Nightmare Assault Chapter 15: Time

He glanced out the window. The sunlight was blinding, but he knew that based on the previous calculation, the morning would only stay for 3 hours. And half of the three hours had already passed.

When the night descended again, their world would forever be dropped into the eternal night.

“We don’t have enough time. We have to split up.” Jiang Cheng looked around. “Man Li, you can go alone. Fatty will come with me. We need to move fast and pay attention to things like keys. There might be clues behind that iron door on the third floor. However, I’ve tried everything. Without the key, we aren’t opening that door.”

“Okay.”

The two teams went to work.

Since Jiang Cheng’s group had one more person, they would handle the larger first floor. Man Li searched the second floor. Soon, the search bore results. Jiang Cheng found a piece of rope at an inconspicuous corner behind the staircase. One end of the rope was tied to the corner of the second-floor staircase. The other end extended to the first floor. Jiang Cheng ran up the stairs to examine the knot. The place was where he and Fatty were hiding yesterday. There was no rope there yesterday.

When Man Li heard them running up the stairs, he also walked out of the study, “What’s wrong?”

Jiang Cheng pointed at the rope.

Then, they returned back to the first floor and followed the rope. They walked to the end of the living room, and the small room where the wood was stored had its door open.

Man Li’s face dropped. “I remember tying a rope between the door handle and the nail beside the door. Where’s the rope?”

Fatty walked into the room and picked up a rope from behind a stack of wood. The rope was snipped into two parts, and the cut was clean.

Man Li took over and touched it. “It was cut by a tool like a dagger.”

There was another door inside the small room. The wood before the door had been moved away. Jiang Cheng walked over and gave it a push. The door didn’t budge. He looked through the glass on the door. It led to the back of the bungalow. There were some fall

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