They had all been turned into corpses

"Breaking the rules?"

Wen Zhishu: "What rules?"

Huo Wujìu: "It's probably some kind of pattern. For example, those corpses couldn't leave a certain area of the building before, but after breaking the rule, they can go out again."

He was frantically trying to figure out why the rule had been broken.

Because of the official...?

No, the officials didn't cross that dividing line, so it shouldn't have any impact.

But the corpse couldn't get out either. Why would someone suddenly die in the building next door?

Could a corpse have entered?

But if the corpses possessed the ability to defy the rules from the beginning, he didn't believe they could have endured it for so long.

Or were they playing hard to get, using a group of corpses to distract them while sending a few to sneak around and kill the neighbors?

Is this thing really that intelligent?

Wen Zhishu was searching for something, and Huo Wujìu but pull him away to prevent him from wandering off and getting into trouble.

What are you looking for?

"Ropes? Those corpses seem impossible to kill, so our only option is to tie them up, right?"

"Where would you find any rope here...?"

Wen Zhishu was already crouching in front of a door, trying to pry open the lock with a wire he had picked up from somewhere.

"You know how to pick locks?"

"How could I possibly possess such torture skills?"

"What are you doing?"

"Give it a try, what if we can pry it open?"

After trying to pry it open for a while, the wire bent, and Wen Zhishu had no choice but to give up. "Well, it seems I'll never learn this skill."

Shen Yu could give it a try; maybe he could actually open it. But he didn't have much time right now, so he took out another roll of fishing line from his backpack.

This thing is thin yet resilient, and it doesn't break easily, making it perfect for bundling things.

Is your bag some kind of magical toolbox? It seems to have everything!

Wen Zhishu curiously rummaged through Shen Yu's backpack. It didn't look heavy, but it felt like it was filled with a lot of things.

Shen Yu: "After all, the place we're going to is very magical, so of course we need to be well prepared."

It's nighttime now, and most people have already gone home from get off work.

This residential building does not have an elevator.

"Speaking of which, the doors are always closed. Even if there are corpses, they couldn't possibly get inside, right?"

Huo Wujìu looked at Wen Zhishu with a speechless expression.

He raised his hand and pounded on the door several times. "There's a fire upstairs! Open the door!"

Wen Zhishu but touch his hair. "Wow, there's even this method?"

We took pictures for a while.

The people on this floor finally opened the door.

It looks like this family is still eating. "What's wrong?"

"There's a fire upstairs, get out of here quickly."

The man's expression changed, and he hurriedly ran home to call his family.

"Let's continue."

They went up to the third floor and saw two open doors, the ground covered in blood.

They continued walking uphill in silence.

Except for the second floor, almost all the doors were open, and the inside was a mess, with bloodstains everywhere, but there were no corpses.

Shen Yu suddenly raised her hand, signaling them to stop. "There's no need to go up."

"What? Aren't we going to look for that variable?"

Even if we find them now, we can't beat them.

"You mean..."

"These people who disappeared may all have been turned into corpses."

Wen Zhishu turned pale whenever he thought about how many people lived in this building.