It’s quite a skill to be able to fall asleep without any psychological burden in such an environment.

　　Lin had a dreamless night.

　　He had thought something would happen on the first night, but he didn't expect to get through it so peacefully.

　　When he got up in the morning, the triplets' family had already prepared breakfast for them.

　　The triplets’ mother was very gentle and the food she made tasted good.

　　Although everyone sat at the table at first, no one moved their chopsticks until Nan took the first bite.

　　“It's not bad.” Nan said, “What are you looking at me for? Why aren't you eating?”

　　“Is this edible?” Xu had dark circles under her eyes and looked like she hadn’t slept all night.

　　She said, “Is there something wrong with the food here?”

　　Nan smiled and said, “Even if there was, you'd still have to eat it. You can't just drink water for seven days, can you?”

　　That's true, there was no other source of food in this building.

　　After thinking it through, everyone picked up their chopsticks and began to taste their breakfast.

　　As they were eating, the three triplets came out of the house.

　　All three of them were wearing identical red dresses, with two pigtails tied behind their heads and no expression on their faces.

　　The triplets showed no emotion towards the sudden arrival of strangers, as if they were just facing a pile of air.

　　Yao was a little uncomfortable being stared at like that and whispered, “Kids, what are your names?”

　　As soon as she said this, three pairs of eyes looked at Yao.

　　Their eyes were black and white, without a trace of emotion, making people feel inexplicably scared.

　　“You can't just tell others my name.” The little girl in the middle spoke, “Besides, even if I told you, you wouldn't be able to recognize me.”

　　Yao was a little embarrassed by these words, “Okay…”

　　“If you don’t tell me, how do you know we can’t recognize you?” Nan, who was sitting next to her, suddenly spoke.

　　He didn’t seem to be afraid of the three children with their somewhat strange temperament.

　　He elegantly put down the chopsticks in his hand and said in a cold tone, “There are guests at home, you should be polite.”

　　Hearing this, the three little girls exchanged glances, and finally the one in the middle spoke, “My name is Yi, she is Shi, and she is Tu.”

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　　Lin almost spat out the food in his mouth when he heard the names, thinking to himself that their mother was really perfunctory to be able to come up with such names.

　　The others also smiled faintly after hearing this.

　　Yi said, “Since we’ve told you, you must remember.”

　　Nan observed their appearance, suddenly reached out and touched Yi’s head and smiled: “Okay, I’ll remember.”

　　He then patted the girl closest to him on the shoulder, “Go on, your mother made breakfast.”

　　The three little girls skipped away.

　　Lin always felt that the last sentence the little girl said was a bit wrong.

　　What did she mean by telling them to remember?

　　Could something happen if they didn't remember?

　　But seeing Nan’s confident appearance, could it be that he could really tell the difference between these three almost identical girls?

　　Facing Lin’s questioning gaze, Nan didn’t explain. He finished the last of his milk and said, “Let’s go, let’s go downstairs and take a look.”

　　It was already too late when they got here last night, so they didn’t dare to go far and only investigated this floor and the floor above.

　　Taking advantage of the early morning, Nan suggested that they go downstairs to see if there were any other residents in the fourteen-story building.

　　The blood that Zeng had gotten on him yesterday had not yet been cleaned off.

　　Seeing his exhausted face, he probably hadn't slept all night.

　　Hearing Nan’s words, he quietly asked Lin if he could accompany him to the public bathroom, he wanted to take a shower.

　　Lin expressed his admiration: “You still dare to go after what you saw yesterday? Just wash your face with some hot water and make do, life is more important than being clean.”

　　“What did you see?” Yao asked.

　　Lin said, “When Zeng was taking a shower yesterday, there was something lying on the shower head. I’m not sure what it was, it looked a bit like a baby’s corpse.”

　　Yao gave an “oh”.

　　Hearing Lin’s words, Xu began to sob again, saying that she would never dare to take a bath again.

　　As she cried, she glanced at Yao, seemingly shocked by her calmness.

　　Yao said in a nonchalant tone, “You won’t be afraid after being scared too many times. Anyway, as long as no one dies, it means that thing is not threatening. What’s so scary about it.”

　　These words did make sense. Lin took a bite of his biscuit and clapped his hands clean of crumbs.

　　“Anyway, try not to go there.”

　　Zeng was a life-saving person after all.

　　After hesitating, he still didn't go to the bathroom to take a shower, but filled a basin with hot water in the house and made do with washing his face.

　　“Let's go, let's go downstairs and have a look.” Nan got up and walked out of the room.

　　The others followed close behind.

　　Every household in this building used the same color iron gate.

　　The iron gates were vermilion, and the paint on them was mottled.

　　They don’t know how many years they have been used.

　　Coal blocks and some sundries were piled up in the stairwell corridor, which looked like someone lived there.

　　But after a simple observation, Nan concluded that there was no one there.

　　“How did you tell?” Yao said, “Although I haven’t heard any sound.”

　　“Because the most crucial thing is missing here.” Nan said.

　　“What?” Yao asked.

　　“Trash.” Nan said, “The trash cans on every floor here are clean.”

　　So that’s how it is.

　　Yao nodded: “Then in this building, only the family on the top floor is left? That’s not possible, is it?”

　　Nan looked towards the upstairs:

　　“It’s not very possible. The existence of every world is logical and reasonable. It’s impossible for empty buildings to appear at will. There must be some reason why this building is empty.”

　　Just like the mountain village in the previous world, although the environment was harsh, there were still villagers living there.

　　These seemingly insignificant people may even provide key information.

　　“Let’s keep going down.” Lin said, “There are still six floors left, right?”

　　Although the lighting on the stairs was very dim, at least everyone was moving together, so it wasn’t too scary.

　　The group continued down, and when they reached the fourth floor, they finally found some traces of human life - Lin saw a half-eaten apple in the corner.