Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 302 Terrifying Blood-Written Instructions

This Blood Letter mission involved Dr. Tang, who was the most popular person in the apartment, and there were also quite a few residents, which attracted the collective attention of the apartment's residents.

finally……

June 24th, at dawn...

Ke Yinye returned alive, but at a terrible cost. His face was ashen, and his clothes were covered in stains.

As soon as he stepped into the apartment building, Yin Yu, who had been waiting at the door, rushed up to him and hugged him tightly, her body trembling slightly from the lingering fear.

"Brother...you're alright, that's great..." Yin Yu's voice was choked with sobs, his usual composure completely gone.

Yin Ye gently patted her back, his voice hoarse: "I'm fine, Yin Yu, don't be afraid."

But his gaze went past Yin Yu's shoulder and met that of the other residents standing in the hall, his eyes filled with the relief of surviving a disaster.

Li Yin stood there, feeling like an outsider, yet experiencing the real terror of death.

He looked at the other four survivors—including Dr. Tang Lanxuan, whose face was ashen and who looked as if he had aged ten years in an instant.

Five people are returning.

That means the other five people are dead.

They were once living, breathing people, just like him, living in an apartment building not long ago, but now they have been reduced to unknown remains deep within the incinerator.

Li Yin felt nauseous, his heart felt like it was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, and even breathing became difficult. Unprecedented psychological pressure, like an icy tide, instantly overwhelmed him.

Afterwards, the five survivors recounted what had happened.

Yesterday afternoon at 17:00 PM, a total of ten people, including Ke Yinye, Odagiri Sachiko, Dr. Tang Lanxuan, Ouyang Jing, Su Lang, and six other residents, arrived at the Blood Letter execution location before the designated time.

The interior of the waste incineration plant was more dilapidated and dark than imagined, with old machines constantly emitting strange roars, and various piles of garbage emitting a foul stench moving slowly on the factory's conveyor belts.

They were greeted by a factory supervisor with a sallow complexion and dull eyes. He mechanically assigned tasks, mainly monitoring the incinerator parameters, operating the conveyor belt, and performing simple waste sorting.

Throughout the entire process, he remained almost expressionless, like a robot with a pre-programmed sequence of events.

At the start of the mission, the atmosphere was tense, but no supernatural phenomena occurred. Su Lang, the somewhat lewd college student nicknamed "pervert," even tried to flirt with a female resident named Wang Li. Meanwhile, Dr. Tang Lanxuan, known as a nice guy, tried his best to remain calm, constantly encouraging everyone to pay attention to clues and look for possible "ways to survive."

Night fell, and the strange things began.

First, in the sorting area, when a middle-aged male resident touched a stained blanket, the blanket suddenly rolled up as if it were alive, wrapping him up tightly!

He let out a piercing scream, and the surrounding residents tried to rush to his aid, only to find that the blanket was exceptionally tough and could not be torn apart at all. Even more horrifying, blood began to seep into the blanket, and a few seconds later, the blanket came limp and fell back onto the conveyor belt, while the resident had vanished without a trace, not even a bone fragment remained.

Panic erupted instantly.

Immediately afterwards, while monitoring the incinerator control room, another male resident, overcome with fear, abandoned his designated post and attempted to hide in the changing room. Suddenly, the control room screens began to flicker with static, then displayed an image of him being slowly swallowed by countless viscous, black sludge particles in the empty changing room.

The third victim was caught in the suddenly accelerating conveyor belt while inspecting its gears and was instantly minced into a bloody pulp.

The fourth person was on their way to the restroom when they were chased by a silent, faceless "figure" that appeared at the end of the corridor. In their panic, they ran into the wrong area and fell into a huge garbage compression pit, where they were crushed to death.

The death of female resident Wang Li is particularly tragic. Dr. Tang discovered a garbage bag containing what sounded like a crying baby. When he decided to help, he nearly fell into the incinerator's feed chute. Wang Li rushed to help Dr. Tang, but instead lost her footing and plummeted into the raging flames below, instantly perishing.

At this point, five of the ten residents had left, leaving only Ke Yinye, Odagiri Sachiko, Tang Lanxuan, Ouyang Jing, and Su Lang.

The series of terrifying events and the tragic deaths of their companions brought the remaining five people to the brink of mental collapse.

Su Lang had long lost interest in striking up a conversation; his face was deathly pale, and his body was trembling uncontrollably. Odagiri Sachiko bit her lower lip, forcing herself to remain calm. Meanwhile, Ke Yinye struggled to piece together all the clues she had observed.

He realized that the ghostly attacks were closely related to "garbage" and "burning." Those discarded garbage items, tainted with resentment, could become the medium for murder.

As time ticked towards dawn, the temperature in the incinerator seemed to rise higher and higher, and strange noises from the factory grew louder.

The five of them were forced to huddle together near the control room, back to back, warily watching their surroundings.

At a crucial moment, the puzzle of clues gradually came together. Ginya recalled the safety rules she saw when she entered the factory, which mentioned that "misclassification could have serious consequences."

