Strange game designer.

Chapter 859 Uncomfortable

"Why do you have a horse but still need to use other means of transportation?"

"I should be outside the car, not inside it."

"Shut up!" Xue Se had had enough of the old horse sitting in the passenger seat and almost pulled out his gun. He only knew that Dr. Gao had a horse, but he didn't expect that this horse was such a chatterbox: "Fasten your seatbelt! If you unbuckle it again, I'll shoot you!"

"Don't you think it's ridiculous to put a seatbelt on a horse?"

"Quiet!"

"Can you give me back my reins? They were left to me by my master."

Xue Se floored the accelerator and drove the car to the Death Time residential area at top speed.

"get off!"

As he led Lao Ma out, Xue Se kicked open the half-closed gate of the residential complex and looked around.

The forest fire did not reach this area, and the neighborhood is surprisingly clean with almost no litter on the ground.

“If you say another word after we go inside, I will abandon you without hesitation.” Xue Se contacted the police officer who had previously investigated the cannibalistic room on the way, but the officer’s family said that he had not been home for a long time: “There may be a cannibalistic psychopath hiding in the building, it’s very dangerous.”

"Then why should we go?" Old Ma asked, puzzled.

"Go ask your owner whose brain was ripped out!" Xue Se walked forward, but found that he couldn't pull the old horse no matter what he did. When he turned around, he saw the old horse lying on the ground, its eyes instantly turning red, and its muscles swelling with blood, like a stone struck by lightning.

"Is Dr. Gao dead?" Old Ma, who had been laughing and joking all the way, suddenly seemed to have human emotions.

"I was just kidding, he can still be saved." Xue Se made up a lie to expedite the investigation.

"Oh, he's a doctor, he must know how to save lives, how could he just die like that?" Old Ma glared at Xue Se, then returned to his previous demeanor, becoming a free and unrestrained steed.

死亡1到2小时，尸斑出现；2到3小时尸僵出现；在夏天4到5小时腹部膨胀；8到12小时角膜轻度浑浊；两天之后瞳孔不能透见；4日后蛆虫侵蚀皮肤；一月左右食尽内脏；一年左右浸泡水中全身尸蜡化……

Xue Se blinked as he looked at the labels on each unit door. He was a policeman and knew these things very well. In fact, he had long found it strange that the buildings along the entire Autopsy Avenue were named so strangely.
“The thirteen residential areas along this avenue all seem strange, as if a corpse has been dissected, and each area holds the cause of death of that corpse. Piecing them all together reveals the truth of a person’s death…” Xue Se’s mind flashed back to the contents of the gardener’s diary, and her temples throbbed with pain: “How come I never thought this avenue was strange before? I was subconsciously used to the existence of these names and didn’t realize anything was wrong.”

Pulling Lao Ma into the unit where the pupils could not see through, Xue Se glanced at the old elevator. The iron railings were rusty, black stains remained on the ground, the patterns on the buttons were worn off, and the display screen was full of cracks.

Compared to the neighborhood environment, the interior of the tower is dirty and messy, and poorly maintained.

“Let’s take the stairs.”

"Why take the stairs when there's an elevator?" Old Ma prefers flat ground. "Dr. Gao never used to take me up the stairs."

“Nonsense, he lives on the first floor.” Xue Se stood in the fire escape. The building’s design was strange; the walkways were like intestines, winding and twisting. There were even residents in the corners between two floors. Each floor wasn’t marked with a floor number, but instead had all sorts of strange symbols drawn on them. The walls were yellowed from fire, and in some places, large chunks of plaster had peeled off, revealing blackened interiors. White circles were drawn on the ground with chalk, and you could vaguely see grains of white rice that hadn’t been swept away inside.

After going up two floors, Xue Se found a prescription in a half-burnt brazier, which required collecting cicada shells, children's naturally shed teeth, morning dew, and clothes worn by babies.

"What kind of illness would require these things? They don't even look like herbs." Old Ma huffed and puffed as he climbed the stairs, carefully avoiding the things on the ground.

"It should be for treating mental illness." Xue Se took out an evidence bag and put the pharmacy inside. Further up was a connecting corridor without any signs, which seemed to lead to other units.

"Lost?" Old Ma tilted his head back. "I get the feeling you're just wandering around aimlessly."

"Better safe than sorry. If we encounter any danger, I'll throw you across first." Xue Se stood on the connecting corridor, his ears twitching slightly. He vaguely heard some sounds.

He bent down and slowly walked to the other side of the corridor. He saw an old woman with white hair, wearing very tattered clothes, standing at the door of a house, chanting and praying to the black-painted security door.

"Please, lend me a way to live, please lend me a way to live..."

The old man had a wrinkled face, chapped lips, cloudy eyes, his hands clasped together, and his body trembling as if he might collapse at any moment.

There was no sound from inside the security door. The homeowner seemed to be dead. The old man's movements became increasingly exaggerated, until finally his forehead hit the door panel repeatedly.

Please, lend me a way to survive! Please, lend me a way to survive!

Xue Se gestured for Lao Ma to step back. Neither of them made a sound, but the old man seemed to smell something. He suddenly turned around, his cloudy eyes looking at the corner of the corridor, but Xue Se was no longer there.

Slowly retreating to the unit where his pupils couldn't see through, Old Ma's voice lowered: "That old lady was really creepy, she made my hair stand on end."

"Strange, this building has never had any cases on Autopsy Avenue before, and the people inside are all very friendly on the outside. How could it have become so 'rotten' inside?" The police had a good impression of the residents of the building; they were kind to the point of being cowardly and never caused trouble. Rumors were spreading that there were cannibalistic rooms here, but the residents continued to be cheerful every day, acting as if nothing was wrong.

"Could that cannibalistic room be one they specifically created to house a cannibal?" Xue Se felt things were getting tricky. He was confident he could kill a single, deranged cannibal, but if the "culprit" was an entire building of residents, the situation would be completely different.

In Xinhu, there is no such thing as a cult; there is only contagious group madness.

Xue Se immediately made a phone call. The police station was handling the aftermath of the forest incident and trying to quell the dispute. The chief even specifically reminded him to behave himself and not cause trouble recently.

Unable to summon police officers, Xue Se made another call, asking his own informants and thugs to come and help: "Dr. Gao has hidden what I want to know in the cannibalistic room. The fewer people who know about this, the better. Once the helpers are in place, we'll take action immediately."

After waiting for a while, Xue Se still hadn't received a reply from his subordinate. He prepared to go downstairs to check, but as soon as he reached the connecting corridor, he sensed something was wrong.

When I turned around, there was an old lady standing behind me, silent and with her head down.

(End of this chapter)