Chapter 8 Hide and Seek
◎Monster, are you so cowardly◎
By the time Gu Nian reached the stairs, the monster had disappeared.
There was no movement upstairs or downstairs. After a brief pause, Gu Nian chose to chase upstairs.
There are four monsters in the building, and there are twenty floors above the eleventh floor. The probability of encountering monsters is even greater, and at the beginning, they appear from the upper floors.
Gu Nian didn't find anything until she reached the sixteenth floor. As she neared the seventeenth floor, she finally heard the song again. There was a monster on the seventeenth floor. She just couldn't tell if it was the same one she'd been chasing, or a different one.
Learning from his previous experience, Gu Nian didn't immediately use the black line. Instead, he walked lightly to the fire door on the 17th floor. Gently pushing the door open, he saw a monster wandering in the corridor. It wasn't the one Gu Nian was chasing, but the woman who had been killed on the 30th floor.
The monster has chosen its target and started smashing the door.
Without any further hesitation, Gu Nian pushed open the door and ran towards the monster. When he was about to get close, the black line in his hand had already shot forward like a sharp arrow.
At this time, the monster also reacted, but its limbs were made of pieces of meat and were not very flexible. Soon, the black line wrapped around it like a snake, and wisps of black mist were extracted from the monster's body.
While the monster was controlled by the black line, Gu Nian used the inertia of running to chop its head with a kitchen knife. The sharp kitchen knife directly cut off half of the monster's head.
In an instant, the monster that was struggling to smash the door just now turned into a pool of blood.
Things went more smoothly than Gu Nian had imagined.
There was no sound coming from the door that had a hole in it. The person inside had probably hidden himself. Gu Nian did not stop and continued to run upstairs quickly.
There was nothing unusual on the 18th, 19th, and 20th floors. When Gu Nian pushed open the fire door on the 21st floor, he only saw corpses scattered all over the corridor. The monster disappeared again.
Continuing up, Gu Nian found another body on the 25th floor, while everything else was normal. After checking, she returned to the 11th floor and began to check the floors below, but found nothing. The monster that had escaped on the 11th floor seemed to have simply vanished.
Monster, are you so cowardly?
Gu Nian always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find the problem for a while.
But it was obvious that these monsters were not as difficult to deal with as they had imagined. For example, she had just chopped off the monster's head with a kitchen knife. Of course, without the help of the black silk thread, it would definitely take a lot of effort to control the monster, but this was good news after all.
Gu Nian came to the floor where the building manager was, ready to ask him to inform everyone of the news. Instead of hiding separately and getting killed one by one, it would be better to find a way to deal with the monster together.
Before she could say anything, a group of people came down from upstairs making a lot of noise.
The leader was a man in a suit. When he saw Gu Nian, his eyes lit up. He pointed at Gu Nian and said, "That's her! She was the one who killed the monster on our floor just now!"
A group of people rushed over and surrounded Gu Nian excitedly, asking him if he had really killed a monster just now.
Gu Nian didn't deny it and nodded. She had come here to talk about this matter. "Actually, there are no monsters..."
Gu Nian was about to say that monsters weren't as scary as everyone imagined when she was interrupted. The person who interrupted her was the man in the suit who had pointed at her and shouted.
"I saw you killed that monster so easily. You must have some special method." The man in the suit looked like an elite and said meaningfully, "It's okay if you don't want to tell me. But since this concerns everyone's safety, I hope you can keep it to yourself and protect everyone when the monster appears."
The group of people who followed the man in the suit immediately looked at Gu Nian eagerly. If someone could deal with the monster, that would be great!
Gu Nian's expression suddenly turned cold. "I don't have any special methods, I'm just brave. Although the monster is difficult to deal with, it's not immortal. You can kill it if you all attack together."
The man in the suit frowned. "What do you mean by that? Let us deal with the monsters on our own?"
Gu Nian asked back: "What else?"
Not to mention that she only has one black line now, it is impossible for her to deal with three monsters at the same time. Even if she can deal with them, she will not be the one who takes all the responsibility on her shoulders.
The man in the suit looked unhappy. "But I clearly saw the monster suddenly stop moving before you approached it. If you don't want to help, then tell me how to deal with the monster."
Gu Nian said calmly, "You also said that the monster didn't move until I approached it. How do I know why it didn't move? Maybe it was just my luck."
Besides, as for things like black lines, will they appear just by her saying it?
The man in the suit still refused to give up: "You are obviously not on our floor, so why did you come to our floor when everyone else is hiding? Aren't you afraid of monsters?"
Gu Nian slowly turned her head to look at him: "I wonder if you have any misunderstandings?"
The man in the suit was stared at by Gu Nian, and for some reason he felt a little scared, but he refused to show his fear in front of so many people, and forced himself to ask, "What misunderstanding?"
Before Gu Nian could speak, an angry voice took over.
The flat-headed brother pushed through the crowd and squeezed in, angrily saying, "How dare you ask? They are not your parents. It's good enough that they helped you once. What? Are you still relying on a girl like her?"
How can someone be so shameless as to touch a dog!
