Chapter 125
Cheng Yang has a broad body and he had to press his back hard against the wall to be able to walk on the narrow window sill.
Having fallen down just hat morning, Cheng Yang walked very carefully.
Lin Yi told him to go to Room 204. This was the only thing left in his mind. When passing by Room 203, he didn’t even try to sneak a peek inside the room. He also missed the one cat that leapt at the door of Room 203 and then stopped. Once Cheng Yang walked past Room 203, the cat went back to scratching against the door of Room 202.
“Room 204, Room 204…”
Cheng Yang chanted silently in his heart.
Finally, he arrived at Room 204. Since he was facing outwards with his back to the window, Cheng Yang could only push the window backhandedly. Fortunately, he had allocated most his skill points to things like this instead of in his studies. He managed to get it open easily.
With little effort, Cheng Yang opened the window to Room 204. When he opened the window, he thought he heard something fall to the floor, but all he could think of right now was Lin Yi’s instructions.
In order to strengthen his brain’s memory, Cheng Yang muttered silently:
“Lock the window immediately after getting in Room 204.”
“Lock the window immediately after getting in Room 204.”
…
The muffled sound of flesh hitting the floor was ignored amidst his repeated murmurings. Cheng Yang didn’t dare make too much noise. After pushing the window open, he sat down on the window frame and then slowly moved his legs and turned around. It wasn’t until he was facing inside Room 204 that he put his feet on the ground and entered.
“Lock the window immediately after getting in Room 204.”
He remembered. He turned around and closed the window, pressing down the buckle and locking it just as Lin Yi instructed.
Not only did he lock the window, he also closed the curtains.
Then Cheng Yang let out a long exhale. Ever since night fell, his legs hadn’t stopped trembling. He was a rich second generation who never had to even think about where his next meal would come from. His daily concern was simply how to have fun for that day. Money was used to solve all his troubles. And if that didn’t work, he’d double the price and that ought to do it. Now, he was facing a problem that couldn’t be solved even with double or even with ten, no, a hundred times, a thousand times the price. This was the first time he has ever been so close to death and Cheng Yang’s brain was barely functioning.
“You idiot, Cheng Yang!” Cheng Yang held his head. “You better not fucking wet your pants, otherwise I will look down on you, you coward!”
After raising his spirit this way, Cheng Yang calmed down and looked around Room 204.
Room 204 was dimly lit and it was a dark mess. The layout of the room was the same as the others. Even the furnishings — a desk, chair and bed — were exactly the same. Cheng Yang made his way to the corner by following the layout of the room in his memory.
He still remembered what his teacher had said about life-saving measures during an emergency. If you encounter an earthquake and have no time to escape, crouch in the corner made by two walls. This triangular area can save lives.
Cheng Yang thought that what he urgently needed now was to save his life. Any life-saving measure was better than nothing.
Barely able to see, Cheng Yang waved his hands slightly to fumble his way forward. Because he couldn’t see clearly, the journey from the window to the corner seemed extremely long. Cheng Yang’s heart was in his throat and he didn’t even dare to breathe too loudly.
Fortunately, he finally safely reached the corner of safety. Leaning against the wall, Cheng Yang finally felt a sense of security.
He collapsed on the ground and lay there for quite some time, resting.
As his muscles relaxed, he reached into his trouser pocket to take out a cigarette.
Unable to find a cigarette despite searching for a long time, Cheng Yang startled.
He was still in the 8-4 Rule World and he couldn’t find a cigarette because he wasn’t able to bring anything in.
That sense of security brought about by having his back against the wall instantly disappeared without a trace. Cheng Yang suddenly remembered. Isn’t dorm 204 Xia Hui’s room?
He tried to hold on to a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that he had remembered it wrong. But then he remembered that when he left through the window of Room 202, Lin Yi had mentioned Xia Hui’s name.
Suddenly, an unbearable putrid stench flooded into his nose.
Room 204 is Xia Hui’s dorm room!
