1TWITF[C Chapter 87

Chapter 87

After previous mission takers left, his world would return to normal, including himself.

But now…

Lu Yanli reached out and touched his left eye, which still throbbed with pain. He closed his other eye, and the vision in his left eye was dim and blurry, making it difficult to see clearly.

The impact of the mission had actually extended beyond the mission itself!

The little girl jumped out of her parents’ arms and ran out, bumping straight into Lu Yanli.

“Brother, are you crying?” She smiled, her shriveled face and hollow eye sockets staring at him.

Lu Yanli turned his head to look at the mirror. In the reflection, the bloodstains at the corners of his eyes had not disappeared, making him look somewhat sinister and terrifying.

Behind him, everyone in the museum stopped moving and turned their heads in unison, silently watching his departing back.

It was different from before! Those people’s gazes… were all fixed on him, sizing him up in a subtle way, full of malice, like a shadow following him.

It was as if he had suddenly been noticed by everyone.

Lu Yanli knew why.

Just like now…

“Going on vacation?” The clown-like girl stood in front of Lu Yanli, handing out a leaflet.

Lu Yanli didn’t want to look, but her hand twisted in a bizarre way, pressing the leaflet directly in front of Lu Yanli’s face.

“Won’t you really go and take a look?”

“Go take a look…”

A doll riding in a pumpkin carriage wobbled and circled around Lu Yanli, its childish voice singing a nursery rhyme.

Lu Yanli didn’t move, and the little girl stood in front of him, her black eyes staring at him without blinking. The corners of her upturned mouth slowly drooped, and the malice in her eyes grew stronger.

“Come… take a look…” She stretched out her arm.

The cover of the leaflet was painted with a human face, but not a clown, but a heavily made-up face from a Chinese opera. The face smiled at Lu Yanli, then opened its mouth and began to sing.

The people around him listened with rapt attention, but Lu Yanli couldn’t hear anything. But he knew that if he could start hearing these things, that would be terrible.

“Go… go…”

Lu Yanli reached out and took the leaflet.

Only Lu Yanli stood in the middle of the road, holding the ominous leaflet.

He knew that he had to go.

*

“Yi Zhenzhen, come out for a moment.”

Yi Zhenzhen had always been silent and reticent in class, with nothing special about her. After a little speculation, the English teacher entered the room with a gloomy face, and the students immediately obediently began to recite vocabulary.

No one knew what had happened. Yi Zhenzhen suddenly returned to the classroom in tears to pack her things, saying that she was going to ask for leave to go home for a few days.

The class teacher sent her back, carefully watching her face along the way.

Yi Zhenzhen still didn’t speak.

Even her crying was silent. She arrived at the police station with red eyes all the way. After going through a pile of procedures, the class teacher accompanied her to identify the body.

With just one glance, Yi Zhenzhen cried so hard that she could barely stand. Several police officers at the scene also felt uncomfortable and turned away to wipe their tears.

The class teacher went to inquire about the situation.

Although everyone knew that this was likely to be the same as the previous unsolved cases, where the murderer would never be found and would eventually be concluded as suicide.

“She couldn’t have committed suicide. Something must have happened!” Yi Zhenzhen said firmly.

The police persuaded her to think again: “Think again? Has she been acting strange lately? For example, has she started believing in some religion or something?”

Recently, many new cases had been added, all related to cults. With seven or eight people dying abnormally like this, their first thought was the increasingly rampant cults.

Yi Zhenzhen thought for a long time, then slowly shook her head.

Then, the police showed her some photos, all of the other victims in this incident. Yi Zhenzhen still said she didn’t recognize them.

After a lot of trouble, the sky darkened, and the class teacher accompanied Yi Zhenzhen out of the police station.

Before she could think of how to comfort Yi Zhenzhen, the other person spoke first: “Teacher, I’m fine. Can I take a few days off to deal with the funeral?”

A tall, thin man followed her.

It was Chu Xiu.

He was always paying attention to new abnormal death events in the local area. When he heard again that seven people had died abnormally somewhere, he knew that another mission had arrived.

He was a little worried.

Were those mission takers simply unwilling to share, or did they not survive the missions at all? Therefore, no one knew what their missions were.

Like this time.

It was no wonder that the police thought of cults, because the images shown in the haunted house surveillance were quite strange. Seven people entered the haunted house, and at first, everything was normal. Everyone was chatting, but the second after midnight, all of them died bizarrely.

Another… total annihilation.

He didn’t know what kind of mission they had taken this time, but no one had returned.

Chu Xiu’s last mission was to a strange underground world, and everyone except him was a newcomer. That mission was quite difficult, and only he survived.

He reached out and stroked the red mark on his body, thinking of someone.

The other world that the mission takers went to was not always the same place, but no matter where he went, what kind of NPCs he came into contact with, he had never met someone like Lu Yanli… someone he didn’t know how to describe.

He even vaguely had a feeling that the other person had already noticed the abnormality of the terrifying world he was in and the outsiders.

Why was he so special?

Chu Xiu didn’t understand, but he still firmly carried out his promise and lived with that statue. To his relief, no other strange things had happened since that day’s bizarre phenomenon.

Just then, his phone rang.

“Hello? Miss Lin?” Chu Xiu answered the phone. The caller ID was Lin Chu.

Lin Chu was very polite on the other end of the phone, asking him to meet her the next day, saying that she had some things to talk to him about regarding the mission.

Chu Xiu sensed that she was a bit malicious, but he considered himself capable of dealing with it. After saying a few words, he agreed. He was a little worried, so he took out some parts from his safe at home, quickly assembled a gun, and filled it with bullets.

On the other end of the phone, Lin Chu stood in a private room, the muzzle of a gun pointed at Yu Huaiyao’s head. An Ru lay on the ground, a pool of blood spreading on his head.

“Avenge…” Yu Huaiyao muttered the two words softly. “What exactly do you want to do?”

The answer he got was a forceful blow to the back of his head with the gun butt, and the last sentence he heard before losing consciousness: “It’s none of your business.”

Lin Chu put away the gun, squatted down to make sure the two were still breathing, then climbed out of the private room window and escaped along the alley.

*

It was the weekend, and some girls in a class were sitting together watching TV on the class’s all-in-one machine. They were all obsessed with a male celebrity, and at this moment, the TV was showing an interview with that male celebrity.

“He’s so good-looking…” The girl closest to the screen blushed.

“Speaking of which, he wants us to love him with our lives, but we already love him so much.” A girl in the back row said, “I’ve already used my own blood to dye red threads, as the fan club said, to tie lucky knots and pray for him.”

“Me too, me too. I even tattooed his name on my body, all stitched by myself, without any anesthesia.”

She pointed outwards: “If we all jump off the roof together, wouldn’t that be shocking enough? If he knew, he would definitely be very happy, right?”

“That’s right!”

“That makes sense! It’s rare that the teacher isn’t here now, should we go now?”

“But…”

“There’s no buts! Don’t you love him?”

“Okay! Hold hands and jump together!”

“It is reported that thirty-one girls from a certain university collectively committed suicide by jumping off a building. The cause is unknown. The current death toll is thirty-one, and the specific situation is still under further investigation…”

Lin Chu frowned as she listened to the news.

What’s wrong with people these days? Why are there so many strange news reports?

She printed out the news and recorded it.

She looked at her watch and realized that the time she had agreed to meet Chu Xiu was approaching. Lin Chu opened the drawer, took out her gun, and prepared various homemade drugs on her body before leaving home and taking a car to a park.

She muttered Chu Xiu’s name, and unknowingly, her eyes filled with killing intent.

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