Chapter 17: Inconsistency

At this moment, the movie screen was still completely covered by a mass of black hair. The occupants were tense to the limit. However, the screening hall was filled with seats, and they were only able to move slowly on either side of the seats. This was highly unfavorable to them. With the terrain here, wherever the evil spirits appeared, it would be easy to kill them. After Joby's death, the evil spirits stopped appearing for the time being. And not only did everyone alert the surrounding area, they also all looked at the movie screen from time to time, only for the screen to remain pitch black. The threat of death was right in front of them, and everyone was trembling. Their only hope was placed on Mo Yuan. "Mo Yuan, please, please …… please save us? What that bastard Zhang Lun did has nothing to do with us, it's good that he died, it's good that he died!" "Yes, yes, yes, he died well!" "Please, Mo Yuan, if you save us, we'll repay you even if we become oxen and horses in the future!" Right now, there were less than 50 minutes left in the bloodletter quest. "Such a bizarre blood word …… but only the difficulty of the second blood word?" As a matter of fact, Mo Yuan felt that it was the most somewhat strange regarding this point. From past experience, the difference in difficulty from the first to the third bloodletter was not large, and it was only at the fourth time that a leap in difficulty began to occur, with the fifth bloodletter being the watershed. Such a bizarre situation in the second bloodletter was not common in the past bloodletter records. Mo Yuan thought that this situation appeared in this blood word mission, and this weirdness was most likely an illusion, more of a way to attract the attention of the occupants so as to cover up the real path to life. Can't carry cell phones …… Can't leave the confines of the screening room …… There was something about both of these restrictions that made Mo Yuan feel strange. Looking through past Bloodletter records, Mo Yuan had never found a precedent for restricting the carrying of cell phones. If one didn't want the residents to contact the apartment, they could have just turned it off automatically just like the cell phone Mo Yuan had substituted. Therefore, Mo Yuan didn't think it made sense to make it impossible for residents to contact the apartment or to ingest movies. There must be a ghost in restricting the use of cell phones so rigidly. The problem, I'm afraid, is in the cell phone itself somehow. There was also the issue of not being able to leave the screening room at all. It's not often that a Bloodletter mission's range of motion is narrowed down so much. The Evil Spirit's range of movement is obviously not as simple as being confined to the screening room, so why isn't it confined to the movie theater? Could it be that there was something really noteworthy outside the screening room? Do the residents need to check it out in advance? Or, is there something special about the screening room itself? "Mo Yuan," at this time, Dong Xie said to him after pondering for a while, "I've thought about it, and I'd like to talk to you about the inconsistencies regarding the inside and outside of the movie." When the other occupants heard this, they also immediately listened to Dong Xie's words with bated breath. After all, Dong Xie was also a dark horse who had been appreciated by Mo Yuan, so he might have some insight. "Tell me." Mo Yuan was also willing to listen to Dong Xie's opinion. Dong Xie looked at the movie screen in front of him and said, "The high degree of synchronization between inside and outside the movie, perhaps the inconsistencies are instead being will become hope." "You mean the point that we can't leave the screening room?" "Not only that, but I've thought of a few more points. Of course this is the most important point, as it stands the Evil Spirit is just as capable of taking action against people outside the screening room and killing them, but the apartment restricts us from moving around here. So why not let our activities extend to the entire movie theater? This is one of the most noticeable inconsistencies. Inside the movie, the evil spirit first appears outside the movie when the heroine, Ning, goes out to use the restroom." "Well, that's right." "Another thing …… is the order. The evil spirit kills people, and inside the movie, it kills people outside the movie first, and then pulls the audience into the movie. For us, on the other hand, it's killing a large number of viewers inside the screening room by bringing them all inside first, and then appearing to kill them from the inside." "No," Mo Yuan but said, "Not necessarily. With so many viewers, it's impossible for us to notice everyone, perhaps there is a certain viewer who went out to the outside of the screening room, and