Third-rate Thriller Novelist

Chapter 12: Scarlet Apartment (12)

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"The knocking sound is crisp, and the top is indeed hollow."

Anonymous sat on Shen Yu's arm, stretched out his hand sullenly and knocked on the ceiling.

At this time, the posture of the two of them was that Shen Yu was standing below, holding him up with his arms bent, and sending him to the ceiling.

But looking at Anonymous' expression, it seems that he is not very willing.

"No one sent box lunches today, are you hungry? Will you have hypoglycemia in the morning?"

While holding it high, Shen Yu asked with concern: "The child is growing up, I still have a few mints here, do you want it?"

But the object of his care, Anonymous's immature face became more and more tense, and his tone was very resistant: "I don't grow up, I don't eat sweets,"

"Pfft...cough cough, I'm fine, you guys keep busy!"

Behind them, Cuihua didn't let out an accidental laugh, and coughed dryly, motioning for the two to continue.

Having said that, she looked at Anonymous with a tense little face, but her eyes were full of gloating "You have today too".

Shen Yu suddenly asked coldly: "You two have known each other for a long time outside, right?"

There was a slight pause in the movement of the anonymous hand, and then there was a slight "hmm" that could not be detected.

"She is my old subordinate." Immediately afterwards, he added another sentence.

"Since you are teammates, why did you two pretend not to know each other when you first entered the novel?" Shen Yu was even more puzzled, "Also, what the hell is the old subordinate? How old are you?"

This time Anonymous did not explain further, but said lightly: "The task requires."

Shen Yu raised his eyebrows: "It's quite mysterious, making it look like a spy joint."

At this time, Cuihua, who was guarding on the sidelines, couldn't help interjecting: "This newcomer's insight and logical analysis are simply top-notch! Boss, how did you come across such a talented seedling?"

Shen Yu smiled wryly: "Actually, I took the initiative to bump into him at the beginning!"

In a place where neither of them could see, the corners of Unnamed's mouth twitched slightly.

It's just that this smile was short-lived, and he quickly continued to calmly analyze: "The interlayer on the top feels very weak, but it can't be broken directly with violence, and it can't be opened with a knife or other props."

When Cuihua heard this, she immediately got excited: "Head, can you do it? If you can't, let me do it!"

Anonymous said coldly: "You are not tall enough, do you want to jump around to check the situation?"

Cuihua, who is eager to try: "..."

Heartbreaking words!

She looked at herself who was not yet 1.6 meters tall, then looked up at her eldest brother who was forced to hold her up high, and finally she had to grind her teeth in resentment.

In short, someone is worse than yourself!

Shen Yu asked: "Is this also a limitation of the rules of the novel? Can't you just use force to break it open, just like Room 444 in the East Building?"

Anonymous responded in a low voice, and then seemed to have discovered something, holding the blade between his fingers, and carefully scraped off a layer of wall paint on the ceiling.

Pink dust was falling down one after another, and he hastily covered Shen Yu's eyes with his free hand: "Be careful not to be fooled by the dust."

It was dim in front of his eyes, Shen Yu could only hear the rustling sound of scratching, he calmed down and waited quietly.

Soon, he heard Anonymous say in a deep voice, "Use that golden key for me."

When the palm in front of him moved away, he saw that at an inconspicuous joint between the ceiling and the wall, the pink wall paint had been scraped off, revealing a small keyhole abruptly.

Sure enough, they found the right one!

Under the watchful eyes of the three of them, the golden key was inserted into the keyhole and turned a few times, but there was a light "click".

Anonymous frowned: "This key can't open the mezzanine."

"What the hell?"

Cuihua, who was full of anticipation, couldn't help pointing to the name engraved on the key, and complained: "It's fine if you can't open your own door, but now you can't even open a small mezzanine, Wu Jianyi, you are a piece of trash !"

The reason why the three of them ran to the west building was to speculate that after Wu Jianyi killed his wife, he would definitely take advantage of the opportunity when he was renovating the apartment to secretly dispose of the body properly.

The west building represents the renovated apartment, so Zhang Lili's body is most likely hidden in the "invisible seventh floor", that is, it was built into the mezzanine.

But now, the keys in their hands can't open the mezzanine, it's useless at all!

Anonymous jumped down from the top, thought for a long time, and then said: "It seems that we have to go back to the east building after a detour."

"The key engraved with Wu Jianyi's name is not useful for the time being, so if you want to open Room 444 and the mezzanine, you can only rely on the other two keys—Wu Jianyi's lover and illegitimate son."

Shen Yu instantly understood what he meant: "There are too many apartment residents in the west building, and it is a little dangerous for us now. It is hard to guarantee that the siege like last night will not happen again, so tonight we are going to the east building to spend the night?"

"Only in the east building, without the disturbance of the apartment residents, can we find the opportunity to kill two monsters and get the crucial key."

"Wait, where are we going to find monsters?"

Cuihua interrupted the two of them: "Even if we can find the monster scratching the glass outside the window, but the other monster is elusive and running around in the apartment, we can't find its shadow, let alone kill it!"

