Chapter 135
With his heart pounding hard inside his chest, Lin Yi tried his best to stay calm.
Cheng Yang was still here. If he lets his mind run too fast, ‘It’ will come out.
He kept repeating this in his mind.
‘It’s daytime now. Your life is in no danger, you won’t die.’
Lin Yi glanced at the mailroom auntie’s expressionless face and caught a glimpse of Chen Zixun on the floor of Room 303.
Fortunately, it was daytime.
Moreover, Chen Zixun had almost for certain died last night from being unable to hide his life. The two Rules of Death waiting in the wings were failing to send the curse letter to someone else and being seen by the cat summoned by the cat curse.
No Rule of Death would kill him now and he has a way to save himself come night time.
His heart finally stopped beating wildly. Lin Yi took a breath, stood up and said to the mailroom auntie. “Auntie, we’re having a race to see who can get up here the fastest.”
After a pause, Lin Yi said, “I won.”
The mailroom auntie said nothing nor did she make any other movements. Her face was still pressed against the window, but her eyes moved upward as Lin Yi stood up.
Silence.
“I know I was wrong.” Lin Yi apologized guiltily to the women. “I’ll get down right now.”
The mailroom auntie still said nothing, staring fixedly at him.
Lin Yi looked at her, thought for a moment and said, “Auntie, I didn’t see anything.”
Still silence.
Lin Yi pursed his lips and his heart that had just calmed down began to race once again.
He’d said that test the mailroom auntie, to see what the fact that he’d seen Chen Zixun’s body meant to her.
If the mailroom auntie looked like she wanted to kill him then the mailroom auntie was another one that he’d have to avoid tonight.
But now the mailroom auntie hadn’t shown any change, she just looked at him expressionlessly.
Lin Yi and the woman looked at each other. Lin Yi’s eyes moved down, landing on the blurry condensation caused by the mailroom auntie’s breath against the window pane.
Lin Yi also remained silent. His hand moved slowly and finally landed on his left thigh.
His hand was over his trousers pocket. Lin Yi could feel the contents of his pocket through the fabric.
The mailroom auntie still didn’t speak. She remained so expressionless that she looked practically dead.
Lin Yi looked at the condensation that was slowly climbing up the window pane. He waited until the blur gradually increased in area and covered almost half mailroom auntie’s face.
He suddenly squatted down, put his hands on the window sill and jumped down to the second floor, shouting to Cheng Yang, “Cheng Yang! Cheng Yang Xiong!”
After landing on the second floor, Lin Yi jumped directly to the ground.
As soon as his feet hit the ground, he quickly ran towards the mailroom. As he passed Cheng Yang, he slapped Cheng Yang on the back so that Cheng Yang could react and follow his sudden move. “Mailroom, go to the mail room!”
“Oh! Coming, I’m coming!”
Cheng Yang registered what Lin Yi was doing and he was about to get up but then stopped. He was still holding down Ren Li.
“What about Ren Li!”
“Bring him with you!”
Lin Yi’s voice grew fainter as he ran farther away.
Lin Yi leapt up the steps to the dormitory building and ran for the mailroom door. As he expected, the mailroom door was locked.
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He took out the sharpened branch he had used to unlock the classroom door from his pocket and hurriedly inserted it into the keyhole.
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“Cheng Yang Xiong, hurry!” Lin Yi urged.
The condensation on the window pane should have momentarily blocked the mailroom auntie’s sight. Once she sees him jumping down and heading into the dorm building, she would definitely guess that they were heading to the mailroom.
Sure enough…
Boom, boom, boom!
Boom, boom, boom!
The mailroom was still some distance away from the stairwell but Lin Yi could already hear the mailroom auntie’s rapid and heavy footsteps.
Lin Yi urged again, “Hurry.”
Cheng Yang was so anxious that he was sweating. “Coming! Coming!”
Once Cheng Yang managed to get Ren Li to the door of the mailroom, Lin Yi helped push them both into the room.
Now that Cheng Yang and Ren Li were inside, he immediately stepped in, grabbed the door and swung it shut.
He then locked it.
But Lin Yi didn’t dare leave the door. The door of the mailroom was originally locked, which proved that the mailroom auntie must have the key with her.
Lin Yi listened to the footsteps getting closer and closer outside. He had his hands on doorknob, turned to Cheng Yang and said quickly, “Quickly! Find something to tie up Ren Li Ge and then come and help me!”
There were things in the room they could put against door but theyw ere useless since the door opened out.
NPCs in the Rule Worlds are tools used by Monsters to kill people. The Monster’s killing tools wouldn’t be powerless. Lin Yi thought of the old dorm manager in the 7-7 Rule World — an old man capable of dragging an axe to knock open a door. This shows that the power of an NPC is not something that the participants can compete with.
