Chapter 20
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Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
Seeing Shen Yuan’s ‘about to be praised’ appearance, Ye Zun had no idea what to say.
But it was true that his behaviour tonight was very friendly and polite. There was nothing to criticise.
Although the woman was nervous and scared, it was more like she was frightened by Shen Yuan’s sudden friendliness. Besides, she said that she had unplugged Shen Yuan’s father’s life support, killing with a guilty conscience.
Ye Zun’s stiffness just now was also because he thought of this. It seemed that Shen Yuan wasn’t aware of it yet.
He didn’t know what to say, shifting to the side to make space, letting him come in first.
With this movement, Ye Zun saw the living room behind Shen Yuan.
The light in the living room had gone out, but in the darkness, to his room’s diagonally left and opposite, the door to the master bedroom was opened and a pair of timid and disturbed eyes was secretly looking in his direction from between the crack.
Ye Zun was suddenly given a fright.
Shen Yuan walked through the doorway and turned his head back, following his gaze, seeing the door of the master bedroom slowly shut.
Ye Zun’s throat rolled slightly. He closed the bedroom door and locked it out of habit.
After returning to his senses, Ye Zun saw Shen Yuan sitting on the chair with his chin resting on the back of his hand, staring at him lazily.
Seeing Ye Zun looking back at him, Shen Yuan raised his chin and blinked in a bored manner. “Help me dry my hair.”
Ye Zun: “……?”
Shen Yuan looked calm and composed, saying in a steadily arrogant tone, “I have properly listened to you and have been kind to our mum. This is my compensation.”
Ye Zun didn’t want to come into conflict with him. If it would finally put a stop to this person constantly making trouble, drying his hair was just drying his hair ba.
He walked over and took the towel Shen Yuan handed to him, dropping it on his head and beginning to rub.
“Be a bit more gentle ah, I’m very afraid of pain.”
Ye Zun’s own scalp was also very sensitive. It hurts if he uses even just a little force, and he can’t even endure the hairdresser blow-drying his hair.
He equipped the strength he used to bath cats when he worked in the pet shop a while back, gently and patiently drying the hair.
By the end, his arms were a little sore and tired. “Done.”
He put the towel aside and casually reminded, “You’ll catch a cold if you keep walking around without a shirt.”
After speaking, Ye Zun climbed onto the upper bunk of the bed, not caring if the other listened or not.
As soon as Ye Zun got on the bed, he searched for the little white snake. It seemed that the snake had gone out for food at night, as it wasn’t in the bed.
——I should’ve returned it to its owner, but I actually forgot.
Ye Zun laid in bed, thinking of Lin. He lifted his eyes and sat up slightly in shock. “What are you doing up here?”
When Ye Zun sat up, the person who climbed up had already laid down next to him on his own initiative, head on his pillow and pulling the blanket over himself. He asked in a very natural tone, “Can anyone even sleep in the bottom bed?”
“There are replacement sheets and duvet covers in the closet.” Ye Zun himself changed his bed the same way last night, having cleaned the sheets in the morning.
“En, I can’t ah, the most dangerous time is when ghosts appear at night. I’m too scared to sleep on the bottom alone.”
“You can always just not live at home.”
Shen Yuan used his arm as a pillow, blinking his eyes and staring at him innocently. “Where do you want me to go at such a late hour?”
Ye Zun: “……”
After all, he wasn’t the real Nogawa Kaoru, and this was not his home. If he keeps driving Shen Yuan away, it’ll be like he was a dove occupying a magpie’s nest*.
[T/N: forcibly occupying another person’s residence]
Shen Yuan laid down and watched him, lightly saying, “It’s because I was worried my dear Didi will be afraid at night, so I went out of my way to come and stay with you.”
——Thank you very much, but I don’t need this at all.
Something in the circuits of the light at the centre of the room suddenly broke. After intermittently flashing, it finally went out after a few bursts.
Ye Zun instantly froze in place.
In the darkness, Shen Yuan’s tone was relaxed, slow and deliberate. “It’s just because the circuits have aged, don’t be scared ah.”
Ye Zun laid back in the blanket. Two people sleeping in a bed was a bit crowded. When he touched and felt the other’s body temperature, even though it was through pyjamas, Ye Zun, who was in bed with another person for the first time, was not used to it.
But in this dark and unnerving environment, with another person’s temperature around him, it really did make him feel at ease unconsciously.
“Sleep ba, I am here. Don’t you feel much more at ease?” There was a very soft whisper.
Compared with the irritable and rude fuzzy impression at the beginning, Shen Yuan’s image in his heart gradually became clear.
——This person, it seems, is actually not that hateful.
……
Ye Zun woke up suddenly.
