Chapter 21: Guessing
"Wait ……," Dong Ning said as she pulled Dong Xie back, "This kitchen is too narrow and small, and if four people go in together, I'm afraid it won't be easy to escape in case something happens… …"
If four people walked in together, once something happened, the escape would definitely be a scramble. Feng Yu walking out in the midst of evil was also a matter of a split second, so even a short delay in time could be the distance between life and death.
"This ……"
"Just two people will go in. If you find anything, you can share it with everyone when you come out. To be fair, how about guessing fists to decide who goes in?"
Guessing?
Everyone was stunned, such a big thing, decide with guessing?
Ge Qi was the first to object, "Are you kidding, this won't work!"
"Then you go in?"
"I …… I don't mean that ……"
Ge Qi rather hoped that the siblings would go in and he would stand guard outside. But the brother and sister duo were also clearly not stupid.
"Guessing, this …… seems to be quite fair." Zhao Long also knew that this way of choosing purely by luck was not something anyone could say. It was completely dependent on luck. If you were lucky, you wouldn't have to go in. Afterward, no one could complain about anyone, and at most, they could complain about Dong Ning.
It had to be said that Dong Ning had considered the matter very thoroughly.
So, Dong Ning stretched out his hand and said, "Then …… start, rock, scissors …… cloth!"
Everyone stretched out their hands, and the result was ……
Dong Xie put out cloth, Dong Ning was scissors, and Zhao Long and Ge Qi were both stone. There was no way to split the winners and losers if this was the case, so they came back again.
In the second game, Dong Xie played scissors, Dong Ning played rock, while Zhao Long was rock and Ge Qi was scissors. So the winners and losers were revealed …… The losers were Dong Evil and Ge Qi!
Dong Ning looked at her brother and was very worried for a moment, but, the guessing game was initiated by her, so naturally there was no way to violate it.
Ge Qi looked at the scissors he had put out, and was instantly incredibly chagrined, why didn't he put out rock like he did just now! If he had played rock, then he wouldn't have had to go in! The loser would only be Dong Xie, and the next three would just have another round.
However, the guessing game was agreed upon by everyone. To violate it again now was clearly unspeakable.
Dong Xie patted Dong Ning's head and said, "It's fine, I'll be out soon. Zhao Long, my sister is counting on you."
Dong Xie really didn't want to leave his sister's side, but perhaps it would be relatively safe for her to stay outside.
"I know." Zhao Long nodded his head vigorously and said, "I'll definitely take good care of your sister."
He could see that the feelings between Dong Xie and Dong Ning's siblings were quite genuine, and they were both willing to sacrifice for each other.
Dong Ning looked at Dong Xie, who was patting her head, and her emotions were a little complicated. Her brother was five years older than her, plus he grew taller particularly fast during puberty, so the height difference between her and her brother was obvious, so her brother gradually formed the habit of liking to pat her head. This action, represented his doting and loving care for himself.
"Okay, let's go."
Dong Qi glanced at Ge Qi beside him, then the two of them stepped through the door together. The narrow kitchen in front of them was just enough to accommodate two people parallel at most.
After walking through the kitchen and into the living room, it became much more spacious.
"Hoo……"
Looking at the neat living room in front of him, Ge Qi kept paying attention to Dong Qi beside him. He thought that in case an evil spirit did appear, then he would definitely push Dong Xie in the direction of the evil spirit so that he could survive! In his heart, he thought: don't blame me, life will always have this kind of thing happen, I'm just delivering a takeaway and I can still encounter this kind of thing, life is not fair in the first place!
At the same time, he sized up his and Dong Xie's figures. Dong Xie should be the tallest person in the entire apartment besides Mo Yuan, and with this small body, he would definitely have to sneak up behind him in order to succeed. Of course, Ge Qi did not intend to do such a thing until it was absolutely necessary. In case of failure, then he would also be putting the other party is immortal.
Dong Qi naturally didn't know Ge Qi's thoughts, but was carefully observing the living room. He was wondering if the key underneath that potted plant was similar to a kind of hidden prop for the game. If it was, then it was possible that he would be able to find something valuable in this place. Of course, it was also possible that this was caused by the fact that he was usually too addicted to the game, after all, the Bloodletter Quest was not a game. It was also quite possible to find nothing here.
The so-called pattern of time intervals between the deaths of the occupants was not absolute, and there were many complex situations where exceptions would occur. The records in the Bloodletter Records indicate that a Bloodletter Quest may be as short as five hours, or as long as a month or so, so it is not necessarily known how long the so-called "intervals" are. And once the bloodletter mission is close to the end of the period, the apartment began to gradually relax the restrictions, the killing is no longer the so-called regularity to speak of. The so-called regularity of the killings is entirely the result of the apartment's intervention in the restrictions. Therefore,…… the current time period of the "safe interval", is not really much reliable.
Zhao Long and Dong Ning looked at the entrance in front of them, and at this time Dong Ning began to regret a bit. Her previous suggestion, but let her brother follow only one person to go in, so that if the evil spirits attack inside, the probability of directly choosing her brother to do it is 50%! The countless records in blood and Feng Yu's downfall all clearly told her one thing, once the evil spirit strikes to kill, there is no way to resist, once it strikes, it will surely die!
Dong Ning realized that she seemed to have become highly nonchalant, and in the past, she wouldn't have failed to think about this. However, the series of confusion had messed up her thoughts. However, she also woke up to the reality before her. She had so far been a college student residing in an ivory tower, and one of the greatest benefits of her student days was that there was a standard answer to any problem faced by her studies, but there was no absolute standard answer to the kinds of problems in real life. There may not be an absolutely foolproof solution to any problem.
And …… most importantly, she is now facing a situation where, once a decision is slightly wrong, everything will be lost. This gave Dong Ning unprecedented pressure, and in her past life, the most desperate moment she had experienced was the death of her parents. And now, the most terrifying thing to her, was her brother leaving her. That was as desperate a thing to her as the fact that she herself would die.
But just as she was about to run in, she was pulled back by Zhao Long.
"Dong Ning, there's no need for you to go back in ……"
"I have to go in …… I'm worried that something will happen!"
Dong Xie searched around the living room, but there was no luck.
Suddenly, he felt his forehead, and a drop of water spilled onto it.
He lifted the candle and looked towards the top.
On the ceiling, there was a streak of water that was dripping towards the bottom. However, after Dong Qi raised the candle high to take a closer look, he realized ……
It was …… a streak of blood!