Returning to the present, Bai Yuze began making simple Molotov cocktails, while the two girls rested nearby.
Canned food suddenly appeared in the room, signifying that night had passed.
Bai Yuze took the meat-based canned food and reminded the two girls.
"Eat something first, or your bodies won't be able to handle it."
The canned food didn't taste delicious, but given the circumstances, being able to eat until full was already a blessing.
Just as the three of them were eating, a noisy commotion came from outside.
Bai Yuze shushed the two of them, slowly got up, and opened the iron door a crack.
Through the gap, he saw Zhu Daqiang standing in front of room 205, brandishing a cleaver and shouting.
"Damn it! Yuan Xing, get out here! I've been annoyed with you for a long time. Today, only one of us is leaving alive. Whoever chickens out is a grandson!"
Zhu Daqiang yelled and hacked at the iron door with his cleaver, making a sound that was hard to ignore.
"You idiot, you don't even know you've been tricked."
Yuan Xing's curses came from inside room 205. Zhu Daqiang brightened at the sound and hacked at the door with even more effort.
Bang!
The iron door flew off, taking Zhu Daqiang with it.
"You fat pig, if you don't want to live, I'll grant your wish!"
Zhu Daqiang's head couldn't withstand the impact and fell to the ground. After fumbling around on the ground for a moment, his body finally found his head, and he casually reattached it to his neck.
"You stupid pig, you've been tricked and you're still counting money for others!"
"Heh! Don't give me that. Don't think you're so smart. Whether that information is true or false, you must die today!"
Zhu Daqiang roared, grabbed his cleaver, and chopped at Yuan Xing. Yuan Xing could only defend himself, maintaining a safe distance from Zhu Daqiang.
Suddenly! Zhu Daqiang pulled off his own head and threw it at Yuan Xing. Although the head was separated from the body, it still had consciousness and bit down on Yuan Xing's shoulder with its gaping maw.
At the same time, Zhu Daqiang's cleaver also reached Yuan Xing's neck. Yuan Xing couldn't dodge in time and was beheaded.
"Hahahaha! Weren't you very arrogant usually? Where's that broken knife of yours? Is your body too weak to conjure it? Why aren't you showing it off now?"
Amidst Zhu Daqiang's unrestrained laughter, he chopped Yuan Xing into mincemeat, one slice after another, as if he were mincing meat on Yuan Xing's corpse.
"Heh, my knife is still stronger. This thing took me a lot of effort!"
After doing all this, he glared in the direction of 202, reattached his head to his neck, and walked straight towards 202.
Seeing this, Bai Yuze closed the iron door, picked up the knife he had exchanged from Yuan Xing with his right hand, and the can of meat with his left, his eyes fixed on the iron door.
Clang, clang, clang! Clang, clang, clang!
A knocking sound began, but it was more like a pounding sound than a knock.
"Those inside, come out. That guy Yuan Xing was taken care of by me. You don't have to worry about anyone hurting you."
Bai Yuze gestured for the two girls to step back. He didn't make a sound; he wouldn't believe a word Zhu Daqiang said.
No one would hurt them, but the guy outside the door wasn't human.
Seeing no one respond, Zhu Daqiang outside the door knocked even harder.
"Hey! I know you're in there. Why aren't you opening the door? Are you really tricking me?! Open the door! I told you to open the door!"
Zhu Daqiang's angry voice reached their ears, accompanied by the sound of his cleaver hacking at the iron door, making Bai Yuze tremble.
Suddenly, the hacking stopped. As the two girls wondered why, Bai Yuze made a gesture for them to cover their mouths and noses.
The two girls quickly imitated him. The next moment, a cloud of mist entered room 202 through the door crack.
Soon, the entire room was filled with mist, and covering their mouths and noses with their hands ultimately proved futile.
Tuanzi and Yukino only felt their heads becoming heavy and their consciousness somewhat blurry, but the next moment, they suddenly cleared up.
They saw Bai Yuze swaying as he opened the iron door, a move that startled the two girls.
Seeing this, Zhu Daqiang outside the door immediately grinned to an astonishing degree.
"Didn't expect this, did you? Under my mist, you have nowhere to hide."
"But why is the confusion time so short? Have I become stronger again?"
Before Zhu Daqiang could use his pointed head to think, Bai Yuze suddenly stabbed the can of meat in his hand with the knife, then violently shoved it into Zhu Daqiang's mouth. After doing all this, he closed the door again.
"You! You were pretending... cough, cough, cough!"
Zhu Daqiang tried to speak, but the juice from the canned meat had already flowed into his mouth.
His entire body arched, and he fell weakly to the ground, curling up.
Immediately after, Zhu Daqiang's mouth opened to its widest. First, a large swarm of flies flew out, then countless hairs began to pour out of his mouth, gradually enveloping Zhu Daqiang.
And Zhu Daqiang's originally violently struggling body gradually calmed down.
Noticing the silence outside the door, Bai Yuze opened a small crack to check the situation.
"Is he... dead?"
Yui Yuigahama asked cautiously.
"No, not yet. Although the rules apply to him too, he is ultimately a weird entity. He will revive again, but he will be weakened for a period."
"Then what do we do now?"
Yui Yuigahama stepped back a few paces, while Yukinoshita Yukino picked up a Molotov cocktail and said.
"How about we burn him while he's weak?"
"No, we can't be sure if the Zhu Daqiang in front of us is his true body right now. Instead of burning a corpse, it's better to wait until night and burn his room along with him."
"Is Yuan Xing still alive then?"
According to Bai Yuze, weird entities killing other weird entities cannot result in death. So, was Yuan Xing, killed by Zhu Daqiang, still alive?
"He might be hiding somewhere. After all, his physical body was destroyed, and he needs some time to recover. One less is one less. Let's rest first."
"Um... I have a question. Why aren't you surprised? It's like you knew Zhu Daqiang would attack us all along."
Yui Yuigahama was very confused. The two people beside her were acting as if nothing had happened, which she found very perplexing.
Bai Yuze didn't answer Tuanzi's question, but simply handed Tuanzi a slip of paper.
On the paper was written, "Something on our heads is listening. Please cooperate." Below the text was a sketch: a house with two people inside, and a cloud of mist within the house.
"Ah?!"
Yui Yuigahama instinctively exclaimed after reading the contents of the paper.
"It's gone now. I communicated with Yukino using notes last night."
Bai Yuze explained the situation to Yui Yuigahama.
It turned out that as soon as he returned to 202, Bai Yuze noticed the mist in the room. He took out paper and a pen, writing and drawing on it, guiding Yukino to cooperate with him in acting and asking questions.
"So you deliberately said that only one of the two weird entities could survive?"
"Exactly. In reality, there was no such path at all."
Bai Yuze smiled as he flipped the paper slip in his hand.
"Ah? Then they have no way to escape, right?"
"Not necessarily. Since the rules also apply to them, it means our way out is also their way out. Although we can cooperate, they are not human after all. If the number of people escaping is only the number of living humans, we won't be able to resist them."
"That's true."
"It's good that you understand."
Bai Yuze gave Yui Yuigahama a thumbs-up.
The three then rested, waiting for midnight to descend once more.