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The Apartment
34.The Hidden Message

34.The Hidden Message

  Inside the haunted villa, Ziye revealed the mystery, "Mr. Yuan, you have the most advantages in this blood word instruction, but you also have the biggest disadvantage… First, because you can escape back to the apartment immediately once you find the ghost, you'll be the most proactive in searching the apartment, which means you're more likely to come into contact with the ghost. Second, precisely because you can easily escape back to the apartment… any attacks aimed at you will be extremely sudden, leaving you no time to react. You might not even realize you're being attacked by the ghost before you're dead."

  Yuan nodded after hearing this.

  Ziye's words certainly made sense.

  "It's best for all four of us to search together."

  "But…" Wen asked in confusion, "Always together? What about showering and changing clothes?"

  "Are you out of your mind?" Oda Saki sneered, "Compared to life, is showering important? Besides, in ghost movies, it's a very common scene for women to encounter ghosts while showering alone. I think the same way. It's best for all four of us to stay together at all times."

  But how to solve the problem of going to the bathroom?

  It's impossible for four people to go to the bathroom together, right?

  Although life is important, going to the bathroom in front of the opposite sex… Oda Saki could tell you for sure that she wouldn't do that.

  "Of course we have to separate when we go to the bathroom."

  As Ziye uttered these words, Oda Saki seemed to notice that the two men opposite her had a slight look of disappointment on their faces…

  But Ziye had her own plans.

  She had checked the bathroom beforehand. And she had taken pictures there too.

  At most, only those of the same gender would be together when going to the bathroom.

  However, that would be much more dangerous than having all four people together.

  Therefore… the bathroom was extremely dangerous!

  That's why she took the most photos in the bathroom.

  The four of them just sat in the living room, staring at each other.

  They had to search everywhere for possible ghost hideouts.

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  So, the four of them gathered together and searched all over the villa.

  The villa was quite large, with two floors, and many rooms.

  After searching for hours, Ziye continuously calculated the suspicious furniture in her mind.

  The first was mirrors.

  Including the bathroom, there were over twenty mirrors in the villa.

  And taking pictures of mirrors was pointless, as they only needed to see if the reflection and reality were different.

  Ziye would stare intently at each mirror for a long time before moving on.

  Another suspicious spot was… the closets.

  As closed spaces, they were very suspicious and worrisome.

  There were twelve closets in the villa, each containing a lot of clothes.

  All the clothes were for women.

  Was this a female ghost this time?

  When she opened one closet, Ziye discovered a black dress.

  The reason she noticed it was because the clothes she had seen before were almost all colorful, there were hardly any clothes with monotonous colors.

  As she took out the black dress, she suddenly noticed Yuan's eyebrows twitch.

  Although it was only a slight unnatural movement, Ziye noticed it.

  She didn't fully believe Yuan when he said he hadn't discovered anything when he came here yesterday.

  Clothes… did he know something about black clothes?

  No, if he did, he would have been looking for black clothes yesterday.

  The blood word instruction didn't mention anything related to black clothes, so… why did he pay special attention to the black dress?

  Was it because black represented bad luck?

  That could make sense.

  But Yuan, someone who had experienced five blood word instructions, shouldn't be making such a fuss about it, right?

  Black clothes…

  Suddenly, Ziye remembered that she could see outside through the windows of the villa.

  Did Yuan see something?

  Through the window?

  For example, something… wearing black clothes?

  Ziye squeezed the black dress in her hand, while continuing to watch Yuan, he didn't seem to act strangely anymore.

  Ziye immediately put the black dress back in the closet.

  After closing the closet, she took out some transparent tape and sealed the closet with tape.

  If something came out of the closet, it would tear the tape.

  She also deliberately drew a faint line above the tape with a pen, so if the position of the tape changed, she would know.

  After putting away the pen, she thought… Yuan had to be watched constantly.

  In fact, she had suggested that everyone stay together to make it easier to monitor Yuan.

  He might have discovered something but not said anything…

  For example, the clue about the black dress, Yuan didn't want to reveal it.

  Because he only wanted to save himself, he saw the others as pawns.

  There was definitely some mystery about that black dress.

  Could the ghost's transformation be the black dress?

  They entered the next room, which seemed to be a study.

  There were two bookshelves, and most of the books on the shelves were novels.

  "We need to pay attention to this bookshelf," Ziye suddenly said to the other three, "There's something wrong with it."

  "What?" Oda Saki looked over.

  Ziye pointed to the first shelf.

  The books on the first shelf, from left to right, were titled: "You are mine," "We Will All Be Happy, Right?" "Hunt them all," "Maybe You Will die later," and "Hope You Come Back Here."

  "What are these weird titles?" Wen furrowed his brow as he looked at the books, he had never heard of them, the titles were all so strange.

  "Haven't you noticed?" Ziye said, "Starting from the left, read the first character of the first book. Then, read the secong character of the second……Then connect them together…"