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  The shadow looked slender, without the strange appearance of a dismembered corpse. Jiang g stared at the shadow, frozen in pce.

  "Stand up," the voice said.

  Jiang g's body involuntarily trembled upon hearing the voice. It sounded like a retively young robably around thirty years old, with a muffled tone as if she was suppressing her voice.

  Jiang g slowly stood up but did not speak or turn around. He simply stood there, not moving an inch.

  "You turn around," the woman said.

  Jiang g hesitated for a moment. "You have to promise not to kill me."

  "Alright," the woman replied. "I promise."

  "Just a promise might not be enough," Jiang g suggested, raising his hands in a practiced, careful manner. "How about you swear an oath?"

  The woman started coughing violently, as if her throat was irritated. After the coughing subsided, she responded, "That's a bit troublesome. Perhaps I should just kill you."

  Before she even finished her sentence, Jiang g immediately turned around. "Fet it, you don't o swear. Just by your voice, I tell you're a beautiful womaiful women never lie because when they do, they meet terrible fates. I onew a beautiful woman who was crushed by a steamroller for lying."

  The woman was silent for a while. "Actually, you open your eyes."

  Jiang g kept his eyes tightly shut and slowly moved over to where Fatty was lying. He kicked Fatty hard several times, and when Fatty started to stir, Jiang g asked, "Fatty, how do you feel?"

  "I…" Fatty mumbled in a daze, but soon his voice turned frightened. "Who is this woman? What happeo those three security guards?"

  Jiang g didn't answer. After a long pause, he spoke again, "Fatty?"

  "Doc, I'm here," Fatty shakily stood up, too flustered to brush the dust off himself, and stared at the strange woman in front of him.

  This was a woman they had never seen before.

  "Fatty, are you okay?" Jiang g asked for the third time.

  "I'm fine, Doc," Fatty muttered, now looking a little resentful. "If you hadn't sold me out, I'd probably be feelier."

  "You're still alive?"

  If it weren't for the strange woman standing in front of him, Fatty would have been shouting by now. He restrained himself and g Jiang g, "Doc, 't you act like a normal person? You're not even—"

  Fatty abruptly stopped talking when he realized Jiang g had kept his eyes shut the eime. Only after Fatty answered him for the third time did Jiang g finally open his eyes.

  "Now I rest easy," Jiang g said, breathing a sigh of relief.

  Fatty suddenly realized something and his face turned as sour as if he had swallowed a fly.

  TL: Dang bro, this guy's a menace...

  Jiang g began sizing up the woman in front of him. She was ed in a beige trench coat, her figure average—not as striking as the woman in the qipao. Oddly, she was wearing an exceptionally rge mask that covered most of her face, and it looked thiough to make breathing difficult.

  She also wore sungsses, hiding the upper half of her face.

  "Who are you?" Fatty asked.

  The woman turned her head slightly in Fatty's dire. "You must be Fatty, then," she said, shifting her gaze to Jiang g. "And you must be Mr. Hao Shuai."

  "Who are you?"

  As someone who often mingled in these circles, Jiang g khat a woman's hands could be more revealing than her face when guessing her age. But in this case, it didn't work. The woman's hands were partially hidden in her sleeves, and the exposed fiips were rough, with calloused knuckles.

  Despite this, it was clear from her attire and demeanor that she came from a life of fort and privilege. Jiang g had entered a few people like her before. They carried a certain air of wealth.

  "My surname is Li," the woman introduced herself. "Li Yanwei."

  Jiang g's expression subtly shifted. He gnced her over once again and suddenly asked, "You wouldn't happen to be the school's Academic Director, Director Li, would you?"

  The woman nodded. Since her face was mostly covered by the mask, it was hard to gauge her expression. "That's me."

  TL: Well, at least that's out of the way...

  Her voice was unusual—not what someone her age should sound like. She was no more than in her early thirties, Jiang g was sure of it.

  "You're Director Li?" Fatty frowned, clearly doubting that someone so young could be the Academic Director.

  Jiang g wasirely vinced either, but the logic fit. As part of their task, Director Li had to appear at some point. She had beeioned by multiple NPCs throughout the mission, indig her importance as a key figure.

  With only a day left before the task ended, if Director Li didn't show up soon, things wouldn't make sense.

  The first NPention her was Feng Lan, so if they couldn't find Director Li he archive room, Jiang g would have to go look for Feng Lan to gather more clues.

  Entering Director Li here had been within Jiang g's expectations, especially after the appearance of the three female security guards.

  Acc to Luo Yi, who had been rescued from the guards, the woman in charge of the three security guards was Director Li.

  Jiang g's earlier versation with the security guards loy to escate the situation beyond their trol, f them to involve their superior, Director Li.

  What Jiang g hadn't expected was how cowardly the guards turned out to be. Though he had anticipated Director Li's arrival, the manner in which she appeared was surprising.

  He g her a few more times before shifting his gaze to the door of the archive room behind her. A suspi began to form in his mind.

  When had she arrived? Did she e with the security guards?

  Jiang g quickly dismissed that idea. If the guards had known Director Li was around, the situation wouldn't have ended so peacefully.

  Diligent and responsible, they would have acted differently in front of their boss.

  This led to another clusion: Director Li had been ihe archive room before the security guards arrived.

  But whely?

  As Jiang g thought more deeply, his expression darkened. Fatty, notig Jiang g's ge in demeanor, couldn't help but shiver.

  Could this woman actually be a ghost?

  Unsciously, a bold theory took shape in Jiang g's mind:

  Could she have arrived even earlier thahought?

  Earlier than the security guards, earlier than Yu Wen and Zhou Taifu—perhaps even earlier than Jiang g himself!

  Had she been quietly hiding in the darkest er of the archive room, everything unfold?

  Both the as of the living... and the dead.

  (End of the Chapter)

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