Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#279 - Chapter 278 Cause of Death, Cowardice and Incompetence

Li Chenqiu circled the office building a few times, and after seeing that there was nothing unusual, he slowly landed on the roof of the office building.

“Transform.”

Li Chenqiu silently recited in his heart.

Whoosh—

White mist rose around the crow, and the next second, an ant crawled out of it, heading towards the tightly closed iron door of the rooftop.

Seeing this scene from the air, Xiang Nanzhi revealed a deep envy in her eyes: "That's truly heaven-defying!"

Although the iron door of the rooftop was tightly closed, there were still gaps. Li Chenqiu easily crawled in and went down the stairs to the sixth floor of the office building.

The sixth floor was a long corridor with neatly arranged rooms on both sides.

Most of them were private offices, and there were also conference halls.

“There are no particularly powerful beings, just pay attention to monitoring.” Xiang Nanzhi's voice sounded in Li Chenqiu's ear.

Hearing this, Li Chenqiu poked his ant head out from the corner and began to investigate from the leftmost office.

Although Li Chenqiu had turned into an ant, it didn't affect his speed. In just a few minutes, he had explored nearly half of the rooms on the sixth floor, but he didn't find anything unusual in these rooms.

Just as Li Chenqiu was about to explore the next room, a faint smell of blood wafted into his nostrils.

“Hmm?”

Li Chenqiu stopped moving forward, changed direction, and slowly advanced, following the scent of blood.

Soon, he arrived at the end of the corridor. Looking up, what came into view were the six large characters “Warden's Office.”

Li Chenqiu perked up and sneaked into the office through the gap.

As soon as he crossed the closed door, a strong and pungent smell of blood rushed into Li Chenqiu's nostrils. At the same time, he saw everything in the office clearly.

Patches of moonlight shone through the glass window, bringing a little light to the office.

Warden Ji Min was趴 on the cold tiles, or rather, lying in a pool of blood.

In addition, a middle-aged man with rough skin and a beard was lying on the office chair. Looking down from the man's head, what came into view was a fist-sized bloody hole, located at the heart.

Obviously, he was also dead.

“This…”

Li Chenqiu looked at everything in front of him in disbelief.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

At this moment, a series of footsteps sounded in the corridor, approaching from afar.

Xiang Nanzhi's voice suddenly sounded: "Li Chenqiu, someone is coming, see… powerful… small… I dark…"

The second half of Xiang Nanzhi's words became intermittent, as if they were being interfered with by something.

Although Li Chenqiu didn't hear the second half of Xiang Nanzhi's words clearly, he keenly captured the keywords.

“Powerful!”

Realizing that something was wrong, Li Chenqiu hurriedly crawled towards the corner, hiding in the shadows where the moonlight couldn't reach.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

The crisp footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, becoming clearer and clearer in Li Chenqiu's ears.

Tap!

The footsteps disappeared, stopping outside the door.

Li Chenqiu held his breath, locking onto the direction of the door.

Click!

The inward-facing doorknob slowly turned, and the closed door slowly opened. A foot stepped into the room first, followed by a figure bathed in darkness.

Li Chenqiu fixed his eyes and, with his vision far surpassing that of ordinary people and the moonlight, finally saw the person's appearance clearly.

It was a twisted and ugly face, with dense scars on the cheeks. The nose was kneaded into a ball like mud, the corners of the mouth were ripped to the ears, and the teeth were arranged in a messy manner, which was extremely terrifying!

Li Chenqiu was very familiar with this face. This person was Ji Mu.

At this time, Ji Mu was not as humble and timid as before. His eyes were indifferent, and his every move revealed an unspeakable calmness, which was completely different from before.

Li Chenqiu didn't make any sound. A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, but it was only a trace. He seemed a little surprised by the result, but not surprised.

Ji Mu closed the door, calmly bypassed Ji Min's body, sat on the soft sofa, crossed his legs, and said, "Since you're here, why are you hiding in the corner?"

Li Chenqiu's heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly moved his gaze away, shrinking into the gap between the corners like a dead ant, motionless.

Ji Mu supported his head with one hand, lowered his eyes, and looked at the location where Li Chenqiu was hiding: "Do you want me to drag you out myself?"

Whoosh—

White mist rose in the corner. Li Chenqiu stepped out and stared at Ji Mu with great apprehension: "Did you take my Spiritual Profound Artifact?"

Ji Mu didn't refute, and asked curiously, "Why aren't you surprised at all?"

Li Chenqiu looked at Ji Mu calmly: "Even someone like Qi Mingyue, who is completely unfamiliar with the mountains and forests, can hide for more than ten days, let alone you? You deliberately let people catch you, wanting to force me out!"

“Just because of this?” Ji Mu was a little puzzled.

Li Chenqiu walked to the sofa directly opposite Ji Mu and sat down: "I asked Qi Mingyue. This morning, you took the initiative to ask him to bring you food. Presumably, it was at that time that you came to this office building, killed these two people, and put my Spiritual Profound Artifact into the sealing box!"

“Your mind is indeed meticulous.” Ji Mu smiled and pointed to Ji Min's body: "These two people lying in the office wanted to kill you and take your Spiritual Profound Artifact, so I took action and killed them.

But I didn't deal with the bodies. Unexpectedly, I thought someone would find out about Ji Min's death soon, but no one found out. No one walked into this office all day, which is really outrageous."

Hearing this, Li Chenqiu realized that Ji Mu was not Ji Min's superior.

After understanding this, a long line appeared in his mind, connecting many trivial things together.

Ji Min did want to seize his Spiritual Profound Artifact, and the method he thought of was to directly kill him.

Ji Mu also had this purpose, but on top of seizing the Spiritual Profound Artifact, he added the need for a powerful Soul Soldier, so he locked Ember in the sealing box, his purpose being to attract strong people to the prison.

Ji Min and the bearded man blocked his way, so naturally they couldn't escape death.

Li Chenqiu took a deep look at Ji Mu: "Your intention to seize my Spiritual Profound Artifact should have been a temporary idea. I heard others say that you have been in prison for a year."

“Yes, it was indeed a temporary idea.” Ji Mu nodded: "I didn't expect there would be a surprise this month."

Li Chenqiu stood up and walked to the desk as if nothing had happened, bringing the distance from the window closer by a meter, and at the same time asked, "Your name, your background, your story, are all fake, right!"

“The name is fake, the background is also fake…” Ji Mu paused and continued: "But the story is true, but it's also mixed with falsehoods. My children are all dead, and the cause of death is my cowardice and incompetence."

When he said the last word, a touch of dimness flashed in Ji Mu's eyes. At the same time, his figure disappeared from the spot and appeared in front of Li Chenqiu, who was planning to jump out of the window.