Chapter 63

"Indeed, they have now accomplished it." Xu Qin looked at the man lying on the ground in pieces, pulled the dinner knife out of his rib, and dragged the corpse toward the kitchen with one hand: "Do you want to watch me cook?"

Han Fei shook his head. He noticed that after the man's body was disassembled, black threads emerged from the corpse, wriggling as if they had a life of their own: "What are those black threads in their bodies?"

"These people who came from outside the neighborhood all have these black threads in their bodies, as if they are a kind of curse." Xu Qin dragged the thin man into the kitchen. As she dragged him, his body began to vaporize, and the black threads turned into black smoke.

"Curse?" Han Fei recalled a phrase Chonglou had once said, that these outsiders seemed to have a cursed photograph.

"Most of the outsiders have these black threads in their bodies. Their own consciousness has been extinguished, and they become疯狂 and bloodthirsty under the stimulation of these threads, filled with thoughts of killing. So when you encounter them, don't be merciful. If you can't kill them, they will do everything to kill you." Xu Qin said, closing the kitchen door. It was clear that she still cared for Han Fei.

After a moment, eerie sounds came from the kitchen, but after listening for a while, there was a peculiar rhythm to them.

"Sis, take your time. I'll go to the sixth floor first to check the rooms where these outsiders lived. There might be some good things hidden there." Han Fei was worried that the things in the rooms would be stolen by others.

"You'd better not go out now. Didn't you hear that footsteps just now?"

"You mean those hopping footsteps?" Han Fei remembered the oppressive footsteps at the end. He was a bit scared: "What was that? Is it also a neighbor upstairs?"

"I've only heard those footsteps, but I don't know who they belong to. I suspect the owner of those footsteps might live on the ninth floor."

"Ninth floor? Is there someone living on the ninth floor?"

"There probably is." Dark red blood seeped through the kitchen door, and Xu Qin's voice was excited, as if she had finally found her beloved toy.

"I want to go to the tenth floor to see the building manager. I have to pass through the ninth floor, which is unavoidable..."

"I advise you to give up that idea. The eighth floor is already a restricted area, and you should never approach the ninth floor." The kitchen door opened a crack, and to warn Han Fei, Xu Qin came out. Her eyes were blood-red and terrifying, as if the ninth floor was a place that should never be mentioned.

"Why?"

"You just need to know that the building manager is not a good person and is not loved by everyone. He is the building manager simply because he is the only one who can freely pass through the ninth floor." Xu Qin's sickly eyes stared at Han Fei, her tone cold, as if she was afraid Han Fei would run over, so she sternly stopped him.

"Don't worry, I won't go up there without proper preparation."

Just as Han Fei finished speaking, a pale, blood-soaked arm reached out to his neck, and cold, slender fingers lightly touched his cheek: "If you insist on courting death, I hope you die in front of me."

Xu Qin's words were terrifying at first, but somehow, Han Fei detected a hint of concern in her terrifying words.

"I won't go to court death. I have very important things to do, like eating all the delicious food you make." In this dark and dangerous apartment building, Han Fei spoke healing and warm words.

Xu Qin smiled, her lips a bright red, and she turned to busy herself in the kitchen.

A few minutes later, Xu Qin came out with a table mat she had made: "It's a bit small, don't you think?"

"The design seems a bit monotonous. I heard from one of the outsiders that one of them has a tattoo of a human-faced butterfly on their skin..."

"A human-faced butterfly?" Xu Qin was clearly interested.

"I'll let you know if I find any new clues in the future."

Han Fei stayed in the room for a while longer. At four in the morning, he and Xu Qin left room 1052.

The two dragged Chonglou's body out of room 1051. Han Fei took Chonglou's clothes, and Xu Qin took the body. They each got what they wanted.

Chonglou was a relatively special outsider. Without Xu Qin's help, Han Fei estimated that even if he leveled up five more times, he wouldn't be a match for Chonglou.

After searching Chonglou's pockets, Han Fei found two unusual items.

"Player 0000, please note! You have discovered the Paradise Cinema work permit!"

"Paradise Cinema Work Permit (G-level ordinary item): One of the conditions to trigger the artist profession. Holding this permit allows you to freely enter the Paradise Cinema."

The system description only mentioned that it allows free entry but did not mention free exit.

Han Fei guessed that something must have gone wrong with the cinema; otherwise, the people inside wouldn't all be cursed, becoming bloodthirsty and insane.

"Easy to enter, hard to leave, but I'm quite interested in the artist profession. I just don't know if it's the kind of artist I understand." The game "Perfect Life" has no limit on the number of professions a player can have, but to level up a profession to its highest level requires a lot of time and effort. For a normal player, it's already quite difficult to level up one profession.

Han Fei had previously obtained a prerequisite task for a hidden profession and did not intend to give up on that profession. He just felt that he needed a profession that could be openly displayed.

If he met other players in the game in the future, he couldn't introduce himself as "Hello, my name is Han Fei, and I am a midnight butcher." Such a profession would easily be misunderstood by others.

In addition to the Paradise Cinema work permit, the other special item Han Fei found was the black-and-white group photo, which had seventeen people in it.

"Player 0000, please note! You have discovered the cursed group photo!"

"Cursed Group Photo (G-level blood item): May all the people in this photo die a bad death! This is my last wish!"

Looking at the item description, Han Fei felt that the Paradise Cinema was probably even more dangerous than he imagined, but it was too far away for him.

He hadn't even explored the entire apartment building he lived in, let alone had the ability or courage to venture outside.

After obtaining the two special items, Han Fei went to the sixth floor alone.

He entered room 1064 and saw pools of blood and severely damaged bones in the room, along with a pungent, fishy smell.

After a thorough search, Han Fei pushed open the bedroom door, where the smell was the strongest.

"What is that?"

The bed frame in the bedroom had been dug up, and inside were piles of foul-smelling limbs. Among the pile of limbs, Han Fei saw a completely blood-red human cocoon.