Just now, all he could think about was following Lin Yi’s command and going to Room 204. This fact hadn’t occurred to him at all. When he pushed the window open, he’d heard a muffled sound of something falling to the floor. It must have been the body parts stuck to the window before; now fallen to the floor because he’d pushed the window open.
The rancid smell that was flooding his nasal cavity didn’t just appear now. That rancid smell was in Room 204 all along. The smell hadn’t even registered because he’d been so afraid!
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He was now sharing the same room with Xia Hui’s rotting corpse!
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He couldn’t faint. Lin Yi was still in Room 202.
If he fainted and something happened to Lin Yi, he wouldn’t be able to exchange rooms with Lin Yi. And if he fainted at this time, it would only hinder Lin Yi. It might even cause Lin Yi to be killed by whatever that thing was.
Cheng Yang was well-aware that he’d been surrounded by fake friends — willing to eat, drink and have fun but would turn tail and run faster than rabbits if something bad went down.
Lin Yi was Cheng Yang’s friend who he’d known for the shortest amount of time. But if it weren’t for Lin Yi, he would already be six feet under. He truly regarded Lin Yi as a brother. It wasn’t just lip service.
So although Cheng Yang now had no strength left in his body, he still held on, pinching his philtrum hard.
The pain spread from his philtrum to his entire face. Cheng Yang’s face was going numb.
But his mind was finally clearing and his breathing was slowing.
He was now completely awake, sober enough that he could hear a very faint rustling sound.
The corner of safety Cheng Yang had chosen was to the left of the room’s door. The room was narrow and the distance between him and the door was not far, so he clearly realized that the rustling wasn’t coming from outside the door.
Rather, it was inside the room.
Inside this room! Inside Room 204 with its rotten stench and corpse!
The realization that the sound was coming from inside the room scared Cheng Yang into tightly closing his eyes. He didn’t have the courage to follow the sound to identify its source.
The force with which he closed his eyes almost caused his eyes to sink past its sockets. When a person closes his eyes, his other senses will be amplified. The harder Cheng Yang closed his eyes, the more certain his sixth sense became that there was something in here, starting at him!
Cheng Yang’s body became more and more rigid with nerves.
He suddenly remembered the rest of Lin Yi’s instructions. It wasn’t just ‘lock the windows immediately after going to Room 204’; the second half, longer than the first, was – ‘whatever you see in Room 204, don’t make a sound. ’
This morning, he had also looked in through the window of Room 204 and seen Xia Hui’s blood-covered body pasted on the window.
Lin Yi must know that he’d seen Xia Hui’s body. Why else would he have fallen from the second floor? With Lin Yi’s IQ, it would have immediately occurred to him that he’d been so frightened by the sight that his legs went weak, causing him to lose his balance and fall.
But why did Lin Yi specifically tell him again not to make a sound no matter what he saw or heard in Room 204?
Cheng Yang’s breathing was shaky.
After entering Room 204, had he made a sound?
He had.
He’d just called himself a coward.
Cheng Yang was so scared that he wanted to cry to his mother.
He thought that having stayed with Lin Yi for a long time, some of Lin Yi’s IQ must have rubbed off him. He was getting a little smarter. He could actually tell what Lin Yi’s instructions meant.
It meant that it wasn’t only Xia Hui’s body that he’d see in Room 204. He would also see other things and hear other sounds.
For example, that rustling sound that came again at this moment.
Compared with the first rustling sound that Cheng Yang heard just now, this rustling sound was even clearer.
Perhaps it was because he had his eyes closed and it was amplifying his other senses. But Cheng Yang still didn’t dare to open his eyes, so he could only cover his ears with his hands.
Covering your ears will indeed create a barrier to block high-frequency sounds, but low-frequency sounds will still reach the eardrums. Cheng Yang could still hear the sound and in his panic, he realized what this rustling sound sounded like — like something crawling on the ground.
More frightening than this rustling sound was the thought that something was getting closer and closer to him.
