Where is the bad person hiding on the seventh floor?
Why isn't he coming out?
Su Qingyu looked strangely at Li Lin. His cheeks were sunken, there were large dark circles under his eyes, and his spirit was highly tense.
Looking at Wen Xuecha again, she played with her braided hair, leaned against the wall, and looked at Su Qingyu with sparkling eyes.
These two people are indeed trialists.
They were not strange beings in disguise.
If the bad person mentioned in the rules wasn't hiding among them, it meant the bad person hadn't appeared for a specific reason.
Mom's note mentioned that a murderer had recently infiltrated this building.
Whether the "bad person" in the Resident Rules and the "murderer" in Mom's Note are the same person is yet to be known.
Continuing down to the third floor, Su Qingyu smelled a strong scent of blood.
A portly Rich Merchant emerged from 302. He was bald, wore a gold necklace on his thick neck, and had a string of keys on his belt.
Upon seeing Su Qingyu, the Rich Merchant greeted them enthusiastically, "Hello, two little beauties!
Are you residents of this building? You look a bit unfamiliar."
The Rich Merchant's lecherous gaze made Su Qingyu feel uncomfortable all over.
He patted his round belly and said cheerfully, "Would you like to come over to my place? I have a daughter too.
My business is large, but I'm often not home.
My daughter is always bored and asks me to bring more good friends home for her."
Su Qingyu politely refused, "No, thank you."
Li Lin, having tasted some benefit from the Security Guard, came forward and asked, "Big brother, do you have any food nearby?"
The Rich Merchant's soybean-sized eyes gleamed with a strange light. He rubbed his fat hands, "I have a Head Chef hired at great expense. Today, he's making a whole beef feast. Meat scraped from an entire cow, with all sorts of flavors.
If you want some, I can have the Cook send some out."
Li Lin nodded repeatedly, almost crying with happiness, "That would be great."
Those few pieces of bread were not enough to fill his stomach.
The Rich Merchant shouted into the house, and soon, a man wearing a white chef's hat emerged holding a white foam takeout container.
The foam container held meat sprinkled with cumin and chili powder.
"This is fatty beef, marinated in advance, very tender." The Rich Merchant handed the meat to Li Lin, and as he got close, he even sniffed Li Lin, "If it's not enough, you can come to my house to eat."
"It's enough, it's enough." Li Lin was immersed in the joy of obtaining food and didn't notice this anomaly.
His cognition had been contaminated.
They left the third floor.
Su Qingyu noticed that the Rich Merchant took out his keys, walked down the corridor, and opened the door to 304.
Meanwhile, Wuxin's pitch-black eyes were fixed on the "beef" in Li Lin's hand. He extended his scarlet tongue and licked his lower lip, displaying an unprecedented appetite.
This was not beef at all, but human flesh.
Li Lin ate ravenously. The cumin and chili powder masked the original fishy smell of the human flesh. Although the texture was a bit strange, Li Lin didn't notice due to extreme hunger.
Wen Xuecha bit her lower lip, looking somewhat pitiful.
She was also hungry.
Su Qingyu ignored the two of them. The rules didn't directly mention food, which meant that even eating the wrong food wouldn't deepen the contamination.
Asking residents for food was a dangerous act.
Su Qingyu had previously asked the Old Woman for apples, relying on Wuxin's reaction to judge.
After finding the Infinite Corridor rule, Rule Nine stated: There is a convenience store on the first floor where anything needed can be purchased.
Su Qingyu guessed that ghost money could be used at the convenience store to purchase food.
Upon reaching the second floor, the sun was about to set.
The door to room 205 opened, revealing a group of old men and old women sitting in a row. They had their backs to the door, and neat singing could be heard from inside.
Their hair was gray, and they were all wearing black mourning clothes.
This was an Elderly Choir.
"The sky is dark, the road is dark, a Handsome Brother emerges from the woods.
Handsome Brother is hungry, starts a fire to stew a Beautiful Sister.
Beautiful Sister cries, calls her Rich Daddy home.
Rich Daddy has a big belly, spilling a pot of rich oil!
Serves him right, serves him right!
When disaster strikes, there's nowhere to hide; good and evil will eventually be repaid!"
The eerie singing rose and fell.
The Rich Daddy in this nursery rhyme could easily be linked to the Rich Merchant they had just encountered on the third floor.
If Rich Daddy refers to the Rich Merchant, then Beautiful Sister should be the Rich Merchant's daughter.
Just before sunset, Su Qingyu used her watch to determine the direction and then went to the first floor.
This time, Li Lin walked at the front, somewhat excited, "Great, we're finally leaving this ghostly place!"
Wen Xuecha was less optimistic, "It would be great if it were that simple to get out."
The first floor had two convenience stores, one on the east side and one on the west side, separated by a corridor. There was no exit at all.
"Where's the exit?" Li Lin walked around the corridor, scratching his head in despair, "This is clearly the first floor, why is there no exit?"
"There's a safety exit here too," Su Qingyu pointed to the safety exit next to the two convenience stores, just like before.
A passage flickering with a green, eerie light, descending endlessly.
Infinite Corridor Rule, Article Eleven.
A reminder: This building only has seven floors, no underground garage, and no cars with their keys still in the ignition.
Wen Xuecha said with some fear, "Do we have to go down another floor to find the exit?"
Li Lin raised his voice, "But the rules emphasize that this building only has seven floors.
If we go down, doesn't that mean this building has more than seven floors!"
"The sun has set, we need to rest for a night on the first floor."
Su Qingyu observed the two convenience stores.
From the outside, the layout of both convenience stores was roughly the same.
One convenience store had a lucky cat at the entrance, and an Old Woman with gray hair sat at the counter knitting a sweater.
The items on the shelves were scattered, looking somewhat old.
Inside, a parrot was kept in an iron cage, squawking "Welcome!" in a shrill voice.
The other shop had "Fu" characters pasted upside down on both sides of the entrance. The shelves were not only stocked with various snacks but also filled with fruits and vegetables.
The shop owner was actually an Old Acquaintance.
It was the Old Woman from room 604 who had given Su Qingyu two red apples and taken the elevator downstairs.
Clearly, Li Lin and Wen Xuecha had also noticed the Old Woman from room 604.
Infinite Corridor Rule, Article Ten.
The one running the convenience store is a resident of this building, a solitary Old Woman. Please do not mistake her for someone else.
In a dangerous environment, people tend to gravitate towards familiar things.
Wen Xuecha tugged at Su Qingyu's sleeve, "Sister Yu, you've had her fruit before. Let's go buy something from her."
Su Qingyu shook her head, "That place is not a convenience store."
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