In the room, there was an eerie stillness. Coupled with the unpleasant smell lingering around their nostrils, the two of them felt a chill creeping all over their bodies.
Drip -
A drop of liquid fell beside them and splashed onto the ground. The sound wasn't loud originally, but in this deathly - quiet room, it seemed to be amplified infinitely... Ning Qiushui could even sense that as this unknown liquid dropped, Liu Chengfeng beside him shuddered violently.
"Li - Little brother..." Liu Chengfeng's voice trembled as he slowly raised his hand, as if trying to touch something.
Ning Qiushui took a deep breath and said in a solemn tone, "Don't turn on the light." "If you don't want to die."
Liu Chengfeng was startled. "W - Why?"
Ning Qiushui shook his head. "I can't say for now." "Just remember, in places where there's wind, it's better not to turn on the light. If the light is on, stay away from it."
After hearing this, Liu Chengfeng suddenly remembered that previously, whenever Ning Qiushui passed by the window, he would always close it tightly! Somehow, he felt an even stronger chill all over his body.
Then, Liu Chengfeng's eyes fell on the crack of the door, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart. He wondered which bastard was the last one to enter the room and didn't turn off the corridor light!
After what had happened, neither of them could fall asleep. Ignoring the discomfort of being two men so close, they huddled together on the bed, as if each other's body heat could bring some comfort.
Vaguely, after an unknown amount of time, the outside gradually brightened, and the rain wasn't as heavy. Liu Chengfeng checked the time and saw that it was already 8 o'clock in the morning.
The light coming in through the window wasn't very bright. Although it was still gray outside, they could at least see things clearly. His eyes fell on the floor on the left side of his hand. The continuous dripping sound from yesterday had come from here.
Liu Chengfeng got out of bed, carefully examined the stains on the ground, and then bent down to smell them.
"Ugh -" The pungent stench almost made him vomit.
Ning Qiushui, who was beside him, also noticed his strange behavior and came over to take a look. Ning Qiushui bent down and took a sniff, his expression changing slightly.
"This is..."
Liu Chengfeng leaned closer. "What is it?"
Ning Qiushui was silent for a long while, then slowly said, "Corpse water... or rather, corpse oil. Usually, when an animal is highly decomposed, its fat overflows in an oily state..."
Liu Chengfeng couldn't stand it anymore and quickly interrupted Ning Qiushui. "Okay, okay, little brother. Stop talking! I... I got it."
His face was extremely pale. He looked up at the area above the stain. The part of the wooden ceiling soaked by the corpse oil had grown from the size of a fist to the size of a human head! God knows what was upstairs...
Just as Liu Chengfeng was thinking, two extremely shrill screams from women suddenly came from outside the door!
"Ah!!!"
The two looked at each other. Something was wrong!
"Let's go and check!" Ning Qiushui opened the door first and rushed out with Liu Chengfeng.
As soon as they went out, Ning Qiushui frowned. There was a thick smell of blood in the air!
On the long corridor, a scarlet bloodstain extended from the door of the room at the end of the corridor all the way to the stairs... The screams came from the direction of the shutter at the end of the corridor. A large crowd had gathered there.
Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng walked over, pushed through the crowd, and saw Ya Mo and Yan Youping sitting slumped on the ground at the door. Their bodies were shaking violently like sieves, and their faces were as pale as paper. Besides a large amount of blood, there was vomit beside them...
"What happened?" Ning Qiushui asked seriously.
The two women looked at Ning Qiushui, their eyes filled with intense fear, as if they had experienced something extremely terrifying! Their lips were trembling, and they couldn't say a complete sentence. They just pointed to their room with their fingers, and tears kept streaming down.
Ning Qiushui looked at their room. Just as he was about to open the door, Xue Guize beside him stopped him. His face was extremely ugly. "It's... not a pretty sight in there."
Ning Qiushui glanced at him, pushed his hand away, first closed the shutter beside them that was letting in the wind, and then opened the door.
When they saw the scene inside, the people outside held their breath!
They saw that on the bed closest to the door in the room, there was a corpse soaked in blood! The corpse was actually Wang Yuning with gold earrings!
Someone was dead!
Ning Qiushui endured the nauseating smell of blood and entered the room. As he walked further in, he could clearly see the bloody and mutilated corpse! This scene almost made Ning Qiushui vomit.
