Chapter 130
When Cheng Yang heard Lin Yi’s words, his expression suddenly changed.
Between the two of them, Lin Yi actually looked calmer.
The cat scratching sounds they’d heard both nights previous was also present but this time it was on the third floor, against the door of Room 303, Chen Zixun’s room.
It didn’t take long before Chen Zixun’s shrill cry resounded. Judging from teh sound, they knew that Chen Zixun was in serious danger.
Cheng Yang’s face turned pale and he held his breath for a long time. “Fuck.”
In the end, Chen Zixun didn’t get his hints at all.
However, Cheng Yang had no time to feel sorry for Chen Zixun. His focus was on Lin Yi. After hearing Chen Zixun’s scream, Lin Yi thought for a while and asked Cheng Yang, “Is the cat still there?”
Cheng Yang snuck to the window, carefully lifted a corner and looked outside.
Lin Yi had kept his eyes on Cheng Yang. He saw Cheng Yang nod to him.
After Cheng Yang closed the curtains again, he mouthed, “Isn’t Chen Zixun dead? Why is the cat still there?”
Rules of Death could be added to but could not be invalidated.
Chen Zixun, like Xia Hui, died because he was unable to hide his life.
Lin Yi said, “The new Rule of Death won’t be postponed because the first Rule of Death has completed a kill.”
Cheng Yang said again, “Fuck.”
He quickly covered his mouth.
Lin Yi said, “It’s okay, as long as I don’t let this cat see me, we can communicate normally.”
Cheng Yang saw Lin Yi hiding under the bed and took pity on him. He boldly pulled the quilt off the bed and gave it to Lin Yi, “Lin Yi Xiong, here. I’ve checked it. It smells but there’s no visible residue on it. I don’t know there’s any maggots on it thought. Take it and use it as a cushion. The floor’s really hard.”
After the past couple of days, they’d almost gotten used to the rancid smell of Room 204.
Lin Yi wasn’t squeamish and Cheng Yang felt that Lin Yi wouldn’t mind the smell.
Lin Yi was silent for a moment and said, “Cheng Yang Xiong, if you hadn’t mentioned the maggots, I could have still used this quilt.”
Cheng Yang said, “Can you pretend that I didn’t say anything?”
Lin Yi: “Oh, I can’t.”
Cheng Yang said, “You really don’t need it? Xiongdi, I only touched this quilt for you.”
Lin Yi said, “Thank you, I appreciate your kindness.”
In fact, Cheng Yang himself hadn’t wanted to touch the quilt. He then quickly threw the quilt away.
He turned around and asked him. “Lin Yi Xiong, what…what’s going on?”
Lin Yi stared at Cheng Yang for a while and after seeing the emotions hidden in Cheng Yang’s eyes, he said, “Cheng Yang Xiong, it has nothing to do with you.”
Cheng Yang was momentarily stunned before he realized that Lin Yi was talking about Chen Zixun. Lin Yi must have seen something from his expression.
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“Sigh.” Cheng Yang said, “I know, I’m not God, after all.”
Lin Yi ‘hmm’-ed and glanced at Xia Hui. Barring anything unexpected, Chen Zixun would become like Xia Hui.
In fact, when Chen Zixun had received the package, Lin Yi had plans to rescue Chen Zixun. This was his duty as a member of the patrol team. Lin Yi gave up on that idea after discovering Chen Zixun’s thoughts.
Lin Yi felt that even if Qin Zhou were here, he would not save Chen Zixun.
Protecting themselves takes precedence over every other duty of members of the patrol team. Only by surviving, can they lead more people out of the Rule Worlds.
If he wants to save Chen Zixun, he will have to take Chen Zixun to Room 204 and some clues will definitely be shared with him. However, Chen Zixun’s behavior, treating Cheng Yang as a scapegoat, proved that Chen Zixun was unreliable. If something were to happen later, they would definitely be stabbed in the back.
Lin Yi didn’t know how to comfort people so being able to say this much was already impressive.
If he talks any more, he would feel embarrassed.
Cheng Yang asked again, “You just said that you’re being targeted by that Sun-sun, uh, Miss Sun’s Rule of Death.”
“Sun Jingwen,” Lin Yi said.
Cheng Yang wasn’t as composed as Lin Yi so he asked urgently, “So what’s going on? Didn’t you say you that didn’t violate any Rule of Death?”
Lin Yi said, “There are two curses in the 8-4 Rule World.”
“One is transmission, which is the curse letter.”
Cheng Yang hurriedly asked, “And the other one?”
