Chapter 228 Theme Competition: Fortune Apartment (3)
Chapter 228 Theme Competition: Fortune Apartment (3)
After much deliberation, the girl finally made a few notes in the notebook she had been holding, and then signaled to Qi Hui that she could leave.
Perhaps out of reverence for the knowledge she had not yet learned, she even tucked these few sheets of writing paper into a collection of model essays.
Gu Shijiu was very envious and kept asking Qi Hui, "What exactly did you write?"
She clearly wrote it carefully, so why didn't the girl like it at all?
Qi Hui waved her hand: "Oh, it's all just yellow waste."
Zhang Cheng took a deep breath: "You're still bragging about it!"
Qi Hui glared angrily: "If you hadn't taken up my space, would I have had to write those things?"
Zhang Cheng rolled his eyes at him and gave Shi Qi a push: "Hurry up and go, be careful this little girl changes her mind."
Shi Qi didn't move because he noticed that Gu Shijiu was staring intently at the girl.
He thought Gu Shijiu wanted to see what Qi Hui had written: "Ajiu, shall we go out first?"
Gu Shijiu shook her head: "That backpack smells very strong."
As she spoke, the girl was stuffing the notebook she always used for taking notes into her schoolbag.
The schoolbag was filled with all sorts of items, including a girl's notebook, a bunch of red pens, composition paper, and what appeared to be some small toys.
Zhang Cheng had noticed the backpack before, but now was not a good time to investigate.
This little girl clearly appears to be of a higher level than her father, Xu Zhongtian; the four of them are definitely no match for her.
It would be best to find other ability users first, and then come together...
Zhang Cheng was deep in thought, while Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi huddled together and whispered to each other.
After whispering for a while, Shi Qi finally gave Gu Shijiu an OK sign.
Qi Hui looked left and right, then had no choice but to wait by the side with her hands in her pockets.
"Little sister, can you leave this room?" Shi Qi approached the girl, trying to put on a kind smile.
The girl was getting impatient: "Why are you asking this?"
"Well, we think it's too boring outside with so many adults, so we wanted to take you out to play."
Shi Qi was spouting nonsense.
The little girl didn't understand and looked disappointed: "No, I can't go out. Father will be angry."
While Shi Qi was talking to the girl, Gu Shijiu quietly moved two steps behind the girl.
Zhang Cheng witnessed this scene, and an ominous premonition immediately welled up in his heart.
Sure enough, Gu Shijiu suddenly rushed over, reached out and took the bag off the girl's back, and then ran away like a gust of wind.
Shi Qi followed closely behind, calling out to the two who were still in a daze: "Zhang Cheng, Qi Hui, what are you standing there for? Run!"
In her rage, the girl flung out four thick blood vessels, the energy attached to them was terrifying.
Zhang Cheng and Qi Hui hurriedly dodged away, leaving the room like arrows released from a bow, and closing the door behind them.
At the last moment, the blood vessel was caught in the door and could not extend further out, allowing Zhang Cheng and Qi Hui to barely escape.
"No, you're stealing things at this time of day."
Qi Hui muttered a complaint as she pulled a gun from her pocket and fired several shots at the approaching vein before disappearing into the new room.
The door slammed shut, but the four of them didn't stop there. They opened several more doors in succession.
He only stopped when he was sure there were no blood vessels behind him.
Zhang Cheng, panting heavily, said, "No wonder you asked her if she could leave the room. Wow, there are quite a few special items in here."
Gu Shijiu emptied the contents of his schoolbag, spilling them all over the floor with a clattering sound.
The first thing everyone noticed was those red pens.
Zhang Cheng looked at the pens with a serious expression, while Qi Hui and Shi Qi remained silent.
Gu Shijiu leaned closer and discovered that the pens weren't filled with ink at all, but with still-pulsating blood vessels.
However, when held in someone's hand, these pens look like ordinary ballpoint pens.
Actually, they are all special items; you can feel the gurgling flow in your veins even through the pen barrel.
Gu Shijiu sniffed: "Each one has a different scent."
"You can smell that too?" Zhang Cheng looked at Gu Shijiu's nose in surprise.
