The two of them arrived at the stairway.
They saw that the iron door leading to the third floor had already been opened.
A foul stench wafted down from above.
That smell was exactly the same as the corpse fluid dripping from the ceiling of their room!
It was the scent of decaying animals!
Liu Chengfeng couldn't stand the smell, so he covered his mouth and nose, his brow furrowing.
Suppressing the urge to retch, he followed Ning Qiushui up to the third floor.
Once on the third floor, the stench of rotting flesh became even more intense, so much so that Liu Chengfeng couldn't control himself. His stomach convulsed, and he finally squatted down and vomited!
"Ugh—"
Liu Chengfeng dry-heaved, his face looking extremely grim.
Ning Qiushui patted his back.
After Liu Chengfeng emptied his stomach, he felt a bit better.
The two of them continued along the dark corridor. The floor beneath their feet was incredibly sticky. Liu Chengfeng's face was as pale as a ghost. Even without light, he could guess what was on the floor...
It was... corpse fluid!
This stuff covered the entire third floor!
Both of them were horrified.
How many bodies would it take to produce enough corpse fluid to cover an entire floor?
"Just as I thought..."
Ning Qiushui squinted his eyes.
Though he found the air's stench nauseating, he didn't feel the urge to vomit.
He had already guessed most of the situation on the third floor before entering.
Stepping through the sticky, disgusting corpse fluid, they finally reached the first room exuding the rotting smell. Slowly, they turned the doorknob, and the sight before them made their whole bodies shudder!
The terrifying scene was one that would be etched in their memories forever...
In the moonlit room, countless decaying corpses were densely packed!
Among these corpses, some were relatively fresh, with flesh and blood still visible, while others had long since rotted into piles of bones, leaving only skeletons and hair!
But without exception, all of them had almost intact skulls, and the faces of the not-yet-fully-decomposed bodies bore eerie smiles, seemingly inviting the two at the door...
Thud—
Liu Chengfeng covered his mouth, stepping back in fright, his body trembling uncontrollably.
He looked towards the other rooms, as if understanding something, and with trembling hands, he pushed open the other doors.
"Damn...!"
Liu Chengfeng nearly shouted.
Every room was filled with rotting corpses!
All of these corpses had missing internal organs, and their bodies were covered with knife and fork marks, indicating that something had once feasted on them!
And among them were the bodies of Wang Yuning and Yamo!
Liu Chengfeng's legs went weak. He leaned against the wall, slowly squatting down, his face even paler than the moonlight.
"So that's..."
"The corpse fluid on our room's ceiling... that's where it came from..."
"But where did all these bodies come from?"
"Could it be..."
Ning Qiushui's gaze passed through the window, looking at the distant, dark villa complex.
"I'm afraid... all the original residents of this villa complex are in these few rooms."
Liu Chengfeng swallowed hard, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
The thing hidden on the third floor of the villa... had it devoured everyone in the villa complex?
"It's likely we're not the first batch of caregivers to come here. The rooms downstairs were set up with independent bathrooms, probably prepared for the caregivers who came to look after the elderly in the villa..."
With each word Ning Qiushui spoke, Liu Chengfeng felt his heart pound fiercely!
"Bro... maybe we should just go back..."
"If it comes back, won't we be..."
Liu Chengfeng was ready to retreat, but Ning Qiushui showed no intention of leaving.
"We're so close to the truth..."
"Big Beard..."
"Aren't you curious about what exactly devoured all the original residents of the villa complex?"
Hearing Ning Qiushui's words, Liu Chengfeng was momentarily stunned, then his mouth twitched.
"No, bro, I realize you're really not afraid of death..."
"Is the truth... more important than life?"
Ning Qiushui retorted:
"Can you leave this floor, can you leave the villa, leave the villa complex?"
"Who knows what other killing rules it has?"
"Maybe from the day we entered the villa, we triggered its killing rule, and we've just been lucky it hasn't been our turn yet..."
"Moreover, it's now gone downstairs to hunt, possibly feasting right next to us... As more people die, those of us left will only be in greater danger!"
Liu Chengfeng's face was a mix of emotions, but finally, he gritted his teeth and said: Visit g.com for the full chapter.
"Alright!"
"I'll trust you this time, bro!"
They passed by these rooms and arrived at the innermost room.
It was a study.
The doorway was free of bloodstains, so clean it seemed out of place on this floor.
The two exchanged a glance, their eyes lighting up.
"This must be it!"
They carefully pushed the door open, and a thick, dusty smell hit them.
Judging by the furnishings, it was a study.
Not too big, not too small, and inside was a skeleton that had decayed for a long time. Judging by the size and details of the bones, it seemed to be a girl around fourteen or fifteen years old.
In the skeleton's hand, she still held a teddy bear.
The teddy bear's eyes were dark, as if scrutinizing them.
Ning Qiushui cautiously approached the skeleton, examined it, and said:
"...This person wasn't eaten."
"Her ribcage, sternum, and throat bones show no signs of knife or fork marks."
He had previously examined the bodies of Wang Yuning and Yamo. Though their internal organs and some muscle tissue had been eaten, their bones bore many knife and fork marks.
But this skeleton did not.
"Not eaten?"
"Then how did she die?"
Liu Chengfeng's confusion deepened.
Ning Qiushui studied the body for a long time.
"Most likely starved or died of thirst."
"The thing outside probably couldn't get into this room, but she couldn't get out, trapped here... Without water or food, most people would die in three to five days."
"Look, the window is barred with steel rods, heavily rusted, unlike the ones in the old lady's room on the second floor, indicating these bars were put up a long time ago, probably when she was a child. Her family worried she might climb out the window and fall, since this is the third floor, so they barred her window."
"But back then, her family probably didn't realize that these very bars... cut off her last hope of escape!"
Listening to Ning Qiushui, a cold chill spread through Liu Chengfeng's heart.
He could imagine the despair this skeleton must have felt in life.
With a terrifying man-eating monster outside, and no other way out of the room, she was ultimately trapped here, dying in despair!
"Hey, bro, look, behind that corpse's butt... there seems to be something!"