The two of them arrived at the stairway.
They saw that the iron door leading to the third floor had been opened. An extremely foul smell wafted down from it. That smell was exactly the same as the corpse water that had dripped from above their room! It was the smell emitted by rotting animals!
Liu Chengfeng couldn't stand this smell, so he covered his nose and mouth, frowning. Enduring the urge to retch, he followed Ning Qiushui up to the third floor.
After arriving on the third floor, the smell of rotting meat became even stronger. Liu Chengfeng simply couldn't control himself. His stomach spasmed one after another, and finally, he crouched on the ground and vomited!
"Ugh -" Liu Chengfeng retched, his face ashen - faced.
Ning Qiushui patted him on the back.
After vomiting up his dinner, Liu Chengfeng felt a bit better.
The two walked along the pitch - black corridor. The floor under their feet was very sticky. Liu Chengfeng's face was ashen - faced. Although there was no light for illumination, he could also guess what was on the floor...
That was... corpse water!
This stuff covered the entire third floor!
Both of them were filled with horror.
Just how many decomposed corpses' corpse water was needed to cover the floor of an entire floor?
"Just as I thought..." Ning Qiushui narrowed his eyes.
Although he also found the smell in the air extremely nauseating, he didn't feel the urge to vomit. And he had already guessed pretty much what the situation on the third floor was like before coming in.
Stepping on the sticky and disgusting corpse water, they finally arrived at the first room with the rotting smell. They slowly twisted the doorknob and opened the door. The scene that greeted them made their bodies shudder!
This terrifying scene was definitely unforgettable for a lifetime...
In the room where the moonlight spilled, countless rotting corpses were densely placed! Among these corpses, there were some that were relatively fresh and still bloody and mutilated, and there were also some that had long since rotted into a pile of bones, leaving only the skeleton and hair! But without exception, they all had almost intact heads. The faces of the not - yet - completely - rotted corpses wore creepy smiles, looking at the two people at the door as if inviting them...
Dong -
Liu Chengfeng covered his mouth, took a frightened step back, and his body trembled violently.
He looked at the other rooms, seemed to understand something, and with his trembling hand, he pushed open the other doors.
"Damn it...!" Liu Chengfeng almost cried out.
Sure enough.
Every room was piled high with rotting corpses! The internal organs of these corpses were all gone, and their bodies were covered with knife - and - fork scars, indicating that something had feasted on them!
And the corpses of Wang Yuning and Ya Mo were right among them!
Liu Chengfeng's legs were so weak that he leaned against the wall and slowly crouched down. His face was paler than the moonlight.
"So that's it..."
"The corpse water on the ceiling of our room... came from this..."
"But where did so many corpses come from?"
"Could it be..."
Ning Qiushui's gaze passed through the window and looked at the dark villa complex in the distance.
"I'm afraid... all the original residents in this villa complex are in these rooms."
Liu Chengfeng swallowed hard, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
The ghost - like thing hidden on the third floor of the villa... had eaten all the people in the entire villa area?
"Presumably, we're not the first batch of caregivers to come here either. There are so many rooms set up downstairs, and separate bathrooms are specially arranged. They should be prepared for the caregivers who come to the villa to take care of the elderly..."
With every word Ning Qiushui said, Liu Chengfeng felt his heart pounding violently!
"Little brother... why don't we go back quickly..."
"If it comes back, aren't we going to..."
Liu Chengfeng began to have second thoughts, but Ning Qiushui had no intention of leaving.
"We're very close to the truth..."
"Big Beard..."
"Aren't you curious about what the thing that ate all the original residents in the villa area... actually is?"
Hearing Ning Qiushui's words, Liu Chengfeng was first stunned, and then the corners of his mouth twitched.
"Come on, little brother. I find that you really aren't afraid of death..."
"Is the truth... more important than life?"
Ning Qiushui retorted, "Can you leave this floor, and can you leave the villa and the villa complex?"
"Who knows what other killing rules it has?"
"Maybe we triggered its killing rules the day we entered the villa. It's just that we're lucky and it hasn't been our turn yet..."
"Moreover, it has now gone downstairs to hunt for food and is probably feasting next door to us... As more and more people die, the remaining of us will only be in more and more danger!"
Liu Chengfeng's face changed uncertainly, and finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"
"I'll trust you this time, little brother!"
They passed by these rooms and came to the innermost room.
It was a study.
There were no bloodstains at the door, and it was so clean that it seemed not to belong to this floor.
The two looked at each other, their eyes lighting up.
"This should be the place!"
They carefully pushed open the door, and a strong smell of dust rushed towards them. Judging from the furnishings, it was like a study. It was neither too big nor too small. There was also a skeleton inside, which had been rotten for a long time. Judging from the size and details of the skeleton, it seemed to be that of a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old.
In the skeleton's hand, it was still holding a stuffed bear. The bear's eyes were pitch - black, as if examining everyone.
Ning Qiushui carefully came to the skeleton, examined it, and said, "This person wasn't eaten."
"There are no knife - and - fork marks on her ribs, sternum, or laryngeal bones."
He had examined the corpses of Wang Yuning and Ya Mo before. Although their internal organs and some muscle tissues were eaten, there were also many knife - and - fork scars on their bones. But the skeleton in front of him didn't have any.
"Not eaten?"
"Then how did she die?"
Liu Chengfeng's confusion grew deeper.
Ning Qiushui examined the corpse for a long time.
"Most likely starved or died of thirst."
"The ghost - like thing outside probably can't enter this room, but she couldn't get out either and was trapped here... Without water or food, most people will die in three to five days.
"Look, the window is nailed shut with steel bars. The rust on the steel bars is very heavy, different from those in the old lady's room on the second floor. This shows that the steel bars were nailed on a long time ago. It's very likely that when she was a child, her family was worried that she would fall out of the window. After all, this is the third floor, so they nailed steel bars on her window.
"But at that time, her family probably didn't expect that it was these steel bars... that cut off her last hope of escape!"
Listening to Ning Qiushui's words, a chill spread through Liu Chengfeng's heart.
He could imagine the despair of the skeleton in front of him when she was alive.
There was a terrifying man - eating monster outside, and there was no other way to leave the room. In the end, she could only be trapped and die here in despair!
"Hey, little brother, look quickly. There seems to be something behind the corpse's buttocks...!"