Chapter 55: Residual limbs, Broken arms (2/2)

Her tone, compared to her usual self, contained an extra trace of excited agitation.

”Oohh, ohh.........”

Cut my fingernails? Just that small little request?

Just when I was feeling perplexed, Xue Qing pulled onto my hands, leading me out of the bedroom, into the bathroom.

”Jun Cheng, help me take.”

”Ahh? Oohhh..........”

She wanted me to help her take down those knives that were hanging on the clothes rack, huh..........was it really such a good idea to pass such dangerous weapons over to her..........Uuu, forget it! Right now, I'll need to do my best to satisfy onto her requests!

Xue Qing took out that dagger which was relatively shorter, saying to me afterwards.

”Stretch out your hands.”

”Eeeh..........ohh!”

Was she going to use this thing to cut my fingernails? !

I stammeringly stretched out my right hands, and afterwards, without even affixing my hand's position at all, Xue Qing just directly swung out her blades dancingly.

Being stared at by her, my body once again became stiffened, with my both hands akin to being affixed into midair as it became immovable.

A slice.

There wasn't another slice being swung already, for my fingernail had been trimmed, with the excess bit being caught by using another hand of Xue Qing's.

I've personally witnessed what was being known as blade dancing!

Eventually, ten fingernails from my fingers used up only 10 slices for them to be trimmed.

This feeling........! It's roughly similar to that sensation last time when something breezed past my eyes! So, was Xue Qing using this blade to help me cut off my eyebrows at that time? !

With the level of skill onto utilizing a blade, even if it's performance artistes, after seeing it they would be ashamed, right?

Xue Qing kept her blades satisfiedly, afterwards grabbing my fingernails and did a small run out of the bathroom.

I blankly looked at the shadow of her figure, waiting till after she had ran out before shouting out.

”Hey! Xue Qing! Where are you going?”

I've just only stood up, wanting to chase after her when I noticed onto something very bizarre.

Wait, where's the bath water?

I remembered that yesterday, I was frantically carrying Xue Qing out from the bathroom, and had already forgotten to let out the bath water??

But right now, those bath water had already been let out!

Thinking back about it right now.........since Xue Qing simply doesn't even know how to operate a water heater, why would the water heater be always plugged in into electricity! ?

This! Don't tell me that I've seen onto ghosts..........no, wait. First, let's not go think onto those things that were unscientific.

Although Xue Qing had told me before that she was living by herself, but perhaps that there were other people living in here as well? On the second floor, weren't there some rooms that were void of dust too? For those rooms, even I had not entered right inside them.

Thinking up till this, I then walked out of the bathroom similarly, as I proceeded to the second floor.

Xue Qing seemed to be in her room, so I'll just go to the other rooms to confirm about it then.

Other than Xue Qing's bedroom, there are 3 rooms on the second floor for which their handles didn't have any dust at all.

It doesn't matter if they had dust on them or not. In any case, I'll just——open them up to confirm onto them.

I firstly walked to the neighboring room beside Xue Qing's bedroom, held down the door handle and pushed open the door.

This place looked to be like a study room. Seeing that Xue Qing usually would be carrying a book, her book collection must have not been less then.

I didn't walk inside, but proceeded onwards to the next room.

The next room was a place which was like a projecting room, with one side of the wall having an extremely huge screen being hung on, and the middle of the room having a sofa which looked to be of an extremely good quality being placed. On a small table, it was adorned with various fruits and snacks, plus there were 3D glasses as well. Under the screen, there was quite a few of those latest gaming consoles being displayed, and on the cabinets in the corner, all of them had CDs stacked upon; these probably should be film or gaming CDs.

So this place is an entertainment lounge, a place where one uses to watch movies or play video games. But, looking at the equipment here being so abundantly complete, it indeed made people feel rather envious, as many neets would all be dreaming of possessing such a room. I'm a little tempted to try that extremely big screen to play Monst** Hunter; the gaming immersiveness should be rather strong with it.

