Chapter 14 (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
“They abandoned us! They abandoned us, you know?”
In the room of another hotel, Little Zhou walked around, speaking with a tone of discontent, like an abandoned wife.
“Oh.” Li Liang lay in bed lazily, looking indifferent about anything at all.
Bi Wanhui spoke not a word. The shock of a friend dying before her eyes was pretty big for her.
Little Zhou snarled, “Can you guys respond?”
“Haven’t I already?” said Li Liang. “I think it’s very good. We don’t have to go out there and risk our lives, and we will get through the mission safely.”
“If we don’t participate, we won’t get any reward,” said Little Zhou. “Have you forgotten?”
“I don’t care.” Bi Wanhui said one sentence and then grew silent again.
Li Liang waved a hand. “Come on, did you really think you’re playing a video game? People die in missions.”
“Didn’t that monk say he’ll protect us?” retorted Little Zhou.
Li Liang chuckled. “He said so, and you just believed him?”
“He’s very good at fighting, he could clearly have brought us on the mission with them.” Little Zhou emphasized it again. “But they saw us as a burden and abandoned us!”
It was already night, and Tang Luo and the other two had yet to return.
Earlier in the morning, they had only left them some money. The party at the hotel didn’t even know the trio’s whereabouts. But they had actually left behind a copy of the credentials.
Li Liang and Bi Wanhui only wanted to keep themselves alive and away from dangerous tasks. They were pretty pleased by this situation, but Little Zhou was different. He was too scared to participate but unwilling to stay back.
After being ignored and “abandoned” by Tang Luo’s group, the more he thought about it, the angrier he was.
“F*ck bringing us.”
Li Liang said, “Did you think everyone in the world is your mother and has to spoil you? It’s already not bad that he gave us money and arranged for us to stay here. Though the monk stabbed me before, to be fair, he’s a good guy.”
An unemployed youth, who had encountered difficulties, understood the cruel ways of the society more or less.
“Are the high school students right now all so self-centered?”
Li Liang completely forgot that he had also been in that stage once, and started to mock him.
Actually, everyone’s circumstances were similar. The only difference was that some could quickly adjust their state of mind, while others would lose their balance.
Taunted by Li Liang, Little Zhou, whose mood was bad in the first place, roared, “Shut up!”
“Oh, so you’re trying to fight, huh?”
“F*ck… you!”
Little Zhou’s reaction was far more violent than Li Liang had expected.
‘Someone actually made such a suggestion? I shall satisfy him, then.’
Li Liang saw the energetic teenage curse loudly before rushing towards him. The two started fighting intensely on the bed.
Then, Li Liang tragically realized that he actually couldn’t beat him!
As a university student that had spent four years eating and sleeping, Li Liang was really not too good in terms of physical fitness. It was far from his peak period during high school. Not to mention, he had yet to recover from his body being hollowed out.
Little Zhou did the daily running exercise mandated by the school, and he was pretty fond of sports such as basketball. After all, it was one of the few recognized forms of entertainment for a boarding student. Also, he had quite some strength.
His fist went right towards Li Liang’s face, bashing his nose, from which a long stream of blood gushed out.
“Crazy!” Bi Wanhui scolded, before opening the room door and walking out without hesitation.
Tang Luo had generously booked three rooms for them, but out of habit and fear, they had stayed together.
Right now, the two ended up fighting. Bi Wanhui was not in the mood to mediate their quarrel, nor did she want to stay on and watch the two men fight.
Bi Wanhui took out the key and opened the door to the room next to it. She reached for the door and was going to push it open when she heard the sound of footsteps behind her.
This hotel was clearly much worse than the one they stayed in yesterday. The floor of the corridor often squeaked when being stepped on, and footsteps would be particularly noticeable.
One side was light, the other heavy.
Upon hearing the footsteps, Bi Wanhui’s body instinctively trembled as she recalled the same footsteps she had heard the previous night. Thus, she pushed the door faster.
Yet, just as Bi Wanhui pushed the door half-open and was going in, or escaping into the room, her movement stopped.
The footsteps she heard just now also stopped.
A piercingly cold breath was blown onto Bi Wanhui’s neck, and she entered a trance. It was as though she was no longer in the hotel but inside a dark, cold, strange environment.
The hair on her body stood up, and her hands and feet felt numb.
Bi Wanhui stood right where she maintained the posture of pushing the door, motionless, stiff like a statue. Only the horrified expression on her face changed wildly, and her tears flowed.
She didn’t know who was behind her, but the fear of impending death completely shrouded her, and it was destroying her spirit little by little.
‘A blow. A blow.’
The icy cold breath on her neck became heavier. Yet the temperature of the exhaled air dropped further. Bi Wanhui even saw a layer of white frost gradually appear on the door opposite her.
She used all her strength to open her mouth, wanting to shout.
At that moment, the person behind her also started moving.
A pair of hands extended from Bi Wanhui’s armpits, like a lover’s embrace from the back.
If not for the dagger in the hands that “converged” in front of her.
A rusty dagger!
The blade that was not particularly sharp was pointed right at Bi Wanhui’s chest. Not the position of the heart, but in the middle.
The real “embrace” began, and the arms, which stretched out from behind her, started tightening.
Right at that moment, Bi Wanhui’s body suddenly shook, and her mad struggles in silence finally worked. She was like a suffocating person, suddenly breathing fresh air, as she broke free of the ropes that bound her.