Cheng Yang was so anxious that the flesh on his face was trembling. He frantically looked around the mailroom.
There was nothing in the mailroom that could be used to tie someone up. Cheng Yang cursed inwardly, ‘Fuck, I’m fucked.’
He then ignored everything and turned over Ren Li who was pressed to the ground. He delivered a chop with his hand to the back of Ren Li’s neck, trying to knock Ren Li unconscious.
Lin Yi heard the noise in the mailroom and looked over, “That’s no use on him!”
The nerves of the human brain extend from the back of the neck to all parts of the body. A heavy blow to the back of the neck will produce powerful nerve currents that impact the brain, causing people to faint. ①
With Cheng Yang’s brutal strength, he could have knocked Ren Li out. Except that the current Ren Li was not Ren Li at all, but the 8-4 Monster.
How could Cheng Yang knock out a Monster?
Listening to the fast approaching footsteps outside, Lin Yi too became anxious and pointed to something in front. “The sheet, Cheng Yang. The sheet, tear off the sheet!”
The bed was a few feet away from Cheng Yang. Cheng Yang tried to get up and tear off the sheet but if he moved, Ren Li would resist.
There was no other way, Cheng Yang had no choice but to sit back and press down on Ren Li. He clamped Ren Li’s hands with one hand and quickly took off his clothes with the other.
After taking off his clothes, Cheng Yang stuffed a corner of the clothes into his mouth with one hand and twisted the clothes into strips with his other hand. He then grabbed Ren Li’s hands and tied up his wrists with the cloth strips.
Cheng Yang then got up and went to the bed to pull off the sheet.
Although Cheng Yang could honestly say that he’d used all his strength to tie up Ren Li, after all, it was just a piece of cloth and Ren Li was the 8-4 Monster. He still had to find something to reinforce it.
When Cheng Yang reached the bedside, there came a slamming sound at the door of the mailroom.
Like a frightened rabbit, he turned around suddenly and saw the scene in front of him. “Fuck!”
The mailroom auntie had chased after them and used the key to open the door. Now the mailroom auntie was trying to pull the door open.
Lin Yi wasn’t as strong as the mailroom auntie. The door opened a crack but Lin Yi leaned back and barely managed to close the door using all his body strength.
The mailroom auntie did not give up. She continued tring to open the door from the outside.
Lin Yi held the door tightly and asked, “Are you done?”
Cheng Yang came back to his senses and quickly stepped over Ren Li who was on the ground to help keep the door closed.
With Cheng Yang helping, the door finally stopped opening.
Cheng Yang shouted, “Ren Li has to be tied up again. Lin Yi Xiong, you do that and I’ll stay here.”
Lin Yi said “Okay” and waited until Cheng Yang had a firm grasp on the door before he let go and picked up the sheet off the ground.
Lin Yi still had enough strength to tear apart a sheet.
He tore the sheet into several thick strips then knelt down and tied up Ren Li.
Ren Li said, “You saw through me a long time ago, didn’t you?”
Lin Yi said nothing and concentrated on tying him up.
Cheng Yang shouted, “Nonsense, I…”
“Cheng Yang Xiong,” Lin Yi said immediately, “Don’t fall into its trap.”
Cheng Yang: “Oh, yeah.”
Ren Li glanced at Cheng Yang and then said to Lin Yi: “Since you’ve found this place… are you going to do a Replay?”
Lin Yi said nothing. He used the cloth strips not only Ren Li’s hands, but also on his feet.
Ren Li was obviously trying to induce them into a Replay. When participants initiate a Replay, the Monster would regain its full strength.
The mailroom was cramped and if Ren Li regains his strength, he would be able to kill both of them with almost no effort before they can even open their mouths to recount the main plot..
After tying up Ren Li, Lin Yi took a look around the mail room.
He then stood up and took the pillow. He took out the pillow stuffing, squeezed it into a ball, then threw it on the ground in front of Ren Li.
Lin Yi said, “Let’s play.”
Ren Li: “…”
Lin Yi’s idea was simple. The 8-4 Monster was originally a cat so he found something to distract Ren Li’s attention.
Ren Li said, “I’m not a dog.”
Lin Yi: “…Oh, sorry.”
Lin Yi asked Cheng Yang, “What do cats like to play with?”
Cheng Yang said, “Get him a cat wand.”
It was easy enough to make a ball but a cat wand was a whole other matter.
Lin Yi gave up the idea. He went to the bed picked up the quilt and put it over Ren Li, blocking Ren Li’s sight.
No matter what Ren Li said, Lin Yi raised his head and asked Cheng Yang, “Can you still hold on?”
