Chapter 134
Cheng Yang was horrified to hear this.
Although Lin Yi’s tone was completely calm and relaxed, as if he really was just going to take a look.
But no, this was completely not the same. Cheng Yang knew very well that going to the mailroom was no less dangerous than Lin Yi going out on that risky trip to the teaching building after being inflicted with the cat curse.
After all, in Cheng Yang’s opinion, the mailroom auntie was most likely the first person to have written the curse letter.
Moreover, Lin Yi was injured and the injury was serious.
However, there was no other way. This is a world with 8-4 rules. Lin Yi is a member of the patrol team. If he doesn’t take risks, no one can go. Besides, he only had so few points. Lin Yi only entered the world of 8-4 rules because he accompanied him.
“I’m going with you.” It had taken a lot of effort for Cheng Yang to say that but fear still kept slipping out of his heart. He asked in a trembling voice. “When…When should we go? It won’t be tonight again, right?”
“En, en.” Lin Yi did not refuse Cheng Yang’s offer.
He needed Cheng Yang for the plan to visit the mailroom.
That day when Cheng Yang received the package, they didn’t go to the teaching building but stayed in the dormitory building instead. Lin Yi found that the mailroom auntie was somewhat similar to the old dorm manager in the 7-7 Rule World in that they did not leave their room very often.
Just like how in the 7-7 Rule World, Qin Zhou had lured away the old dorm manager so that he could sneak in and look for clues, now, Lin Yi also needed Cheng Yang to lure away the mailroom auntie.
“But not now.” Lin Yi said, “It will be dawn soon, so we’ll go during the day.”
When Cheng Yang heard the word “day”, it was like hearing the arrival of the Buddha. Most of the fear in his heart dissipated. “Okay, we’ll go during the day.”
Even if something were to happen during the day, at least, he wouldn’t die on the spot.
Cheng Yang then thought about it and realized that Lin Yi wasn’t choosing to go during the day because it was safer than at night. He must have some other motive.
But Cheng Yang couldn’t figure out what this hidden motive was. He was aware of his own IQ and didn’t want to embarrass himself, so he directly asked Lin Yi, “Why during the day?”
Lin Yi explained patiently, “Every time the mailroom auntie sees us, she tells us to go to class.”
Cheng Yang: “Yeah, so what?”
Lin Yi said: “She must be driving us away.”
Cheng Yang suddenly realized it. “Oh shit.”
“Oh my god.” Cheng Yang thought back, “That’s true.”
Lin Yi said, “So, what could the mailroom auntie be doing during the day?”
Cheng Yang gave Lin Yi a thumbs up.
Lin Yi, unmoved by honor or disgrace, said, “Don’t go typing any 666's”
Then he lowered his head. Only now did he have time to look at the wound on his hand.
The wound was no longer bleeding, but the previous blood had solidified on his hand and the tear looked very scary.
He tried to move his fingers and it pulled on the wound.
Lin Yi: “Hiss——”
Judging from the pain, the cat had indeed bitten down deep. Before, he thought that the cat had attacked because he’d scared it. But now it seemed like the cat may have regarded him as the person who hurt its kittens.
If you are bitten, you must treat it promptly otherwise it might easily get infected.
The black cat looked like a stray and a rabies shot should be administered promptly.
There was a certain logic in play in the Rule Worlds — just like how Xia Hui’s corpse will rot and cold water splashed on a cement floor will make a ‘crack’ sound as part of its physical reaction. However, there was no infirmary here, much less rabies vaccines. If they don’t leave this Rule World quick, Lin Yi wasn’t sure whether he would become the first person to die not from a Rule of Death but from infection.
Lin Yi lowered his eyes and couldn’t help thinking how nice it would be to have Qin Zhou with him.
Qin Zhou would be familiar with this situation and Lin Yi could feel at ease.
Cheng Yang, who was next to him, was completely unaware of what was going through his mind and simply thought that Lin Yi was in severe pain. He said, “Just looking at your wound hurt me too. Damn, the conditions here are so dangerous and difficult. How about I blow on it for you?”
With that said, he walked towards Lin Yi.
Lin Yi quickly took a step back, “I’ll do it myself!”
“Lin Yi Xiong, are you guarding your body like jade for President Qin?” Cheng Yang said happily, “Alright, although this brother of yours is straighter than a telephone pole, he is still a man. Ok, blow on it yourself.”
Lin Yi: “You should find some place to rest for a while.”
He hadn’t closed his eyes these past few days and Cheng Yang hasn’t gotten much rest either. He was used to it but Cheng Yang has a normal sleep requirements and his body must he extremely exhausted after going without sleep for so long.
They have to go to the mailroom once morning comes and they can’t be delayed because of poor rest.
Cheng Yang said, “I slept in the classroom during the day.”