A second before waking up, he was still in a deep and peaceful sleep, but it was as if there was a wake-up switch that suddenly turned on when the time limit ran out, and he opened his eyes without warning.
He shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. His eyelids were still a little heavy, but his mind was unprecedentedly awake.
And it was getting more and more awake.
Ye Zun grabbed the phone next to his pillow and glanced at the time——3:11 AM in the morning.
It’s actually this early?
Shen Yuan was still asleep, quiet and unmoving.
He laid back on the bed and tried closing his eyes to develop sleepiness, but his ears unconsciously caught a sound in the dark.
Sqea——ak——
A slightly drawn out sound, as if someone had cautiously opened the door and walked out.
Ye Zun opened his eyes abruptly, heart slightly alarmed.
The first thing that came to mind was that woman. She said that the dead father had been resurrected on Shen Yuan’s body, and he must be killed again.
——Does she want to attack Shen Yuan?
Ye Zun cautiously sat up halfway, staring vigilantly at the door in the dark.
However, the bedroom door was fine. Except for the small squeaking of the door opening from the living room, there was no other sound.
This was the second night. What will happen tonight?
Ye Zun stared at the door, holding his breath, feeling a grotesque premonition of danger.
This room was crowded and small, and even the only window was fake, facing the living room.
He didn’t know if the curtain hadn’t been drawn closed properly, but the corner was folded up a bit.
After Ye Zun’s eyes adjusted to the darkness, his eyelids jumped suddenly. He saw it. At the corner of the folded curtains, in the living room outside the window, a dark shadow was lying on the window and peeking inside, faintly exposing the small half of a head and one eye.
This sight immediately reminded him of the class leader who was peeking out the second year’s Class 1 windows. Ye Zun’s heart started jumping wildly in an instant.
He endured the stiffness and dryness in his throat, not daring to swallow, lest he makes a sound that attracts the attention of the thing outside the door. He laid motionlessly, trying to hide himself as much as possible.
——Should I wake up Shen Yuan? Tell him to watch out for that woman?
——What will he do? Will he beat her? Will he…kill her?
Except for the first night, this person had always maintained an unruly appearance with a lazy smile, talking constantly. But those dark and indifferent eyes that were impossible to decipher an emotion from were undoubtedly more telling of his nature. He suddenly glanced at the man, feeling as if he had swallowed a large mouthful of ice water, subconsciously feeling his sanity tightening.
He always felt that once the lazy and brilliant smile on that face disappears, this person won’t be willing to speak so accommodatingly anymore, and whatever he does won’t be accidental.
Ye Zun’s original plan was to wake up early tomorrow to see if the middle-aged man would still show up, then decide whether to call the police.
After all, he had seen the man with his own eyes during the day, and the woman was obviously lost and depressed; her mental state was not right at all. It was difficult to judge whether the words she spoke were true or false.
Creak!
A strange sound.
Ye Zun pricked up his ears. What was this sound?
Like carefully prying open a door, like a sharp knife scoring on the glass, like rope rubbing against wood.
Ye Zun’s mind instantly completed the picture: someone picking the lock outside the door and trying to come in, someone trying to cut the window glass to come in, someone hanging from the door frame…
He covered his ears and shut his eyes, trying to get rid of his nonsensical thoughts, but very soon afterwards, he opened his eyes again, vigilantly observing the darkness around him.
The sound suddenly stopped for a bit, then started up again, becoming more and more clear.
——No, that’s not right, it isn’t outside the door, that sound, that sound is from in here!
Ye Zun stopped his breathing and tried his best to capture the noise, wanting to find the source of that sound.
He slowly sat up, leaning against the wall, then suddenly felt that the entire bed was shaking ever so slightly.
This was a sturdy canopy bed* with almost no elasticity. There is absolutely no chance of it experiencing such a minor tremor out of nowhere.
[T/N: 架子床: wooden poles for support at the corners]
It was like someone was sleeping on the lower bunk, gently and maliciously shaking the structure.
——There’s a person on the bottom bunk, no, there’s a ghost ba!
There was that sound again, almost like nothing, as if it was coming from another room far away, yet also as if it was very close to him.
Like the crying of pain as one loses consciousness, like a suppressed mutter, like…the tearing sound of teeth biting into bone and raw meat.
His nose smelled the same faint bloody scent from last night once again. The pained voice was very soft, like silky air, almost inaudible. Only the sound of biting and chewing gradually became clear.
Even though he couldn’t hear it clearly, he somehow thought that the veiled weak and powerless near-death mutter belonged to a woman.
Ye Zun put down the hands that were ready to block his ears at any time and lightly moved outwards, little by little.