Hearing this, Shen Yu lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then whispered: "I know how to lure it out."

The daytime passed away quickly, and it was the fourth night in a blink of an eye.

The color of the walls of the pink apartment is getting darker, and it is getting redder every day. It has changed from delicate pink at the beginning to infinitely closer to bright red.

It's impossible to ignore.

The bald man sat on the sofa on the first floor with a gloomy face and shortness of breath, as if he was extremely depressed.

After he learned the truth of the matter, he was full of confidence to find the corpse, but he searched alone for a whole day, but he didn't even find a fart!

Tomorrow is the fifth day, and the deadline is approaching, but he has found nothing. He simply wonders whether Shen Yu and the others deliberately gave him false clues!

And the other three surviving novices, seeing his face at this time, all avoided him far away.

Seeing others hiding from him like a plague god, the bald man became even more depressed!

For a veteran like him, in the previous novels, which time was he not scrambled by a group of newcomers to curry favor? When is it like this now, even a newcomer to explore the way can't be found at hand!

It's all those three people! It's all those three people sticking together, blindly protecting the newcomers, and crowding out themselves! It's all because of those three unruly people! !

Thinking of this, the bald man couldn't help but blushed, and angrily punched the sofa several times, powerlessly venting the anger in his heart.

What's worse, the administrator didn't distribute the keys today, so he still only has the red key he grabbed yesterday.

The red key can only sleep in the east building, but…

Thinking of the tragedy that happened in the east building last night, and the overwhelming scarlet blood, the bald man couldn't help covering his head timidly.

He really didn't dare to live in the east building anymore!

Just when he was worried, a pink key was suddenly presented to him: "Change the red key in your hand."

The bald man raised his head in a daze, only to see Cuihua standing in front of him.

"What the hell are you doing?" he asked suspiciously.

Cuihua said impatiently: "Change the key to the east building, do you want to change it? If not, I'll just grab it!"

The bald man twitched, and hurriedly threw the hot potato in his hand to the other party.

Cuihua got the key and whistled towards Shen and Yu, but Anonymous took the key from his hand: "We two go to the east building, you stay in the west building."

"The administrator has broken up with us. The rule that two people must share a room is temporarily unnecessary. Tonight, four of you share a room. Take care of the three newcomers."

Cuihua was taken aback, and immediately jumped up: "Killing two monsters in one night, it's only the two of you that are so dangerous? Head, you..."

Anonymous said in a low tone, "This is an order!"

Cuihua suddenly got stuck.

Seeing that she was still not convinced, Anonymous had no choice but to repeat: "The siege last night may happen again tonight. The three newcomers are all unable to protect themselves, and can only be taken care of by an old hand."

"The east building we are going to is dangerous, and the west building you are in is also not safe."

Cuihua hesitated for a moment before answering: "Yes."

The bald man's eyes turned red when he heard it, knowing that the other party was going to take care of the three newcomers, and that he was definitely not within their protection, he became even more upset.

He was in a panic now, seeing nothing pleasing to the eye, but he couldn't beat other veterans, so he could only hold his breath, cursed and left in a low voice.

Cuihua also brought the three newcomers, living in the same room like a mother hen guarding three anxious chicks.

But Shen Yu and Unnamed stayed where they were, looking at each other for a long time.

This time, no one took the lead to look away.

After a while, it was almost eleven o'clock, but Shen Yu finally got up and went to the east building to find a random room.

With a dignified expression, Anonymous followed behind him silently.

At eleven o'clock, the lights went out.

Shen Yu groped in the room for a while, and found a cold, stiff, fat corpse under the bed.

He couldn't help laughing: "I didn't pay attention when I was looking for a room just now. We actually lived in the room where Boss Qian was hanged."

Then, he was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled self-deprecatingly.

It's only been a few days, and as a third-rate novelist, I won't be afraid to touch a dead body under the bed in the middle of the night.

Humans are so adaptable!

But Anonymous remained silent in the dark, and did not answer his words. After a long time, he opened his mouth and said, "I still disagree with the method you proposed earlier."

Earlier on the sixth floor, Shen Yu proposed... a method to attract monsters.

Shen Yu didn't refute directly, but sat on the bed, and patiently narrated again: "From Wu Jianyi's diary, we can see that his illegitimate son, Xiaobao, is actually an out-and-out brat."

"Torturing and killing cats and dogs, pushing down the elderly, beating and bullying classmates, he was arrogant and domineering, mischievous and troublesome at a young age, and he was also very annoying in the apartment. Every time, his parents had to clean up the mess for him."

"When I first entered the novel, I was almost strangled to death by a monster the size of a child, and then the monster strangled Xu Tingting to death.

"That monster is at least 80% Wu Xiaobao. As a brat, I can't stand provocation! And I—"

With a smile on his face, he got up and pushed open the door in the dark. The light outside the corridor immediately illuminated the dark room.

"I'm the only one who escaped from its grasp. How can a person who likes to kill prey allow some fish to slip through the net?"

"So it will definitely come to kill me!"

Facing the dim light, Shen Yu walked outside the house step by step.