Chapter 23: Dong Qi’s speculation

Dong Xie threw the photo album out almost by reflex! "No …… it can't be! This photo wasn't like this just now!" Dong Ning and Ge Qi on the side both revealed horrified looks, especially Ge Qi, who had experienced the word of blood once, but his entire body stuttered, "You …… you …… you did . …sure? Then what was …… it like just now?" Dong Qi stared dead at the photo album on the ground, while Zhao Long, who was guarding the door, also noticed something wrong over here. "What have you guys found?" Dong Xie was tormented at this point, but he looked up at the blood on the ceiling, made up his mind, and walked up again, crouched down, and shone the candle on the photo. At this point, the photo looked a million times weirder. On the photo, the white-faced evil spirit had the complexion of the evil spirit Toshio Saeki from the Japanese horror movie Spellbound. The evil spirit almost put his whole face on the iron door, and looked as if he was gazing at the bride outside the iron door. What the evil spirit was wearing was a very tattered piece of clothing, nothing special. At this time, Dong Ning, Ge Qi also came over to check that photo. "This is ……" Looking at that photo, Ge Qi didn't even dare to touch it with his hand. To be honest, even if that evil spirit in the photo crawled out, he wouldn't feel strange anymore. Dong Xie had a thought at this moment, could it be that this photo wasn't a clue to a way of life at all, and was purely to terrorize them, the residents, and make them even more fearful? As for Dong Ning, he forced himself to calm down, looked at the photo, and said, ''It seems that no matter if it's that old lady, or this photo, along with Feng Yu's death, all of them are reminding us that the 4th floor is highly dangerous. And that is indeed the case. But it's really strange, if the 4th floor is so dangerous, why did they use all sorts of means to prompt us? Why did the apartment let us know this?" Dong Xie also found it mind-boggling. If they didn't know about the dangers of the 4th floor in advance, they would most likely have also run to the 4th floor for a quest for survival. But what was …… going on with the current situation? Dong Ning raised his hand, pushed his bangs out of the way, and pondered the current situation …… "The current situation …… If we think about it the other way around, first of all, we can completely rule out the possibility that the 4th floor is the way to life, so why deliberately keep us away from the 4th floor?" Then, she suddenly thought of something. "It may be true that the 4th floor is not the way to life, but it is possible that the most crucial clue to the way to life is hidden on the 4th floor! In other words, although going to the 4th floor is dangerous, it's also likely that it's a way out of death! But if you go to the 4th floor in the state of being possessed by an evil spirit, there is no way to find the clues to the way of life, but you will be killed very quickly!" This speculation of Dong Ning's could be said to be stone-cold astonishing. All along, both Dong Xie and Dong Ning had the idea of going to the 4th floor to have a look in their hearts. Even Dong Xie had thought about the possibility of the 4th floor being the way to life. And if Dong Ning's words were to be followed, was the 4th floor itself indeed related to the path to life? As they walked out of the house, Dong Xie took the photo album and said to Zhao Long, "Zhao Long, right now, it seems that all the clues are constantly instilling in us the notion that the 4th floor is highly dangerous and that we can't go there. But …… Ah Ning's speculation is that perhaps there are key clues to a way of life on the 4th floor." "Does this …… mean that we really have to go to the 4th floor?" Zhao Long's face, too, became ugly. But then he still shook his head and said, "The following floors have yet to be explored, so don't jump to conclusions too quickly yet. In any case from the current situation, if we really go to the 4th floor, we're only going to die." At this moment, everyone was looking at each other. As a matter of fact, Zhao Long's words spoke to everyone's heart. Especially that photo just now, combined with Feng Yu's incomparably mournful screams as he was dying. Even though they knew that the clue to the way of life would most likely be on the 4th floor, everyone still didn't dare to go. This is a kind of fear rooted in their psyche, and people tend to lose their rationality in the face of fear. At this time, Dong Xie felt more and more, I am afraid that this is the role that the photo really played. Thwarting them …… from traveling to the 4th floor! "Ah Ning," Dong Xie was still having palpitations at this time, and looked at Dong Ning, saying, "It's now less than an hour from the start of the Bloodletter, we still have time ……" "No …… brother, we still have time on the premise that the next victim whose turn it is, will not be you or me." Dong Ning's words immediately caused Dong Qi's heart to tighten. It was important to realize that the probability of it being either of their siblings' turn next was 50%! The order in which the residents were sacrificed would not be divided into old residents and new residents, death was completely equal before them. Feng Yu died, and how long would the interval to the next sacrifice be? One hour? Three quarters of an hour? Half an hour? No one could speculate. "But I do understand your concern, brother." Dong Ning looked at the photo album in his hand and said, "We can explore downstairs again, but I still think that the 4th floor will likely harbor clues to a way of life." Time, unrelentingly, passed. With every minute that passed, everyone felt that the footsteps of the Grim Reaper, would be one point closer. The search on the 3rd floor was soon over, except for the photo, nothing was found. So they went back down to the 2nd floor. By this point, it was a full floor away from the 4th floor, making them more or less feel a few points lighter in their hearts. At this moment, Dong Xie's words kept echoing in his mind, just as she had said, in fact, he might not have a lot of time left. Who knows whether the next moment, he will also be possessed by an evil spirit, and then he will lose his soul and take the initiative to take the elevator to the 4th floor …… Right at this moment, Dong Xie suddenly thought of something wrong. "Ah Ning, I'm suddenly thinking about Feng Yu's death ……" Dong Ning looked at Dong Qi and asked, "Feng Yu's death, what happened?" "At that time, in just a second or two, Feng Yu appeared outside and then took the elevator to go downstairs. Since, the Evil Spirit on the 4th floor had such a terrifying power to move him out instantly, couldn't it have moved him to the 4th floor on its own accord? Why bother with the extra work? Is this to say that the Evil Spirit's moving has a distance limitation, or is it to say that assuming we went to block it at that time, it's really possible to save Feng Yu?" "This question, my judgment is out of the apartment's limitations. Distance restriction is possible, if so it's a vertical distance restriction, because considering the vertical distance, we're on the 5th floor, and the 4th floor below our feet is a stone's throw away, can't we move to the bottom?" "So, Nin what you're saying, is it the second possibility I mentioned?" "Well, there is that possibility." "There's one more thing, Ah Ning, when Feng Yu died, he let out such a violent scream, which means that he was definitely awake when he died, and not in the state of an evil spirit possessing him." Ge Qi said at the side, "This isn't strange, is it? It was a desire to fill Feng Yu's dying with fear and pain, so he was left awake to die, right?" "This possibility is also there, but could it be because, that state of evil spirits possessing the body has a 'time limit'?"