Chapter 1 Layout, Control, Checks and Balances
Deep Rain is missing.
She disappeared the night of the end of that bloody letter.
Min waited until the next morning, and Shenyu did not return to the orphanage. Called her phone, only to find that she had logged out of the number. Later, in her room, a note was found that she would not come back. That's the handwriting of deep rain.
The next day, the deep rain, completely disappeared from this world.
Min knew very well that she had to be found no matter what. Judging from the testimony of the surviving Bian Xingchen, her painting does predict the future, and it is really a bloody indication scene! She is the only lifeline for Min, who lives in an apartment and has almost lost all hope!
On the other hand, Li Yin still couldn't be sure whether the note was true or not, after all, judging from Bian Xingchen's answer...... No further judgment can be made.
Next, the number of new occupants of the apartment began to increase. The total number of new households entering in February has increased by 27 in total!
This made Li Yin, who was the head of the building, feel that the situation was getting more and more serious, there were too many people, and it was not easy to manage. However, because you can't see the horror of the apartment as soon as you get out of the alleyway, many people believe that this apartment really can't be explained by scientific common sense.
Next, Li Yin even gave the residents the task of taking turns, and was always on duty on the ground floor, responsible for explaining the rules of the apartment to the newcomers. The rule of ten blood characters makes people tremble just by listening to it, and many young female surnames are so frightened that they cry. There are many people who don't believe it, and of course, the consequence is that they will die if they leave the apartment for more than forty-eight hours.
In the past, when there were fewer households, it was possible to repeatedly dissuade them, but now, with so many households, it is impossible to persuade them one by one. Naturally, those who don't believe it can only be counted as unlucky.
The empty rooms in the apartment quickly began to decrease. From the first floor to the top floor, there are residents on every floor.
At this time, Min returned to the apartment with a pale face, and as soon as she came to the door of her house, she took out the key with trembling hands, and did not aim at the keyhole several times.
There was still no news in the deep rain.
I've searched everywhere I can, but I still can't find her! Min has never felt as weak as he did at this moment!
Originally, he hated her several times, tabooed her existence, and even hoped that she could not exist in this world. However, at this moment, she really didn't exist, but Min felt as if something had been hollowed out in her heart, as if everything in this world had been lost.
Finally align the keyhole and open the door. Min suddenly felt a violent burning sensation in his chest!
It took a few seconds for her to realize that this was a harbinger of the release of the blood letter instructions! So she immediately rushed into the room, only to see that on the wall, bright red blood kept appearing on the wall and forming words.
The content of the blood word is: "From 0:00 to 12:00 on March 2, 2011, I went to Jiangfeng Garment Factory in the southwest of K City. The third fragment of the Hell Pact is inside an antique red wedding gown in the factory. After that, there is a customary text about the contract with hell.
Red antique wedding dress?
What's going on?
On the other hand, in room 403 on the fourth floor, Midnight also covered his chest and looked at the blood words with the same content on the wall in front of him.
"This day has finally come."
The moment the third Hell Contract fragment was released, it also meant that Li Yin's previous lies would be self-defeating.
She immediately walked out of the door, walked to room 404 next door, and rang the doorbell of Li Yin's house.
Ground floor hall.
At this moment, there is already a resident standing here.
This resident's name is Shen Ziling, a cold man in a tight black suit, in the household, he is relatively athletic, and some people even suspect that he used to be a retired soldier.
Next, two more residents came down.
One is naturally Min, and the other is a man with an explosive head and sunglasses. The man with the explosive head is named Kindley, but he is indeed Chinese, it is said that this is his English name, and the Chinese name has not been told to anyone at all, and everyone is too lazy to care about him, so they call him by his English name, it is said that he is a rock 'n' roll enthusiast, has joined a band before, but had to leave the band because he entered the apartment, is an admirer of Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
"I'm sorry, may I ask ...... you are" Min walked over and asked Shen Ziling suspiciously: "What do you call this gentleman?" Be...... How many households? ”
Shen Ziling's gaze like a cold knife swept towards Min, which immediately made her shudder!
"Shen Ziling, resident of Room 1605."
After giving this reply as if mechanically, he stopped talking.
