At that moment, Ning Qiushui felt as if every cell in his body had been frozen!
Screech -
Screech -
The icy sound of metal friction came from behind, making Ning Qiushui's scalp almost explode!
That was... the sound of a knife and fork rubbing against each other!
Right behind him!
And it was getting closer and closer...
At the same time, the shutter at the far end was suddenly blown open!
The cold wind, carrying a thick smell of blood, continuously irritated Ning Qiushui's nasal cavity and lungs!
Fear... permeated his entire body!
Was he... going to die?
At that moment, an indescribable fear surged like a tide, threatening to drown Ning Qiushui in it!
He raised his hand and subconsciously wanted to turn on the light!
Light... he needed light!
Only light could dispel this terrifying darkness!
But just as Ning Qiushui's hand was about to press on the light switch, he abruptly stopped!
In his mind, some parts of the mysterious letter he had received before suddenly emerged -
...
[…]
[Don't light the lamp when there's wind, don't light the candle when it's raining]
[Don't go upstairs during the day, don't close your eyes at night]
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- Don't light the lamp when there's wind.
Ning Qiushui gritted his teeth, bravely withstood the indescribable fear in his heart, and didn't turn on the light!
He withdrew his hand and, step by step, against the cold, blood - scented wind, walked forward along the corridor!
The terrifying sound of metal friction seemed to be right in his ear, constantly stimulating his nerves.
It was as if the thing behind him could stab the sharp knife and fork into his body at any time and chop him to pieces!
Ning Qiushui took a deep breath, forced himself to be brave, clenched his fists tightly, ignored the terrifying metal friction sound behind him, and moved forward step by step!
He was taking a gamble.
Gambling that he hadn't triggered the death condition, and the thing behind him... couldn't attack him!
One step...
Two steps...
At this moment, Ning Qiushui felt that his adrenaline had soared to the extreme.
Every step he took was a severe test of his mental state!
But he didn't dare to run, and he couldn't run either.
The wind blowing towards him was too cold, as if it penetrated his skin and directly reached his muscles and bones... His whole body was stiff.
Fortunately... Ning Qiushui won the bet.
The terrifying thing behind him seemed to be blocked by something and couldn't harm him. When he finally managed to reach the door of his room and grasped the doorknob, the sharp sound of metal friction behind him suddenly disappeared...
The bloody wind in the corridor gradually stopped. By the faint moonlight, Ning Qiushui saw that the shutter at the end of the corridor... had somehow closed tightly again.
"Was it just an illusion..." Ning Qiushui gasped, his eyes slightly focused.
The bone - chilling cold behind him also gradually subsided, as if the thing that had been following him just now... had left.
Ning Qiushui felt his mind go blank.
He pushed the door open and entered, only to find that his clothes were already soaked with sweat.
In the darkness, Liu Chengfeng's rough voice rang out, tinged with some fear: "Little brother, are you... okay?"
Obviously, he had also heard the terrifying sound of metal friction in the corridor just now!
Ning Qiushui shook his head. "I'm okay."
Liu Chengfeng walked up and groped for Ning Qiushui's hand in the dark. After confirming that Ning Qiushui had the body temperature of a living person, he let out a long breath and said admiringly, "Damn, little brother, you're really... amazing!"
"I thought you wouldn't be able to come back!"
"Was there, was there really something in the corridor just now..."
Ning Qiushui nodded. "It showed up."
Liu Chengfeng's eyes widened in disbelief. "It... it didn't kill you?"
Ning Qiushui was silent for a short while and then said, "It can't kill us recklessly."
"Only when we trigger the 'death condition' can it attack us."
Liu Chengfeng thought of what had happened before, and his heart was filled with countless emotions! "So... little brother, you know what the death condition is?"
Ning Qiushui said in a low voice, "I know part of it."
"I've already told you before."
"But those aren't all the death conditions. Exactly how many there are... only it knows."
"What we have to do now... is to find out the truth of the matter as soon as possible."
Liu Chengfeng's breathing was a bit rapid. "But even if we know the truth, it won't be much help for us to survive, right?"
Ning Qiushui was silent for a while. "The truth should also be accompanied by a way to deal with it."
"Remember what the man in the suit said to us before?"
"In the world behind the Blood Gate, there is more than one way to survive. Although it seems extremely dangerous, it's not completely impossible to resist."
"Moreover, the woman in the red dress warned us not to enter the third floor of the villa. Presumably, it must be extremely important there!"
Liu Chengfeng's eyes flickered, and finally, he made up his mind and gritted his teeth. "Okay!"
"Whenever you say we should go, little brother, I'll go with you!"
"At worst, we'll die together. It's better than being alone!"
Ning Qiushui: "Let's wait a little longer."
The two waited in the room for a long time.
Not until the middle of the night, the creepy sound of metal friction suddenly rang out again in the corridor outside the door!
Both of them knew that it was the sound of a knife and fork rubbing!
The thing on the third floor... had come down to hunt again!
Even though he had been mentally prepared, Liu Chengfeng clearly felt that the hairs all over his body were standing on end, and his hands and feet were trembling uncontrollably! Who would it be this time?
Screech -
Screech -
Screech -
As the friction sound got closer and closer, Liu Chengfeng's heart was beating faster and faster.
He looked at Ning Qiushui, who was sitting beside him, and found that... the other person was actually drinking tea.
Liu Chengfeng was stunned.
Then, he once again sincerely admired the other person's psychological quality. "Little brother, you're probably the first person I've ever seen who can drink tea so leisurely in this situation!"
Liu Chengfeng kept his voice extremely low.
Ning Qiushui put down the teacup. "I'm also very nervous."
"But different people show their nervousness in different ways. When I'm nervous, I like to eat or drink something."
Although he said this, his voice was very steady, and almost no tremor could be heard.
Outside the door, the terrifying sound still stopped in front of them first.
The sound of the knife and fork rubbing against each other rang out again and again, as if a hungry evil spirit was standing at their door, looking at them with drooling greed...
Liu Chengfeng felt that he was very cowardly, but a large amount of sweat was indeed seeping out of his palms.
He was really scared.
Scared that the terrifying thing outside the door would suddenly rush in...
But fortunately, what he had imagined didn't happen.
After pausing at their door for a while, the ghost - like thing seemed to realize that it couldn't attack them, so it turned its target to another room.
This time... it was exactly the same as what had happened last night.
That sound... disappeared outside the next - door room.
About five minutes later, Ning Qiushui, who was leaning against the door, still didn't hear any sound. Then he slowly pushed the door open a small crack.
After observing for a while, Ning Qiushui pushed the crack of the door wider, stuck out half of his head, and looked around in the dark and silent corridor.
Except for the open shutter at the end and the howling cold wind, there was nothing in the corridor.
"Now's the time. Let's go!"
Ning Qiushui beckoned to Liu Chengfeng, and the two of them tiptoed out of the door, carefully sneaking in the dark, and walked towards the stairway...