Chapter 61: The Dark Mansion

Ninety-nine green had never felt like sleeping so deeply. As an assassin, she had never been able to find a place where she could sleep peacefully or someone she could absolutely trust. Even while sleeping, she could often subconsciously sense someone approaching her. Especially when it came to those days as an apartment dweller. But at this point, she gradually began to feel the boundary between dreams and reality. The last memory of it was maintained when she was at the Kitayama Shrine. And after that …… After that, what happened? Little by little, she began to open her eyes, and then, all she could see was darkness in front of her. She quickly raised her hand and began to touch the surrounding area. At the same time, she also immediately decided that she was sitting on a rather old chair. Just then …… "Tear ……" Ninety-nine Green immediately saw that on a desk not far from her side, a candle on a candlestick, was lit. That automatically ignited candle was also what made her immediately look around. This was an ancient room that looked as if it made people feel like they had traveled through, the room was dark, and farther away from herself was a half-hidden door. However, the Ninety-Nine Greens who saw this scene had their eyes widened. "Here …… is ……" The eerie, creepy feeling that had arisen again when they were at the Kitayama Shrine. That didn't originate from the North Mountain Shrine, but some sort of more terrifying, more evil existence. "This ……" Why …… did she return here? Ninety-nine Greens forcibly supported her body and looked at everything around her warily. Although a long time had passed, she still clearly remembered everything in this mansion. At this moment, the mansion was already covered with cobwebs and looked, well, very old. Why had she returned here? Almost instantly, Midori was certain of one thing: it was clearly because of the apartment. If it wasn't for the apartment, she would never have had this experience. "It seems that I can't get rid of the curse of the apartment after all." Although she said this, on Midori's face, not even the slightest hint of fear appeared. It seemed that to her, fear was an emotion that was insulated from her. Next, Midori slowly stood up, walked over to that table, and raised the candle up. "I'm still alive …… So, that means the apartment doesn't intend to kill me outright." Midori's mind was clear, although she was once the number one ranked poison master in the world, and even more so, she possessed considerable personal force, but she still had no semblance of resistance in front of the apartment. Therefore, as long as she didn't die, it proved that the apartment must have had some purpose in bringing her here. For Midori, the most optimistic consideration was that there existed a situation where she could successfully carry out the instructions in blood and then find a way to survive. And the worst case scenario …… "Have I been transformed in space, or have I been taken back in time?" Back then, as a Shadow Warrior working for the Tokugawa Shogunate, she had been in charge of mixing poisons and had accepted the Shogun's mission at that time to come to China, which was still during the Qing Dynasty. At that time, her shadow was automatically pulled in front of an inn, and subsequently, became a guest of that inn, and had to perform the Blood Word or Demon King level Blood Word ten times in order to get out of the curse and fulfill a wish. Back then, the Shogun's mission in sending Midori to China was to hopefully research drugs that could make people live forever. And Chinese medicine is profound and profound, and has countless magical herbs that simply cannot be found in Japan itself. Although she had realized her wish and had completely sealed the Demon King with the help of Li Yin and others nine years ago, and had managed to get out of the apartment, she had a vague intuition at that time that everything would not end so simply. And now, everything was indeed fulfilled. "It's exactly the same as what was written in that book ……" Although she stayed in Japan, she would browse Chinese websites, so she clearly remembered the novel titled "Devil's Apartment". The author of that novel, Black Ghost Fire, was obviously the current apartment dweller. And when Yayoi Zhen contacted her later, she also mentioned the nightmare she had. Midori didn't tell Yayoi Zhen directly about the novel, but instead realized that the two seemed to be connected. At that time, she had gone to China immediately after reading that book and had followed the novel's description to the Aoyama Highway in K City. Having lived for too long, Midori wasn't very bothered about her own life and death anymore. On the contrary, the poison she created caused the deaths of many people. Back then, she was initially working for the Shogun, but later on, she wanted to use the power of those European and American underground organizations to track down the truth about the apartment and the Demon King. Back then, because he knew in advance from Pu Shenyu's father that "Sleeping Beauty" Shangguan Mian would become a resident of the apartment, he deliberately trained her, but in fact, he was also using her. Midori thought that if she had to die, she wanted to die in a worthy way. In any case, it freed her to leave the apartment for Li Yin and the others, and she wanted to get close to Quan to help them get rid of the shadow of this apartment forever. If possible, even she wanted to find out what could be done to permanently destroy this apartment. She came a little bit to where the half-hidden door was, then