Bandaged Man's scythe, swift as lightning, swept out an impressive cold gleam, aiming straight for Su Qi!
Su Qi sensed trouble and quickly retreated.
The opponent's strength was at least around Level 2 pollution, not just an Ordinary monster, and most importantly, it was intelligent.
The scythe fiercely embedded itself in the nearby wooden board.
This guy seemed to be a long-time resident of the apartment, well aware of the kitchen's taboos, knowing what was safe and what would trigger punishment.
Seeing that Su Qi had dodged, it grew even more excited, "I'll thoroughly sever your limbs and slowly savor them inside."
Bandaged Man charged again, his entire body's bandages whipping out as if alive, coiling towards Su Qi.
This appeared to be his ability.
Su Qi chopped off the bandages surrounding him, but the scythe stirred up a cold wind in the dark kitchen, aiming to cut Su Qi at the waist with a lethal arc.
"Bang!"
Su Qi blocked with his sword, retreating several steps.
At the same time,
[Physical Strength -30, Current 120]
Bandaged Man tore off the bandages from his face, revealing a lipless mouth and a row of blood-red teeth, "Those guys not taking action, allowing me to enjoy this alone! Hahaha! What luck!"
"Hahaha your mom!"
Su Qi burst forward, choosing not to use "Thunderbolt" since the Skill had a high consumption rate, which would deplete his Physical Strength.
He stretched out his palm, revealing the Palm Eye on his left hand.
"Snap!"
The Palm Eye opened, erupting with a blinding burst of light!
Su Qi originally intended to cover its vision and then strike.
However, unexpectedly, at the moment the light appeared,
Bandaged Man trembled violently, showing an extremely pained expression.
Su Qi was surprised, is this thing Holy Light?
And in that lightning-fast moment, it was enough for Su Qi; he stomped forward, thrusting his long sword from the right wrist and plunging it into Bandaged Man's chest.
His eyes widened, filled with bloodshot, he screamed, "Ssss, it hurts, it really hurts."
"Pain is normal; it's always like this the first time."
Bandaged Man didn't understand, but he went insane, "Killing me won't let you escape! Those guys are all watching you, you've only got one way out—death!"
With blood on his face, Su Qi pulled out the sword, his expression unreadable to Bandaged Man, "Don't worry, I'll be visiting each one in turn, no one will escape."
As Bandaged Man shuddered and collapsed, convulsing continuously, his body gradually lost life.
Looking at the corpse on the floor, Su Qi already had an idea, a dangerous and bold idea.
Of course,
he needed assistance.
Su Qi placed Bandaged Man's body in a freezer, then cleaned the blood off himself and walked up the spiral staircase to the second floor.
Just as he reached the second-floor corridor,
a mass of [?] appeared.
[They are all watching you, wanting a piece of you.]
So they held back because they feared each other? No wonder Bandaged Man was excited when he found himself alone.
Su Qi ignored this information, walking straight to the door of Tentacle Man at No.4, without even knocking,
Tentacle Man cracked the door open, nervous yet somewhat pleased, "You made it back alive?"
In his eyes, Su Qi was just an ordinary person who had recently acquired special powers. Although proficient with a knife and capable of handling a weakling like him, he was no match for the other residents and the monsters outside.
"Let's talk inside."
Su Qi didn't hesitate, pushing the door and entering.
"You're injured?" Tentacle Man saw the blood on Su Qi and immediately reached out, "I can secrete a coagulating slime."
Su Qi: "...Stop! I'm not injured, this blood belongs to some unlucky guy."
"So you're saying, you found some ingredients?" Tentacle Man said excitedly; his duty was replaced by Su Qi, but if Su Qi hadn't succeeded, he too wouldn't have escaped death.
Su Qi nodded, narrowing his eyes, "That's not the point, first a question."
"How potent is the toxin in your tentacles? What level of abnormality can it affect?"
Tentacle Man was stunned, "I don't know..."
"Hmm?"
Tentacle Man hurriedly said, "Because I only dare to attack the abnormalities around the apartment. If it's that kind, it would knock them down instantly."
"Then lend me some, I'll give it a try."
"A little bit is totally fine..." Tentacle Man's voice suddenly cut off as he stared wide-eyed at Su Qi pulling out a large jar stolen from the kitchen, a 2L one at that.
Tentacle Man's face turned green.
Is this borrowing a little? This is killing me!
"Bite the bullet, you can do it." Su Qi revealed his pearly white teeth, smiling sincerely.
Tentacle Man, wanting to cry but unable to shed tears, could only extend two tentacles, continuously secreting poison.
One minute later.
"One tenth is done, I can't take any more."
"Hold on a bit longer."
Five minutes later.
"A third is done. I'm really going to die."
"A man must not say he can't."
Under Su Qi's urging, more and more poison filled the jar, eventually reaching halfway.
Tentacle Man had already turned pale, his face gaunt as if he had lost a lot of weight, collapsed on the floor.
Su Qi, satisfied, hugged the jar and opened the door.
He turned back and said, "Oh, just a reminder, come out ten minutes later during tomorrow's mealtime."
"I need to discuss some matters with these neighbors."
Tentacle Man stared blankly at Su Qi's smile.
He didn't know what the other planned to do, but intuition told him something big was going to happen tomorrow.
The next day.
The manager, dragging his heavy body, appeared from a door on the third floor, his steps slowly touching the ground.
The dim corridor was comforting to him.
In this apartment, he was the existence everyone feared, nobody dared defy the rules stated on the apartment notice.
Nor did anyone know his true face.
Now, he was going downstairs to cook, make food from the ingredients, then pick some things he needed.
As the manager walked down the second floor's spiral staircase.
Door No.5... cracked open slightly, then a figure walked out from inside the room.
This figure was Su Qi.
He looked towards the dark end of the corridor, sniffing the scent still lingering in the air, and without turning his head, walked toward the third floor.
Su Qi aimed to use the time the manager was cooking to thoroughly check out the third floor.
Time was tight, at most only ten minutes.
Su Qi arrived at the stairs, the third floor was an attic, currently firmly locked with thick chains.
"Although I don't have the key, but..."
Su Qi saw the [?], displaying [Insert a thin wire, move it up and down left left right right then rotate clockwise three times to open]
Ten seconds later.
There was a click from the lock and the chain visibly loosened.
Su Qi slowly pushed the door open, his hand also holding a butcher knife and a clock, ready to ward off danger.
But the next second.
The anticipated danger and horror did not appear.
Su Qi frowned intensely as he looked into the attic, as if he had seen an unbelievable sight.
He stood in the midst of the attic, his gaze gradually calming down:
"If this is the truth, I can only say... in a world that seems mad, even this bit of warmth is crazy."
It was a pink room, without a hint of darkness or horror.
The room was filled with cute dolls and girls' dresses.
On the table, there was a photo frame.
The photo framed inside displayed a beautiful little porcelain doll-like girl holding her father's hand and smiling sweetly.
But now.
The girl's corpse lay in a cradle, with a head intact... the rest entirely made of other abnormalities' body parts.