Chapter 122
The two of them returned to the dorm building. When the mailroom auntie saw them coming in, she leaned half out of the door and asked, “Why are you back?”
It seemed that the mailroom auntie also took care of the work of the dorm manager.
Lin Yi said casually, “I forgot something in my room.”
The mailroom auntie gave an ‘oh’ and retreated back into the mailroom.
Lin Yi took a surreptitious glance through the door and then headed to the second floor. When he passed by the express delivery lockers, he also spared it a few looks.
Back in Room 202, Cheng Yang followed him in. “Lin Yi Xiong, should we go intercept it now?”
Lin Yi said, “It’s not time yet.”
Generally speaking, deliveries generally have a fixed delivery time. Just now, he’d seen the mailroom auntie lazing about in the mailroom. His guess was that today’s delivery would be a little later on, otherwise the mailroom auntie would already be preparing.
As soon as Cheng Yang heard ‘it’s not time yet’, a lot of the tension in his heart dissipated.
“Then what are we doing now?” Cheng Yang asked Lin Yi, “Would the teacher realize that we’ve been out for so long?”
“Probably not,” Lin Yi said.
Before class today, Lin Yi thought that the teacher might be the protagonist of the 8-4 Rule World. But upon attending class today, Lin Yi no longer thought so. The main reason being that was that, so far, the only thing she seemed able to do was count.
And after counting, she’d tell them one thing — that there was one less person in the Class One of High School Two.
Cheng Yang said, “Lin Yi Xiong, there’s something I want to say but I don’t know if I should.”
Lin Yi walked to the window and opened it. This dorm was an old building and the sound insulation wasn’t very good. He opened the window so that they could hear any movement in the mailroom downstairs.
Clatter——
Lin Yi opened the window and looked down to the right, to the entrance to the dormitory. It was still quiet at the moment.
Then Lin Yi looked to the left again. Past the window of Room 203, was Room 204. Xia Hui’s body was still pasted to the window of Room 204 and there was total silence.
After a look, Lin Yi turned away and looked at Cheng Yang. “Why won’t you say it?”
Cheng Yang said, “I don’t know if I should say it or not. There is a saying that ‘Words spoken are like spilled water. There’s no taking them back.’ If my words cause any trouble, I… …”
Cheng Yang was still going on and on. Lin Qi thought that, based on Cheng Yang’s character, even if he were to say “it’s not appropriate to talk about it”, Cheng Yang would say it regardless.
And so, Lin Yi said nothing but simply waited for Cheng Yang to speak directly.
But Cheng Yang was being so reluctant; it seemed that what he was about to say was really unpleasant.
Lin Yi interrupted Cheng Yang and said, “Just say it. If it’s something bad, I’ll just pretend I hadn’t heard it.”
Seeing that Cheng Yang was still hesitating, Lin Yi said, “Then, just forget it.”
“No, no, no, no, no,” Cheng Yang said, “I’ll say it, I’ll say it.”
Lin Yi looked at him.
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Cheng Yang gulped before he hesitantly came out with it.
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That was all he had to say.
After all, what Lin Yi was doing now was actively participating in this mystery.
Lin Yi thought for a moment. “That does make sense.”
Cheng Yang became excited. “Right, right?”
While they were talking, there came movement from downstairs.
Lin Yi quickly walked to the window. He saw a three-wheeled motorcar approach and then stop in front of the door to the dorm building.
As expected, today’s express delivery had arrived.
He saw the driver of the motorcar get off, walk to the car’s compartment and take out a package. Lin Yi saw that the package was still a small one.
Without hesitation, he said to Cheng Yang, “Stay here.”
He rushed out the door and ran downstairs.
Cheng Yang was stunned. “No but… didn’t you say it makes sense?”
Lin Yi ran to the first floor but stopped just shy of the dormitory hall. He hid in the corner and peeked at the scene in the hall.
He saw the courier hand the package to the mailroom auntie. The mailroom auntie signed the order slip.
After getting her signature, the courier rode away on his motorcar.
The mailroom auntie walked to the delivery lockers, searched for the right locker and zeroed in on the one she wanted. She opened the locker and put the package inside.
The whole process took no more than ten minutes and then the mailroom auntie, while humming a tune to herself, returned to the mailroom and continued to do her own thing.
Lin Yi, who was spying in the dark, pursed his lips, looking a little solemn.
He saw which locker the package had been stuffed into — locker number 203.
No. 203, Cheng Yang’s delivery locker.
After lowering his eyes and thinking for a moment, Lin Yi returned to the room and told Cheng Yang about this.
After hearing this, Cheng Yang hitched one leg out the window. Lin Yi was momentarily stunned. “What…what are you doing?”
Cheng Yang said, “Committing suicide. Goodbye, cruel world.”
Lin Yi: “…Don’t, there’s still a way out.”
He looked at the window and said, “You won’t die if you jump from here. You were completely fine from your fall just this morning.”
Cheng Yang: “…Lin Yi Xiong, no one is as persuasive as you.”
Lin Yi urged, “Get down from there quickly. There’s still hope, but if we delay any longer, there might not be.”
Cheng Yang pulled his leg back in. He turned to look at Lin Yi nervously and expectantly, waiting for Lin Yi to tell him how to save his life.
Lin Yi said, “Since it’s your package, go and get it.”
The reason why he didn’t dare to appear in front of the mailroom auntie was because he was worried that she would stop him from taking other people’s packages. Now that the package belonged to Cheng Yang, there would be no problem for Cheng Yang to take it.