Cheng Yang gritted his teeth. Compared to Ren Li, the mailroom auntie was much stronger. “I’m fine. I can still hold on for a while.”
Lin Yi said, “Give me five minutes.”
After saying so, he quickly searched the mailroom.
He could now basically piece together the main plot of the 8-4 Rule World. He only needed substantive evidence in the mailroom. So long as he finds this evidence, with Ren Li here, he could do a Replay and escape the 8-4 Rule World.
The mailroom was quite small and what Lin Yi was looking for wasn’t on any immediately visible surface.
Lin Yi then fixed his sights on the wardrobe.
He walked over and opened the closet.
The rancid smell hit his face.
Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
He’d found it.
There were several bags of cat food stored in the closet and a box next to them.
Lin Yi knelt down to open the box. The rotting smell became even stronger. There were several dead black kitten stored in the carton box. Judging from the state of their corpses, they must have been the cats that Sun Jingwen used to implement the cat curse.
The kittens’ eyes were empty holes.
Cheng Yang looked over, noticing the stench, and was almost frightened to death by the dead kittens.
His hands trembled and for a moment, the door was opened a crack by the mailroom auntie. The angry face of the mailroom auntie appeared through the crack.
“Ouch, shit!” Cheng Yang closed his eyes and didn’t dare to look anymore. He drew on more strenght and closed the door again.
Lin Yi reached out and touched one of the kittens. His fingertips gently pushed aside the fur matted with blood. He saw two slightly depressed bite marks on the back of each kitten’s neck.
“The black cat that appeared in the classroom last night was indeed looking for its kittens.” Lin Yi said. “It was the big cat who’d brought back all these kittens’ bodies.”
The scene he just described flashed before Cheng Yang’s eyes and he remembered how his own family’s cat had kept looking for her kittens. His nose began to tingle. “I can’t imagine how that cat must have felt when she saw her kittens.”
Lin Yi reached out and rubbed the bite mark gently. “Yeah.”
Cheng Yang said. “The cat brought the dead kittens back here. The mailroom auntie must have been caring for the cat.”
Lin Yi said, “There are no cat toys here, only bags of cat food.”
The black cat didn’t look as though it was bathed and groomed frequently. “The cat must be a stray that the mailroom auntie adopted.”
The two meant almost the same thing but Lin Yi’s was more specific.
Cheng Yang said, “Sun Jingwen discovered the kittens in the mailroom. In order to retaliate against her classmates using the cat curse, she stole the kittens. Damn it, now I know why the curse letter said ‘It’s your turn to hide your life’.”
“The kittens were stolen by Sun Jingwen and they died after being stolen. What is this but stealing a life? After discovering that the kittens were going missing one by one, the mailroom auntie hid the kittens, but unexpectedly they kept being stolen one after another. That’s why the mailroom auntie wrote the curse letter saying, ‘It’s your turn to hide your life’ to scare Sun Jingwen.”
“The person who released the pigeon is actually the mailroom auntie!” Cheng Yang felt that his logic was very consistent, “Then, could it be that that thing that comes at night is also the mailroom auntie?”
Lin Yi said, “It’s her.”
The cuts made on the corpses were smooth, meaning they must have been cut with a sharp weapon. Cat claws wouldn’t have been able to produce such cuts.
“We have the main plot!” Cheng Yang became excited: “Can we do a Replay… and leave?”
Lin Yi turned his head and looked at Ren Li.
The mailroom was too small and he was still worried that Ren Li would go berserk as soon as they mention a Replay, killing him and Cheng Yang before they an even speak.
He thought about it.
The current conditions were unfavorable for a Replay and the probability of success was low.
Otherwise, Ren Li wouldn’t have taken the initiative to ask them to do a Replay just now. Monsters were naturally averse to Replays. Ren Li must also know this very well and was very confident that he could kill them after regaining his strength.
Lin Yi stared at Ren Li. Cheng Yang noticed something from Lin Yi’s expression and said in surprise, “Lin Yi Xiong, you’re not thinking of… of…”
Of killing the 8-4 Monster.
Cheng Yang: “But…”
But judging from the current Rules of Death, there was no way they could kill Ren Li.
Because Ren Li could refuse to accept the package.
But this was Lin Yi… Cheng Yang tried asking, “Lin Yi Xiong, do you have an idea?”
Lin Yi: “Yes.”
Ooooh this is so exciting. Also lol at lin yi apologizing to the cat monster 😂
But my cat likes playing with cotton balls, Ren Li just has different interests compared to other cats🐈
Another monster will be eliminated.. Hell yeah !!!
Imagine being a ferocious monster and you get treated like a domesticated golden retriever