"Help... Help me... uh uh..."
The man screamed for help towards the reception, but all he got in response was silence.
Ning got out of bed and went to the wooden door, locked it, then walked step by step to the window, looking down at the scene below in the cold moonlight.
He saw a dark figure stumbling out of the forest, frantically scratching its neck!
It was the man who had called for help!
The man screamed for help towards the reception, frantically scratching his neck as if there was something there.
He tried to reach out to the reception, but his hand seemed to involuntarily retract and continued to scratch his neck frantically!
His whole body was just spinning around in the yard, seemingly unable to get close to the reception.
The man's screams became increasingly miserable, sending chills down one's spine!
But the whole time, no one from the reception came out to save him.
Maybe no one heard.
But even if someone heard, no one dared to go out and save him.
Everyone knew what kind of terrifying place the world behind the blood gate was!
Rashly going out to save someone, not only might not save the person, but would also doom yourself!
Finally, after about ten minutes, the man outside stopped screaming.
Just when he thought things would end there, the next scene made Ning's eyes widen, almost making him shout!
He saw that in the pale moonlight, the man in the empty space of the yard was kneeling on the ground, his hands reaching out forcefully, he actually tore his own head off!
A large amount of blood sprayed out, reaching as high as the second floor!
Even more terrifyingly, after tearing off his own head, the man still didn't die, and he was still making a creepy plea for help:
"It hurts... save me... please... save me..."
"It hurts so much... I'm in so much pain..."
"Why... no one is coming to save me... why..."
He said, and suddenly picked up his bloodstained head, slowly turned towards the reception, as if he was checking each room!
Ning, with sharp eyes, immediately looked away, and walked step by step back to his bed!
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He felt his heart beating extremely fast!
It wasn't until much later that there was finally no more sound outside.
And Ning finally fell asleep, dazed and confused.
The next morning, Ning was woken up by the knocking on the door outside.
He got up and opened the door, it was Bai, already dressed.
She was the same as usual, with almost no makeup, just a touch of bright red lipstick.
"Get dressed, after breakfast, we'll go to the nearest scenic spot, maybe we can find some useful clues to get out."
Ning nodded, and didn't say anything more.
He quickly put on his clothes, and when he went downstairs, he saw Liu and Bai waiting at the door.
There was already a large group of people there.
Ning counted, suddenly frowning.
Three people were missing.
Did they leave first, or didn't get up?
Or...
"What's wrong?"
Standing next to Liu and Bai, Ning asked.
Both of them remained silent, Bai tilted her delicate chin and motioned for Ning to look at the empty space in the courtyard.
There, lay a corpse.
Bloody and mangled.
Headless.
It was the man Ning had seen last night.
He pushed aside the whispering crowd and walked towards the corpse.
The man's head was gone, leaving only a headless corpse, his neck was covered in bloody scratches, and there was still a lot of flesh and blood left under his fingernails!
"Does anyone know him?"
Ning suddenly turned around and asked the crowd.
At this time, a girl stood up from the crowd, her face pale, and she replied softly:
"He... he seems to be my friend... but I'm not sure, because he doesn't have a head."
Ning waved to her.
"Then come over and take a closer look."
The girl panicked when she heard this, she quickly waved her hand, her voice choked with tears:
"No... I, I won't go..."
Ning was speechless.
But after thinking about it, he seemed to understand.
This was his second blood gate, so most of the others matched were also newcomers.
Seeing such a gruesome corpse for the first time, their reaction wouldn't be very good.
At this time, someone in the crowd seemed to push the girl, she screamed, staggered a few steps forward, and knelt in front of the headless corpse!
The girl quickly covered her eyes, not daring to look at the corpse.
Fortunately, the corpse had been blown by the wind overnight, the bloody smell wasn't as strong, otherwise, Ning was worried that the girl would vomit!
He got up, stood at an angle, and said to the girl who was covering her eyes:
"Okay, I'm blocking the bloody part for you, now take a look at his clothes and other details, can you confirm his identity?"
The girl, hearing this, opened a sliver of her finger, took a look for a few seconds, then nodded and said tremblingly:
"It's... it's him!"
Ning frowned.
Sure enough.
It was one of them who died.
"What was he doing last night, do you know?"
The girl took a deep breath, and after a long time, she finally stabilized her fear.
"Last night... he, he wanted me to go with him to the temple on the back mountain of the village, that NPC called Kong didn't let us go to that place, it must be because the way out is there, but I was afraid, so I didn't go..."
"He went alone, and then... he never came back!"
Temple?
Hearing her words, Liu's face turned pale in the crowd.
Apparently, he had the same idea before.
But because of Bai's objections, he didn't put his idea into practice.
Otherwise...
There might be one more headless corpse on the ground!
"See, this is the consequence of acting rashly at night..."
Bai's voice was soft, but it made Liu shiver.
"Alright, let's go to the dining hall for dinner."
She opened her red lips, yawned, and then led the way out of the reception, avoiding the corpse, towards the village dining hall.
Someone in the crowd behind her said:
"This corpse is just lying here... don't we do anything?"
Bai didn't look back:
"If you're feeling charitable, you can bury him, but it's all pointless."
"Inside the blood gate, dead people... corpses will soon disappear."
After carefully examining the corpse, Ning seemed to discover something, he took something out of the corpse's clothes and hid it in his palm, then he also stood up and followed Bai and Liu to the dining hall...