# Chapter 1379: High Heels at the Door
The limping butcher was certainly terrifying, but this raincoat cleaner who regularly checked everywhere and occasionally changed positions without warning was even more chilling. No matter where you hid, when the sound of a rubber bucket landing came nearby, she might suddenly appear before your eyes...
Fortunately, after finding one player hiding on a cargo crate, she didn't bother looking for a second one. Instead, she picked up her rubber bucket and went elsewhere.
The player hidden inside the cargo crate in front of Xu Huo finally breathed a sigh of relief, then made a threatening gesture, signaling him to get lost quickly.
Xu Huo didn't linger long before continuing forward. After finding no passage in the corridor leading to the restaurant area, he made another full circuit of the second hexagonal corridor, then returned to the large warehouse, preparing to move ahead.
But just as he was about to cross the second large warehouse, the sound of high heels suddenly came from not far ahead.
Unlike the various faint and indistinct sounds before, the high heels' noise could be heard almost anywhere in the hexagonal corridor, even the large warehouse was no exception—the other party wasn't hiding their movements, as if using their footsteps to warn nearby players.
Xu Huo withdrew his spiritual realm, but the vibrations in space still told him that several players were moving through the corridor ahead, all avoiding the sound of the high heels.
However, their actions didn't attract the high heels' attention. The other party didn't search the corridor or warehouse but occasionally paused in front of certain doors.
Xu Huo sensed the other party lingering before two specific rooms, then came the sound of knocking.
That's right—the person wearing high heels was knocking.
"Knock! Knock! Knock!"
Given the basic environment, this high-heeled person was likely also a restaurant staff member, working alongside colleagues, so they didn't attract the limping butcher or the knock-kill. But the players inside the rooms certainly wouldn't open the door.
"Knock! Knock! Knock!"
The knocking sounded once more, then fell silent.
Less than three minutes later, the sound of high heels began moving again, heading forward.
The penetrating footsteps faded away. Xu Huo then entered the corridor and found one room's door wide open, with fresh blood flowing from inside to outside, while several trails of blood drops extended all the way to the end of the corridor.
Xu Huo wasn't the only one who came to check. There was also a man and a woman. The three met and silently looked into the room:
Lying by the door was a headless corpse. In fact, all three people in the room had been decapitated, but the one by the door was especially gruesome. His bones seemed completely shattered—not just his chest cavity, but his limbs hung limply on the ground. Thick blood seemed to seep from every pore, not a drop remaining inside his body. The floor mat beneath the corpse had already absorbed the blood, gleaming with the unique luster of liquid...
From the knocking to the high heels' departure, such a short time, and three C-rank players had been brutally killed. The method was so cruel it was chilling.
The three saw the situation inside the room and didn't linger any longer, because the raincoat cleaner would be coming soon, and there were still corpses in the room—the limping butcher might come too.
Following behind the other two as they circled to the other side, Xu Huo didn't continue forward but hid in the warehouse.
The sound of the raincoat cleaner soon appeared. At that moment, the female player who had come to check the situation nodded to him.
Xu Huo nodded slightly in return and proactively showed his number plate.
The other two also took out theirs—201 and 202 respectively.
After briefly exchanging information, Xu Huo was about to leave, but at that moment, an orange suddenly fell out of nowhere at his feet:
"Thud!"
This was far too loud in the silent warehouse. The raincoat cleaner instantly moved behind him, her withered fingers stabbing toward the back of his neck!
Clearly set up by someone, Xu Huo dodged the raincoat cleaner while moving to an overturned cargo crate twenty meters away. He kicked the crate open: "If you want to play, let's all play together!"
In this place where every player was trying not to attract attention, any slight movement was like an open flame in the night, making it easy to lock onto the two. They clearly hadn't expected Xu Huo's retaliation to come so quickly, and in their shock, they fled in separate directions.
How could Xu Huo let them escape so easily? He directly threw up five space barriers to block the two—he didn't need to successfully intercept them, just slow them down enough that they couldn't avoid the raincoat cleaner. The raincoat cleaner naturally wouldn't skip them to chase someone farther away.
But Xu Huo wasn't out of trouble either, because the loud noise had attracted the limping butcher. The curved blade hovering on the ceiling swept past him, and he barely sidestepped as the butcher's fleshy, scarred face appeared right before his eyes.
"Inviolable Domain" caught the other's cleaver. Xu Huo again used space power to move, but this time he was blocked inside the warehouse—a power barrier had appeared at the warehouse entrance.
The limping butcher stared at him with a sinister grin. Xu Huo stood at the corridor exit and used his trait "Forget Switch."
"Forget Switch" was an upgrade of the trait "A Sad Thing," changing from the original active forgetting to forced forgetting. The forgetting time wasn't fixed, but seeing the momentary confusion on the limping butcher's face, Xu Huo confirmed the trait had taken effect.
Of course, the trait taking effect didn't mean the limping butcher wouldn't attack him. It only caused a very short memory gap. For a hunter, having prey in front of them was enough—who cared whether they recognized the prey or if it had changed?
The cleaver flew toward Xu Huo's face. He dodged, and as the blade passed by his side, he reached out and touched it. Sure enough, "Life Core" couldn't damage this item.
But that didn't matter. He drew his black blade and slashed at the barrier at the corridor entrance.
This barrier was likely preset by the raincoat cleaner. When the barrier was destroyed, she turned her head, and together with the limping butcher, they attacked Xu Huo from front and back!
The "Goalkeeper's" barrier expanded, and the two's attacks rebounded upon hitting it. Taking advantage of the distance created between them, Xu Huo turned and entered the room that had just been cleared.
The limping butcher and the raincoat cleaner had already reached the doorway but were blocked by the space barrier, forced to watch helplessly as the door closed.
The smell of blood in the room hadn't dissipated yet. Xu Huo immediately released his spiritual realm and created another door behind the first one. However, the limping butcher and the raincoat cleaner didn't forcefully break in. Soon, the sound of the rubber bucket faded away, but the limping butcher stood at the door for a while before leaving. From the sound of his footsteps, he was extremely furious.
As long as they didn't come in, that was fine. Xu Huo checked the time, then lay down on the clean sofa, planning to rest a while before going out.
(Chapter End)