"Miss, if you don't come out and help smash the door, we'll both die when he comes down from upstairs!"
Jiang Chen's anxious shout echoed through the empty corridor.
Behind a door, the woman in work clothes looked tense and hesitant. Not going out meant giving up her only chance of survival.
But if she went out, she had no way of knowing whether the person outside wanted to save her or kill her.
"No!"
"Since the man who saved me already confronted the murderer head-on and got stabbed, there's no way he could have come back down alive, let alone tricked the murderer into going upstairs. The person outside is lying!"
After thinking it through, the woman broke into a cold sweat. Thankfully, she hadn't gone out right away.
Just then, the sound of a hammer dragging came from outside. The man had stopped smashing the main door and was instead pushing open the doors to the rooms one by one, searching for her.
"Miss, don't screw me over! Come out, stop hiding! It'll take both of us working together to smash this door open. I really am the person who just saved your life."
To the woman, his voice sounded especially insincere.
"He's still pretending at a time like this. If a deranged murderer really was about to chase him down from upstairs, would he have the leisure to look for me door by door? He'd be pounding on the main door like mad, trying to escape!"
"And if one person can't smash the door open, how can you be sure two people can?"
"It's all lies!"
In the darkness, the woman sneered. She had seen through every one of his tricks.
When she heard him heading toward the other end of the corridor, she seized the opportunity,