The Door Corresponding to the Sixth Key

The sudden sound behind her startled the Night Owl, who nearly fell off the bed in her panic.

Although she didn't fall off the bed, the consequences weren't much better... because a certain timid Young Girl used her left hand to support herself in the chaos.

"... You need to build up your courage."

After staring silently at the Night Owl who was in so much pain he was almost crying for a moment, Bai Zhi took off his shoes, stood on the bed, and lifted the black cloth that the Night Owl had used to cover the posters on the wall.

--Those dull knocks came from here.

In each room, there are these three posters, only the content of the posters is different. In the Night Owl's room, the three posters are a little boy sitting under a desk lamp, engrossed in studying, a middle-aged man standing at a window looking out at the sea, and a Woman standing by the roadside holding an umbrella, waiting for a car.

The heavy knocking sound came from the door depicted in the two posters above.

Seemingly because he heard the knocking, the little boy who was engrossed in studying under the lamp turned his head. Although only half of his face was visible, it was clear from that half that he was not human.

Its eyes were completely black, as dark as ink, and its chin and face were covered with dense pustules, making it look extremely strange and disgusting, more like Demon crawling out of Hell.

The middle-aged man standing by the window gazing at the distant sea didn't turn around, but several slippery, fat, pale white tentacles emerged from his clothes, meandering towards the doorway.

The Woman holding the umbrella in the last poster looks relatively normal, like a human, but you can vaguely see blood and bits of flesh piled up at her feet. From Bai Zhi's angle, you can glimpse the hideous teeth under the umbrella... It's a man-eating umbrella feeding on something.

"I have a feeling that all these posters are full of malice..."

After glancing at the three posters in front of him, Bai Zhi lowered the black cloth that had been used to cover them again.

When the Night Owl nailed the black cloth to the wall to cover these posters, the images on the posters could not possibly have been as he just saw them. As time went by, these posters, which originally looked perfectly normal, seemed to be gradually changing in a non-human and eerie direction.

"It's nothing, don't worry about it."

After getting out of bed, Bai Zhi calmly spoke to the Night Owl.

The Night Owl said his arm hurt so much he didn't want to talk.

However, talk is cheap, and action is another matter. Considering the possibility of some unexpected events, Bai Zhi still made ample preparations in the room.

[Radiance] had already loaded the magazine and was in his hand, and the five Walnut were arranged in a neat row in the room, with a Shadow Guard lurking in his shadow... He could attack or defend as needed.

Meanwhile, Bai Zhi was also silently drinking to replenish his energy, increase his damage output, raise his maximum Spiritual Energy level, and improve his physical recovery speed, among other things.

Although his alcohol tolerance isn't great, it's not terrible either. With his self-control, he can maintain a certain level of tolerance.

The knocking continued relentlessly inside the room. The doors in the two posters, and the Security Door in this room in reality, sounded a bit eerie, but you get used to it and it's not so strange after all.

--For Bai Zhi.

Meanwhile, in room [503], which is separated from room [504] by only one wall, sporadic footsteps and strange chewing sounds are gradually approaching and constantly coming from inside the room.

Bai Zhi is in room [504]. Room [503] should theoretically be empty... but it's just "empty" in a different form.

Time, silently and swiftly, slipped away.

At some point, all the Lights in the rooms, hallways, and lobby suddenly went out, plunging the entire Apartment into complete darkness.

In the darkness, the door to room [505] was opened silently, and a woman dressed entirely in black, wearing Zither-Drum Harmony, walked out of the room with unusual lightness.

After carefully placing the Key in his pocket to make sure it wouldn't make a sound, Zither-Drum Harmony closed the door and walked into the darkness before him.

In this pitch-black darkness, where even common light is swallowed up, the Zither-Drum Harmony seem to move through the darkness as if they were in their own water.

As the Floor Administrator, she was granted the ability to see in the dark.

As they passed by the dark passage in front of room [503], Zither-Drum Harmony couldn't help but turn his head and peek inside.

She knew that Black&White hadn't stayed in her room tonight, but had instead gone to Night Owl's place to take care of him. So, what exactly could happen in a room where no Resident was staying at night...?

To be honest, she was very curious.

Then, she saw a giant eyeball.

[503] The door to room number [503] was wide open, and an eyeball about the same size as the door was squeezed in the doorway. The end of the eyeball was connected to a considerable number of synaptic nerves. It was unclear whether it wanted to squeeze out of the door or squeeze in from the outside.

Regardless of whether the other person had noticed them or not, after one glance, they dared not look any longer Zither-Drum Harmony quickly left the place.

Nighttime is when the Anomaly lurking in every floor come alive, with all sorts of monsters and ghosts appearing. The eyeball she saw earlier was relatively harmless; there were countless other bizarre and gruesome things...

These Anomaly usually remain hidden in the shadows.

Looks like I'll have to subtly remind him tomorrow... provided that he's not the one who wants to kill me.

While muttering this to herself, Zither-Drum Harmony arrived at the Circular Hall. With a dark expression, she took away the note that someone had somehow placed on the table with a cup. Then, she took out her Key, opened the door to the stairwell, and cautiously walked down into the dark stairwell.

Although she had been here twice before, she was still walking on thin ice this time. After descending half a step, she came to a platform, and on the inside of the platform, there was a door.

The platform is located at the midway point between two floors, and there is a door on the wall directly opposite it, with several handcarts placed next to the door.

There's no need to go any further from here, because the same applies to the platforms below. Also, recklessly venturing into other floors could result in an attack, and she didn't want to die from her curiosity.

Pushing one of the carts out, Zither-Drum Harmony picked up the sixth Key and opened the door in front of him.

There is an elevator at the entrance.