Finally, it was right in front of him.
“Meow–”
Cheng Yang was so scared that he retched.
Naturally, he immediately recognized that this thing staring at him wasn’t a cat. This “meow” was too precise; it was basically a simulated cat’s meow produced by human vocal cords.
Because of the extreme fear, it actually made Cheng Yang angry.
That thing was already so close to his face. Cheng Yang thought, since he was going to die anyway, though he might have been timid when he was alive, he should be bold before he died.
He wanted to see clearly what this thing was and if possible, he wanted to leave some clues for Lin Yi.
Thinking this way, Cheng Yang’s mind started to heat up and he suddenly shoved away whatever was in front of him.
It felt sticky and disgusting, but Cheng Yang had no time to worry about what it was that came into contact with his palms. After pushing the thing in front of him away, Cheng Yang jumped to his feet and rushed to the light switch, turning on the lights.
The lights turned on with a ‘pop’.
Cheng Yang was momentarily stunned.
The room was empty. There was nothing there, not even Xia Hui’s body.
After the rush of emotions dissipated, Cheng Yang looked down at his hands.
His hands were stained with rotting flesh and green pus, exuding a disgusting smell.
After taking a look at his hands, Cheng Yang looked around again.
These stains on his hands proved that his senses had been correct. There had indeed been something right in front of him, staring at him, just now. What was it? Cheng Yang had a vague answer in his heart.
His eyes scanned the bedroom, settling finally under the bed.
With the lights on, the shadows of whatever it was hiding under the bed, was pulled out by the light.
Cheng Yang spent a long time mentally preparing himself before squatting down and leaning over little by little. When his line of sight was level with the bottom of the bed, Cheng Yang saw what it was and his heart, liver and lungs suddenly trembled in unison.
The missing body parts were put back together again, held together as though by glue with the sticky blood and pus. But it wasn’t put back with the head first and then the neck, trunk and limbs like a human body.
The dismembered pieces were put together in a haphazard way. What supported the corpse was four fingers placed at right angles to each other. An arm was stuck to the corpse's tailbone, as though it had really grown a tail.
The head was still Xia Hui’s head. Xia Hui looked at Cheng Yang warily and then said, “Meow——”
Over at the other side.
Room 202.
Lin Yi closed the window but didn’t lock it so that if something happened, he could escape through the window.
After closing the window, Lin Yi went directly under the bed. He then stretched out an arm and dragged the desk and chair that Cheng Yang had just moved over to block him.
What he was thinking was that the desk and chair would block that thing’s sight. Since he wasn’t Cheng Yang, he wouldn’t be discovered by that thing so easily. Although Lin Yi thought so, he actually knew very well that this desk and chair would be of barely any use.
Lin Yi still wasn’t sure if since he was hiding here in place of Cheng Yang, if that thing finds him, if it would directly kill him as Cheng Yang.
But Lin Yi still intended to give it a try. If simply being contaminated by the scent of the person cursed by the note was enough to get a participant be killed, going to the trouble of sending the package seemed rather superfluous.
After all, it was quite easy for someone to be contaminated with the cursed person’s scent. For example, if one were to pass by the door of the cursed person’s room, won’t the smell of the paint used to write the name on the door get on them? What if one were to touch the paint on the door out of curiosity? If one were to touch the paint on the door directly, will it be easier to pick up the smell by coming into direct contact with the source of the smell?
It was with this idea that enabled Lin Yi to risk his life and switch places with Cheng Yang.
Truthfully, he could have simply followed Cheng Yang to hide in Room 204 or he could have just washed off the smell. But Lin Yi and Qin Zhou have tacked numerous Rule Worlds together that he had more or less picked up Qin Zhou’s habit of choosing the more stable option.
If that thing can’t find Cheng Yang anywhere, won’t it turn its attention to Room 204?
Lin Yi thought it was possible. After all, when he was in the public toilet, that thing pretended to leave, setting up a trap. Judging from this action, that thing was smart. It didn’t simply rely on the cats to point the way to the person hiding his life.
