If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

Eri hid under the desk, motionless, holding Mickey's small shoulder bag tightly. When she was a child, she played the game of tag with Gen Chisheng. According to the rules of tag, the ghost can trick people, and the game is not over until it is caught out of the cabinet. Eri has also been tricked out by Gen Chisheng many times, and each time she was particularly depressed.

The beam of the flashlight shone on the swivel chair parked in front of the computer case. The manually enlarged aperture illuminated everything around. Eri, hiding under the desk, shrank silently, trying to squeeze herself under the table with her good flexibility and figure.

The security guard was a man in his prime of about 35 years old, wearing a security uniform and fully equipped. He stared at the swivel chair that must have moved and made a noise just now, and silently switched the flashlight in his right hand to his left hand, while reaching for the gun on his waist. It was a Glock G18, a standard submachine gun, commonly seen in special forces, with a fully automatic firing mode.

After the official battle with the demons, the security alert in Genji Heavy Industries has already risen to the red level. Every security guard on night patrol is equipped with a fully automatic pistol and has the qualification to open fire first and then investigate after discovering an unidentified person. Any intruder killed in Genji Heavy Industries will be handled by the Snake Eight Clan.

The guard in charge of patrolling the 29th floor today is a retired sergeant of the Self-Defense Forces. He used to serve as a guard under the head of the Ryoma family. After being injured in a special mission, he was assigned to Genji Heavy Industries to do this idle job. The salary level is tripled compared to the previous service. He works one day and rests one day, and there is a year-end bonus. He is even allocated an apartment nearby in Shinjuku District.

This makes the guard always grateful to the family and the head of the Ryoma family who has been kind to him. He works one day and rests one day at night. Every day, he is fully alert to patrol every corner of every floor, and never slacks off or lets go of any disturbance.

After the guard detected the unusual movement, the flashlight was placed horizontally on his arm, and his hands were crossed in front of his chest in a standard Harris pose. His steps slowed down and he bent forward slightly. At the same time, a light golden color lit up under his eyes. After the strong bloodline was activated, all the movements were collected in his perception.

Eri, who was hiding in the desk, did not move. She has always been a very obedient girl. If this game of running away from home fails, she will be caught by the guard honestly. Even if she wants to resist, no one in this building can stop her.

But just as the subtle footsteps approached and the angle of the flashlight was about to illuminate the dark red hair of Eri under the desk, the guard stopped. He had realized that there was someone hiding near him, so he naturally released his domain for safety reasons.

Word Spirit·Transparent and Boundless

Like a tide, the field washed away from the center of the guard. It was a spiritual signal transmitted by air and matter. Like microwaves emitted by radar, it built a model of all the environments within 20 meters above, below, left, and right with him as the center and transmitted them into his mind.

The extremely complex office area, including the layout of the upper and lower floors, instantly emerged in the guard's mind. According to the speed of spiritual signals transmitted in different substances, all obstacles were painted with different colors to distinguish them. Then, two bright red human figures appeared among a group of gray obstacles. One was hiding under the desk three meters in front of him, and the other.

The guard's pupils suddenly contracted, and he fell forward and rolled almost reflexively. At the same time, when he rolled halfway, he raised his gun and aimed at the human figure behind him who was hiding in the darkness and almost close to him!

The creepy feeling exploded in every corner of his body! If he hadn't chosen to release the Word Spirit, he would probably never know until his death that there was actually someone who had been following him like a shadow - he had no idea when this ghostly guy caught up with him. When he was closest, his breath could even blow the hair on his neck, but he had never known anything!

When the guard was about to pull the trigger, the black figure had already approached him, grabbed the Glock's slide and pulled it back. With a crisp sound, a bullet was ejected and hit the floor. Then he pulled it forward again, and the Glock's slide was directly removed, and the parts torn apart by the powerful force were scattered all over the floor.

The guard felt the great threat of death looming over him, but he was well-trained and was not controlled by fear. Instead, he quickly pressed the flashlight button with his thumb to turn on the strobe mode, and the flashing high-lumen beam illuminated the head of the figure at close range!

But what lit up in the darkness was a demon mask of Prajna, with two horns on his head, frowning and smiling, and the bright golden pupils under the eye sockets of the mask stared directly at the flashing light beam without closing at all!

The moment the guard saw the Prajna mask clearly, his adrenaline surged, and he kneed with all his strength, enough to shatter the internal organs of an ordinary person! But he did not feel the impact on the opponent's abdomen, but his knee was completely covered by the numb pain, and his kneecap was probably fractured.

He realized that either the opponent had a steel plate stuffed in his body or the opponent's body was harder than steel!

The guard wanted to fight back, but the previous counterattacks had failed. Now he had lost any chance. The attacker wearing the Prajna mask only made one move. He stretched out his left hand and bent his index finger to make a knocking gesture, stabbing his throat. The penetrating force instantly broke his vocal cords and shattered the trachea and cervical vertebrae behind.

The guard opened his eyes wide and wanted to make a sound, but he could only make a hoarse sound. His right hand holding the pager button in front of his chest was slowly moved away by the attacker, crushing every finger bone, and finally gently patted the back of his head. The bright red blood instantly filled his protruding eyes, and he lost his voice after a moment.

