Yun Ning Liu furrowed her eyebrows and quickly walked out, with Ye Sha following her. He felt a sense of unease in his heart.

The gym was in chaos, with the door locked and a group of panicked customers shouting to be let out. The coaches tried their best to calm them down.

"Don't panic. Tell me, what happened?" Yun Ning Liu, a longtime high-ranking female executive, spoke with a calm voice that immediately quieted the scene.

In the weightlifting area not far away, two or three coaches stepped back with complicated expressions, revealing a terrible sight.

A male customer lying on the bench press was pinned down by a heavy barbell and was already pale with no breath left in his body.

This man had been crushed alive!

"Who was responsible for him?" Yun Ning Liu asked sharply. This was an unforgivable mistake - someone was supposed to be responsible for watching over and taking care of the person doing the bench press.

"Boss, I went to the bathroom, but I clearly told him to wait until I got back before continuing his workout! He just didn't listen!" A middle-aged coach defended himself with a frightened expression.

"You..." Yun Ning Liu was furious but helpless. She wasn't a police officer, so how could she tell what was true or false?

"Boss, how about we look at the surveillance footage? Even if Li Ge wasn't there, someone else should have noticed, right? Why did a big guy like that suddenly die like this?" Ye Sha reminded her, sensing that there was more to this situation.

Yun Ning Liu nodded and turned to Xiao Liu at the front desk, who immediately retrieved and projected the surveillance footage onto the gym's large TV screen.

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Ye Sha watched the video carefully. In the footage, Li Ge did indeed speak with the customer before going to the bathroom. But the customer suddenly seemed to change, lying down on the bench press, grabbing the barbell and lifting it once before weakly letting go, allowing the barbell to fall on him. His face turned red and his eyes bulged, but he didn't even make a sound, dying within a few breaths. No one was in the weightlifting area during this time, and he wasn't found by Li Ge until several minutes after he had already died.

"This is strange!" Ye Sha was shocked. This kind of death was undoubtedly caused by something strange. He had encountered one last night, and now another one today - it wasn't normal.

"Where there is strangeness, there must be something unusual about it!" Recalling the slogan of the Strange website, Ye Sha had a guess. He was now a half-strange, half-human being, so other Stranges would be automatically attracted to him!

  "Did you call the police?" Liu Yuneng rubbed her sore temples. She had only come to the gym today to tease Ye Sha on a whim, but ended up caught in a strange situation.

"Yes, they said no one can leave the scene. They want to question us," replied Front Desk Xiao Liu, visibly trembling.

"There are so many people here. Today's fitness class is quite lively!" Suddenly, a creepy voice came through the speakers, a man's voice, somewhat hoarse.

"Who's there?" The gym-goers looked around in confusion, trying to find the source of the voice.

"Boss, there's no one at the front desk!" Xiao Liu was so scared she was about to cry.

Liu Yuneng suddenly remembered that the broadcast equipment was at the front desk, used to find customers and play music. But now there was no one there, so who was speaking?

"Student Li Guofeng, I want you to do a set of standard sit-ups!" The voice from the speaker suddenly gave an order.

"Who's playing games?" Li Guofeng, the middle-aged coach from earlier, shouted, his fear from the student's death still fresh in his mind. "Don't listen to him," he warned everyone.

"Li Ge, don't speak. Just do what he says," Ye Sha quickly advised him. This was getting weird. Disobeying might result in a horrifying punishment!

Li Guofeng lay down on the floor and started doing sit-ups as ordered.

Other coaches and customers stared at him, some frightened, realizing that something strange was happening.

"Well done. Let's give him a round of applause!" The voice from the speaker was now pleased.

But the rest of the gym-goers didn't follow the speaker's instructions and applaud.

"Applaud!" The voice became extremely sharp and aggressive, causing everyone to instinctively cover their ears.

However, it seemed to have no effect on Ye Sha, who led the applause. Liu Yuneng also caught on and joined in.

The sound of enthusiastic applause echoed in the gym, as if at a staff meeting, but the atmosphere was extremely tense, and everyone was scared.

"Stop!" Everyone immediately stopped clapping, obeying the speaker's command.

"One student is not listening. He's trying to skip class!" The voice from the speaker spoke slowly and calmly. "So the coach's punishment for him is death!"

A young coach squeezed out of the crowd by the door. He looked terrified, his body as if being controlled, stiffly walking towards the center of the empty space.

"The lock won't open, I just want to run out!" The coach's forehead was covered in sweat. He couldn't even turn his head, just staring at the wall and shouting.

The gym's lock was an electronic one, and could be opened or closed with the push of a button. But now the coach said it wouldn't open, it seemed he was also under the control of something supernatural.