The history of this apartment building is said to be beyond calculation.

　　And the number of people who have lived in this apartment is quite large.

　　Over the decades, the residents have developed a tacit understanding and experience, knowing what to do and what not to do, how to benefit themselves, and how to avoid harm.

　　Therefore, whenever a new resident moves in, an old resident will tell them the detailed precautions.

　　If they don't explain clearly, they might break the rules and die a terrible death.

　　There are two basic rules.

　　Once you become a resident of the apartment, you must follow these two rules, no matter what.

　　First, and most importantly, except in cases where the blood words instruct you to go out, you absolutely cannot leave the apartment for more than forty-eight hours. If you break this rule, you will die.

　　Second, after becoming a resident, if blood words appear on the wall of your room, you must absolutely follow the blood words' instructions. If you deviate even slightly, you will also die.

　　Li had witnessed firsthand what happened to those residents who didn't believe these two rules and disregarded the blood words' instructions and left the apartment.

　　Those residents all died in extremely bizarre ways.

　　Without exception!

　　Ye, the resident of room 403, was Li’s next-door neighbor.

　　Luo, the resident of room 507, had lived there for half a year and had survived two blood word instructions.

　　Qin, the resident of room 507, had lived there for more than nine months and had survived three blood word instructions.

　　The blood word instructions usually involve going to specific locations and doing certain things.

　　During that time, many bizarre things would inevitably happen.

　　Often, you wouldn’t even realize it, you'd already be dead.

　　You wouldn’t even realize you were dead when you died.

　　It sounds unbelievable, even unimaginable, but…it's an undeniable fact.

　　Li, too, had taken a long time to fully accept all this.

　　After all, it all happened so suddenly, it was too unreal.

　　But at that time, he didn't dare to leave the apartment for more than forty-eight hours.

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　　After all, that was equivalent to suicide.

　　Eventually, he borrowed some money from the other residents of the apartment, paid his rent, and moved into the apartment.

　　Most of the residents of the apartment, like him, entered the apartment because their shadows automatically went into the apartment, and they chased their shadows into the apartment.

　　The person who had lived in the apartment the longest was the building manager, Yuan.

　　Yuan was a young man who wore glasses and looked very polite and refined.

　　He had been living in this apartment for over five years.

　　He told all the residents that the only way to survive in this apartment was to escape back to the apartment in time after the allotted time ended!

　　No matter what existed at the designated location, no matter what curses you faced, once you escaped back into the apartment, you would be completely free from all danger.

　　You could go out again after entering the apartment without worrying about being harmed.

　　Until…the next blood words appeared.

　　Over the past year, Li had witnessed firsthand the fate of those who were chosen to be residents but didn't live in the apartment because they didn't believe the residents.

　　He had tried to persuade those people to move into the apartment, but they all ignored him.

　　As a result…after forty-eight hours, Li personally saw their shadows change one by one.

　　They either controlled them to jump off buildings or use knives to commit suicide.

　　The most tragic one was controlled by his shadow to run to a crossroads, where he was run over by a truck and turned into a pile of flesh.

　　After seeing that, Li couldn’t even look at meat for three months.

　　The blood word instructions usually went from easy to hard.

　　The first blood word instruction was the least dangerous, and the chance of survival was quite high.

　　But from the second time onwards, the danger and strangeness would gradually increase.

　　Then the third…the fourth…all would require you to give your all to survive by a hair’s breadth.

　　The blood word instructions were usually given monthly.

　　According to the experience of the old residents, there had never been a case where they hadn’t received blood word instructions for more than half a year.

　　When your room received a blood word instruction, your heart would feel a burning sensation.

　　Even if you weren’t in your room, you would immediately realize that blood words had appeared in your room.

　　Once you finished reading the blood words and remembered them, the blood words would disappear.

　　The blood word instructions never instructed them to do something they couldn’t do, like go to the moon.

　　They were all physically achievable actions.

　　Finally, according to the experience of the old residents over the decades, they reached a conclusion.

　　That is…there is only one way to leave this apartment.

　　That is…to complete ten blood word instructions consecutively and still be alive.

　　You would then be free to move out of the apartment without fear of death.

　　Of course, the word "consecutive" was superfluous because the standard for completion was simply that you could return to the apartment alive.

　　If you died, you naturally wouldn’t be able to complete the next blood word instruction.

　　Your room would then become an empty room until a new resident moved in and generated new blood word instructions.

　　Until now, he had already completed three blood word instructions.

　　And the last time he completed a blood word instruction, it was almost a near-death experience!

　　The instruction was simple: go to the fifth floor of a deserted school and stay there until midnight.

　　At that time, there were six people, including him, who received the same blood word instructions.

　　When it was midnight, everyone ran out of the school.

　　However…no matter where they went, they found themselves in a dead end!

　　Then, as they ran, they discovered that their companions, who had been fine, suddenly turned into bloody corpses!

　　Finally, Li gritted his teeth, jumped from the window onto a tree, climbed down, and then got into one of the dead companions' cars and sped off towards the apartment!