Lin Yi said, “It’s almost dawn, but there’s still some time before class. The mailroom auntie needs to get up and we need to let her see us leaving for class. You can sleep a little longer and get some rest so you’ll have enough energy to do what we need to today.”
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“Okay.” Cheng Yang said, “Then I’ll try to see if I can fall asleep.”
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After a while, Cheng Yang began to snore.
Lin Yi: “…”
Although Cheng Yang slept in class during the day, sleeping curled over a desk wasn’t comfortable given how easily one’s limbs could grow numb in that position. He knew that Cheng Yang hadn’t slept well at all.
Under Xia Hui’s alert gaze and Cheng Yang’s snoring, Lin Yi raised his hand and blew on his wound.
After blow on it for a while, Lin Yi was not only tired from holding up his hand but his cheeks were now also a little sore.
He thought…
How nice would it be if Qin Zhou were here.
After some time, Lin Yi put down his sore and painful hand and looked up at the window.
The curtains were still drawn over the window but Lin Yi estimated the time and although he couldn’t see the sky outside, he was sure that it must be bright out now.
But Lin Yi didn’t wake up Cheng Yang just yet. It gets light out early in summer so there were still about two hours before class starts.
He continued to blow on the wound.
Two hours later, Lin Yi woke Cheng Yang up.
He had already heard the sounds of doors opening one after another in the dorm building, including Zeng Nannan’s Room 205. Zeng Nannan had left her room to make her way to class.
The participants were all following the rules, hoping that by doing so they’d be able to escape the Rules of Death.
“Oh, it’s light out?”
Cheng Yang stood up from the floor, yawned and said, “Let’s go.”
Cheng Yang was obviously not fully awake yet and he didn’t even scramble to open the door when Lin Yi went to open it.
The two people walked out of Room 204 and headed downstairs to the dormitory hall.
They weren’t the only people walking down the corridor. Lin Yi glanced at Ren Li, who was walking a little ahead of them.
The corridor wasn’t long and soon they reached the first floor and the dormitory hall.
Because Chen Zixun received the package yesterday, someone was checking their locker to see if they’d received the package. Their reactions were all the same. They all nervously opened their lockers and let out a long sigh of relief when they saw that it was empty.
Ren Li didn’t look at his locker. He took the lead in leaving the dormitory building and walking down the road to the teaching building.
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and looked towards the mailroom.
The mailroom auntie was already awake. She was holding a cup as she brushed her teeth while standing on the steps leading to the door of the dormitory.
But the door to the mailroom was closed.
A sense of weirdness immediately hit Lin Yi.
The dormitory entrance was at most ten steps away from the mailroom. Under normal circumstances, there would be no need for the auntie to close the mailroom door at such close distance. Even if there were any valuables in the mailroom, she was right there. Also, her opponents would be a group of students. Who would walk into the mailroom and take her things away?
So there must be something in that mailroom.
Lin Yi tilted his head and said to Cheng Yang, “Let’s go.”
The two of them were going to show their faces to the mailroom auntie, so that she could take note of them leaving the dormitory building and heading to the teaching building for class.
When they arrived in front of the mailroom auntie, she just so happened to finish brushing her teeth.
Lin Yi hid his injured hand behind his back. If the mailroom auntie really was related to the curse letter, she would definitely be able to glean something from the wound on his hand.
“Auntie, good morning.” Lin Yi said politely.
The mailroom auntie was momentarily stunned then said cheerfully, “Good morning, are you going to class?”
Lin Yi: “Yeah.”
Lin Yi’s gentle facial features make it extremely easy to create the illusion of a good boy.
Although, he really is a good boy.
The mailroom auntie smiled brighter. “Alright, be on your way now.”
Lin Yi left with Cheng Yang who was yawning profusely.
On the way to the teaching building, the other participants kept shooting glances at them.
They didn’t see Chen Zixun and because of Chen Zixun’s screams last night, they already guessed what had happened.
When Chen Zixun received the package last night, he was so sure that it was Cheng Yang who’d sent it to him.
Lin Yi refused to meet these complicated eyes but he was a little worried. If they continue to be delayed in the 8-4 Rule World, the other participants might start targeting them under Ren Li’s instigation.
However, Lin Yi couldn’t spare time to reason with the participants. All he could do now was to find a way to leave the 8-4 Rule World as soon as possible.
Thinking like this, Lin Yi tilted his head slightly, at an angle that allowed him to see the mailroom auntie with his peripheral vision.
He saw the mailroom auntie wash up and then go back to the mailroom.
Lin Yi thus stopped pretending to head to the teaching building. He pulled Cheng Yang and said, “Cheng Yang Xiong, let’s go.”
The two of them wanted to go back and see what the mailroom auntie did during the day and just what was in the mailroom.
