Chapter 655: The Eternal Life Society
The forest of corpses hung overhead, and the walls were densely covered with blood characters of all kinds.
In such an environment, even Superhumans couldn't help but feel their hearts creep.
Sun Xixi and Dantai Bie hadn't returned yet.
The Superhumans tried to find any trace of a way out here.
No one had expected that Room 23 would be a scene like this.
The existence of Haosheng Hotel had already far exceeded everyone's expectations.
"Chen Ye... come over and take a look!"
Wu Zehui's voice rang out.
Chen Ye quickly walked over.
Soon, Chen Ye understood why Wu Zehui had called him over.
Because here, someone had used blood to write a lot of continuous statements...
The blood characters on the walls before were either mad, violent, or full of complaints...
There weren't many that formed coherent statements.
Even when there were, most of them didn't mean much.
But what Wu Zehui had found here...
Spanned two or three square meters, all covered in dense blood characters.
Chen Ye shone his flashlight on the wall, and soon his expression grew increasingly serious.
"I'm almost forgetting what my name is..."
"I don't know how long I've been locked up here, I don't even know where this place is!"
"I only remember, before I came here, I was just a small clerk at an advertising company. When I went to work, the boss sent me on a business trip..."
"This stingy boss was unusually generous this time, even giving me the travel allowance in advance!"
"Though I was a bit suspicious, I still went, because... the destination was Xi City..."
"Back then, I promised my girlfriend we'd go to Xi City together, but we ended up separating later..."
"The agreed-upon trip for two turned into a solo journey..."
"The boss booked me into Haosheng Hotel. That stingy boss was so generous, I really suspected he'd lost his mind!"
"Haosheng Hotel, I heard that during peak season, one night there costs as much as my entire month's salary!"
"That day, I posted three whole updates on my Moments!"
"But when I woke up, I was here."
"There was nothing here, just darkness and dampness, and a lot of people..."
"At first, I even talked to the people around me. Most of them had come to Xi City to travel!"
"Some came on their own, others were sent on business trips by their bosses too!"
"They didn't know why they were here either."
"This place was huge, unimaginably huge..."
"We organized people to explore the surroundings, but in the end, we found nothing!"
When Chen Ye got to this point, he frowned.
The person who wrote this was clearly still somewhat rational, but there was too much nonsense.
But even knowing it was nonsense, Chen Ye still intended to keep reading.
There might be some useful information hidden in all this useless rambling.
Chen Ye read very slowly, almost word by word.
At the beginning, the handwriting was still fairly neat, but the further it went, the more sloppy it became.
Chen Ye had a guess—there was no way the person who wrote this had enough blood to write so much. So, if he could write so many characters...
Now wasn't the time to dwell on such trivial details. Chen Ye moved the flashlight and continued reading the next part.
Another question also lingered in Chen Ye's mind.
If what this said was true, then this person had arrived at Haosheng Hotel before the apocalypse.
He said he'd seen a lot of people here.
That meant a lot of people had gone missing back then.
So many people missing would surely have been national or even global news.
But Chen Ye remembered that before the apocalypse came, there didn't seem to be any such news.
Could it be that some big shot, or organization, had covered up the news?
Thinking about big shots, thinking about organizations...
The first thing that came to Chen Ye's mind was the Silent Council.
He'd already gained some trivial understanding of the Silent Council so far.
Judging a leopard by its spots, one could tell the Silent Council was far from simple.
At the very least, organizing this Return to the City Plan showed they had plenty of secrets.
And why pick any place but Xi City of all locations?
This made the naturally suspicious Chen Ye start overthinking.
"There were a lot of people here, I don't know exactly how many."
"And the number kept increasing!"
"I asked the newcomers if they'd noticed anything, and these people were as clueless as idiots. They couldn't say anything, just that they went to sleep and woke up like this!"
"I still couldn't figure out what was happening here."
It seemed to cut off here.
The new writing below was somewhat different from the earlier parts, at least the blood was much more abundant.
There was also some difference in freshness.
It was clearly written again after some time had passed.
"These past two days, some strange things have been happening here!"
"Some people keep muttering crap about 'Eternal Life' and 'Immortality'!"
"I saw a scrawny person get strung up on the ceiling by several people!"
"This made me feel really uneasy!"
"Those people called themselves the Eternal Life Society. Hanging people from the ceiling would grant them eternal life!"
"What the hell is this Eternal Life Society? This place even has organizations?"
"Saying that hanging people up gives you eternal life—even a pig wouldn't believe that!"
"But we couldn't get out. A lot of people were getting anxious, and there were even many violent assaults!"
So these people hanging from the ceiling were strung up by another group.
But would hanging them up really grant eternal life?
Chen Ye frowned.
The handwriting after that became extremely sloppy!
Chen Ye had to identify many of the characters over and over to figure out what they said.
Iron Lion and the others had also returned from checking the surroundings.
Apart from the door they came in through, there were no other doors.
Iron Lion had tried to force the door open but couldn't do it at all.
Even the others had tried.
Wu Zehui and Number One had both tried as well.
The door still wouldn't budge.
If they could open this door, Sun Xixi wouldn't have left to scout for information elsewhere.
Chen Ye continued reading the blood characters on the wall.
The writing cut off after "many violent assaults."
The text that followed was clearly written many days later.
"I joined the Eternal Life Society. Now I know why they said hanging people up would grant eternal life!"
"I get it now!"
"So that's how it is, so that's how it is!"
"I saw it with my own eyes... I saw..."
"I've decided. Today, I'm going to hang up even more people... more... I'm helping them..."
"I'm grateful to the person who sent me here. Thank you! Thank you!"
"I've lived all these years, and I never imagined something like this would happen to me..."
"I'm going to pursue eternal life... eternal life..."
When it got to this point, the handwriting in the back was extremely sloppy.
Chen Ye shone his flashlight on the surrounding walls.
But found no more information.
"Eternal Life Society? Is it a Superhuman organization?"
Wu Zehui speculated.
"The stuff this person wrote later was clearly influenced by something. We have no idea what he saw..."
Ding Dong analyzed rationally. She instinctively resisted things like eternal life.
Chen Ye thought for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, his body suddenly froze.
His Blood Eye stared into the distant darkness. The talisman within the black pupil of the Blood Eye rotated slightly, and his right hand gripped the handle of Hatred.
His left hand grabbed the handle of Hundred-Ghost Eater.
Faces began to crawl from the blade onto Chen Ye's left hand.
He had already adjusted Hundred-Ghost Eater's position earlier so his left hand could grab it smoothly.
Iron Lion, Ding Dong, and the other Superhumans also stared into the depths of the darkness, everyone on high alert.
Number One had already drawn her bow and nocked an arrow, ready to attack at any moment.
"There... are living people there!"