has already been poisoned by the evil spirits just like in the movie." "This …… is indeed possible as well." Dong Xie indeed did not rule out Mo Yuan's statement, "But I still don't think it's quite right. The last …… and most important point is that the number of viewers is a bit too many. Why would the apartment have to kill so many viewers?" "What's so strange about that?" Xia Lin didn't understand the logic of Dong Xie's sentence, "The movie has Xiao Zhi starring in it, so it's normal for fans to all come and pack the theater. As for this apartment, it's not a big deal to kill these viewers, right?" Dong Xie, however, thought it was unreasonable: "I've always noticed that the Blood Character Directive focuses a lot on creating a horrific atmosphere and giving psychological pressure to the residents. And for the apartment, manipulating karma and the human mind are easy. Why not make the movie doorstoppable, wouldn't it be more consistent inside and out, as far as the few of us are concerned? And the horror atmosphere, too, would be a little stronger." Indeed …… It occurred to Mo Yuan that from the rainstorms, the theaters in the suburbs, and even the time and length of the movie showings, and even to the size of the screening room, and even the outer packaging of the popcorn buckets, were all exactly the same! Only, the number of moviegoers varies tremendously. "The apartment won't meaninglessly kill people who have nothing to do with the word blood, if it kills people, it should make sense." Dong Xie continued to analyze, "The difference in the number of movie viewers is too great, but because Xiao Zhi starred in the movie, we all ignored this unnatural place. Without realizing it, the apartment was perfectly capable of having this movie packaged by a few of us without anyone else coming to see it." At this moment, several of the occupants cast an impressed look at Dong Qi. They were all scared out of their wits at the moment, their minds in chaos, unable to think of anything, while Dong Xie was analyzing so calmly in a situation where the evil spirits could come out at any moment and randomly kill people! This psychological quality, even in the entire apartment, is unrivaled, isn't it? At this moment, Dong Xie was also relying on his strong will to survive to overpower his fear. He was used to meeting the malice and cruelty of this world, and death only made him more conscious of the fact that he was still alive. As long as he is still alive, he will not stop …… his will to survive! If it wasn't for this bloodletter mission, even Dong Xie himself wouldn't have known that he would actually have such a will to survive, his brain running at an unprecedented high speed at the moment, squeezing all of his potential! "There must be something wrong with the number of spectators as well!" Dong Xie said in a decisive tone, "Forbidding us to carry cell phones, I always feel that it has something to do with that as well!" Mo Yuan pondered as he looked at the screening hall in front of him and said, "Let's walk through the middle of the seats and take a closer look!" "Wait!" Xia Lin hastily raised a counter-argument, "Walking through the middle of the seats will make it inconvenient for us to move, and once the evil spirits appear, we ……" The seats in the screening hall had narrow intervals between them, allowing at most one person to pass through. Combined with everyone viewing together, it would be inconvenient to escape. "Even if this place is empty, it's pointless," Mo Yuan was well aware of the nature of the Bloodletter mission, "Evil spirits are not something we can avoid with physical means. The fact that we can survive is entirely due to the limitations imposed by the apartment. This advantage won't preserve our lives, only by finding clues to the way of life can we have hope!" Mo Yuan was then the first to move over towards the seats spaced apart. A row of positions moved down, but they found nothing. So, it started moving to the second row again. They looked carefully at each seat, and underneath the seats. Looking down the second row, there was still nothing. Dong Xie's heart was burning with anxiety at this moment, what should they do if they couldn't find anything? Once the evil spirits appeared, it would be very difficult for them to escape. Just at this time, the occupant Qi Tianyi suddenly felt his feet being grabbed followed by his body falling down, and then felt his entire body being pulled under the seat! "Ah ah ah ah ah!" Everyone rushed to look towards the back, however Qi Tianyi had already been pulled away by the evil spirit! Another dead one! "Ah ah ah ah ah!" Now, everyone no longer dared to walk in the middle of the seats and fled in fear! Dong Xie was in shock. Just now, with a little bit of bad luck, the person who died would most likely have been himself as well!