Cat and Mouse

Because of the strange things that happened to Eric, everyone quickly gathered around.

Before long, someone in the crowd recognized the origin of the severed finger.

"These are Bob's fingers."

The man who spoke was named Joshua. He pointed to the severed finger on the table, and his face was quite pale.

"I recognize this Ring. Bob always wore it like a treasure... How did it end up in the wine glass along with this finger!?"

"This is Supernatural Event; guns won't solve the problem. We need to get out of here immediately!!"

After rinsing his mouth several times with Mineral Water, Eric quickly shouted loudly.

"Run! We have to run! Staying here means certain death. Only by running away can we have a chance to survive!!"

"Shut up."

He glanced at the other person, holding the Hunting Rifle in his hand, and spoke coldly in an instant.

"FUCK!! Are you all Madman!? We're not facing Monster that can be harmed with Hunting Rifle, we're facing ghosts!! Supernatural beings that we can't understand!!"

Seemingly provoked by the severed finger, Eric went berserk.

"While we still have a car, let's drive away and maybe we can escape..."

Before he could finish his sentence, several loud Explosion suddenly rang out from downstairs at the villa.

"You'd better not say anything... the car's gone now."

After glancing down through the window, Xia Wen turned to look at the crowd and spoke without a word.

"..."

After a slight pause, Eric ran to the window like a madman and flung it open before anyone could react.

In an instant, a cold wind, carrying large snowflakes, swept into the house.

Joshua was closest to the other person, and upon seeing his actions, he immediately became anxious, rushed forward, grabbed the other person's hand, and began to verbally reprimand him loudly.

"Are you crazy!? There are... [people] outside..."

Joshua had only uttered half a sentence when he involuntarily stopped, looking at Eric, whom he had grabbed, with an uncontrollable expression of fear on his face.

The person he was grabbing at that moment wasn't Eric at all, but Bob, whose body had been completely twisted and contorted like a pretzel earlier!

At this moment, due to the force exerted by his hand, the other party's twisted body uncontrollably fell towards him, its face turned towards him, and its extremely distorted face also carried a rather eerie and chilling smile.

"Bang!!"

Without hesitation, Bai Zhi and Shana simultaneously pulled the triggers of their Hunting Rifle. At such close range, there was no need for any special "sunset red shooting technique" setting.

In an instant, accompanied by two gunshots fired almost simultaneously, Bob's extremely contorted body was instantly torn to pieces.

After finally managing to pull Joshua, who was terrified and covered in blood, to his feet and kicking the mangled, twisted corpse aside, Bai Zhi and Shana quickly grabbed their Hunting Rifle and went to the window, peering down below.

Then, they couldn't help but be slightly taken aback.

The car that should have been destroyed in the previous Explosion is now completely intact, and Eric, who had disappeared, has mysteriously appeared in the back seat of a car below.

At that moment, the other person was struggling to climb out of the car window, but inside the pitch-black car, it was as if some extremely terrifying entity was slowly pulling them inside...

For a moment, only Eric's horribly distorted screams echoed from below.

Then, at the exact moment the other person was completely pulled into the car, the screams abruptly stopped.

Without much hesitation, Bai Zhi and Shana decisively raised their Hunting Rifle and fired towards the front seat of the car. However, it was clear that the power of such Hunting Rifle was simply insufficient to stop the terrifying Monster lurking inside the vehicle.

Even inside the car below, as if deliberately provoking them, loud music was blaring from the car's speakers.

With the headlights switched on, the car roared to life and crashed head-on into the villa's gate. After smashing through the gate, the car carrying Eric disappeared into the vast snowy night.

"..."

Slightly narrowing his eyes, Bai Zhi and Shana beside him lowered their Hunting Rifle.

From beginning to end, the Monster never revealed its face or made a sound, but the series of incidents it caused successfully terrified everyone.

"That's impossible! When I looked down earlier, the cars below were clearly destroyed. How could they be...?"

Looking down through the now-closed window, Annie, played by Xia Wen, looked on incredulously.

"Eric is right, they are deliberately playing Cat and Mouse Game."

Taking a deep breath, Victoria, played by [Moonlit Snow, Dark Clouds Part], began to speak in a deep voice.

"Now that they've driven away, we can take this opportunity to drive off too. It's better to do that than to sit here and wait to die."

"Don't even think about it. Those cars down there, which were perfectly fine, turned back into wrecked vehicles the moment you said that, and they're completely unusable now."

Holding the Hunting Rifle in his hand, Bai Zhi leaned against the window, glanced down sideways, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"... What?"

After a brief moment of stunned silence, not only Victoria but everyone else gathered at the window. Upon seeing the wreckage of the several destroyed cars below, their expressions immediately turned grim.

Clearly, this is a Cat and Mouse Game, with the cat as the player and the mice being played by it.

"Wait, is Bob's body just lying here? Don't you want to do anything about it?"

Having already removed his blood-stained clothes and washed his face, Joshua trembled as he pointed to the twisted, mangled corpse in the corner, riddled with Bullet from Hunting Rifle.

Just recently, he had a very close encounter with that twisted corpse, and the bizarre smile on that extremely distorted face would probably be a nightmare for him for the rest of his life.

--If he manages to survive tonight.

"... Just throw it out the window; there's no better way to handle it now."

After a moment of silence, Bai Zhi began to speak.

"The other party will probably be returning in a while. Before they return, let's discuss our next steps together."

Turning his head to look out the window, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Even a cornered dog will jump over a wall, let alone a rat?"