All this happened very quickly. In less than five seconds, the domain covering the upper and lower layers collapsed, and the guard stopped breathing.

The attacker wearing the Prajna mask slowly laid the guard flat on the ground, and at the same time did not forget to pull a piece of toilet paper from the table beside him and press it on the face with bleeding mouth and nose. After dealing with the appearance of the body, he cast his eyes on the swivel chair in front of the computer case that the guard had just stared at, and slowly moved over.

When passing the desk opposite the swivel chair, the attacker suddenly raised his hand and stabbed the table. Five dagger-like claws directly pierced through the table. If there was someone hiding under it, the head would be pierced through the skull by these claws first.

He squatted down at the same time and tilted his head to look at the attacker in the space under the table, but there was nothing in front of him, and he found nothing.

He was silent for a moment and pulled out the claws that pierced the table. After his palm left the table, the claws disappeared in the darkness and returned to the human-like palm. He looked around the messy office area and saw nothing except himself who was still standing in it.

He didn't think any more and walked to the nearest table. He dragged the swivel chair in front of the computer case to sit next to him. After turning on the computer, he took out a black USB flash drive from his pocket and inserted it into the computer case interface. Under the dim light of the computer, the Prajna mask was as scary as a demon. The dead guard lying on the ground next to the swivel chair was still twitching at a low frequency.

Not far away, the door of the fire escape, which should have been closed, was ajar at some point, revealing a small gap that kept blowing cold wind in.

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Eriyi ran barefoot in the fire escape with a pair of flat-soled women's shoes in her hand, and her heart rate inevitably rose a little.

Her heartbeat was not accelerated because of fear, but because she was a little excited that she had successfully avoided the situation where she would lose in the ghost catching people.

Strictly speaking, this girl didn't even know that a murder had occurred in the liaison department on the 29th floor, because at the moment when the guard turned the flashlight beam to divert his attention, Eriyi got out of the space under the desk like a big rat and rushed all the way to the fire escape right in front of her.

As the head of the Uesugi family who knew nothing, she didn't know that the attack just now might represent a secret attack by the demons against the Eight Snakes, and she didn't care what happened at all.

In her concept, the game of running away from home that she was playing had reached a critical moment. She didn't want to lose the game, so she would not give up any opportunity to escape. Nothing was more important than her sneaking out of the house now.

Following Garfield's previous instructions in the headset, she went down along the fire escape all the way, down about twenty floors, and stopped at the 7th floor, which was also the end of the fire escape.

According to Garfield's reminder, the 5th and 6th floors of Genji Heavy Industries were opened up to reserve an elevated highway that runs through the entire building. When this building was under construction, the government's elevated road plan collided with it. Under the tough attitude of the Eight Snakes, the two sides could only compromise and choose to build in parallel, which led to the current strange sight of the elevated highway passing through the Genji Heavy Industries building.

This design just happened to be a perfect route for Eri to escape. According to Garfield, there is a compartment in the fire escape on the 7th floor, and there is a utility room in the compartment. On the ground of the utility room, there is a passage covered by a manhole cover, which is connected to the hollow load-bearing columns on the 5th and 6th floors. There are stairs on the columns that can go all the way down to the viaduct.

This design was originally used to inspect the load-bearing columns and the cables and wires hanging on the lower floor. Now it can be borrowed by Eri, so as to avoid the almost blind spot monitoring of the main entrance and escape from Genji Heavy Industries directly from an unexpected place.

Eri opened the compartment door, and it was indeed a utility room. After turning on the light button on the side, the small yellow light illuminated the rusty manhole cover on the ground, and the four Chinese characters "Maruyama Manufacturing" were written on it.

There are keyholes on both sides of the manhole cover, which means that a key is needed to open this passage, but Eri does not need a key. She found a pen next to the utility room, gently inserted it into the keyhole, and then tapped it.

In the darkness, the lock core structure instantly broke as if it had been cut by a hot melt gun. The complex structure was completely destroyed by a will. It was an insignificant will, but it represented an absolute "penetrating" will. A plastic pencil filed the inside of the steel lock core into dregs and ashes.

Eri easily removed the manhole cover. The whirring sound of cars passing by the viaduct below and the night sounds of the city immediately reached her ears. The fresh air blowing in from below also made her eyes a little brighter.

But when she looked at the supporting columns connected to the passage under the manhole cover, she paused for a moment, because the stairs that should have existed on it disappeared, and only black traces of the original stairs were left on the supporting columns.

The Snake Eight Clan actually dismantled this staircase.

This is quite reasonable. In order to worry about the enemy invading the interior of Genji Heavy Industries from the viaduct, this kind of staircase connected to the supporting column should have been removed.

Eri did not take out her mobile phone from her bag to ask Garfield what to do, because she knew very well that this might be her only way to escape from Genji Heavy Industries, and no matter how powerful Garfield was, he could not transform into a fire alarm and drive to the viaduct under Genji Heavy Industries to set up a ladder for her.

So Eri jumped down, she jumped directly from the open manhole cover, holding her Mickey bag and jumped from a height of dozens of meters to the viaduct with whistling traffic.