Some people who couldn't stand it also spoke up to help. The old lady who happened to be staying on this floor was even more aggressive. She pointed at the nose of the man in the suit and started cursing.
The man in the suit's face flushed red from being scolded. He sneered and said, "Okay, you guys want to be good guys, right? When the monster comes back, I'll let you be good guys enough!"
The old lady put her hands on her hips and cursed: "Bah, if the monster wants to eat, it will eat you first with a foul mouth!"
Man in suit: "...Okay, we'll see!"
A small number of people also followed the man in the suit.
The aunt comforted Gu Nian, "Don't be afraid, girl. There are so many people in this building. How can they let a little girl like you stand in front of them? You've lived these past few decades in vain."
Gu Nian shook his head to indicate that everything was fine.
The flat-headed brother came forward and asked, "Can that monster really be killed?"
He had no other intention in asking this question, mainly because the monster was so powerful that people had no desire to resist. But if there was a chance to survive, who would want to wait for death?
Gu Nian nodded: "Indeed."
The flat-headed brother clenched his fist and encouraged himself: "Then let's do it!"
However, not everyone was willing to face the monster head-on. Many of them wanted to break down the door and leave. At this point, the building manager had no choice but to step forward and tell them that someone had previously escaped through the window but disappeared.
Everyone was silent for a moment before they finally decided to pursue two strategies simultaneously. They couldn't give up on breaking down the door, but they also had to select some people and prepare weapons. If anything went wrong, they could just go for it.
Gu Nian did not participate in the subsequent discussion. She was only responsible for providing clues she found and could not be held responsible for anyone's life. Of course, when dealing with monsters, she would also use black lines to help, after all, she herself was also trapped here.
Soon everyone in the building was in action.
Some people went downstairs to break down the door, while others, under the organization of the building manager, began to prepare weapons, such as tying kitchen knives to steel pipes, to minimize contact with monsters.
The remaining people began to move, temporarily concentrating on the second, third and fourth floors to avoid the monsters gathering together and increasing the difficulty.
The door was finally broken open, but because of the building manager's reminder, unless it was absolutely necessary, we would not consider leaving here for the time being, and only keep it as a retreat route.
The last important thing to do was to deal with the bodies on the 21st and 25th floors. If they were not dealt with, they would turn into monsters within an hour. To minimize the possibility of the bodies turning into monsters, with the consent of the families, they chose to incinerate them.
By this calculation, there were only three monsters in the entire building, and there were over three hundred of them. Even if they piled up, they would be able to kill the monsters. Thinking of this, everyone felt less nervous.
Because the monster had appeared earlier, everyone had gathered together twenty minutes before the next hour.
Gu Nian said to the people who were chosen to deal with the monster, "The monster's weak point should be its head. When you take action, try to attack the head."
To avoid underestimating the enemy, Gu Nian added, "And I suspect the monster's strength may be related to the number of times it eats humans. Everyone must be careful."
Gu Nian was actually not sure, and said this just in case.
Everyone nodded solemnly.
The armed men were divided into two groups, each lying in ambush on the third floor.
Gu Nian was assigned to the third floor. It was her own initiative that she requested it so that she would have time to rescue people on the second or fourth floor.
Waiting in the room next to the stairs on the third floor, Gu Nian felt a little uneasy, but considering the current clues, their current choice was the best solution.
Gu Nian's uneasiness grew when the monster appeared but didn't show up yet. After another ten minutes, she turned to the person temporarily in charge of the third floor and asked, "Are you sure everyone has moved to the second to fourth floors?"
The person in charge was not very clear: "I think so."
After waiting for another five minutes, with still no movement, Gu Nian decided not to wait any longer. She asked the others to continue guarding the room, and then she went to the fourth floor first, and then to the second floor.
Like the third floor, no monsters appear on these two floors.
Gu Nian discovered that the man in the suit was not on any of the three floors. After further investigation, it was discovered that it wasn't just the man in the suit who disappeared; more than a dozen other people had also disappeared, all of whom had followed the man in the suit away.
Someone asked in a trembling voice: "Are they still alive?"
It's been over twenty minutes since the monsters were supposed to appear, and no monsters have appeared. Can they still be alive? Everyone has the answer in their hearts, but they dare not speak it out loud, because those people's death does not mean the end, but another beginning.
For your own safety, you must also confirm whether they are dead or alive.
Before going up, the building manager personally led a check to confirm whether there was anyone staying upstairs. As a result, they found another family that was said to have someone staying upstairs.
A woman in her thirties or forties was brought over by the investigation team and told the building manager, "She said someone from her family was left upstairs." The investigation team was a little surprised. How could someone be left upstairs in such a dangerous situation? And a half-grown child?
The aunt who was brought over clutched the corner of her clothes with one hand and said in panic, "I, I'm just a nanny. It happened so suddenly. I was visiting downstairs and forgot about him. Besides, the child is paralyzed all over. I can't take him away by myself."
Gu Nian, who was about to lead people upstairs, suddenly turned around and asked: "You said that the people left upstairs are paralyzed?"
The aunt also knew that she was in the wrong and nodded carefully.
Without saying anything, Gu Nian asked for the room number and headed straight upstairs. She hoped it wasn't what she thought.
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