Chapter 17: Dilemma

Right now, the five occupants didn't dare to advance, nor did they dare to flee. After all, if they fled, who knew if it would evolve into a shoot-to-kill situation. Anyone would hope that it would be someone else who died, and that they could survive. Therefore, Ge Qi Feng Yu began to take a few steps back, counting on the people in front to die instead of them. And …… to be honest, really dying a person would instead make them relieved. With the limitations of the apartment, the evil spirits would kill at most one occupant at a time, after which they would enter a longer interval period. And with this interval period, there might be a way to survive. Dong Xie looked at Dong Ning, who was standing with him beside him, and began to ponder what to do now. It wasn't a solution to stay standing here foolishly all the time. "First …… back up, everyone back up together! Don't go too fast, keep your eyes on that stairwell door and slowly back up!" Dong Xie lowered his voice as much as possible at this time, commanding everyone to back up. At this time, everyone immediately complied, and between life and death, no one dared to question Dong Xie, who was standing in front, anymore. After all, people are all about cheek. One step …… and two steps, everyone's pace almost began to retreat in a neat and tidy manner. Their eyes, all deadlocked on the stairwell in front of them. No one knew if something terrifying would come out from there! "South …… South Amitabha Buddha ……" "Save the suffering and Goddess of Mercy Bodhisattva ……" Dong Xie's heart smiled bitterly as he listened to the low prayers coming from behind him. They were too weak, without even the slightest ability to resist, and the fact that they could survive until now was entirely the result of the restrictions imposed by the apartment. They, at all, were unable to master their own destiny, but were pure puppets. After retreating several steps, they gradually began to feel at ease, probably …… will not …… appear "those things" right? "Hoo…… we, we still live in that house now?" Gage looked at the others and asked, "Or are we ……" "Let's check out the floor below ……?" Dong Xie made the suggestion, "No matter what, we must always look for clues to the way of life." Zhao Long looked at the stairwell in front of him and said, "But do we …… really have to go there now?" Dong Xie also revealed a hesitant look, and after pondering for a while, said, "Then ……" "Let's stay here …… first," Zhao Long still couldn't make up his mind, "Let's …… observe and see?" Dong Xie glanced at Dong Ning, it was naturally impossible for them to break away from the team and take the initiative to go downstairs to explore, that would inevitably become a killing target for the evil spirits to focus on. To put it bluntly, Dong Xie also harbored the idea of "death of a friend of the road is not the death of a poor road", staying by their side, perhaps the earliest to die were the two pig teammates. After all, in his heart, he only cared about his own life and death and that of Ning. In fact, so far, there didn't seem to have been a bloodletter mission where the entire team survived (at least from the available records). For a single Blood Word mission, a 50% personnel mortality rate was considered low. Looking at the stairwell in front of them, they all had bitter faces. Right now it really did feel like there was no safety no matter where they went. However, there was no doubt that staying on this floor all the time didn't mean it was safe either. So …… what should we do? "If it's just simply not going to the 4th floor it's also too simple, there's no way it's going to be a lifeline." Zhao Long was also confused now, "But what should we do in the current situation? We don't dare to go to the floors below now, we don't dare to take the elevator, we've been trapped here, could it be that staying on the 5th floor will allow us to get through these five hours peacefully?" Zhao Long finished these words to himself, and then he himself didn't believe in this kind of thing. This …… was a little too ridiculous! If it was just as well that not going to the 4th floor was the way to life that they had explored with great effort, where was the reasoning that an evil spirit would tell the occupants the clues to the way to life as soon as they came up? In fact, he had also speculated similarly to Dong Ning whether this was an empty city trick to deliberately keep them from going to the 4th floor, which was the way to life, but right now it seemed that this point was also ruled out. "It's just ……" Zhao Long thought about it and still made up his mind, "Don't go to the 4th floor until it's absolutely necessary! In that case, there's no problem." Hearing Zhao Long say this, Feng Yu and Ge Qi also nodded, completely agreeing with Zhao Long. However, both Dong Xie and Dong Ning had difficulty agreeing with Zhao Long's conclusion. "I don't think it will be that simple." Dong Xie pointed at the stairwell in front of him and said, "Perhaps, that hit just now was a deliberate attempt to scare us, so that we wouldn't dare to explore floors 1 to 3. Such a precedent is also found in the Bloodletter records of the past!" "Well …… what you said, also makes sense." However, at this time, Feng Yu was uncharacteristically agreeable to Dong Xie's statement, "I also think that's right." Dong Xie froze, why did this fellow agree with what he said? "Zhao Long," Feng Yu looked towards Zhao Long and said, "As Dong Xie said, maybe it really is like that. Seriously, how can one possibly survive just staying on the 5th floor for five hours like that? I just don't believe that we can live without going to the 4th floor. It's not like we're the kind of protagonists in horror movies who always die trying to break taboos, so not going to the 4th floor isn't something hard to do?" Zhao Long wasn't an idiot, where would he not know that Dong Xie had a point? But the problem is …… so what if he knows? The Bloodletter mission is a death sentence if you take one wrong step! Everyone has only one life, and if it's gone, it can never be saved again, and ten times the blood word's wish can't bring a dead person back to life! In such a situation, he prioritized caution as his first priority and would never dare to take risks easily. The intelligence was still too little at this stage, and he didn't want to draw conclusions easily. "It hasn't been long since …… the Bloodletter started, so maybe there's some other way to explore the birth path." Zhao Long still had his own considerations, it was still not yet the final moment, so he still had to be cautious. Feng Yu glanced at Dong Xie again and suddenly said, "I think …… it's not a solution to keep going like this, why don't …… we organize people to go to the floors below to take a look? Of course not including the 4th floor. Otherwise ……" At this moment, Dong Qi and Dong Ning realized why Feng Yu had agreed with his words. He wished to have someone go down there and help him check out the reality! Anyone who wished to place themselves in a safe area and have someone else go and fight to the death would naturally be the best. But where in this world was there such a beautiful thing! "This matter …… I will think about it again. At the moment, our makeshift team still can't spread out, or else if we fall alone, we'll probably be attacked!" Finally, they opened the door and returned back inside the original house. Right now, everyone was torn, not knowing what the next choice should be, which was good. Dong Qi's mind, on the other hand, was all about that horrible eye from before …… Next, Ge Qi found a few candles inside the kitchen. He then brought the candle back and was about to point the lighter at it when the flame suddenly went out! Ge Qi was scared out of his wits, he hurriedly lit the lighter again, and this time the fire reappeared, he hurriedly lit the candle. "Whew …… too good …… eh?" Gerch then widened his eyes, revealing an expression of incomparable horror!