Chapter 1: The Mysterious Oil Painting

"After Xia Xiaomei's death, the investigation was indeed gone."

Li Yin and Ying Ziye were watching the TV report on Xia Xiaomei's death in the living room of Room 404. In the past few days, Huangfu and Xia Xiaomei have walked so many places, but after investigation, the police did not make any noise.

"The judiciary is indeed all affected by the apartment." Midnight had almost concluded this fact: "This is equivalent to... the apartment is acquiesce, and even encourages residents to kill each other."

"Yes. I guess as long as you are not arrested as a current criminal, there is absolutely no danger of being arrested. We have been completely stripped of this apartment from normal society."

Li Yin felt very disappointed when he thought of this.

At present, we have known the greatest advantage of the sixth to tenth blood-word indication - the ability to transfer back to the apartment can also be used to bring ghosts into the apartment and suck them into the black hole.

It is estimated that this is why ghosts cannot enter the apartment. Even if they forcefully enter, they will be eliminated by the apartment. However, this also ensures that there will be no supernatural phenomena inside the apartment.

"That is to say..." Li Yin turned off the TV and expressed the biggest advantage that residents currently have: "This is the only way to completely destroy ghosts. Use this apartment to destroy ghosts."

"However, it is very dangerous to bring ghosts into the apartment together. If it is a ghost without entity or a ghost with a clone, it will be meaningless." Midnight said: "Of course, compared with the situation where we had no choice in the past when ghosts were in trouble, we now have this huge advantage."

However, I think it is also known that in order to balance the difficulty of the blood, the residents who perform the blood signs for the sixth to tenth time will definitely weaken the restrictions on ghosts, and even the hints on life may be more obscure.

At present, no resident has continued to implement the Demon King-level blood-character instructions after Dr. Tang. In other words, the apartment may continue to arrange six or seven levels of blood-character for newcomers who have just entered the apartment, forcing them to choose the Demon King-type blood-character one time. At the same time, residents who were originally difficult to have four or five blood-character words may also face the difficulty of seven or eight blood-character words.

If this continues, how long can Midnight live? When will all the fragments of the Hell Contract be released?

"That mysterious man is our greatest hope now." Li Yin gritted his teeth and said, "If that person can really understand the path of blood, then he must find this person as soon as possible!"

If you can't find this person, you will definitely encounter the most terrifying ending in the blood-word instructions!

At present, the advantages that can be used are very limited, and it is difficult to say if you increase the hope of survival. Although Li Yin and Midye are both extremely intelligent figures, the apartment will mislead residents in various ways every time, hiding the real life path of blood words. There are many life paths of blood words, which are extremely obscure, and the IQ must be to a very perverted level before you can discover it.

It has to be admitted that many residents can survive until now, and luck accounts for a large proportion. But can luck be maintained forever? Li Yin still has four blood words and six blood words in midnight. How to spend these ten blood words in total?

"How to find this person?" Li Yin was really anxious. Is this person a resident of the apartment or a person outside the apartment? Why did he gain such special abilities?

"Li Yin." Miya saw what he was thinking and said it directly: "Do you think Ke Yinyu was able to come back alive because of his alliance with that 'mysterious man'? And Xia Xiaomei accidentally discovered the process of alliance and was killed and silenced?"

Midye saw through Li Yin's thoughts. He did have this suspicion.

"Yes, Midye, I do have this assumption. But, if that's true, why would Ke Yinyu say that Yinye killed Xia Xiaomei?"

"This is probably because the brother and sister set up a suspicion, and in turn escaped our suspicion. As for Ke Yinye's injury, it doesn't seem like a trick, after all, the danger is too great. Xia Xiaomei probably stabbed Ke Yinye because she wanted to defend herself. In other words, the words of the brother and sister were completely lies. This possibility is not small."

"Well... it's possible." Li Yin thought for a while and said, "But why did you choose that brother-sister alliance? What's the purpose of that mysterious man? That person called you last time, but he didn't ask you for anything. If you were willing to help the residents, why just form an alliance with that brother-sister?"

If it is for the fragments of the hell contract, you can also find Li Yin to form an alliance. Then why...

"I think..." Midye suddenly said: "It may be similar to the ancient Three Kingdoms period, when Sun and Liu joined forces to fight against Cao. The mysterious man might be the one who killed Min and obtained the third fragment of the contract. For these two parties, you are Cao Cao, the most powerful prince, and to fight against you, you need an alliance. In other words, maybe this person is really a resident."

