Don't provoke mentally ill people in the infinite flow genre!

Inside the untied garbage bag, there was a small boy's bloody head. The head had been chopped off with a kitchen knife, the severed neck was black with clotted blood, and there were still small pieces of bone around the edges.

The little boy's wet, sticky hair was piled up on his forehead, his eyelids were rolled back, his lips were bluish-black, and his skin was as white as a crumpled piece of paper.

He froze in an extremely ferocious and terrified expression, as if he were still staring straight at Su Su.

Despite having seen many corpses in the game, this scene still startled Su Su, who suddenly sat back and fell to the ground.

At the same moment, Li Siqi's low shout came from behind.

"Susu, there are two severed hands and a leg here!"

"...The head is here." She said in a trembling voice, "That child in 409 must have been dismembered."

Although the two had never met Xiao Jie, they could roughly guess who he was.

Now that things have come to this, there's no way to return the child to Han Ping. Like the other three households, the child is definitely dead.

Su Su was still in a daze when she suddenly heard Li Siqi speak again hesitantly.

"Susu, come and see..."

She dragged her weak legs over and saw Li Siqi with a severed arm in front of his knee, trying to pry open the five blood-stained fingers.

Xiao Jie's fingers were clenched very tightly. Li Siqi used a lot of effort, and eventually, he could almost hear the sound of bones breaking, before he finally managed to pry them open one by one.

He pinched a crumpled piece of cloth from Xiao Jie's palm.

The rags are red, and if you look closely, you can vaguely see peony patterns.

"This is... Lü Yinfeng's cheongsam..."

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[The backstory for this game is really interesting. The noodle shop owner killed five neighbors in a rage to revive her husband? That's some serious killing!]

No wonder I felt something was off when I first saw Lü Yinfeng; usually, these seemingly gentle and easy-going NPCs hide some kind of twisted secret.

Let me think about this. She didn't choose these five people randomly. Besides meeting the requirements for corpse refining, these five people do have personal grudges against her, right?

[Yes, the dancer had designs on her husband; the fat security guard secretly filmed her and probably harassed her; the bratty kid was both naughty and lewd, and must have caused her a lot of trouble; the carpenter and the elderly couple, unaware of the situation, might have also made things difficult for her?]

[Oh, she's really unlucky. Her neighbors all bully her, and her loving husband died. Anyone would go crazy in that situation.]

[I don't care about anything else, I'm just interested in what will happen tonight. The Cursed One has to deal with the boss and also guard against those two from the Winter Squad killing him. It's going to be amazing!]

[That's right, everyone! Bookmark our live stream, get your snacks and drinks ready, the winner is about to be revealed!]

……

The analysis from the viewers in the live stream was largely accurate. Regarding their blind spots and doubts, the five members of the team are currently gathered together to supplement each other's findings.

"We found Xiao Jie in the garbage room on the seventh floor." Li Siqi took out the red rag and handed it to everyone. "He had been dismembered and stuffed into garbage bags. He was clutching this in his hand before he died. It should have been torn from Lü Yinfeng's cheongsam."

"That makes even more sense." Yan Zhao wasn't surprised. She said, "All five of them were killed by Lü Yinfeng. I guess they probably all had some grudge against Lü Yinfeng, which is why they were chosen first as materials for corpse refining."

Shen Yubai nodded slightly in agreement: "I've already gotten information out of Lü Yinfeng. Old Mrs. Wu from 804 gave her trouble before, insisting that her hygiene was substandard and caused her to have diarrhea. She had no choice but to waive the cost of noodles for two months."

"What about Liu the carpenter?"

"Her husband, Feng Xuan, was in a car accident on his way to buy painkillers for Liu the carpenter."

In this way, the entire sequence of events becomes very clear.

"So, Lü Yinfeng made a deal with Duan Daoshi, killing five neighbors who she found utterly hateful and who happened to fit her criteria, to use as materials for resurrecting her husband." Su Su tried to summarize, "The male security guard's intact heart, the hair of an elderly couple in their eighties, the eyes of the dancer Ai Zhenzhen, Xiao Jie's virgin blood, and one of Liu the carpenter's hands, right?"

Li Siqi still had one question: "If it's just about taking hair, is it really necessary to kill that elderly couple?"

"Hair from the death of an elderly person refers to the hair of an elderly person who dies of natural causes," Shen Yubai explained gently. "I guess Lü Yinfeng didn't do it herself; she just managed to lock the elderly couple in the bedroom, intending to wait for them to starve to death before taking their hair—but a little mishap occurred."

Who would have thought that the old lady had such a strong will to survive that she literally ate her husband alive? As for how she died in the end, and whether this "dying of old age" still counts as a "dying of old age," we don't know.

He suspected that something went wrong with Old Mrs. Wu, which caused the magic to fail and triggered Feng Xuan's transformation into a corpse.

"In addition, I found a bedroom at the very back of the noodle shop. The door was locked with two locks, which is unusual for a normal room. Perhaps Feng Xuan's body is hidden inside."

Lü Yinfeng turned her bedroom into a site for refining corpses.

Before the words were even finished, everyone's system panel simultaneously updated with a notification:

[Work progress bar: 80%]

The complete recreation of Lü Yinfeng's corpse-refining plot accounts for a full 25% of the mission progress.

Su Su became increasingly worried as she pondered the matter. She had seen many ghosts within the bureau, but this was the first time she had ever seen a zombie.

Oh, of course, I haven't seen him yet.

"Is there really no way to stop Feng Xuan from turning into a zombie?"

Yi Zanglan, who had not participated in the conversation until now, finally looked away from her bracelet and calmly looked at Su Su.

"We're not here to change the plot this time, but to follow it." She pointed to the copper coin mask at her waist. "The key items have all been left behind. Now you need to think about how to deal with the zombie chase, so you don't end up like Taoist Duan."

"That's right." Shen Yubai nodded. "I also saw Taoist Duan with my own eyes. His death was extremely gruesome, as if he had been torn apart by a wild beast, and half of his head was gone."

That's right. The fact that Daoist Duan is dead means that the magic must have failed. He was killed by the zombie.

This apartment building has long been a dead building, and everyone is trapped in this 49-day cycle. If the zombie-turned Feng Xuan cannot be successfully suppressed, these wandering ghosts will not be able to find release.

Similarly, if players fail to complete the mission, they will become one of them and be left in the building forever.

Upon hearing this, Su Su and Li Siqi exchanged a glance, and both of them shivered simultaneously.

"What other preparations do we need to make?"

"Go get some sleep," Yan Zhao suggested realistically. "Conserve your energy; tonight will likely be physically demanding."

Everyone agreed, and since this was the couple's room, the other three immediately got up and prepared to go back to their own rooms.

...To everyone's surprise, when Yan Zhao opened the door, he found He Yong and Xu Chenguang standing outside.