floor is not locked. You can go from there to the fifth floor platform, then go around and leave from somewhere else."

"Yes, yes, yes, why didn't I think of it, thank you for reminding me, thank you."

Manager Li was ecstatic and immediately ran away.

"Are you not leaving?" Yang Jian looked at Master Luo, Boss Tang, and others.

Reminded by this, others quickly reacted.

Several employees immediately followed Manager Li, fleeing up the stairs.

"Thank you for your reminder, young man, I'm very grateful."

Boss Tang grabbed his hand excitedly and said.

"Don't be so intimate, besides, I just reminded you, whether you can leave safely is still a problem, hurry up and don't waste time."

Yang Jian said calmly, he wanted to see if these people could lure the ghost out when they ran away.

Of course... he really wanted to go to the bathroom now.

Boss Tang said, "Aren't you leaving together?"

"No, I want to go to the bathroom first, you go ahead."

Yang Jian said.

Boss Tang was stunned for a moment, thinking, when did he still think about going to the bathroom?

Mall fifth floor.

When Yan Li ran to the fifth floor, he saw the figure next to the railing.

He was stunned, it was not a person in front of him, but a plastic model, shaped exactly like a person, standing in the dimness, it was very similar to a person, and it was impossible to distinguish.

But this model was the same as the foul-smelling corpse he had just found.

It had no head.

"The ghost is not on the fifth floor..."

Yan Li suddenly realized something and looked downstairs.

At this time, a click came, and the whole mall was power out, only two candles were shining in the dimness, but then a scream came from downstairs, and the crowd panicked and started to run subconsciously.

"Lure the tiger away from the mountain?"

For some reason, the idiom came to Yan Li's mind.

But can ghosts be so smart?

"Damn it."

Regardless, he gritted his teeth and planned to go to the first floor immediately.

But at this moment, Yan Li glanced to the side and was shocked to see a cold sweat all over his body.

The headless plastic model that had just been standing next to the railing had disappeared.

He looked around, but he couldn't find the figure of the plastic model.

It seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

"Step! Step!" However, a faint sound of footsteps came from behind.

"Something is wrong." Yan Li turned around abruptly.

At this moment, a headless plastic model stood behind him, but the model's arm was raised, as if it wanted to reach out to him.

"Looking for death."

Yan Li shouted and immediately grabbed the two outstretched arms of the plastic model.

His palm turned scarlet at this moment, emitting a strong smell of blood, a stream of blood flowed out from between his fingers, and it dropped on the ground.

The plastic model's arms were stained with this strong blood and fell to the ground with a bang, and the hands and feet, body disintegrated directly.

Immediately the surroundings returned to calm.

"Is this the ghost?"

Yan Li checked the scattered fake model on the ground with a heavy expression.

There was nothing unusual.

Even stained with his own blood, there was no change.

It's just a common fake model.

"These things here are not easy to deal with."

Yan Li frowned deeply.

The blood on the ground slowly wriggled, like it was alive, and gradually entered through his palm.