Han Fei had been in Deep World for so long, yet this was the first time he stepped out of the apartment building.
When the rusty corridor door opened, an indescribable sense of oppression surged over Han Fei.
The landlord’s ring on his hand emitted a faint chill, his heartbeat quickened, and Han Fei could feel malicious gazes targeting him.
"Is this Happiness Residential Community?"
The unattended bushes rustled, with blood seemingly flowing out; the broken fitness equipment moved on its own, and children’s laughter continuously came from the black-red seesaw; the mottled exterior walls of the building were covered with plants that thrive in the cold, and occasionally, a shadow would flash by quickly.
"Don’t stay outside, it’s much better to duck into any building than to stay out here." Xu Qin was holding her dinner knife tightly, dangerous light hidden in her crimson eyes, and a chilling aura emitted from her.
"Yes." It was the first time Han Fei had seen Xu Qin showing such an expression, and he also knew that the outside was very dangerous. If it weren’t for the accidental soul-summoning of Huang Ying, he would have had to stay in Building One for a while longer, finishing all the tasks inside before considering leaving.
"Sometimes I find it bothersome and go to Building Two for ingredients; the first three floors of that building are relatively safe."
Xu Qin licked her crimson lips, gripped the dinner knife tightly, and walked toward Building Two. Seeing Xu Qin set off, Han Fei quickly followed.
There are two apartment buildings in Happiness Residential Community, only a dozen meters apart between Building One and Building Two. Halfway to Building Two, something fell next to Han Fei, nearly hitting him.
Turning his head, he saw a severed finger still bleeding.
Narrowing his eyes, Han Fei looked up at the roof.
In the dilapidated apartment building, behind each window seemed to hide monsters and fierce ghosts.
"Every room feels very dangerous."
The dark night enveloped the whole city, with eeriness and unease all around, and Happiness Residential Community was just a microcosm of it.
Han Fei didn’t dare to stay, following Xu Qin, he arrived at Building Two.
Compared with Building One, Building Two seemed dirtier and more disordered. The corridor door was unlocked, the corridor was filled with pungent odors and the smell of blood, and various stains could be seen on the steps.
"Building Two has no building chief, so there are no rules to speak of here. Residents’ rooms aren’t fixed; those with strength can live anywhere, those without strength will die no matter which room they flee to." Xu Qin opened the corridor door, the spiteful aura on her disappeared, but her eyes were frighteningly red, and shadowy figures could even be vaguely seen within her pupils. "There are very few original residents inside; most have scattered their souls. Instead, some outsiders have sneaked in here, constantly trying to kill the remaining original residents."
"Just listening to it feels very cruel. It seems that the old residents of Building Two also need a building chief." Han Fei listened attentively, but he could no longer hear Huang Ying’s voice, "Brother Huang Ying’s voice last appeared on the second floor..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a rush of footsteps from above, as if someone was frantically fleeing for their life.
"Xu Qin, you must control yourself later, let’s get the people down first!"
Huang Ying rushed out of room 2021’s bathroom, never imagining that besides himself, there was another person on the toilet. In addition to fear, there was also an inexplicable sense of embarrassment.
His head buzzed as if filled with a jug of water. Huang Ying tried to calm down, but his body just couldn’t stop trembling.
From the moment he started his shower to now, he had been mostly fleeing for his life, without even time to catch his breath.
The sound of banging on the door resounded again. Huang Ying instinctively looked towards the living room’s security door, and the bloody face in the door crack confusingly gazed back at Huang Ying.
When one person and one ghost were eyeing each other, the bedroom door at the deepest part of room 2021 was smashed open, and a fat man whose half body was burnt walked out!
He was holding a blood-dripping sharp knife and staring at Huang Ying with his mung-bean-sized eyes, smiling a terrifying smile on his face, "New here? You look quite delicious!"
After he spoke, he lunged at Huang Ying with the sharp knife. Terrified, Huang Ying had no time to think, and his body instinctively rushed toward the security door.
The bloodied face became clearer and clearer, and Huang Ying no longer cared.
There were ghosts in the bathroom behind him, ghosts at the door, and a madman had just rushed out of the bedroom; everywhere he ran was a dead end, it was just a matter of how dignified his death would be.
Having screamed himself hoarse, when Huang Ying ran out of the room, that bloodied face suddenly let out a wail.
He looked towards the direction of the bloodied face and saw a young man with a pale face covering his bleeding wrist.
"My blood can exorcise evil, quick! Follow me!"
The young man looked very kind, his baby face making him appear endearing; he recklessly splattered his own blood, leading Huang Ying up the stairs.
Step by step the dangers lurked, with ghosts and monsters everywhere, Huang Ying could only follow the other man.
Under the leadership of the young man, they temporarily evaded the fierce ghost chasing them.
"Hide in here and don’t speak at all!"
The young man grabbed Huang Ying’s hand and hid in a room on the sixth floor, closed the security door, and waited until the footsteps outside disappeared before he breathed a sigh of relief.
"That was close." The baby-faced young man stood with his back to Huang Ying, his wrist still bleeding profusely.
"Thank you, thank you for saving me!" Huang Ying was profoundly grateful. A man in his thirties, he had been scared to the point of crying, his eyes still red now.
"No need to thank me." The baby-faced young man turned around, and black veins popped up on his face, looking like black worms moving inside, "I saved you mainly because I didn’t want others to share you."
The corners of his mouth split toward both sides, and the cute baby face tore open down the middle, releasing a large amount of foul-smelling black blood!
Witnessing such a terrifying scene, the recently rescued Huang Ying felt like he had fallen from heaven directly into the deepest pits of Hell, forgetting to struggle, his mind a complete blank!
The sturdy security door was kicked open, and a sharp dinner knife stabbed directly through the baby-faced man’s neck from behind!
An evil curse invaded the body, and in a flash of the knife, a complete human was dismembered right before his eyes.
As the body of the baby-faced man scattered, Huang Ying’s dull eyes saw a face so beautiful it took his breath away.
She blossomed amidst the blood, her bright red lips like a flame that lit up the night, carrying an enchanting and sickly charm.
The blank slate in his mind started to turn, just as Huang Ying was about to speak, he saw the scattered flesh all over the floor and smelled the pungent foul stench of the black blood from the baby-faced man.
His stomach churned, and he uncontrollably began to retch, his body had reached its limit, and he eventually collapsed next to the corpse of the baby-faced man.
Xu Qin had killed the baby-faced man, but as the baby-faced man fell, Huang Ying’s reaction of retching made Xu Qin’s bewitchingly smiling face freeze.