He had not forgotten that in this game, he must solve the deadly fate of Nogawa Kaoru, otherwise, on the seventh night, he will not escape the ending of being hanged.
This was why, despite knowing he will be haunted, he still came here to sleep overnight.
Ye Zun took out the Buddha statue from the pocket of his pyjamas and looked down carefully.
The peeping eye at the corner of the window had been gone for some time, although he was unsure when it disappeared. The lower bunk was a pool of darkness with nothing in it at all, only the blankets piled up in a mess.
In the cramped room, on the opposite side of the window by the door, a thin and small figure squatted facing the corner.
Actually seeing something in the room, Ye Zun’s pupils trembled instantly and his cold fingers tightened more and more tightly around the Buddha statue. He opened his eyes wide, trying to see that thing in full clarity.
The dark eyes that adapted to the dark slowly captured the appearance of the thing in the corner. It was a girl wearing a white dress with loose hair. She buried her head, as if she was eating something, but then her movements suddenly stiffened, and she slowly turned her head around.
Ye Zun quickly laid back on the bed, blocking himself with Shen Yuan’s body. His eyes were half-opened, carefully looking at the girl who had turned around.
In the darkness, he couldn’t see anything in clarity. He only saw the lower half of the pale and petite face, the pointed chin, and the space from the lips to the chin was covered with a dark liquid, like…like blood.
Ye Zun laid there, his body stiff, ice-cold from his hands, to his feet, to his back.
He finally knew what that strange noise in the bedroom was.
That thirteen-or-fourteen-year-old girl stared in Ye Zun’s direction, clutching whatever that thing was in her hand, and mechanically tearing and chewing bite by bite. She had a mouth full of blood and her bangs covered her eyes, giving people a bone-chilling feeling.
The thick bloody scent almost rushed into Ye Zun’s nose.
——Who is this child? Why did she appear here? What is she eating?
——That noise that sounds like someone in pain, is she making it?
Ye Zun’s heart was beating frantically, with fear and curiosity; on one hand, he was scared and wanted to run away, on the other, he was forced to face the danger with unprecedented calmness.
——No, I can’t, I will be killed!
——You must have a clear look, there must be important clues in here. The sooner you figure it out, the safer you are. The more you are behind, the greater the risk.
He was told at the beginning of the game that Nogawa Kaoru will be hanged on the seventh night. There was a high probability that the first six nights will be full of surprises with passable danger, left as time for him to investigate the truth and the key to his survival.
As if he had been split in two, the calm side suppressed the terrified side. His cold fingers supported themselves on the bed, and with his trembling breathing restrained, Ye Zun slowly sat up.
Steadily keeping his eyes open, without a single blink, he and the girl on the ground looked at each other.
This time, he saw her clearly——
The girl in the white dress had an empty socket where her right arm should be. The bloody bones and flesh she was tearing off and chewing in her mouth were the fingers of her right arm that she had ripped off.
Ye Zun’s fingers squeezed the Buddha statue, and it took all his effort to try and restrain the urge to avoid this sight. He softly asked, “Who are you? Why must you do this? You…doesn’t it hurt?”
He closely fixed his eyes on the girl’s face and saw the other party slowly open her mouth towards him, letting out an extremely faint sound.
“What are you saying?”
Ye Zun unconsciously leaned forward, wanting to hear clearly.
The girl opened her mouth again. All at once, with her bangs covering her eyes, two tear streams of blood suddenly poured down her pale little face in the darkness.
At this moment, a hand firmly grasped Ye Zun’s wrist.
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Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
Seeing Shen Yuan’s ‘about to be praised’ appearance, Ye Zun had no idea what to say.
But it was true that his behaviour tonight was very friendly and polite. There was nothing to criticise.
Although the woman was nervous and scared, it was more like she was frightened by Shen Yuan’s sudden friendliness. Besides, she said that she had unplugged Shen Yuan’s father’s life support, killing with a guilty conscience.
Ye Zun’s stiffness just now was also because he thought of this. It seemed that Shen Yuan wasn’t aware of it yet.
He didn’t know what to say, shifting to the side to make space, letting him come in first.
With this movement, Ye Zun saw the living room behind Shen Yuan.
The light in the living room had gone out, but in the darkness, to his room’s diagonally left and opposite, the door to the master bedroom was opened and a pair of timid and disturbed eyes was secretly looking in his direction from between the crack.
Ye Zun was suddenly given a fright.
Shen Yuan walked through the doorway and turned his head back, following his gaze, seeing the door of the master bedroom slowly shut.
Ye Zun’s throat rolled slightly. He closed the bedroom door and locked it out of habit.
