Chapter 121
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then quickly lowered his head to look at Cheng Yang. “You…”
Cheng Yang gave him a pained “OK” gesture.
Fortunately, each floor of the dorm building wasn’t very tall. Also, the ground outside was not cement but dirt. So Cheng Yang’s fall couldn’t result in death. After confirming that Cheng Yang was fine, Lin Yi raised his head again and set his sights on dorm room 204.
He and Xia Hui… to be precise, he and Xia Hui’s corpse was separated only a glass window. Xia Hui’s whole body was pressed against the window.
Although Lin Yi had expected Xia Hui to have met a pretty horrific death and mentally prepared himself, he was caught so off guard seeing Xia Hui’s face like this. Lin Yi admitted that he’d been frightened and startled.
Xia Hui’s body was in pieces and had merely been put together.
Lin Yi glanced over and could see that Xia Hui’s entire body had been divided into five major parts — his head, limbs and torso. There were gaps between the five parts of Xia Hui’s body and the separated limbs were slightly decomposed. He saw that Xia Hui’s ten fingers had also been cut open. It was the thick blood that had stuck him to the window.
Lin Yi carefully pushed down the window. As he moved, the body stuck to the glass window shook precariously.
He had no choice but to stop, otherwise Xia Hui’s body would fall apart.
The entire window was covered in blood and Lin Yi couldn’t see exact situation in room 204. He could only focus on Xia Hui’s body.
The corpse was smiling at him. But the corpses of participants who die in the Rule Worlds have always smiled at him, so Lin Yi couldn’t tell anything from the expression of the corpse.
All his observations could only come from the corpse itself.
Just now, Lin Yi and Cheng Yang had guessed that what had been chasing them last night was a group of black cats.
So as he was crawling out the window, Lin Yi had already imagined Xia Hui’s death. He could have been bitten by a group of black cats, leaving him unrecognizable and covered in flesh and blood. In more serious cases, he could have been disemboweled.
But Lin Yi never expected that Xia Hui’s death would be like this. Judging from the separated parts of Xia Hui’s body, the incisions were neat, as if they had been cut off neatly with a sharp knife.
“Lin Yi Xiong.”
Downstairs, Cheng Yang called out to Lin Yi uneasily.
It has been light out for quite a while now. It was time for class. Cheng Yang had seen someone coming out of the dorm building. He was afraid that Ren Li would show up at any point and find Lin Yi hanging outside the window.
Lin Yi took another look at the body before turning back to dorm room 203. He closed the window of room 203 from the outside and the jumped off the window sill.
Cheng Yang was standing up, rubbing his buttocks. He still wore the same frightened expression he had when he’d seen Xia Hui’s corpse.
“Let’s go to class first.” Lin Yi said.
Although there weren’t as many NPCs in the 8-4 Rule World as there had been in the 4-4 Rule World, it was still difficult to pinpoint the protagonist.
Currently, the NPCs with lines included the female teacher and the mail room auntiee. Comparing these two NPCs, the female teacher was a little more likely to be the protagonist.
Their ultimate goal was to find the main plot of the 8-4 Rule World and so they had to attend the female teacher’s class.
The two of them went to the teaching building.
Cheng Yang waited until his butt stopped hurting and then asked Lin Yi, “Did you disocver anything?”
“Yeah.” Lin Yi said, “But not much.”
Cheng Yang was like a nestling bird waiting for food, waiting for Lin Yi to put the discovery into his mouth. “What?”
Lin Yi said, “There must be something else here besides the cats.”
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Those black cats weren’t the ones who killed Xia Hui. The cats hadn’t even entered Xia Hui’s room.
What killed Xia Hui could only be something else.
Cheng Yang was puzzled. “Those who were sniffing us out were obviously cats but Xia Hui wasn’t killed by those cats?”
He was shocked. “Is it possible… could it be… that it was Ren Li?”
“That’s not possible.” Lin Yi said with utmost certainty. “There was no need for Ren Li Ge to kill Xia Hui himself.”
He understood Cheng Yang’s doubts.
