Having learned from the past, Wei Nanzhi immediately let go of his hand and hid to the side without Gu Qi's reminder. The table knife flew past the tip of her nose and cut off a few strands of hair.

"Do you think I will fall for the same trick a second time?"

Wei Nanzhi dodged and looked at the waiter mockingly. The waiter's eyes stayed on the knife for a moment, and then disappeared quietly into the crowd.

The guests around them were still chatting as if they hadn't seen this scene, as if Gu Qi and they were not in the same time and space at all.

After Gu Qi picked up the table knife, he realized something was wrong: "There is something wrong with this table knife. Do you want to take a look?"

“What could be wrong with a table knife?”

Wei Nanzhi's expression changed immediately after taking it suspiciously. She grabbed a table knife from the dining table and found something different.

"The knife that the waiter flew over seems to be surprisingly light. It's different from those normal table knives."

She pulled Gu Qi to sit in the corner and inspected it carefully. Finally, she saw an extremely small gap on the blade of the knife under the light. She picked up the tablecloth, tied the blade of the knife and pulled it to both sides, but the knife didn't move at all.

"I'll do it!"

After Gu Qi took it, he cut the knife into two pieces with force, and a thin piece of paper fell out of it. As for the original position of the knife blade, it was actually hollow!

"Utility room? Where is the utility room?" Wei Nanzhi thought hard while holding the note, "We just walked all the way and didn't see any utility room at all? What on earth does this waiter want to do? Or is it?

Say this is one of the clues?"

"Don't think too much. This is just the advancement of the mission. Don't be nervous."

After thinking for a while, Gu Qi held her wrist and said, "You have been a little excited from the beginning. We will go to the appointment after you calm down."

Wei Nanzhi scratched his head in distress.

"I can't calm down. The game will be over in less than ten hours. We have gone through so many levels before but still haven't seen the light of day. Whether we can save Lin Jia is still unknown.

I am not as calm and indifferent as you, I want to live."

"Everyone wants to live, including me," Gu Qi said slowly, "I'm not as calm as you think. It's just that in such a complicated situation, I must keep myself in a stable state and not be affected."

He looked at Wei Nanzhi with slight concern: "I know it's not easy for you to endure the pressure, but the more this situation happens, the more calm we have to be. Only in this way can we escape completely."

With his comfort, Wei Nanzhi gradually pulled away from the collapse of her emotions. Gu Qi's words sounded a little cold and ruthless.

But when I think about it carefully, what he said is exactly what I should maintain now.

"I know, I'm sorry, I was not in a good mood just now."

After thinking about all this, Wei Nanzhi apologized generously. Gu Qi was not a person who cared about such things, so he readily accepted her apology: "Let's go! Find the utility room."

The two of them walked around the corridor for several times without finding the target. Gu Qi stopped a waiter and asked for the location, but neither of them expected that the utility room would be like this.

A wooden door that leaks air everywhere, and a crumbling signboard.

When the surrounding brick walls are touched, brick shavings will continue to fall down.

This room is incompatible with the luxurious corridor, as if someone had placed it here out of thin air.

"This utility room... is really hard to describe." Wei Nanzhi's eyelids twitched, "I always have a bad feeling."

Gu Qi walked in front and opened the door without a care: "Have we not encountered too many bad things till now?"

The two pushed the door open and entered. The wooden door made a heartbreaking sound. Wei Nanzhi always suspected that the wooden door would fall down. Fortunately, what she worried about did not happen.

"Why so many cardboard boxes? What does it smell like?"

Wei Nanzhi frowned, the smell of rotting cartons was mixed with a faint smell of blood.

Gu Qi also noticed something was wrong: "Separately look for anyone."

Wei Nanzhi walked to the corner of the room and separated the stacked cardboard boxes one by one. Most of them were empty.

Only occasionally there were yellowed papers with words on them that were soaked in water and could not be read clearly.

"What is all this mess?"

She raised her fingers and threw a cardboard box aside. Just as she was about to continue, Gu Qi's voice suddenly came from the other side of the room: "If you find anything, come here quickly!"

Wei Nanzhi left the box on hand and walked toward him. The smell of blood gradually became stronger along the way. When she came to Gu Qi's side, she found a motionless person lying on the ground.

"He's dead. Judging from his clothes, he should be a cleaner."

Gu Qi knelt down and pointed at the wound on his neck, "Something hit him directly on the neck, and I can't even raise my head."

Wei Nanzhi endured the nausea in her stomach and got closer, and found that not only did he have scars on his neck, but his arms were also hanging down at an angle that was impossible for ordinary people, and his five fingers were turned outwards as if they had been forcibly broken.

She picked up half the carton and poked the cleaner a few times, and found that there seemed to be something in his breast pocket.

"I've seen him." Wei Nanzhi stared at the dead cleaner and suddenly said.

"When Qiu Wanna and I left the hall before, we happened to see him pushing a garbage truck towards us. We also saw it once in the distance when we were going out. The pockets on his chest were always bulging like this."

When Gu Qi heard this, he reached into his pocket and found a suspiciously round object inside.

"The pockets are sewn shut."

Gu Qi and Wei Nanzhi tore open the cleaner's pocket together and found an old pocket watch inside.

“Does anyone still use something this retro?”

Wei Nanzhi looked back and forth with the pocket watch and found nothing wrong with it, but it was carefully sewn shut in the pocket. It was definitely not so ordinary.

"Let's go first! I always feel uncomfortable here. Let's find another place to continue our research."

Wei Nanzhi stood up and walked to the door with Gu Qi, then stopped and looked back at the cleaner's body with some unbearable feelings.

She walked back quickly and opened a clean cardboard box and covered him: "That's all I can do. Rest in peace! If I hadn't been unable to protect myself, I would have definitely helped you seek justice."

"I didn't expect you to be so sentimental? You weren't like this when you were going through his clothes just now." Gu Qi teased her while leaning against the wall.

"After all, he is a living person, so it is normal for me to feel compassion."

Wei Nanzhi stood up and threw the pocket watch to Gu Qi. Unexpectedly, the cleaner behind him suddenly jumped up and threw her to the ground, holding her neck tightly with his hands with broken fingers.

She was pinched so hard that stars appeared in her eyes, and she almost blurted out a curse word: "Should I go? Is this cleaner a fake corpse?"

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