In the darkness, the boy bent down and whispered in Xia Xiaoqin's ear.

Feeling the heat, Xia Xiaoqin didn't back away. Instead, she stepped forward a little, raising her eyes, which couldn't see anything, to meet his downcast face.

The distance between the two people was instantly reduced to an extremely close level.

"Qin Bufei, I have one more question to ask you."

Qin Bufei blinked, signaling the girl to continue.

"Then I'll be frank, we... have never met." Xia Xiaoqin's voice was somewhat hurried. "Why did you say you dreamt that I killed you? Why are you saying this? Is this your usual excuse to deliberately cause trouble?"

Qin Bufei was stunned for a moment, then his smile became even brighter, and his peach blossom eyes turned into crescent moons again.

"I'm not trying to cause trouble, sister, I can foresee the future."

Xia Xiaoqin's pupils suddenly contracted.

What?

Is this a joke?

But the person outside was getting closer and closer. Xia Xiaoqin didn't have time to think and quickly shouted out.

"Qin Bufei, I'm willing to be your teammate!"

"Take me away from here first! I know where the next clue is!"

【drop! 】

Player "Xia Xiaoqin" has accepted the team application.

Upon hearing the system notification, Qin Bufei straightened up from the door frame and put the butterfly knife into his pocket.

At this moment, he seemed to be in a very good mood, so good that it was hard to believe he was facing someone who could kill him.

"Sister, I knew you were a smart person."

"Me too, remember I told you before that I would definitely satisfy you with the gift I gave you? Now it's time to unwrap it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Bufei took out the remaining piece of hemp rope from his school uniform pocket and walked towards Liu Ruyan.

When Liu Ruyan saw him approaching, the color drained from her face in an instant.

"W-What are you going to do—"

Qin Bufei did not answer her.

He squatted down and tied the other end of the rope that bound Liu Ruyan tightly to the leg of the octagonal table.

His movements were quick, even excessively so.

"What else can we do? Of course, we'll send you to your death."

The boy spoke lightly, but with a strong sense of revenge in his voice.

"Otherwise, what would I be doing here? Last night, when you locked me in the room and forced me to turn into a sheep, weren't you just trying to get someone else to kill me? An eye for an eye, that's fair."

Liu Ruyan's lips began to tremble. She suddenly turned her head to look at Xia Xiaoqin, her eyes filled with fear.

—She doesn't have much ability.

From childhood, as an orphan, she relied entirely on swindling and deception to survive, and on two faces of humility and subservience.

She has always been successful. Even when the strange tales first appeared in reality, she managed to get Xia Xiaoqin to take her in by pretending to be pitiful.

But she wasn't satisfied, not at all!

So, in order to get money to escape the city, she immediately chose to seduce Lu Yang.

From beginning to end, she never regretted anything.

But this time, she was truly terrified. Her instincts told her that the people outside were ruthless individuals with blood on their hands! She feared she might not survive this time!

"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law, please save me—this time I really didn't lie to you! If you let me live, I'll tell you the truth!"

"On the day of the death livestream, I really saw a man with his face peeled off, hanging from the ceiling, and then, the man behind you came out of the video camera..."

The woman's voice was stuck in her throat.

Because Xia Xiaoqin moved.

Xia Xiaoqin grabbed the bed sheet and walked towards the source of the sound.

The girl walked up to Liu Ruyan and shoved the bed sheet into Liu Ruyan's mouth, silencing all her pleas for mercy.

"Liu Ruyan, do you know that you've really failed in your life?"

"You think your tricks and lies are very clever, but actually some of them are just because you've fooled good people."

"But now there are no good people here anymore."

At this moment, Liu Ruyan's eyes turned completely lifeless.

In the darkness, Xia Xiaoqin released Liu Ruyan and turned to walk towards Lu Yang.

She crouched down and groped Lu Yang's body.

At this moment, the man's breathing was still steady, his body temperature was normal, and his snoring was soft, as if he were sleeping soundly.

"Lu Yang..."

Xia Xiaoqin's fingers lingered on the man's cheek for a moment, then she grabbed his shoulders and began to drag him.

But she, a petite girl, dragging a man who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, was like an ant carrying a stone, moving only a few centimeters with each drag.

Qin Bufei leaned against the octagonal table, tilting his head to look at her.

The boy didn't help. His peach blossom eyes were unusually devoid of laughter, as if he were observing something he didn't quite understand, his tone subtle.

"Sister, you're not thinking of taking him away, are you?"

"Are you love-struck? I don't like teaming up with people who are love-struck~ I'm a normal person."

Xia Xiaoqin didn't say anything, but dragged Lu Yang to the bedside and stuffed him under the bed.

The space under the bed was dark and narrow, and she pushed him as far as she could until she couldn't push him any further.

"I won't take him... Don't worry, it'll just be you and me."

"After all, if we want to both survive, we have to make choices." Xia Xiaoqin stood up, brushed the dust off her hands, and looked sorrowful. "I can't take him with me. If I stay, we'll both die here. I have no choice but to take a gamble..."

Qin Bufei looked at her for two seconds, then raised his hand and locked the door from the inside.

Outside the door, footsteps were already approaching.

Someone pushed the door, but couldn't open it, and then angrily spoke up.

"Someone inside locked the door—damn it!"

"Then just ram it open."

The first banging on the door was heard.

Without further hesitation, Qin Bufei took two steps to Xia Xiaoqin, bent down, supported her knees with one hand, and put his other arm around her waist, lifting her up in his arms.

The feeling of weightlessness startled Xia Xiaoqin.

She instinctively wanted to struggle, but she held back, and could only hold the rooster tightly with one hand, while fearfully clutching the boy's school uniform collar with the other.

"Hurry up and go."

Xia Xiaoqin whispered with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

Qin Bufei glanced down at her, a slight smile playing on his lips, and then kicked open the back window of the bedroom.

"Hold on tight, sister."

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