Vol 18 Chapter 5-1 (1/2)
Zheng felt a layer of ice froze over his heart. He charged out the next instant without another thought. Yet, the human figure had already been dragged to the window. The girl cried miserably as she fell off the window. Zheng wasn't able to grab her despite his speed. He did not stop right here. Zheng charged to the window and leaped off.
But there was nothing outside. The girl that was dragged away was no where to be seen. Everything that happened seemed as though it was his illusion. Zheng landed on the ground. There was not a single drop of blood. He stood on the street alone.
(How could that have been possible? I saw her fell off the window. It was less than a second between that and me reaching the window. How could she disappear in such a short amount of time? Impossible!)
A frightened expression overtook his face. He quickly turned his head around to look at the window. A shiver ran down his spine as he saw a man stood on where he was. The man had a burned face, wore a black hat, black and white striped clothes, and a pair of scissor like gloves, with five blades extended out from between th fingers. The man was holding a girl. Those blades were slicing away her skin and flesh. In his creepy laughter, the girl slowly thinned into a skeleton.
”Ah!” Zheng felt a wave of shock and anger. He did not fear the demon in reality. He could smash him into paste with Destruction if he had to. However, the moment he activated Explosion, bang!
He looked to the side and saw the people he was familiar with. He was lying on shattered pieces of a bed. The bed collapsed from the force exerted by Explosion. Zheng jumped up at once without exiting Explosion. Barely anyone there saw how he came near them.
”Where is this place? What time is it?” Zheng asked in a rush. His body was still tensed and in alert in case these people were disguised by Freddy.
The others looked to each other before Kampa said, ”It's eight in the morning already, in the hotel we stayed in.”
Zheng held his hand over his forehead and looked around. The environment superimposed with the memory of his room. It took several seconds for his mind to register. He was sweating by this time. ”That was hard to imagine. I actually fell asleep last night. I couldn't even know what time I fell asleep. Oh, the five of you…”
Zheng turned to the girls. Yet, he only saw four girls standing there. The one named MoLi was gone. He immediately realized what he experienced wasn't a mere illusion. He witnessed a girl died after he fell asleep. That girl was MoLi.
”She died?”
The response from the rest of the team was out of his expectation. They looked at him weird. Xuan said after a while of silence. ”We don't have a person named MoLi. We have three newbies in this movie, ShuLan, Ouyan Wei, and LiuYu. Then there's the eleven veterans.”
”Impossible!” Zheng stared at his team with his eyes wide open. His Qi and Blood Energy were ready to be activated the second anyone here reacted incorrectly. This must still be in the dream. How could the team forget the newbie? Or was it his memory that was altered?
Yet, no one did anything strange. Heng and YinKong looked at him weird as they sensed the movement of Qi and Blood Energy from him. YinKong entered a defensive stance. Zheng appeared the most suspicious among the team.
(No. If this is a dream, I wouldn't be able to use Qi and Blood Energy. The energies prove this isn't a dream. Then why did they say there's no one named MoLi? Is my memories wrong? Was I in a dream the whole time before?)