raised her hand and opened it slightly. Midori poked her head out slightly and shone the candle. In front of her was a long, narrow, dark corridor, while not far to the left was a locked door to a room. "This ……" She moved the candle a little more, and then, with a stare, she realized that underneath that locked door, there was an extremely well-made mannequin, roughly the size of an ordinary doll! Looking at that mannequin, she grabbed the candle in her hand with a death grip. The image of that mannequin was a little girl wearing a red dress. And to this doll, Midori was very familiar. She had seen it when she visited this mansion back then. Now …… was it possible that she had returned to the Qing Dynasty period? With the power of the apartment, it would be easy to transform time and space. But judging from how dilapidated the mansion looked now, it could also still be modern times. She slowly pulled the door shut and began to ponder what to do next. The current intelligence was just too little …… If she was on a Bloodletter mission, she had a good idea in mind instead. The Bloodletter mission would have existed protection for the occupants, but the situation at hand was not that she was executing the Bloodletter. "I'm not an occupant right now, but the apartment obviously isn't planning on killing me outright." For the apartment, something like bringing back a resident who had already left and abusing them would be quite unreasonable. One should know that according to the rules of the apartment, an occupant who had successfully completed the Bloodletter ten times would not be able to change into an occupant again, even if they were to return to the entrance of the alleyway where the apartment was located. "I'm afraid it has something to do with the entrance to hell depicted in that novel. It was precisely because I went to the Aoyama Expressway in K City that I encountered all of this, right? But instead of being killed outright, I was caught in a curse ……" Midori judged that he was now caught in a bloodletter curse related to the occupants. "Could it be that this mansion has now become the location where the occupant performs the Bloodletter?" She raised her hand and rubbed her forehead slightly, pondering the many possibilities. The apartments were usually extremely cruel to passersby who mistakenly entered the location of the bloodletter execution, killing a hundred if a hundred came, and wouldn't make a pretense of letting her live that long. Could it be, then, that she was intended to be a guide for the new residents? "Could it be that the information I know about this mansion is a hint of clues to the path to life that the residents can obtain?" Back then, everything she went through when she came to this mansion was all for the sake of the word in blood executed by today's occupants? She reopened the hidden door in front of her and looked towards the locked door to the side. "As I recall, behind that door should be ……" But right at this moment, Green suddenly changed her face! Because she saw that the doll on the ground, was gone! At this moment, she suddenly felt as if her throat was being strangled by something, and that feeling she had at the Kitayama Shrine's Goujou Bird Hall surged up once again. "It's her …… she …… is coming ……" Then, she suddenly felt her consciousness blur a little, and when consciousness arose again, she suddenly realized that she was lying on the corridor, and everything around her had become immense …… She realized in this instant …… She changed into the mannequin dressed in red! …… When Li Yin set foot on the land of K City once again, he was actually quite a bit near home. Originally, he had planned to never return here for the rest of his life. There were simply too many dark and bloody memories in this place. At this moment, he walked to Feng Zhen Road. This was the location of the Golden Domain Academy, the school of his university days, and there were quite a few memories of those times here as well. "There's a newly built subway station here." Li Yin looked at the exit of the subway station not far away, and the stores that he remembered from the past could be said to have been swept away at this time. After returning to K City, the place he wanted to come the most was actually here …… He was also surprised. Just getting out of the cab, he strolled along Fengzhen Road. He planned to catch up on the past here before going to the hotel. His wife, Ya Zhen, stayed in W City, after all, she still had to take care of the child. He came here, mainly to explore the situation first. After a long time, he finally arrived at the entrance of the Golden Domain College. Nowadays …… the college era is simply like the last century. At that time, how happy, inside this carefree ivory tower, almost do not know what is sorrow. Just at this time, the cell phone rang. Li Yin picked up his cell phone, and when he looked at the caller, it was Silver Night. "Hello, Silver Night?" "Li Yin, you've arrived in K City?" "Uh-huh. Arrived. It's agreed that I'll only meet with three residents and it has to be in a public place." "I know. It will be arranged in a location where they can't trace your location, and I won't give them your cell phone number." "Actually, there's no need to be that cautious …… However, this term of residents, you don't seem to have a low opinion of them either, Ginyu." "Not too long ago in Japan's Bloodletter, their performance was not bad either. Among them, that dweller called Dong Evil, although the number of blood letters is not the highest, I think it's a very good seedling." "That's an interesting name …… ……"