Apartment from Hell Chapter 8 (1/2)
Chapter 8 – The Feast of Blood (III)
Just as Song Tian’s organs are at the brink of exploding from fear, a round of knocking suddenly sounded from outside the door. The knocking is followed by Ge Ling’s voice, “Why are you screaming as if someone has died?!”
This voice reaches Song Tian’s ear like a wave of heavenly music. He immediately turns back and shouts, “Ah Ling… Hurry, open the door. There is…”
Then he turns his gaze back towards the toilet bowl… But that place is already empty…
“I want to know more about the story behind all these ghostly rumours.”
Li Yin decides to just play along, taking the role of a reporter. Qin Shoutian also pulls out his journalist pa.s.s, thus further convincing Ah Xiu.
After taking out a pen, Li Yin spreads a piece of paper onto the square table in the living room of Ah Xiu’s house. He asks, “Miss Ah Xiu… the following questions we have are very important. I hope you can answer honestly.”
Li Yin is very certain that everything is not as simple as it superficially seems.
That apartment will not a.s.sign them a mission that does not threaten their lives at all, especially when this is his fourth b.l.o.o.d.y word mission. Last time, the phantom in the school killed indiscriminately. But this time, this supernatural incident has a clear motif of revenge.
Then…she has no reason to do anything to us. For the difficulty of this mission to conversely be lower than the third b.l.o.o.d.y word mission, this is impossible.
So Li Yin is convinced that they must have missed something. And what they missed is definitely fatal!
It is impossible that the apartment will give them an obvious safe spot where they can stay alive. After living in that apartment for a year, Li Yin knows this point well!
Ah Xiu who is sitting across Li Yin smiles faintly and says, “Mr. Reporter, then you have to write down my words and publish them.”
“Yes, of course.”
“Okay then… I will tell you.” Ah Xiu starts to recite everything that has happened since Bing Er’s death.
The death of Li Bing indeed aroused a commotion in the village. Although everyone despised Li Bing before, this was a matter of life and death, so the disturbance lasted for a long time after her death. And for Ah Xiu who was deeply attached to Li Bing, the sorrow was too painful for her to endure.
After that incident, Ah Xiu began living like a walking corpse. She never had any mood to cultivate her farm and did not eat well for a few months, eventually becoming a bag of skin and bones.
Those days were truly painful. But there were two people who would always visit her and bring her some food, Liang
Renbin and Zhang Suyue.
In the past, besides Bing Er, Ah Xiu was closest with Suyue. Although she is the granddaughter of the elder’s family, Suyue is usually very easy-going and hardworking due to her status as a farm girl. But her personality is too soft and malleable which is why when the Bing Er incident occurred, she felt pressured by the people around her. Even though she sympathized with Bing Er, she was not brave enough to speak up for her.
This past friends.h.i.+p has already been completely shattered. Now, when Ah Xiu looks towards Suyue, her eyes contain only hatred.
About half a year later, on the night of the 6th of June, Suyue was visiting Ah Xiu again. Although their conversation became awkward after lasting no more than a couple sentences, she still repeatedly reminded Ah Xiu to
take care of herself.
After she left, Ah Xiu could still not fall asleep. Although the night got deeper and deeper, she did not feel sleepy at all. The next day was Bing Er’s commemoration day.
After her parents had pa.s.sed away, Bing Er was Ah Xiu’s only irreplaceable loved one. From childhood till now, no matter what time it was, Bing Er was always there to guard Ah Xiu, caring for and protecting her like an older sister.
She will never be able to recover from Bing Er’s death.
And it was precisely during that night….
She suddenly heard the strange sound of water from the water tank inside of the kitchen.
Initially, Ah Xiu was so scared that she had jumped in fright, but she still slowly walked into the kitchen and crept towards the water tank.
As Ah Xiu speaks about this, Ye Kexin, who is listening on the side, s.h.i.+vers. She cannot help but look towards the kitchen.
“Don’t be scared, Miss Ye.” Ah Xiu says with a smile, “Sister Bing Er will never hurt you guys.”
Following that, she continues her story.
At that time, even she did not know where her courage originated as she flipped open the lid of the water tank.
What appeared in the water tank was… it was actually Suyue’s father, the son in law of elder’s family!
At first, Ah Xiu panicked mindlessly, but then she…noticed something!
There were two thin and pale arms wrapped around the waist of the elder’s son in law’s corpse. And when Ah Xiu noticed that pair of arms, they quickly retracted behind the back of the corpse!
Ah Xiu then quickly fished out that corpse from the water tank (at this point, Kexin looks at Ah Xiu’s face with even more fear), but she could not find the owner of those pale arms.
However, Ah Xiu understood what transpired.
It was Bing Er!
Sister Bing Er had killed this man. Suyue had been coerced by him to end her friends.h.i.+p with Bing Er, to definitely not get too close to her. Because of him, even Suyue had become cold towards Sister Bing Er.
“Want to know what I did later?” Ah Xiu’s expression turns into a ghastly smile, “I cut off his tongue! Because it was talking too much! Then I dragged his corpse to the elder’s doorstep.”
When Qin Shoutian hears this, he adjusts his gla.s.ses and says steadily, “Miss Ah Xiu…you would actually tell us this kind of things?”
“Aren’t you guys journalists? Then publish these things.” Ah Xiu’s smile grows even wider, as though she is just chatting casually about her daily life. “Well, I don’t care anyways. After sister Bing Er pa.s.sed away, I’ve already stopped caring whether I am dead or alive.”
“Cutting the tongue of the elder’s son-in-law… doing something like this…”
“The elder’s family did not announce anything. Hehe, they probably thought of something? Indeed, there were people who suspected me, but so what? My relations.h.i.+p with the villagers is antagonistic as water and fire anyways. Only Liang Renbin still bothers me relentlessly, but every second I’m hoping that someday his corpse will show up in my water tank!”
“All the people who went missing in the village will appear in this water tank? What did you do with the corpses later?”
“I only cut off their tongues. After doing this, the corpse that was there will disappear, and then… new corpses will appear again.”
Li Yin diligently records everything. Then, forcing himself to remain calm, he says, “Thank you very much, Miss Ah Xiu. The material you provided is very valuable.”
This woman is clearly insane.
Her overly stubborn feelings towards Bing Er made her to do these kinds of unimaginable things.
Qin Shoutian looks towards Li Yin, his gaze questioning. His meaning is clear: How much we can trust this woman?
Li Yin also uses his eyes to answer him: Quite trustworthy.
If it was before, Li Yin would be convinced that Ah Xiu suffers from intense paranoia. But now…he believes that this is closer to the reality.
Water tank…corpse…detached tongues…Ah Xiu…Bing Er…
Li Yin feels that everything they’ve discovered seems to be hiding a crucial point that they all overlooked. But what exactly is it? Bing Er’s vengeful ghost is still lingering, committing brutal ma.s.sacres a month after her commemoration day every year and sending the corpses to Ah Xiu’s house.
Even just thinking about it is enough to send bone-chilling s.h.i.+vers up anyone’s spine.
Is moving to Ah Xiu’s house really the correct decision?