Apartment from Hell Chapter 8 (2/2)
“What do you think…” Li Yin lowers his voice and asks, “How many more people will she kill?”
“Hmm… Probably Tieqin, Renbin, Ge Ling, Hongwu and Suyue. These five people will definitely die…”
Li Yin asks another question.
A question that he is extremely concerned about.
“Can you communicate with Bing Er’s soul?”
Ah Xiu shakes her head and says, “I can’t. If that is possible, I really wish that I can talk some more with Sister!”
“Are you not scared?”
“Scared? Why would I be scared?” Ah Xiu continues to retain her gently smiling expression, but this only makes her appear even more terrifying.
Ye Kexin cannot hold back anymore as she asks, “Miss Ah Xiu…You shouldn’t have done this… You…”
Li Yin hurriedly hints to Ye Kexin that she should not continue speaking, but it is too late. Ah Xiu glares at her coldly and says, ‘What? Are you telling me these people don’t deserve to die? They pressured sister Bing Er to death! Did they not? They did!”
“You… that logic…”
Ye Kexin does not dare to say anything more.
That night, the case of Tieqin’s disappearance stirs up a huge panic within the village once again. It can be said that everyone worries about their safety right now. Originally, the village was so peaceful that people didn’t even need to close their doors at night, but now they all lock their doors tightly and are only willing to go out when paired with someone else.
What is going to happen in the next month?
Night.
Li Yin and Qin Shoutian sit in the living room. Listening to the light snoring from the inner rooms, they start to
discuss their plans for the next step.
“Something’s not right.” This is also not the first time that Qin Shoutian has executed a b.l.o.o.d.y mission. He does not believe that everything is this simple.
Li Yin takes out a torch and s.h.i.+nes it at that piece of paper he recorded on previously, a.n.a.lysing it together with Qin Shoutian, “That water tank seems to be the main medium that Bing Er and Ah Xiu contact each other with. Bing Er will send corpses that she killed every time to that tank, but they will all disappear later. The only exception was the elder’s son-in-law’s corpse. Judging from all these different scenarios, Bing Er and Ah Xiu have a strong attachment and connection with each other. So if we are nice to Ah Xiu, Bing Er has no reason to lay her hands on us. It seems like this superficially…”
“Is it…not true?”
“This is too strange. People in the village once suspected Ah Xiu to be the murderer. But it seems they are more willing to accept ghostly hauntings as the cause. From how they antagonize journalists and what they have said initially, this incident seems to caused quite a large uproar. Although they keep saying that they do not acknowledge the ghostly hauntings, I feel that they cannot eliminate this possibility completely.”
“Li Yin, you are saying…”
“There might be some people still alive now who saw the dead Bing Er, hence spreading the rumour about ghostly hauntings. After all, it is fundamentally more logical to believe that Ah Xiu killed them. But the elder is really concerned about us. He exhorted us repeatedly that anything we hear from Ah Xiu is a lie. Why does he care so much whether we believe in Ah Xiu’s words? Does whether we believe that this village is being haunted by ghosts have some meaning to the elder?”
“This…” Qin Shoutian also finds it difficult to answer this question, “The way the elder treats us so nicely is indeed unusual…”
“Xia Yuan told me that after the fourth instruction, everything will become more and more eerie, bizarre and unnatural. But this case seems to be a very simple revenge of a dead spirit. The evidence is too obvious. Although in reality, this is indeed already very strange, in comparison with the previous three b.l.o.o.d.y missions that I have previously accomplished, this is not very bizarre at all.”
“Indeed…” Qin Shoutian also remembers his past experiences. During those times, many things remain unexplainable even till this day.
“Bing Er killed herself and became a ghost before she exacted revenge on the people who alienated and insulted her back when she was alive. Is everything this simple?” Li Yin uses a pen to point to a couple of key points on the paper. He says, “I notice one thing.”
“What, what is it?”
“Water.”
“Water?”
“Bing Er’s every appearance is always somehow connected with water. The first time I entered this village, I saw the face of that ghost in the bucket that Ah Xiu was carrying. And Bing Er died in water. She even places the corpses into the water tank to give them to Ah Xiu. All of these are closely related with water. ”
“That…That’s true.”
“Maybe she can only move between bodies of water? No, it shouldn’t be that simple. But still, water is absolutely a sign that we cannot afford to overlook.”
“Yeah…I get it.”
At the same time, there is another person who cannot fall asleep… that person is Su Yue.
She lies on her bed alone, tossing and turning but unable to fall into slumber.
In the end, she gets up from her bed alone, and decides to talk a walk near the fish pond outside of her room.
There is no moon tonight. This village is naturally enveloped by a vast darkness.
As she strolls around the fish pond, Su Yue cannot stop thinking about the once happy, lively Bing Er who always used to have a smile on her face. Then, she slowly squats down and begins to scoops up some water.
“Bing Er…” Without her noticing, her face is already covered in tears. “I am sorry, so sorry…”
Just then, she suddenly feels a chill wash over her.
Looking down at that inky dark fish pond, she can vaguely feel that within it, there is an unclear silhouette.
What is that?
Then, she hears footsteps behind her back.
She turns around and sees that amidst the darkness, there is someone walking slowly towards her.
“Who…who are you?!” Although Su Yue was feeling very scared at that moment, but she still calls out.
The other does not answer.
As the figure gets closer, she realises that that black silhouette is very distorted, almost as though there are no bones in its body!
Su Yue quickly stands up, trying to run away. But, it is already too late…
Without knowing when, that black silhouette has already appeared in front of her.
But it is too dark for her to see the other’s face.
She hears the sound of running water carrying over from the fish pond in the back, as though something was rus.h.i.+ng out.
The silhouette in front of her extends its hands and clasps tightly onto Su Yue’s neck! Su Yue can only feel that the hand is completely soaked in water.
“Bing…Bing Er…” She feels as though her life is about to be extracted from her body.
As expected, she came back.
Before Su Yue dies, a ray of moonlight s.h.i.+nes down. As her surroundings are bathed in moonlight, Su Yue sees it, Bing Er’s cold and white face.
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