Chapter 32: The Stench

"This is too dark ……" Dong Xie used to buy tickets to go to that kind of haunted house for experience in order to experience horror novels, and the haunted house also confiscated cell phones or lighters for the sake of the atmosphere, and Dong Xie finally succeeded in starting to become immune to the various evil spirits played by the staff under countless hammers. Especially when he lost his love for the first time 2 years ago, he even went to the haunted house 3 times a week in order to heal. Perhaps because of these experiences, he has been able to withstand the darkness a little bit. But now he has to face is not the staff played fake ghost ah! As a result, the three of them were in the darkness, and they hadn't even gotten out of the ten meters in a full 5 minutes! Dong Xie was very clear about one thing.The 4th floor was most likely the dead end of this Bloodletter mission! Triggering the dead end path would not be restricted by the so-called safe interval period. Otherwise, Zhao Long would have definitely taken advantage of the safety period when Ge Qi died to come up and explore! Right at this moment, Dong Xie suddenly felt his feet hit something very hard! He was startled and immediately moved his foot away! What …… is this? He just felt that his heart had missed a beat, and his imagination as a novelist made him even wonder if this was a corpse that had already stiffened. "There seems to be something here …… Let me see ……" Dong Xie squatted down and touched that thing …… "Well …… this touch ……" Now he realized that it was a potted plant. He almost made the same mistake as Ge Qi. "It's just a potted plant, touching it should be an ornamental plant." Dong Xie sighed in relief. Dong Ning, on the other hand, was also stunned and said, "Old this so line …… so dark!" Suddenly, Dong Xie grabbed the potted plant and said, "I have an idea!" The only source of light in the corridor currently was the elevator display. Dong Xie touched the wall, came to the elevator door, and pressed the button! Then the elevator door opened! After the elevator doors opened, light was finally cast in. Dong Xie then placed the potted plant at the elevator door! Then when the elevator door was about to close, it wouldn't be able to close because the potted plant was in the middle! This way, the light from the elevator would be able to be projected in all the way! Dong Ning froze, this method was in his brother's style. I remember growing up, Dad would often tell my brother that he usually did not do well in his exams, but he was always particularly good at pulling off some crooked tricks. For example, in order to conceal the test smashed paper, he would specifically go to the print store to re-copy a test paper of his own questions, and then do the questions himself, marking …… Later, the teacher wrote down his real test scores on the student memo that parents must sign every day, and then he glued that page of the memo and the page next to it directly, concealing the truth from the world. …… Of course every time Ah Ning can see through him. So when he was a kid, Dong Xie always bought her lollipop bribes as hush money …… After putting the potted plant away, Dong Xie stood up and looked at the hallway with light, and was slightly emboldened. "Let's go." "Uh-huh. ……" Of course, after pulling away a certain distance from the elevator's location, the hallway was still very dark, but at least it wasn't like before, even if "those things" stood in front of it, they couldn't find it. "There's no movement at all, those two cops ……" Zhao Long whispered in a voice that only the three of them could hear, "We have to be very careful too …… " The 4th floor had indeed been blocked off for a long time, the walls and doors were covered in dust and cobwebs could be seen everywhere. In fact, when he had just come in earlier, Dong Xie had felt that the musty odor of the place was just a little too heavy. "Take a look at 402," Dong Xie then said quickly, "The police might be there …… whether they're alive or dead, and they're likely to leave some traces." "None of the doors here have a door plate ah ……," Dong Ning then carefully carried out the observation, "also do not know where is 402." Soon, they walked to the corner of the corridor. After turning the corner, they couldn't see much ahead. The light from the elevator opening was hard to transmit here. Of course they roughly knew the structure of each floor, and this wasn't too far from the end of the corridor. "Meow……" Suddenly, an extremely terrifying sound entered Dong Xie's ears! In the darkness, a pair of glowing eyes emerged! Dong Xie immediately knew that it was the black cat! For a moment, the three of them were in the corridor, and the cat's eyes in the darkness began to confront each other! Based on Zhao Long's previous experience, Dong Xie could completely tell that the black cat was definitely an evil spirit as well! All three of them took a step back in unison. In the darkness they could now only see the black cat's eyes, and this scene was really a bit creepy. Immediately after that, the cat's eyes disappeared in the darkness. "Are we …… still advancing?" Zhao Long's scalp was also numb at this moment, while Dong Ning's hand that was grasping Dong Xie also began to tremble desperately. That cat's eye, which didn't look like a cat at all, could give off a weird, evil aura from a certain distance away! "Keep moving!" And just as Zhao Long and Dong Ning were both starting to be unable to take a step, Dong Xie was firm in her resolve, "It's all come to this! Can we still be scared off by a cat?" In fact, Dong Xie also knew very well that to a certain extent, the fear that the black cat brought to them was probably even higher than that of the evil spirits. As a horror writer, he knew this was called the "Valley of Terror Theory". For non-human things, the closer they are to human posture, the easier it is to fear them. For example, both are the old dominators of Cthulhu mythology, but Nyarlathotep tends to bring a greater sense of fear than Azathoth, because Nyarlathotep's image is closer to human beings. A cat that acted like a human conveying clear emotions would also be more intimidating. However, Dong Xie felt that this also clearly revealed that there were indeed clues to a way of life here! One must not be intimidated! "Not dying for ten thousand years! Let's fight!" Dong Xie took a step forward, while also pulling Dong Ning forward! Seeing this scene, Zhao Long had no choice but to continue walking as well. Only by walking on would there be hope! Dong Xie did not slow down his pace, instead, he advanced at a normal pace. Right now, if he walked slowly, his morale would be finished! He had to boost his morale! "This?" They came to the end of the corridor, and at that moment, Dong Xie suddenly smelled a stench! "What's with this stench?" Dong Xie froze for a moment. Then, he vaguely realized that something was wrong. Just then, he heard a voice coming from the front. "Is there anyone out there?" Hearing this voice, Dong Xie immediately walked up and determined that the sound was coming from a door! "Please, if there's someone, help me contact the police station! I'm a police officer! Trapped here?" It was! Dong Xie immediately remembered that this was the voice of one of the policemen he had heard on the first floor earlier! "Are you the only one?" Dong Xie hurriedly pursued, "Are there others?" "I have another colleague, but he's gone!" Dong Xie reached out his hand and went to turn the door handle in front of him, and to his dismay, the door …… actually opened!