Chapter 57: Life and Death

Dong Xie suddenly realized that he couldn't run that fast. There was no way to determine if the evil spirits would keep moving continuously like this, and unlike the living, ghosts didn't need to rest, and once they were exhausted along with their physical strength, the two of them would die sooner or later at the hands of the evil spirits! "Calm down! Calm! Must be calm!" Dong Xie knew that the first thing to do at this time was to first conserve as much physical strength as possible, and the second thing to do was to be calm and come up with a solution in as short a time as possible. "Brother, explain to me roughly what's going on?" Dong Ning, after all, didn't have the same superior intelligence as Silver Feather, and his mind went blank for a while after falling into a panic. Dong Xie nervously kept looking back and took another deep breath …… Adjust the rhythm of breathing …… If an outburst is needed next, then cardiorespiratory function is the first place. This is his near instinctive ability to adjust his breathing and exhaling that he has practiced by being chased and bullied for years since his student days. Currently, even when he entered the corridor that had been divided by four, the other evil spirits still acted according to the original rules, and Dong Xie was perfectly capable of walking the entire length of the corridor before the evil spirits walked out of the room. At this point, Dong Xie was still quite fortunate, otherwise, he and Ning would really be dead. However, with just this, there was still no telling how long it could be sustained. Dong Xie judged that if he was to survive at the moment, he would have to find a way to crack the path to life. However, with the evil spirits chasing after them, it was still too dangerous to have to search those corridors that were divisible by four. Of course, there was another way, and that was to run as hard as you could to a corridor that would take a long time to move over at the current speed of the evil spirits, and then join forces with Ning to try and find clues to the way of life. There was still hope if it was controlled. But if either of the duo died in the process, then the other would be ten to one. And once their physical strength was heavily depleted, they would also be at a disadvantage in their specific actions, and if they were not careful, they would follow in Ming Chenyan's footsteps. In as concise a language as possible, Dong Xie told Dong Ning everything that had just happened. After Dong Ning finished listening to Dong Xie's description, she too revealed a stunned expression. However, her reaction was also quite quick, and after quickly organizing the information she had obtained so far, she immediately said, "But, brother, Ming Chenyan was dead just now, wasn't he? His death can at least buy us a bit of time, right, and the apartment will limit the Evil Spirit's movements, right?" Dong Xie shook his head and said, "I've tried, the three of us, Mo Yuan, Ke Yinye and I. No matter who it is, the speed of the evil spirits' movements are not half affected. This absolutely fair restriction means that once there is a death of an occupant, which in itself is similar to triggering a death trap, the restriction will be broken equally. What's more, inside this Wheel-in Dojo, the passage of time is different from the outside, so we can't take any chances." Dong Ning nodded blankly, she had to admit that in such a critical moment of life and death, her brother was instead too much better than her in terms of resilience and thoughtfulness. "There's also a most important issue. Only being able to kill a person at intervals is only a restriction on a single Evil Spirit, if plural Evil Spirits appear, then it's a different story, and the one who's chasing us right now is most likely the dead Ming Chenyan!" Dong Xie began to think about a way to break the situation. "Right now …… in the infinite corridor, there will be evil spirits acting on both sides. Once any more occupants are killed, the number and speed of the evil spirits will still increase. And at any time, there could be another occupant who mistakenly enters. Another problem is that once we enter the corridor that is divided by four whole numbers, there will be evil spirits starting to act, and each time the location of the room where the evil spirits are located is different, and with the passage of time and the depletion of our stamina, sooner or later in the corridors in front of us, we'll have an unscheduled encounter with the evil spirits!" Such a situation could be said to be bad to the extreme. It could even be said to be the toughest hurdle that Dong Evil Dong Ning's siblings had faced since they entered the apartment . And the most crucial thing was that it wasn't even the Blood Character instructions that he and Ning had carried out! "I've only survived three blood word instructions as well, and in the future …… I'll have to face blood words like this as well! And even higher difficulties!" To the current Dong Xie, the tenth Blood Word Instruction was even more frightening in the sense that