Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 24 Part 2

However, she did find some torn pieces of clothing, floating under the coffee table, with eye-catching torn edges, as if they had been forcibly ripped off by something.

What on earth happened in this living room?

Xu Turan slightly frowned, walked around the room a few more times, and some other guesses popped up in her mind.

The position of the leather sofa had obviously been moved. Between the back of the sofa and the wall, a large gap had been dragged out, just big enough for a person to hide in; and on the wall next to it, there were several deep scratch marks.

Does this mean that someone once tried to hide here, but was dragged out by some “thing”?

And why did he choose to hide here?

Xu Turan pursed her lips, her gaze falling on the door beside her.

This space wasn’t completely sealed. Besides the door she came in through, there was another door on the other side of the living room. No matter where the monster came from at that time, he should have had at least one escape route. In any case, hiding in such a place that even a child could find seemed very unwise.

There were only two possibilities—either the person was in the same situation as she was when she first arrived, with the walls completely sealed and no room for escape; or he had a reason why he had to stay here.

Xu Turan originally leaned towards the first possibility, but after a thorough search, she silently changed her mind.

She found a crumpled piece of paper. It was in the crevice of the sofa, with a smear of blood on the surface. When opened, inside were several lines of messy red writing.

【Hello, I don’t know who you are. But I know you must be a poor soul like me. If you’ve just entered this place, you’d better remember the following words.】

【First, don’t go into new rooms casually! Every room has doors, and the rooms connected behind the doors are different each time! Once you enter a new room, you can’t go back! Think carefully before each move!】

【Second, try to find things as much as possible after entering a new room! Clothes! Self-defense! Lights, and medicine! Don’t bring food or drinks, you won’t get hungry, but you’ll get cold, you’ll get hurt! Make sure to prepare shoes!】

【If you find the room very clean and tidy after entering a new room, quickly loot everything and leave! Don’t linger inside, that kind of room is newly appeared, it likes new rooms the most!】

【If you find blood in the room, it means someone has died there, then stay there, don’t move anymore, it’s very safe there! If a monster appears, just hide! Unless someone else is about to come in, either make them leave or you leave, anyway don’t share a room with others! What you see may not be human! May not be human!】

【But don’t kill people, absolutely must not kill people! It will attract it!】

【If there’s anything that can make human voices in the room you’re in, turn them all on. It will prioritize rooms with fewer people.】

【This red pen is almost out of ink. Anyway, remember the above words, hope you can survive…】

The handwriting after that was very difficult to make out. Just as the writer said, the red pen had run out of ink.

Xu Turan roughly understood the situation. Probably more than one person had died in this room. Those who came later saw this crumpled paper and firmly decided to hide here without leaving, only to be caught by the monster unexpectedly.

…Does this mean that what’s written on this paper isn’t actually reliable?

Yet coincidentally, the red pen used to scribble on Yang Buqi’s business card; this seemingly survival guide was also written with a red pen… Xu Turan specifically took out the business card to compare, and the color and thickness could be said to be exactly the same.

Was the person who wrote this really alive?

If we think along these lines, perhaps leaving might actually be the way to increase the survival rate?

Xu Turan skillfully used reverse thinking and immediately had the thought of staying in this room. However, upon second thought, she tentatively turned off the running TV—

【Congratulations, you have gained 2 Courting Death Value points!】

Xu Turan: ……

Eh… eh?

Eh?!

Xu Turan stood dumbfounded, rarely feeling a head full of mush.

Turning off the TV increased the Courting Death Value, indicating that keeping the TV on indeed increased the survival rate, which means the content related to it on the note was correct.

What about the other content? Is it correct or incorrect? Or is it a mix of truth and falsehood? Was the person who left this crumpled paper human or not?

Most importantly—so should she copy this homework or not?

Xu Turan struggled on the spot for a few seconds, but finally decided to go out and see first, and then opened another door with the prompt of “Courting Death Value plus one”.

That door was also a security door, and behind it was also a living room—this one had no blood, but it was turned upside down, with many scratch marks on the walls, presumably also visited by some mysterious entity.

This living room was smaller, but had a lot of storage space, with storage cabinets all over the walls. The beautiful redwood wine cabinet had been ruined beyond recognition, and Xu Turan noticed that there was still a crystal trophy inside.

The trophy owner’s name was “Su Sui’er”. The trophy looked heavy, Xu Turan picked it up and weighed it, then stuffed it into her bag as well.

She casually rummaged around again, and suddenly a familiar object appeared in her field of vision.

…Another crumpled paper.

This paper ball wasn’t stained with blood on the surface, and inside was also messy red handwriting.

…

【…This is my third day in this godforsaken place. To keep my thoughts straight, I decided to write something down, and if it can help someone, that would be even better…】

【Listen, if you want to survive, you must do as follows.】

【First, don’t enter new rooms randomly! The rooms behind the doors will change, it’s hard to enter the same room, so think carefully before entering a new room!】

【Second, resources! Resources! Focus on clothes and medicine, food isn’t important!】

【Suppose you enter a new room that feels lived in and hasn’t been ransacked, you can stay there for a while! You can even hide there forever! It doesn’t like these newly arrived rooms, it won’t go there!】

【If someone enters the same room as you, accept them, don’t cause conflict! The more people, the lower the probability of it appearing!】

【If there’s blood in your new room, or even signs of death, leave immediately! Leave immediately! Leave immediately! Don’t even look for things, just leave! That’s its favorite place, it will definitely return there!】

…

The first two paragraphs were similar to what she had seen before.

However, seeing the latter part, Xu Turan suddenly felt split.

Then… what should she do? Go back?

She couldn’t help but raise her hand to rub her temples. Now she not only had a head full of mush, she even had a bit of a headache—how come there were two versions of this survival guide? So which version should she follow?

And it’s really strange… According to the previous version, the initial room is dangerous, but she got one Courting Death Value when she left the initial room; according to this version, the room with blood is dangerous, but she still got Courting Death Value when she left that room.

The values are exactly the same, which is very confusing.