He was really concerned about whether Lin Yi violated a Rule of Death.
Lin Yi paused and said, “A cat curse.”
This was the first time Cheng Yang had heard this term, “Cat curse?”
“En, a cat curse.” Lin Yi said, “The three most vicious curses in the world are the Head-dropping curse, the Blood curse and the Cat curse.”
Cheng Yang probably didn’t understand, so Lin Yi explained, “The way to perform a Cat curse is to find a photo of the person you want to curse and on the back, write the year, month, day and hour of his birth in crow’s blood. Then nail it in the middle of an inverted pentagram. You will find to find a pure black cat with pure green eyes. Have the cat stare directly at the person in the photo and then strangle the cat to death. The cat must be strangled with your hands. Let the cat’s blood cover the entire photo. During this entire process, the cat’s eyes must be staring at the photo.”
“Those who died from a cat curse die in a very horrible way. Every inch of flesh will appear as though scratched by something sharp. They then die of excessive bleeding. This something sharp is actually cat claws. It is probably similar to Lingchi practiced in ancient times. In Lingchi, a knife is used cut pieces of a person’s flesh but the flesh is still attached to the body and does not fall off. The same is true for people who die from cat curses,” Lin Yi said.
Cheng Yang felt chills all over his body and was horrified. “Lin Yi Xiong, how do you even know stuff like this?”
Just the transmission one was enough to shock him.
Mainly because Cheng Yang’s expression was so frightened that Lin Yi suspected Cheng Yang was presuming he had some special hobbies, Lin Yi stopped and explained, “I like to read whenever I’m free. I read anything and everything.”
Cheng Yang: “…Okay.”
Lin Yi: “But it’s mostly because I have no money.”
Cheng Yang: “…”
Cheng Yang asked again, “But from what you said, the Cat curse doesn’t seem applicable to you. Didn’t you only look at that Sun Jingwen? You didn’t see any cats in the classroom either.”
Lin Yi shook his head and said, “That’s right.”
Then he took out the diary from underneath and turned to the page with the ‘I’m looking at you’.
He told Cheng Yang about the ‘mystery’ of the diary. When Cheng Yang read the diary again, he could feel himself going cold all over. Apart from being scared, the only thing left in his mind was the urge to give Lin Yi a thumbs up.
He would have been frightened to death on the spot but Lin Yi still remembered to bring the diary back with him.
“Just like the curse letter here, the Cat curse must have been ‘improved’ by Sun Jingwen.” Lin Yi thought for a while and said, “But the most important thing about the Cat curse cannot be changed. After all, that’s the very core of the Cat curse.”
Cheng Yang: “Which point?”
Lin Yi said, “To have the cat look at the face of the cursed person.”
Cheng Yang’s expression changed and he seemed to understand.
“That’s right.” Lin Yi said: “‘I’m looking at you’ isn’t Sun Jingwen looking at me but…”
Cheng Yang trembled and answered, “The cat…”
But there was something Cheng Yang still didn’t understand. “But Lin Yi Xiong, did you see a cat in the classroom?”
Lin Yi shook his head. “I didn’t see any but the cat must have seen me and it must have seen me before it died.”
He speculated, “The cat must have been near death so that its resentment would be at its greatest. Sun Jingwen must have strangled the cat with her hands until it was barely hanging on. She then placed the cat in a certain place; I don’t know where. Somewhere I couldn’t easily find but a place where the cat would have seen me. That sentence in the diary was actually a deliberate attempt to make me raise my head to look around. As I was looking, my face would have been easily seen by the cat.”
“After I left, Sun Jingwen drew blood/ She used the cat’s blood to draw an inverted pentagram array and then dig out the cat’s eyes and put them in the array to increase the cat’s resentment and so that the cat would find me accurately.”
The more Cheng Yang heard, the more frightened he became until he was trembling all over.
Lin Yi felt that Cheng Yang’s shivering was almost loud enough to cover his own voice. So, he stopped and said, “This is just my guess. I still have no evidence to prove the process I speculated.”
Before Cheng Yang could breathe a sigh of relief, Lin Yi was suddenly stunned. He thought of something and immediately got out from under the bed. He then stood up and walked toward the door.
When Lin Yi was about to open the door of Room 204, Cheng Yang behind him quickly asked, “Where are you going? Damn it, Lin Yi Xiong. You’re not going out, are you?”
There was the sound of cats running around outside the door, accompanied by the “chichi” sound of sniffing, which proved that the group of cats outside were still looking for Cheng Yang.
