TRTN Chapter 11

Chapter 11 … The Bloody Apartment (11)

“Zhang Lili! Zhang Lili! Zhang Lili!”

Hearing this voice, the faces of all apartment residents became more and more fearful, and they almost wanted to run away.

This name seemed to be a taboo that must not be mentioned, awakening the deepest nightmare in everyone’s heart.

What’s more terrifying was that with Shen Yu’s call, the apartment complex actually trembled slightly.

A rustling, like the sound of countless hairs scratching on the floor, gradually rushed towards the west building.

At this time, no one needed to take the lead. All apartment residents were like rats who had seen a cat, turning around in a hurry, rushing to escape, not daring to even to stay on this floor.

The entire corridor had suddenly changed appearance.

Scarlet blood threads, like a spider web, had crawled all over the floor and walls, and were now covering the entire corridor.

In desperation, Shen Yu had thought of using Zhang Lili’s name to scare away all the apartment residents who’d besieged the door.

But at the same time, the door of the room that had been torn at for a long time, finally made an overwhelming sound, and the whole door fell down and broke completely.

Right then, Shen Yu and Anonymous in the room looked at each other and at the blood threads outside the door, without a trace of a barrier between them.

But the scarlet blood threads, who had just been extremely cruel, did not actively choose to attack at this time.

Seeing that there was still room for a chance, Shen Yu became bolder and bolder.

He took the initiative to walk outside the door, facing the blood threads that were surging like a sea of ​​blood.

“Zhang Lili.” He said with a clear sentence, “The person who called your name just now is me.” The scarlet blood threads squirmed and gradually approached him.

Anonymous eyes had darkened and, with his fingers holding the blade tightly, he silently stood in front of Shen Yu.

The blood threads became even worse; in the scarlet gap, a small and sticky hand was occasionally exposed.

The ugly skinny baby was being wrapped in it, protected from any harm.

Shen Yu looked at the thin baby, whose eyes could not even be opened, and tentatively said: “This is your daughter?”

“She is so cute.”

The scarlet blood threads tumbling in the corridor were hearing these words. Following this, it seemed to calm down a bit.

Upon seeing this, Shen Yu felt relieved, knowing that he had made the right bet this time.

He had also suspected before, if the baby dragged in the coffin was one of the monsters? Or even the illegitimate child of Wu Jianyi and the homewrecker?

But soon, he’d dispelled this suspicion.

First of all, the age was not right.

The tragedy of Zhang Lili’s disappearance had occurred seven years ago. According to Wu Jianyi’s diary, the Homewrecker had already been pregnant at that time, so the illegitimate child had to be at least six years old.

But in the coffin was a baby, and it was a thin, small, underdeveloped baby.

So, he thought of Zhang Lili’s baby girl whom she’d failed to give birth to.

The fetus that had been shed alive.

Because she was her own daughter, Zhang Lili gave her a magnificent coffin; because she was her own daughter, Zhang Lili let the apartment residents act like slaves, dragging her child around the floors every night.

This little baby girl was Zhang Lili’s spy, looking for the three people, who had been hiding, for her mother.

Murderer Wu Jianyi, Wu Jianyi’s lover, Wu Jianyi’s illegitimate child…

Everyone was the object of Zhang Lili and the little baby girl’s hatred. Everyone was affected by the spiteful curse and transformed from a living person into a monster.

This “pink apartment” that no one can do without is actually a representation of the resentment of the dead.

After thinking about this, Shen Yu suddenly trembled, and he understood a problem that he had been unable to figure out.

Why had the Pink Apartment complex only renovated the West Building and not the East Building? Why were the residents only living in the West Building, but there was no one in the East Building?

Because the pink apartment complex had been a single building from beginning to end!

The dilapidated and cold East Building represents Zhang Lili’s miserable past before her death; the warm and bright West Building represents the present where Zhang Lili’s apartment had been re-covered and whitewashed after Zhang Lili’s death.

It was just because of Zhang Lili’s resentment that this apartment complex had been divided into two, separated in time, and the present and the past co-existed at the same point in time.

Zhang Lili’s purpose for doing this seemed to be to remind everyone that she had been in two different environments before and after her death. The deeper purpose was to…

Shen Yu couldn’t help muttering: “After you died, where did he hide you?”

This question must have hit the other party’s pain point, for the scarlet blood threads suddenly soared and the overwhelming red seemed to engulf the entire floor.

And Shen Yu and Anonymous were like two tiny ants in a boundless sea of ​​blood.

However, Shen Yu did not back up, but took a step forward, holding up the golden key in his hand: “Wu Jianyi is dead!” The scarlet blood threads in front of him suddenly stilled.

He continued: “I will find your body, and I will get the remaining two keys!”

Word by word, it seemed to be the firmest promise.

In an instant, everything became quiet and the atmosphere felt heavy, as if time had frozen.

Shen Yu didn’t dare to let out his breath, just kept staring at the blood red before him.

After a long time, the coagulated blood threads made a greasy sound again, then the blood color gradually faded while constantly contracting.

The corridor returned to quiet and spotless as before, as if nothing had happened before.

Shen Yu’s slender figure stood in place, like a sculpture standing tall.

But soon, the “sculpture” shook fiercely.

“Anonymous.” He said angrily, “Come on and give me a hand, my legs are soft…” It had been so scary just now!! He desperately needed sweet mints to soothe his frightened little heart!

Anonymous: “…”

He had no choice but to step forward, grabbing the other person’s warm hand.

“Don’t be so reckless in the future.” He whispered, “With me, you won’t have to do anything on your own.”

