Chapter 15: Confusion
Inside the apartment's first-floor hall, the residents were feeling the creeps.
It was obvious that even Mo Yuan and Qin Ziyuan had their hands full with the fifth Blood Word Mission, and were in quite a mess. Now that forty minutes had passed in the blood word mission, one of the protection targets had already died.
This time, the blood word mission was crucial for all the occupants. The outcome was likely to be two extreme endings of full survival or mass destruction. Once it was the latter, success in leaving the apartment would become incredibly nebulous for the residents, and they would likely fall into a major riot.
Dong Xie pulled Dong Ning and whispered to her, "Once the second target dies, let's leave the apartment first."
What Dong Xie was most afraid of were those residents of Qin Ziyuan's faction. One of the occupants, named Chang Yong, had been coming to accost Aning all day long for something or other, a pair of lustful eyes that could be said to have made no secret of their intentions, and every time, it was Dong Xie who had stopped in front of Aning, relying on a hint of Mo Yuan's regard for the siblings to be able to cope with him for the time being. Once they really came at him hard, Dong Xie would definitely not be his match. Even though he had prepared weapons on him, the other party had the same ah!
One of the major reasons the residents had stayed inside the apartment while watching the video was because they were worried whether the evil spirit within the video would kill even them. The precedent of killing someone across the video existed back in the twentieth century with Sadako Yamamura. However, whether or not the evil spirits of the Bloodletter Quest would kill people across the video, Dong Xie wasn't sure. However, once Qin Ziyuan and Mo Yuan were dead, Han Lei might be okay, and occupants like Chang Yong would most likely immediately become clothed.
Dong Xie had repeatedly considered beforehand that if he wanted to deal with Chang Yong and the others, then he could not choose the apartment as a battlefield. His time in the apartment was too short to have any connections, and he didn't even have any friends that he could particularly talk to; more people had only befriended him because they valued him as a Dark Horse resident. Of course, leaving the apartment couldn't just be a walk in the park, he had to be back in 48 hours. He had to find a way to slaughter that guy outside the apartment, at the risk of his life! Otherwise, why would he even bother coming inside the apartment? There were only a thousand days to be a thief, not a thousand days to prevent one.
"Wait a little longer." Dong Ning also responded in a low voice, "Let's wait until …… the next time the evil spirits appear, or when there's a similarly terrifying atmosphere and everyone is concentrating on watching the video, then we'll leave."
Of course …… Dong Evil siblings still hoped that the targets of protection would all survive, and that neither Mo Yuan nor Qin Ziyuan would die. As long as they didn't die then everything could be turned into a safe haven. Only, they still had to prepare for the worst.
Meanwhile, the important clue that Mo Yuan and the others, currently had, was about the part of Qin Xiaoming and Qin Xiaohei's recovered memories.
"Let me ask you, can you remember anything else?"
Qin Ziyuan took Qin Xiaoming's hand and said, "If you think of something, not only can we find clues to the way of life, but I'll also have a heavy reward afterward!"
"This …… other really can't think of it." At this point, Qin Xiaoming was already thinking for a long time, and ultimately couldn't think of anything new.
As for Qin Xiaohei and Qin Xiaolan, they were just as unable to think of anything new. There was no difference between what Qin Xiaohei could think of and Qin Xiaoming. In particular,…… they both mentioned one thing.
That memory happened "not long ago".
These four people had almost the same memories, which meant that the four of them were most likely running away together in some very narrow and unventilated place. And the one chasing them was most likely the white-clothed evil spirit.
That white-clothed evil spirit, naturally, was trying to bring them to hell. However, these four people were losing their memories at the same time.
Fang Han had said …… that any evil spirit from hell would be extremely terrifying. Dying in the hands of an evil spirit from hell would mean that …… even death was not the end. Even after death, there would be no rest, but rather the beginning of hopeless suffering. Therefore, Mo Yuan decided back then that if he really came to a desperate situation, he would rather commit suicide than be killed by the evil spirits of hell.
Just what was the reason for these four people being hunted by the evil spirits? Their loss of memory was obviously the handiwork of the apartment, and what was the purpose of deliberately hiding this? Obviously, the reason why the four people were hunted by the evil spirits is likely to be directly related to the way of life. But although they had lost their memories, certain places might be able to tell the cause.
"Qin Ziyuan, about these medieval banknotes. I have a speculation. Most likely that was burned for the dead evil spirits."
After Mo Yuan said this, Qin Ziyuan froze and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"These medieval banknotes all have a warm touch to them, even after lying on the ground for a long time. If this was burned for the dead ……"
"Wait! Wait!"
Qin Ziyuan immediately stopped Mo Yuan from continuing.
He walked in front of Mo Yuan, got close to his ear, and whispered, "You can't say too much about 'hell'. Residents who haven't completed the four Blood Characters can't know about this matter!"
Mo Yuan immediately understood what Qin Ziyuan had associated with it.
"Being careful in all things is the best! Can't say anything that will make them associate it."
Qin Ziyuan looked at the medieval banknotes in his hand, and his heart rippled. Plutonium banknotes that were burned by the living to the dead? Then, this also means that ……
This place is really close to the Netherworld Hell? Or perhaps, this place itself was an overlap between the Nether Hell and this Yang world?
Regarding Hell, even Fang Han did not have much information. The bloodletters involving hell that he had executed in the beginning were too terrifying and full of taboos, so none of them had been recorded.
Mo Yuan was actually not so indiscreet as to reveal any important information in the context of a live broadcast within the group, but Qin Ziyuan had already taken the first step to get anxious. He knew very well that Qin Ziyuan used fear and hope to dominate people's hearts, and he never wanted that domination to be broken.
"What were you guys talking about just now?" Lin Xuan was instantly anxious, "If there are any clues, it's only right for everyone to share them together!"
Chen Fu was also a bit unable to look away, he already disliked Qin Ziyuan as a person, and now he was actually being secretive, and immediately asked Mo Yuan, "Mo Yuan, what did Qin Ziyuan say to you just now?"
"No ……," Mo Yuan gently shook his head, "Just now it was about some personal matters between the two of us, nothing to do with the Blood Word mission."
"Ah? It's not? Are you serious?"
"Yes."
As soon as the matter of hell was mentioned, Qin Ziyuan would lose his temper. Mo Yuan knew that all of this was because Fang Han's experience back then was too terrifying. Once Fang Han's ninth bloodletter was fully publicized, it was enough to send the apartment dwellers into a riot.
In fact …… although Fang Han managed to leave the apartment, at that time he had already fallen into severe PTSD.He was afraid that it would be very difficult for him to live normally again in this life.
Mo Yuan looked toward the mountains in the distance, where it was clear that it was beyond the distance range restricted by the blood words. Perhaps, not there.
Then …… where exactly were these four people being hunted?