"Cao Cao? They think of me as Cao Cao?" Li Yin smiled bitterly and said, "I don't think that brother and sister are Liu Bei or Sun Quan. They are similar to Zhuge Kongming's existence."

At this moment, at the home of Shenyu.

Murong Shen poured a cup of coffee, savored it carefully, and put a CD into the machine to start playing.

An English song came from inside, and then he sat down, crossed his legs, and said to the deep rain who was painting in front of him: "How is it? Have you decided who will kill Li Yin? I will declare again, I will not help you kill anyone. I chose to cooperate with you because you can bring me fun."

"I know." Shenyu didn't look at Murong Shen at once and said, "For you, life and death are no different. What you hate the most are 'ordinary' and 'decay'. Only blood, corpses and ghosts can interest you."

"You really know me very well." Murong Shen put down his coffee cup and said with a silly smile: "Yes. I have felt that life has no meaning at all since I was a child. Because "living" is really a boring thing, defined by the framework of "social", regulated by vulgar good and evil, without "freedom", it can only be influenced by other people's evaluations. High-ranking people can decide the life and death of lowly people, and can modify the laws of the world at will. But in the end, they will become old and turn into a pile of ashes. Therefore, for me, it is the same whenever I die. For me, everything is destroyed, everything is destroyed, and the beautiful living body is anatomy. Ghosts, which can be bound by any existence, will not be decayed, and will not fall into the eternal existence of vulgar life, are what I pursue most. That apartment is really the place that suits me to live!"

"No," Shenyu painted the last stroke and began to color it, and said: "The words such as good and evil that humans define randomly, adultery, **, and depravity have also created the concepts of "god" and "demon". However, there is no God in this world. It is just an illusory existence created by humans' purest delusions about good and evil. Humans live by this self-righteous self-knowledge, but that is just an illusion."

"I... want to completely turn every resident there into the so-called "demon" through that apartment as a laboratory. By tearing apart human definition of good and evil, revealing human beings' disguised as their "beautiful shell" and sending them to hell one by one is the meaning of my survival."

"Although that's it," Murong Shen suddenly said, "But it was not your arrangement for Min to enter the apartment, right? It's just a pure coincidence, right?"

The deep rain brush was dipped in pigment again.

"Yes. Maybe it's hard for anyone to believe it, but it's the truth. I didn't expect her to enter that apartment at all. This was a complete coincidence. If it weren't for this reason, I wouldn't have stopped trading with Xia Yuan and killed him by a ghost. In the past six months since Min entered the apartment, I have not traded with any residents. It was because I was concerned about her existence and worried that she would suspect me because she was in the apartment."

"So that's the case. I killed Xia Yuan because I didn't want the residents who knew you had an intersection with Min, which made her doubt you."

"Ironically, after entering the apartment, her hatred for me was not as strong as before. Instead, she was doing everything she could to restore her relationship with me. I knew that she would not live long and hatred for me was meaningless, so she hoped that she could reconcile with me at least before she died. And when she knew that I had that 'ability', she tried her best to come to me. Haha, I think she must be thinking, it would be great to give birth to me. Because I could be her 'tool' for escaping from that apartment."

After finally finishing the coloring, she began to lie on the wall.

"Although Li Yin must be killed, I was a little hesitant. This man has always hoped to save all residents. It is my best experimental product. It is a pity to kill him like this. But his wisdom is too outstanding. Keeping him is too unfavorable to my future plans."

"Since that's the case, then will it be killed or not?" Murong Shen looked at her with interest and said, "You can ask Bian Xingchen to kill Li Yin. Or... what about the resident named Shangguan Mian? You can ask her to kill..."

"No!" Shenyu's heart trembled when she heard this.

Shangguan Mian attended the meeting last time with Huangfu He, Murong Shen and others. One of the five new residents' representatives was the cute girl with a ponytail and about sixteen or seventeen years old. But that girl always faced everyone like an iceberg, which made people feel a little chilling.

"If possible, it's better not to provoke this resident... Her danger can actually be said to be the most terrifying of all residents. In addition, Ke Yinye and Ke Yinyu have noticed me. If someone kills Li Yin, they will definitely guess that I did it."

Neither of the two men died and noticed their existence.

The rain began to have a headache. If this continues, you may sooner or later realize your existence.

When she was trading with a resident, she once obtained a large amount of money with a very rich resident and was able to rent this high-end apartment. However, this money was probably not enough to hire a killer. After all, there were four people to be killed. Killers usually calculate the money based on the number of people killed.

"Or, let Li Yin die naturally in the hands of the ghost indicated by the blood word, it's wonderful."

