Pressing the elevator button, the elevator door that was stopping on the eleventh floor opened immediately.

Through the lens, Xie Xingyin clearly saw that the inner wall of the elevator car was covered with messy and mottled fluorescent blue bloody handprints.

Fluorescent colors flow throughout the elevator car, like a dark green river flowing in the underworld.

Obviously these fluorescent lights also represent blood stains. But when you take away the lens, there is nothing clean in the elevator car.

"What did you see?" Xiao Lu also came over to take a look.

Xie Xingyin handed the lens to him and asked him to look at those blue-green things.

"What are these?" Xiao Lu was not afraid, but asked curiously.

"It should be blood." Xie Xingyin said, "...During criminal investigations, luminol reagents are used to test blood traces at crime scenes. When blood is detected, the oxidized luminol will emit blue-green fluorescence.

"

Xiao Lu looked at him with beautiful eyes and nodded speciously. Xie Xingyin touched his head: "This detection method is very effective. It can detect blood diluted to one millionth, even if it is washed to the naked eye."

There are no traces of blood that can be seen at all.”

Xiao Lu said "Oh" as if he understood: "So the fortune teller said yesterday that someone died in the elevator because he saw these blood stains?"

"I think so too." Xie Xingyin nodded, "Look at the fluorescent light everywhere here. Such a large amount of blood loss is enough to cause death. I don't know the specific principle of Lao Liang's glasses, but through its

Seeing blood can act as a luminol reagent."

This thing is very useful.

This allowed them to see traces of blood and try to reconstruct what happened in the apartment.

Xie Xingyin patted Xiao Lu on the shoulder and put the lenses away.

By half past eight, everyone else got up one after another.

Everyone discovered that it would never dawn. Jia Ming said with a sad face: "There are voice-activated lights in the corridor and also in the room. We try to stay in a place with light and save flashlights."

After a while, Brother Biao ran out with two dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept well all night. As soon as he came out, he grabbed the others in a panic and asked: "You guys, did you hear anything last night?!

"

His little brother who stuttered was even more crazy, shouting vaguely: "Knock on the door... ghost, ghost! There is a ghost!"

Xie Xingyin was about to shake his head when he heard the lady in the mink coat beside him hurriedly echoed: "There was a knock on the door last night, did you all hear it?"

Both she and her husband looked miserable, and it was obvious that they had not slept well.

"I heard it too." Lao Liang also said.

"It's the same in our room." Two female high school students living in the same room said.

Others nervously agreed. Only the short-haired girl in the same room as Li Wei looked hesitant. "We didn't hear anything in our room. Maybe I was too asleep."

Everyone gathered in the corridor. Xie Xingyin glanced around and found that Li Wei was not there.

"Where is Li Wei?" Xie Xingyin quietly asked the short-haired girl next to him.

"She just had breakfast and felt uncomfortable, so I asked her to lie down in the room. I touched her forehead just now and it felt a little hot. She might have caught a cold last night," said the short-haired girl.

Xie Xingyin nodded: "Fortunately. No one opened the door last night and no one died. Does this mean that as long as we abide by the rules, it is not impossible for everyone to complete the task and get out alive?"

Everyone can get out alive.

The remaining people seemed to be comforted by these words, and they all showed expressions of relief. But Jia Ming seemed to think they were naive, and just snorted coldly. "That's a good idea."

"Wait a minute, did any of you see the body that was placed in the corridor yesterday?" Xie Xingyin asked.

Cockscomb Head's body was missing, and everyone else looked at the end of the empty corridor, confused.

"No one has touched it, right?"

"Who would touch something like that? Bad luck."

"Is it possible that the game automatically cleans up the dead?" Xie Xingyin speculated, "When I play shooting games, the dead bodies will disappear after a while."

"This is an interesting guess - but now I believe you are really a newcomer." Jia Ming said, "I have entered the tower many times. It is a pity that the bodies of my teammates never disappear for no reason."

Xie Xingyin vaguely glimpsed something terrifying in his words.

"...Forget it." Brother Biao said, "Everyone is dead. It doesn't matter whether there are corpses or not."

"Yeah, it's not like we have to find a corpse."

Others agreed.

