Chapter 55: Them (2/2)

Ye Shangyu stretched out a hand to her nose. Chai Xiaohe had already stopped breathing, and her heart had also stopped beating.

She sighed in disappointment, feeling sorry for this girl.

However, her sympathy was only to this extent and nothing more.

Chai Xiaohe was already dead, sympathizing with her was useless.

Ye Shangyu moved Chai Xiaohe’s dead body to the side, continuing to move the corpses of the other girls and clearing the doorway.

While she was dragging the bodies, Ye Shangyu discovered that some were still alive, so she moved them by the wall, prompting them to lean against the wall to spit the water out.

After a long while, Ye Shangyu felt that her head was somewhat heavy.

She subconsciously touched her head but found a pale set of dismembered hands attached to her hair. The fingers were still slightly trembling as if they still wanted to continue ‘washing her hair.’

“You’re so tenacious.”

She chuckled lightly, feeling amused despite what she’d been through.

After staying in the water for a long time, her entire body had started to wrinkle.

Ye Shangyu used her hands to pull off the dismembered hands, but the fingers of the ghostly hands were glued tightly to her hair. No matter how hard she tried, they wouldn’t come off.

Ye Shangyu thought about it and picked up the shampoo bottle, shower gel bottle, and dirty wet towel she left on the bathroom floor, finding a vacant shower head as well.

With a splash, the steaming-hot water sprayed out of the nozzle.

“The cold water has a problem. Hot water should be good.”

Ye Shangyu hurriedly stepped under the pouring water and let out a comfortable sound.

Swimming in freezing water in the middle of winter, a robust young man couldn’t handle it, even more so her, who sat in front of the computer all year round, working as an IT dog.

Ye Shangyu positioned herself to let the hot water run through her head. As the hot water landed, the stubborn ghostly hands on her head were as though they were boiled shrimp, turning scalding red.

Soon, the cooked-red hands slowly fell off of her hair, motionlessly dropping down to the floor.

Upon seeing this, Ye Shangyu used the nozzle to dampen the girls that were still alive, making the ghostly limbs still stuck to their body also fall off.

After her ghost story had finished, Ye Shangyu’s heart eased up a lot.

No other player could beat her profound understanding of the app.

The app’s purpose wasn’t to kill the players, rather, it wanted for players to clear through the levels earlier.

So after her ghost story was done, she could enjoy her safety for quite some time, and there was no need to feel anxious.

When her body wasn’t that cold anymore, Ye Shangyu turned around to face the door and effortlessly opened it.

Her opening the door acted as a trigger, because when the door was open, all of the dead girls on the floor had started to slowly crawl towards the drain.

“What are they doing?”

Ye Shangyu frowned as she saw this. The already dead Chai Xiaohe was the nearest to the drain, so she was the very first to crawl to it.

As soon as she reached the drain, a ghostly hand extended from the hole, dragging Chai Xiaohe to go in.

A massive human head squeezed into the narrow opening.

Then, Chai Xiaohe’s legs also went in until the tips of her toes had disappeared into the drain hole.

A whole person was dragged into the drain, but the drain didn’t clog up because Ye Shangyu saw that the used water was still flowing down the hole.

“This is…”

Ye Shangyu blankly stared at the dead girls from all directions crawling to the drain, entering it one by one.

Soon, the dismembered hands that fell to the ground also followed the flow of the groove to the drain, hiding away underground to God knows where.

Ye Shangyu knew that this matter still had not concluded.

Her ghost story was already done, but for the students in this school, the wretched nightmare would continue.

The corpses of these women had hidden away below this bathroom and could appear at any given time.

Next time, the limbs and bodies that will clog up the drain might be theirs.

Ye Shangyu sighed, her heart not feeling remorse.

Because, even if she weren’t there, this day was inevitable.

Looking at the empty bathroom, Ye Shangyu felt particularly lonely. Not less than an hour ago, this place was bustling with people and was full of women laughing and chatting.

Now, besides the survivors, the others were submerged into the ice-cold sewer, or their limbs could be tangled up and could never have peace.

“There’s still 6 levels… I don’t have that much time.”

Ye Shangyu gave the bathroom one more look, her heart full of worry for the future.

She didn’t know if she could do it, but she needed to.

In the end, she gazed at the towel Chai Xiaohe left behind and left the bathroom without looking back.

Ye Shangyu’s towel was already filthy, so she took another person’s towel in the changing room and used it instead of her own.

In any case, those girls won’t have the chance to use these anymore, so using anyone’s would all be the same.

She quickly patted her body dry and hurriedly put some clothes on, draping on her overcoat and leaving the bathroom with damp hair.

When she passed the stairs and returned to the ground floor, Ye Shangyu took out her phone and gave Bai Yan a call, setting a meet up in the nearby beverage shop.

After the phone call, Ye Shangyu took her time, hugging herself as she shivered.

Her face was as white as snow, and the strong cold wind outside chilled her until her face turned blue.

The bone-chilling wind was bitingly cold as it blew on her scalp. Subsequently, thin sheets of white goose feathers floated down, landing on her scattered black hair and making her crow-colored hair mottled with white.

Ye Shangyu raised her head facing the wind and realized that it was snowing outside.

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