Chapter 55: The Pessimist

"I suppose I've become a pessimist since I entered the apartment back then." Silver Night let out a bitter laugh, "I didn't realize that even after leaving the apartment, I would still be involved in the Blood Word mission." Mo Yuan had read the records of the blood words back then, the person who recorded the blood words at that time obviously admired Ke Yinye, and the records carried quite a lot of personal information, so he knew that Ke Yinye, like him, had voluntarily taken the initiative to enter the apartment, with the aim of saving his righteous sister, Ke Yinyu, who had entered the apartment at that time, while he had done it because he thought that in the end he would be able to fulfill his wish of bringing his departed lover back to life. "Pessimism ……? Coincidentally, so am I." Dong Xie glanced at the other end of the corridor again and said, "It's sad that reality is sometimes always worse than what we expect." The three men fell silent for a moment. "The cruelty of rationality lies in this." Silver Night gazed at the stopwatch page displayed on her cell phone and said, "Reality never shifts according to people's wishes. I am, in fact, not as strong as Li Yin. He is someone who has truly crossed the line of despair." They then began to move over towards the 80th corridor again. In what was supposed to be the entranceway, once the body crossed the threshold in one piece, the evil spirit would begin to move. "Let me say what I think." Dong Xie gazed ahead, took several deep breaths, and said, "Senior, well …… this action, it's better for you not to participate. You are a former resident, which means that the apartment's restrictions on evil spirits that harm you might not ……" "Do you think that the apartment's restrictions on evil spirits might be greater if I don't join in?" "Well …… maybe ……" "Then why don't we do another experiment." Mo Yuan thought that Dong Xie's argument was also reasonable, "But Dong Xie, don't forget that you are not the executor of this Bloodletter mission. I'm afraid that the apartment's protection for you will also be limited." On this issue, Dong Xie had reservations. Or rather, his view was even the opposite of Mo Yuan's. He believed that the apartment might even offer greater protection to residents who did not execute the Blood Word as a reward for taking the initiative to execute a Blood Word mission. And the biggest benefit of participating in such a blood word mission was that one could be informed of the apartment's hidden rules. When this bloodletter mission was over, he and Dong Ning would be informed of the new hidden rules. But it was just unknown if a former resident like Ke Yinye would have this advantage. "Then, how about this." Dong Xie said next, "Do two more experiments, with me, and Mo Yuan, just like what you just did senior. Then see if the pace of the evil spirits is the same, if there is a difference, it proves that the apartment's restriction protection is different for the three of us, if it's the same ……" Silvernight pondered, then nodded. "Your idea has merit." He looked at Dong Xie at this point, and was a little bit impressed in a different way, both in terms of mental quality and actual intelligence, he was quite impressed. "Alright then, I'll go first." Mo Yuan said, "I'm the occupant performing this Blood Word, if there is a discrepancy between my experimental data and Mr. Ke Yinye, it will prove the existence of the apartment's restricted protection." In such a dangerous bloodletter mission, the pace of the evil spirits was a heaven and hell away even if there was only a slight difference. Although it was said that time was extremely precious right now, sufficiently obtaining enough experimental data would allow for a more foolproof plan to be formulated. "If ……" Mo Yuan tilted his head in thought and said, "If the apartment imposes protection on me, the occupant who performs the Bloodletter, it might even be possible for the evil spirits to pause for a long time before acting. " "Well …… let's hope so." When Silver Night said these words, he clearly wore a few bitter expressions, then took out his cell phone and reset the stopwatch, preparing to time Mo Yuan. After Mo Yuan threw away his cell phone, he was also afraid to pick it back up again. Dong Qi looked at Silver Night's expression at this moment, he really was a pessimist. Although pessimism sounded depressing, there was actually an advantage in this apartment, that is, one would not be easily knocked down by the cruel reality, and was able to anticipate the worst state of affairs and consider ways to solve the problem. Then, Mo Yuan no longer hesitated, but walked out of the