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There were sounds of wandering footsteps passing by the door, probably the security patrol, and everyone subconsciously lowered their voices.
"I live on the eighth floor, my name is Lin Zhou." The uncle with chapped lips revealed his identity. His hands kept rubbing his jeans, leaving dark sweat stains on his knees.
Gurgle...
Occasionally one of the residents' stomachs rumbles.
Some residents hold buttons in their mouths to increase saliva and quench their thirst.
Twelve residents in shabby white clothes sat on the sofa and introduced themselves. The stagnant air imprisoned a strong fishy smell, and they seemed to be trapped in a steamer to be steamed together with the fish.
Guo Li wiped the sweat from her temples and got straight to the point: "It took us a long time to confirm that it was impossible for one person to escape, so we gathered the mentally normal residents to come up with a solution together."
Wang Keke suddenly interjected, "Don't your necks get tired from looking up at the security guards' work rules?"
After these words were spoken, the whole audience fell silent for a few seconds.
"Ah... I'm so tired. It's so disgusting to stick it under the table."
Wang Keke couldn't find any resident who met her gaze, so she didn't comment.
"What's the current situation above the eighth floor?" The person currently living on the highest floor is Lin Zhou, so Lu Miao can only ask him.
His cheeks trembled and he rubbed his jeans frequently. "I... often heard the sound of things banging upstairs, and the contaminated residents often knocked on our door, asking if we had medicine. Later, I don't know which rule the neighbors on the same floor broke, and they all became abnormal, leaving me alone to deal with their knocks on the door."
No wonder he's so anxious and frightened, Lu Miao thought to himself.
"Also... the security guards in red will come down for patrol every two hours."
“Why are there security guards in red?”
Lin Zhou shook his head vigorously. "I don't know. There are only blue clothes in the security room, no red clothes! I'm sure because I came in early."
He Pingan asked, "Are there any differences in the patrol methods of the red-clad security guards and the blue-clad security guards?"
"Yes! The red-clad security guards can knock on the door!" Lin Zhou trembled all over. "Not only can they knock on the door, they can also sing! Every time I have to hide in the bedroom! What's more terrifying is that since the red-clad security guards came down to sing, other abnormal neighbors have learned to sing!"
He pounded his knees excitedly, his bloodshot eyes widening. "Can you imagine seven residents singing together outside their own doors? If I don't have to write a diary, I won't go back to the eighth floor!"
The gloomy long-haired woman sank deep into the sofa, with deep shadows gathering in her eye sockets. "I don't want to be alone either. If I'm not careful, I might break the rules."
Lu Miao's heart moved. "Are there residents who violate the rules in front of you?"
The long-haired woman turned away. "That man was bleeding from all seven orifices after entering the elevator. It was horrible."
Lu Miao lowered his eyes in silence.
She remembered that the woman lived on the seventh floor and she was the only surviving resident.
"Do red-clad security guards patrol the seventh floor?"
"Yeah." The long-haired woman seemed not to want to talk anymore.
Article 3 of the elevator instructions: When residents use the elevator, they can only go up to the 6th floor.
"Are there security guards in red patrolling the sixth floor?" Lu Miao asked the residents living on the sixth floor.
“Not at this time.”
There were two surviving residents on the sixth floor.
There are also two on the fifth floor.
There are three each on the fourth and third floors.
Lu Miao understood it clearly.
In other words, just as He Ping'an guessed, all the residents above the eighth floor were wiped out.
"So what method did you find to escape?" Wang Keke was anxious.
"We need to take the elevator to the basement level first." Guo Li's eyes were bright and she was confident. "But once the elevator goes to the basement level, we will attract security guards. If we are unlucky, we will attract security guards in red."
The female member of the yellow team nodded. "A resident went to the basement level, and the resident who was helping him guard the elevator saw the red-clad security guard taking the elevator. In the end, the red-clad security guard went to the basement level, and no one knows what happened there."
"There is a management office on the basement floor. Has that resident ever shown up again?" Lu Miao asked.
"I don't know. We were not the ones who assisted that resident."
"Have you seen the Administrator?"
"No, because the elevator has never broken down. We haven't looked for an administrator, and we don't know where to find one, and we don't dare to take the elevator casually."
"How do you know for sure that the means of escape is on the negative first floor?"
They all looked at the deer seedlings, and then looked at the backbone Guo Li.
Guo Li smiled solemnly. "You are a good thinker in finding loopholes. You three have passed the test."
She pulled out a crumpled piece of paper. "When we went out to look for the rules, we found a crumpled piece of paper in the corner of the stairs."
Lu Miao took the note.
Wang Keke and He Pingan leaned over to take a look.
"8. The administrator is responsible for maintaining the hardware facilities of the apartment building. Just one sentence?" Wang Keke turned to the back of the note, but unfortunately it was empty.
The black handwriting was crooked, obviously handwritten, and not the standard Song font used in regular script.
Guo Li licked her lips without blinking. "The administrator is responsible for the hardware facilities, which means he knows where the main entrance of the apartment building is, so we need to find a way to get to the management office on the basement floor."