After returning to his senses, Ye Zun saw Shen Yuan sitting on the chair with his chin resting on the back of his hand, staring at him lazily.
Seeing Ye Zun looking back at him, Shen Yuan raised his chin and blinked in a bored manner. “Help me dry my hair.”
Ye Zun: “……?”
Shen Yuan looked calm and composed, saying in a steadily arrogant tone, “I have properly listened to you and have been kind to our mum. This is my compensation.”
Ye Zun didn’t want to come into conflict with him. If it would finally put a stop to this person constantly making trouble, drying his hair was just drying his hair ba.
He walked over and took the towel Shen Yuan handed to him, dropping it on his head and beginning to rub.
“Be a bit more gentle ah, I’m very afraid of pain.”
Ye Zun’s own scalp was also very sensitive. It hurts if he uses even just a little force, and he can’t even endure the hairdresser blow-drying his hair.
He equipped the strength he used to bath cats when he worked in the pet shop a while back, gently and patiently drying the hair.
By the end, his arms were a little sore and tired. “Done.”
He put the towel aside and casually reminded, “You’ll catch a cold if you keep walking around without a shirt.”
After speaking, Ye Zun climbed onto the upper bunk of the bed, not caring if the other listened or not.
As soon as Ye Zun got on the bed, he searched for the little white snake. It seemed that the snake had gone out for food at night, as it wasn’t in the bed.
——I should’ve returned it to its owner, but I actually forgot.
Ye Zun laid in bed, thinking of Lin. He lifted his eyes and sat up slightly in shock. “What are you doing up here?”
When Ye Zun sat up, the person who climbed up had already laid down next to him on his own initiative, head on his pillow and pulling the blanket over himself. He asked in a very natural tone, “Can anyone even sleep in the bottom bed?”
“There are replacement sheets and duvet covers in the closet.” Ye Zun himself changed his bed the same way last night, having cleaned the sheets in the morning.
“En, I can’t ah, the most dangerous time is when ghosts appear at night. I’m too scared to sleep on the bottom alone.”
“You can always just not live at home.”
Shen Yuan used his arm as a pillow, blinking his eyes and staring at him innocently. “Where do you want me to go at such a late hour?”
Ye Zun: “……”
After all, he wasn’t the real Nogawa Kaoru, and this was not his home. If he keeps driving Shen Yuan away, it’ll be like he was a dove occupying a magpie’s nest*.
[T/N: forcibly occupying another person’s residence]
Shen Yuan laid down and watched him, lightly saying, “It’s because I was worried my dear Didi will be afraid at night, so I went out of my way to come and stay with you.”
——Thank you very much, but I don’t need this at all.
Something in the circuits of the light at the centre of the room suddenly broke. After intermittently flashing, it finally went out after a few bursts.
Ye Zun instantly froze in place.
In the darkness, Shen Yuan’s tone was relaxed, slow and deliberate. “It’s just because the circuits have aged, don’t be scared ah.”
Ye Zun laid back in the blanket. Two people sleeping in a bed was a bit crowded. When he touched and felt the other’s body temperature, even though it was through pyjamas, Ye Zun, who was in bed with another person for the first time, was not used to it.
But in this dark and unnerving environment, with another person’s temperature around him, it really did make him feel at ease unconsciously.
“Sleep ba, I am here. Don’t you feel much more at ease?” There was a very soft whisper.
Compared with the irritable and rude fuzzy impression at the beginning, Shen Yuan’s image in his heart gradually became clear.
——This person, it seems, is actually not that hateful.
……
Ye Zun woke up suddenly.
A second before waking up, he was still in a deep and peaceful sleep, but it was as if there was a wake-up switch that suddenly turned on when the time limit ran out, and he opened his eyes without warning.
He shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. His eyelids were still a little heavy, but his mind was unprecedentedly awake.
And it was getting more and more awake.
Ye Zun grabbed the phone next to his pillow and glanced at the time——3:11 AM in the morning.
It’s actually this early?
Shen Yuan was still asleep, quiet and unmoving.
He laid back on the bed and tried closing his eyes to develop sleepiness, but his ears unconsciously caught a sound in the dark.
Sqea——ak——
A slightly drawn out sound, as if someone had cautiously opened the door and walked out.
Ye Zun opened his eyes abruptly, heart slightly alarmed.
The first thing that came to mind was that woman. She said that the dead father had been resurrected on Shen Yuan’s body, and he must be killed again.
——Does she want to attack Shen Yuan?
Ye Zun cautiously sat up halfway, staring vigilantly at the door in the dark.
However, the bedroom door was fine. Except for the small squeaking of the door opening from the living room, there was no other sound.
This was the second night. What will happen tonight?
