"It seems it's best not to disturb this person."

Zhang Yao said.

Just as Zhang Yao was about to return to Room 301, the door to Room 303 suddenly opened, and an exquisitely beautiful face peeked out.

With just one glance, Zhang Yao was deeply captivated by that face.

After poking her head out, that face scanned the third-floor corridor and also saw Zhang Yao. However, she didn't seem very interested in him and immediately started to pull her head back inside. At this moment, Zhang Yao hurriedly stepped forward.

"Hello, beautiful. Wait a moment, please. I'm Zhang Yao, living in Room 301. It's a pleasure to meet you. May I ask your name?"

The person who had poked her head out was none other than Qin Kelian.

Qin Kelian had finished playing her game and thought she heard some commotion outside, so she peeked out. As a result, she saw Zhang Yao and a lot of bloodstains on the floor. As for Zhang Yao's initiative to strike up a conversation, Qin Kelian just gave him a cold glance, didn't even bother to reply, and closed the door.

She had experienced far too many attempts at being hit on.

Whether in the outside world or here in Alice Apartment, she had received plenty of advances.

It's just that before, when faced with such advances, she would still put on a bit of an act, because she and her sister used to need to make canned goods to sell to Sakawa.

But now that Sakawa was dead, she and her sister no longer needed to make canned goods. Therefore, there was no need to pay attention to these "meat cans" delivered right to her doorstep.

"A beauty being aloof is to be expected. It's the aloof ones that present a challenge."

Even though Qin Kelian's indifference was quite disheartening, Zhang Yao didn't mind at all. He happily returned to Room 301.

However, once back in Room 301, a cold, sinister smirk never left his face, making one wonder what exactly was going through his mind.

...

Alice Apartment, Building No. 1.

Room 504.

Inside the small living room of Room 504, quite a few people were now gathered.

They could roughly be divided into two sides.

One side consisted of Hu Wusong and Huo Yun.

This side had quite a few people, about seven or eight.

The other side was rather pitiful, with only three people.

Of those three, one was the young man who had been with Zhao Hongwei, the one specializing in counterfeit Hermès, the one who disguised himself as a delivery guy, a takeout courier.

Another was a middle-aged uncle in his fifties.

This uncle seemed slightly mentally unstable.

His face was caked with thick white powder, his lips painted a bright, deep red.

Rouge was applied to both cheeks.

As for the last one, he was ordinary-looking.

A man in his late twenties wearing a pair of glasses.

If that rich second generation who had the same experience as the Ultimate Rich Kid Lin Feng were here.

He would definitely recognize these three people.

Together with Zhao Hongwei, and one other man.

He was the one who died at the hands of these five deranged criminals.

"What do you want with us?"

The backbone of these three was the bespectacled man in his late twenties. This man's name was Jia Tao.

The one who answered his question was the backbone of the other side.

The first person.

He was the man under thirty who came to Alice Apartment that night when Jiang Ran was there, when Xiao Xing was on duty.

He came with Xiao Xing's enlightening mentor, that Painter who turned beautiful women into specimens.

The Painter's danger warning level was +9.

This man's was +10.

"Calling you here is simple."

"It's to join us."

This man under thirty spread his arms slightly forward, smiling faintly.

Upon hearing this, Jia Tao's face showed no expression.

He simply said, "You're called 'The Artist,' right?"

The man under thirty nodded, "That's right."

Jia Tao said, "You take a random nickname as your name, won't even tell us your real name, and yet you want us to join you? Do you think you have even a shred of sincerity?"

The Artist said, "You're not one of those mundane people. Don't be bound by the rules of the mundane world concerning names. My current name is The Artist, and I've been using this name for a very, very long time."

Jia Tao said, "Fine. In that case, I refuse to join you."

The Artist said, "Is that so? But don't you want to hunt down that Lin Feng and Wang Ziyi?"

"Without our help, are you confident you can succeed?"

"Your team originally had five people, correct?"

"How many are left now?"

Jia Tao's expression turned cold, "You've investigated quite thoroughly."

Their team originally had five people.

Zhao Hongwei was accidentally crippled by the new resident who arrived a couple of days ago, Zhao Jue.

It was still unknown how long it would take for him to recover.

As for the other one, he was also an unlucky fellow.

He was the Chain Man who had been lying in wait in Jiang Ran's home to ambush him.

His fate was inescapable: death.

"That couple, Lin Feng and Wang Ziyi, are definitely not ordinary people. You've been in the apartment longer than I have, killed more lab rats than I have, and consequently have more privileged information. So you must know the backgrounds of those two, and you think they're too dangerous. That's why you haven't made a move for so long, right?"

"Even though I don't know the backgrounds of those two lab rats."

"From the moment I learned they had a specialized renovation team that actually turned the apartment they live in into a safe room, I understood that these two are definitely wealthy, and not just ordinarily wealthy."

"Therefore, why would wealthy people move in here, and act as if they know something is here? Renovating a safe room to protect themselves? And hiding inside from beginning to end?"

"The reason for this doesn't require thinking, because it's unnecessary. Just like you think I'm not being sincere because I don't use my real name. These are all unnecessary matters."

"Now, what is necessary?"

"It is, given the conditions of that couple."

"I think the reason you haven't acted for so long is that the first two weeks were for observation."

"This past week was for making a move, but rather unluckily, out of your five-person group, two had incidents, leaving only you three."

"And furthermore, you have absolutely no way to deal with that safe room, right?"

After listening to this long speech.

Jia Tao said, "So? Do you think you have a way to deal with that safe room?"

The Artist said, "Actually, you already had an idea yourself long ago."

"Based on your observations over the past two weeks, you discovered that couple, after living here for a full week, immediately runs away, without the slightest hesitation."

"Therefore, you definitely planned to wait for this week, for that couple to come out of that safe room, and then make your move."

Jia Tao said, "Correct guess. And then? What else do you want to say?"

The Artist:

"They come out, you can make your move, but you're still not confident, right?"

Jia Tao sneered, "In that case, you guessed wrong."

"Even though two of my companions are out of commission, we still have three people. The other side is just a couple. We can easily subdue them."

The Artist suddenly raised his voice, "Jia Tao, stop deceiving yourself!"

"If you truly believed the three of you could take them down, you wouldn't have accepted the invitation from a complete stranger like me and risked coming to my home."

"Your own desire to take down that couple must be extremely urgent."

"But you just lack confidence. Therefore, when you saw my invitation, you were actually seeking an opportunity, a chance that might give you that confidence."