No wait, right now's not the time to play games. Shaking my head, I left this area, continuing to go investigate other rooms. I opened up the rooms that had dust on the door handles to take a glance at them; they were all empty rooms.

Looks like the rooms that were being used would then be tidied clean, huh.

Then that very last room should be that very mysterious guest's room, right?

Walking into the very last room, for a moment, I couldn't make out what it was being used for, but it looked to be like a storeroom just from the atmosphere alone, as it doesn't have any windows at all.

The corners of my mouth gave a twitch, because this means..........that Xue Qing was really living by herself!

There's really no one, huh! Then who exactly was it that let out of all the bath water! It can't be that I've seen onto a ghost again, right!

As if it's like it's trying to prove onto my conjecture, a gust of chilly air blew into my face, causing me to uncontrollably give out a cold shudder.

Speaking of which, because my jacket was being lent to Xiang Yue Xun, and with my shirt being put on onto Xue Qing, right now, my torso was in a current state of not wearing anything at all.

Uuu, so cold...........

I forcefully rubbed my hands and shoulders, crouching my body as I walked into this storeroom, wanting to peer inside of here to see what kind of things was being kept inside.

I first went to the bookshelves on the right to take a look. The shelves were spilt into two sections, with the top section displaying various squarish jars, and the bottom section displaying roundish jars.

What are these..........

When I distinctly saw onto what were these things afterwards, I felt a chill running down the scalp of my head, as I irrepressibly gave off an agonizingly pained look.

Because.........these things were!

Fingernails!

The fingernails were stored in the squarish little jars, with labels plastered on the top, the labels indicating the date and name. It wasn't that sort of fingernails that were being cut off by using nail clippers, but were whole, intact fingernails, and every jar contained 10 pieces of fingernails.

All of the fingernails were like bricks as they were tidily stacked upon each other.

Some of the nails were already yellowed, some were still white, and some even had blood splattered on top of it; just like as if it was just being spliced off from someone's finger.

I once again lowered my head to look at the bottom section, and what was being stored in the circlish small jars were...........

Eyeballs!

Eyeballs were floating within a stale-yellowish liquid formalin, and every one of those little jars contained an eyeball, with all of the eyeballs all facing looking upwards in an angular way. Even though they were only eyeballs, it made me feel instead that there were numerous gazes all currently staring at me...........no, staring at some kind of thing at the other side...........

I twitched my head around to go look at the other side, there's an extremely huge cabinet. Opening it up to take a look, inside was completely filled with mobile phone casing-sized little boxes, and on it too similarly had labels being plastered.

My mind gave rose to an ominous forewarning, but I still unresistingly took out a box and opened it up to take a look..........

What was being decorated inside the box, were entirely fingers.

From the thumb all the way to the pinky finger, in accordance to it's proper order, being tidily aligned and kept within the box. The sliced portion of the finger were very neat, and there weren't any fingernails at all on those fingers.

These fingers, every single finger of them were as straight as a pen, all of them pointing towards a certain direction.

And so, I once again followed these fingers which had pointed to a certain direction to investigate.........

Found onto a limb which didn't have any fingers at all.

My heart was akin to like being frozen by the chilling shock!

This place was exactly like as if someone had been conducting an exhibition of human hands and eyes anatomies, tidily displaying various portions of the human body!

What kind of a twisted mindset would one then be able to carry out these sort of things!

It's basically completely inhumane!

These were all...........these were all done by Xue Qing?

I was just like a man standing at the very edge of a cliff as I unsteadily shook about, with the pits of my heart repeatedly trading murmurs: 'It can't be?' and 'Impossible!' .

But I can't irrevocably dispute the truth being laid out right in front of me, as any sort of explanation would be futilely useless.

Damn it!

Xue Qing...........why...........!

”Jun..........Cheng?”

From my back, emanated a voice which sounded familiar, yet suddenly sounding like a stranger's.

My heart had fell down, crashing to the very abyss!