Video Recording

Hollai Apartment

A standalone apartment building isolated in the suburbs, awaiting demolition.

Under the special management model of Moon City, even basic demolition work is progressing very slowly, with relevant departments dragging their feet again and again.

The apartment building has seven floors, with ten units on each floor.

Luo Di arrived precisely at midnight.

The European-style apartment looked fairly tidy from the outside, but as soon as you entered, you could smell a stench of insects and decay.

Various kinds of garbage and waste were thrown into the lobby area, and there were even some remnants of the living belongings left by homeless people.

Although there were obvious signs of homelessness, none of them were here.

Or perhaps they moved away because of some strange occurrence.

Or they were driven away.

Or they've already been killed.

Climbing the stairs

The stench that had accumulated in the lobby area did not follow. The smell from the upper level had faded considerably, but there was still a rotten smell and a faint fishy odor.

A fishy smell that only a group like the Luo Di, who are particularly sensitive to blood, can detect.

All the light bulbs in the hallway were broken.

However, due to the penetration of moonlight, it wasn't particularly dark.

Although the post did not require uploading video recordings, Luo Di kept the button camera on the whole time, just to record it for himself.

He sensed no danger, nor did he notice anyone in the apartment building. He couldn't even see a mouse or a cockroach; it was eerily quiet.

The Room 710] mentioned in the post is located at the deepest part of the top floor.

Click!

Luo Di tried to turn the Door handle but found it was locked. Although it was a very old lock that could be broken with a little force, Luo Di did not try to force it open.

He began searching the surrounding area.

Not limited to vases standing at the end of a passageway,

Various wall gaps and door seams,

The murals hanging in the passageway

Eventually, they found an unmarked key under the rug at the entrance of the next room.

Click!

They actually opened the door to Room 710.

A simple two-bedroom, one-living room layout.

Sizzle~

A traditional television set had been turned on beforehand, its screen filled with dense static, serving as the only light source in the room and illuminating the single sofa directly opposite it.

The room was very clean, clearly having been cleaned, unlike the Abandoned Apartment buildings full of dust and garbage.

The doors to both the master bedroom and the secondary bedroom were locked, and even sealed with several layers of wooden boards and chains. The windows inside the house were also sealed off.

Block the light source and seal off the exit.

Even the moonlight shining through the passageway couldn't penetrate this room at all.

The only two places that were not blocked were the entrance where Luo Di was currently located and the bathroom inside the house.

[00:17]

Luo Di officially entered the apartment requested in the post, closing and locking the door behind him.

All the lighting equipment in the house was destroyed, and the only source of light was the television.

Of course, the post did not stipulate that Luo Di was not allowed to bring equipment. He came with a hiking backpack containing various emergency items.

Turn on the flashlight to fluorescent mode.

According to the post's requirements, it is also necessary to find the so-called VHS Tape, which is an old-fashioned videotape that has long been obsolete in modern society and can only be seen in some retro movies.

The videotape was quite large and should have been easy to find, but Luo Di searched the entire living room area without success.

He could only turn the flashlight around and look at the only bathroom whose door was not sealed.

Pushing open the somewhat sticky and heavy wooden door, a fishy stench immediately wafted out, causing Luo Di's eyes to turn bloodshot.

Before the door was even opened, sunlight eagerly streamed in.

A rotten, swollen, and unrecognizable male corpse was found hanging in the bathroom.

It is shaped like an upside-down "T".

Her feet were bound with iron chains.

They are diverged at 120°.

Her genitals and abdomen were cut vertically and then sewn back together with very rough needle and thread.

Having watched many B-movies, Luo Di immediately connected the scene before him with the post's requirements, and roughly understood the "perverted taste" involved.

He walked straight to the body.

Put on gloves,

Hold your breath.

Remove the sutures sewn onto the lower abdomen.

With a whoosh, various rotting organs quickly overflowed, along with a videotape crawling with maggots hidden among the organs.