Unlike the various anomalies that occur when a person with superpowers uses their abilities, there is nothing particularly special about it from its appearance.
Qi Hui said in a deep voice, "In other words, every pen here comes from a monster."
How many monsters are there in there?
Neither Zhang Cheng nor Qi Hui spoke, and the atmosphere was somewhat somber.
Shi Qi suddenly flipped a page of red paper off the coffee table: "Look at this."
"Huh—" Gu Shijiu looked at it over and over for a while, feeling that it was somewhat familiar. "I feel like I've seen the contents of this somewhere before."
“The writing is exactly the same as the one we saw in the first room we entered,” Shi Qi added.
"What do you mean?" Gu Shijiu didn't understand.
"This means these papers are all counterfeit." Shi Qi then opened the composition papers in her schoolbag and compared them one by one with the red papers on the coffee table.
Shortly after, he pulled out a page of writing paper.
"Look, the handwriting in this essay is very similar to that on the red paper. It was probably written by someone who had been contaminated."
The monster behind it all manipulated these people, giving later generations a distorted and false warning.
As for whether these people who wrote these essays are still human, that's hard to say; they may very well have become monsters.
Qi Hui's tone was somewhat heavy: "Judging from this stack of papers, it seems that quite a few people have already been murdered."
Shi Qi opened the notebook that the girl used for taking notes.
The preceding content was a diary entry, written in ordinary black ballpoint pen handwriting.
[April 2, 2021, Sunny. Mom is seriously ill, Dad went to the hospital to take care of her, and my younger brother is crying and making a lot of noise at home.]
[April 5, 2021, Sunny. Dad and Grandpa are arguing in the room, my little brother is still crying, and I'm doing my homework in the living room.]
[April 12, 2021, Sunny. I haven't seen Mom in a long time. Dad goes to the hospital every day, and today when he came back, he was carrying a knife and his expression was a bit strange.]
[April 28, 2021, Sunny. Grandpa went back to the countryside, and Dad brought Mom back. Mom looked much better.]
May 4, 2021. Sunny. My younger brother is still making a fuss. Dad has been very busy lately, and Mom is recuperating at home.
[May 8, 2021, Sunny. Dad said he has a way to completely cure Mom's illness and told me not to make a fuss. I never make a fuss; it's always my younger brother who's causing trouble.]
May 10, 2021, Rain. Dad said that Mom's illness will be cured tonight because He gave our family three keys.
This is the key to immortality. We'll go first, Dad will follow. Strange, there are clearly four people in our family.
The black writing ends here, followed by large areas of red.
The little brother is missing. Mom ate him. He is very angry because Mom is always saying she's hungry.
My great father loves me more; I'm more obedient than my mother; I'm never hungry; He locked my mother up.
I want to go find my mom, but it's too cold outside, I can't go out.
[I received another satisfactory essay today; my father will surely be happy.]
[Dad still hasn't come. Where did he go? Is he locked up like Mom?]
Three more people came today. They were so noisy! They didn't even want to write an essay praising their father; that's truly wicked.
[Today a young woman came in. She said she does live streaming. What is live streaming?]
[There's no one here anymore. How boring. No one's come in ages. Everyone's dead, turned into food or monsters.]
Monsters eat other monsters when they're hungry, but I'm different. I was chosen by my father, so I don't need to eat. I'm good, and I have to be obedient.
......
The last page contains a few lines I just wrote today.
Four people arrived: a handsome man, an illiterate man, and two beautiful women.
These people are so wicked. Only my sister genuinely praised Father, but I couldn't do anything about it.
According to the girl, there are no living people left inside.
“There are a few questions,” Shi Qi frowned. “The girl’s mother was disobedient, but the ghost didn’t kill her;
Monsters can devour each other, but accomplices like little girls are not allowed to eat. This is probably because monsters will eventually become food for ghosts, while accomplices will always exist, so eating them would be a waste.
So why don't the goblins eat the chang? Is it because they don't want to eat it or because they can't?
And who is the younger brother mentioned in the girl's diary? I remember Xu Zhongtian only had one child, right?
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