entrance hall. Dong Qi and Silver Night pulled Mo Yuan's arm, ensuring that when the evil spirits came out next, they would pull him back as soon as possible. Silver Night grabbed his cell phone and pricked up his ears to listen. Then …… He then heard the Evil Spirit's voice. The sound of those footsteps …… "Same …… same!" Soon, Silver Night realized that the footsteps were spaced out exactly the same as when he had stood over there earlier! "This?" Originally, he was still holding on to a slight chance, but until the door opened, the time displayed on the stopwatch did not change at all. Dong Xie was a bit undeterred as he pulled Mo Yuan in with him while he walked out himself! If he follows his speculation, he should have more favorable treatment …… than the residents, right? However …… It was the same as just now, and the pace of the steps did not change in the slightest! Dong Xie subconsciously backed up and walked back, and immediately afterward, he realized something. "The activity pattern of this evil spirit is not a restriction of the apartment! It was originally like this!" Silver Night also came to a realization, "I see, this is the type of evil spirit that acts according to a fixed pattern and will only be killed if it triggers a dead end." It wasn't as if such an example hadn't been encountered in past Bloodletter quests. In that case, it would be difficult to utilize the apartment restrictions to create an advantage for the occupants. Dong Xie observed the length of the corridor in front of him, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "In that case, let's start searching from the rooms that are closer to us. Escape back immediately after searching a room, and proceed to check one room at a time." "If two people are on each side of the corridor," Mo Yuan analyzed as he simulated in his mind how long he could probably take to run to the other side of the corridor, "The evil spirit should only move over towards one of them. This person can go as fast as he can ……" "Then the other one will have to stay on the other side as bait." "Well, that's true." "Provided that the evil spirit doesn't have a doppelganger." "Then, will there be another experiment?" Dong Xie reasoned that the "evil spirit's split" theory put forward by Silver Night should not be the case. However, if that was really possible, there would indeed be variables. If this was to be proven, another experiment would be necessary. "I'll do it." Dong Xie began rubbing his hands together, looked to the other side of the corridor, and said, "For some reason, I'm pretty good at running." Silver Night froze and said, "Huh? Is that so, I see." Silver Night and Mo Yuan both subconsciously assumed that the "certain reasons" Dong Xie was talking about were practiced by his frequent escapes during the Bloodletter missions. Unexpectedly, it was Dong Xie who had faced endless schoolyard bullies in the past and couldn't win a single fight before he had no choice but to escape. "I'll move to the opposite side …… first," Dong Xie said as he raised his finger to point across the room, "Then, one of us will each cross the entranceway at the same time, and then… . the evil spirits will then walk down the corridor, and if there is a doppelganger, the doppelgangers will move towards us at the same time. If there is no doppelganger …… we can observe which side the evil spirit will choose to move towards ……" The one who performs this bloodletter? Or the one who doesn't perform this bloodletter? Or the former occupant? Either one is possible. Maybe even random. "The key thing," Ginyo said as he raised a finger, "is that one must consider whether or not the object the evil spirit chooses to attack has anything to do with distance. If it's prioritizing towards the one that's closer, then it's more troublesome. In the process of searching the room, one would definitely keep approaching towards the evil spirit." "I'm also most afraid of this happening." Mo Yuan also had quite a headache with this, "If that's the case, then the other party, as bait, needs to keep approaching the evil spirits." Objectively speaking …… this hypothesis proposed by Silver Night was likely to be true. "Therein lies the advantage of a pessimist." Dong Xie instead looked relieved, "Although it's a very bad deduction, we must take it into consideration." Dong Xie then looked at the corridor in front of him and began to massage his thighs, warming up for the next running sprint. Since the speed at which the evil spirits moved was the same whether or not they were the occupants of the Execution of the Blood Character, he wasn't too worried about it. He was quite confident in his running speed. "Then …… start!"