The two of them turned back, going against the flow of people.
Behind them, Ren Li stopped and looked at Lin Yi and Cheng Yang’s backs.
“Ren Li Ge…what’s wrong?”
One of the participants noticed Ren Li’s actions. They didn’t dare go to class unless Ren Li took the lead.
“Nothing,” Ren Li said.
Meanwhile, Lin Yi and Cheng Yang had reached the outside of the dormitory building.
The mailroom was right by the door of the dormitory building. It was impossible for them to get back to their room from the main entrance. The only way back in now was through the window.
Lin Yi originally planned to grab hold on to the window sill and use his strength to climb up.
Cheng Yang finally noticed Lin Yi’s hand injury. “I’ll go up first and then pull you up.”
The wound did hurt. Lin Yi said, “Okay.”
Cheng Yang climbed up first, then carefully squatted down and stretched out his hand towards Lin Yi.
Cheng Yang was so strong that Cheng Yang had already pulled him up before Lin Yi could exert any force. However, Cheng Yang used a little too much force and almost lost his balance and fell so Lin Yi helped support him.
“Oh shit!”
The second floor wasn’t that far off the ground but if you fall face down, your face will still be disfigured.
Cheng Yang patted his chest, trying to calm the lingering fear.
Lin Yi said, “Let’s go.”
They were above the public toilet and the closest one with a window that could be opened was Room 204. Lin Yi’s plan to stay in Room 204 for now.
Cheng Yang was standing a little more ahead on the window sill than Lin Yi. Cheng Yang had to move a little before Lin Yi could follow.
Cheng Yang moved to Room 204.
Lin Yi followed him behind.
They took tiny steps to reach Room 204. Cheng Yang was about to reach out and push the window when—
Lin Yi quickly grabbed him. When Cheng Yang wanted to ask what was wrong but Lin Yi covered his mouth with one hand.
Lin Yi mouthed, “There’s movement inside.”
Lin Yi heard it.
Room 204 wasn’t empty, there was Xia Hui. But Xia Hui was often curled up in a corner and didn’t move. Even if he did move, he would jump from one place to another. His movement were sudden but the movement Lin Yi heard now was continuous.
Maybe it was because Lin Yi didn’t make an urgent sound when he reminded him but Cheng Yang wasn’t frightened at all.
Lin Yi took back his hand and looked towards Room 204.
They never thought that there would be something else in Room 204, so even though their plan was to leave the dormitory and come back through the window, they hadn’t bothered to open the curtains.
The curtains were still held down by Cheng Yang’s desk so they couldn’t see anything at the moment.
But they could hear.
They heard the sound of a key opening the door to Room 204 and then the sound of footsteps walking in.
Xia Hui let out a ‘meow’, which showed that they had heard correctly. Someone had come into Room 204.
Apart from Xia Hui, the original occupant of Room 204, the only other person who could have the dorm key was the mailroom auntie. It couldn’t be any of the participants. Lin Yi had seem them all walking on the road leading to the teaching building. Except for the dead Xia Hui and Chen Zixun, the other participants had all been there.
Cheng Yang mouthed back, “Open the window and take a look?”
Lin Yi could tell from Cheng Yang’s words that Cheng Yang hadn’t fully woken up yet.
He shook his head.
The curtains were being held in place by a desk and pushing it would create noise thus alerting the snake in the bush.
Lin Yi then pointed to Room 303 upstairs.
Xia Hui and Chen Zixun both died from the curse letters. Since the mailroom auntie had gone to Room 204, she would most likely also go to Room 303. His place was to go to Chen Zixun’s Room 303 to wait and see what the mailroom auntie was doing in these rooms.
Cheng Yang was about to continue on up, when Lin Yi whispered, “Cheng Yang Xiong, you stay right here.”
Cheng Yang was still too strong. With someone in Room 204, there will inevitably be a noise. Only he could go up there.
After saying this, Lin Yi looked up at the window sill above his head.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed the edge of the window sill with his hands. Ignoring of the pain of his wound, he put his toes on the sill and used the strength in his arms to hoist himself up the third floor.
Once on the third floor, Lin Yi quickly stood up and walked to Room 303.
When he got to Room 303’s window, knowing that the mailroom auntie was still in Room 204, Lin Yi looked into Room 303 without any hesitation.
Chen Zixun had died the same way Xia Hui had except that his body was not attached to the window, but firmly attached to the ground.
Lin Yi’s guess was that Xia Hui had tried to escape through the window, so this caused his corpse to stick to the window.
Inside, there would be no place for Lin Yi to hide, so he had no intention of opening the window and going in. The curtains in Room 303 were not drawn and without a body blocking the window, he could see inside perfectly.
Lin Yi looked at Chen Zixun and saw that the body parts had been cut smoothly.
