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After the villa's female owner left, everyone returned to the lobby, and after briefly introducing themselves, they began to discuss how to take care of the old lady.
Among them, Yan Youping, the short, skinny girl with a ponytail, weakly raised her small hand.
"Ah... Tell me, how did everyone get on the bus?"
"I, I was originally playing on my phone on the high-speed train, I played until I fell asleep, then... I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I was already on the bus."
"Me too, I was originally working overtime at the company, but I suddenly felt very sleepy..."
Everyone spoke up one by one, comparing themselves, and discovered that the way they got on the bus was exactly the same.
This strange coincidence made their already confused mood even more frightened!
"Damn... I really saw a ghost..."
Liu Renfeng cursed with his goatee.
Yan Youping was silent for a moment, then weakly said:
"Everyone, tell me, is it possible... This is some kind of program, using this method to invite us to participate in a reality TV show?"
"Anyway, I watched it on TV before..."
Before she could finish her words, Liu Renfeng coldly interrupted her with a laugh:
"You've already forgotten that fat guy so quickly?"
"Is the TV show going to kill people and skin them?"
Yan Youping trembled violently, but still stubbornly insisted:
"What if... What if it's just a prop?"
"Is blood also a prop?"
"Who knows, what if it's chicken blood, dog blood..."
Yan Youping still wanted to deceive herself, but Ning Qiushui's sudden words broke the last line of defense in her heart:
"It's not animal blood."
Everyone looked towards Ning Qiushui.
He seemed to have accepted all of this, appearing extremely calm.
"I used to be a veterinarian, very sensitive to smells, the smell of blood from cats, dogs, pigs, goats, buffaloes, chickens, ducks, fish, geese, pigeons and human blood has a clear difference."
"For example, goat blood is very smelly, while human blood has a distinct fishy smell..."
"I can confirm to everyone, the blood on the traffic light pole at that time was definitely human blood."
"Moreover... it was fresh human blood!"
After Ning Qiushui finished speaking, Yan Youping trembled in fear, hugging her knees and sobbing:
"Don't say anymore..."
"Please...don't say anymore..."
Seeing her like this, Ning Qiushui's tone softened a bit.
No wonder this girl was scared.
If ordinary people in real life saw the previous scene, they would probably have a psychological shadow for a long time, unable to be dispelled.
Only those who often come into contact with corpses could be relatively calmer.
After all... that scene was really too bloody!
"It's best to think of a way to get through these 5 days first."
Xie Guize, a normal-looking man, 1m70 tall, with sparkling eyes, spoke up.
"There are 7 of us in total, this time the mission is to take care of the bedridden old lady for 5 days, how do you guys plan to divide the work?"
Everyone looked at each other, Ning Qiushui saw that no one spoke, so she said:
"Then, three girls will be in charge of cooking and washing, the four of us will be in charge of taking care of the old lady..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Wang Yuning, the beautiful woman wearing gold earrings, immediately spoke sarcastically:
"Oh, women have to do laundry and cook for you stinky men?"
"You guys are really lazy, hearing the female owner say that the old lady was bedridden and couldn't move, you guys immediately fought to go take care of her... Do you think we're idiots?"
"You said you'd take care of the old lady, you probably don't have to do anything, just sit there and do nothing, right?"
Hearing Wang Yuning say that, Liu Renfeng immediately couldn't help but lift his chin and said:
"So stinky... Such a good girl, why does her mouth smell like shit?"
Wang Yuning's face also darkened:
"Who are you cursing?"
Liu Renfeng still wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Ning Qiushui.
"You don't want to do the laundry and cook, I can change for you, you go take care of the old lady, from 9am to 10pm, by 10pm it will be dark, we will go wash up and rest."
Wang Yuning looked at Ning Qiushui, coldly snorted.
"Then... thank you."
Even though she said that, her tone was completely devoid of any gratitude.
It was full of sarcasm.
