Residência Vermelha Misteriosa

Amid the blood-red mist...

A battered Number Four bus crawled along the jarring road. Inside, there were eight people—five men and three women—their faces ghostly pale as they stared out the window, each wearing a different expression: terror, confusion, bewilderment, stupor... It was as if they had just endured some unspeakable ordeal.

Not far ahead, a bus stop sign slowly materialized at the roadside, as if heralding their destination.

Inside the bus...

The shattered, ink-colored display panel that once showed the dim red "Number Four Bus" had long since been overwritten by a line of blood-red text, the origin of which no one could recall.

As the bus came to a stop, the passengers jerked back to themselves, their eyes drawn to the screen.

Destination: Calamity Inn.

Task: Stay at Calamity Inn for five days.

Participants: Nine.

Before anyone could react, the bus's exit door abruptly hissed open...

At the same time, blood the exact shade of the text oozed from the broken display, trickling downward.

Lin Xi, seated in the front row, was first to rise. The grotesque blood flowed with unnatural speed, snaking across the carriage floor to pool at his feet. Seeing this, Lin Xi hesitated no longer. He stepped onto a plastic seat and, using the momentum, vaulted through the air, landing several meters from the blood, right at the bus's open door.

The other seven passengers in the back, seeing Lin Xi act, hesitated only a moment before dashing toward the exit. Those farther away, seeing th