Chapter 263 - The Stench (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Yang Chen and Lee Xue ran out in a hurry. The three of them stood in the corridor and looked down. They saw nothing but darkness.

“Where are the footsteps?”

“I really did hear them! It sounded like someone was jumping down the corridor!”

“You’re just scaring yourself, come help us.”

Lee Xue dragged Wang Dan into the last room while Yang Chen stood outside for a moment. He repeated the thing that Wang Dan mumbled about earlier. “Jumping?”

The three ransacked the last bedroom. Most of the trash on the bed was made from foam and wooden blocks. It looked dirty and messy, but none of it would produce any weird smell.

“Was this room purposely left open to store trash?” Lee Xue used the sleeve of her shirt to block her nose. “But why does that bed have a mattress on it? Who would sleep in an environment that is as dirty as this?”

“Now our consideration shouldn’t be the occupant of this room.” Yang Chen picked up one piece of trash from the bed and gave it a good sniff. “When we entered this secret scenario, there was a weird stench in the air, and the stench is the most intense in this room. This means that the thing that gives out that stench should be here. We need to find that thing to solve the mystery of this scenario.”

“Ol’ Yang has a point. There is so much trash inside the room, but none of that is radiating this stench. It’s very weird.” Wang Dan walked to the only bed with a mattress. “This relatively clean bed has the strongest smell.”

He put his hand on one of the corners of the mattress before yanking it back. There was nothing scary underneath the torn mattress except a notebook. Wang Dan picked it up and gave it a read.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have gotten too close; I just wanted to help you pick up the ball.

“Teacher, it wasn’t my plan to dirty my shirt. No one bullied me, this is all my fault.

“Father, I will do my best to be a better person. Please don’t hit me anymore.

“I’m sorry, I don’t know why I look so ugly when I smile. I will stop doing that.

“Where did you think I went wrong? I can change, I really can change!

“I just want to be like them, I’m sorry…”

The notebook was thin, but it was filled with apologies.

“Is something wrong with the writer? Why is he only focused on apologizing? He should fight back if someone bullied him!” Wang Dan scoffed. He was very much against what the owner of the notebook did or rather did not do.