Apartment from Hell Chapter 10 (1/2)
Chapter 10 – The Specter of the Water
When Luo Hengyan opens his eyes again, he suddenly finds himself…sitting in the middle of a forest.
How is this possible?
He was clearly just lying on the bed!
Then a danger sign is generated in his mind. Can…Can it be…
He immediately climbs to his feet and stands up. The dense forest is filled with endless darkness, as though a monster might appear from the inky darkness at any time.
At this instant, he feels very cold. But he dares not move an inch.
After all, the time he has been living in the apartment is too short for him to have much experience. At this moment, he is completely clueless as to how to handle this situation. But still, he does not understand: Why was he the one who was chosen?
There should not be any reason!
Just then, he suddenly hears a voice resounding from behind him, “You… Aren’t you that person from the city?”
Turning around, he sees that the person speaking is surprisingly, Liang Renbin.
There is not only him. Song Tian, Ge Ling and Hong Wu are also following him.
“You guys…” Then, Hengyan understands something. “Can you guys also be…”
“We ended up here mysteriously when we woke up,” Hong Wu looks all around him and says, “Could it be a prank that you guys pulled?”
“Nonsense!” Hengyan has no mood to argue with him now. But Songtian and Ge Ling appear to be especially scared. The calmest of them all is Liang Renbin.
He says without a trace of panic, “Let’s walk back. We’re close to the village anyways.”
Only then does everyone then calm their spirits a little and move forward. At any rate, they are not that far away from the village. But Luo Hengyan is very nervous. He constantly looks at his own shadow, worrying that it might change. Fortunately, his shadow remains normal throughout. It seems like this is still within the apartment’s a.s.signed area for the Village of Tranquil Water.
“Renbin!” Song Tian suddenly shouts. “Ah Xiu… Has she undergone any weird changes recently?”
“What do you mean?” Liang Renbin asks, seemingly confused, “Your words, just what…”
“I, I…” Remembering that horrifying experience still makes Song Tian’s whole body s.h.i.+ver. But he still gathers his courage and asks, “Is Ah Xiu doing something?”
He recently started to suspect: Could Ah Xiu have casted some voodoo spell on them? Or perhaps, she is the voodoo master that exists in legends? Because only that can explain the ghostly phenomenons that were happening to him.
“What nonsense are you spouting!” Liang Renbin says in anger, “What do you think Ah Xiu has done?”
“She… Is it possible that she knows some kind of sorcery? There’s always a strange feeling around her. I, I suspect she knows how to summon ghosts. Otherwise, why is it such a coincidence that every time she curses us during Li Bing’s commemoration day, those curses always come true? You see, Uncle Haotian and Ah Qin have both disappeared…”
“Shut up!”
Liang Renbin’s temper explodes as he rushes forward, about to beat him up. Ah Wu quickly stops him. “Renbin, what are you doing!”
“I also think she is abnormal!” Ge Ling hurriedly supports Song Tian and says, “She always seems so murderous! Everyday, all she thinks about is how to get revenge on us. For Li Bing, I am afraid she can do anything! That’s right, aren’t there rumours about some voodoo master? Perhaps she’s that kind of person? Or maybe she is summoning pen spirits or something like that.”
As Luo Hengyan stands to the side and listens to them quarrel about these kind of things, he really feels the onset of a headache.
Voodoo master? Of course not!
Xia Yuan has mentioned to them that the b.l.o.o.d.y instruction given by the apartment will purely be supernatural cursed situations in which no human factors will possibly be involved. Ah Xiu definitely cannot influence the b.l.o.o.d.y words.
But he has no way to point this out to them.
Right now, Luo Hengyan only wants to return to Ah Xiu’s house. After all, who knows what will
happen next if they remain in this shadowy and humid forest?
Humid…
He suddenly recalls that Li Yin’s warnings that “water” is a key factor.
Since this gra.s.sland is indeed very wet, Luo Hengyan instantly becomes more vigilant.
As time pa.s.ses, he feels waves of ominous wind blow past and says, “Stop quarrelling guys… We, we should leave quickly!”
Just like that, those people stop quarrelling.
Luo Hengyan suddenly feels a bit strange… What is going on?
He senses there is something really unnatural, but he cannot tell where does this unnaturalness come from.
They continue walking. At this moment, Luo Hengyan is also very frightened and paranoid, constantly worrying that something will appear around him. And just at this time…
“Renbin! Ah Xiu… Has she undergone any weird changes recently?”
Luo Hengyan is shocked. Why… is this question asked again?
But this time it is Ge Ling asking instead of Song Tian.
The even more bizarre thing is that Liang Renbin does not appear to remember being asked this question at all. He reacts the same way as before, asking in confusion, “What does that mean? Your words, just what…”
Then Ge Ling replies, “Is Ah Xiu doing something?”
Instantly, Liang Renbin becomes angry again. He says, “What nonsense are you spewing! What do you think Ah Xiu has done?”
This conversation is exactly the same as the one before. The only difference is that Song Tian’s lines are spoken by Ge Ling.
Luo Hengyan immediately cuts her off, “You, why are you saying the exact same words as before?”
But Ge Ling completely disregards him and continues speaking, “She… Is it possible that she knows some kind of sorcery? There’s always a strange feeling around her. I, I suspect she knows how to summon ghosts. Otherwise, why is it such a coincidence that every time she curses us during Li Bing’s commemoration day, those curses always come true? You see, Uncle Haotian and Ah Qin have both disappeared…”
“Shut up!”
“I think she is abnormal!” This time, Ge Ling repeats what she said previously, “She always seems so violently murderous! Everyday, all she thinks about is how to get revenge on us. For Li Bing, I am afraid she can do anything! That’s right, aren’t there rumours about some voodoo master? Perhaps she’s that kind of person? Or maybe she is summoning pen spirits or something like that.”
This is completely akin to replaying a video tape. Once again, Liang Renbin rushes up before being restrained by Ah Wu…
“Enough, enough!”
Luo Hengyan yells at them to stop, “Are you guys insane? Why are you repeating the exact words as just now? Just what has happened to you all?”
Everyone looks at him as if they are watching an alien. As Ah Wu stares at him, he says, “What do you mean?”
“You guys have become so weird!” Luo Hengyan says, “Are you under the influence of a curse? What’s going on?”
This just like what Xia Yuan said before.
The further down the line, the more inscrutable and incomprehensible the b.l.o.o.d.y missions become, completely exceeding the boundaries of common sense.
And he also said that during these kinds of situations, first of all, they should not panic but instead, try every means to find the rules and patterns governing these strange phenomenons.
But right now, Luo Hengyan is losing his ability to think clearly. After all, his intelligence and maturity are not even on par with Li Yin and Qin Shoutian, and simply incomparable to Xia Yuan. He simply believes that the people in front of him are under the influence of some wicked spell.
Hence, he stops paying attention to them. Turning around, he runs away.