"You should remember that you have magic powers," Si Mo said helplessly.
"I'm still scared. If I had known it would be like this, I should have brought Chu Hengyuan with me. With my current strength, I can definitely protect him. And when I'm scared, I can hug him to calm myself down."
Si Mo: "..." He wondered if it was just his imagination, but he felt like he had been hit with a mouthful of dog food. "Check if there's any new message on your phone."
Rong Lan took out her phone as told, and sure enough, there was a new message: "Go to the seventh floor of the tallest building in the abandoned factory."
Si Mo stood still and surveyed the layout around. "I know where it is. Let's go."
Rong Lan didn't move. She lowered her head and tapped on her phone screen. "We still have time. Wait for me for two minutes. I'll send a message to Chu Hengyuan and tell him that I'll be taking the employees out for dinner tonight and may not be home on time."
"Tsk—" Si Mo thought of his elder sister. Before she got married, she could go anywhere at will. But after she got married, every time he went out with her, she would fold a little paper crane to send a message back at a certain time. She would smile sweetly when folding the paper crane, and it was so blinding to him.
After sending the message and getting a reply, Rong Lan put her phone back in her pocket. "Let's go!"
"Okay." Si Mo walked in front to lead the way. "This factory is quite large. It must have been glorious once."
"Probably." Rong Lan looked around at the buildings in the factory. "This factory must be at least a hundred years old. If someone buys this place and turns it into a haunted house or an escape room, it should be very popular."
"When you have enough money, you can consider it. If you buy this place, I'll help you manage the little ghosts here. You don't even need to hire employees. I'll let the little ghosts here work for you for free. You just need to give me a little raise." Si Mo thought the plan was more and more feasible as he spoke. He had just peeked around, and there were no powerful ghosts here. He could definitely handle it.
Rong Lan twitched the corner of her mouth and walked closer to Si Mo. "I'm afraid the people who come here to play will be scared to death by the employees." She was scared herself, let alone ordinary humans.
"No, they won't know they're real ghosts." Si Mo stopped at the entrance of a staircase. "Little fox, it's time for us to go upstairs."
A cold wind blew from the staircase, making people feel more panicked than the wind at the main entrance. Rong Lan turned to look at the setting sun on the horizon, gritted her teeth, and stamped her foot. "Let's go!"
She was a strong little fox! She had to be brave!
"Don't be afraid. Nothing strange will come out to scare you until it's completely dark." After walking up a few steps, Si Mo looked back at the little fox who was like a frightened bird and calmly comforted her.
However, Si Mo's comfort didn't work. Rong Lan was still extremely scared, especially because every corner of the staircase was very dark and cold. "We just saw so many people. Why does it seem like no one has come to this building to explore?"
If only she could hear the voices of other humans in this building, she wouldn't be so scared.
But now, the only sounds in this building were their footsteps and the sound of the wind blowing the fallen leaves outside.
Si Mo waved his folding fan, a faint smile on his face. "Maybe it's because the people we just saw weren't real humans?"
Rong Lan: "???" She was so scared by Si Mo's words that she trembled all over. She immediately grabbed the corner of Si Mo's clothes so tightly that his coat almost fell off. "How could they not be ordinary humans?!"
The little fox was about to cry from fear. Si Mo quickly grabbed his coat that was about to slide off his shoulder and sighed. "Okay, I'm just joking with you. The people we just saw were real humans. As for why no one has come to this building, maybe it's because this building is the employee dormitory. It looks the most normal from the outside, so they think there's nothing worth exploring here."
Rong Lan: "!!!" It was too much! How could he scare her like this!
"We'll be there after going up one more floor." Si Mo looked at the dim staircase. "Little fox, get ready to fight back. If it was really Chen Hong who planned this, she must want the two of us, the witnesses, not to see the sun tomorrow. So someone will try to attack us later."
Rong Lan still held on to the corner of Si Mo's clothes. "I know. I won't hold you back."
After thinking for a while, Rong Lan whispered, "It's a pity that I don't want to ruin the current life of Xie Xinxin's younger sister, so I can't threaten Chen Hong by exposing this matter. Otherwise, I would definitely make her suffer."
Si Mo closed his folding fan. "If we can leave here alive today, she still won't be able to eat or sleep well."
"If we can get some interesting evidence today, I even want to send her to prison for a few years." But the possibility of getting evidence was relatively small, and the Xie family would definitely try their best to protect Chen Hong for the sake of their reputation. Unless the Xie family knew that Xie Feng wasn't their child, but she really hoped that the Xie family would never know the truth and never bother that little girl who was living a happy life now.
"We're at the seventh floor of the tallest building in the abandoned factory." Standing at the entrance of the seventh floor staircase, Si Mo let out a breath.
Rong Lan looked left and right. "This floor is full of small compartments like dormitories. Do we have to open every door and take a look?" She was just afraid that when she opened the door, a strange thing with a bloody face would pop out and scare her.
Si Mo snapped his fingers with his free hand. "No need. I know where there are people. There are almost no tourists in this building. I rarely sense the presence of a few living people."
"Then you lead the way." Rong Lan hid behind Si Mo.
Si Mo couldn't help but look back at the little fox again and shook his head helplessly. "Are you even scared of living people now? That won't do."
"No, no. Do I look like someone who would be scared of ordinary humans?" She would never admit that she was such a cowardly fox.
"Stubborn." Although Si Mo complained, he didn't ask the little fox to walk in front or walk side by side with him. Instead, he just let the little fox follow behind him.
After walking along the corridor on the seventh floor for a while, Si Mo stopped in front of a door with the number '701' on it. He didn't hesitate and pushed open the rusty door with a bang.
Then he saw the kidnappers inside, wearing black hoods and holding kitchen knives, jump up in fright at the noise and almost run away.
Si Mo was speechless. Were kidnappers these days so timid? Did Chen Hong not want to spend money and just find two amateur kidnappers?
Rong Lan didn't see the dramatic scene of the two kidnappers jumping up in fright. Instead, the first thing she saw was a person who was covered with a sack on their head and tied up like a mummy on the ground.