But Cheng Yang was hiding in Room 204 and the rancid smell still overwhelmed Cheng Yang’s scent.
And it still wasn’t light out yet.
Lin Yi had just said that the second Rule of Death was still waiting for them.
In addition to the cats outside the door, there was also that meowing cat outside the window.
Lin Yi stopped. While looking for something in the room, he said, “I’ve just realized something.”
Cheng Yang: “What… have you realized?”
Lin Yi said, “I kept having this feeling that the cats were missing something.”
Last night, when Lin Yi opened the bedroom door and ran to the public toilet, he’d glanced at that pile of cats. He felt that something was wrong, as if the cats were missing something.
Now, he knew.
The cats were lacking eyes.
Cat eyes glow at night.
To be precise, it is not the cat’s eyes that glow, but the irises of the cat’s eyes. Cats are nocturnal animals. In order to see the surrounding environment clearly at night, cats need to actively enlarge their pupils and receive more light source stimulation. The iris will reflect light so it looks like the cat’s eyes glow at night. ③
But not these cats.
This was why the cats used their noses to follow the scent instead of using their eyes to locate the targets.
Why do these cats have no eyes? Was it because Sun Jingwen dug out the cats’ eyes?
Sun Jingwen used cats to curse so the cursed person used cats to fight back?
Was this the main plot of the 8-4 Rule World?
Lin Yi said, “I have to find evidence.”
Cheng Yang had a bad feeling about this. “How…how are you going to find it?”
Lin Yi: “I’ll go and look for it in the classroom.”
Cheng Yang was tongue-tied. “What…what will you look for?”
Lin Yi: “I’ll look for the inverted pentagram, the cat’s body and the cat’s eyes.”
Cheng Yang was already short of breath just listening to it.
His legs had begun to shake.
Lin Yi searched around Room 204 but couldn’t find anything to cover his face. His only option was to take off his shirt to cover his face.
He hadn’t received the package, so the first Rule of Death didn’t apply to him.
All he had to do was cover his face to prevent the meowing cat from seeing him, thus preventing the Rule of Death “being seen by the cat” from coming being established, like the “leaving your room at night” Rule of Death of the old dorm manager in the 7-7 Rules World. If his face is seen by the meowing cat, the “being seen by the cat” might cut in line and become the newly established second Rule of Death.
Although Cheng Yang was afraid, he was also worried about Lin Yi’s safety, “Lin Yi Xiong, can’t you go at dawn? I’m begging you, I’ll kneel down and beg you.”
Lin Yi shook his head.
“By morning, the evidence I’m looking for would definitely have been erased by Sun Jingwen.”
So, now was the only time he could go.
“Lin Yi Xiong.” Seeing that Lin Yi insisted on going out, Cheng Yang quickly grabbed Lin Yi and persuaded him earnestly, “Don’t blame me for speaking unfavorably. You have already been cursed by Sun Jingwen with the cat curse. If you go back to the classroom at this time, won’t you just be entering the tiger’s mouth? Although you have your face covered with your shirt, what if it slips off? What if you’re seen by the cat? Aren’t you planning to confess to President Qin after we make it out of the 8-4 Rule World? If something happens to you, how the fuck would you confess? You came here to the 8-4 Rule World to accompany me. If you’re gone, given President Qin’s temper, he’ll surely kill me. If President Qin were here, he wouldn’t let you go.”
Lin Yi hesitated a little, but still said: “…but Senior isn’t here.”
Cheng Yang: “He is here!”
Cheng Yang said, “Wait a minute.”
Saying so, Cheng Yang took the diary, threw it up, and said, “Oh spirit of President Qin Zhou, if you agree to let your future boyfriend go on this risky adventure, the diary will land face up. If you don’t agree, the diary will land face down. .”
There was a ‘pop’ sound as the diary fell to the ground.
Xia Hui was so shocked that he scampered under the bed, while Lin Yi and Cheng Yang both looked at the diary on the floor at the same time.
ahhhh cliffhanger i want it to face up as much as i dont
Why do I find cat Xia Hui quite silly ??? If only he wasn’t assembled so horrifically..
My favourite character honestly. So cute
There is a missing word in the part where Lin Yi is explaining to Cheng Yang about why he knows so much about curses. He says “ ‘I like to read when I’m. I read anything and everything.’ “ He likes to read when he’s what?? Bored? Tired? Hungry? Pooping?? Hehe.
Thank you always for translating! ❤️
Thank you and corrected! =) He likes to read whenever he’s free.