Chapter Seventy-Three: Who Killed the Mockingbird (2)
Anfia ran out of breath in the hallway, trying to chase her brother back, despite the stupid, lazy, and annoying brother who always grabbed his own food and bullied herself, but Anfia couldn't let him be taken away.
The girl never knew that the corridor of the research institute was so long, she usually had to pass through this corridor to go to the restaurant and the toilet, but it was only a few tens of meters long, but tonight for some reason she couldn't reach the end no matter how she ran, there was always endless darkness in front of her, and endless doors on both sides.
Anfia was tired of running, slowed down, and looked left and right in fear. The boy in white with the lantern and the team had disappeared without a trace, and the girl chased after them less than half a minute after they left, but in just half a minute, the children had disappeared from the world.
The bells are gone, and so is the singing.
Anfia was the only one left walking alone in the dark.
The familiar research institute now looked like a huge labyrinth, and the girl remembered that there were stairs going up and down on both sides of the corridor, as well as safe exits, but now Anfia couldn't find it. There are clear signs for safety exits on the ceiling of the corridor, and the green light of "EXIT" is very conspicuous in the dark, and the arrows point straight ahead, and Amphia has lost count of how many signs she has passed, and those signs pass overhead regularly every ten seconds, and with each sign, the girl can see a small green light in the darkness ahead.
When she got closer, she realized that it was another safety exit sign.
The signage is endless, as if there is an endless loop, and the corridor is extended indefinitely.
"Brother?" The girl cried out in fear, her voice trembling, "Brother, where are you?" ”
Anfia remembered that her brother used to play tricks on herself, hiding so that she could not find her, and then jumping out and laughing when she was so anxious that she was about to cry. There are so many children in the institute, it is very rare to be related by blood, and Nicanor is one of the few pairs of siblings, the elder brother is five years older than the younger sister, the former often relies on his tall strength to grab the latter's food and toys, such as a piece of candy that the head nurse rewarded Anfia, and most of the end ends up in the brother's mouth, but the brother always has a way to coax the younger sister into tears with a piece of candy paper in the end.
The so-called brother is this creature, even though that person is stupid and hateful, not only robbing you of your things but also fooling you.
But every time you cry, he will take you in his arms, stroke your hair and say, "Don't be afraid, little Anfia, brother is here."
Anfia had always been a child who was very dependent on her brother, so dependent that she couldn't sleep at night if she didn't sleep in the same room with her brother.
"Brother...... Brother? Where are you? Are you coming out? The girl cried while shouting, and every time the boy hid, he would appear before he cried.
But this time he didn't show up again, and he didn't jump out and laugh no matter how Anfia cried.
"Jingle ......"
Suddenly, the girl heard the sound of the bell again.
Anfia was pleasantly surprised, she felt that she had finally found her brother, and the girl quickened her pace to follow the sound to catch up, but accidentally stepped on the hem of her nightdress.
The girl lost her balance and landed flat on the floor.
Anfia cried out in pain.
She was stunned for a moment, the girl knelt on the ground, and by the only glimmer of light, she saw a black handprint on the smooth floor, the handprint was so clear that she could see the knuckles and palm prints.
Anfia touched the handprint with her index finger and retracted it as if electrocuted, the handprint was wet and slightly hot.
Blood.
It's blood.
There was more than one bloody handprint, the girl couldn't count how many, the handprint stretched from under her feet into the darkness ahead, it looked like a bloody man had crawled over the floor, his hands pressed on the floor, leaving bloody marks, and it hadn't been long since the person crawled over, because the blood stains hadn't dried yet.
The sound of the bell rang again, faintly like a ghost coming with the wind, and the girl raised her hand to cover her mouth to keep herself from screaming, and tears welled up in her eyes.
This...... Who left this behind?
Is it my brother?
The girl got up and followed the bloody handprints.
Following the handprints on the ground, she finally walked out of this endless corridor, the safety exit sign above her head changed, the arrow pointing straight ahead turned into a corner, the corridor had a corner in front of it, and there was a slight sound behind the corner, as if someone was there.
"Brother...... Elder brother? ”
Amphia turned around the corner of the hallway and looked up.
Behind the corner is a dim emergency light.
The girl froze.
In the dim light, there is the bloody Shura Hell...... The girl didn't know how many people had died, because there was not a single intact body here, and all the people who had followed the boy in white were dead, and the faces soaked in blood still had a dull look on their faces, and Anfia could barely recognize them...... They were still alive during the day today, and now they are all severed limbs and entrails.
It was hard for the girl to imagine that a person's body could be shattered to such an extent, it was as if it had been blown apart, everything was soaked in a pool of blood, and the viscous plasma hung on the walls, slowly flowing down, and steaming.
A small figure knelt in a pool of blood, with chains around his neck, hands and feet, and he lowered his head like a mad dog to bite at the corpse on the ground, tearing the muscles and skin with his hands, poking his head into the abdomen of the corpse and chewing the internal organs.
The girl was stunned, both legs went limp, and she sat down on the ground.
The man-eating demon heard the commotion behind him, flickered, retracted his head from the flesh, and then slowly turned his head.
Anfia didn't dare to look at it anymore, she ran away on the road with a rolling belt, crying loudly, she didn't dare to look for her brother anymore, Anfia just wanted to hurry back to her room and hide now.
But the ghostly corridor was back, and Anfia couldn't go back to the way she came, no matter where she ran, there was always a corner in front of her, and there was a sign for a safe exit on the corner, and the arrow pointed behind the corner, and behind the corner there was the sound of tearing flesh and bones, as if the demon behind the corner was the end of all roads.
The girl cannot escape from this labyrinth, and behind every corner of this labyrinth lies a demon, and her final fate is to be eaten by the demon.
Anfia was back where she was, exhausted from running, and the corner was still in front of her.
The sound of flesh tearing through flesh had stopped, replaced by the sound of hands and feet crawling on the floor.
Little by little, the voice approached, and Anfia was desperate, and she had no way to escape.
"Bang...... Smack...... Snap ......"
The sound of crawling footsteps stopped behind the corner, and a few seconds later, a flesh-stained face poked out from behind the corner, and he looked at the girl grinning silently, revealing a mouth full of neat teeth.
Belle Nicanor opened her eyes in horror.