"Eeeeee..."
The two had just exchanged hand signals and were crowded outside this two-bedroom apartment painted in Fluorescent Blood, not yet having entered, when a strange operatic voice suddenly rang out around them.
It stopped after just one sound, beginning and ending abruptly, startling them both.
Thinking of the makeup on Clyde's face, Lan Yu had some guesses. Room 201 was likely connected to elements of "opera."
"Come..."
Someone spoke. It was a woman, and both her voice and tone were strange—light and soft, as though she had squeezed the word out through her teeth like a wisp of silk.
Then, without warning, Lan Yu and Ke Xinyi seemed to have been shoved by someone and were forcibly pushed into Room 201.
Lan Yu's heart began to beat abnormally. The unfamiliar environment, combined with the supernatural setting and fluorescent blood, made him deeply uncomfortable.
"Yan Ji."
Ke Xinyi's profile looked somewhat dim amid the Fluorescent Blood and the black surroundings. The bizarre Light Source made her features appear slightly distorted; Lan Yu was probably no different.
She wrote another two words in her palm. They should have been a name.
It seemed that Room 201 had been shared by Clyde and Yan Ji from Branch No. 9.
But something had happened along the way, resulting in Clyde being the only one to escape—though he had not escaped completely.
Lan Yu looked at the Fluorescent Blood covering the walls and silently guessed that Yan Ji had died long ago. Ke Xinyi also seemed to be indicating that the person who had spoken just now was Yan Ji.
"Did she become a ghost after dying?"
With mixed feelings, he began stepping over the Fluorescent Blood and slowly moved deeper into the apartment.
This two-bedroom Room 201 did not seem particularly large. It