After the villa's hostess left, everyone returned to the hall.
After briefly introducing themselves, they began to discuss how to take care of the elderly woman.
Among them, the short and thin girl with twin ponytails, Yan, weakly raised her hand.
“That...speaking of, how did you all get on the bus?”
“I, I was on the high-speed train, playing with my phone and got sleepy, so I...slept for a while. When I woke up, I was on the bus.”
“Me too. I was working overtime at the company, and then suddenly I felt very sleepy...”
Everyone spoke up, and one by one, they discovered that everyone's method of arriving on the bus was exactly the same.
This strangeness made their already apprehensive hearts even more apprehensive!
“Damn...it's really cursed..."
Liu with the bushy beard cursed.
Yan was silent for a while and then weakly said:
“Do you think...this is some kind of program group inviting us to do a reality show in this way?”
“After all, I've seen on TV before..."
Before she finished speaking, Liu interrupted her with a cold laugh:
“So soon you’ve forgotten about the fat man?”
“Does TV make programs by killing people and skinning them?”
Yan's heart suddenly trembled, but she glared:
“What if...what if it was just a prop?”
“The blood was a prop too?”
“Who knows, maybe it was chicken blood or dog blood..."
Yan was still trying to deceive herself, but Ning's abrupt words next to her shattered the last line of defense in her heart:
“It wasn't animal blood.”
Everyone looked at Ning.
He seemed to have already accepted everything and was unusually calm.
“I used to be a veterinarian, and I’m especially sensitive to smells. The blood of cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, chickens, ducks, fish, geese, and pigeons has a distinct difference in smell from human blood.”
“For example, sheep blood is very strong, while human blood has a distinct iron rust smell…”
“I can tell you all very clearly that the blood on the traffic light was 100% human blood.”
“And it was...the freshest human blood!”
After Ning finished speaking, Yan shuddered and hugged her knees, sobbing softly:
“Don’t say it anymore…”
“Please...don’t say it anymore..."
Seeing her like this, Ning softened his tone slightly.
It’s not surprising that the girl was frightened.
Normal people in real life, if they saw what happened before, would probably have a psychological shadow that would linger for a long time.
Only those who frequently deal with corpses would be relatively better.
After all...that scene was too bloody!
“Let’s just think about how to get through these five days…”
A man of average appearance, about 170cm tall, with a gloomy look in his eyes, said.
His name was Xue.
“We have seven people, and this time the task is to take care of the old woman in bed for five days. How are we going to divide the work?”
Everyone looked at each other. Seeing that no one was speaking, Ning said:
“Let’s do this. Three girls will be responsible for cooking and washing clothes, and the four of us men will be responsible for taking care of the old woman…”
As soon as he finished speaking, the beautiful woman with gold earrings, Wang, said sarcastically:
“Oh, women should do laundry and cooking for you smelly men, huh?”
“You’re good at being lazy, aren’t you? You heard the hostess say that the old woman is lying in bed and can’t move, so you volunteered to take care of her…Do you think we’re stupid or something?”
“You say you’re taking care of the old woman, but you probably don't have to do anything, just laze around?”
Hearing Wang’s words, Liu couldn’t help it. Raising his chin, he said nonchalantly:
“You look beautiful，Why are you so mean?”
Wang's face also darkened:
“You, you dare to curse me?”
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Liu was about to say something else, but he was interrupted by Ning.
“If you don’t want to do laundry and cooking, I can switch with you. You take care of the old woman, from 9 am to 10 pm. After 10 pm, it will be dark anyway, so we can wash up and rest.”
Wang glanced at Ning, snorted coldly.
“Well...thank you.”
Although she said this, there was no gratitude in her tone.
Only full of mockery.
“By the way...it’s already past five o’clock, I’m hungry. Aren’t you going to cook? Go ahead.”
Ning looked deeply at Wang, didn’t say anything more, and turned to the two girls.
“Do you want to switch?”
Ya Mo, the girl who hadn’t spoken, raised her hand.
“I…”
“Sorry, I really don’t know how to cook.”
Compared to Wang’s annoying appearance, Ya Mo was much more sincere.
In this society, there are too many pampered children, and there are many men and women who don’t know how to cook. It’s not strange.
“Is there any man who knows how to cook?”
The remaining three men were silent for a moment.
Liu impatiently said:
“Ugh, forget it, forget it. I'll go with you to cook and wash clothes!”
“What a bunch of good-for-nothings, they don’t even know how to cook or wash clothes!”
Wang coldly said:
“Rough man, watch your mouth!”
Liu glared and pointed at Wang:
“If you are a man, you’d be dead today!”
Wang sneered, clicked her high heels and went upstairs.
The kitchen was on the first floor, and the old woman was on the second floor.
The villa was very large, and everyone went about their own business, so they separated.
Liu grumbled and followed Ning to the kitchen.
Along with him was the little girl, Yan, who was constantly sobbing.
“Okay, stop cursing.”
Entering the kitchen, Ning was really annoyed by him, so he interrupted Liu.
“Isn’t...this a lot to take?”
Liu glared.
Ning opened the refrigerator and started to take out ingredients.
“You really think taking care of the old woman is...a good job?”
Hearing this, Liu’s breath suddenly stopped.
“Bro, what do you mean?”
Ning slowly turned his head and looked at Liu and Ya Mo next to him.
“Remember what the man in the suit in the black villa told us?”
“After we survive the blood gate, they will answer our questions.”
“This means that the world behind the blood gate...is unimaginably dangerous!”
