Demon Apartment - Chapter 18 - The First Victim

Just moments ago, Feng Yu, who was sitting right next to Ge Qi, disappeared!

“Feng… Where’s Feng Yu?”

“He… He was just right there a moment ago!”

At this moment, everyone felt a chill on their scalp. And the next moment, Dong Xie saw something else!

“Look… look there!”

The door… it opened!

The main door leading outside had opened!

Seeing this, everyone was furious with rage. The first victim had appeared!

And it had been less than half an hour since the Blood Letter Task began!

Dong Xie gripped Dong Ning’s hand tightly, his heart pounding fiercely. From the lighter going out to being relit was at most one to two seconds, and just before that, Feng Yu was still sitting on the couch! But now, he was gone! Throughout this process, Feng Yu didn’t make a single sound―not even a moment of struggle!

So… should we stay in the room, or go out?

If we stay here, who knows what might happen! But running out recklessly, who knows if we might become the next victim! Of course, since the first victim had appeared, the next one would likely be some time away, due to the restrictions set by the Apartment. But, that was just the norm, not an absolute rule. For Dong Xie, who was following the Blood Letter Instructions for the first time, he dared not gamble with his and Ah Ning’s lives!

“Wait… do you hear that… footsteps?”

At that moment, Dong Ning’s words made everyone hold their breath.

They dared not speak anymore, instead, they perked up their ears to listen, and then…

In this utterly silent environment, they indeed heard footsteps coming from outside!

At this, Ge Qi was so scared he went limp, and he dashed towards the door, quickly about to close it! But just as he was about to shut it, the candle in his hand cast light on the corridor beside him…

So he looked that way…

What he saw then scared the soul out of him!

It was an incredibly hunched figure, the legs severely bent at the knees as if the joints couldn’t straighten! And the person’s head was completely down, the neck and torso almost forming a right angle!

From the person’s clothing, it was clear… it was Feng Yu!

“Feng… Feng Yu… are you, are you still alive?”

At that moment, to Ge Qi, Feng Yu’s bodily movements seemed as if possessed! Given the silence in the corridor, he believed that Feng Yu, if his hearing was normal, would not fail to hear his words!

Watching Ge Qi hesitating to close the door, Dong Xie felt something was off, but he didn’t dare to risk moving towards the door with Ah Ning. As someone who had been writing horror novels online for over a decade, he had devised countless bizarre ways of death in his books! But then, when he heard Ge Qi utter the name “Feng Yu,” he was startled!

Feng Yu? He wasn’t dead?

He glanced at Zhao Long next to him, bit his lip, and said, “Zhao Long, please look after my younger sister!”

“Okay!” Zhao Long nodded without hesitation.

Dong Xie then swiftly ran towards the door, and what he saw next was that eerie scene!

However, even though Feng Yu was still alive, neither Dong Xie nor Ge Qi had any intention of rushing out to drag him back. After all, Feng Yu looked too eerie right now!

And now… Feng Yu had walked to the nearby elevator and then, with trembling hands, pressed the elevator button!

At that moment, Dong Ning and Zhao Long also reached the door and saw the same scene!

Feng Yu was still in that hunched posture, standing at the elevator door. Soon, the elevator arrived! The entire Building 3 was without power, yet the elevator was still operational!

When the elevator doors opened, Feng Yu… walked in!

No one tried to stop him…

Because Feng Yu looked completely like he was possessed by an evil spirit! Such occurrences aren’t rare in the records of Blood Letters. Not to mention his weird walking stance… How did he manage to move from the couch to the door and walk out within one or two seconds without making a sound, and only then did they hear footsteps from outside! It was believed by all that Feng Yu was possessed!

Feng Yu then entered the elevator, and… the elevator doors closed naturally!

At that moment, Dong Xie didn’t know where he found the courage, but he snatched the candle from Ge Qi’s hands and ran out, rushing towards the elevator! When he reached the elevator, he quickly saw…

The elevator display changed from “5” to “4”!

Then… 4 did not change back to 3, but stayed there!

Dong Xie covered his mouth, his eyes wide with horror. Feng Yu… he had gone to the fourth floor!

What would happen to Feng Yu next? Dong Xie could fully imagine.

Feng Yu, no matter how you looked at it, seemed possessed. Based on the past blood letter record, he was likely in a state without self-awareness!

A drop of cold sweat unknowingly seeped out from his forehead, trickling down to his nose, but Dong Xie was completely unaware.

At that moment, Dong Ning had already rushed to his side, and they both watched the elevator display screen!

The siblings, looking at the bright red “4” on the display, now fully realized what this meant. They had thought that not going to the fourth floor would be straightforward, but they had been completely wrong!

Actually… they could have stopped Feng Yu. Whether he was possessed or cursed was unclear. However, Dong Xie did not regret it. After all, he had no obligation to risk his life to save Feng Yu. Other than Ah Ning, he certainly prioritized his own life first.

The siblings then walked back, looking at Zhao Long and Ge Qi’s faces filled with horror.

“The elevator went to the fourth floor.”

When Dong Xie said this, Zhao Long and Ge Qi’s faces grew even grimmer. They began to realize that they had been wrong from the start.

Not going to the fourth floor… was not something they could decide!

Taking the elevator to the fourth floor couldn’t possibly have been Feng Yu’s own decision; it must have been the result of being possessed by an evil spirit.

In the Apartment’s Blood Letter Task, the order of residents’ deaths and the number of times they performed Blood Letter tasks were unrelated, usually random. And the 1-3 times Blood Letter didn’t significantly increase in difficulty, so the five of them could come out together to perform Blood Letter tasks. In other words, the one possessed by the evil spirit could have been Feng Yu, or it could just as well have been Ge Qi, Zhao Long, or either of the siblings Dong Xie and Dong Ning!

It was entirely like Russian roulette! No one could guess who the next victim would be!