Chapter 46 - 7 more!

Chapter 46: 7 more!

Bai Li kept walking down the third floor corridor, but the moment she stepped out of the stairwell, she immediately felt something was wrong. The hallway lights on the other floors had all been on, at least enough to make the place look normal from a distance, but this floor was different. Dark. Really dark. Not just dim, but the kind of darkness that swallowed the far end of the corridor so completely that she couldn’t even see where it ended. It looked less like an apartment floor and more like the hallway of some old horror movie where something was waiting at the end just to jump at you the second you let your guard down. Bai Li slowed her steps a little, her fingers tightening around Whisperfang. She didn’t feel scared, but she did feel alert. The silence here was too thick. The doors on both sides of the corridor were mostly shut, and the air itself felt stale, like nobody had dared come out since the outbreak warnings started. She moved forward carefully, her eyes adjusting to the low light little by little, and the deeper she walked, the more ugly details appeared. Bloodstains were scattered across the walls in ugly dark smears. There were scratch marks too, deep and messy, running along the wallpaper and painted surfaces like someone had clawed desperately at the walls while trying to escape. Then she saw the body at the end of the corridor, and even she had to pause for a second. It was not just a dead body anymore. It barely looked human. Most of the flesh had been eaten away, bones showing through in several places, and the face was half gone, crushed and torn open in a way that made it hard to tell what it had looked like when alive. Clotted blood covered the body and the floor beneath it, and a large chunk of the skull was missing, leaving the brain exposed and leaking out. Bai Li looked at it with a slightly disgusted expression, but that was all. No shock. No fear. Just a small quiet feeling of disgust that passed through her and then disappeared. She stared at the body for a second longer, then her eyes shifted to the apartment door right next to it.

The door was open.

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