Wang Keke laughed dumbly: "And you spent many hours preparing? Each of you controls the elevator on one floor, and there are still three people left to go to the basement floor."
Guo Li's face suddenly became dark, and she wanted to roll her eyes at her. "Don't forget that we still need someone to watch the staircase! The contaminated residents are often walking around, and we can't ignore them!"
"Oh. If we hadn't come in, you would have never implemented the plan?"
Guo Li clenched her fists. "If there are really no new residents on the lower floors, we will of course implement the plan! Please understand that you are the ones who benefit from inviting you to join!"
"Oh, of course we benefit. I just thought what you said was a little funny."
Damn it.
Guo Li took a deep breath and thought to himself not to bother with a villain.
Lu Miao tried to smooth things over indifferently: "We need residents on the lower floors because if we encounter a mentally polluting neighbor coming downstairs, can we hide in the lower-floor apartment as soon as possible?"
"That's right." She gave him a reluctant look of appreciation, her smile stiff.
The female team member agreed, "That's why we can only escape if we work together. The more residents who are mentally polluted, the more difficult it will be to implement our plan. I hope you can join us as soon as possible."
Other residents agreed.
"You must escape quickly before your senses become dulled."
"It's too depressing here. I'll go crazy if I stay here any longer."
He Pingan, who had been silent the whole time, interrupted, "It's almost eleven o'clock now, and we need to pick up our meals at midnight. The meal delivery time is when security activities are most frequent, so it's not suitable for action, right?"
Hearing this, the atmosphere that had finally become lively became heavy again.
Guo Li scratched her head in annoyance. "Indeed, it is very dangerous to go out fifteen minutes before or after midnight. Why don't we wait until we get our meals before we start?"
"Okay." Lu Miao was very straightforward.
Everyone suddenly felt relaxed, as if they were about to escape.
"I would like to remind you that no matter how hungry you are, don't rush to eat after receiving the meal or just don't eat at all." Lin Zhou swallowed his saliva in hunger. "I always feel that the food here is not right."
"You haven't eaten it?"
Some people answered that they had eaten it, while others answered that they dared not eat it.
"The problematic meals were distributed randomly, the only difference was the smell and the fish meat. But the longer we stayed, the duller our sense of smell became. We could hardly smell the problematic meals, and we were still very hungry after eating them, so we simply didn't eat them." Guo Li, whose mood had improved, explained generously.
"What's that smell?"
“I forgot.”
Lu Miao and the other two were stunned.
"Are you a fish with a seven-second memory? Will you forget something after you smell it?" Wang Keke laughed angrily.
The female team member curled her lips. "I really forgot. I forgot every time I smelled it. Otherwise, how could the residents on the upper floors be wiped out?"
"Really, we forgot about it too." The other residents quickly tried to smooth things over.
"Perverted apartment building!" the gloomy woman cursed in a low voice.
"There's not much time left. Let's start discussing with the residents guarding the elevator and the staircase. We only have one chance, and we can only succeed and not fail..."
At 22:52 in the evening, approaching the time to write the diary, they had to terminate the action meeting.
Lu Miao and his two teammates and the members of Team Yellow were the last to leave 407.
"Are there three of you left in the Yellow Team?"
Guo Li was sad. "Yes. If they were still here, we would have implemented the plan long ago. After all, players with excellent physical fitness are better than ordinary residents."
Lu Miao patted her shoulder to comfort her.
Her eyes softened. "By the way, around eight o'clock, the regular black letters suddenly turned into glittery red. I wonder if there is any special meaning."
Lu Miao remained calm and was secretly surprised. "I don't know. This is the first time I've encountered such a situation."
Back on the third floor, Lu Miao suddenly called out to the two people who were about to open the door of the apartment. "Come to my place as soon as you finish writing your diary."
She looked stern, in stark contrast to her relaxed state during the meeting.
He Pingan and Wang Keke nodded solemnly.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Lu Miao sat in front of the diary again.
She turned to the blank page.
After confirming that there was no blood on the previous page, he turned to the previous page to check the third changed diary -
Bleeding again
It's so itchy
Did you know that red is normal?
So the walls are red, everything should be red
You guys have been deceived hahahahahaha
The handwriting is shaky and sloppy, and this resident is not far from assimilation.
"Red is scary but normal." She came to this conclusion based on the second and third diaries.
What the mentally polluted residents see may not be wrong.
The rules protect sane humans, not the truth.
However, it is extremely dangerous to try to understand the truth too much in the field of ghost stories. The mind will unknowingly sink into it and the consciousness will gradually assimilate.
Lu Miao did not delve further into the matter and wrote his fourth short diary entry.
Fish greedy
The fish will die
Fish can't live without water
After writing, she closed the diary.
About five minutes later, there were two knocks on the apartment door.
The three of them sat on the sofa, staring at the open diary.
"This is..." Wang Keke was shocked.
He Ping'an frowned in deep thought.
"Come, let's play the crossword puzzle." Lu Miao spread out a piece of white paper and pointed to the line with blackened words.
Yes
"We only have about 35 minutes."
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