Ye Zun stared at the door, holding his breath, feeling a grotesque premonition of danger.
This room was crowded and small, and even the only window was fake, facing the living room.
He didn’t know if the curtain hadn’t been drawn closed properly, but the corner was folded up a bit.
After Ye Zun’s eyes adjusted to the darkness, his eyelids jumped suddenly. He saw it. At the corner of the folded curtains, in the living room outside the window, a dark shadow was lying on the window and peeking inside, faintly exposing the small half of a head and one eye.
This sight immediately reminded him of the class leader who was peeking out the second year’s Class 1 windows. Ye Zun’s heart started jumping wildly in an instant.
He endured the stiffness and dryness in his throat, not daring to swallow, lest he makes a sound that attracts the attention of the thing outside the door. He laid motionlessly, trying to hide himself as much as possible.
——Should I wake up Shen Yuan? Tell him to watch out for that woman?
——What will he do? Will he beat her? Will he…kill her?
Except for the first night, this person had always maintained an unruly appearance with a lazy smile, talking constantly. But those dark and indifferent eyes that were impossible to decipher an emotion from were undoubtedly more telling of his nature. He suddenly glanced at the man, feeling as if he had swallowed a large mouthful of ice water, subconsciously feeling his sanity tightening.
He always felt that once the lazy and brilliant smile on that face disappears, this person won’t be willing to speak so accommodatingly anymore, and whatever he does won’t be accidental.
Ye Zun’s original plan was to wake up early tomorrow to see if the middle-aged man would still show up, then decide whether to call the police.
After all, he had seen the man with his own eyes during the day, and the woman was obviously lost and depressed; her mental state was not right at all. It was difficult to judge whether the words she spoke were true or false.
Creak!
A strange sound.
Ye Zun pricked up his ears. What was this sound?
Like carefully prying open a door, like a sharp knife scoring on the glass, like rope rubbing against wood.
Ye Zun’s mind instantly completed the picture: someone picking the lock outside the door and trying to come in, someone trying to cut the window glass to come in, someone hanging from the door frame…
He covered his ears and shut his eyes, trying to get rid of his nonsensical thoughts, but very soon afterwards, he opened his eyes again, vigilantly observing the darkness around him.
The sound suddenly stopped for a bit, then started up again, becoming more and more clear.
——No, that’s not right, it isn’t outside the door, that sound, that sound is from in here!
Ye Zun stopped his breathing and tried his best to capture the noise, wanting to find the source of that sound.
He slowly sat up, leaning against the wall, then suddenly felt that the entire bed was shaking ever so slightly.
This was a sturdy canopy bed* with almost no elasticity. There is absolutely no chance of it experiencing such a minor tremor out of nowhere.
[T/N: 架子床: wooden poles for support at the corners]
It was like someone was sleeping on the lower bunk, gently and maliciously shaking the structure.
——There’s a person on the bottom bunk, no, there’s a ghost ba!
There was that sound again, almost like nothing, as if it was coming from another room far away, yet also as if it was very close to him.
Like the crying of pain as one loses consciousness, like a suppressed mutter, like…the tearing sound of teeth biting into bone and raw meat.
His nose smelled the same faint bloody scent from last night once again. The pained voice was very soft, like silky air, almost inaudible. Only the sound of biting and chewing gradually became clear.
Even though he couldn’t hear it clearly, he somehow thought that the veiled weak and powerless near-death mutter belonged to a woman.
Ye Zun put down the hands that were ready to block his ears at any time and lightly moved outwards, little by little.
He had not forgotten that in this game, he must solve the deadly fate of Nogawa Kaoru, otherwise, on the seventh night, he will not escape the ending of being hanged.
This was why, despite knowing he will be haunted, he still came here to sleep overnight.
Ye Zun took out the Buddha statue from the pocket of his pyjamas and looked down carefully.
The peeping eye at the corner of the window had been gone for some time, although he was unsure when it disappeared. The lower bunk was a pool of darkness with nothing in it at all, only the blankets piled up in a mess.
In the cramped room, on the opposite side of the window by the door, a thin and small figure squatted facing the corner.
Actually seeing something in the room, Ye Zun’s pupils trembled instantly and his cold fingers tightened more and more tightly around the Buddha statue. He opened his eyes wide, trying to see that thing in full clarity.
The dark eyes that adapted to the dark slowly captured the appearance of the thing in the corner. It was a girl wearing a white dress with loose hair. She buried her head, as if she was eating something, but then her movements suddenly stiffened, and she slowly turned her head around.
Ye Zun quickly laid back on the bed, blocking himself with Shen Yuan’s body. His eyes were half-opened, carefully looking at the girl who had turned around.
