The room was eerily silent.

　　Combined with the unpleasant smell that lingered in their nostrils, they both felt a chill run through their bodies.

　　Tick-tock—

　　A drop of liquid fell from the ceiling beside them, hitting the wooden floor.

　　The sound itself wasn’t loud, but in the completely silent room, it was amplified infinitely...

　　Ning could even feel Liu beside him shudder as the unknown liquid fell.

　　“Br...bro…”

　　Liu’s voice trembled, and he slowly raised his hand, as if trying to touch something.

　　Ning took a deep breath and said:

　　“Don’t turn on the light.”

　　“If you don’t want to die.”

　　Liu was stunned.

　　“Wh...why?”

　　Ning shook his head.

　　“I can’t explain yet.”

　　“...Just know that in a place with wind, it’s best not to turn on the light.”

　　“If the light is on, then stay away.”

　　After listening, Liu suddenly remembered that whenever Ning passed by the window, he would always close it tightly!

　　For some reason, he felt a chill run through his entire body!

　　Then, Liu’s gaze fell on the crack under the door, and he couldn’t help but curse in his heart.

　　He didn’t know which bastard was the last one to enter the room, but he hadn’t turned off the light in the corridor!

　　After what happened, neither of them could sleep, and they didn’t care about being in close proximity to the same sex, they squeezed onto the same bed, as if each other's body temperature could bring some comfort.

　　He didn’t know how long it had been, but the sky gradually brightened outside, and the rain wasn’t as heavy anymore.

　　Liu looked at the time and saw it was already morning.

　　The light from outside, though not very bright, was enough to see through the gray haze.

　　His gaze fell on the floor to his left.

　　The constant dripping sound that had been coming from there.

　　Liu got out of bed and carefully looked at the stain on the floor.

　　He bent down and smelled it.

　　“Ugh——”

　　The pungent stench almost made him vomit.

　　Ning, who was nearby, also noticed his strange behavior and came over to take a look.

　　Ning bent down and sniffed, his face changed slightly.

　　“This is…”

　　Liu leaned over:

　　“What is it?”

　　Ning was silent for a long time before slowly saying:

　　“Corpse water...or corpse oil.”

　　“Usually, when an animal rots to a high degree, the fat oozes out in an oily form…”

　　Liu couldn’t take it anymore and quickly interrupted Ning:

　　“Okay, okay, bro, stop! I...I get it.”

　　His face was pale, and he looked up at the ceiling above the stain.

　　The place where the wooden ceiling was soaked with corpse oil had gradually grown from the size of a fist to the size of a human head!

　　What on earth was above them...?

　　Just as Liu was thinking, two extremely shrill screams, belonging to women, suddenly came from outside the door!

　　“Ah!!!”

　　The two exchanged a glance.

　　Something had happened!

　　“Let’s go and see!”

　　Ning was the first to open the door, taking Liu with him out of the room.

　　As soon as they stepped out, Ning frowned.

　　The smell of blood was so strong!

　　On the corridor, a streak of crimson blood stretched from the door of the room at the end of the corridor all the way to the stairs...

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　　The screams were coming from the louvered window at the end of the corridor.

　　A group of people were gathered there.

　　Ning and Liu walked over, pushed through the crowd, and saw Ya Mo and Yan sitting slumped on the ground by the door, trembling like sieves, their faces pale.

　　Beside them, besides a large pool of blood, there was also vomit...

　　“What happened?”

　　Ning asked sternly.

　　The two girls looked at Ning, their eyes filled with intense fear, as if they had experienced something incredibly terrifying!

　　They trembled their lips, unable to utter a complete sentence, and pointed to their room, tears streaming down their faces.

　　Ning looked towards their room and was about to open the door, but he was stopped by Xue, who was standing beside him.

　　His face was extremely ugly.

　　“It’s...not a pretty sight inside.”

　　Ning glanced at him, pushed his hand away, closed the leaky louvered window next to him first, then opened the door.

　　When they saw the scene inside, the people outside held their breath!

　　They saw that on the bed closest to the door in the room, lay a corpse soaked in blood!

　　The corpse...was clearly Wang, the woman with the gold earrings!

　　Someone was dead!

　　Ning endured the nauseating smell of blood and entered the room.

　　As he walked further in, he could finally see the bloody corpse clearly!

　　This scene almost made even Ning vomit!

　　The corpse lying on the bed still had its head intact, its neck was white and slender, but below the neck, the skin had been ruthlessly torn open, revealing crimson muscles everywhere, with hideous scars all over!

　　The internal organs were gone, large pieces of muscle were torn apart and missing, scattered everywhere…

　　What was even more terrifying was Wang’s expression…

　　Her eyes were closed, and her face showed no sign of pain, instead...it was frozen in a strange smile.

　　"Damn it..."

　　Liu, who had followed in, widened his eyes, his legs went weak, and if he hadn’t been holding them tight, he would have peed himself on the spot!

　　“This...this...”

　　Now, he finally understood why the two girls outside had become like this!

　　If it had been a man, even if it had been him, he wouldn’t have been much better than the two of them right now!

　　Ning endured the discomfort in his heart and walked towards the corpse.

　　The others were all outside, unwilling to take a step into the room.

　　It was...too terrifying inside!

　　After inspecting the corpse, Ning suddenly remembered something, his face changed drastically, and he turned and ran out of the door!

　　“Bro, what’s wrong?”

　　When Liu saw Ning running, how dare he stay in the room?