There was no other way. Cheng Yang could only nod in agreement. He asked Lin Yi, “Where should I go after I pick up the package?”
There would be a smell on the package and if he takes it back to the room, the smell would contaminate the room.
Lin Yi said, “I’ll wait for you in the public toilet on the first floor.”
Cheng Yang: “…Okay.”
Both of them went to the first floor. Lin Yi walked towards the public toilet and Cheng Yang turned to the delivery locker area.
Cheng Yang walked towards the lockers, feeling anxious, holding his breath and listening to movement in the mailroom, fearing that the mailroom auntie would suddenly come out.
He opened his locker, feeling weak in his heart. When his fingers touched the cold surface of the locker, he suddenly withdrew his hand as though he’d been electrocuted.
Cheng Yang took a deep breath. As Lin Yi said, this was his package and it was reasonable for him to take his own package.
So Cheng Yang tried taking the package again. Although he had already mentally prepared himself, when he opened the locker door and saw the package inside, he still couldn’t help feeling shocked.
Cheng Yang was afraid, but he didn’t dare lose control. If something were to go wrong here, not only might be die, he might even bring harm to Lin Yi.
With his heart pounding, he closed his eyes and took out the package from the locker. He then rushed towards the public toilet where Lin Yi was.
The door to the toilet wasn’t closed, so Cheng Yang walked in directly.
After he walked in, Lin Yi, who had been waiting for him, closed the door.
“Did you get it?” Lin Yi asked.
“I got it.” Cheng Yang said, “Lin…Lin Yi Xiong, didn’t you say that when you open the package, that something will come out?”
As he spoke, Cheng Yang stared at the package in his hand and asked fearfully, “Shall we op…open it now?”
Lin Yi thought for a while. “Open it.”
Cheng Yang said, “Brother, I don’t mean anything else by this. I just want to confirm, did you say ‘open’ or ‘not open’? I’m afraid of having heard wrong.”
Lin Yi: “If we don’t open it, won’t those cats open it anyway?”
Cheng Yang’s eyebrows drooped and felt dejected. “That’s right.”
Lin Yi stretched out his hand and asked Cheng Yang to give him the package.
Cheng Yang made to hand the package to Lin Yi. Just when Lin Yi was about to take it, Cheng Yang suddenly thought of something and took back his hand.
“Forget it.” Cheng Yang said with a sad face, “I’ll do it.”
This was originally his package. According to Lin Yi’s analogy, his name was already written in the Death Note. Since things were like this, he was the one most suitable to open the package.
Lin Yi withdrew his hand and stared at the package in Cheng Yang’s hand, a solemn expression on his face.
The package in Cheng Yang’s hand was like ‘Schrödinger’s cat’.
‘Schrödinger’s cat’ is a thought experiment about a cat in an airtight container with a small amount of radium and poison. Radium has a chance of decaying. Once the radium in the sealed container decays, the mechanism will be triggered to break the bottle containing the poison, and the cat in the sealed container will die.
If the radium had not decayed, the vial containing the poison would have remained intact, and the cat would have survived.
But people outside the sealed container don’t know whether the radium has decayed and they don’t know whether the cat has died. So ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ in layman’s terms means that the cat may or may not be dead.
Like this situation now.
Opening the package may allow the contents of the package to escape, but it wasn’t certain whether there was anything in the package at all. Opening the package might release that something thing or it might just be a false alarm.
What was painful was simply the opening of the package.
Lin Yi said, “I’ll do it.”
Upon hearing this, Cheng Yang sped up his movements. “I’ll do it, I’ll do it.”
Lin Yi thought for a while and comforted him. “It’s still daytime now and there’s still a while before nightfall. If we really let whatever it is out, we still have time to put it back.”
Cheng Yang said, “Okay.”
The package wasn’t actually difficult to open and unlike fragile items that were sealed inside and out when mailed, there was only a wide yellow tape sealing the box.
Judging from Cheng Yang’s skillful movements in unpacking the box, Cheng Yang did a lot of online shopping. However, due to the special nature of this package, sweat quickly dotted Cheng Yang’s forehead, as tense as if he were defusing a time bomb.
Lin Yi didn’t rush him. Although he couldn’t calm down in his heart, he still waited patiently for Cheng Yang to open the package.
Two minutes later, Cheng Yang had the package open.
The stench spread almost instantly.
Because both of them were so focused on the package, they hadn’t covered their noses to block the stench.
Cheng Yang wiped the sweat from his face with his hand, swallowed nervously several times and then glanced at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi nodded slightly.
After receiving Lin Yi’s signal, Cheng Yang put his trembling fingers into the package and took out the contents.
They looked at what Cheng Yang held in his hand.
The two looked at each other.
It wasn’t like Lin Yi thought; that the package contained dismembered human parts.
It was a note.
Cheng Yang opened the note and turned pale when he saw what was written inside. “Lin Yi Xiong, it says… it says…”
It was so terrible that Cheng Yang didn’t dare to immediately read it out loud.
JUST SAY IT OMG WHAT IS THIS CLIFF
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What could be scarier than a death threat at this moment? A love confession, delivered to your doorstep anonymously in a stinky package? Or perhaps a note from yourself to yourself about a future event?
That his chrysanthemum will be plucked ??? 🙄
Whaaaat!? Lmao, I don’t know if I should laugh or cry 🤣😭 but seriously what’s going on in your mind 👀😏