Recap
It was deathly silent outside, as if they were the only two people left in the building.
Chu Shici was thinking about which way to go.
Suddenly there was a small knock on the door opposite their room, and then he heard a man whisper: “There was no sound of locking the door. Are you the one who was locked up? Did you escape?”
“I’m a police officer, open the door for me and I’ll protect you.”
Shen Xiuzhe didn’t answer, and Chu Shici looked at the metal door hesitantly.
It was Officer Li who was talking to them through the door.
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T/N: This chapter contains content that may be highly triggering including non-consensual contents as well as slight mentions of animal abuse.
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Chu Shici turned to look at Shen Xiuzhe.
Zhe-ge had an indifferent look on his face and had no intention of paying any attention to Officer Li.
Chu Shici didn’t hesitate for too long about whether to open the door or not.
The monitoring on this floor was turned off by the three people, but the monitoring in the elevator and other floors should be operating normally.
Shen Xiuzhe’s current physical condition makes it difficult to walk, let alone climb stairs.
They can only go downstairs via the elevator, there is a high probability that they will be attacked at any time.
The man who just wanted to force Shen Xiuzhe accidentally let slip that when he first attempted to escape, he beat up more than twenty people by himself.
Zhe-ge is the former captain of the combat team and is extremely powerful when it comes to combat. He has the ability to go all the way, but others can’t.
Police Officer Li has no gun and no support. It is unrealistic for him to take care of a blind man while escaping.
It would be better to let Officer Li run away first.
But he didn’t understand the situation and wasn’t familiar with the terrain, so there is a high chance he will be caught halfway.
No matter how you look at it, the chances of escaping today are pitifully small.
The information went through Chu Shici’s mind quickly.
If this a fake policeman behind the door, who knows what trouble he will bring if he is let out.
Even if he really is a police officer, there was no point in opening the door now.
He was so capable during this period that he dared to talk to others without even knowing who was outside the metal door. He seems rash and impulsive. He can’t escape from such an extreme environment alone, and may even risk their lives.
After thinking about it, Chu Shici whispered a few words to Shen Xiuzhe. Let him stay in the room and Shen Xiuzhe to stay outside the room, giving him the clues they obtained while he wanders around the corridor to see if he can find any other clues.
After hearing the arrangement of the little speaker, Shen Xiuzhe had no reaction at all.
Chu Shici lowered his voice and said, “Zhe-ge, no matter whether it’s true or not, we can’t let Officer Li out today.”
Shen Xiuzhe hummed lightly.
Chu Shici tried to jump down from his arms, but found that his cable was tightly held.
“There are no windows in the corridor, and there is a surveillance camera directly facing the elevator at the end. The staircase is locked, and there is a box on the wall outside the elevator. It appears that it can only be used by swiping a card. This situation is worse than I expected. The risk of escaping this time is too great. My suggestion is to wait first. While there is no surveillance now, we should collect more information as soon as possible. The more we know, the higher our success rate of escaping next time.”
“I know.”
“Zhe-ge, please put me down first. I’ll be back soon.”
Shen Xiuzhe pursed his lips tightly and remained silent.
He seemed a little willful, as if he is unwilling. But Chu Shici could read his uneasiness from his expressionless face.
Chu Shici controlled the cable and wrapped it around Shen Xiuzhe’s pinkie.
“I don’t intend to leave you and run away, I just want to take a look down the corridor. You just have to cough, and I will come back to find you.”
He shook the cable and said, “I pinkie promise. Zhe-ge, don’t worry. I promise you I won’t disappear suddenly. We will definitely escape together.”
After Chu Shici finished speaking, he felt Zhe-ge’s pinkie that his cable wrapped around twitch slightly.
This is Zhe-ge pinkie promising him.
Shen Xiuzhe was silent for a moment, then bent down and gently placed the little speaker on the ground.
Chu Shici bumped his black leather shoes, turned around and ran to another metal door, looking up at the stickers on it.
Immediately afterwards, he saw a message pop up in the background of the system.
[Add 2 points to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is -3/100.]
Chu Shici’s eyes softened subconsciously.
At the same time, the system, which was looking out at the excitement, heard a notification.
The vitality value of the host, which had dropped before, had risen back to 80 points.
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The distance between the iron doors is consistent, the area of each room should be similar.
Chu Shici walked quickly and found that there were 20 rooms in this corridor.
Except for the two rooms near the elevator, the other rooms are used to confine people.
According to the signs above, they are the utility room and the lounge.
Chu Shici ran to the utility room, stretched out the charging cable, hooked it on the door handle, and pulled it down hard.
The door was unlocked, so he opened it quickly. There were some mops and brooms inside.
Chu Shici walked around the mop and saw a few buttons and pieces of cloth deep in the utility room, stained with dried old blood.
He doesn’t know if the clothes were accidentally torn during a fight, or if someone had been violently assaulted in this small and dark utility room.
This conjecture made Chu Shici feel extremely heavy.
He was often harassed by people before crossing over, and he knew that no matter whether those people succeeded or not, it would leave indelible pain.