After they came into contact with the scent of the package, the cats appeared. Cats are actually cautious creatures but these kept chasing them. There was no way that they simply wanted to stick by them.
These cats that appear in the Rule World at night were probably tools used by the Monster to kill.
Cheng Yang couldn’t figure it out. Those cats had obviously chased after them. The cats disappeared after they washed their hands last night but Xia Hui couldn’t have washed his hands because the only place with a faucet was the only public toilet in the dorm, the one on the first floor. There were no water pipes in the rooms either. So how come the cats did nothing?
Lin Yi said, “Cheng Yang Xiong, you’re forgetting that the cats opened the package.”
“I remember.” Cheng Yang nodded. “What do you mean?”
Lin Yi said, “The cats caught the scent and opened the package so the whatever was inside came out. And whatever that thing was found Xia Hui either because Xia Hui hadn’t removed the smell from his body or because of the receipt on the express delivery note had Xia Hui’s name.”
There had been a courier note attached to the package, which proved that the package was most likely sent by mail to the delivery locker in Baoxiang Secondary School’s dormitory.
Also because the recipient of the package was listed as Xia Hui, the package appeared in Xia Hui’s locker no. 204.
Having just made two assumptions, Lin Yi was more inclined to the latter.
The reason why he was more inclined towards the latter assumption was also rather simple. If the smell attracts the cats and that other unknown thing, this setting would seems repetitive and would make the setting of the delivery order redundant.
Lin Yi said, giving a metaphor, “Just like the Death Note, the name of the package recipient is the name written in the Death Note. For now, I can’t be certain as to the purpose of the cat’s appearance but one thing is certain, the cats and whatever was in the package are connected.”
Cheng Yang ventured a guess, “The cats are there to open the package?”
He said, “I’ve seen a lot of videos where after receiving a delivery, owners have their cats or dogs come and open them. Are these cats there specifically to release the contents of the package?”
Lin Yi thought about the possibility of Cheng Yang’s guess.
It was unlikely.
He said, “What if after I receive the package, I weld my locker shut so that the package stays in the locker forever?”
Judging from the scratches on the door of locker no. 101, those cats weren’t strong enough to scratch through an iron plate.
Cheng Yang nodded in agreement. “That’s right. If I were the 8-4 Monster, I wouldn’t set it up like this. I won’t seal my killing tools in a package and then have cats open the package. It would be a bit too extra.”
Indeed, a set up like this would increase the difficulty for the NPC.
As they were talking, the two of them reached the classroom.
There were already some student NPCs sitting in the classroom. Lin Yi and Cheng Yang went to the seats they’d chosen yesterday and sat down. The other participants hadn’t arrived yet, nor had the female teacher, so Lin Yi took the opportunity to observe the NPC students.
The NPC students all wore the uniforms of Baoxiang Secondary School. There are 13 of them in total, a mix of boys and girls.
But the strange thing was some of the student NPCs’ faces were blurred, like how a person with short-sightedness would see it looking at a distance. They had facial features, but what those facial features were couldn’t be seen clearly.
But some student NPCs had facial features that could clearly be seen. Lin Yi counted silently in his heart. There were five student NPCs who had visible faces, all sitting in one area.
When the other participants came in one after another, the five of them would look up at the participants and then lower their heads.
As Lin Yi was pondering, the bell rang and the female teacher came in.
The participants didn’t dare to speak much and the classroom was already silent; there was no need for the teacher to call the class to order.
The teacher entered the classroom and stepped onto the podium. She looked at everyone. “One, two, three, four…”
Just like yesterday, she began counting off.
“Twenty-three, twenty-four…”
“Twenty-four.” The teacher looked at them. “Two are missing.”
Lin Yi stared at the teacher.
Yesterday the female teacher counted ‘25’ and then said ‘one is missing’.
In other words, the total number of students in Class 1, High School 2, should be 26. Today, Xia Hui died and there were two missing students.
“One, two, three, four…” the female teacher repeated, “twenty-three, twenty-four…”
Two missing.
The tone was exactly the same as before, even the points when she paused for breath were the same.