In the darkness, he couldn’t see anything in clarity. He only saw the lower half of the pale and petite face, the pointed chin, and the space from the lips to the chin was covered with a dark liquid, like…like blood.
Ye Zun laid there, his body stiff, ice-cold from his hands, to his feet, to his back.
He finally knew what that strange noise in the bedroom was.
That thirteen-or-fourteen-year-old girl stared in Ye Zun’s direction, clutching whatever that thing was in her hand, and mechanically tearing and chewing bite by bite. She had a mouth full of blood and her bangs covered her eyes, giving people a bone-chilling feeling.
The thick bloody scent almost rushed into Ye Zun’s nose.
——Who is this child? Why did she appear here? What is she eating?
——That noise that sounds like someone in pain, is she making it?
Ye Zun’s heart was beating frantically, with fear and curiosity; on one hand, he was scared and wanted to run away, on the other, he was forced to face the danger with unprecedented calmness.
——No, I can’t, I will be killed!
——You must have a clear look, there must be important clues in here. The sooner you figure it out, the safer you are. The more you are behind, the greater the risk.
He was told at the beginning of the game that Nogawa Kaoru will be hanged on the seventh night. There was a high probability that the first six nights will be full of surprises with passable danger, left as time for him to investigate the truth and the key to his survival.
As if he had been split in two, the calm side suppressed the terrified side. His cold fingers supported themselves on the bed, and with his trembling breathing restrained, Ye Zun slowly sat up.
Steadily keeping his eyes open, without a single blink, he and the girl on the ground looked at each other.
This time, he saw her clearly——
The girl in the white dress had an empty socket where her right arm should be. The bloody bones and flesh she was tearing off and chewing in her mouth were the fingers of her right arm that she had ripped off.
Ye Zun’s fingers squeezed the Buddha statue, and it took all his effort to try and restrain the urge to avoid this sight. He softly asked, “Who are you? Why must you do this? You…doesn’t it hurt?”
He closely fixed his eyes on the girl’s face and saw the other party slowly open her mouth towards him, letting out an extremely faint sound.
“What are you saying?”
Ye Zun unconsciously leaned forward, wanting to hear clearly.
The girl opened her mouth again. All at once, with her bangs covering her eyes, two tear streams of blood suddenly poured down her pale little face in the darkness.
At this moment, a hand firmly grasped Ye Zun’s wrist.
Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the AbyssSeeing Shen Yuan's about to be praised' appearance, Ye Zun had no idea what to say.But it was true that his behaviour tonight was very friendly and polite. There was nothing to criticise.Although the woman was nervous and scared, it was more like she was frightened by Shen Yuan's sudden friendliness. Besides, she said that she had unplugged Shen Yuan's father's life support, killing with a guilty conscience.Ye Zun's stiffness just now was also because he thought of this. It seemed that Shen Yuan wasn't aware of it yet.He didn't know what to say, shifting to the side to make space, letting him come in first.With this movement, Ye Zun saw the living room behind Shen Yuan.The light in the living room had gone out, but in the darkness, to his room's diagonally left and opposite, the door to the master bedroom was opened and a pair of timid and disturbed eyes was secretly looking in his direction from between the crack.Ye Zun was suddenly given a fright.Shen Yuan walked through the doorway and turned his head back, following his gaze, seeing the door of the master bedroom slowly shut.Ye Zun's throat rolled slightly. He closed the bedroom door and locked it out of habit.After returning to his senses, Ye Zun saw Shen Yuan sitting on the chair with his chin resting on the back of his hand, staring at him lazily.Seeing Ye Zun looking back at him, Shen Yuan raised his chin and blinked in a bored manner. Help me dry my hair.Ye Zun: ?Shen Yuan looked calm and composed, saying in a steadily arrogant tone, I have properly listened to you and have been kind to our mum. This is my compensation.Ye Zun didn't want to come into conflict with him. If it would finally put a stop to this person constantly making trouble, drying his hair was just drying his hairba.He walked over and took the towel Shen Yuan handed to him, dropping it on his head and beginning to rub.Be a bit more gentleah, I'm very afraid of pain.Ye Zun's own scalp was also very sensitive. It hurts if he uses even just a little force, and he can't even endure the hairdresser blow-drying his hair.He equipped the strength he used to bath cats when he worked in the pet shop a while back, gently and patiently drying the hair.By the end, his arms were a little sore and tired. Done.He put the towel aside and casually reminded, You'll catch a cold if you keep walking around without a shirt.After speaking, Ye Zun climbed onto the upper bunk of the bed, not caring if the other listened or not.As soon as Ye Zun got on the bed, he searched for the little white snake. It seemed that the snake had gone out for food at night, as it wasn't in the bed.I should've returned it to its owner, but I actually forgot.Ye Zun