Chu Shici picked up the pieces of cloth and looked at them carefully.
It has been covered with dust for too long, the original color of the fabric is difficult to identify. But if you look closely, it seems to be pink. The buttons on the floor were easy to spot, they were shirt buttons.
He couldn’t guess who it was and hoped the owner of the clothes was okay.
In addition to buttons and rags, Chu Shici also found a black number 4 under the wall opposite the door of the utility room.
Nothing else was written, just a simple 4.
Chu Shici tilted his head in confusion. He pulled out the system and asked, ‘Tong-ge, how do you see this?’
[With my eyes.]
‘…’
It’s over, Tong-ge is broken.
After checking the utility room, Chu Shici ran to the lounge again.
Through the closed black wooden door, someone could be vaguely heard talking.
Thinking that there was a clue, Chu Shici slowly pulled the door handle.
He quietly opened the door and peeked inside.
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There were two people inside. They were sitting on chairs watching a movie with their backs to the door.
Chu Shici curled his lips in disgust.
He thought he would see something useful, but it turned out to be a short movie for adults.
Chu Shici was about to close the door when his eyes accidentally drifted to the movie screen and suddenly realized that something was wrong.
He has seen countless pornographic films, and no one understands these types of short films better than him.
The filming technique of the movie is wrong. It doesn’t look like it was produced by a film company. It looks like someone was holding a camera and filming it next to the act.
The man in the video looked numb, letting a group of people trample his body.
From the perspective of Chu Shici, this is not acting, and the person definitely did not want to do it willingly.
There were messages passing by below, but they were too far away for him to see clearly.*
*(
Danmaku or danmu literally translated as “bullet curtain”. This allows users to post moving comments onto a playing video that are synchronized to the video timeline. Image from: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/24472850)
He could barely make out a few sentences.
[# Why didn’t I see any blood? So weak, did you not eat? #]
[# Cry ah, why doesn’t he cry? #]
[# Is this how you do things after getting paid? Hit him ah! #]
[# Haha, well deserved. #]
Chu Shici was stunned, was this a live broadcast?
He wanted to continue watching, but the two people on the chair seemed to feel that the progress was too slow and started to pull the progress bar ahead.
It seems to be a live screen recording.
The progress bar reached the second half, and the video began to become cruel and bloody.
Chu Shici, a lover of heavy-flavor food, couldn’t stomach it.
The man put down the remote control, picked up the Coke bottle on the ground, opened it, took a sip, and put it on the table.
The large bottle of Coke covered most of Chu Shici’s sight. He simply stopped watching TV and turned to look elsewhere.
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There is a duty schedule hanging on the wall.
It shows that there are two guards on this floor, working in shifts in the morning and evening.
There are a bunch of keys hanging on the hook on the side, which are probably the keys to the metal doors on this floor. The extra ones may be for stairwells and utility rooms.
There was no pistol in the lounge, but there was a baton.
When Chu Shici was a gangster, he often got into fights and got into trouble. He was pretty sure this was a police baton.
It should be Officer Li’s equipment.
Covered under the sound of the TV, Chu Shici quietly closed the door and left.
The corridor on this floor has been checked. The elevator requires a card, so he can’t get in.
Chu Shici rolled back and forth, frowning and thinking.
The serial numbers of the 18 rooms, counting from the stairwell.
Numbers 1, 10, 3, 4, 5…9 on the left.
Numbers 10, 11, 3, 13, 14…18 on the right.
Room 3 on the left is Shen Xiuzhe’s room. The room in front of him should be Room 2 according to the serial number, but the sign says 10.
Officer Li lives opposite him. The room that was supposed to be numbered 12 is labeled 3.
In other words, there are two rooms No. 3 and No. 10 on this floor, but rooms No. 2 and No. 12 are missing.
He doesn’t know if it happened to be marked incorrectly or if it has some special meaning.
The neighbor who lives in Room 10 next door to Shen Xiuzhe gathered four animals and left some time ago.
There are no stickers on the iron door of that room, which probably means that no one is inside.
Another room, No. 10, was locked and had a cartoon puppy taped to the door.
The charging cable for the little speaker was not long enough to open the small window above, so he didn’t know what was going on inside.
The serial numbers of other rooms are normal, and there are stickers on the doors, but nothing out of the ordinary can be seen from it.
Chu Shici felt dizzy after rolling through the entire corridor.
With a bunch of little question marks on his head, he wandered back to Zhe-ge and leaned against his feet.
Shen Xiuzhe’s work here is nearing completion.
After asking the last few questions, he picked up the little speaker and said to the metal door in a low voice, “If you don’t want to die, just be quiet.”
Then he ignored Officer Li and turned back to his room.
The moment he crossed over the threshold, he tripped over a broken limb on the ground and fell.
Chu Shici looked at his bruised arm and sighed heavily.
He was just thinking about how to get the baton when Officer Li’s surprised voice came from the room opposite.
“I heard you, did you fell?”
Shen Xiuzhe paused.
Officer Li was silent for two seconds and then spoke hesitantly: “If you doubt me, then when you talk to me, why didn’t you open the small window so that you…you can’t see?”