　　Everyone else didn’t dare to stay on the second floor either.

　　 They followed Ning all the way down to the first floor, to the kitchen.

　　Ning stared at the cutlery hanging on the wall for a long time before muttering:

　　“One pair is missing…”

　　Bei Dao, who had already been scared silly, hurriedly asked:

　　“One pair of what is missing?”

　　Ning slowly uttered a few words:

　　“The knife and fork for eating steak.”

　　Hearing this, Liu was the first to be terrified.

　　When he heard the sound of metal rubbing against each other in the corridor outside his room last night, he thought it was the sound of knives and forks rubbing!

　　Could it be that...

　　Liu seemed to think of something terrifying, and his whole body trembled!

　　“One pair of knives and forks is missing, does it have anything to do with the corpse upstairs?”

　　Bei Dao was still asking.

　　Most of the people still didn’t understand.

　　Ning slowly turned his head, stared at them, and uttered words that chilled them to the bone:

　　“The wounds on Wang’s body...were left by the knife and fork!”

　　As soon as he finished speaking, everyone’s faces turned pale.

　　“Ning, you, what are you...”

　　“Are you sure?”

　　Ning didn’t answer Bei Dao, but asked the two girls:

　　“Last night, did you hear Wang’s screams?”

　　Both girls shook their heads, their eyes filled with fear.

　　“No, we were too tired last night and fell asleep very quickly…”

　　At this time, Xue suddenly said through gritted teeth with a strange expression:

　　“I…I heard it last night…”

　　“Heard what?”

　　“...It was the sound of metal rubbing, now that I think about it, it sounded like knives and forks!”

　　Ning and Liu exchanged a glance and said to him:

　　“You go and make porridge first.”

　　“Add more meat.”

　　“I’ll go and check on...the old woman upstairs.”

　　Liu nodded.

　　“Bro, you’re overthinking!”

　　“What about us?”

　　“Come with me.”

　　Yan and Liu stayed in the kitchen to make porridge, while Ning took the others quickly upstairs to the room where the paralyzed old woman was.

　　As soon as they entered the room, everyone was stunned.

　　Because, on the table next to the paralyzed old woman...lay a gleaming knife and fork!

　　It was the missing pair from the kitchen!

　　As if sensing their arrival, the old woman lying on the bed slowly turned her head and gave everyone a kind smile.

　　“Ah!!!”

　　Ya Mo screamed in fright and crawled downstairs.

　　Bei Dao and Xue were no better off.

　　Their faces were pale.

　　If it hadn’t been for Ning, who was as steady as a rock beside them, they probably would have fled with Ya Mo the first time!

　　After experiencing such a terrifying incident, Ning, instead of being afraid of the old woman in front of him, actually...walked towards her!

　　"Damn it! Ning, are you crazy?!"

　　Xue’s face was ugly.

　　Anyone with eyes could see that the old woman lying in bed was the murderer of Wang!

　　And...she was probably not human!

　　Ning ignored Xue and went straight to the old woman’s side, picking up the knife and fork to examine them carefully.

　　They were very clean.

　　He brought them to his nose.

　　No smell.

　　Ning frowned.

　　He looked at the old woman in bed, lost in thought.

　　Ning leaned down beside the old woman’s ear and whispered:

　　“Old lady...are you the only one who lives in this house usually?”

　　The old woman moved her lips.

　　“Meat...”

　　“Meat...no...”

　　She seemed to have some mental problem, repeating herself over and over.

　　Ning narrowed his eyes.

　　No meat?

　　No what?

　　No taste?

　　He listened carefully for a long time, but he couldn’t hear the old woman say the third word.

　　At this time, Liu came up with the bowl of porridge.

　　“It’s been chilled with water, it’s not hot, you can drink it directly.”

　　I have to say, the porridge really smelled delicious.

　　The aroma of beef.

　　And the green onion garnish.

　　Ning personally lifted the old woman’s mouth, scooped up a spoonful of meat porridge, and brought it to her lips.

　　Everyone was watching nervously, their breathing slowed down, as if they were afraid that the old woman would suddenly open her bloody mouth and swallow Ning.

　　However, the terrifying scene they expected didn’t happen.

　　The old woman quietly ate the porridge into her mouth.

　　But when she ate something, she suddenly frowned, and with great disgust, she spat it out.

　　It was a piece of beef.

　　Then, the old woman continued to spit, until she had spat out all the meat porridge in her mouth, and then she was quiet.

　　“Meat...no...”

　　She started to repeat those two words again.

　　Ning leaned close to the old woman’s ear.

　　This action was extremely risky in everyone’s eyes!

　　Because if the old woman was really the murderer who killed Wang last night, then...Ning’s action was undoubtedly suicide!

　　Fortunately, the old woman didn’t bite off Ning’s ear.

　　And it was this risky action that gave Ning a crucial piece of information!

　　“Meat...no...cooked...”

　　The third word wasn’t ‘taste’, it was ‘cooked’!

　　But...why did she say the meat wasn’t cooked?

　　Ning took a bite of the beef porridge himself.

　　It was cooked.

　　Definitely cooked.

　　After standing there pondering for a while, Ning suddenly thought of something and said to Liu:

　　“Big Beard, quick, go make a bowl of porridge without meat!”

　　Liu, who was standing outside, felt a little strange when he heard this, but he still followed Ning’s instructions.

　　Soon, he came in with a bowl of plain rice porridge.

　　This time...the old woman ate it.

　　She didn’t spit it out anymore.