laid in bed, thinking of Lin. He lifted his eyes and sat up slightly in shock. What are you doing up here?When Ye Zun sat up, the person who climbed up had already laid down next to him on his own initiative, head on his pillow and pulling the blanket over himself. He asked in a very natural tone, Can anyone even sleep in the bottom bed?There are replacement sheets and duvet covers in the closet. Ye Zun himself changed his bed the same way last night, having cleaned the sheets in the morning.En, I can'tah, the most dangerous time is when ghosts appear at night. I'm too scared to sleep on the bottom alone.You can always just not live at home.Shen Yuan used his arm as a pillow, blinking his eyes and staring at him innocently. Where do you want me to go at such a late hour?Ye Zun: After all, he wasn't the real Nogawa Kaoru, and this was not his home. If he keeps driving Shen Yuan away, it'll be like he was a dove occupying a magpie's nest*.T/N: forcibly occupying another person's residenceShen Yuan laid down and watched him, lightly saying, It's because I was worried my dear Didi will be afraid at night, so I went out of my way to come and stay with you.Thank you very much, but I don't need this at all.Something in the circuits of the light at the centre of the room suddenly broke. After intermittently flashing, it finally went out after a few bursts.Ye Zun instantly froze in place.In the darkness, Shen Yuan's tone was relaxed, slow and deliberate. It's just because the circuits have aged, don't be scaredah.Ye Zun laid back in the blanket. Two people sleeping in a bed was a bit crowded. When he touched and felt the other's body temperature, even though it was through pyjamas, Ye Zun, who was in bed with another person for the first time, was not used to it.But in this dark and unnerving environment, with another person's temperature around him, it really did make him feel at ease unconsciously.Sleepba, I am here. Don't you feel much more at ease? There was a very soft whisper.Compared with the irritable and rude fuzzy impression at the beginning, Shen Yuan's image in his heart gradually became clear.This person, it seems, is actually not that hateful.Ye Zun woke up suddenly.A second before waking up, he was still in a deep and peaceful sleep, but it was as if there was a wake-up switch that suddenly turned on when the time limit ran out, and he opened his eyes without warning.He shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. His eyelids were still a little heavy, but his mind was unprecedentedly awake.And it was getting more and more awake.Ye Zun grabbed the phone next to his pillow and glanced at the time3:11 AM in the morning.It's actually this early?Shen Yuan was still asleep, quiet and unmoving.He laid back on the bed and tried closing his eyes to develop sleepiness, but his ears unconsciously caught a sound in the dark.SqeaakA slightly drawn out sound, as if someone had cautiously opened the door and walked out.Ye Zun opened his eyes abruptly, heart slightly alarmed.The first thing that came to mind was that woman. She said that the dead father had been resurrected on Shen Yuan's body, and he must be killed again.Does she want to attack Shen Yuan?Ye Zun cautiously sat up halfway, staring vigilantly at the door in the dark.However, the bedroom door was fine. Except for the small squeaking of the door opening from the living room, there was no other sound.This was the second night. What will happen tonight?Ye Zun stared at the door, holding his breath, feeling a grotesque premonition of danger.This room was crowded and small, and even the only window was fake, facing the living room.He didn't know if the curtain hadn't been drawn closed properly, but the corner was folded up a bit.After Ye Zun's eyes adjusted to the darkness, his eyelids jumped suddenly. He saw it. At the corner of the folded curtains, in the living room outside the window, a dark shadow was lying on the window and peeking inside, faintly exposing the small half of a head and one eye.This sight immediately reminded him of the class leader who was peeking out the second year's Class 1 windows. Ye Zun's heart started jumping wildly in an instant.He endured the stiffness and dryness in his throat, not daring to swallow, lest he makes a sound that attracts the attention of the thing outside the door. He laid motionlessly, trying to hide himself as much as possible.Should I wake up Shen Yuan? Tell him to watch out for that woman?What will he do? Will he beat her? Will hekill her?Except for the first night, this person had always maintained an unruly appearance with a lazy smile, talking constantly. But those dark and indifferent eyes that were impossible to decipher an emotion from were undoubtedly more telling of his nature. He suddenly glanced at the man, feeling as if he had swallowed a large mouthful of ice water, subconsciously feeling his sanity tightening.He always felt that once the lazy and brilliant smile on that face disappears, this person won't be willing to speak so accommodatingly anymore, and whatever he does won't be accidental.Ye Zun's original plan was to wake up early tomorrow to see if the middle-aged man would still show up, then decide whether to call the police.After all, he had seen the man with his own eyes during the day, and the woman was obviously lost and depressed; her mental state was not right at all. It was difficult to