Cheng Yang found it extremely weird and lowered his head, not wanting to look at her, lest he be frightened to death by his own imagination before he could be killed by the Rules of Death.
The teacher’s line recitation prevented Lin Yi from finding any more clues.
He shifted his gaze to the classroom.
There were indeed two empty seats in the classroom today but among the 12 participants, only Xia Hui was missing, which meant that the other missing one was a student NPC.
Lin Yi used the method Qin Zhou taught him and made three assumptions about where the missing student NPC went.
1: Asked for leave.
2: Dropped out of school.
3: Skipping class.
Finding that these three hypotheses were of the same nature, Lin Yi summarized the three hypotheses into one: absent from class for a voluntary reason.
He continued to come up with what-ifs.
1: Absent from class for a voluntary reason.
2: Dead
Lin Yi paused suddenly. He then raised his hand to interrupt the teacher’s counting. “Teacher, I want to go to the toilet.”
The teacher went on counting and ignored him.
Instead, it was Cheng Yang, who was next to him, was startled by Lin Yi’s sudden move. Additionally, all the other participants also turned to look at him, including Ren Li. Cheng Yang felt like his heart was about to burst.
When the teacher gave no reply, Lin Yi pulled Cheng Yang up and said, “Come with me to the toilet.”
Although Cheng Yang was scared, he had also guessed that Lin Yi was deliberately trying to leave the classroom. He followed him and said as calmly as possible, “Let’s go, I suddenly feel like pooping too.”
When the two of them left the classroom, the teacher still went on counting.
“Twenty two……”
The teacher paused. “Four are missing.”
After leaving the classroom, Lin Yi walked quickly towards the dorm building.
Cheng Yang endured the pain in his butt and chased after Lin Yi. “What’s wrong? What’s the matter?”
Lin Yi continued walking. “I’m wondering where the missing student NPC is.”
Cheng Yang: “There’s an NPC missing? Where is he?”
Lin Yi: “In the package.”
There were blood stains on the inside of the package fragments.
Cheng Yang: “What?”
Lin Yi said, “This is just my guess.”
Before Cheng Yang could calm down from the sudden up and downs of his emotions, Lin Yi added, “But one thing is for certain.”
Cheng Yang asked, “What?”
Lin Yi said, “Opening the package is not a Rule of Death.”
Although cats are animals, they could also be regarded as NPCs. Monsters wouldn’t let an NPC violate the Rules of Death.
Cheng Yang did not breathe a sigh of relief after confirming that particular move as safe. On the contrary, he felt uneasy. “Lin Yi Xiong, my right eyelid keeps twitching.”
A twitch of the left is fortune; a twitch of the right, misfortune.
Lin Yi was walking so fast that his voice was being blown away by the air current. “Why did Xia Hui die by being dismembered? Is it possible that the thing that killed him was also dismembered and put into a package?”
Cheng Yang was momentarily stunned. “Fuck.”
Lin Yi said, “If this is the case, then there will be more than one package. There should be more packages sent today and put into the lockers.”
When Cheng Yang heard this, he almost ran to the dorm, regardless of the pain in his butt.
Cheng Yang was chanting silently:
We can’t let this package be stuffed into our locker. The recipient cannot be me or Lin Yi Xiong.
We can’t let this package be stuffed into our locker. The recipient cannot be me or Lin Yi Xiong.
We can’t let this package be stuffed into our locker. The recipient cannot be me or Lin Yi Xiong.
But Lin Yi’s next words made Cheng Yang suddenly stop.
Lin Yi said, “We have to take get this package and see what’s inside.”
The more I read these novels the more I realize I’ll be one of the first people to die
Fr fr same here😭🤌🏽
+1 same same. My IQ isn’t enough for me to even survive one day.
+2 my dumb ass is gonna die on the first day 🥲😭
Love how I typed “S A M E” before I realized it’s my own damn comment 🥲
Hmm ok so I probably wrong about the package content.
Thank you for the update.
Poor Cheng Yang, at least you’re wise enough to befriend Lin Yi. Hehe ..
Ohh so bold! Thank you for the updates!
I feel dumber that Cheng Yang.. 😭
Than*