These same cuts could be seen from Xia Hui’s body. Lin Yi moved his eyes to look around the room to see if he could find any other clues. After all, they had been unable to enter the first scene after Xia Hui’s death.
As his eyes were wandering around Room 303, he heard Cheng Yang smacking his lips.
Lin Yi looked down at Cheng Yang outside the window of Room 204. Cheng Yang pointed towards Room 204. Lin Yi understood. The mailroom auntie had left. According to his guess, the next place she would go would undoubtedly be Room 303.
Sure enough, after a while, Lin Yi heard the sound of the key unlocking the door.
He quickly lowered his body. The window was two-way. He could see inside through the window and someone inside could also see him through the window.
‘Click.’
The door was opened.
Footsteps sounded.
Lin Yi carefully raised his body a little higher, keeping his eyes open to see inside, but not rising high enough that he could be seen at a glance.
The person who opened the door was indeed the mailroom auntie.
The mailroom auntie had a bucket in her hand. Lin Yi saw that the bucket contained grains about the size of a little finger’s fingernail. They looked like kibble for cats and dogs.
The mailroom auntie hadn’t outside him window. She walked in and put the bucket aside, then stared at Chen Zixun’s body with a look of hesitation on her face.
Lin Yi clearly saw the mailroom auntie’s expression.
There was no need to think about it. The mailroom auntie was probably here to feed him. That was why Xia Hui’s ‘meow’ wasn’t the threatening and alert cry that it he usually directed to him and Cheng Yang, but a kind of spoiled endearing cry instead.
But Chen Zixun in Room 303 had yet to take on his cat form so the mailroom auntie was troubled, wondering whether to leave the cat food for Chen Zixun.
Firstly, the cat food would become moist if left out for a long time and secondly, she was probably afraid that someone might enter Room 303 later and find the cat food.
In the end, the mailroom auntie decided to feed him another day. She turned around and opened the door of Room 303, bucket in hand, apparently ready to leave.
Suddenly–
“Lin Yi!”
It came abruptly and loudly.
Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat and Cheng Yang was so frightened that he blurted out a “F*ck”.
The two people, one upstairs and the other a floor below, turned towards the sound. Ren Li was downstairs. He looked at them with a sneer, then opened his mouth and repeated, “Lin Yi——”
Cheng Yang was so frightened that he completely snapped out of his drowsiness. He jumped down, not caring that Ren Li was the 8-4 Monster and quickly covered Ren Li’s mouth.
Cheng Yang was so tall and powerful that he fell directly on Ren Li and actually suppressed Ren Li until he could not move. After restraining Ren Li, Cheng Yang turned around and looked worriedly at Lin Yi.
At first, Lin Yi was afraid that Ren Li might some sharp weapon on him. Cheng Yang was now fighting with Ren Li and he was afraid that Ren Li might stab Cheng Yang to death.
Seeing Ren Li struggling, he felt relieved. There should be no killing tools on Ren Li. Otherwise, with Cheng Yang pressed against Ren Li at such a close range. If Ren Li had some killing tool, he would already have stabbed Cheng Yang to death.
Cheng Yang had Ren Li’s mouth covered with both hands so Ren Li couldn’t scream.
Qin Zhou had said that the strength of the Monster while possessing a participant was two to three times the original strength of the participant.
Lin Yi didn’t expect Cheng Yang to be that strong. Ren Li didn’t look like some flower vase either.
Someone who could defeat a patrol team elite, if not a monster, was probably a thug.
After making sure that Cheng Yang was not in danger, Lin Yi turned to look at the window.
He wasn’t sure whether Ren Li had been heard by mailroom auntie in Room 303. Before Lin Yi turned to look back, he was leaning towards the mailroom auntie not having heard anything.
After all, Ren Li had been shouting outside the dormitory and the window of Room 303 was closed. Moreover, Lin Yi hadn’t heard any footsteps approaching the window.
But with this glance —
Lin Yi’s body was petrified and his blood froze.
The mailroom auntie had her face pressed against the window, staring down at him.
There wasn’t the slight expression on her face.
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MAILROOM AUNTIE NOOOOO YOU GOTTA BE CHILL
Omg. So I absolutely binged the heck out of this and only found this gem about 3 days ago. It’s so damn good! Thank you for your work to translate it for us all
Thanks
I’m sorry but… The mailroom auntie hadn’t outside the window? I don’t understand
hadn’t seen him outside the window* is what I think they meant
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Thanks for the chapter
Bet the thing that hunted down Xia Hui and Chen Zixun is mail room auntie..
BRUH I KNOW THIS IS HORROR BUT DID IT HAVE TO BE SO SCARY?!?!
MAILROOM AUNTIE, FROM A FELLOW CAT LADY, I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU