In the ...... thick fog, a dilapidated bus is slowly driving along the endless highway.

    There were seven people in the bus, three women and four men.

    They were sitting in the bus, looking out the window at the thick fog, with different expressions.

    Doubt, confusion, fear ......

    But other than that, their faces were all equally pale.

    It was as if on the way, they had experienced something terrible.

    This bus traveled all the way until it finally came to a certain old and outdated villa outside before it finally stopped.

    The villa was wrapped in thick fog around it, pitch black, mysterious and eerie.

    The door of the car opened, seems to tell the passengers inside ...... that it is time to get off.

    The seven people on the bus slowly got off the bus, and they looked back, with a touch of indescribable fear in their eyes.

    Because, in the driver s seat of this bus, the position ...... where a driver should originally exist was empty.

    Yes, this bus ...... did not have a driver.

    As the last passenger got off the bus, the bus door automatically closed, and then drove up again until it disappeared into the depths of the mist ......

    The seven people standing outside the black villa looked at each other and saw the unsightly to the extreme looks on each other's faces.

    "Let's go ......"

    "I think we have no other choice."

    At the critical time, a thin man in the crowd opened his mouth, wearing a dark brown square-framed wooden glasses, his clear face highlighting a calmness different from others.

    "Really ...... really want to go in?"

    The voice of the pretty woman with the studded gold earrings trembled.

    She was wearing burns, so she was very cold.

    Hands covered her arms, rubbing them constantly.

    "What if it's ...... not safe inside?"

    The others were silent.

    Originally, they thought that this was some kind of prank, or that some people had invited them specifically to do a show ......

    However, when they realized that there was no driver on the bus at all, they all fell into a deep fear!

    The crowd had all been staunch materialists at one time, yet something ...... that had happened earlier was just too unbelievable!

    "So, are you going to walk into the mist?"

    Ning Qiushui took a deep breath and tried to act calm.

    In fact, his heart was beating fast.

    From the time he received that mysterious letter to the time he came to this place, it was a total of less than a bell.

    But this one bell was just too much of a shock to his worldview!

    "Have you forgotten, that fat man who was at the intersection earlier and jumped out of the car by himself?"

    Mentioning that fat man, the woman's beautiful eyes immediately filled with great fear!

    Her legs softened and she almost didn't stand still!

    Earlier, there were a total of 8 people on the bus.

    All of them had suddenly appeared on this bus after falling asleep.

    One of them was a fat man who had been cursing and swearing on the way, saying that it must be some unscrupulous programmer who wanted to hire them for a reality show.

    The fat man was impatient and said that their cell phones must have been replaced, that the driver of the car was actually driving the bus underneath them, that the fog scene was specially created dry ice, etc. ......

    Finally, as the bus pauses at some intersection, the fat man simply opens the window, jumps out of the bus, and walks off into the fog alone ......

    Things had developed to this point, and it was all fairly normal.

    However, when the crowd came to the next intersection, they actually discovered what was floating on the mist shrouded traffic lights ......

    As the bus slowly approached, they only saw clearly that what had been floating on the traffic light ...... was clearly the bloody human skin of the fat man who had left earlier!

    That skin was stripped intact, and the crowd could even see the fat man s expression was extremely horrified and twisted, like he had seen something particularly horrible before he died!

    And on the pole of the traffic light, large swathes of scarlet blood kept dripping down!

    This scene directly scared the crowd in the car silly!

    Some people do not believe in evil, pull open the window, so that the smell of blood that makes people want to vomit, so floating a car ......

    ...

    The mention of the fat man, the crowd's face is very ugly, some people even began to dry-heave.

    "...... Since no one dares to approach that mist, we can only enter this black villa ......"

    Ning Qiushui took a deep breath.

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    He was equally scared.

    But for some reason, whether it was seeing that bloody human skin floating on the traffic light or smelling that bloody odor, his reaction was far less than the crowd's.

    Moreover, he was interested in the mysterious letter from earlier.

    What exactly did the owner of the letter ...... want to tell himself?

    With Ning Qiushui taking the lead, the crowd followed his lead, pushing open the iron gate of the black villa and entering the garden outside the villa.

    The surroundings were silent.

    The silence was terrifying.

    The crowd had to lean closely together, and the pretty woman in the center with the gold earring felt that someone was mooching off of her, but she just frowned and didn't say anything more.

    Mooching is mooching it ...... is better than somehow being skinned!

    Just like that, the crowd arrived outside the door of the black villa, and Ning Qiushui knocked on the door.

    Knock knock--

    As he knocked on the door, the sound of footsteps soon came from the inner door, and the people behind him couldn't help but take a few steps back, eyeing the door intently, seemingly very nervous!

    Creak-

    The door was opened.

    But the horrifying scene that the crowd expected did not appear.

    The one who opened the door was a very delicate and beautiful young girl.

    She seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.

    "Arrived?"

    "Come in."

    The young girl opened her mouth, and the crowd realized that he was actually ...... a boy.

    A very beautiful boy.

    But the boy's voice was very cold.

    There wasn't much emotion.

    The crowd watched as Ning Qiushui followed the boy in, and for a moment, they looked at each other, not knowing whether they should follow or not.

    "You guys better hurry up and come in ......."

    Just as the crowd hesitated, the boy's voice came from inside the room again.

    "That mist ...... is very unsafe."

    At the mention of the mists, the crowd remembered the fat man who had died tragically earlier, and they shivered in fear, scrambling to enter the room.

