The sound grew closer, and as the splashing sound approached, the two girls clearly felt the ceiling dripping water at a faster rate.
The children's laughter that had echoed in their ears stopped, replaced by screams.
Yukino felt as if her eardrums were about to burst; the piercing noise made her somewhat disoriented, and combined with the distinct dampness of the bedsheet, the two were now in a predicament.
Rip!
Something attacked the bedsheet covering the two girls. The moment the bedsheet was torn, Yukino quickly pulled Yui Yuigahama to hide in another room.
Because the environment was too dark, Yukino didn't realize where she had stumbled into until Yui Yuigahama turned on her phone's flashlight, and then she realized how big a mistake she had made.
Both girls tightly covered their mouths, even their breathing instinctively softened; they certainly didn't want to be bitten by the creature in front of them.
In the room, besides the two girls who were too nervous to move, there was also a canine creature chained up.
This creature was similar in size to a human; if bitten, putting aside whether one could withstand its gaping maw, just the bacteria in its mouth would be enough to be fatal.
Yukino reached out to cover Yui Yuigahama's phone, fearing that the light from the phone would cause the canine monster in front of them to awaken.
But before she could touch Yui Yuigahama's phone, a thumping sound came from the door behind them, and the increasing volume of the sound indicated that the creature outside was not friendly.
"What should we do, Yukino? This guy seems to be waking up..."
Yui Yuigahama was a little flustered; she only kept small dogs, and this was her first time seeing such a large canine, but she certainly didn't want to become the large dog's next meal upon their first meeting.
Yukino at this moment stared at the fierce dog in front of her, whose eyes were closed. Its brow twitched in a pattern with the knocking sound: each knock, it furrowed its brow.
Yukino knew that sitting idly by now was just waiting for death, so she prepared to take the initiative.
"The one outside the door is the male corpse from room 102. He's probably here for this knife." With that, Yukino waved the surgical knife at Tuanzi. "Therefore, I need your help."
"I understand. What exactly do you need me to do?"
"Open the door!"
"Ah? Are we going to give him back the knife? No, no, with this knife, we at least have the strength to resist. Once he takes this knife back, we'll truly have nothing left."
Yui Yuigahama couldn't help but remind her. From her perspective, she truly thought Yukino was going to hand over the knife, so she quickly warned Yukino not to be foolish.
"Am I that stupid?"
Yukino was a little speechless, but now was not the time to dwell on such matters.
"Trust me, just as I trust you."
Looking at Yukino's determined eyes, Yui Yuigahama swallowed the words she wanted to say.
"Are you ready?"
Yukino finished speaking, then tightened her grip on the surgical knife.
"Mm!"
The two girls exchanged a glance. Yui Yuigahama abruptly opened the door, and Yukino seized the opportunity to stab the sleeping fierce dog with the surgical knife.
Pfft!
"Run!"
As the surgical knife plunged in, a chilling gaze slowly opened. Yukino and Yui Yuigahama took the chance to run out, the surgical knife still embedded in the fierce dog's eyeball.
"Awoooo!!!"
Due to its size, Yukino's aim was precisely the dog's eye. The stinging pain from its eye instantly woke the fierce dog.
The pain in its eye made the fierce dog furious, and at that moment, its one remaining eye saw the male corpse in front of it.
Since Yukino and Yui Yuigahama had run out, and the surgical knife was still stuck in the fierce dog's eye, the male corpse did not choose to pursue the two, but instead slowly walked to the fierce dog's front... reaching out...
Screech!
The male corpse directly pulled the surgical knife out of the fierce dog's eye. The sensation of the injured area being severely re-injured once again made the fierce dog suffer immensely.
Although it couldn't speak, it would use its actions to fiercely beat up this benefactor who had treated its eye disease!
The fierce dog knocked the male corpse to the ground and bit him frantically. The stinging pain from its eye continued, and each additional sting made the fierce dog bite even harder...
"Huff, huff, huff... We should be safe hiding here, right?"
Yui Yuigahama and Yukino were panting heavily in the hallway, now a certain distance from the room they had just left.
"They shouldn't be able to catch up. I think we should find a room to rest in. Escaping needs careful planning. We only have one chance, and now we can only move forward, there's no turning back."
"Mm! That's right, we definitely need to formulate a detailed plan."
Yui Yuigahama echoed, and at this moment, both of them silently wished to find a temporary place to stay.
At this moment, their vision changed. Except for the path to escape which remained its original color, all other rooms had turned into three colored houses: red, yellow, and green.
"Hmm, there are three colors. Which one should we choose?"
"I just looked at the room we escaped from; it was red. This means red rooms have a certain level of danger. As for the remaining yellow and green... I'm not too sure."
"However, all the rooms along this path, except for that one, were yellow. This means we also came out of a yellow room. Does that mean yellow is relatively safer?"
At a critical moment, Yui Yuigahama offered her conjecture, and Yukino nodded in agreement.
"That does make sense. There's a yellow door right next to us, and the green door is too far. It wouldn't be good if we got dripped on by the water from the ceiling by then."
Thus, what seemed like three choices was actually only one choice for the two of them.
"Let's go!"
Yukino took a deep breath and pushed open the yellow door.
To Yukino's surprise, the light inside was on. This not only heightened Yukino's vigilance—all the previous rooms were dark, and currently, only this one room had light, indicating two possibilities.
One: The light is affected by the supernatural, and the darker the room, the greater the possibility of a supernatural presence.
Two: Something is living in this room...
"Eh! Yukino, come and look, there's a photo here!"
Yui Yuigahama found a clear photo on a nearby table. It contained many people with different expressions, and standing in the center was a young man, though he seemed a bit haggard, like a corporate slave working 996 hours.
"This person gives me a familiar feeling." Yui Yuigahama flipped the photo over. Some photos had the names of the people inside written on the back. Yui Yuigahama planned to start from this angle to see if she could find clues about the people in the photo.
The first name that caught her eye made Yui Yuigahama freeze.
It read...
[Yang Peng]