I buried the gods in the restricted area.

There were two people standing outside the door.

One is dead, and the other is also dead.

Their faces were pale and bluish, as if they had just recovered from a long illness. Apart from their cold eyes, they looked no different from ordinary people.

But everyone in the room recognized them; those were clearly the two faces they had buried in the ground with their own hands yesterday.

"Damn it, what the hell is this thing...?"

Behind the peephole, a burly man nearly two meters tall bobbed his Adam's apple, his jaw clenched, and his voice, laced with despair, uttered, "The things in 'The City of the Wrongfully Dead'... are they unkillable?"

The oppressive atmosphere, like a cold spider web, instantly tightened around the air in the room.

The City of the Dead, an F-level restricted area, is so dangerous that even ordinary people have a chance of survival. That's why the company chose it as the assessment site for new employees.

But no one could have imagined that such a bizarre thing as a death and resurrection would happen in an F-level restricted area.

They had read plenty of "Exploring the Forbidden Zone" and believed they had a certain understanding of the F-level forbidden zone. At most, they would see some strange monsters there. When had a dead person ever knocked on the door in the middle of the night?

"What's the panic?"

In the corner, the tall, thin man slowly raised his eyes, his fingertips unconsciously tracing the deep engravings on the hilt of the knife.

"I've said it before, every restricted area has its own rules. In a place like this, it's not surprising to encounter the strangest things; on the contrary, it's the things that seem most normal and reasonable..."

He stood up, dagger in hand, the bones making a slight cracking sound.

"That's what's truly deadly."

Seeing the man walk towards the door, the newcomers, as if grasping at a lifeline, exclaimed excitedly, "That's right! Brother Zhou is so amazing, if he can kill them nine times, he can kill them a tenth time!"

Kill for the tenth time?

Zhou Kai remained indifferent. It seemed that these fools still hadn't realized that each time the two corpses "died," their strength increased. From struggling to even walk at the beginning, they were now almost invulnerable to blades and spears.

He had a vague premonition that if he continued to let them "die," even as a D-level mutant, he would eventually have to die here.

Death, here, might be another form of "evolution"... This is probably the rule of the City of the Unjustly Dead.

Of course, further verification is still needed.

However, for an F-level restricted area to have such peculiar rules suggests that this city of the dead may still hold many secrets...

Once the decision was made, amidst the changing gazes of the crowd, which shifted from surprise to fear, Zhou Kai swung the dagger without hesitation.

A flash of cold light.

The burly man, still trembling as he stood in front of the door, didn't even have time to turn around before a thin, red welt appeared on his neck.

He made two gurgling sounds in his throat, then fell straight backward, his eyes wide open, reflecting the swaying, dim yellow light from the ceiling.

Blood splattered on the mottled door panel, drawing several scribbled arcs. Zhou Kai didn't even glance at the dark red spreading at his feet, but slowly approached the peephole.

Outside the door, the two pale-faced corpses remained in the same position, knocking repeatedly, stiffly and rigidly, showing no reaction to the killing inside.

He looked away and glanced at his wrist.

"I know what you want to ask."

A moment later, he shook off the sticky blood from the knife, walked back to the broken sofa and sat down calmly.

"Two reasons. First, Wang Shuai killed those two people outside with his own hands. I wanted to test whether the bodies would leave after I killed him, the 'culprit'—but it seems that they won't."

Wang Shuai was the name of the burly man who died with his eyes wide open on the ground.

Zhou Kai glanced indifferently at the corpse at his feet and continued, "Secondly, I want to verify whether 'resurrection' is a common occurrence in the City of the Dead. If this guy can get up and seek revenge on me in half an hour..."

He paused, his gaze slowly sweeping over the pale faces in the room.

"That means these are the rules of the City of the Unjustly Dead."

As the chief examiner for this recruitment assessment, Zhou Kai entered the City of the Dead for only two purposes: first, to gather information about this newly established forbidden zone, and second, to observe the performance of these newcomers within the forbidden zone.

Before crossing the boundary marker, he had repeatedly ordered that no unnecessary actions be taken, but that fool Wang Shuai, fearing that someone would compete with him for the job, actually killed two new recruits under another examiner, which led to the current situation.

Although this was within the company's rules, Zhou Kai hated idiots the most, especially disobedient idiots. He would kill such a troublesome piece of trash.

It's true that the company is lacking fresh blood lately, but we're not going to accept just any trash.

In the room, the remaining newcomers were trembling with fear, not daring to even breathe loudly, for fear that they would become the next Wang Shuai.

They had signed a waiver before entering the restricted area, which stated that the company would not be responsible for any accidents that occurred inside the restricted area. Now it seems that being killed by the examiner could be considered an accident.

"Zhou... Brother Zhou."

In the long, deathly silence, seeing Zhou Kai frowning as he stared at the corpse on the ground, a petite girl swallowed hard, mustered her courage, and moved closer to him, nervously saying, "Should...should I do it?"

"You have experience?" Zhou Kai glanced at her in surprise.

"no."

The girl forced a smile, "But I can learn."