After he finished speaking, Yan’s thin body trembled again!
She trembled and said:
“Wh...what kind of danger?”
Ning shook his head.
“We don’t know yet...but since the task on the blood gate is to take care of the old woman, it’s most likely related to the old woman.”
“Anyway...be careful.”
Hearing Ning’s warning, Liu rolled his eyes, secretly pinched his fingers, and the previous gloom on his face disappeared. He grinned and said:
“Bro, I think you’re right, I’ll follow you.”
Ning looked at Liu in surprise and shook his head, but he didn’t say anything more.
He first took out the vegetables from the refrigerator and then looked at the freezer.
There was a lot of meat there, as the villa hostess had said.
The hostess had cut the meat into pieces and put them into different bags.
Ning took out a bag labeled "Beef Tenderloin" and threw it into the pot to defrost over low heat.
As he was closing the refrigerator, Ning’s peripheral vision suddenly noticed something.
He took out a piece of meat that was frozen solid from the back of the refrigerator.
In the bag containing the meat, there were many black, unidentified substances.
It was just that the crushed ice was covering too much, and the bags containing the meat were all vacuum-sealed, so it was impossible to see clearly what those black substances were.
There was no label on this bag, indicating the meat.
It seemed that the hostess had forgotten.
Ning stared at the meat for a while, when Liu, the rough big man with a bushy beard, came over.
“Why is this meat black?”
He curiously asked.
Ning shook his head and put the meat back in the refrigerator.
“I don’t know. Maybe it’s been frozen too long and it’s gone bad.”
The three of them were busy in the kitchen.
To Ning’s surprise, Liu, who looked like a rough old rascal, could actually cook really well!
He washed, cut, and stir-fried the vegetables with the movements of an expert.
“Dinner’s ready!”
Liu put the stir-fried meat and vegetables on the table and shouted loudly upstairs.
Then, without caring whether the people upstairs came or not, he directly picked up the steaming rice and ate it with big mouthfuls.
Yan watched Liu’s ghost-like eating habits and couldn’t help but ask:
“Aren’t we waiting for them?”
Liu said impatiently:
“Waiting for what?”
“Eat!”
After saying that, he wolfed down his food again.
Tap tap tap —
Four sets of footsteps came from upstairs.
Wang was still on the stairs when she saw Liu, who was burying his head in eating, and couldn’t help but sneer:
“Look at your eating habits, like a starving ghost reincarnated..."
If it had been before, Liu would definitely have retaliated fiercely.
But he seemed to be exceptionally focused on eating, completely ignoring Wang’s mockery.
Wang simply thought he was backing down and ate her own food.
At the dinner table, everyone was silent.
They didn’t know what to say.
It was just that they felt it getting darker and darker in front of them, and later, they couldn’t even see the beef in their bowls clearly.
It wasn’t until Ning stood up and turned on the light that they realized...it was dark.
“Damn!”
“Why did it get dark so fast?”
“It’s not even 7 o’clock yet!”
The man called Bei Dao shouted, his startled demeanor made everyone feel a little uncomfortable.
“What’s your name?”
Xue, whose face was already not good-looking, frowned even more.
“Didn’t you hear the villa hostess say before that the rainy season is coming soon?”
“It’s normal for it to get dark...what’s the big deal.”
He rebuked Bei Dao, his tone was a little too agitated, but everyone knew why, and they all tacitly didn’t say anything.
The atmosphere in the villa...was too oppressive.
“Hey, hey, hey, is this how you take care of the old woman?”
“You’ve eaten your fill, leaving a paralyzed old woman upstairs to starve, is that appropriate?”
“No one really thinks that taking care of the old woman means doing nothing, right?”
Liu, who had finished eating, put down his chopsticks and said sarcastically to Wang, who was sitting opposite him, as he picked his teeth.
The latter clenched her fists and her gaze became even colder.
“Humph, you think everyone is a rough rice bucket like you?”
“You’re as disgusting as a maggot.”
She disdainfully kicked her high heels and went upstairs to get a bowl of rice, grabbed some leftover food, and went upstairs.
Everyone watched her disappear into the dark hallway, and for some reason, their hearts inexplicably beat faster...
“Were you all on the second floor just now?”
Ning also put down his chopsticks at this time and asked the three who were responsible for taking care of the paralyzed old woman.
Xue “hmm”ed.
“We went all over the second floor, there was no one else except the paralyzed old woman.”
“Our rooms are opposite the old woman’s room, all on the same corridor.”
Ning asked:
“Didn’t you notice anything unusual?”
Xue shook his head, hesitated for a moment, and replied:
“There’s a...very strange smell in our rooms. I can’t describe what it smells like, but it’s not good.”
“All seven rooms have it?”
“Yes, all of them.”
At this time, Ya Mo, the girl who had been quietly standing by, added softly:
“One more thing is very strange…”
“The rooms that the hostess prepared for us all have bathrooms.”
Bei Dao snorted:
“What’s so strange about that? She’s rich, she doesn’t want to run around to use the toilet, right…”
Ning frowned.
“No…it’s really strange.”
“This villa, clearly only the hostess’ family lives here, even if the host was home, it’s only four people. Why would they prepare so many bedrooms and toilets?”
“What’s so strange about that, maybe they’re very hospitable?”
“They often invite friends to their home for parties. Don’t rich people like to do that?”
Bei Dao’s tone was a little flustered.
No one responded to him.
Everyone fell into a strange silence again.
Until...
A piercing scream came from upstairs, breaking the terrible silence—
“Ah!!!”