    The villa's hall was wide and very classically decorated, with neatly arranged bookshelves on the left, wooden stairs going up on the right, and three large sofas in the center resting place.

    In the center of the sofas was a burning fire pit.

    Inside the room, four people were gathered around the center of the fire pot.

    They were staring at the flames in the fire pit, staring blankly and not speaking.

    The atmosphere, in such silence ...... grew colder and colder.

    "May I ask ...... where is this place?"

    "Why did we come here?"

    "What's the situation with the mists and the bus outside?"

    "......"

    Finally, Ning Qiushui asked these three questions after pondering for a moment.

    However, there was still no one to answer him.

    Even the four people roasting the fire didn't even press a single glance at him.

    At this moment, Liu Chengfeng, the bearded man behind Ning Qiushui, couldn't help himself:

    "Asking you guys!"

    "All mute?"

    His voice was extremely loud, booming in the room and causing people's eardrums to ache.

    Finally, the man in the suit who was sitting on the sofa directly opposite Ning Qiushui, roasting on the fire, spoke up:

    "I know you guys have a lot of questions ......"

    "If you guys can come back alive from the first blood gate, I will inform you of the answers to these questions with you."

    When the crowd heard this, a sense of foreboding filled their hearts.

    "Blood Gate? What is that?"

    Ning Qiushui's heart fluttered as she remembered the phone call that mysterious woman had made earlier and opened her mouth to ask.

    The man in the suit didn't even lift his head, pointing a finger at the third floor of the villa.

    "You guys don't have much time left, there's less than 5 minutes before the Blood Gate opens, and at that time, you'll enter the horrifying world in the Blood Gate to complete the mission on the Blood Gate."

    "After completing the mission, the bus will come to pick you up."

    After he finished speaking, a short and skinny double ponytail woman Yan Youping in the crowd weakly asked:

    "What will happen if ...... we don't complete the mission?"

    The man in the suit sniffed and slowly raised his head, locking eyes with Yan Youping.

    Those calm and indifferent eyes made Yan Youping's heart tremble.

    "Will die."

    "And it is ...... very miserable to die."

    When the crowd heard this, their bodies softened.

    They were tempted to think it was just a joke.

    However ...... the serious expression of the man in the suit dispelled the last trace of fluke within them.

    "Can ...... we not, not go?"

    Another young man who had dyed his hair blonde swallowed and asked as such.

    The man in the suit glanced at him.

    "Can."

    "But ...... you'd all better stay awake from now on."

    The blond man froze:

    "For, why?"

    The man in the suit smiled leathery:

    "Because, if you don't go inside the Blood Gate to complete your mission, then ...... something' will come out after the Blood Gate to find you."

    "No matter where you escape to, they will find you."

    "And then ......"

    The man in the suit didn't continue, but the crowd already knew the ending.

    Ning Qiushui glanced at the third floor and finally asked the man in the suit:

    "Before we go in, do you guys have any more instructions?"

    The man in the suit was slightly stunned, then shifted his gaze to Ning Qiushui, and after seeing Ning Qiushui's calmness that was different from the crowd's, a trace of undetectable admiration flashed under his eyes.

    "Tinker?...... There is."

    "The stories behind the Blood Sect, although incomparably treacherous, all have more than one path to life, as long as you guys find the path to life, it's not hard to complete the mission and survive ......."

    Ning Qiushui nodded.

    "Many thanks."

    After he finished speaking, he actually took the lead and was the first to take a step towards the upper floors.

    Liu Chengfeng, the bearded man, saw Ning Qiushui being so decisive, and after a fierce struggle in his eyes, he also gritted his teeth and followed him up.

    "Shit, little brother ...... you are really bold!"

    Coming behind Ning Qiushui, Liu Chengfeng whispered.

    On the road, he had actually noticed Ning Qiushui.

    It was hard not to pay attention.

    Whether it was in discovering the fat man's human skin or smelling that strong smell of blood, Ning Qiushui didn't have much of a reaction.

    "Gutsy?"

    Ning Qiushui let out a self-deprecating laugh.

    "Do you think that we have a choice?"

    Liu Chengfeng was very tall, so even though he was a step below Ning Qiushui, his height was only a little bit lower than him.

    "Seeing the fat man s human skin earlier, little brother you are not blinking, was ...... doing that before?"

    "Which one?"

    "Killer."

    "You novel read too much, where in reality so many killers?"

    "Uh ...... that ......"

    "I'm a doctor."

    "Oh~ no wonder, forensic scientist?"

    "Pretty much, veterinarian."

    Liu Chengfeng: "......"

    The two chatted and came to the third floor of the villa.

    As soon as they came up, the duo stopped talking.

    A strong smell of blood accompanied by a strong odor of rotting wood filled the air.

    On the third floor of the villa, there is nothing but a ...... wooden door that is drenched red with blood.

    The scarlet blood on the wooden door was written in a line:

    [Take care of the paralyzed old man on the bed for five days].

    "Taking care of the old man ...... This is our mission this time."

    Ning Qiushui's gaze flickered.

    The others also came up one after another, and when they saw the words in blood on the wooden door, they were all stunned.

    "It's just ...... that simple?"

    The golden earring woman, Wang Yu Ning, was somewhat incredulous.

    The crowd whispered, and suddenly, they all stopped, seeming to have the same sense, and looked at the wooden door in unison.

    LOL-

    Inside the wooden door, it looked like something was pushing the door.

    Soon, the wooden door was pushed open by a pair of pale hands!

    As the blood-stained wooden door slowly opened, the crowd suddenly went black and lost consciousness ......

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