So close.
Just a little more, and Ning Qiushui would have died at the hands of that terrifying woman!
If Liu Chengfeng hadn't rushed out with the Blood Jade at the critical moment, risking his life to help, Ning Qiushui would have been doomed!
"Thank you..."
Ning Qiushui sat cross-legged on the ground, one hand resting on his knee, gasping for breath.
Just now... it was incredibly dangerous!
Liu Chengfeng, while patting his trembling legs, shook his head and said:
"I should be the one thanking you, brother..."
"If you hadn't brought me to this place, I would have been eaten by that terrifying woman sooner or later!"
After speaking, he laughed again.
It was an uncontrollable joy of surviving a near-death experience.
Liu Chengfeng laughed maniacally on the ground like a madman.
It was a long time before he returned to normal.
"By the way, brother... what about the others?"
Liu Chengfeng straightened the old lady's body, confirmed she was fine, and then asked Ning Qiushui.
The latter's eyes flickered slightly.
"We absolutely can't go out now..."
"It's too dangerous outside. We'll see if we can contact them from the third floor tomorrow. If not, we've done our best."
Ning Qiushui seemed indifferent to the death of strangers.
Of course, he didn't mind helping those people, especially since they had no grudge against him.
But the premise was... he wouldn't put himself in danger.
After all, when he asked if they wanted to join him in exploring the truth, not one of them stepped forward.
He took on the dangerous task himself, while others reaped the benefits. No one would be happy with that.
He wasn't some saint, saving all beings.
"By the way, brother... I have another question."
After Liu Chengfeng basically recovered, he seemed to remember something.
"Ask."
"How... did you know the Killing Rules of that ghostly thing in the villa?"
Mentioning this, Ning Qiushui was silent in the darkness for a while.
"Because, before I got on the bus, I received an anonymous letter."
"A letter?"
"Yes, the letter contained a photo and a few words."
After speaking, Ning Qiushui slowly recited those words: You are reading on g.com, the official source.
"The wind doesn't light the lamp, the rain doesn't ignite the candle."
"The sun doesn't climb the stairs, the night doesn't close its eyes."
Hearing these four sentences, Liu Chengfeng was stunned, his face showing disbelief:
"Damn... it matches!"
"Brother, you're amazing, you have someone powerful helping you!"
"Then, what about the photo?"
Ning Qiushui glanced at him, his eyes moving slightly.
"You want to know?"
Liu Chengfeng's expression froze.
"What, is it inconvenient?"
"If it's inconvenient..."
Before he could finish, Ning Qiushui reached into his checkered shirt and pulled out a slightly yellowed photo, facing him.
The latter looked at the photo, his pupils suddenly contracting!
"No way..."
In the moonlight, Liu Chengfeng saw it was a photo of a person.
And the person in the photo... was none other than Liu Chengfeng himself!
The two stared at each other, separated by a thin photo, without speaking for a long time.
Liu Chengfeng saw his own photo but didn't see the words on the back.
Yes, on the back of this yellowed old photo, there was a line of black writing—
[A friend worth having... but a hundred thousand whys]
Liu Chengfeng reached out, wanting to take it for a closer look, but Ning Qiushui withdrew the photo, smiling at him:
"Surprised, aren't you?"
"I'm surprised too."
"Originally, I thought it was just a prank, or someone sent it to the wrong recipient..."
"But when I woke up on that bus and saw you, I realized things weren't as simple as I thought."
"That driverless bus, that mysterious fog, that eerie Blood Door... and us on the bus."
"All of this, there must be an unseen hand controlling it!"
Liu Chengfeng heard this and gave a bitter smile.
"Brother... forgive me for being blunt, but in the real world, I fear no one has the ability to do all this."
"That's simply not something humanly possible."
Ning Qiushui remained silent.
He didn't continue to argue about this matter.
But that mysterious letter, so far, everything in it had come true.
The eerie Blood Door, the strange Killing Rules... and a friend he didn't even know, who would risk his life to save him.
It's a terrifying thing.
It's as if... someone has been watching him from a place he can't see!
The night passed without a word.
The two hadn't slept much the first night, and now, after such tension, drowsiness washed over them like a tide.
Until the next morning, when a piercing scream from the second floor shattered the villa's silence.
Apparently, someone had died again.
And what made the survivors on the second floor feel even more terrified was not just waking up to find new deaths, but also the disappearance of three people!
Among them, besides Ning Qiushui, the backbone in everyone's hearts, there was also an important task role!
After all, the Blood Door's task for them was to take care of the old woman on the bed for five days.
Now, damn it, the old woman was gone, what were they supposed to take care of?
Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng listened to the voices from the second floor and learned that the man named Bei Dao had died last night.
He had been eaten.
"Sob... sob..."
"They... where did they all go..."
"Could it be they've all been..."
"Sob..."
"I'm so scared! I don't want to die here..."
Yan Youping's intermittent sobs came from downstairs.
Liu Chengfeng shouted loudly at the window, trying to get the message down, but it seemed their voices were trapped on the third floor. No matter how much Liu Chengfeng shouted, no one came to rescue... uh, no one heard.
"Alright, stop howling."
Seeing Liu Chengfeng's relentless demeanor, Ning Qiushui shook his head slightly.
Liu Chengfeng felt a bit uncomfortable with Ning Qiushui's indifference.
"Brother, aren't you a doctor? There are two living people downstairs, and we're just going to give up on them, isn't that a bit too..."
Ning Qiushui closed his eyes and said:
"Although I'm a veterinarian, there are three cases I don't save."
Liu Chengfeng was stunned:
"Three cases you don't save, what are they?"