Chapter 229 - The Flyer for Ghost Stories Society (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“No matter where I was, when the sun rose up and I woke up from my dream, I would tell myself it’s a new day. Yet, whenever I opened my eyes, the monster within me awakened. It would tear open my wounds relentlessly, and that bone-piercing pain reminded me.

“I’m my children’s killer, the source of all tragedy.

“I sought help from doctors, and they told me the monster was a manifestation of my conscience and guilt; it was me torturing myself.

“They suggested that I put my focus elsewhere, find a place where my heart could rest.

“I’m afraid of interacting with people, so I relied on medication and books as well as religion to seek escape.

“I have a small wish in my heart. Perhaps God will be able to forgive my sin to give me my salvation.

“In everyone’s eyes, I’m my children’s killer, but my God wouldn’t. I will give my everything to God.

“Three years ago, the pain finally stopped—perhaps the medicine was working. In fact, I could feel myself improving. I was more at peace with myself.

“The fall of the fourth year, the police came to me with a stranger. They said that this was one of the culprits who harmed my wife. The man came to me because he wanted to seek forgiveness. But why should I forgive him?

“My wife lost three of her children, and she was taken away from me forever not long after. I will never forgive him, never!

“The stranger opened his heart to me, but I didn’t feel a shred of pity for the man. If anything, I felt like he had not suffered enough punishment. Those kinds of people do not deserve forgiveness.

“After he was done, he seemed to feel better. Looking at how relieved he was, I was angry. I charged at him, and during our tussle, the locket on his neck snapped, and the necklace that had the carving of God fell to the ground.

“As if afraid that his most precious treasure would be stepped on, he used his body to shield the locket, to beg the God for forgiveness.

“I saw myself in the man; he was very similar, including the God in the locket. I had the very same locket—we believed in the same God!

“Why would my God forgive the murderer who harmed my wife?

“After the stranger left, I smashed the locket around my neck and burned everything religious I had in my house.

“The monster that had been silent for the past four years awakened once more. I thought I was healed, but I was merely lying to myself. However, this was perfect. I no longer needed to suppress the monster that was now a part of me.

“I found a knife inside the kitchen and chased after the stranger.

“God might have forgiven him, but I had not.”

The blood letters filled the wall. There were plenty more, but they became more and more incomprehensible, although they all had a feeling of confession to them.

The more he looked at them, the more afraid Guo Miao became. “Could this be Boss Chen’s past? The patient in this room was once Boss Chen? This mask is one he has used before?”

His mind went to impossible places to scare himself. “Could this be actual human skin?”