Shen Yu smiled weakly, then took out his black book, his hands still trembling slightly: “My book is hot again, it should be an update of the plot.”

Anonymous took it and opened it:

[Thirteen brave cleaners stepped into the pink apartment. 】

【Lucky mint and anonymous survived the angry siege of the residents. 】 【But you made a promise to the female ghost. 】

【The female ghost smiled and asked you, when will the dirty things be cleaned up? 】【After all, you are a brave cleaner! ]

[If you break your promise, you know what will be the end…] After seeing the new plot, Shen Yu couldn’t help sighing slightly.

“Escaped another catastrophe!”

…

A noisy night had passed.

On the fourth day, the group met again, only to find that there were now only seven people left.

Cuihua, who was also fortunate enough to survive the siege overnight, squinted at the bald man with his head shrunk: “Where is the newcomer who was by your side?” The bald man’s eyes dodged, but his mouth was forced to say: “Where else did he go? Dead! The most common thing in horror novels are dead people, what can I do?”

Everyone remembered the tragic wailing from the East Building last night, and suddenly couldn’t help being silent.

Shen Yu, on the other hand, wanted to understand everything in an instant; he rubbed his eyebrows and said: “You mistakenly thought that the baby girl sitting in the coffin was a monster, so you attacked at night and wanted to exchange the corpse for rewards from the manager.”

” Yes.” “What you don’t know is that the baby girl is actually Zhang Lili’s daughter. As the master of the pink apartment, how could Zhang Lili tolerate someone hurting her daughter, so she took action.” “You may not have had time to deal with the baby girl, so after abandoning your teammate, you were lucky enough to save your own life. But Da Zhuang, who was abandoned by you, should not have been so lucky.”

“Am I right?” he asked.

Seeing that Shen Yu had a clear idea of how he’d ​​abandoned his teammate, the bald man was suddenly startled and panicked. The sweat rolled down his face and he barely managed to vaguely say: “Wh.. what Zhang Lili? What the hell are you talking about?”

He had been unable to find a clue, so he didn’t even know the truth behind the apartment.

Seeing that, except for the three of them, the others were all dumbfounded, Shen Yu and the others looked at each other, and finally decided to clarify the course of the matter.

Enough people have died this time. Learning more about the truth, other people may have more chances of surviving.

After understanding the story behind the apartment, as expected, the three newcomers Xu Jiaojiao and the little couple still looked dumbfounded, but the bald man was already excited.

“So, in the remaining two days, we can finish this novel as long as we find the female ghost’s body?” He asked excitedly.

Shen Yu poured cold water on him appropriately: “It’s not that simple, it’s clearly written in the book that the apartment complex requires us to do the cleaning work.”

The identity of a cleaner should have a different meaning.

“And there is no ‘we’, only ‘you’ and ‘we’! We will go to find the remaining clues, and you just stay clear, don’t give away the little life that you have managed to hold on to!” Cuihua then poured another basin of cold water on him.

The bald man’s expression was still frozen from excitement, and then with mung bean-like eyes, he glanced at Xu Jiaojiao and the other novices.

The few newcomers suddenly felt a chill, and they avoided his sight with disgust.

Cuihua looked at his dishonest eyes and suddenly yelled: “How many of them do you want to use as a cushion? Screw your head off!” After him being scolded, the newcomers hid themselves one after another, and instantly isolated the bald man. His face suddenly became embarrassed.

He endured and endured, and finally let out a cold snort through his nose, turning around and deciding to look for clues by himself.

“It’s all veterans, who is afraid of whom?” The bald man murmured as he left.

Shen Yu ignored him, and, after instructing the remaining people to stay where they were and absolutely not to run around, the three of them also got up and left.

This morning, the administrator neither distributed the keys or cleaning tools, nor recovered the keys they had in their hands, nor even showed up.

It seems that after yesterday’s siege, the two sides seem to have completely torn their faces off, and the hostility that was buried deeply by the apartment complex residents was now naked and unconcealed.

The three of them went to the top floor of the apartment complex on the west side, and when they passed the corner of the sixth floor, they could even see a resident slowly opening a crack in the door and peering out at them.

A middle-aged man’s face appeared behind the door, staring at the people outside motionlessly; his mist-layered eyes were filled with greed, his mouth with fangs was cracked open and drooling quietly.

However, Shen Yu and the others were crowding the floor, and he seemed to be uncomfortable. After weighing them secretly, the apartment occupant made a gloomy face and closed the door again.

This episode did not distract Shen Yu and the others. After the three reached the sixth floor, they looked intently at the ceiling above their heads.

“Is it here?” Cuihua asked.

“Yes, it’s here.” Shen Yu replied in an affirmative tone.

The other floors of the pink apartment complex are generally about three meters high, but not so on the sixth floor. Shen Yu had passed through here several times and felt extremely oppressed.

The sixth floor is already the top floor, but why was the floor’s height so low?

“I estimate that the floor height here is not even 2.7 meters, maybe even only 2.5 meters.” He said, raising his arm as if he wanted to touch the ceiling, “What is hidden behind this?”

“You are saying …” Anonymous’ eyebrows moved slightly and he looked up: “It is very likely that there is a mezzanine above.”¹ mezzanine : A mezzanine floor is an intermediate floor which is built between two main floors or the floor and ceiling of a building. They are designed to cover a specific area of a building rather than extending over the entire floor space.

The seventh floor, which had been invisible, had appeared.

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Editor: Black.Cat

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  mezzanine : A mezzanine floor is an intermediate floor which is built between two main floors or the floor and ceiling of a building. They are designed to cover a specific area of a building rather than extending over the entire floor space.