This actor is full of tricks.

Yan Hui's house has three rooms: a living room and two bedrooms. There is no kitchen or toilet, since there is no need for cooking or using the restroom in the eerie place.

Lin Jue felt that a bedroom was unnecessary. He had basically never seen anything strange sleeping, except for the shopkeeper, who was an oddity.

He didn't rush out to gather information. Instead, he sent his younger brother away and went to the slightly larger room, where he took out the Eternal Night Tower check-in form from his system inventory.

From the moment he stepped onto this street, he felt something stirring within him, and after much thought, he concluded it was this application form.

Just as he had guessed, the bloodstains on the application form began to flow again, and the whole form was filled with an aura of despair.

When Eternal Night Tower first appeared outside the welfare home, the application form looked just like this. Now it looks like this again. Could it be that Eternal Night Tower is near Black Street?

Lin Jue walked to the broken window. From this position, he could see outside the Black Street. It was all shrouded in mist and ruins everywhere. It seemed that this was the only street that existed in this area.

"Huh? If I don't go through the inside, but instead choose to go around to the outside of the Black Street and walk to the very end, would that also work?"

"They say all roads lead to Rome. As long as this street isn't a dead end, you can probably get there from other places."

Lin Jue's thoughts suddenly wandered at this moment, but he felt that such a simple thing should be beyond his imagination. The thing at the deepest level should also be able to think of it. There might be some kind of taboo in those unknown areas outside that prevents people from going to the depths of the Black Street.

Bang bang bang!
Just then, a banging sound came from the living room door. Looking out from the room, you could clearly see the door shaking violently, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.

The younger brother, who was huddled in the corner of the sofa, saw Lin Jue about to open the door and rushed over to grab Lin Jue's sleeve, saying in a panic, "Brother, don't open the door, the butcher next door is right outside."

"The guests are already knocking on the door, how can we leave them standing outside? That's called being impolite." Lin Jue looked at the rickety door; even if he didn't open it, it probably wouldn't last much longer.

The younger brother was taken aback. What was the point of talking about politeness in such a strange situation?
Seeing that Lin Jue was still stubbornly trying to open the door, his expression became more and more anxious: "Brother, you've been gone for a few days without knowing. Some accidents have happened in the Black Street these past few days. There's a new manager in our outer circle. He's very powerful. Butcher has been trying to curry favor with him and has also benefited from it. He's become much stronger than before, and several neighbors around here have been killed."

There's an extra outer circle manager?
Is this the external factor described in the script?

Lin Jue's expression shifted slightly. He firmly pulled his arm away from his younger brother's hand and walked steadily toward the door: "Actually, your brother has also gained something from this trip. Just relax and stay at home. I'll go out and have a good chat with this neighbor."

The younger brother stood there blankly, staring at Lin Jue's back. He didn't know why, but his older brother seemed different this time. He was more confident than before, and even his fear had subsided a lot.

"Brother..." Before the younger brother could say anything more, Lin Jue had already pulled open the broken door.

A tall, muscular figure stood outside the door, half of his head sunken in, his face full of fleshy muscles, wearing a dirty plastic apron that was still dripping with black blood.

Is this the butcher next door?
Lin Jue stared at the black blood dripping onto the apron. Clearly, this butcher had just killed other neighbors. The man's hands were always behind his back, so it was obvious that he was hiding a murder weapon.

When the butcher saw Lin Jue open the door, he revealed a ferocious smile and was about to say something when Lin Jue interrupted him: "Let's talk at your house. There's a child there; don't scare him."

Hearing Lin Jue's calm words, the butcher was clearly surprised. In his memory, Yan Hui had never been so calm. When the two were evenly matched, Yan Hui often only dared to curse but not to fight. But now, judging from the other party's tone, he clearly wanted to fight him.

The butcher grinned maliciously: "If you have the guts, come with me."

He had long wanted to eat these two brothers in front of him. The two brothers had delicate skin and tender flesh, so they must taste much better than other strange ones.

When the butcher turned around, Lin Jue finally saw what the butcher was hiding behind him: a boning knife with bits of meat still stuck to it.

"Brother, I'll go with you." The younger brother rushed out at this moment.

"Yan Jun!" Lin Jue said sternly, "Go back now. It's nothing serious. I was just going to this guy's house for a cup of tea and a chat. What are you doing following me, kid? You wouldn't understand anything about the supernatural!"

At this moment, he seemed to have truly become Yan Jun's older brother, Yan Hui, his tone carrying an undeniable forcefulness.

Yan Jun was startled by Lin Jue's expression and stopped abruptly, as if Yan Hui had never yelled at him like that before.

While he was still in a daze, Lin Jue had already followed the butcher into the house next door and slammed the door shut.

"elder brother!"

Yan Jun rushed over, trying to break down the door, but he wasn't even an E-level monster yet, so his strength was too weak to budge the heavy door. Moreover, the sound of him banging on the door seemed to have alerted the other neighbors.

……

The first impression upon entering the butcher's room was the stench. The pungent smell of blood and rotting flesh mingled together, and the surrounding walls were covered with clotted black blood, the last traces left by previous victims.

The butcher's living room was also his kitchen. On the cutting board by the stove, there was a lump of rotten meat. Next to it, a pot was filled with murky soup, and things were floating up and down in it, looking like eyeballs.

This scene, which would terrify an ordinary person, only made Lin Jue frown slightly, not because he was frightened, but because the smell was indeed too pungent.

"You've certainly got guts. You've grown quite a bit after disappearing for a few days." The butcher looked at Lin Jue with a half-smile, as if he could already see the student kneeling on the ground begging for mercy and crying his eyes out.

As a butcher, he enjoyed seeing the vulnerable side of his prey. The thrill of controlling life and death was irresistible to him. He could no longer get this thrill from slaughtering pigs, cattle, and sheep in his previous life, so he turned his attention to ordinary people.

While being chased by the police, he accidentally fell from the building and broke his head. When he woke up again, he had become a strange creature in the mist.

This excited him even more. After becoming a monster, there were no more rules to restrain him, and he could slaughter indiscriminately.

The new manager's influence had significantly boosted his power, making him incredibly arrogant. He now viewed all the residents of the outer ring as his prey, having already killed several in the past few days; the stove was laden with his spoils. (End of Chapter)