Kindley, on the other hand, approached the two and said, "I was going to wait for everyone to arrive, but I'll talk about it again." But let's talk about it first, you all saw the blood letter, right? The third Hell Contract Fragment appeared, which proved that someone among Li Yin, Ke Yinye, and others must have secretly hidden the Hell Contract Fragment, and then lied that they didn't get it. Let's discuss, who are the two liars? ”
Min looked very nervous at this time, her lips twitching, but she couldn't say a word. And Shen Ziling didn't say a word, and he didn't even look at Jindeli. For a while, the man with the explosive head was not embarrassed.
At this time, the elevator door opens again. The person who walked out of the door was naturally midnight.
"Miss Ying!" When the man with the explosive head just came over, he didn't have time to speak, and midnight had already taken the lead.
"If you want to mention the matter of the Hell Contract Fragment to me, Building Chief Li will make the matter public at the residents' representative meeting this evening. I don't know the details. ”
Kindley was stunned for a moment, he never thought it would be like this!
Li Yin had long expected such a thing to happen. So he decided early on that when the whereabouts of the third Hell Pact fragment were announced, a residents' meeting would be held to announce the matter.
There are two reasons for this.
First, if this matter is not made public, and only the households who received the instructions in blood are known, then these households will naturally be able to roughly identify who is more suspicious. At the same time, it will be unfavorable to them in order to seize the fragments of the Hell Contract, and may even threaten themselves with secondary threats. After the announcement, it is tantamount to muddying the waters, and after all the residents know about it, it will make the residents scruple about each other. It's like a group of tigers seeing a piece of fat, and no tiger will go out to grab it easily, otherwise it will become the target of public criticism. All households, in turn, will form a mutual containment and vigilance effect.
Second, after this matter is announced, the lies told by Ke Yinye or Xia Xiaomei, or the alliance between the two will be self-defeating. To say unfavorable, both sides will appear unfavorable. Anyone can guess that they all have a secret contract with hell. In this way, it is equivalent to forcing Yinye's position to be exactly the same as Li Yin's, that is, he has to face the eyes of all the residents, so he will definitely choose to stand on the same road with Li Yin for the time being. Because, they have a common "enemy". As the saying goes, there are no eternal enemies and friends, only eternal interests. The stakes are the same, and even the feud can be temporarily resolved; If there is a conflict of interest, even the closest allies can turn against each other.
So that night, after a large number of residents gathered in the hall on the ground floor, Li Yin, who was surrounded in the center, announced the blood characters this time. When I heard the "Third Hell Contract Fragment", the ground floor was in an uproar!
"Sure enough, someone is hiding the Hell Contract Fragment!"
"Lou Chang Li, shouldn't one of the fragments of the Hell Contract be on you?"
"Ke Yinye! It must be Ke Yinye! Didn't he unravel the ghost incarnation? Hmph, it's definitely him! ”
"Maybe Ke Yinyu has a secret Hell Contract fragment, right?"
"How come, didn't Ying Ziye say that Ke Yinyu had been with her since she threw out the Hell Contract Fragment?"
"It's hard to say, maybe she and Yingziye have reached some conditions......"
The residents are not idiots, and many of them have basically guessed the outline of the matter. Looking at their aggressive expressions, Li Yin looked at Ke Yinye and Ke Yinyu, who had also become the target of public criticism and were surrounded by many residents.
All right...... Silver Night, then, join forces with me for the time being......
Ke Yinye didn't expect Li Yin to play this trick and come back to life, deliberately pushing himself to the forefront, and even forcing himself to stand on the same front with him. You know, the hell contract is something that both parties want. And once Li Yin's contract is taken away, then the situation is likely to be beyond his control and calculation. The most terrifying thing is that if the fragments of the Hell Contract cannot be found out by anyone because of the competition among the residents, it will be troublesome.
At this time, helping Li Yin is helping yourself. Of course, it was the same for Li Yin, the fragments on his and Yinyu's bodies were taken away, which was also unfavorable to Li Yin.
Ruthless enough! Silver Night had to admit that this time, he lost to Li Yin. Although the position was forced to be the same as Li Yin, Li Yin, who obviously came up with this plan, was likely to prepare more back-ups, and he could only fall into passivity!
Of course, the occupants will not use violence to coerce them into handing over the fragments of the Hell Pact for three reasons.
