Chapter 74 – Death Notice

On the way to the conference room, Fang Li could not help replaying how that middle-aged man had not even looked at her. A little nervous, she took out her phone and pulled up Qiu Yuming’s number. After hesitating for a moment, however, she still did not make the call.

“Are you here to apply too?” A voice suddenly sounded behind her, making Fang Li jump. She quickly lowered her phone and turned around.

“Ah… hello. Yes, I am. Are you here for the interview too?” Fang Li studied the young man in front of her with some surprise. He did not look much older than her, and both his appearance and bearing were very pleasant. If he put on a pair of glasses, he might look even more the part. “Are you also a college student here for a part-time job? I’m from Ning-“

But the young man had already cut her off, his gaze passing over her toward the front. “The conference room is up ahead, right?”

“Mm, I think so,” Fang Li replied.

“Thanks. Oh, and…” The young man drew his gaze back and glanced at her. Suddenly, his tone became very sincere. “You should go back. For your own good. This isn’t a place you should be, and there isn’t any job waiting for you. Trust me.”

“Go…” Fang Li froze.

“Yes. If you don’t listen to me, something very bad might happen.” After saying that, the young man brushed past her and walked on, leaving Fang Li standing there in shock.

Soon, his figure vanished down the corridor. Fang Li stared at the empty stretch ahead. Under the glare of the incandescent lights, everything around her was deathly still. That sudden, eerie feeling, combined with the young man’s inexplicable “warning,” made her hesitate.

But when she thought of the situation at home, she finally gritted her teeth and slowly followed after him, clutching her phone tightly in her hand.

The young man using the alias “Lai Sharen” was, of course, Su Lifeng.

His original plan had been to sneak into Zelong tonight, but before he took action, he learned from Gouzi that Zelong had suddenly started recruiting employees on a large scale.

After thinking it over, Su Lifeng made a last-minute decision to use this forged identity to infiltrate the place. “Foolproof, without anyone being the wiser.”

On his way to the conference room, he approached several rooms with closed doors one after another.

Although he did not hear anything, a faint smell drifting through the air made Su Lifeng wrinkle his nose.

“Why are they using so much air freshener in here?”

Considering that the Wisdom Species Ren Xiaoying might also be here, Su Lifeng did not rashly take any further action.

He arrived at the entrance to the conference room, pushed the door open, and walked inside.

The scene beyond the door surprised him. More than a hundred people were actually standing inside, and the lighting in the room was very dim. Probably because the atmosphere was rather oppressive, and because none of these people knew one another, there was not much noise coming from within.

When Su Lifeng entered, the people inside merely looked up at him out of reflex, then paid him no further attention.

“Attention, everyone. The interview location has been changed…” The words had only just reached his lips when Su Lifeng spotted several suspicious figures in the crowd. Those figures had clearly given him an extra glance as well.

Su Lifeng quietly walked to the very back of the crowd, just in time to hear an equally young male student in front of him whispering to the girl beside him, “Companies are all like this nowadays. They’re not even that big, but they always act like they’re super high-end. So don’t worry. This must be some kind of elimination-style interview. This round is probably testing our patience…”

The girl beside him was clearly quite young as well. Hearing him speak so confidently and logically, she nodded with great trust. “Mm! I hope we can become coworkers. The company I was at before was laying people off like crazy, and the moment they started cutting staff, I got eliminated…”

“No way. You’re this pretty; someone must have had it out for you for things to end up like this…” the boy said indignantly.

“Um, you two should leave.”

At the sudden interruption, the boy and the girl both turned to look at the person behind them.

The girl was fine; she only looked at Su Lifeng in confusion. The boy, annoyed at being cut off, asked, “Who are you? What are you talking about?”

“Something terrible is going to happen here soon. I’m saying you should leave,” Su Lifeng said. He glanced at the figures and found that they had already noticed him. But they were still some distance away, so at most they knew he was talking to these people. They wouldn’t know exactly what he was saying.

The boy froze, then glanced at the girl. He laughed as if he were looking at a lunatic and said, “People like you really exist? You’ll stop at nothing just to beat the competition, huh? Then go on. Tell me, what’s going to happen in a bit?”

“A lot of people are going to die,” Su Lifeng said calmly.

He was not giving a warning. He was stating a fact. When the man and woman had been talking, Su Lifeng had seen a Precognitive Vision of them covered head to toe in blood. Even now, as the boy spoke to him, the boy’s eyes were filled with despair, and blood was streaming down his face… It was just that the boy himself couldn’t see it. So after staring wide-eyed at Su Lifeng, he burst into disbelieving laughter and raised his voice.

“Did you forget to take your meds or something? You’re saying people are going to die? Keep spouting nonsense and see if I don’t call security! Someone like you actually came for the interview…” Seeing everyone turning to look, the boy’s face showed a hint of smugness. Then he glanced at Su Lifeng and said, “Fine. I’ll stand right here today and not move. Let’s see what terrible thing happens. All right, don’t pay attention to this lunatic.”

The boy turned and said that to the girl. The girl looked at Su Lifeng. Although she found it hard to believe someone like him was actually crazy, she still grew a little frightened and pulled farther away from him.

Su Lifeng moved the corner of his mouth helplessly. He wasn’t angry because of the boy’s reaction. In fact, everyone’s response was more or less what he had expected. He simply couldn’t bear to watch so many people fall into a life-and-death Crisis in a little while…

Seeing that most people had already looked away and none of them seemed inclined to leave, Su Lifeng sighed inwardly. Then, not far away, he suddenly spotted the female university student he had just run into in the corridor.

She was staring at him with doubt and astonishment in her eyes. Clearly, she had seen what had just happened too.

When Fang Li saw Su Lifeng notice her, she gave him a somewhat embarrassed smile and clenched her phone again.

Seeing so many people here had put her much more at ease. As for what Su Lifeng had said… she felt it probably couldn’t be true.

Just then, the dim lights in the conference room suddenly went out.

In the darkness, the crowd immediately broke into an uproar, while Su Lifeng heard the sound of the conference room door opening.

Creak-bang!

As the sound of the door closing rang out, the people in the conference room instantly fell silent again.

The boy glanced into the darkness, then suddenly coughed and asked, “Is this a courage test?”

“Hehe…” After a stretch of silence, a woman’s laugh sounded. “What do you think?”

Outside the conference room door, Qin Zelong shakily let go of the padlock he had fastened onto the door, then abruptly collapsed to his knees.

He clutched at his pants with both hands, his entire body trembling uncontrollably. “Forgive me… forgive me… Please forgive me…”