Chapter 57 Open the door
The hall was noisy and chattering.
Many people were already looking at others with very malicious eyes.
Liu Haoyu didn’t know who died last night in this situation of being in groups of three or two.
As he observed the people around him, many of them were also looking at him.
To be precise, they were looking at Qiu Leling behind him.
This weak girl, coming to a place where everyone was evil, was, to put it bluntly, sending herself as meat.
Therefore, Liu Haoyu knew that it would be very dangerous to be with these people.
The hall was filled with a very heavy atmosphere, as if it were the prelude to an impending storm.
Perhaps tonight, in order to compete for the increasingly scarce safe houses, some people would choose to turn against each other.
Many people had already left the hall, preparing to go upstairs to occupy the safe houses first and lock them from the inside.
But some people remained in the living room.
This included Xu Wenbing. This man’s group was the largest, and they were discussing something, which Liu Haoyu was not interested in knowing.
His gaze continued to sweep, and soon fell on another group of three.
That is, the combination of the 1.9-meter-tall man, the madam, and the student from before.
Looking at these three people, Liu Haoyu frowned slightly.
Even from such a distance, he could still smell the pungent odor of calamus emanating from the three of them.
In such a dangerous place, they still had the leisure to do such things?
But the problem was, based on the woman’s performance yesterday, she didn’t seem like someone who would get involved with her subordinates…
Or, was he overestimating their humanity, and she was just such a promiscuous person?
“Mmm…”
Qiu Leling pinched her nose. She also smelled the foul odor on them.
And because she was short, she clearly saw that there was still sticky, unidentifiable liquid on the woman’s thigh.
“Let’s go upstairs too.”
“Oh, okay.”
Because they were a step behind, when Liu Haoyu went upstairs, many rooms had already been locked. The survivors who had survived had already occupied the safe houses in advance. They would not trust anyone other than their own group, nor would they let anyone else enter the house.
However, Liu Haoyu’s purpose for going upstairs was not to find a safe house.
Instead, it was to confirm the sound of landing he had heard last night.
Just going up the stairs, survivors who were still looking for safe houses cast extremely malicious glances at Liu Haoyu, but he ignored them.
Soon, he arrived at room 301 on the third floor.
The floor here was the ceiling of room 201.
The sound of banging on the floor that he had heard last night should have come from this room.
It was just strange that the door lock of this room was not broken, but the door was open.
“So smelly…”
As soon as he opened a crack, a pungent smell rushed towards him.
The smell of calamus accumulated in a room, plus the smell of mold in the room, fermented together, almost suffocating people.
Liu Haoyu pinched his nose and walked in.
In the dim room, the smell was even more intense.
A string of bloody handprints extended from the entrance all the way to the bedroom.
At the same time, Liu Haoyu also saw that the bedroom door was open.
On the floor at the doorway, there seemed to be many messy scratches.
It seemed that something had struggled here and tried to escape.
But was dragged back forcefully.
Because of the victim’s will to survive, the scratches were very forceful, and even left traces of blood.
When Liu Haoyu pushed open the door and entered the bedroom, the scene was even more tragic.
The room was filled with a vomit-inducing smell. The bed, floor, and sofa, all covered in dust, were dotted with sticky fluid.
And in every place, there were signs of struggle.
Even the bedsheet was torn with a long slit.
And at the head of the bed, Liu Haoyu also saw underwear torn into strips.
The strips were tied into a ring, and judging from the size of the ring and the dried saliva on it…
This should have been used to cover the woman’s mouth.
As for who lived in this place last night…
Liu Haoyu’s first suspicion fell on the madam and her two companions.
“Look, look!”
At this moment, Qiu Leling found some messy clothes on the sofa.
She wanted to pick them up, but they were covered in disgusting sticky fluid, making her want to pick them up but not dare to do so.
Fortunately, Liu Haoyu had already walked over.
But when he saw these clothes, he couldn’t help but gasp.
These clothes belonged to the madam and her two companions!
The people who died here last night were these three!
Judging from the traces at the scene, the strong man and the student should have forced the madam to do immoral things.
Perhaps because they played for too long, they forgot to close the door, or perhaps they closed it and it was opened from the inside.
But no matter what, the people in this room were definitely dead.
This means… the three people he saw in the hall were actually ghosts.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
At this moment, there was a gentle knock on the door from outside.
Besides the gentle knocking, Liu Haoyu also heard words accompanying the knocking.
“Who’s inside?”
“Xu Wenbing is calling everyone to discuss matters. Open the door.”
“Who and who are hiding inside? Don’t stay silent. Say something.”
“…”
Liu Haoyu made a “shh” gesture to Qiu Leling beside him.
The knocking was neither too loud nor too soft, neither too fast nor too slow, and it penetrated the long hallway, reaching all the way to the bedroom.
“Why isn’t anyone inside talking?”
The knocking outside continued.
Logically, with such knocking, someone should have come to check the situation.
But even after knocking for more than a minute, the knocking outside did not stop.
Liu Haoyu gestured to Qiu Leling with his hand to follow him.
The two of them came to the entrance together. Liu Haoyu looked out through the peephole.
Standing outside were the three people who had died in this room.
The 1.9-meter-tall strong man, the madam in the cheongsam, and a university student.
The three of them had a smile on their faces, and did not look like living people at all.
“What are you hiding from?”
“Are you the murderers hiding here? Come out quickly!”
“It’s inexplicable, and you even occupied our safe house.”
The voices of the three continued to sound.
Liu Haoyu did not respond at all.
The other party had not seen himself and Qiu Leling entering the house from the beginning.
But from their words, it could be known that they clearly knew that he and Qiu Leling were hiding inside.
Qiu Leling took a step back in fear.
“Why do you have to step back? Come out and let’s discuss it together.”
“Knock, knock, knock!”
“Open the door, hurry up and open the door!”
The knocking seemed to have become louder.
It was as if they were crazily banging on it.
