Newcomer?!

Bai Yuze drew a sharp breath, doing his best to remain calm.

Fortunately, although the corpse had been staring at him through the crack in the door, it was currently the safe period, allowing Bai Yuze to enter Room 102 with confidence.

Bai Yuze pushed open the wooden door of 102. The corpse, caught by the momentum, began to tip backward, and Bai Yuze instinctively grabbed its arm to help it maintain its balance.

"Strange? Logically speaking, a corpse should be ice-cold, so why is this guy's hand so warm?"

Bai Yuze felt the heat radiating from his palm, and a flicker of doubt arose in his heart, but the current situation left him no time to dwell on other matters.

He first laid the corpse onto the bed in the room, then pulled the scalpel that had been embedded in the wooden door free.

The scalpel was still stained with blood, and its tip glinted with a cold light, looking incredibly sharp.

"My apologies."

Bai Yuze walked over to the corpse, used the scalpel to cut a piece of fabric from its clothing, and carefully wiped the blade clean.

Once the blood was wiped away, a character appeared on the handle.

[Liu]

"Doctor Liu?"

Bai Yuze looked at the corpse lying on the bed, his mind racing.

(Is this corpse a doctor? Or did a doctor named Liu kill this person?)

Creak—

The wooden door behind Bai Yuze was pushed open once more, and Yuigahama silently poked her little head out from behind it. After confirming there was no danger, she uttered her classic line.

"Yahallo! Little Ze!"

"What the hell is a 'Yahallo'? And stop calling me Little Ze."

Bai Yuze felt speechless. He suddenly felt that the Tuanzi before him was somewhat unfamiliar; was the Tuanzi from the original work this airheaded?

"Ahee, what does it matter, Little Ze?"

"I really can't do anything with you, Tuanzi!"

Adhering to the principle of "if you can't beat them, join them," Bai Yuze decided to use the nickname he had for Yuigahama in his previous life.

"Eh? Tuanzi? Why are you calling me that?"

Yuigahama was stunned for a moment, then, seemingly realizing something, she quickly made a gesture to cover her chest.

"Little Ze is so lewd! Baka! Hentai!"

"Are you misunderstanding something... your hair is just a bun, so I called you Tuanzi."

Bai Yuze couldn't help but rub his forehead. Did he look like some kind of shameless person? Though, the texture of Tuanzi's hair was indeed quite wonderful...

Yukino entered the room at this moment.

"Are there any important clues?"

"Only this scalpel, though there is a 'Liu' character on it."

"It seems we have no choice but to go out and search for clues. It is the safe period now, right?"

Yukino held a clock in her other hand, and the time displayed on it was exactly 12:00 PM.

"That's right. Whether it's the time in the outside world or inside, it's daytime, and daytime is absolutely safe. Therefore, now is the best time to search for clues."

Time waited for no one, and the three immediately divided their tasks. Yukino and Tuanzi would go to 103 as a group, while Bai Yuze would search 106. As for rooms 107, 108, and 105, the three decided to check them together once the other rooms had been searched.

"You guys take this knife."

Bai Yuze handed the scalpel to Yukino, but she shook her head and did not take it.

"You keep it. The room you are searching is closer to 105. Don't forget, you deceived it; from its words, it's clear it fears this knife, so if any accident occurs, you'll at least have a means of self-defense."

"Little Yukinon is quite concerned about Little Ze, aren't you?"

Tuanzi looked at Yukino playfully, to which Yukino replied with a cold face.

"The best way out right now is for us to help each other. No matter who is lost, it won't benefit the other two."

"Oh! Little Yukinon really has foresight!"

The time for banter ended quickly. Once the plan was set, the two girls and Bai Yuze headed toward their respective rooms.

Bai Yuze walked up to Room 106, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open.

"This is!"

Bai Yuze froze. He hadn't expected to run into a student from his own school in this godforsaken place, but this person was a bit of a problem...

Looking at Yamauchi Haruki lying on the bed, Bai Yuze fell into deep thought.

Good news: Met a student from the same school!

Bad news: It's Lord Yamauchi!

Having known the original plot, Bai Yuze had a deep impression of Yamauchi Haruki, affectionately dubbed by readers as the "Number One Backstabber."

"Tch, is this guy going to backstab me? Should I just finish him off right now?"

A dangerous thought sprouted in the mind of Bai Yuze, but he quickly suppressed it.

Ignoring Yamauchi Haruki, who was fast asleep on the bed, Bai Yuze began searching the room for other clues.

However, he searched the entire room and found no hints whatsoever.

"Could it be..."

Bai Yuze approached Yamauchi Haruki and reached into his pocket.

Sure enough, he pulled a slip of paper from the other man's pocket.

"How strange, why would a note be in his pocket?"

Bai Yuze wondered aloud while examining the contents of the note.

[This is my second week in this residence, and I have grown accustomed to the strange occurrences, but to think that newcomers would actually enter this place!]

[Monday: I tried to help them, but they always held great hostility toward me. I know it is hard for people to trust strangers in an unfamiliar and dangerous environment.]

[Tuesday: I personally do not like doing thankless tasks, so after they rejected my proposals multiple times, I gave up on them. As expected, they died.]

[Wednesday: I can feel it becoming somewhat abnormal. Could it be because I abandoned those newcomers? Good heavens! This is simply making things difficult for me!]

[Thursday: I often dream of a scorched earth where something seems to be calling out to me. I feel like I am getting closer and closer to the answer.]

[Friday: My memory is getting worse. Will I one day forget how to read and write and become an infant who knows nothing of the world?]

[Saturday: I feel that I cannot give up on those newcomers. I have decided to use some methods to protect them, even if it costs me my life.]

[Sunday: It actually spoke to me! It said... I am still the same me, I haven't changed at all... Could it be that we knew each other once?]

The note looked as if it had been torn, and on the other side was the incomplete set of rules.

[8. The residence provides food for all tenants every morning, but please confirm whether the food is normal.]

[9. Keeping animals in the residence is prohibited. If you discover someone keeping an animal, please inform the front desk immediately. The front desk lives in 108.]

[10. Respect is mutual. When communicating with the front desk, do not make eye contact.]

[11. The front desk sometimes becomes very strange. Rest assured, it is just sick.]

[12. Please do not count the steps when climbing the stairs.] The handwriting is neater here (One step more is heaven, one step less is the void.)