Chapter 1: The Shady Atmosphere of the Apartment
"Within the time period of 0:00-2:00 on January 7, 2020, protect four people in the section of the Castle Peak Bypass Expressway in K City (the printer will print out a photo of the four people). During this period, you cannot leave within a one-kilometer radius of the Castle Peak Bypass Freeway. The four people being protected cannot all fall into hell."
Can't all go to "hell".
Time is like a flying shuttle, today is already December 31, 2019, the last day of the year.
The time for the bloodletter mission to begin is getting closer and closer for Mo Yuan. This was his fifth Blood Word, and it could be said that the residents in the apartment were highly focused on it. The fifth Blood Character, which had a great value of reference, was a difficult hurdle for many of the residents to step over. It was important to realize that right now, in the entire apartment, there was not a single resident with a fifth bloodletter! If one could survive the fifth bloodletter, one's voice within the apartment would surely become unprecedentedly large as well.
Previously, Qin Ziyuan's behavior of openly killing to establish his authority had created a huge shock in the hearts of countless residents. No one had expected that Qin Ziyuan would be so lawless as to openly kill without any concealment. Afterwards, Mo Yuan had chosen to acquiesce to what he had done. After all, Qin Ziyuan has a group of loyalists around him who can really fight and dare to kill, and as the saying goes, "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", even if Mo Yuan expresses his dissatisfaction, what's the use? Would anyone offend Qin Ziyuan for the sake of Mo Yuan? Impossible, because people always choose to offend a gentleman rather than a villain.
Therefore, the tenants were waiting to see who would survive this time, Mo Yuan or Qin Ziyuan, in the bloodletter. Some residents have already privately referred to this as the "Battle of the Two Fars". Mo Yuan and Qin Ziyuan, it is very likely that only one of them will come back alive. The future climate of the apartment depended on the survival of these two representatives of the moderate and radical factions in this bloodletting. Overall, most people did not really want Qin Ziyuan to survive, after all, this person was just too dangerous. He made all the rules and stuff, and if he killed someone today because of this rule, who knows if he would kill again in the future because of other rules?
But Mo Yuan's thoughts were different. It was better for Qin Ziyuan to survive. With one more occupant traveling with him, the hope of surviving in the future could be increased a bit. What's more, once Qin Ziyuan was dead, that guy Han Lei, without him at the top to keep him in check, could become an uncontrolled force within the apartment, and might use force to dominate the apartment at that time. This kind of thing was not impossible, in the past, when Fang Han was still in the apartment, there had been cases where residents had used violence, forcing those who were not residents of that bloodletter to travel together to the bloodletter execution site. Even then, when Fang Han had just completed ten bloodletters, many of the residents were insanely jealous of him and even tried to harm him, and only thanks to the support of Mo Yuan and other residents who were on Fang Han's side did they manage to escort him out of the apartment.
Now that I think about it, it was after that incident that Qin Ziyuan started to actively collect trustworthy tenants and build up his armament, and he actually managed to get his hands on knives like the Nepalese Dog Leg Knife. Fortunately, Qin Ziyuan did not have any malicious intent towards Mo Yuan, not to mention that Mo Yuan was also clear that although Qin Ziyuan could be a bit unscrupulous, he also had a bottom line. For Mo Yuan, unless the interests of both parties were completely contrary, let him not take action against himself. Currently, what he did is still within the bottom line that Mo Yuan can bear. At least, indeed deterred a lot of misguided tenants, with the blood word more and more harsh, many tenants indeed mental state are increasingly unstable up.
At this moment, right next door to him, Dong Xie and Dong Ning, the two siblings, had also felt that the atmosphere of the apartment was completely different lately. When they had first moved into the apartment, they had clearly sensed that there were hardly any normal people among the residents of the apartment. Before Dong Xie had completed his first Bloodletter, all the residents looked at him as if he were a dead man, and most of them spoke to them with either disregard or cynicism, and then again with extreme irritability and a very strong tendency towards violence.
However, after Dong Xie and Dong Ning had passed the first Blood Character, many people were much more pleasant to them. In fact, crossing the first bloodletter alone wasn't a big deal, but for one thing, Zhao Long and the other old residents also died instead Dong Xie survived, and secondly, they lived a bit closer to Mo Yuan, who seemed to appreciate them quite a bit, so they also looked at them differently right away. In this place, the degree of snobbery can be said to be completely undisguised.
And recently, Qin Ziyuan made a brazen move and actually executed a pair of men and women in public, shocking the crowd to a great extent. The rules that Qin Ziyuan had set up required that infighting, brawling, and forcing residents who would not execute the blood words into the place of execution of the blood words, and other vices, were not allowed in the apartment. At the same time, Qin Ziyuan had originally intended to actively encourage informants, especially those who report addicts, Qin Ziyuan would actively give advice on the blood words he executes (Qin Ziyuan is unlike Mo Yuan, who usually isn't his direct descendant, and he won't give constructive advice on blood word tasks), only for Mo Yuan to strongly oppose it, and only after consulting with him did this matter come to a halt. Otherwise, the interior of the apartment would definitely be plunged into a horrifying environment where everyone would snitch.
However, even so, many people would still be on guard against each other, and everyone would be on their own. Right now, when Dong Xie went out a door and greeted anyone, everyone was trembling with fear, not daring to say more than a few words. Now, because Dong Xie lives directly across the street from Mo Yuan, and because Mo Yuan himself has not hidden his admiration for Dong Xie, many people have begun to classify Dong Xie as part of the "moderate faction led by Mo Yuan" in their minds. This time, no one knows who will die, Mo Yuan or Qin Ziyuan, and if Mo Yuan dies and Qin Ziyuan takes full power, they will be afraid of settling scores. In reality, Qin Ziyuan didn't even have the idea of antagonizing Mo Yuan, he was just dissatisfied with Mo Yuan's overly gentle attitude in dealing with things.
"The atmosphere in the apartment is also really too depressing lately."
On the dining table, Dong Ning gave Dong Xie a piece of meat and said, "It seems that my previous thoughts were right. These residents, too, are not oil-saving lamps. It's just that I really didn't see before that Qin Ziyuan, this person, is so ruthless in his methods. The moment he makes a move to kill someone, everyone is now on the edge of their seats."
"If that snitching system is really engaged, that would be terrifying." Dong Xie felt his heart creeping out just thinking about it, "There's no court here, so if someone wants to plant evidence and eliminate dissidents, that would be terrifying. In this place, everyone doesn't know what day they'll live to, and each and every one of them could fall into a state of insanity at any time. It was important to realize that the number of tenants who had executed the Bloodletter a small number of times was overwhelmingly high. If they feel that they can t live one day and simply go crazy before they die …… then they will be in trouble. This apartment, the law is completely ineffective."
Dong Xie was especially worried about Ah Ning, in terms of face value, she was absolutely ranked number one in this entire apartment, and just after entering the apartment for those two weeks, a pair of moves from certain residents had been dishonest. Now, it was only slightly better. But lately, Dong Xie had noticed that those few residents from Qin Ziyuan's faction would look at Ah Ning a little off-kilter, and would even come up to accost her from time to time. Ever since the public execution of the residents, these people have started to act like foxes and waving around all day long, and everyone is afraid of them!
Thinking of this, Dong Xie clenched his fists in death!