"That's right... it's already past 5 o'clock, I'm hungry, don't you want to cook? Go."
Ning Qiushui looked at Wang Yuning deeply, didn't say anything more, turned around and said to the two girls:
"Do you two want to change?"
Yizhi, the girl who had been silent all this time, raised her hand.
"I..."
"Sorry, I really don't know how to cook."
Compared to Wang Yuning's unpleasant appearance, Nha Mat looked much more sincere.
In this society, there were many people who were spoiled since childhood, and didn't know how to cook, both men and women, this was not strange.
"Does anyone know how to cook?"
The remaining three men pondered for a while, Liu Renfeng couldn't help but say:
"Sigh, alright, I'll cook and do the laundry with you!"
"What a bunch of useless people, they don't even know how to cook and do the laundry!"
Wang Yuning said coldly:
"Hey you rude guy, clean up your mouth!"
Liu Renfeng glared, pointed at Wang Yuning and said:
"If it wasn't for me not hitting women, you would have died today!"
Wang Yuning laughed coldly, stomping her high heels "clack clack clack" and going upstairs.
The kitchen was on the first floor, the old lady was on the second floor, the villa was very large, everyone was busy with their own work, so they separated.
Liu Renfeng resentfully followed Ning Qiushui into the kitchen.
Yan Youping was also with her, the girl kept sobbing.
"Alright, stop cursing."
Entering the kitchen, Ning Qiushui was really annoyed by him, so she interrupted Liu Renfeng.
"Isn't it... You can't take it anymore?"
Liu Renfeng glared.
Ning Qiushui opened the refrigerator and started taking out food.
"Do you really think that taking care of that old lady... is a good thing?"
Hearing this, Liu Renfeng's breathing suddenly stopped.
"Little dude, what do you mean?"
Ning Qiushui slowly turned his head and looked at Liu Renfeng and Yan Youping who were standing beside him.
"Do you remember what the man in the suit in the black mansion said to us?"
"After we returned from the blood gate alive, they told us the answer."
"This means, the world beyond the blood door... is unimaginably dangerous!"
After he finished speaking, Yan Youping's small body trembled again!
Her voice trembled as she said, "Danger... what danger?"
Ning Qiushui shook his head.
"It's not clear yet... But if the mission on the blood door is to take care of the old lady, then more than half of the danger is related to that old lady."
"In short... being careful is the best."
Hearing Ning Qiushui's instructions, Liu Renfeng glanced around, secretly counting his fingers, the gloomy expression before disappeared, hehehe said:
"Little dude, I think what you said makes sense, I will follow you."
Ning Qiushui looked at Liu Renfeng with some surprise, shook his head, and said nothing more.
He took out the vegetables from the refrigerator, then looked towards the freezer.
As expected, there was a lot of meat there, as the villa's female owner said.
The female owner cut it into pieces and put it in different bags.
Ning Qiushui took out a bag labeled [Beef Ribs], threw it into the pot, and simmered it until it melted.
When closing the refrigerator, Ning Qiushui suddenly noticed something, he took out a piece of frozen meat from the refrigerator.
In the meat bag, there were a lot of black substances of unknown origin.
It was just that the ice covered too much, and the meat bag was vacuum-sealed, so it was impossible to see what those black substances were.
There was also no meat label on this bag, perhaps the female owner had forgotten.
Ning Qiushui stared at this piece of meat for a while, Liu Renfeng approached again.
"Why is this piece of meat so black?"
He asked curiously.
Ning Qiushui shook his head and put the meat back in the fridge.
"I don't know, maybe it was frozen for too long and it went bad."
The three people were busy in the kitchen, what surprised Ning Qiushui was that Liu Renfeng, the rude man who looked like a hooligan, actually cooked very well!
His movements of washing vegetables, cutting meat, and stir-frying were very skillful.
"Eat!"
Liu Renfeng brought the stir-fried meat and vegetables to the table and shouted to the upper floor.
