After that, Xu Fang and the other two searched almost every room in the corridor. Each room was empty and had no apparent significance. Fortunately, all the rooms had white floors, which seemed safe.

Finally, they reached the end of the corridor.

At the end of the corridor was a white wooden door, with the last two rooms on either side of it.

When she saw the wooden door, Bai Wenqiu widened her eyes in disbelief.

"What's wrong?"

"Could I have remembered wrong?" Bai Wenqiu murmured, "There shouldn't be a door here..."

"Mom, don't scare me. What's going on?" Luo Bing's panic subsided a bit when he saw Xu Fang's calmness.

"When I came here, I came from a crossroads and hid in the room where we met," Bai Wenqiu swallowed, "If we walked along the corridor, the first thing we should have encountered would have been a crossroad, not a door!"

"Oh, I see." Xu Fang was not surprised.

Seeing Xu Fang so calm, Luo Bing's panic dissipated even more, and hope arose in his heart. "Have you encountered this kind of situation before?"

"No." Xu Fang answered simply.

What the heck, why are you so calm!

Luo Bing suddenly felt that Xu Fang was a bit unreliable. There should be many different types of "magical girls", and Gu Xi shouldn't be a beginner, right? She didn't seem to have much experience. She also seemed young, a primary school student? If she was a primary school student, how long could she work?

No, it's also possible that she's an alien.

Sometimes, having too much imagination can be torturous. Luo Bing gradually believed in the content he had imagined. He started to worry about his own safety again, and glanced at his mother beside him, feeling heavy-hearted. If he couldn't even protect himself, could he protect his mother?

Hmm, wait, what's that smell? Luo Bing raised his head and sniffed curiously.

There was a faint stench, like the smell of rotten meat. And it seemed that the source of this smell was coming from the end of the corridor.

"Gu Xi, do you smell that? There's a strange odor."

"I can't smell it, but I can feel it."

Xu Fang squinted slightly and looked at the three doors at the end of the corridor.

Gussy had a poor sense of smell, that was its drawback. But as a result, it was more sensitive to danger. Xu Fang could sense that there was something bad ahead.

"Maybe the source of the smell is behind the white wooden door." Luo Bing speculated, "Is it dangerous out there? Mom, did you smell any strange odor before?"

Bai Wenqiu shook her head, "No."

"Let's take a look at the last two symmetrical rooms first. Don't stray too far from me. If something happens, I won't be able to take care of you."

Xu Fang put his hand on the doorknob, silently counted to three in his heart, and then opened the door. After seeing the scene inside the room, he squinted slightly.

...

A decomposed corpse was hanging in the center of the room with its back facing them. The rope was tied to the light on the ceiling, and the stench was emanating from the body.

Upon seeing this gruesome sight, Bai Wenqiu immediately turned her head away and dared not look. Luo Bing tightly covered his nose and mouth, his brow furrowed, afraid to speak, fearing he would throw up if he opened his mouth.

"Luo Bing, hold the door. I'll go in and take a look. Bai Wenqiu, you stay at the door. If you notice anything, inform me immediately." Xu Fang instructed while facing away from the mother and son, his gaze never leaving the body.

Reluctantly, Luo Bing didn't want to step inside at all, so he could only turn his back to the corpse and use his shoulder to keep the door in place. Bai Wenqiu tried to call for help from outside the door but still couldn't get any signal.

Instead of approaching the body right away, Xu Fang circled around it to its front. As expected, the face of the body was also decayed and unrecognizable. However, the body's shape indicated that it was a female. In the symmetrical world, there didn't seem to be any flies, mosquitoes, or other insects, so there were no maggots.

Xu Fang didn't plan to touch it for the time being, as there were gray spots on the body. There didn't seem to be as many plaster figures as before, but the presence of this thing told Xu Fang that the body and the plaster figures were of the same nature.

The coat the body was wearing seemed thick and appeared to be able to hold many things.

Xu Fang took out a folded hollow iron rod (previously broken off a chair in the conference room) from his pocket, straightened it, and then gently tapped the body with the rod.The body swayed gently, motionless.

Xu Fang carefully removed the coat from the body with an iron rod. Despite his gentle movements, the flesh of the body had become soft and loose due to the action of microorganisms, inevitably causing a few pieces of rotten flesh to fall out from the belly.

