Perverts Are Spreading from Person to Person

Just as Saul lay on the floor, on the verge of losing consciousness, his ear pressed against the ground picked up another set of stumbling footsteps coming down the stairs.

Lina came down, holding up her skirt, an anxious look on her face.

Xie Qi stood to one side with a knife in his hand, his entire body clean. Beside him lay Saul, the blood from his abdomen staining the floor red.

The horrifying scene made Lina shudder. She swallowed and walked over to Saul under Xie Qi's watchful gaze.

Saul struggled to open his eyes, his lips moving as if he wanted to ask Lina for help.

Only when people were about to lose their lives did they realize they didn't actually want to die.

He had thought he was prepared for the worst. Even if he failed to kill the chef, he could at least wound him, so his death wouldn't be in vain.

But he had never expected things to end like this.

He lay on the floor, while the chef was completely unharmed.

Unwilling to accept it, Saul used all his strength to try to reach out and grab Lina.

In such a desperate situation, even if she was only a timid maid, he wanted to grasp his one chance of survival.

Xie Qi watched Lina crouch beside Saul as though he were watching a show.

Lina seemed startled by the hand and reached out to knock it away.

Then she pulled a rag from her pocket and immediately began wiping the blood off the floor.

She wiped with great care, as though the person bleeding to death beside her didn't exist.

Once the rag was soaked through with blood, she got up and ran back to the kitchen, then returned to wipe the floor after washing it.

One could say that she kept wiping for as long as Saul kept bleeding.

Saul's initial hope gave way to despair.

He should have known. There wasn't a single normal person in this villa.

Even the seemingly ordinary maid was like a deranged lunatic, more concerned with keeping the villa floor clean than with the person on the verge of death.

As Saul's breathing gradually faded, Xie Qi rubbed his chin and watched Lina, who was still meticulously wiping the floor, with some curiosity.

Previously, he had always thought of her as an NPC in this instance, just like Nikalos. Every day, she would only carry out her assigned duties, and at other times she seemed to vanish, never appearing before anyone else.

But the several times Lina had appeared, Xie Qi hadn't summoned her. Without him needing to tell her, she would also take the initiative to help him with things like washing clothes and wiping the floor.

It was convenient, but no matter how Xie Qi thought about it, Lina was an oddity in this villa.

He thought over what he remembered about Lina.

He suddenly recalled that Lina was a child the chef had picked up by the sea five years ago. On that rare occasion, she hadn't been treated as emergency rations, but had instead been allowed to stay in the villa and learn to be a maid.

She had still been young at the time and made quite a few mistakes.

But neither Mrs. Caster nor Sai Basi had said much about her mistakes. Instead, they had shown her a strange indulgence.

Sensing that something about this was off, Xie Qi stared at Lina for a long time, his expression unreadable. Only after she had wiped the blood off the floor did he turn and head to the kitchen.

He planned to deal with the ingredients first, before the meat deteriorated from being left too long.

As for the five little lambs fleeing outside, he would let them roam free for a while.

The five who had escaped the villa didn't yet know that Saul was dead, and were still searching the dark forest for the farm spoken of in the story.

The forest paths were uneven, and every so often they would trip over a hole hidden beneath fallen leaves.

The five of them consisted of three women and two men, none of whom were particularly strong. Even Phil, who worked out regularly, didn't look as reassuring as Saul.

Bailey went without saying. He spent his days moving among wealthy businessmen, worn down by a life of indulgence, and didn't even work out occasionally.

Of the group, Song Nan was the fittest. Though she wasn't tall, years of traveling at sea had given her a lean, muscular body. Even five bespectacled guys like Bailey would be no match for her.

Sofina had sharp eyes and had long since seen that the two men were all show and no substance. Despite being out of breath along the way, she kept close to Song Nan.

As a novelist, Annie had also spent years traveling and living away from home, but she still wasn't as fit as Song Nan. She was only a little better off than Bailey.

Song Nan led the five of them, and they walked who knew how far, relying solely on her sense of direction and the tracks on the ground to find their way.

Along the way, Bailey fell in the woods and shattered one of his eyeglass lenses.

And just as the group struggled forward in a sorry state, the farm finally appeared before them.

The cold, strange buildings drew their gazes.

This doesn't look like a farm. It looks more like a slaughterhouse.

Annie silently recited the words in her head.

They had already come so far that they couldn't turn back, so they could only open the iron lock on the front gate first. The clatter of chains made the place feel even more terrifying.

"This place would make pretty good material for your novel," Phil suddenly said to Annie.

He's in the mood to joke at a time like this?

Song Nan turned to glance at Phil, changing her opinion of the rich heir once again.

She had thought he was merely arrogant and fearless because of his backing, but he could still remain calm in such an eerie setting. His mental fortitude was clearly first-rate.

The five crossed the weed-choked yard, where a lock still hung on a large iron door.

Song Nan stepped forward to pick the lock out of habit, and the farm's doors slowly opened before them.

Before they could see what was inside, they all heard something like the roars of wild beasts.

Some of the viewers in the livestream who had followed them here didn't know what was inside either. Like the five, they thought the creatures locked up inside were animals.

[Didn't the chef say the animals here had all been bitten to death? Sure enough, you can't trust anything that guy says.]

[Now that they have food, they can escape! Hurry up. This place is really scary. I don't want to watch such a terrifying instance next time.]

[Sure enough, I made the right choice. That novelist must be the streamer. She's survived this long, so she's already one of the better rookies.]

[Yes, yes, yes! Hurry and leave, or when the big boss finds out they've escaped, he'll definitely come after them!]

[I just got here. Why are the earlier comments so funny?]

[A true gentleman watches without talking. Let's not spoil it, or it won't be fun anymore. (doge)]

[Whoa—perverts are spreading from person to person.]