The only sound that responded to him was the sound of the metal door closing.
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It was impossible to hide the fact that Shen Xiuzhe had disassembled three living people into puzzle pieces.
Less than an hour after they returned to their room, someone came looking for them.
The fat steward, Brother Liu, pushed open the metal door, followed by four of his men.
He glanced at the human body parts on the ground, then looked at Shen Xiuzhe, who was sitting in front of the canvas holding the speaker, covering his nose and said, “Mr. Shen? Did you kill them?”
Shen Xiuzhe ignored him.
Chu Shici was very nervous, he was afraid that these people would kill Zhe-ge.
The fat steward raised his hand to signal his men to clean up the corpses, then walked to Shen Xiuzhe and held down the chair.
“You killed three of my men. How are you going to compensate for these three lives?”
There was no trace of emotion in Shen Xiuzhe’s voice. He turned his head to avoid the fat steward’s hand, “You can kill me.”
“That’s a loss. How about I break your legs?”
“Whatever.”
The fat steward stared at his face for a long time, then suddenly said with a smile: “Great artists are really arrogant, it’s okay, capable people have tempers. Don’t worry about those three losers, you are much more valuable than them.”
He looked at the canvas and said, “This painting is very good. He deserves to be a great painter. This room is full of blood and there is no way for people to live in it tonight. Why don’t you go stay in room 10 next door for one night? We’ll get it all cleaned up tomorrow before you move back.”
Shen Xiuzhe raised his head slightly and said, “I won’t go.”
“Isn’t this also…”
“Not going.”
Even though he was being slapped in the face, the fat steward was not angry, and still had a kind smile on his face.
“Okay, I’ll find someone to clean up the house now. Try to wipe away all the blood before turning off the lights.”
“I see that you have been holding a speaker, it seems you are very lonely. This speaker is very beautiful, but it is an inanimate thing that cannot scream or move. How about I get you a pet cat? What do you think?”
Shen Xiuzhe stopped stroking and said, “I don’t like living creatures. If you bring one over, I’ll strangle it to death.”
Chu Shici lay in Shen Xiuzhe’s arms and breathed a sigh of relief silently.
It seems that Zhe-ge is very important to them, so there is no need to be too nervous for the time being.
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The house was quickly cleaned, and the men sprayed some air freshener to dispel the smell of blood.
They are particularly skilled in their methods and it can be deduced that they often handle corpses at a glance.
Chu Shici was afraid that someone would secretly install surveillance cameras in the house, so he stared at them moving around with wide eyes the whole time.
Before leaving, the fat steward glanced at his phone, turned around and said casually to Shen Xiuzhe, “The psychiatrist promised to be here on Sunday. He won’t change his mind this time.”
The metal door was locked again, and Chu Shici’s tension was finally loosened.
He moved around back and forth in Shen Xiuzhe’s arms, accidentally lifting up the hem of his clothes, revealing his strong abdominal muscles.
Chu Shici hesitated for a second, then shook the plug and touched it.
This familiar feeling, he can tell it’s his husband as soon as he felt it.
Shen Xiuzhe, who was still drawing, felt the plug get into his clothes and was crawling up his abdominal muscles.
The cold metal on the plug slid across his skin and rocked back and forth on his chest muscles.
Shen Xiuzhe tilted his head in confusion, “What are you doing?”
“You often touch me, but now my hands are itchy and I want to touch you too.”
Shen Xiuzhe thought for a while and found nothing wrong.
“Okay, you can do whatever you want.”
The system looked at it with lust, [It’s a fierce 1 who looks lean when he has clothes on and manly when he does not have his clothes on. Hey, I want to touch it too. Ahhhh! Why can’t I get out!]
‘Go away, this is my man, go back and find your wife.’
[……]
When it thought about having to be a 1 for the rest of its life, the system burst into tears.
After angering the system who ran away, Chu Shici told Zhe-ge about the intel he gathered in the corridor while strolling around.
Shen Xiuzhe nodded.
He didn’t say anything, he probably didn’t have an inkling of what was going on either.
Chu Shici asked him, “Zhe-ge, how is Officer Li?”
“I asked him to produce something to prove his identity, he said he was on vacation when he was arrested. He was not wearing a police uniform and had no ID.”
Shen Xiuzhe pulled down his clothes and signaled the little speaker to stop touching.
After listening to his story, Chu Shici probably understood why Officer Li chose to take the risk.
According to Officer Li, the reason why he was in such a hurry to escape was because when he was blindfolded and taken into the car by the gang, there were other victims in the car.
The voice sounded like a little girl, about thirteen or fourteen years old. The men had been verbally harassing her, and Officer Li wanted to protect her.
He put up a fierce struggle in the car which angered them and was knocked unconscious. When he woke up again, he was taken into this building.
What happened next is known by Shen Xiuzhe and Chu Shici.
Officer Li didn’t know where this place was, and he couldn’t figure out why these people wanted to capture him.
He only knew that the little girl might be locked up somewhere in this building. She is in a highly dangerous situation, and he wanted to rush over to rescue her as soon as possible.
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