books44 Chapter 336 - 323: Temporary Emergency Script Mission: Kill the Occupant of 904 (Part 2)
Chapter 336 - 323: Temporary Emergency Script Mission: Kill the Occupant of 904 (Part 2)
But now, various signs indicated that things were not as simple as he had expected.
Hu Qi’s eyes narrowed slightly.
"Interesting..."
He set aside these jumbled thoughts for the moment and continued down the main hall’s corridor.
He crossed the dozens of meters of corridor in an instant, and a vast space opened up before him.
The area was filled with rows of black doors.
The center of each door was marked with numbers like 101, 102, 103... written in a blood-red script.
In addition, to one side, an old wooden spiral staircase stretched upwards.
Surprisingly, the apartment had no modern elevator.
There was only this single, old wooden staircase.
Furthermore, from the outside, it looked like an ordinary apartment building.
But once inside...
...you would discover that the interior space was far more vast than you could imagine.
Now, standing at the foot of the spiral staircase and looking up...
Hu Qi found that his gaze could only pierce through the space up to the Third Layer.
Higher up was a darkness as thick and black as ink.
That darkness wasn’t merely an absence of light. It was shrouded by the power of a Nightmare, and it exuded a horrifying aura.
On the Third Layer, some room doors were shut tight and silent, but a few others had creaked open, and figures were emerging from them.
Some stopped to look around, while others hurried down the stairs.
The people appearing here were clearly all actors from the Blood Word Script.
Hu Qi guessed that the huge commotion he’d caused by crashing the Deceitful Bus into the Bloody Apartment had likely drawn them out.
Hu Qi paid them no mind, his pace not faltering in the slightest as he brushed past them.
As he ascended the steps, some people naturally took notice of him.
One of them, his face full of curiosity, spoke up.
"Hey man, what happened outside?"
Hu Qi acted as if he hadn’t heard, maintaining his original pace and speed.
Seeing Hu Qi’s reaction, a look of displeasure instantly crossed the man’s face.
"What the..."
Just as he was about to curse, his companion beside him quickly clamped a hand over his mouth.
"Bro... Brother Zhou, what’s wrong?"
The man whose mouth was covered asked, looking bewildered.
This Brother Zhou was a veteran who had survived two Nightmare scripts.
If Brother Zhou hadn’t stepped in to help during the last script mission with that knocking monster, he would have been a dead man long ago.
That was why he was so respectful toward him.
Brother Zhou’s expression was grim as he said, with a hint of anger in his voice...
"What’s wrong? Have you completely forgotten everything I told you?"
After he spoke, Brother Zhou’s gaze involuntarily followed Hu Qi’s retreating form.
In just a few moments, Hu Qi had silently reached the Third Layer, his pace never faltering.
He walked straight past it, and his figure was soon swallowed by the shadows, vanishing from their sight.
Seeing this, the man who had first spoken out suddenly broke into a cold sweat, as if a terrifying thought had just struck him.
He hadn’t been in the Bloody Apartment for long, but thanks to Brother Zhou’s thorough explanations...
...he had a basic understanding of the place.
He was well aware that everyone living here was an actor, and among them, there was a strict hierarchy, a clear division of ranks.
The lowest tier consisted of residents on the First Layer. They were mostly novices who had just completed their first official script mission, mere fledglings.
Like him.
The second and Third Layers housed more senior actors, a distinction made by the Blood Word Script based on their performance and evaluations during missions.
The higher the floor, the greater the actor’s potential and the stronger their Ability.
As for those who resided above the Third Layer, they were even more mysterious and powerful.
It was said that they could expertly wield strange powers, even going head-to-head with the terrifying monsters in the script missions.
These were the people you absolutely could not afford to provoke.
And he had just been about to curse at one of them.
At this thought, his legs began to tremble.
The others nearby who saw this shot him looks of mockery, as if staring at a pathetic fool.
In their eyes, the man was a complete idiot.
And Brother Zhou, standing beside him, felt the same.
He’d originally thought the kid had potential. With a little nurturing, he might have become a decent ally in the future. But now...
’It seems I misjudged him.’
He even started to regret warning him.
If that powerful figure held a grudge, it would be more trouble than he could handle.
It was true that inside the apartment, the Blood Word Script’s restrictions prevented actors from fighting each other.
But once they left the apartment to carry out a script mission, no such restriction existed.
And even if that powerful individual had no intention of retaliating...
...other actors, eager to curry favor with such a being, might take matters into their own hands and attack them.
He could already see some of the gazes from the surrounding crowd turning hostile.
...
CREAK... CREAK...
On the dimly lit staircase, every footstep on the decaying wooden planks produced a spine-chilling creak.
Hu Qi ascended the spiral wooden staircase at a steady pace.
Holding the room 904 key card, he encountered no resistance on his way up.
The higher he climbed, the fewer residents there were.
Moreover, unlike the ordinary people on the lower floors, every one of these residents carried the aura of the Dream Eye to some extent.
They were clearly all Dream Masters who had harnessed a Dream Eye.