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This frequency of putty scraping, the light from the flashlight shines on it and one can clearly see the putty has different thicknesses, one area deep, another shallow, as if it was smeared on randomly, and the area she scraped was at the base of the wall, precisely where it is thickest.

Underneath the ghostly white putty is a black wall, Zhao Mingyue could tell at a glance that these are traces of burning.

The eerie part was here, she used her finger to slightly pick some of the black soot, and with a pinch between her two fingers, the coarse, earthy soot actually showed a dark red color!

Bringing her fingers close to her nose for a light sniff, a pungent odor with a hint of foulness hit her, like the smell of blood water in a fridge that has been turned off during summer, rotting under high temperatures, mixed with a scent of earth and disinfectant.

“What on earth is this……”

Zhao Mingyue frantically called out Bai Yu’s name in her mind, she really wanted to know what was on her hands, whether it was blood or something else, and if it was blood, was it human blood?

“Don’t ask, it’s blood, human blood.” Bai Yu quickly gave the answer.

“Human… human blood?” Zhao Mingyue’s pupils shrank, and she couldn’t say she wasn’t scared, that would be a lie, even with her high mental fortitude, this was her first task.

“What should I do, should I call the police?”

Hearing that there was human blood in the wall, Zhao Mingyue’s first thought was to call the police.

“Don’t panic, hold steady, listen to me, now take a few steps forward, and make a mark on the wall with each step.”

“Okay!”

Scared as she was, Zhao Mingyue clenched the magic staff in her hands tightly, squatting on the ground, scraping the wall with each step forward, and after six steps, Bai Yu told her to stop.

“Is it all blood?” Swallowing subconsciously, Zhao Mingyue could already see clearly with the help of the flashlight that every scrape was the same as the first, with black burn marks tinged with dark red blood.

“This blood has been here for a long time, in other words, the body that produced this blood has been here for a long time, and there’s not just blood in here, there are other things too.”

Bai Yu’s voice rose from the bottom of Zhao Mingyue’s heart, but the content made her shiver.

“If I’m not wrong, there must be a room in this building soaked with a corpse, and this corpse is most likely a victim of a fire, most likely being the woman who used to live on the fifth floor.”

“Blood from a corpse? Then how did the blood end up in the walls?”

“Blood certainly doesn’t appear here out of nowhere, I can also tell you, this blood is definitely not the work of that female ghost, but someone did it on purpose.”

Zhao Mingyue was dumbfounded, “You mean, a living person deliberately smeared this blood on the walls?”

“Yes.”

“Why would they do that?”

“Not clear yet.”

“Is the disinfectant meant to cover up these smells?” Zhao Mingyue thought of the key to the matter, “But why only on the fourth and fifth floors, I haven’t seen it from the first to the third floor.”

“Not clear, but you’ll find out tonight, keep going.”

The game hadn’t officially started yet, it was still the preparation phase, and Zhao Mingyue was already hit hard, she was walking along the wall, but after Bai Yu told her some information, she jumped away, now she didn’t dare to walk along the wall anymore.

She bravely went to room 405, still unoccupied, until she reached the end at 408, Zhao Mingyue saw signs of life.

She tried knocking on the door, the knocking sound was especially noticeable in the quiet, dark corridor.

Seeing no one opened the door, Zhao Mingyue gathered her courage and knocked a few more times, just then, the door behind the iron doorsuddenly opened, a face with sunken eye sockets and full of vicissitudes suddenly appeared, it was a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man reached out to grab Zhao Mingyue’s wrist, but luckily, Zhao Mingyue reacted quickly and dodged.

“What is it, hurry up and say.” The man looked impatient.

“No, no problem, I’m a resident here, I wanted to ask, do you know when the electricity will come back on in the building?” Zhao Mingyue subtly stepped back, her hand behind her tightened around the staff handle.

This man was standing behind the door the first time she knocked, the second time she knocked, he was peering through the peephole at her, and when she knocked again, he quickly opened the door trying to grab her wrist.

“Do you need something, you can come in and talk, I can lend you some candles or a flashlight.” The man’s attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees, he tried to smile, but this smile made Zhao Mingyue extremely scared.

The man’s room behind him was a mess, with bottles of alcohol and various takeout boxes and long-haired, smelly instant noodle boxes everywhere, the small rental room had almost no place to stand.

“No, no, no need, I have candles at home.”

Just as Zhao Mingyue was about to leave, the man slammed the door shut, but as Zhao Mingyue walked away, the door cracked open again, and a pair of eyes peeked through the gap at Zhao Mingyue’s retreating figure.

Having confirmed the fourth floor’s residents, Zhao Mingyue headed to the stairwell.

Nothing was discovered on the fourth floor for now, and she hadn’t even been to the fifth floor once.

Feeling a bit uneasy, judging from the subtasks of the task, things were definitely not that simple, perhaps the real horror was on the fifth floor.

“There’s only one household on the fourth floor, and they’re not easy to communicate with, so is there anyone living on the fifth floor?”

The stairwell leading to the fifth floor seemed to be completely hidden in darkness, who knows if a pair of eyes were hiding there, watching her.

Just as Zhao Mingyue’s foot stepped onto the stairs, footsteps suddenly came from downstairs.

She was familiar with these footsteps, as if wearing a pair of water-filled shoes walking in the corridor, each step making a slight squelch.

Isn’t that the new tenant?

Zhao Mingyue took a step back, but knocking sounds came from the corridor, it was the man knocking on doors one by one!

Now there were two paths to take, either go back to her room immediately, waiting for the man to knock on doors floor by floor, which would waste time, it was already 11:35.

By the time she opened and closed the door, she might encounter this strange man.

The other path was to go up to the fifth floor right now, if the man followed, she would circle around with him, if he didn’t follow, even better.

The knocking downstairs was very violent and impatient, as if the man really had something urgent, but the weird thing was, if he was so anxious, knocking hard the whole time, why didn’t he say a word?

Another point to note was that the man had already knocked on the third door, and not a single household opened the door to check.

“Don’t wait, the game is about to start, I have to get to the thirteenth step of the fifth floor before twelve o’clock.”