First, the occupants are not idiots, and the use of violence is the best policy, not to mention that it is not clear who is actually holding the fragments of the Hell Contract. It is unknown to whom this fragment of the contract will fall. If you use violence, you are likely to fight to the ground.
Second, Li Yin and Yinye are both people with strong insight and analytical skills, and they will be of great help to the implementation of blood characters for future residents. After all, whether it is Li Yin or Silver Night, they do not hold a complete hell contract, and they can't offend themselves, so that they will execute the blood word in the future and fall into a desperate situation.
Thirdly, the residents are eager to obtain the Hell Contract Fragments, which is naturally a hot potato. It is impossible for the occupants to forge a true alliance for the capture of the fragments. A handful of one or two people may be able to reach an agreement, but a large number of people is unrealistic. Demon king-level blood word instructions, after all, residents can decide whether to implement it anytime and anywhere, that is to say, even if many people reach an alliance and say that they will leave the apartment together after obtaining the complete contract, it is impossible for anyone to trust such treasures to someone other than themselves for safekeeping, and it is difficult to accept even if they take turns to keep them. After all, there is only one complete Hell Contract, and the Demon King-level Blood Letter Instruction will only be issued once in fifty years. If you miss this opportunity, there will be no next time! can only follow the extremely dangerous road of ten blood words to the end! Everyone will be afraid that once a resident is in a hurry to flee and chooses to carry out the Demon King-level blood letter instructions, he will escape with the contract. Once the Demon King's Blood Word is successfully executed, he can leave the apartment, and when the time comes, as long as he escapes far away from K City, what can the residents who can only be bound in the apartment do? And Li Yin is so ruthless that he let all the residents know about this matter, so many people, if they can also reach an alliance of concerted efforts, Li Yin would rather believe that 2012 is really the end of the world.
Obviously, as the residents calmed down, they began to realize ...... Li Yin's move is powerful. No one can do anything to him, Midnight and Silver Night, and if the fragment of the Hell Contract reaches anyone, that person will become a ready-made Tang monk meat! Hell Contract Fragments, you can't rob them openly, but not many people have that ability to rob them secretly! What's more, only three contract fragments have been released so far, and the third one has only just been released. It would be no good for anyone to turn the entire apartment into a battlefield of intrigue at this stage. Anyway, knowing that the fragments of the hell contract must be on these people, it is impossible for them to escape as an apartment resident, what are they afraid of? It's better to wait for all seven contract fragments to fall into the hands of different households, and it's not too late to have a desperate battle!
It's just that the thought of this makes people tremble...... By that time, how many people will die?
At this moment, Li Yin is like a commander, precisely controlling every chess piece. Everything is in his calculations. He knew that most sensible occupants would not do such an unwise act of snatching the fragments of the Hell Contract at this stage.
After all, Li Yin, who wrote excellent military novels, naturally knows how to apply the art of war to reality! War is not something that can be written by looking at movies and novels and making a few casual clicks!
And Li Yin knows very well that there is another important factor that his strategy can succeed. That's ...... Himself and Silvernight each have a Hell Contract Shard!
This is called "checks and balances". Suppose that the two fragments of the Hell Contract are in his own hands. So...... The effect of this plan will be greatly discounted. All the inhabitants will be united in their enmity against themselves. After all, the fragments of the Hell Contract are in the hands of different households, so the residents will be relieved. Otherwise, in the unlikely event that the seven fragments are concentrated in the hands of the same person, then ......
That person will definitely use the Hell Contract to immediately go to his house and write the word "sacrifice" on the wall of his house to carry out the Demon King-level blood letter instructions and escape from the apartment! That's the most terrible!
However, it is too long to think about these things at this time.
There is a problem right now. One of the key suspects who may be in possession of the fragments of the Hell Contract, Ying Ziye is about to execute the blood letter this time!
If the fragment of the Hell Contract is in Yingziye's hands, then once she dies, won't no one know the whereabouts of that fragment? An idiot would believe that a smart person like Midnight could put that fragment in his own home in the apartment. After all, she and Li Yin confirmed that their relationship had not been for a long time, and it was unknown whether they would tell Li Yin such a thing. What's more, many residents even suspect that when she falls in love with Li Yin, there are actually factors that take advantage of Li Yin.
Then, the topic of the meeting began to change to this bloody discussion.