Chapter 176 - The Pervasive Terror (1/2)

Chapter 176 The Pervasive TerrorApparently, Fang Yan had derided them because he did not believe that there was anything weird in this room. He stubbornly held that Zhang Yaoyao had died due to her own misconduct. At least, her death had nothing to do with this place.

The house looked quite normal, in which there were white walls all around. Nothing strange could ever be perceived. If Zhang Yaoyao had not died, nobody would become suspicious about Fang Yan’s words.

Tang Xia showed the whites of her eyes subconsciously as she heard Fang Yan’s words. Zhang Yaoyao had passed away, how could he talk so cheerfully about her death and joke about her?

“What are you prating about?” Tang Xia failed to restrain her anger and said to Fang Yan discontentedly.

Fang Yan seemed to take it for granted. He said plausibly, “I was just speaking my mind. Am I wrong?” He looked at Song Sisi slovenly, ignoring Tang Xia totally.

Fang Yan had been focusing all his attention on Song Sisi since she had arrived, never worrying about how Tang Xia felt, as if his girlfriend were Song Sisi instead.

No one argued back and there was total silence in the room. Nothing but their faint breath could be heard. Maybe it was due to the heavy rain, but all of them felt cold and moist even though they were all together.

It was not a wise idea to sit around all day. Even if they couldn’t find a way out, at least they had to figure out the cause of Zhang Yaoyao’s death so that they could prepare themselves to stay here, although they had been compelled to do so.

Suddenly, Ye Yifan asked with concern, “Do you know what happened before she died?”

To find out the cause of a terrible consequence, they had to trace the source before drawing an accurate conclusion. Maybe the source was exactly the truth of the matter. They had to hold a belief in science anyway.

Their minds stopped wandering lazily the instant they heard his question. They kept their minds active, contemplating every deed that Zhang Yaoyao had done since their arrival.

To begin with, Zhang Yaoyao was a girl. The girls were divided into one group and slept in the same room. And she had been found dead on a bed in that room.

All the men cast their eyes on the two women in front of them. They should more or less know some details since they had spent the night with Zhang Yaoyao in the same room, while Zhang Yaoyao had died overnight.

Tang Xia had been looking at the ground and hadn’t raised her head the entire time, so she didn’t know that the men were staring at her. She was missing Zhang Yaoyao, showing all her grief and sorrow unconsciously.

But Song Sisi did not seem that calm. She was unwilling to be suspected by them and said firmly, “I remember…” She glanced sideways at Tang Xia now and then, which was noticed by Ye Yifan.

Dabing and Fang Yan almost asked excitedly in one voice, “What have you remembered?” They continued impatiently when seeing her stand still, “Hurry up.”

“I was in the yard, not in the room at that time. Zhang Yaoyao had fallen asleep when I came back to go to sleep.” Song Sisi spoke of such meaningless facts, but none of them hit the point, making everyone anxious.

“Can you tell us something worthwhile? Who cares what you did at that time?” Dabing had a short temper, so he asked impatiently to urge her to tell them something useful.

She did not say that she had been entangled with Fang Yan at that time, or Tang Xia would have thrown up when hearing such lousy words. After all, Tang Xia had already been in low spirits when recalling that moment.

Song Sisi met their demand and said, “What I mean is that Zhang Yaoyao was with Tang Xia before she died. You should ask Tang Xia for the details.” She succeeded in targeting Tang Xia.

And even if they had spent the night together, so what? Tang Xia had planned to argue back, but Song Sisi continued again. She had to hide all her arguments in her mind and hold back her tongue.

“When I walked in later, Tang Xia told me that Zhang Yaoyao was already asleep. Who knows if she was dead by then?”

Song Sisi looked to be wronged as she spoke. She couldn’t help trembling and getting goosebumps when she realized that she had been in the same room as a dead person.

Judging from her scared look, everyone could guess what Song Sisi meant. But in fact, she felt triumphant inside.

This was outright slander. Tang Xia pounded the table indignantly, stood up and said, “Don’t slander me.” She pointed at Song Sisi’s nose.

“Am I lying? What I said were facts.” Song Sisi pretended to be righteous, holding everything right on her side.

Tang Xia protested, “How can you say that? Zhang Yaoyao is my friend. How could I murder her?”

She treasured her friendship with Zhang Yaoyao so much and was intolerable to have an outsider make unrestrained remarks on it. She was simply trying to sully their friendship.

“It’s hard to say. Just like we can’t judge a book by its cover.” Song Sisi shook her head disdainfully while looking lazily out the window. That was the degradation of Tang Xia’s personality.

Tang Xia had already been mad at Song Sisi and almost turned irrational now. She said, feeling it inconceivable, “From my point of view, it’s hard to say who’s been harboring evil intent.” She laid the blame on the woman arguing with her.