Chapter 3: Arrival

It took nearly 3 hours for K City to arrive in W City. Not long after the plane docked on the W City airport, Dong Xie turned his cell phone back on. Having all arrived in W City, Mo Yuan could initiate contact with them at any time. While Dong Xie called Mo Yuan, he was prompted to turn off his cell phone. Just after getting off the airplane, Dong Xie felt that the weather was quite a bit gloomy. The eight occupants converged together, and just after leaving the airport, they saw a large number of cabs parked there outside, soliciting for business. It was still morning, and the time was still early, so they all decided to go and find a nearby hotel to stay in first, and then think long and hard about it. "Key, I also don't know when Mo Yuan will contact us." Inside the eight residents, there was a resident named Tiesheng who was obviously concerned about Mo Yuan's situation, "It's thanks to Mo Yuan that I was able to live in the first place." All of the people here, without exception, were all occupants who had executed the Bloodletter once. And that time Tie Sheng executed the Blood Word mission, in the end, he was the only one who survived, completely relying on Mo Yuan's remote guidance at that time. Honestly speaking, Tie Sheng had always felt that he had no hope of surviving for a long time, and mentally he had already treated himself as a patient with terminal cancer, but he had never thought that his second bloodletter would actually be performed together with Mo Yuan? Then, the four people were divided into two groups, each getting into a cab outside the airport. And the cab driver had a heavy local accent, and could only barely understand what he was saying. And behind the seat of the cab, there actually happened to be a poster advertising the horror movie Earth Bound Spirit! As the cab traveled through the streets of W City, Dong Xie then started communicating with the other three people in the cab, "Listen up, this time, for the Blood Word mission, Mo Yuan might take the initiative to contact us. But …… I want everyone to be clear, Mo Yuan executing this Blood Word with us is not his obligation. If he encounters danger during the process and he wants to take the initiative to escape, we can't stop him." And as for the cab driver, Dong Xie's explanation to him that they were talking about a game. As a result, the driver still thought of them as being e-sports players, so he didn't say anything. "This ……" The other three occupants in the car, Tiesheng and Qiao Bi were fine, while another occupant named Zhang Lun was anxious: "If Mo Yuan leaves, then we . . what will we do?" "As I said, Mo Yuan is not obligated to accompany us in the execution of the Blood Word. Even if he backtracks now and is ready to go back, it's nothing. He doesn't owe us anything." Dong Xie's words, in terms of reasoning, were actually not wrong at all. However, reason was reason, and when it came to matters of life and death, no one could be objective. Zhang Lun said anxiously, "No, Mo Yuan is our greatest hope! It's only …… with him that we can make it." "This …… I think also, also ah ……" Qiao Bi then also began to concur, "Why do you say that, could it be that Mo Yuan contacted you? It's not possible that he rebelled and didn't want to come, right? No, he can't be like this! Isn't this playing with us? Letting us have hope and now going back? No way, absolutely not!" "Shut up you guys!" At this time, the naive Tie Sheng was enraged, "You guys, are you speaking from your conscience? When the two of you executed the first Bloodletter, didn't you both call Mo Yuan for help? Why are you saying such things now? Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning from heaven?" Zhang Lun immediately retorted, "Let's be clear, Tiesheng! The Blood Character that you executed back then did have Mo Yuan's mention and help, but I wasn't that time! I was lucky enough to execute the Blood Character together with Chang Yong, and only succeeded with Qin Ziyuan's help! Mo Yuan didn't help. I don't owe him anything! Don't they say a man can't stand without trust? Dong Xie, what did Qin Ziyuan tell you? Was it his idea that Mo Yuan should be allowed to go back?" This time, Qin Ziyuan's action to fully intercept Mo Yuan was unexpected by many residents. And in fact, many of the occupants who executed this bloodletter were glad that Mo Yuan was not intercepted by Qin Ziyuan. They estimated that Mo Yuan should have bought tickets for another flight to come to W City and would meet up with them here. Dong Xie was now the latest person to defect to Qin Ziyuan's side, and what he said would be