Apartment from Hell Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 9 – The Feast of Blood (IV)

Suyue abruptly opens her eyes.

She is still lying on her bed. She hasn’t gone outside at all.

Nightmare? Were those scenes just nightmares?

But when she reaches up to touch her neck, she realizes that her neck is completely covered with water!

Then… her sight s.h.i.+fts to the door of the bedroom.

She clearly shut that door before bed!

“Drip Drop…”

“Drip Drop…”

“Drip Drop…”

Droplets of water fall onto the floorboards.

A pair of bare feet glides slowly across the ground.

Moonlight s.h.i.+nes through the window. In front of Suyue, a woman whose entire body is deathly white and continuously dripping water walks past the entrance of her door.

“Ahh…Ahhh…” Suyue opens her mouth, but she only can make some meaningless sounds as she watches this scene happen before her.

She sits on her bed blankly. After a long time, she finally gathers enough courage to climb up. Her pupils continuously shrink and dilate. She is too scared to say anything.

Standing up slowly, she drags her feet to the door. But every step she takes feels as heavy as a thousand-pound weight.

When she walks out through the door, there is no one there.

But on the floor, there are rows of water traces, proving that what just happened was not merely a dream.

Suyue feels as though her body is being immersed into the frigid cold of an ice cavern.

She raises her foot and keeps walking forward. Whenever her feet step onto the water, it would be incomparably cold. And at the same time…water begins to seep out endlessly from the ceiling and the walls.

The amount of water gradually increases.

Suyue reaches the door of her older brother’s room. By now, water has begun to acc.u.mulate on the floor.

She can see that water is also seeping out from underneath the door of her brother’s room. Suyue extends her hands and pushes the door open lightly.

Her brother is still lying on the bed, but there is water gus.h.i.+ng from every crevice of his room. The strangest thing is that Ah Wu is sleeping very soundly, without even the slightest sign of waking up.

“O-Older brother… run, hurry, run…” Suyue uses all her strength to say these few words. But then, she could not continue to speak.

The cotton blanket covering her brother’s chest puffs up!

Then the bulging blanket slowly moves upwards.

“Stop, Bing…Bing…” Although Suyue is saying this, she does not dare to move a step forward.

Suddenly, that blanket violently bulges even further and two pale hands reach towards Ah Wu!

“No—”

Suyue opens her eyes again!

She is still lying on her bed and there is no trace of water acc.u.mulating on the floor. The moon outside of the window is still covered by overcast clouds.

Another nightmare?

How is it possible to wake up from a nightmare inside of a dream?

At this moment, a black shadowy figure suddenly appears at her door, nearly causing Suyue to scream shrilly. But then, she hears a familiar voice.

“What’s wrong? Suyue?”

It’s actually her mother, Zhang Yinglan.

“Mama…” Suyue instantly begins to cry as she runs into her mother’s embrace. “I, I’m scared… I’m so scared…”

“This child, what are you scared of?”

“I had a dream… Bing Er, she’s back and she wants to kill older brother…”

Suyue’s mother Zhang Yinglan smiles as she says, “What are you talking about? That’s not possible, Bing Er is

dead. How can she return?”

“But Papa… and Uncle Haotian and the rest…”

“Your father’s death…wasn’t related to any ghosts. Don’t listen to the villager’s nonsense. Ai, poor child, you

are thinking too much.”

“Mama… can you sleep here with me?”

“Ah? You’re already a grown-up and you still want me to sleep together with you?”

“Please…Mama…”

“This kid,” Zhang Yinglan says. “Alright, I will go get my blanket.”

After her mother leaves, Suyue finally breathes a sigh of relief.

But after a while, she suddenly thinks of one thing.

Mother?

Hasn’t her mother been staying at Auntie w.a.n.g’s house to play mahjong for the past two days till now? Isn’t she even sleeping over there?

She did not come home today at all!

And at this moment…a black figure appears at her door once again!

“Ahhh——–.”

Suyue sits up abruptly on her bed again.

Another nightmare.

Suyue desperately gasps for air on her bed, looking around continuously.

Is this the reality? Or is she still in a nightmare?