Chapter 616: Fine, Fine, You’re Also My Fault
Fifth floor!
Ding Dong encountered the same type of woman.
An equally terrifying, pitiful woman.
To be more precise, a young girl!
She looked not very old.
But she lived like some NPC from a horror movie.
"How did you survive?"
Ding Dong looked at the girl with suspicion.
The girl grew angry and demanded in a loud, shrill voice, "How do you think I survived?"
"Tell me, how did I survive?"
"Those moss, those cockroaches, and even... even..."
The girl cried as she spoke, and even like this, her eyes were full of venom, staring daggers at Ding Dong!
If eyes could turn into blades, Ding Dong would have been riddled with holes by now.
"Anything that was edible, anything that could keep me alive!"
"I ate it all!"
"Can you even imagine what I've eaten?"
"You'll never figure it out!"
The girl stared directly into Ding Dong's eyes.
Ding Dong averted her gaze slightly. Her former profession gave her a compassion and sense of responsibility that ordinary people lacked.
Even though she felt everything here was deeply wrong right now.
This little girl before her was truly pitiful.
But it was exactly this flicker of pity that the girl accurately caught.
"They're dead, all dead!"
"When those things pounced, Mom told me to run first!"
"She became bait herself, just so I could survive!"
"Dad went to find me food, and he never came back!"
"No, he did come back!"
"But I knew that wasn't my father!"
"He stood outside the door and knocked!"
"Yes, right at this door!"
"You know, he just kept knocking, saying, 'Shan Shan, it's Daddy, open the door quickly, Daddy's home!'"
"I didn't dare open the door, I didn't dare!"
"I huddled in the corner, hugging my legs, not daring to lift my head, not daring to look at anything!"
The little girl seemed to be recalling those horrible images.
"Mom told me that as long as I hid here, someone would come to save me!"
"Dad said that as long as I was obedient, I could survive!"
"I've been very obedient. I've stayed here all along, not daring to go anywhere!"
"The adults were right. As long as I stayed here, I was sure to survive!"
"I waited and waited, until it got dark, until it got light!"
"I waited through the rain, until the sky cleared!"
"But... but you never came!"
"You never did!"
By the end, the little girl glared angrily at Ding Dong, her eyes filled with resentment.
As if everything about her was all this person's fault!
"It's all you, it's all your fault..."
"If you had come earlier, Mom and Dad wouldn't have died!"
"And I wouldn't have ended up like this!"
"Everything I am now is because of you!"
"Aren't adults supposed to protect children? Where were you?"
"It's all you... it's all you!"
Ding Dong felt even more guilty.
Such a young child, in such a tiny room.
How did she survive?
How did she turn from waiting expectantly, time after time, into utter disappointment?
...
Second floor.
"Bang! Bang, bang, bang~~~!!!”
Xu Lina moved like an incredibly nimble civet cat.
The blood-red tail behind Xu Lina's head acted like a big cat's tail, helping her maintain balance and perform unbelievable maneuvers during the tense, dangerous fight.
She was locked in combat in the corridor with that hunched-over old woman.
This old woman, who looked frail and unsteady, possessed astonishing combat strength.
She clearly wasn't an anomaly, but when she fought, she was even more terrifying than one.
Of course, this "terrifying" only applied to Xu Lina.
The two guns fired back and forth, barely ever stopping.
Every single bullet fired from the muzzles was dodged with exquisite precision by the old woman.
But the old woman also couldn't manage to kill Xu Lina.
The old woman stood in the middle of the corridor, leaning on her cane.
On both sides were rooms with tightly shut doors.
The fight between the one person and "the anomaly... or person?" didn't cause any of the other closed doors to open.
The old woman even seemed wary of these doors.
During the fight, she deliberately avoided them.
Xu Lina held both guns, watching the old woman warily. Sweat trickled down her beautiful face, dripping from her slender neck onto her tight black undershirt.
A large part of the black T-shirt was already soaked.
Her chest heaved violently, making her look both miserable and stunning.
"It's all your fault, it's all your fault!"
The old woman muttered lowly.
"My family of three came here on a trip!"
"We never thought those monsters would come!"
"They all came!"
"My son, my daughter-in-law, my grandson..."
...
Seventh floor.
"It's all your fault. If you had come earlier, none of them would have died!"
The one Chen Ye faced was also a pitiful woman.
This woman was utterly wretched, even more so than what the others had seen.
Well, "pitiful" was a more fitting description.
Her legs were broken by something unknown.
She could only crawl on the ground using her hands.
But her face was incredibly charming, her brows and eyes full of delicate pathos.
Those big, watery eyes seemed to be pleading, begging for Chen Ye's kindness.
When blaming Chen Ye, she didn't use the venomous, hateful tone the others had.
She was like a wronged young wife, gently complaining.
This was quite different.
As if she had waited specifically for Chen Ye, this woman had even tidied up the room.
Chen Ye ignored the woman's words. He just stood at the doorway, not entering.
This woman had lived in this room for so long; who knew if there was something strange inside?
Chen Ye picked at his ear and said coldly, "You know about the Blood Moon Lord? Then what else do you know?"
The woman didn't answer Chen Ye's question. Instead, she continued, "We were classmates on a graduation trip!"
"We just wanted to leave some good memories from the end of our lives!"
"But they all died, they all died!"
"They still had great lives ahead of them, they still had their best years!"
"Xiao Lin went to find supplies and told us to wait for him..."
"Blah, blah, blah..."
"What exactly is going on here?"
Chen Ye interrupted her.
She was trying to use this kind of talk to stir up Chen Ye's sense of morality and guilt.
But this "woman" before him simply didn't know that Chen Ye had absolutely no morals to speak of!
This tactic was completely useless on Chen Ye.
He only wanted information.
But this woman before him seemed unwilling to say anything.
"It's all your fault, it's all you..."
"If you had come sooner, they wouldn't have died!"
"You killed them! You killed them!"
By the end, the woman's eyes couldn't hide the hatred and resentment anymore.
"They didn't have to die! It's all you... if you had come earlier!"
Chen Ye picked at his ear and finally couldn't hold back anymore.
"Fine, fine, I admit it. I killed them!"
The woman was stunned, and then a strange smile crept onto her face.
Before the woman could continue, Chen Ye added, "And you, you're also my fault, alright!"
The woman was dumbfounded.
"Pop!"
A snap of his fingers.
The surrounding Smoke Breath Mist began to seep into the room.
Countless Crawlers took shape within the mist.
The woman was terrified and was about to scream.
Seeming to think it wasn't secure enough.
Chen Ye's Blood Eye flickered slightly, and crimson flames appeared around the woman, enveloping her.
"Ah~~~"
"It's all your fault, you... you..."
From beginning to end, Chen Ye never took a single step into that room.
The woman's emotional manipulation had zero effect on Chen Ye whatsoever.
From start to finish, Chen Ye never believed she was human.
Second floor.
"Bang!"
The sound of a gunshot rang out.
Just as the old woman was screeching, "You killed them all!"
Xu Lina shoved the barrel of her gun into the old woman's mouth.
Blood and gore sprayed out.
"Mr. Chen would have done the same, right?"
Xu Lina watched the old woman fall to the ground.
She murmured to herself.
Even now, Xu Lina still couldn't figure out whether this old woman was human or an "anomaly!"