Chapter 12: Graffiti Painting
"I think that old …… that unnameable thing …… may have given us the life path hint."
As Dong Xie who deeply loves Cthulhu mythology, Dong Xie who often puts "ancient gods", "evil gods" and "things that cannot be named" in his mouth, he feels a bit strange even saying this at this moment! The word "ancient god," "evil god," and "unnameable thing" was on his lips. Among the residents of the condominium, it was becoming customary to use "unclean things", "those things" and "things that cannot be named" as substitutes for "evil spirits". The last one, Dong Xie estimates, is the one that is used to refer to the "evil spirits". Dong Xie guessed that the last expression was most likely due to the popularity of the Cthulhu myth in the last two years.
After Dong Xie said this, Zhao Long looked at him carefully and said, "This …… might be a possibility."
Feng Yu, who was on the side, however, shook his head and said, "Are you kidding me, 'those things' exist to kill us, why would they give us hints to survive? That doesn't make sense, does it? As for the bloodstained records your sister mentioned, it's been so many years, who knows if it's true or not, not to mention that even if it's true, I think it's more of a case of misleading the residents to death. How can you believe the words of 'those things'!"
After experiencing the first bloodletter, Feng Yu was already scared to the extreme, he really didn't want to face "those things" at all. The first time he performed the bloodletter, the residents around him, some do not believe in evil, with online purchase of the peach wood sword, black dog blood, and even do not know where to get black donkey hooves, but when they sacrificed these things to deal with the "those things", not even the slightest effect. And Ge Qi to participate in that time the word of blood even more exaggerated, the word of blood there is a resident even at the expense of special to spend money to ask a claim to be an exorcist of foreign devils, follow them together to go to the word of blood to execute the location. As a result, the foreign devil face "those things" was scared to pee his pants, what holy water cross all thrown out, holding a "Bible" shouting "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" …… did not stop the He was killed.
The existing tenants had exhausted all means, but it could be proved that there was no way to resist and harm "those things". At the time, Fang Han finally managed to survive the tenth blood word, to be able to "redemption", have the opportunity to make a wish, many residents have begged Fang Han can not rely on the wish to allow them to get free, or can resist "those things". The generation that grew up watching "Seven Dragon Balls" and "Aladdin" tends to understand "wishing" as "any wish can come true", but when they actually want to make a wish, they realize that wish fulfillment is not omnipotent. The limitations of wishes are enormous.
It's impossible to bring the dead back to life, and it's even impossible to wish for anything that breaks the rules of the apartment, such as letting the residents of the apartment be free, cutting down the difficulty of the word "blood", or letting the residents be able to fight against "those things", or even wanting to have the superpowers of the Reunion X-Men. As for "destroying the apartment", you don't even have to think about it. Even if an individual wants to gain great social power, it is impossible to go against the laws of society, you want to be the President of the United States that is also absolutely impossible to do. In this way, the wish seems to be very chicken, but in addition to this, if you want to live forever, cure terminal diseases, get love (or rather, beautiful women, and does not limit the number of) are easy to do. And while bringing the dead back to life can't be done, if one wants people to die, the wish can be granted as long as the number is limited to 10,000 people. From these points, the wish is still highly attractive.
All in all, making a wish at …… sealed all the hopes of the residents to fight against "those things". In other words, although this wish is said to be a reward for surviving ten bloodletters, it is more …… like a handout. The apartment has had many residents, but only heard of one Fang Han crossed the tenth blood words, and after Li Yin Fang Han before there are no residents crossed the ten blood words, it is not clear, from Fang Han began to have residents began to carry out the blood words of the written records.
And Ge Qi's mindset was similar to Feng Yu's. In the beginning, he also saw with his own eyes that the foreign devil who was paid to come here was a complete charlatan, but even so, the Bible and the cross had no effect in front of those "unnameable things". Of course, there were also residents who resisted to the death before being killed, but no physical means had any effect on them. In front of them, even if Rambo and Cold Front came, it would still be a dead end. So, psychologically, they all had a hard time believing that they would reveal the way of life to the occupants. After all, this wasn't playing an online game, and they weren't any NPCs that could reveal clues to the occupants about the strategy.
However, unlike Feng Yu, Ge Qi. Dong Xie felt that the very existence of this apartment was highly akin to a horror role-playing game, with the difference being that even if one played to the end, there was no chance for the player to upgrade. Only, inside the game, the player could be resurrected and start over no matter how many times they died, but inside this apartment, a person's life was only one time, and once they died, there would never be a chance to start over again.
"Alright, keep checking it out," Zhao Long continued to act as a peacemaker, "Our time is precious. The Bloodletter has officially begun, and now …… 'they' are likely to appear at any moment."
Everyone blanched at these words.
"I …… know ……" Hearing Zhao Long say this, Feng Yu could only nod and say, "Continue… . look for it."
At this time, they walked along the corridor corridor, while not walking for long, relying on the light of the lighter's fire, they again saw a similar painting on the wall.
Above the painting, there was again that mass of black silhouettes, and if Dong Xie normally saw these images, he would only look as creepy as he wanted to be. After taking a few more steps, he saw another painting of what appeared to be two doors, and in the center of the doors was another mass of black shadows.
At this time, Dong Xie suddenly realized that on both sides of this hallway, there were exactly two doors facing each other!
This discovery made him feel creeped out!
"This …… this ……" He pointed ahead and said, "This …… Could it be ……"
Dong Ning also followed the direction of Dong Xie's finger, then compared it to the two doors on the painting, and the black shadow in the center of the door, and was also surprised.
"Could it be that this graffiti painting is the scene that happened here?"
Dong Ning's words immediately startled Zhao Long, Feng Yu and Ge Qi.
"No …… it won't!" Ge Qi desperately shook his head while taking a step back even more subconsciously.
Feng Yu's face was also quite ugly, only to feel his legs go limp to the point where he had to hold onto the wall to walk.
Zhao Long, on the other hand, was in deep thought as he looked at the painting and the scene before him ……