Zhou Kai remained noncommittal and casually tossed the dagger over.

The girl frantically caught the dagger, took several deep breaths, gritted her teeth, squatted down, turned her face away, and gouged out Wang Shuai's right eye with trembling hands.

Before entering the restricted area, the company implanted a miniature camera in the right eye of each new recruit. This camera is company property, and if a new recruit is unable to leave the restricted area alive, it must be retrieved, provided that conditions permit.

Not far away, the others looked at each other, thinking to themselves that this guy was really desperate to get the job. Now that he had gouged out Wang Shuai's eyes, who knew if he would seek revenge on her after he was resurrected?

Just then—

"Click click click..."

A screeching sound, like rusty gears struggling to mesh, came from outside the door without warning.

It's an elevator.

The elevator, which had long been without power and out of service, with its cables broken and its metal shell covered in deep red rust, slowly began to move in the abyss-like silence.

Everyone's hearts clenched.

When they arrived, they noticed that the entire building, and indeed the entire city, had lost its power supply long ago, except for this room, which is why they chose to spend the night there.

Everyone wasn't stupid, and they could all guess that there might be something wrong with the room, but it was Zhou Kai's decision, and they didn't dare to object.

But now, that elevator that should never have started is carrying something...climbing upwards.

The girl stood frozen beside the corpse, glancing at Zhou Kai, whose expression remained calm. He had chosen to spend the night here, naturally to gather more information about the City of the Unjustly Dead. As a D-level mutant, he could easily handle a mere F-level forbidden zone.

His observational skills far surpassed those of the newcomers behind him. He noticed immediately that as the elevator started moving, the knocking that had been going on for a long time outside the door suddenly stopped.

But the two corpses did not leave.

They had somehow gotten close to the cat's eyes, their whitish pupils darting restlessly, peering intently at everything inside the room.

"Ah... Brother Zhou! They..."

The girl was close to the door when she suddenly met the peephole and saw the eyes moving erratically. Her face turned pale instantly, and she almost screamed. She quickly covered her mouth and backed away while urgently reminding Zhou Kai to be careful.

"Bang!"

But before she could finish speaking, the door was slammed open with a loud bang.

Wood chips and rust dust exploded with a loud bang, and two corpses stumbled into the house, their movements frantic, as if some terrifying thing was chasing them.

Yes, in a panic.

Zhou Kai found it hard to believe that one day he would see such expressions on the faces of two corpses.

He narrowed his eyes, slowly stroking the hilt of his knife, pondering whether or not to make a move.

"Damn it, how did they get in!"

"Watch out! Everyone back up!"

"Why hasn't Brother Zhou killed them yet?"

The people in the room were on high alert, immediately pointing their guns at the door, their faces extremely grim.

But the two corpses didn't even glance at them. One "person" hurriedly closed the door and then frantically fiddled with the broken lock. The other "person" hurriedly dragged the corpse at the door into the toilet, then pulled out a mop from somewhere and frantically scraped the bloodstains on the floor.

Their movements were so swift and their actions so nimble, just like a low-level employee about to be subjected to a surprise inspection by their superiors.

"What...what are they doing?" someone murmured.

Let alone those inexperienced newcomers, even the well-informed Zhou Kai was momentarily at a loss.

"To...to do cleaning?"

The girl hiding behind him also looked blank and said uncertainly.

Zhou Kai's heart sank slightly. He felt that this scene was absurd to the point of being comical, yet also eerily chilling.

He raised his hand, signaling no one to intervene. His intuition told him that if they tried to stop the two corpses at this moment, something terrible might happen.

As a mystery hunter, his intuition has always been very accurate.

The rustling sound of the elevator running continued.

"Click, click, click..."

With each sound, the corpse wiped away the blood faster, occasionally raising its pale face to give a sinister glance at everyone in the room, its eyes filled with warning, while the corners of its mouth were stiffly pulled upwards, as if it were practicing how to smile.

About two minutes later.

Outside the room, the elevator's creaking sound, which had been going on for a long time and was so annoying it made your teeth ache, finally stopped.

Judging from the blurry light coming through the peephole, the elevator had stopped on this floor.

Someone is coming up.

Footsteps sounded.

Not too fast, not too slow, step by step, they steadily approached from the end of the corridor.

For a moment, everyone's heart was in their throat, including the two corpses—

The two "people" stood ramrod straight, forcing out friendly smiles on their faces, their lips stiff as if they were painted on.

Without a doubt, the unusual condition of these two corpses must be related to the owner of this footstep.

Just then, a corpse seemed to suddenly realize something, abruptly appearing behind the girl, grabbing her blood-stained right hand, and roughly shoving it into her pocket.

"Click".

The next second, the crisp sound of a key being inserted into the lock rang out.

"That's strange, didn't I lock the door when I left...?"

Accompanied by a low murmur, a shadow, stretched infinitely by the corridor light, was cast obliquely into the doorway, covering every pale face.

The door opened.

A slightly confused voice slowly rose in the dead silence.

"What...are you doing in my house?"