Sachiko Odagiri noticed that all the residents who were directly attacked and killed by the ghost seemed to have come into contact with or been near some kind of "specific garbage" that shouldn't belong to their work area before their deaths. Meanwhile, Ke Yinye, combining this with her sister Yin Yu's experience of the blood-stained words on the soccer field, proposed a bold hypothesis: the "ghost" of this incinerator might be killing according to a "misclassification" rule—it treats the "people" entering the factory as "garbage" that needs to be "disposed of"!
The way out lies in making the "ghosts" realize that they are "not trash"!
How could he prove he wasn't trash? Yin recalled the beginning of the blood-written instructions—"Participate in the waste incineration work at this plant." He quickly pointed out, "Work! We're here to work! Trash is the object to be processed, and we are the ones who process it! We must act like 'workers'!"

If you run around like a headless fly, you will be moved and disposed of by "evil spirits" like garbage!
At the time, Ke Yinye didn't know that much later, his ideas would be adopted by a female resident named Kamiya Sayoko.

The final attack came.

The lights in the entire factory suddenly went out, and countless twisted arms reached out from all directions, grabbing at them along the walls and the floor.

Ginya shouted, "Stand firm at your posts! Do what we're supposed to do!"

He forced himself to calm down and started operating a switch that controlled the conveyor belt. Odagiri Sachiko and Ouyang Jing immediately imitated him, pretending to check the instruments and record data. Su Lang grabbed a broom and clumsily began sweeping up non-existent trash. Dr. Tang continued sorting, classifying the different types of garbage.

At this moment, the twisted "arms" paused noticeably just before touching them. They circled around the five people reenacting their "work" and probed, but eventually, they slowly retreated into the darkness.

The factory lights came back on, still dim, but the suffocating oppressive feeling gradually subsided.

The clock struck 5 a.m., like the referee's whistle to end the game, finally ringing out in the dead silence.

The Blood Letter quest is over.

……

That evening, Li Yin returned to his room.

He picked up his phone and dialed his mother's number.

"Mom, it's me." He tried to make his voice sound normal, even a little relaxed. "Yeah, I'm fine, just a bit busy with work... You and Dad take care of yourselves, eat on time... Me? I'm okay, I just miss home a little..."

On the other end of the phone, the mother kept giving instructions, occasionally complaining that the father, as the hospital director, was always busy and nowhere to be seen.

This ordinary, down-to-earth concern sounds so distant and unreal at this moment.

Li Yin gave a vague reply, but his heart was filled with immense anxiety. He couldn't tell his mother the dire situation he was in, and that every phone call might be the last.

After the call ended, the room fell into a suffocating silence once again.

Finally, Li Yin clicked on a group photo.

The background of the photo is a familiar tree-lined path on a university campus. Li Yin is smiling shyly, and the person with his arm around his shoulder is his best friend from university—Chu Mitian. Standing on the other side of Chu Mitian, with her head slightly turned and a gentle smile, is his sister, Chu Mizhen, wearing a light blue dress.

That was his carefree youth, a time filled with books, friendships, and the wonderful moments within the ivory tower. Now, he misses the siblings dearly and wonders if they are doing well abroad.

Li Yin knew that next time, it might be his turn. He had to pull himself together and, like Yin Ye, find a way to survive in this hell.

At that time, Li Yin had no idea that he was about to create a true legend...

……

Yihai Camp, the Nirvana Team's base.

“The Lian brothers, Lian Xuan and Lian De, have both expressed their willingness to join the Nirvana team, and I admire them very much.” Yu Tianlun sat upright in front of Jiang Jin and said, “Yinqiu and I are both trying to reach a higher realm. Yinqiu has a great chance of advancing to LV3 this time. As for me… I will also try to reach LV4 again.”

Jiang Jin sat opposite Yu Tianlun and replied, "Commander, you don't need to push yourself too hard."

Reaching LV4 is a process of continuously absorbing the contamination of the rules. If you repeatedly fail to reach LV4, your SAN value will decrease while your potential will increase. At that point, even going to the Horrible Dungeon Trial may not solve the problem.

“Our team can’t lose you, Jiang Jin!” Yu Tianlun looked at Jiang Jin with eyes full of expectation and worry. “Since I established Nirvana, the thing that has excited me the most has been meeting you! If you want to enter [Midnight Bell], the best way is for me to try to advance and return to LV4!”

Jiang Jin felt Yu Tianlun's appreciation for his talent, but did he not know the risks Yu Tianlun had to take?

He gritted his teeth and finally revealed his plan: "Actually, I've been thinking about something lately. I want to... go to the completely rule-based dungeon, [Hell Apartment]!"

Yu Tianlun was taken aback and hurriedly said, "That's a dungeon that the Meme Contamination Monitoring Department has repeatedly warned us to be extremely careful when entering! It's no different from class rank; once you go in, all your class skills will be sealed. There's no difference between LV5 and LV1!"

"I've already purchased information from the Black Sparrow Pavilion. As long as I can complete the [Hell Apartment] fully rule-based dungeon quest alive, I can obtain..."

(End of this chapter)