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Other stores continued to operate, but He Zheng didn’t even glance at them as he went straight to take the elevator to the fourth floor.

The entire fourth floor sold furniture, and as it was close to closing time, there weren’t many customers around.

After exiting the elevator, He Zheng quickly found the security guard for this floor.

The guard, in his forties and working late hours, was sitting in the security room, lifting a box of fast food to eat.

He Zheng stood outside and knocked on the window.

The guard looked up in surprise and asked, "What is it?"

He Zheng said, "I’m looking for the manager of this furniture mall. Please notify him to come over."

The guard put down his spoon and chopsticks and opened the window, "Mr. Liang is not here today. You can tell me what it is, and I’ll pass the message when he comes back." @@novelbin@@

He Zheng hesitated briefly and then said, "I’m an exorcist. I’ve come to deal with the strangenesses here. I heard it’s in the ’Bedroom Companion’ furniture store."

"Ah," the guard exclaimed in surprise and then smiled, quickly stepping out of the door. "So you’re the exorcist, sir. I just got a call from Mr. Liang, saying that an exorcist was coming to help us resolve the strangeness. Yes, I have the keys and can help you open the door of Bedroom Companion."

He Zheng nodded, "Let’s go. Just open the door and then you can head back and continue with your meal. I will let you know after I’ve dealt with the strangeness."

"Thank you, Mr. Exorcist," said the guard, leading the way while barely containing his excitement. "Honestly, that ’Person in the Mirror’ is too scary. It’s good you’ve come. Every day when I pass Bedroom Companion, my heart’s pounding."

"Really? You’ve seen this strangeness?" asked He Zheng.

The guard nodded, "Mr. Exorcist, let me tell you, once you’re inside the Bedroom Companion furniture store, do not believe anything you see in the mirrors there, not even your own reflection."

At this, the guard shivered for no reason and added, "And it’s not just inside Bedroom Companion; even passing by the shop’s front, if you see the mirrors, don’t linger, just leave quickly."

"Interesting," He Zheng said with a faint smile.

At that moment, the two of them arrived at the storefront of a furniture store. The rolling door was closed, and there was a sign with the stores name, "Bedroom Companion," although the sign was not lit up.

All around this store, the other storefronts were also closed. As soon as it got dark, the furniture stores on this floor would normally start closing one after another, and it was rare for any to stay open past 9 p.m.

As He Zheng had walked over before, he noticed that only the stores near the elevator and escalator hadn’t closed yet because they were by the entrance and had a security room nearby; the other inner stores had mostly shut down.

Bedroom Companion and the surrounding stores were all closed, and there were even two store spaces that had only the glass doors closed, not even the rolling doors pulled down.

But He Zheng glanced and saw they were empty; they must all have moved out.

The guard took out a bunch of keys, quickly found the right one, and inserted it into the lock, turning it twice, making a sound as the lock opened.

Yet he didn’t lift the rolling door. Instead, he stood up with an apologetic smile, "Sorry, I’m too scared to open this door. Could you do it? Um, I’ll go back to the security room."

He Zheng smiled and nodded, not saying anything, watching the guard go his way until he disappeared around the corner.

He then turned his attention back to his surroundings.

Aside from the lights, the area was eerily silent, not a sound to be heard. There were at least eight nearby stores, but ever since Bedroom Companion started experiencing strangenesses, those stores had not opened at all.

He Zheng even had the illusion that in the darkness of the two stores without the rolling doors pulled down, there seemed to be something watching from inside.

He pulled out a black disc-shaped Spirit Detector, turned it on, and its coverage quickly enveloped the area.

Yet, there was not a single strangeness detected nearby.

Turning off the Spirit Detector, He Zheng thought perhaps that entity usually hid within the mirrors, in a different space, so the Spirit Detector couldn’t pick it up.

This also proved that there were no strangenesses in the dark interiors of the two stores that had not pulled down their rolling doors; it was all just He Zheng’s imagination.

He tucked away the Spirit Detector, crouched down, and lifted the rolling door, revealing the inside of Bedroom Companion bathed in darkness. Other than the pieces of furniture placed near the entrance, the rest of the space seemed to be swallowed by the dark.

He took out his phone, opened the call interface, looking at Yan Junze’s number, and prepared to click.

Moments later, he looked up in the direction he came, not seeing anyone approach. He moved his thumb away from Yan Junze’s phone number, closed the call interface, and turned on the flashlight function, walking into Bedroom Companion.

By the door, he tried the light switch, but there was no response.

The store might have been closed for so long that it hadn’t paid its electricity and water bills, so the power could have been cut off.

Of course, the strangenesses might have also been the cause.

He Zheng had no choice but to use his phone’s flashlight to light his way deeper into the store. Read new chapters at NovelBin.Côm

From the entrance, at first, one could still see the light of the flashlight moving further into the darkness, but after a short while, that light was completely engulfed, no longer visible.

Although the store was called Bedroom Companion, the majority of the furniture for sale was not beds; they mostly sold dressing tables and wardrobes with mirrors, and so on.