Chapter 49 – Shopping mall truth


“The surveillance room can only keep recordings for fifteen days. I’ll pull up the last seven days of footage,” Liu Qiang said as he operated the computer. “By the way, why do you want to look at the old footage?”

“I want to find some people and see what happened to them in the past few days,” Yang Jian replied.

“Huh, who is this person? She doesn’t seem to be an employee of the company. The mall has been closed for the past few days, how did she get in?” Liu Qiang suddenly exclaimed.

A middle-aged woman in a dress appeared on the surveillance footage.

“Do you know her?” Yang Jian asked Liu Qiang warily.

“I don’t know her, but I feel like I’ve seen her somewhere before. I just can’t remember,” Liu Qiang replied.

Yang Jian didn’t recognize the woman either. He had only been at the company for two days and had only briefly met the previous employees.

“Let’s keep an eye on her and see what she’s up to in the mall,” Yang Jian said.

He had a vague feeling that the middle-aged woman in the surveillance footage was a ghost. But the evidence told him that the ghost was actually Liu Qiang.

If this ghost could change its identity, everything would make sense. But it was just speculation, and they needed the surveillance footage as evidence.

They continued to watch the surveillance footage.

The middle-aged woman’s movements were a bit strange. She took the elevator to the second floor and then stood motionless at the staircase for a long time, like a puppet.

“Fast forward,” Yang Jian said.

The footage sped up.

The middle-aged woman stood at the staircase for half an hour before suddenly moving. She walked slowly to the second floor.

At this moment, a cashier named Wei Xiaohong appeared next to a cash register on the second floor. She seemed to be on duty.

But Wei Xiaohong was feeling a bit tired at the moment and was standing up to stretch.

The middle-aged woman slowly walked towards Wei Xiaohong and grabbed her head from behind.

Wei Xiaohong didn’t know what was happening and just trembled slightly.

Incredible scene unfolded… the middle-aged woman took Wei Xiaohong’s head off her neck like a plastic doll.

There was no screaming, no blood, everything seemed so calm.

Wei Xiaohong’s headless body stood stiffly in place, motionless, as if it had lost its life.

“How is this possible?” Liu Qiang exclaimed in shock.

Jiang Yan, who had been secretly watching the surveillance footage, was also startled, but she covered her mouth and didn’t make a sound.Yang Jian remained calm and continued to watch the situation on the monitor without any change in his expression.

The stranger, a middle-aged woman, took off Wei Xiaohong’s head and then removed her own head before putting Wei Xiaohong’s head on her body.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman had transformed into Wei Xiaohong.

After a while, Wei Xiaohong moved as if nothing had happened.

She casually carried the head of the stranger and her own body down from the second floor, as if it was an easy task that an ordinary person couldn’t accomplish.

“Five days ago, Wei Xiaohong became a ghost…” Yang Jian’s face darkened.

Now he understood why Wei Xiaohong’s head was highly decomposed. If she had already been replaced by a ghost five days ago, it was indeed about the right time.

“Keep watching Wei Xiaohong,” he ordered.

“Okay, I will,” Liu Qiang replied, feeling nervous.

The surveillance video continued to play, and he quickly found Wei Xiaohong’s footage from four days ago. Wei Xiaohong was working as usual, greeting her colleagues and eating, just like an ordinary person. She even joked and laughed with her colleagues.

However, something strange happened on the afternoon of four days ago.

Li Jie was bored and invited a few female colleagues to try on clothes, including Wei Xiaohong.

The four of them went to a clothing store on the fifth floor.

Because the store was closed, there was no one there, and all the clothes were on the shelves for them to try on.

Li Jie was holding a dress in front of the mirror, trying to see if it was a good fit.

At this moment, Wei Xiaohong’s actions became strange. She slowly walked behind Li Jie and reached out her hand towards her head.

But Li Jie suddenly turned her head around, holding a piece of clothing and saying something to Wei Xiaohong.

There was no sound on the surveillance video, but it didn’t matter.

Yang Jian clearly saw Wei Xiaohong’s movements stop.

Because Li Jie was not facing away from Wei Xiaohong.

But this stroke of luck didn’t last long. Li Jie had no idea that Wei Xiaohong was already a ghost and treated her like an ordinary female colleague.

Soon, Li Jie found another piece of clothing and continued to stand in front of the mirror.

At this moment, Wei Xiaohong moved again.

Just like what the stranger did to her, Wei Xiaohong reached behind Li Jie and hugged her head, causing her body to stiffen and tremble.

The eerie scene was playing out again.

Li Jie’s head was taken off.

“No, if Li Jie’s head has been taken off, she couldn’t appear in front of me again,” Yang Jian frowned.

Because there was only one ghost.

It couldn’t be both Wei Xiaohong and Li Jie.

However, the next scene made him even more doubtful.

In the surveillance video, Wei Xiaohong took off Li Jie’s head and then removed her own head.

They swapped heads.After standing still for a moment, the two of them returned to normal and continued to exchange clothes as before.

Yang Jian’s heart skipped a beat, realizing that the situation was not as he had imagined. He quickly scanned the surveillance footage on the monitor.

He searched through the mall quickly.

Finally, he saw a person standing at the door of a storage room on the fifth floor of the mall.

The person had their back to the camera, so their appearance was unclear.

“Retrieve the video from this camera,” Yang Jian said.

Liu Qiang opened the surveillance video from this camera.

Ten minutes ago.

Boss Tang, Master Luo, Manager Li, and Sister Li and others were led by Yan Li into the storage room. At the same time, people were slowly emerging from the elevator, the security checkpoint, and in front of various stores. They surrounded Yan Li’s group.

After they had all entered the storage room, the people who had surrounded them blocked the door of the storage room. After a while, something happened, and those people gradually dispersed and disappeared somewhere in the mall on the fifth floor.

Yang Jian’s heart trembled as he saw this. He took a deep breath.

It wasn’t just one ghost… it was a group.

All the ones who had switched heads were ghosts, or perhaps controlled by ghosts.

At this moment, he saw a thin red line circling Liu Qiang’s neck.

He was also one of them…


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