Deep Rain already has his own plans.

On this day, I was at the Bian family.

Xingyan and Xingchen came to the basement and began to organize some storage objects. The house is so big that it is very laborious to clean. The basement has only been used once and stored some things that you don’t need on weekdays. Now, reorganize them.

The basement of this house is very large, and it contains old books, furniture, and some oil paintings.

"There are so many things." Xingchen was tying a box and said, "So much dust. This is... what people who have left behind in this house before?"

"Well, more than two-thirds of them are all." Xingyan was opening a box at this time and said, "Xingchen, come and help me later."

"Ah, OK, brother."

In this box, there was a chess board on the top. Xingyan took out the board and covered it with a thick layer of dust. He blew off the dust and looked again. There was a box of chess pieces underneath.

"It's not bad, it can be used to play chess. Well, it looks quite old, this chessboard... Well, what is this? Is it oil painting?"

Xingyan took out a dusty painting clip from below. There were many oil paintings inside.

“It’s so well drawn.”

In this oil painting, there is a woman whose face is almost completely covered with hair. The woman stands deep in a dense forest, with her hands on both sides, and her head is deep down.

The paintings are very realistic, and it looks like there is such a woman.

"This is……?"

The paintings behind are still the woman in the dense forest. But the painting behind them makes the woman closer to the painting.

One after another, the woman's body kept approaching, and soon, by the last two paintings, the woman's face almost filled the entire painting.

Xingyan turned over and wanted to see the last painting.

"What are you looking at? Brother? This..."

At first glance, the woman on the painting looked like a female ghost, and almost screamed in fear. The last painting was black and there was nothing!

There are several such picture clips under the box.

"I don't know what it is," Xing Yan said: "It seems that it was painted by someone who lived in this house before. The drawing is very good. Whether it is the background or the coloring, it is absolutely first-class. But, it looks like a female ghost?"

The stars came over, took the painting, turned it over and took a look. On the back of the last painting, there was a line of text written.

"Pu Miling, written on March 21, 1977."

"Is it a painting from 1977?" Xing Yan looked at it and said, "It has been preserved until now. This painting is really good. Well? There seems to be paintings below?"

There is another painting folder. There are more than ten paintings inside. In the painting is a man in black clothes floating in the sky, and the man's face is covered with scars and bloodstains, chasing a woman. It seems that he is in a deep mountain.

The last painting is that the woman was killed by the man in black, and the back of the painting reads: "Pu Miling, written on May 3, 1977."

"This person named Pu Miling..."

Xingchen had no choice but to ignore it. This made him think of Deep Rain naturally.

"Brother," he asked Xingyan quickly: "Is the original owner of this house called Pu Miling?"

"This..." Xing Yan thought for a while and said, "No, it's not this name. The first person who lived in this house was seven people and hired many nannies. Later, the family wanted to immigrate overseas, so my father bought this villa as our residence in China. In fact, I thought it was a bit too luxurious at the beginning. We just lived in it, so why buy such a big place? The original owner, I remember that the surname Jiang, and their family should not have a surname Pu."

However, Xingchen became more and more curious in his heart.

"Brother, please help me find out if anyone else has such a painting."

Then, Xingchen went to look up other boxes and old furniture.

"What's wrong?" Xingyan asked in confusion: "Xingchen, your behavior has become more and more strange in the past six months. Has something happened?"

Xingchen ignored it, but was determined to find out if there was such an oil painting.

Maybe, it's just a coincidence.

But, is it really just a coincidence?

Soon, he found this kind of painting from a box. There were still such horrifying paintings in the paintings. There were many, even extremely bloody and gloomy, which made people feel uncomfortable when they saw them.

"This author seems to like to draw supernatural and terrifying pictures." Xing Yan held the paintings and commented: "If these paintings were all drawn out of imagination, the author's skills are really extremely high. Well... this is, painted in 1978."

Xingchen thought that maybe, maybe this was the person who had lived before the Jiang family lived. It might be that the person from the Jiang family accidentally obtained the painting of this man named Pu Miling.

This person's paintings are so realistic that he always remembers the works that Shenyu once painted.

Is Pu Miling the Deep Rain? However, in 1977, Deep Rain was not born yet! However, who knows whether the era written later is true or false?

At this moment, in the study where Xing Yan usually reads books.

A large amount of blood was constantly oozing out from the high bookshelf between many books. It poured down like tap water, constantly sprinkling on the ground.

Countless blood began to accumulate and gradually formed...the outline of a human figure!
Chapter completed!