Chapter 108: You'll Die
Fear consumed her mind. Zhou Sisi’s mind was blank. Her body froze. The man wore a high school uniform. His face was cut open by a knife. The blood still hadn’t coagulated on his wounds.
The man lay on Zhou Sisi. Part of his cold body even came out of the mattress. The gory face moved. The man’s pupils danced. His cracked lips slowly opened. The teeth fell, and a voice entered Zhou Sisi’s ears.
“…You are the 50th… 50th to die.”
Zhou Sisi was shaking. She had no idea what the man was saying. She tried to escape, but her body felt like it was pressed down by a giant boulder. She felt blood ooze out of her mattress. Her bed seemed to have become a giant mouth that wanted to swallow her.
“Who are you?” Zhou Sisi extended her neck to get away from the face. However, the face stuck to her nose and stared into her eyes. The mouth opened again. There appeared to be something moving in his mouth.
“You’ll die if you’re in the classroom alone; you’ll die if someone lies; you’ll all die because you deserve to die…” The dead body stuck to Zhou Sisi and pressed down on her before disappearing into the darkness. When she regained freedom, Zhou Sisi jumped down from the bed. She opened all the lights as fast as she could.
“It was not a dream!”
Zhou Sisi couldn’t see the man’s face, but she felt that it was familiar. She had seen it before, but she couldn’t remember where.
“Is he my deskmate? Impossible! In my memory, no one from high school died, and no one looked like that!”
Zhou Sisi’s hair stood on end. She held her phone and stood in the living room. Everything felt like it had been tainted by death. Zhou Sisi didn’t dare to close her eyes. She took out her phone and called the police. The police came half an hour later. Zhou Sisi told them everything and was rewarded with confused looks. The police checked the surveillance and Zhou Sisi’s room. They found nothing. They comforted Zhou Sisi and left.
Zhou Sisi’s fear didn’t lower due to the police’s arrival. Zhou Sisi called her parents and friends. Everyone told her that she was overthinking due to fatigue at work. They told her to rest. Zhou Sisi couldn’t get back to bed at 2 am. To make the place sound livelier, she switched on the television and computer. The screens were broadcasting news.
“Our city’s old city has recorded two assault cases yesterday night. The victims were treated as prey. The killer seems to treat the city as a stage. Every time after they kill, they would leave behind a ditty and a music box. Criminal expert Li Wuchan gave his analysis. The killer should have been traumatised when they were young. The music box is their childhood nightmare..” Zhou Sisi was even more scared. “There are more horrible cases happening in Han Hai lately. What is wrong with the world?”
Zhou Sisi grabbed her phone as the fear thickened. She glanced at her bedroom. “I can’t keep escaping. I need to find out who the dead body is!”
Zhou Sisi called Gao Ming. They were deskmates for a while and had a good relationship. Zhou Sisi was nervous as the call was answered, “Gao Ming, I’m so sorry to disturb you so late at night. I just encountered something scary!”
The music came from the music box. Zhou Sisi thought it was noisy, so she switched off the news. However, the music did not stop!
The music seemed to come from the phone.
Zhou Sisi held the phone. She listened to the rain, melody from the music box and barely discernible moaning from the phone. Her brain was about to explode.
“Did you run into anything scary, Zhou Sisi…” Goa Ming’s voice was low and cool, like a machine.
Hearing her name on Gao Ming’s lips, Zhou Sisi’s heart chilled. “It’s… nothing. I’ll hang up now.”
Zhou Sisi switched on the television again. The killer’s music box was playing the same melody. Zhou Sisi’s drowsiness disappeared fully. She thought about her school friends entering different professions, but she didn’t think her friend would appear on the news like this. The night tortured her, but eventually, dawn came.
Zhou Sisi put on simple make-up and downed a large glass of water. She had no appetite for food.
“The deskmate I remember is a killer, and the deskmate I don’t remember is a ghost. I am going to a gathering with them.” Zhou Sisi’s mind buzzed. She put on casual clothes and exited the house with an umbrella. She came to the designated meet-up spot. The rain lightened.
“The rain is so heavy, but we are still going to the villa for the gathering. Either I’m crazy, or the world is crazy.”
“If we don’t go crazy now, when will we have the chance anymore?”
When Zhou Sisi arrived, a few others were already there.
The fashionable lady who was complaining was Cai Meimei. The last two numbers of her school code were 01. She used to be the school broadcaster. Then, she went to work at the broadcast centre and married the chief 11 years older than her.
The person talking to Cai Meimei was the sports committee leader, Xi San. He was tall and handsome. He was a basketball player and famous in high school. After graduation, his life went downhill. Apparently, he was a victim of the MLM scheme. The last two numbers of his school code were 02.
The students gradually arrived. Some came with luggage. They hugged and talked about the past. A few students were like Zhou Sisi, standing at the corner with thoughts on their minds.
The bus door opened. The driver with the black band got up first. There was still 10 minutes to the designated time. Gao Ming and Liu Yi arrived. Liu Yi carried a box filled with stuff. Gao Ming looked like he was sick. His face was pale.
Seeing Gao Ming, Zhou Sisi shivered. She wanted to hide, but Gao Ming walked towards her.
“What did you want to ask me yesterday night?” Gao Ming had a good impression of his old friend. She was kind, optimistic and liked to go on adventures.
One time, when he was sick at school and skipped gym class, Zhou Sisi brought the food box from the canteen to him. The reason was Gao Ming looked like a kitten that no one wanted.
Zhou Sisi didn’t dare to look at Gao Ming. She hadn’t seen him for years but he had completely changed. He was cold and dangerous but there was something about him that pulled people to stay with him.
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