Now Lin Yi has Cheng Yang’s smell on his body. He could use the smell to lure that thing and stall it until morning.
He just had to make it until daybreak.
Cats kept scratching at the door; their nails scraping against the metal surface. The sound was jarring, vibrating. The frequency was high and there was no fixed rhythm. It made people feel a chill all over their body. Lin Yi was not particularly sensitive to sounds but he too felt a cold discomfort all over.
He remembered what he had read in a book. Some scientists’ explanation for humans’ physical discomfort when cats scratch metal surfaces is a form of ‘atavism’. They found the sound to be similar to sharp screams made by orangutans when they are in danger to warn other companions.
Therefore, scientists believe that human beings’ aversion to this sound comes from a deep-seated fear of danger. ①
Danger is approaching.
As the cats’ scratches against the metal door became more fervent, Lin Yi’s sense of approaching danger heightened.
Under the bed, Lin Yi began to look for an angle. This was an iron bed and the space beneath the bed was higher than that of an ordinary bed. He wanted to find an angle where he could see the situation at the door. The thing didn’t know that he was hiding under the bed but he knew that it was bound to break in. The moment the thing broke into the door, it wouldn’t immediately see him under the bed. So, he would take advantage of time before it looks under the bed to see what it was.
He has the advantage of foreknowledge.
But before he could find the right angle, the cat-scratches on door suddenly ceased.
Even though the sharp and piercing sound made people feel uncomfortable, the sudden eerie silence also made people feel panicked.
Fortunately, the silence did not last long.
‘Dun Dun Dun’
That sound he had just heard outside the public toilet door came again at this time, coming nearer and nearer and finally stopping outside the door of Room 202.
Lin Yi concentrated and focused his gaze on the door.
It was just that he hadn’t found the right angle. The upper limit of his field of vision was the door handle, which he only managed by pressing the back of his head hard against the floor.
In his field of vision, Lin Yi saw the door handle move.
Something outside was pressing on the door handle.
The door was locked, but the lock was of the lowest A-grade lock cylinder and its level of security against theft is terrible, let alone against something with strange chaotic powers.
It was just that the only desk and chair in the room that could be used to block the door were used to block sight of him, so soon after, Lin Yi saw the door handle in the room fall off.
The crisp sound rang several times in quick succession as the doorknob fell to the ground and did a bounce.
The moment the door handle hit the floor, the door was pushed open.
But it wasn’t pushed completely open, just a small gap.
The lights in the room were off and the lights in the corridor had gone off due to the preceding moment of silence. An eye appeared in the darkness through that the crack, the eyeball rotated widely in its socket.
The thing was searching for the person in the room.
Lin Yi looked at the crack in the door. The gap was too narrow. He was some distance away from the door, so it was difficult to see clearly what was behind the door scanning the room with its eyes. He couldn’t even determine whether the eye belonged to a human since the eye he could see from this angle was distorted like ones in pictures where its width has been compressed.
He did not expect for that thing to not come in immediately after breaking the door, instead peeked through a narrow crack. This caught Lin Yi off guard for a moment and his plan to use his foreknowledge advantage to get a clear look at its face fell completely through.
His foreknowledge advantage was immediately nullified because of this. At this time, the thing outside the door had the advantage.
That thing’s field of vision was different from his. Lin Yi’s field of vision was fixed and limited, but that thing’s was not. It could broaden its field of vision by exchanging its left and right eyes, if it had two.
Realizing this, Lin Yi immediately looked away.
At this moment, the eye behind the door stopped moving, and the eyeball that had been rolling around in its socket froze.
It was now looking towards the bed
It had seen Lin Yi.
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
this arc is so creepy i swear 😱😱
Oh my god the human cat 😟
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Thanks for the chapter
Damn damn damn !!! Lin Yi run !!! 😱😨
Plus a creepy Catman..
I should not have read this at midnight…
same💀💀