seen by many as Qin Ziyuan's intention. "How …… do you guys," Tiesheng was even more furious, "My parents have taught me since I was a kid that a person must know how to repay kindness, not to mention the kindness of saving a life! If Mo Yuan doesn't want to come, there's nothing wrong with that! If he doesn't come, the big deal is that we'll just make it through this Bloodletter on our own!" Dong Xie was really speechless at the attitude of this group of people, but she instantly had a strong favorable impression of Tiesheng, the seemingly mute resident. Within the apartment, Mo Yuan had saved many tenants, and all those people were indeed very grateful to him, but for the vast majority of the tenants, only if Mo Yuan saved people to the end and ensured that each of their ten Blood Characters were completed, then only then could they be satisfied, or else, they would be disgruntled. And anyone who knew Mo Yuan would be obliged to help them, so much so that accusations against Mo Yuan even began to appear between words like Qiao Bi and Zhang Lun. However, Dong Xie thought about it, this time, with the Blood Character, he needed to cooperate in good faith, and it was also better for him not to offend them verbally for the time being. Otherwise, in case he was isolated by them, it would cause a lot of problems when it came to the Bloodletter mission. Dong Xie opened his cell phone and called Dong Ning, who was far away in K City. "Brother, have you arrived in W City?" "Well, arrived. Ning, did Mo Yuan not contact the people in the apartment?" "No. Right now, the residents are discussing why exactly Mo Yuan came to this Bloodletter mission." Dong Qi thought of the argument he had heard earlier between Mo Yuan and Qin Ziyuan, and what Qin Ziyuan had said to him. The residents, however, were seeing Mo Yuan as a protector who deserved to help them now. Did they think Mo Yuan was Ultraman, or Iron Man? "Brother, you must be extremely careful, extremely careful." Dong Ning was full of concern on the other end of the cell phone, "No matter what happens, you have to survive! Also, when you see Mo Yuan, ask him what his relationship is with Fu Ying Yue." "I …… understand." After hanging up his cell phone, Dong Qi looked out the car window with a heavy heart. The area around the airport was remote, and the distance to the nearest hotel wasn't too far. And he topped the poster in the backseat of the car, on which both the male and female lead actors, Xiao Zhian and Mu Aisan, were showing very frightened expressions, while behind them, there was a movie theater screening room, and on a huge screen, a cloaked horrifying evil spirit appeared. The three big words, Earth Bound Spirit, were prominently visible, while underneath was the enlarged name of Xiao Dai, which said that it was scheduled for Valentine's Day. "Master driver." Dong Xie pointed at the poster and said to the cab driver, "Isn't this movie quite hot recently?" The driver looked at the billboard, nodded, and said, "Uh-huh, it's starring Deacon Xiao! My daughter is also a fan of his! What's up? You guys came from out of town and are planning to go see this movie?" "Well, sort of. I wanted to come here to take a look because of the screening event in W City today." "Oh, that's right. I've heard that the pre-sale is quite hot, and my daughter has already bought a ticket for the premiere of the movie. Alas? Didn't you guys come to W City to participate in e-sports? My daughter said that e-sports is also a very lucrative profession now." "Ah …… no, not ah. Driver master, this movie, has your daughter mentioned anything to you? I heard that it's just a completely original script." "This I'm not too clear, I'm not like you young people chasing stars well, I still like those old movies from the 1980s and 1990s, such as Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow's film. I heard that some of Stephen Chow's classic movies are going to be remade? What 'New Jingwu Men' and so on ……" Dong Xie saw that he really didn't ask anything, and could only turn his head to look at that poster again, and looking at that evil spirit face up close, it looked even more hideous and terrifying! Although the movie itself has nothing to do with Fu Yingyue, from the current situation, the one with the most motive to kill is her. Dong Xie recalled the words that Mo Yuan had roared out earlier, and it was clear that he had an extremely close association with Fu Ying Yue. This was the most crucial reason why he was coming to execute this Bloodletter. If the evil spirit was really Fu Ying Yue, would it show him mercy? Or would it still kill him as usual?