The fallen rotten flesh made a "pu" sound as they piled up, and the stench in the air became even stronger. Luo Bing heard the sound and curiously turned his head to look, but then his expression twisted and he couldn't help but squat down and vomit as his stomach churned.

At this moment, the door that Luo Bing was supporting seemed to be held by an invisible hand, slowly closing as if intending to trap Xu Fang inside the room.

After grabbing the body's clothes, Xu Fang threw away the iron rod in his hand. The iron rod got stuck in the gap of the door as it closed.

If the door closed, something bad might happen. What about Luo Bing... wasn't he supposed to guard the door?

While keeping his eyes fixed on the body, Xu Fang searched through the clothes he had just taken off. Finally, he found something hard and thin in the lining, seemingly a small booklet.

Finally, a clue.

He tucked the booklet into his arms and slowly moved towards the door, never diverting his gaze.

This body... needs to be dissected and studied.

Just as Xu Fang was about to pick up the iron rod on the ground to proceed to the next experiment, a scream suddenly came from outside the door.

"Gu Xi, help! A monster appeared!!" Luo Bing pushed open the door and cried out in fear. Bai Wenqiu followed closely behind Luo Bing, her face full of terror.

These two disrupted Xu Fang's rhythm, especially Luo Bing, who was almost half a meter taller than Xu Fang and blocked the body in an instant.

"You're in my way." Xu Fang pushed Luo Bing aside, wanting to redirect his gaze back to the body, but... the body was gone!

Xu Fang quickly looked around the corners of the room, but he didn't see anything, as if what he had just seen was an illusion.

"What's wrong, did I do something wrong?" Luo Bing looked at Xu Fang in confusion, then pointed outside, "A monster appeared from the last room we haven't explored! Eliminate it... wait, what about the hanging guy?"

Only now did Luo Bing notice that the person hanging was gone, and his face turned even worse. "It disappeared when I came in just now."

"You two, follow me." Xu Fang quietly raised his alertness.

"But the monster is still outside! Isn't it dangerous to go out now?" Bai Wenqiu asked worriedly.

"It's more dangerous to stay here."

After the three left the room, the door on the opposite side, which had been closed, opened, but Xu Fang didn't see the monster that Luo Bing mentioned.

"Huh, it was just here, that thing opened the door by itself and walked out from inside."

"What does the monster look like?"

"Looks like a person covered in blood."

"Huh? Not a hanged ghost?" Xu Fang thought the other ghost should also be symmetric.

"Probably... not?"

In the current situation, although there were no casualties, Xu Fang felt that he had missed a lot of information. Those things didn't want Xu Fang to discover too much about them.

"Should we leave here? My legs are not cooperating a bit." Luo Bing's voice trembled slightly. When he saw the monster just now, he was terrified to the extreme, even thinking that he was going to die.

To be honest, Luo Bing also felt embarrassed by his behavior just now. It seemed like he had messed up Xu Fang's plan, although Xu Fang didn't say anything, he could feel the other party's dissatisfaction. But there was no choice, he was just an ordinary person. If he had magic, he wouldn't be so cowardly.

"Let's go back and take a look. If we're lucky, maybe we will encounter them again."

Lucky? Is that something a person would say?

Luo Bing resisted in his heart, but now it was up to Xu Fang to decide, so he could only follow. Bai Wenqiu was calmer than Luo Bing, as she had recovered from the shock earlier. She looked at Xu Fang with a complicated expression, then glanced at her own son, sighing inwardly.Led by Xu Fang, they returned to the elevator and searched every room from beginning to end. They found nothing, and Luo Bing and the others didn't smell any strange odor.

After all the fuss, the white floor under their feet became even grayer. A mysterious darkness seemed to be mixing with the white, as if ready to devour the last trace of light.

They returned to the white door at the end of the corridor. Bai Wenqiu was tired and didn't have the energy to worry about the dirt on the ground. She sat down directly to rest. Luo Bing leaned against the wall, playing with his phone, trying to find an angle that could give him a signal, but without success.

They knew that the gray floor was dangerous, but nobody could guarantee that it would be safer outside the door. And because they were afraid of triggering a "door opening killing," they didn't want to be the first one to open the door. So they entrusted these tasks to Xu Fang.

Xu Fang wasn't in a hurry to leave. He took out the little notebook he had found from the body of the hanged ghost earlier and started examining it. The notebook was about the same size as the one given by Bai Wenqiu, only the cover of this one was gray.

Could this also be a diary?

Xu Fang opened this gray diary.