"I don't save animals that are bound to die, it wastes my energy."

　　"I don't save dying animals, it shortens my lifespan."

　　"I don't save sick animals, I'll catch their diseases."

　　Liu almost laughed out loud.

　　"Bro, are you kidding me? You're a veterinarian, if you don't save this one, and you don't save that one, aren't you going to starve to death?"

　　Ning smiled faintly, "I'm a veterinarian, but I'm not just a veterinarian... who told you that I make a living by treating pets?"

　　Liu spread his hands, "Alright... then what kind of animal will you save, brother?"

　　Ning answered quite casually, "If I like them, I'll save them."

　　"...Even if I know I can't save them, I'll do my best."

　　"Even at a cost."

　　Liu looked at Ning in surprise and laughed.

　　This guy... his personality is so interesting.

　　After laughing, Liu thought of something else.

　　He suddenly started writing and drawing in the study, then used the curtains to tie the notebook he wrote on and kept hitting the window downstairs!

　　Since his voice couldn't reach the second floor, the sounds coming from the second floor... could always attract their attention, right?

　　As a result, he had only hit it a few times when the curtains suddenly broke!

　　Liu pulled back the remaining half of the curtains and pulled them hard, muttering to himself:

　　"No way... ,how could it break so easily..."

　　He tried several more times, but to no avail.

　　The strange phenomenon made Liu’s back turn cold, he vaguely felt an ominous feeling of being watched, so he gave up on continuing to send messages downstairs.

　　"What's wrong?"

　　Ning saw that he had finally stopped and casually asked.

　　Liu’s forehead was sweating, "I feel like something is staring at me, if I continue doing this..."

　　He didn't finish his sentence.

　　But Ning already understood.

　　Obviously, according to the rules of the villa, the third floor was separated from the other floors.

　　If they forcibly tried to send messages from the third floor to the second or first floor... it would be breaking the rules of the world behind the blood door and would face terrible misfortune!

　　"Sigh, well, they're really at the mercy of fate..."

　　He sighed, sat down against the corpse by the window, picked up the diary from its hand again, flipped through it for a while, and then said, "Brother... what exactly is that monster outside?"

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　　Ning thought for a moment.

　　"From the diary’s records, that terrifying woman outside should be related to the girl’s grandmother, and the girl’s parents must have known something."

　　"But what exactly happened, we don’t know yet."

　　"Maybe, when this is all over, we can go back and ask that man in the suit..."

　　Liu nodded.

　　…

　　For the next three days, they stayed in this room eating, drinking, and relieving themselves.

　　Fortunately, there was plenty of food and water, so survival wasn’t a problem.

　　As for the two survivors downstairs, they eventually failed to survive the last three days.

　　When Xue was also killed and eaten by the thing on the third night, the remaining Yan collapsed in extreme terror.

　　She ran out of the villa and escaped into the rain, her fate was obvious.

　　Liu felt a bit uncomfortable.

　　After all, they had spent some time together, and they weren't bad people.

　　But this discomfort quickly faded with time.

　　In the middle of the night on the fifth day, the two were awakened by the sudden sound of a car horn outside the window.

　　The two quickly got up and stood by the window, looking out at the rain outside.

　　They saw a bus parked outside the villa, honking its horn.

　　They were familiar with this bus.

　　It was the one that took them into the mist!

　　"Hey! The bus's here! The bus's here!"

　　"But... brother, how do we get out?!"

　　Liu looked at the dilapidated bus parked at the entrance of the villa, and had just exclaimed with joy, but when he turned his head, his joy was quenched by a wave of coldness!

　　He saw that terrifying, tall, red-clothed woman standing at their door, staring at them with lustful eyes!

　　It seemed that the woman in red knew they wanted to leave.

　　"We have to figure out a way quickly!"

　　"That bus won't wait for us too long!"

　　Ning’s eyes flashed as he searched for tools.

　　Just as he was considering dismantling the iron bars on the window, the old lady lying next to him spoke.

　　Even though her voice was very weak, they were close enough to hear what she was saying.

　　"Young men... push me out..."

　　The two lowered their heads slowly, looking at the old lady.

　　The expression on her face was surprisingly calm, her eyes regained a brief moment of clarity.

　　It seemed that after a long period of torture, she wanted to end it all.

　　"It... can't do anything else... when it's eating..."

　　"Push me out... while it's eating me... you guys quickly leave... never come back..."

　　Liu’s eyes widened, "How can we... woah, bro, are you really going to push the old lady out?!"

　　Ning replied, "Push, one dies."

　　"Don't push, three die."

　　The old lady also smiled, "He's right..."

　　"I... won’t... blame you... being alive... is too painful for me..."

　　"Just do me a favor... set me free..."

　　Upon hearing this, Liu no longer had any qualms about being merciful.

　　He gritted his teeth and, together with Ning, pushed the old lady out in front of the woman in red!

　　The woman in red wasn’t originally planning on eating the old lady, because she still needed to keep her around to continue fishing.

　　But it hadn’t eaten anything in two days... it couldn’t resist this fresh meat right at its doorstep!

　　It stabbed its knife and fork into the old lady’s chest and abdomen, and then... the extremely brutal scene made Liu feel sick...

　　"Go!"

　　Ning snatched the blood jade from the windowsill and, with Liu, rushed past the woman in red who was feasting!

　　The bone-chilling coldness radiated from the woman in red’s resentful gaze, making their legs go weak!

　　Fortunately, the old lady didn’t lie to them.

　　The ghost couldn’t do anything else while it was eating!

　　"Hurry!"

　　Ning looked back and shouted.

　　"It eats fast!"

　　Liu, running ahead, was sweating profusely, gritting his teeth, running wildly towards downstairs!

　　Bang!

　　He practically rammed out the villa door!

　　The yellow headlights of the bus ahead were like a beacon of hope, guiding the two.

　　As Ning also ran out of the villa door, a terrifying roar came from the third floor, followed by a loud booming sound from inside the villa!

　　That woman in red... was chasing after them!

　　"Brother, hurry!"

　　"Hurry!!"

　　Liu didn’t immediately enter the bus, but stood at the door, shouting to Ning.

　　As Ning ran to the door, he reached out and pulled him into the bus!

　　Behind them, the terrifying woman in red, twisting and crawling on the ground like a spider, was only three or five steps away from Ning!

　　But as soon as Ning got on the bus, the woman in red suddenly stopped chasing, roaring angrily at the two inside the bus!

　　But she could only bark a few times, she didn’t dare to get close to the bus.

　　It seemed that the incredibly vicious woman in red was very wary of the bus they were on.

　　In the end, she could only slowly turn around and disappear into the villa on the other side of the rain...