Then, not caring whether the people upstairs came down or not, he directly brought the bowl of hot rice and ate it greedily.
Looking at Liu Renfeng's hungry ghost-like appearance, Yan Youping couldn't help but ask:
"Aren't you going to wait for them?"
Liu Renfeng said angrily:
"What are you waiting for?"
"Eat!"
After saying that, he ate voraciously again.
Knock, knock, knock ——
Four footsteps sounded from upstairs, Wang Yuning was walking on the stairs, saw Liu Renfeng burying his head in his food, couldn't help but sarcastically say:
"Look at the way you eat, like a reincarnated hungry ghost..."
If it was before, Liu Renfeng would definitely protest fiercely.
But it seemed like when he ate, he became extremely focused, basically treating Wang Yuning's sarcasm as a breeze passing by his ears.
Wang Yuning thought he was afraid, also sat down to eat.
During the meal, everyone was silent.
Not knowing what to say.
They just felt their eyes getting more and more blurry, to the point that they couldn't even see the beef in the bowl clearly.
It wasn't until Ning Qiushui stood up and turned on the light that they realized... It was already dark.
"Damn!"
"Why did it get dark so quickly?"
"It's not even 7 o'clock yet!"
The man named Bei Dao exclaimed, his surprised expression making everyone feel uncomfortable.
"What's your name?"
Xue Guize, who already had an unsightly expression, frowned.
"Didn't you hear the villa's owner say before she left that the rainy season was coming?"
"It's normal for it to get dark early... What's there to be surprised about."
Bei Dao was a little too agitated, but everyone knew the reason, tacitly understood each other, no one spoke up.
The atmosphere in the villa... was really too suffocating.
"Hey hey hey, is this how you guys take care of an old lady?"
"Eating yourself, leaving a bedridden old lady upstairs to starve, is that reasonable?"
"Could it be that someone really thinks that taking care of an old lady is nothing?"
After finishing eating, Liu Renfeng put down his bowl and chopsticks, picked his teeth, and spoke sarcastically to Wang Yuning who was sitting opposite him.
Wang Yuning clenched her fists, her eyes much colder.
"Humph, do you think everyone is like you, a bucket of rice?"
"It's as disgusting as a maggot."
She kicked off her high heels in disgust, went to get a bowl of rice, and picked up everyone's leftovers, then went upstairs.
When her figure disappeared into the dark hallway, for some reason, everyone's hearts were a little nervous...
"Were you all on the second floor just now?"
At this time, Ning Qiushui also put down her bowl and chopsticks, and asked the three people in charge of taking care of the bedridden old lady.
Xie Guize "Um" a sound.
"We have gone all over the second floor, other than the bedridden old lady, there is no one else."
"Our rooms are opposite the old lady's room, in the same corridor."
Ning Qiushui asked:
"Didn't you find anything unusual?"
Xie Guize shook his head, hesitated for a moment, then replied:
"In our room, there is a very strange smell... I don't know what it is, it's not fragrant anyway."
"All seven rooms have it?"
"Yes, all of them do."
At this moment, Yizhi, the girl sitting next to him, softly added:
"There is one more strange thing..."
"All the rooms that the hostess prepared for us have private bathrooms."
Bei Dao sneered:
"This is not surprising, people have money, they just don't want to run around to go to the bathroom..."
Ning Qiushui raised her eyebrows.
"No... It's really strange."
"This villa, clearly only the female owner's family lives in it, even when the male owner is home, there are only four people, why prepare so many bedrooms and bathrooms?"
"This... What's so surprising about this, maybe they are very hospitable?"
"Often inviting friends to the house to hold parties, don't rich people like to do this?"
Bei Dao voice was a little confused.
No one answered him.
Everyone fell into a strange silence again.
Until...
A piercing scream rang out from the second floor, tearing apart this terrifying silence ——
"Ah!!!