Chapter 31: A Noisy Night (2/2)

With only two measly hours of sleep, Bai Yan didn’t want to particularly open his eyes again, but the Gods above inevitably didn’t want him to sleep comfortably. The dog’s constant barks ceased as the familiar sounds of meat chopping from next door echoed through the walls.

“Bang bang bang. Bang bang bang.”

The next-door’s sturdy grandma used her strong and healthy body to chop up some meat. Even if Bai Yan closed his eyes, he could still imagine the enchanting scene.

Even dead people won’t forget the old lady’s appearance after seeing it. After the incident, Bai Yan already knew that the old lady was chopping up the poisonous insects she had gathered inside her basket and used the ritual money to fold the insects into dumplings, so he didn’t feel the slightest concerned and just closed his eyes, determined to not wake up again.

People fear the unknown the most. When he still didn’t know if the neighbor was chopping up human flesh, he would still take the time to speculate what the neighbor was doing and also what it was chopping up. But, after knowing what it was, his heart didn’t feel as nervous as before. On the other hand, the rhythmic sounds of chopping made him feel sleepy, calling him to be drowsier by the second.

Bai Yan endured sudden dizziness when he awoke from his deep sleep. He wanted to have a good night’s sleep and truly didn’t feel like opening his eyes.

“Crash. Crash.”

“Crash. Crash.”

As Bai Yan was about to sleep, the grandmother’s incessant water boiling and meat chopping sounds were surely for boiling the dumplings in the pot to cook the ritual paper thoroughly. The next thing he knew, the sounds of the marble tiles coming from upstairs were pulling Bai Yan back from the edge of his sleep.

It’s not over yet.

At this moment, Bai Yan was finally aware that something was wrong. It was as if there was something in the game that insisted on keeping him awake.

While he was still putting effort into closing his eyes, the floor above’s marble tiles made crashing noises. At the same time, a baby’s wails slowly accompanied this racket. After his eyelids moved a bit, the baby’s cries became increasingly intense as if it had been crying all night.

It was indeed a lively evening.

The cries from upstairs were getting worse. Finally, Bai Yan couldn’t take it anymore and opened his eyes.

As he opened his eyes, he received a shock.

Two pitch-black holes were in front of his eyes. The rotten skin was so close to his face that if he got any closer, the two’s faces would be clinging to one another.

Bai Yan rigidly shifted his eyes and saw Wu Jingang sitting beside him. His waist and back were abnormally straight while his face was pulled up to his cheeks in an unbelievable curve. They were face to face.

It was only after Bai Yan moved his head a little that he realized that Wu’s neck was stretched so far that it looked like a bent water pipe, a structure that no human being could possess.

Wu Jingang was dead.

Experiencing several heart-racing choices, Bai Yan was already familiar with the app’s patterns, so he calmly waited for his phone to buzz. Just as he had expected, his phone started to vibrate.

Bai Yan turned over the phone. His head was finally clear and was able to fully understand the situation.

Okay. For the development of the story, the app resorted to shameless means.

Bai Yan gave in and looked at his phone. The app had a new pattern tonight.

[Tonight was a noisy night. Dreadful things kept showing up in front of you, making you extremely frightened. You don’t know what’s going on.]

[A barking dog, a crying baby, the marble tiles in the ceiling, and water boiling and meat chopping sounds in the middle of the night made a racket. All of them appeared at the same time, making you rouse from your dreaming state. As you woke up, you were afraid to open your eyes, but you also discovered that Wu Jingang was sitting up. He sat beside you and with his bent and long neck, his deathly pale skin, his corpse-like face stuck to yours, staring at you for half of the night.]

[You have a small hunch that from the moment you fell asleep, it sat up and used its long white slender neck to hang down its head.]

[Dread had once again arrived, so you decide:]

[A. That this must be a dream. How could a person’s neck bend like this? You close your eyes, turnover, and go back to sleep.]

[B. Like yesterday night, continue to wake up Wu Jingang and tell him what happened right now.]

[C. How could a neck twist like that? Is he still a human? That isn’t my husband anymore. I need to kill him.]

After reading the three new choices, Bai Yan’s face slightly twitched as he felt a sudden itch in his palms. He wanted to kill the person who kept interrupting his sleep and threw his phone away.

With five minutes to spare, he crawled up and took a good look at the monster’s snake-like neck.

He was sure that this wasn’t a hallucination. He used his hand to carefully feel around the man’s neck, which had twisted in a way that it felt cold and smooth to the touch.

Being able to stroke the ghost’s neck so openly may be the only time he could do this during his career in the game.

Bai Yan hit the snake-necked monster since his heart wasn’t stirred with excitement. Instead, the rage that welled up from having his sleep interrupted became even more powerful.

Seeing that the countdown had almost reached its end, the sleep-deprived Bai Yan’s rationale was on the verge of crumbling.

Anyway, it’s been released once. Let’s just get it over with.