The head of the corpse lying on the bed was still intact, with a white and slender neck. But below the neck, the skin was brutally torn open, with scarlet muscles exposed everywhere, and hideous wounds all over. The internal organs were missing, and a large amount of muscle was torn and scattered... What was even more terrifying was Wang Yuning's expression... Her eyes were closed, and there was no sign of pain on her face. Instead, there was a strange smile remaining.
"Damn it..." Liu Chengfeng, who followed in, had his eyes wide open. His legs were shaking so much that if he hadn't clamped them tightly, he might have peed his pants on the spot! "Th - This is..."
Now, he finally understood why the two girls outside were in such a state! Not to mention women, even if it were him, he probably wouldn't be much better than them!
Ning Qiushui forced himself to endure the discomfort and walked towards the corpse. The others stayed outside and didn't want to step into the room even one step. It was... too terrifying inside!
After checking around the corpse, Ning Qiushui suddenly remembered something. His face changed drastically, and he turned around and ran towards the door!
"Little brother, what's wrong?" As soon as Liu Chengfeng saw Ning Qiushui running, he didn't dare to stay in the room any longer.
The others also didn't dare to stay on the second floor and followed Ning Qiushui all the way to the first floor and into the kitchen.
Ning Qiushui stared at the tableware hanging on the wall for a long time and then murmured, "One pair is missing..."
Beidao, who had been scared silly beside him, quickly asked, "What's missing a pair?"
Ning Qiushui slowly uttered a few words, "The steak knife and fork."
Hearing this, Liu Chengfeng was the first to be shocked. When he heard the sound of metal friction in the corridor outside the room last night, he thought it was the sound of a knife and fork rubbing! Could it be... Liu Chengfeng seemed to think of something terrifying, and his body started shaking.
"What does the missing pair of knife and fork have to do with the corpse upstairs?" Beidao was still asking. Most of the people among them still didn't understand.
Ning Qiushui slowly turned his head, stared at them, and said word by word, making them feel cold all over, "The wounds on Wang Yuning's corpse... were left by a knife and fork!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several people's faces turned pale.
"Ning Qiushui, what... what did you say?" "Are you sure?"
Ning Qiushui didn't reply to Beidao. He turned to the two girls and asked, "Did you hear Wang Yuning's cries for help last night?"
The two girls both shook their heads, fear in their eyes. "No, we were so sleepy last night that we fell asleep quickly..."
At this time, Xue Guize suddenly gritted his teeth with a strange expression. "I... I heard something last night..."
"What did you hear?"
"...It was the sound of metal friction. Now that I think about it, it was very much like a knife and fork!"
Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng looked at each other, and then said to Xue Guize, "You go and cook some porridge first." "Put more meat in it." "I'll go and check on... the old lady upstairs."
Liu Chengfeng nodded. "Little brother, be careful!"
"What about us?"
"Come with me."
Yan Youping and Liu Chengfeng stayed in the kitchen to cook porridge, while Ning Qiushui led several people upstairs in a hurry and came to the room where the paralyzed old lady was.
As soon as they entered the room, everyone was stunned. Because on the table beside the paralyzed old lady... there were the shiny knife and fork! Exactly the pair that was missing from the kitchen!
As if sensing the arrival of the crowd, the old lady lying on the bed slowly turned her head and gave everyone a kind smile.
"Ah!!" Ya Mo was so scared that she let out a scream and scrambled downstairs.
Beidao and Xue Guize beside her were no better. Their faces were extremely pale. If it weren't for Ning Qiushui's calm presence, they probably would have run away with Ya Mo immediately!
After experiencing such a terrifying thing, Ning Qiushui, facing the old lady in front of him, was not only not afraid but even... took the initiative to walk in!
"Damn it! Ning Qiushui, are you crazy?!" Xue Guize's face was ugly.
It was obvious to anyone with eyes that the old lady lying on the bed was the murderer who killed Wang Yuning! And... she might not even be human!
Ning Qiushui ignored Xue Guize and walked straight to the old lady's side. He picked up the knife and fork and examined them carefully. They were very clean. He put them to his nose. There was no strange smell. Ning Qiushui frowned. He looked at the old lady on the bed, lost in thought.
Ning Qiushui leaned down to the old lady's ear and said softly, "Old lady... are you the only one in this house usually?"
The old lady mumbled her lips. "Meat..." "Meat... no..." She seemed to have some mental problems and kept repeat