After everyone chatted, they dispersed. Xie Xingyin went into the room to see Li Wei. She was lying on the bed covered with a quilt, with a towel on her forehead to cool down. Her face was pale and her lips were a little dry.

A girl with short hair took care of her and took her temperature with a mercury thermometer.

38.5c.

Xie Xingyin couldn't help but frown. Why did he suddenly have a fever?

"Do you have antipyretics in your room?" Xie Xingyin walked out and asked the others in a low voice. The others shook their heads.

I don't expect Tower to be so kind as to prepare medicine for them.

It's really difficult to get sick in a place like this, and they don't have the conditions to treat you.

Jia Ming seemed to see his anxiety and sneered: "That's why the doctors in the guild are dragging them along. It's more expensive to invite them into the tower than to hire a group of bodyguards."

Sure enough, he still needs to have some skills, Xie Xingyin thought to himself. He graduated from the history department and will not be of use for the time being.

"Hey, I said, let's break open the doors of these houses and take a look." Brother Biao planned, "These are houses where people have lived in before. We might be able to find usable medicine and food."

Xie Xingyin nodded in agreement.

This apartment is so eerie that others don't want to search on other floors for the time being, so they might as well search on this floor first.

"Then let's look for clues on this floor first."

"...I, I always feel like there is something behind the door." Brother Biao stared at the closed door opposite and said hesitantly.

Normally, other people might be intimidated by him, but now with the strength of the crowd, people's courage has grown.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Let's pry open a door first and take a look."

These doors look like they have been used for more than ten years. They are all made of lacquered wood and are not the common security doors nowadays.

The door lock looked easy to break, but Xie Xingyin found a tool and smashed it twice, and found that it was quite strong.

"I'll do it." Lao Liang took out a thin wire from his pocket, wrapped it around his finger and stirred it.

"Can you still pick locks?"

"Ahem," Lao Liang said as he pushed the wire into the keyhole, "people can't help themselves in the world. Fortune telling, opening locks, opening water pipes, catching mistresses, you know how to do everything so you don't starve to death."

"..." Xie Xingyin looked at him and felt that this guy was not very reliable.

However, he did take two steps to unlock the door. He only stirred it a few times with the wire, and the door lock clicked open.

Xie Xingyin was about to reach out and open the door when he heard Brother Biao say roughly from behind:

"Brother, be careful. I don't know what's inside. Don't let the human-faced dog pounce on you as soon as you open the door."

Everyone took half a step back and watched Xie Xingyin slowly open the door.

The wooden door seemed to have not been touched for a long time. The door shafts and hinges were rusty. When the door was opened, it made a harsh sound, as if it was about to fall.

Before opening the door, Xie Xingyin was mentally prepared, but after the door actually opened, the scene in front of him was beyond his expectation.

He was stunned for a moment, and others present were also stunned.

Inside the door is a brick wall.

A solid brick wall completely sealed the entire room.

This wall is too strangely built, as if there is something behind it that must not be let out.

Xie Xingyin raised his hand and tapped the wall tiles with his knuckles. The sound echoed in the quiet corridor, like knocking on the door.

The wall tiles were very thick. Even after a few knocks, Xie Xingyin couldn't tell whether the back of the wall was empty or solid.

Everyone's attention was attracted by this weird cement wall, and they poked their heads around the door.

Lao Liang's face was not very good, and he hurriedly unlocked several more doors with trembling hands. He opened six doors in a row, and behind them were all identical brick walls.

"I, I...fuck!" Lao Liang stared at the wall and his lips trembled for a long time without uttering a complete sentence.

He didn't know what frightened him, but he ran away with a frightened expression and urinated. Brother Biao grabbed him and carried him back by the collar.

"Isn't it just a broken wall? If you smash it, it's over! What are you doing here all day long? You! Believe it or not, I will beat you!"

Lao Liang "poofed" and drooled all over his face.

"What do you know!"

With that said, he turned to Xie Xingyin and shouted: "Close the doors first! Close them quickly!"

The panic on his face was so contagious that Xie Xingyin subconsciously followed his instructions.

When the door slammed shut, the blind man breathed a sigh of relief. The sunglasses on his nose only had a black lens on his right eye, which looked very funny.

"What's going on?" Xie Xingyin asked him with raised eyebrows.
To be continued...