Slaughter Reenacted

"Bang... bang bang... bang bang bang!"

The rhythm of the knocking seemed quite deliberate. Whatever was outside, apart from its strength, wasn't overly impatient.

This strange sound became a deadly note within the oppressive atmosphere, fraying the nerves of the living inside the room.

Facing such intense psychological pressure, Ji Li showed no signs of haste.

He stared at his watch, checking the time.

"Exactly five minutes after the woman in room 702 died, the knocking started outside.

Right on time!"

Fang Shenyan, who had been intently watching Ji Li's reaction, frowned and said, "Why aren't you worried at all?"

Ji Li shook his head slightly. He straightened his back, looked at the pale faces of everyone present, and said softly:

"The dead end has indeed erupted, but I don't believe it's a full-scale outbreak.

Normally, the mission has only been underway for nearly an hour. Even if it's killing, it's most likely to kill only one person at this point!

Most importantly, it's been knocking for almost two minutes now, and it still hasn't come in...

Either it can't get in at all, or it's waiting for something..."

"A one-in-five chance..." Fang Shenyan's hand, holding his glasses, trembled slightly.

If he was like this, Cao Yuan and the others were even more panicked.

"What... what is it waiting for?" Yu Guo asked anxiously.

Ji Li hesitated for a moment, then, to everyone's horrified gaze, he stood up and walked directly to the door!

"What are you doing?"

Ji Li waved his hand without looking back, walking towards the dark security door.

He took a deep breath and pressed his face against the peephole.

This time, the sensation was similar to before. His cheek felt a chill, and the view from the peephole shifted from blurry to clear.

At the same time, as Ji Li approached, the knocking suddenly stopped.

And through the peephole, Ji Li saw a figure dressed in a dark raincoat...

Standing motionless outside the door, as if it could see through the door to observe Ji Li inside!

The raincoat's hood obscured most of the face, so Ji Li couldn't make out the person's appearance. However, from the stubble on the chin, he could tell it was a man!

As Ji Li watched, that half-visible face began to stretch, little by little...

Gradually, it curved into a deeply enigmatic smile.

Ji Li had never seen a smile so strange and twisted. The skin on the face seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, contorting into a split and forced curve!

He became increasingly convinced that the man outside could indeed see through the door!

Because after Ji Li arrived, the man actually turned and opened the door to room 702, walking inside!

Ji Li slowly pulled away from the peephole, his brow furrowed, and he was speechless.

"What did you see?" Fang Shenyan's glasses glinted as he asked the question everyone was eager to hear.

"I saw a man...

He's probably the ghost, but he turned around and went back into 702..."

But before he could finish speaking, Ji Li's throat suddenly constricted!

His body stiffened for a moment, and then he immediately rushed to the center of the living room, grabbing Ding Miaoxin, who had been lying limply on the ground!

At this moment, Ding Miaoxin's body was as soft as noodles, and she was pulled up from the ground with almost no effort!

Her bones seemed to have all been shattered. Ji Li was holding a loose corpse...

Ding Miaoxin was dead!

Fang Shenyan, Yu Guo, and Cao Yuan hurried over. No one was mentally prepared for Ding Miaoxin's death.

Even when Ji Li said the man outside had left, they had secretly rejoiced that no one else had died.

But...

"Silently, without even entering the door, Ding Miaoxin died first!" Yu Guo's face turned red, and he kicked over the coffee table!

Fang Shenyan silently smoked, his face deathly pale.

Cao Yuan's eyes were red. He desperately wanted to step forward and take Ding Miaoxin's body, but he lacked the courage.

In his opinion, he should have been the closest to the ghost at first.

When the knocking started, he only thought about escaping himself and didn't even pull Ding Miaoxin, who was beside him!

Yu Guo was the only one who handled the body. He placed Ding Miaoxin on the sofa, then turned to look at Ji Li:

"The ghost rule envelope you sent us, the mission type it contained, this is clearly a survival mission.

But in a house this size, no more than a hundred square meters, there's no way we can survive the night!"

After witnessing his companion's death, he lost his previous "carelessness," his words carrying a sense of dejection.

Ji Li frowned, remaining silent. In truth, his mind was in utter chaos.

There were too many things he couldn't understand. He felt that everything happening in rooms 701 and 702 had an indescribable sense of incongruity.

He was now certain the perverted man was the ghost, but why didn't he enter the rooms!

After all, he was the owner of this room. There had to be a way to open the door. Why use such a blatant method to kill someone?

And what about the sixth person he had been so worried about!

It had been an hour since the mission began, but where was the replacement?

Yu Guo's dejection, Fang Shenyan's silence, Cao Yuan's panic – Ji Li had no way to change their conditions.

However, after hesitating for a long while, he spoke, "This mission, there was actually supposed to be a sixth person..."

Yu Guo and Cao Yuan crowded behind him, their faces filled with shock.

Ji Li tilted his head back and quietly explained everything.

Yu Guo paced back and forth, and after pondering for a long time, he said, "Perhaps... this sixth person will become our breakthrough..."

Ji Li took out a cigarette from his pocket again. This habit brought him clarity of thought.

Inside the room, only four male staff members remained. Amidst the smoke, Yu Guo was about to speak.

But suddenly, everyone heard a muffled thud...

It sounded like something hitting a wall!

"Master bedroom!"

Ji Li was the first to react, flicking away his cigarette and rushing towards the master bedroom. He could clearly hear that the sound was still coming from the adjacent room, 702!

The four staff members sprinted to the master bedroom and uniformly focused their gaze on the east wall.

A beam of light reappeared from the small hole. It was obvious that room 702 had turned on the lights again!

"Why! Why!"

"Wuwuwu..."

Ji Li heard a man's low growl and a woman's whimper, which made him even more bewildered.

Without time to think further, he immediately took out his phone and, just like last time, pointed the camera at the hole.

This time, the image was much clearer and more complete than before, as if the events had just begun.

Under the cold light of the camera, in the shaky footage.

He saw a man in a black raincoat straddling a woman in a long dress, his pale hands tightly gripping her slender neck.

"Again? Killed and killed again?"

Yu Guo's eyelids twitched. He rubbed his eyes vigorously, feeling as if everything before him was an illusion.

Fang Shenyan abruptly turned to look at Ji Li, whose expression was shifting unpredictably, and said in a deep voice, "No! Your theory just now was wrong!"

The Third Personality also spoke in Ji Li's mind simultaneously:

"Our guess about the dead end was half right and half wrong!

The killing scene doesn't appear all at once, but repeats!

The killing pattern is that only one person can be killed at a time, and it happens after repeatedly killing that woman!"

The two voices boomed in Ji Li's ears. At the same time, he glanced down at his watch, determined not to watch any longer.

Ji Li quickly put his phone away and, with swift decisiveness, ran to the window, sticking his head out to gauge the distance between room 701's window and room 702's window.

Then, he turned to look at Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo, his clear voice echoing in the midnight air!

"Everything is repeating. After the Raincoat Man kills the woman, he'll come to room 701 to kill us in five minutes!"

Cao Yuan was completely terrified. He couldn't understand how someone who had already been killed could reappear and be killed again!

"According to this killing pattern, if we can stop the Raincoat Man from killing the woman, won't we be able to indefinitely delay the arrival of the dead end?

Thus, achieving a path to survival!"