it was a mountain to climb. Not to mention, there were even trickier hell entrance-related blood words. Nowadays, he more intuitively appreciated that for an apartment dweller, the difficulty of survival was almost equivalent to an ordinary former Soviet soldier having to go through and survive all of the Patriotic War battles of World War II. However, these evil spirits were more terrifying to him than Nazi Germany! First of all, Dong Xie first slowed down his pace as much as possible, and at the moment, he basically couldn't hear footsteps behind him, but once he entered the corridor with the evil spirits in it, he would have to pick up the pace. Then …… he began to think about what the life path to cracking this situation would be. Previously, Dong Xie and Mo Yuan and the others had discussed it down to trying to find the life path clues in the corridor where the evil spirits existed. However, there were two possibilities for the life path clues, either they could crack the ghostly wall, and there was also a possibility of a life path that could unlock the inner secrets of the Gushu Pavilion. If it was the latter, it would not be able to solve the puzzle at hand. "Brother, listen to me," Dong Ning said after thinking for a while, "I think your previous speculation with Mo Yuan is justified. We can first explode and run for a while to buy some time, and then in the crucial corridor with evil spirits, we can still continue to crack the situation at hand according to the plan you and Mo Yuan and the others made before!" "Explode …… that way the physical strength will be consumed in large quantities!" "Also can only survive in death, brother …… we must ……" "Situ Wenxuan and Beishan Jinghuang could mistakenly enter here at any time, and then if they can't figure out the situation, they will immediately be killed by the evil spirits, and then the number and speed of the evil spirits will continue to soar. In this situation, we would be dead. At that time, once we run out of stamina, we're done for! Don't talk about survival in death so easily, Nging, anyone only has one life, don't gamble with your life so easily if you're not at the point where you have no choice. We all still have to execute the Bloodletter seven more times, how many times can one life be used to gamble?" Dong Ning froze, she had to admit that her brother's considerations were indeed thorough. "Then, what do you plan to do, brother?" "Preserving our physical strength is the first priority, sustaining this state at the moment, the Evil Spirit will not catch up with us for the time being. Even if what I just said happens and the number and speed of the evil spirits increase, in this narrow corridor, as long as we still retain our stamina, there is hope of turning the tide." Dong Xie had already considered the many possibilities, and in the worst case scenario, it would be a fight for physical exertion. He recalled that during his last school year in high school, he had once been blocked off campus by four campus villains, and that time he had fought against the speed of four regular basketball players, running all the way from campus for four kilometers before getting rid of those four men. And that was also the biggest time he had ever pressed the limits of his physical strength. And if for the sake of Ah Ning, he believed that his physical potential could be further developed, and from the time he entered the university until now, he never stopped going to the gym, and even more so, he had myopia correction surgery and took off his glasses. To tell the truth …… now the evil spirit is restricted by the apartment under the speed, compared to the campus evil young man he faced back then, is still far inferior! "But the time ……" Dong Ning is most worried about this problem: "The time outside will fly by! Once it reaches the time period when the time for the bloodletter mission ends ……" "This well …… "Dong Xie had other thoughts on this, "There may not be a need to worry, you and I are not the executors of this Blood Word, and it's even more unlikely that we'll be able to return to the apartment instantly like Mo Yuan and the others. Therefore, whether or not the time for the bloodletter mission arrives or not, there is actually not much difference for us right now. In this case, I'm afraid that the Evil Spirit has no need to lift the restriction to kill us when the time for the Blood Word mission arrives." "This, it's hard to say." Dong Ning was not at all reassured about this, "I'm afraid that in our case, the protection we can receive from the apartment is limited itself, right? And if there's more than one evil spirit, it'll be even more dangerous for us." "It's impossible to have no risk at all, I can only choose to minimize the greater risk as much as possible." Dong Xie gradually began to regain his physical strength as he kept moving at an even pace, the benefits of his usual frequent exercise and fitness manifesting themselves, "I'll first ponder to myself whether we've obtained a clue hint for a way of life that will break the current situation of ghosts beating against the wall!"