Throughout the entire process, Luo Di's expression remained largely unchanged.

Leave the bathroom quickly and close the door to prevent the smell from escaping.

After all, Luo Di was still very interested in the contents of the so-called videotape and didn't want to be affected by smells or other factors while watching it.

After wiping the surface of the videotape with a tissue.

[00:25]

The videotape started playing.

Luo Di also settled into movie-watching mode, sitting on a soft single sofa, just one meter away from the television.

The TV screen went black after displaying static, and then the image appeared as the website name "[4hs]" came on.

The scene corresponds to "Hollai Apartment," where Luo Di is currently located. Judging from the scene, the person recording is standing on the other side of the street.

Then, the screen started moving.

The photographer began walking across the street toward the apartment building's entrance.

There was no editing; it was more like a first-person video... or even a live performance.

Pushing open the apartment door,

The hallway was filled with garbage and excrement, exactly the same as the scene Luo Di had seen downstairs, even the brightness of the moonlight was almost the same.

Tap~ Tap~ Tap.

The heavy sound of leather shoes echoed as they climbed the stairs.

Although the sound was clearly coming from the television, Luo Di had the feeling of hearing echoes, as if someone was climbing the stairs of the apartment building.

The television footage showed the process of going upstairs without stopping, all the way to the top floor, the seventh floor, which was also the floor where Luo Di was.

The screen shifts to the passageway.

You can see the vase at the end and the portrait hanging on the wall; these are places Luo Di had searched for when he was looking for the key.

Tap~ Tap~ Tap~

The heavy leather shoes continued to clatter on the wooden floor of the passageway.

The television screen was perfectly synchronized with the view outside the door.

When he stepped on a rather sturdy wooden plank... creak! The unusually loud sound made Luo Di turn his head again to look at the doorway; the sound was coming from outside.

But he still turned his gaze back to the TV, since the post had rules that closing his eyes or shifting his gaze could not exceed 5 seconds.

The address [710] is shown in the videotape footage.

A large hand wearing a black leather glove appeared for the first time and gripped the Door handle.

Click!

At the same time the sound of the door lock clicking came from the television.

Luo Di also heard someone turning the door lock in reality, and he could vaguely see the Door handle turning slightly out of the corner of his eye.

Because it was locked,

The door cannot be opened directly from the inside.

The television screen immediately shifted to the red carpet on the side. As the screen descended, a large black hand lifted the carpet and took out the key that was inside.

Luo Di looked at his palm with some surprise. He had clearly taken the key beforehand, so why was there the same key in the video footage?

In the video room, the mysterious man who found the key returned to the door.

As the key was inserted into the lock, Luo Di also heard a sound from the side. The lock in the real world and the lock in the video footage were starting to turn at the same time.

Seeing this,

Luo Di's expression darkened, and he prepared to kill.

Click!

The lock on the door between the video feeds was unlocked, and a black hand suddenly pushed the door open.

At the same moment, Luo Di also looked towards the doorway.

However,

In reality, the door lock was not opened, and the door was not pushed open. Only the lock could be seen turning slightly, but it wasn't actually being opened.

Luo Di finally confirmed that the video was not synchronized with reality.

In reality, he has taken the key, and people outside cannot enter.

I breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He turned his head back to look at the video feed on the television.

The door opened, and a brown-haired young man was huddled next to the sofa, looking at the door and the person taking the photos with a panicked expression.

Luo Di could immediately tell that the brown-haired youth in the picture corresponded to the corpse hanging in the bathroom.

What follows is a scene of carnage.

This is also Luo Di's favorite storyline.

The killings depicted in the footage are more realistic because they actually happened. Luo Di witnessed the entire process of the previous commenter being hung up, killed, having the videotape stitched together, and the scene cleaned up.

It's all over.

Luo Di showed no fear, but could no longer suppress it, and a smile crept onto his face.

"It's... the same type."