judge whether the words she spoke were true or false.Creak!A strange sound.Ye Zun pricked up his ears. What was this sound?Like carefully prying open a door, like a sharp knife scoring on the glass, like rope rubbing against wood.Ye Zun's mind instantly completed the picture: someone picking the lock outside the door and trying to come in, someone trying to cut the window glass to come in, someone hanging from the door frameHe covered his ears and shut his eyes, trying to get rid of his nonsensical thoughts, but very soon afterwards, he opened his eyes again, vigilantly observing the darkness around him.The sound suddenly stopped for a bit, then started up again, becoming more and more clear.No, that's not right, it isn't outside the door, that sound, that sound is from in here!Ye Zun stopped his breathing and tried his best to capture the noise, wanting to find the source of that sound.He slowly sat up, leaning against the wall, then suddenly felt that the entire bed was shaking ever so slightly.This was a sturdy canopy bed* with almost no elasticity. There is absolutely no chance of it experiencing such a minor tremor out of nowhere.T/N:: wooden poles for support at the cornersIt was like someone was sleeping on the lower bunk, gently and maliciously shaking the structure.There's a person on the bottom bunk, no, there's a ghostba!There was that sound again, almost like nothing, as if it was coming from another room far away, yet also as if it was very close to him.Like the crying of pain as one loses consciousness, like a suppressed mutter, likethe tearing sound of teeth biting into bone and raw meat.His nose smelled the same faint bloody scent from last night once again. The pained voice was very soft, like silky air, almost inaudible. Only the sound of biting and chewing gradually became clear.Even though he couldn't hear it clearly, he somehow thought that the veiled weak and powerless near-death mutter belonged to a woman.Ye Zun put down the hands that were ready to block his ears at any time and lightly moved outwards, little by little.He had not forgotten that in this game, he must solve the deadly fate of Nogawa Kaoru, otherwise, on the seventh night, he will not escape the ending of being hanged.This was why, despite knowing he will be haunted, he still came here to sleep overnight.Ye Zun took out the Buddha statue from the pocket of his pyjamas and looked down carefully.The peeping eye at the corner of the window had been gone for some time, although he was unsure when it disappeared. The lower bunk was a pool of darkness with nothing in it at all, only the blankets piled up in a mess.In the cramped room, on the opposite side of the window by the door, a thin and small figure squatted facing the corner.Actually seeing something in the room, Ye Zun's pupils trembled instantly and his cold fingers tightened more and more tightly around the Buddha statue. He opened his eyes wide, trying to see that thing in full clarity.The dark eyes that adapted to the dark slowly captured the appearance of the thing in the corner. It was a girl wearing a white dress with loose hair. She buried her head, as if she was eating something, but then her movements suddenly stiffened, and she slowly turned her head around.Ye Zun quickly laid back on the bed, blocking himself with Shen Yuan's body. His eyes were half-opened, carefully looking at the girl who had turned around.In the darkness, he couldn't see anything in clarity. He only saw the lower half of the pale and petite face, the pointed chin, and the space from the lips to the chin was covered with a dark liquid, likelike blood.Ye Zun laid there, his body stiff, ice-cold from his hands, to his feet, to his back.He finally knew what that strange noise in the bedroom was.That thirteen-or-fourteen-year-old girl stared in Ye Zun's direction, clutching whatever that thing was in her hand, and mechanically tearing and chewing bite by bite. She had a mouth full of blood and her bangs covered her eyes, giving people a bone-chilling feeling.The thick bloody scent almost rushed into Ye Zun's nose.Who is this child? Why did she appear here? What is she eating?That noise that sounds like someone in pain, is she making it?Ye Zun's heart was beating frantically, with fear and curiosity; on one hand, he was scared and wanted to run away, on the other, he was forced to face the danger with unprecedented calmness.No, I can't, I will be killed!You must have a clear look, there must be important clues in here. The sooner you figure it out, the safer you are. The more you are behind, the greater the risk.He was told at the beginning of the game that Nogawa Kaoru will be hanged on the seventh night. There was a high probability that the first six nights will be full of surprises with passable danger, left as time for him to investigate the truth and the key to his survival.As if he had been split in two, the calm side suppressed the terrified side. His cold fingers supported themselves on the bed, and with his trembling breathing restrained, Ye Zun slowly sat up.Steadily keeping his eyes open, without a single blink, he and the girl on the ground looked at each other.This time, he saw her clearlyThe girl in the white dress had an empty socket where her right arm should be. The bloody bones and flesh she was tearing off and chewing in her mouth were the fingers of her right arm that she had ripped off.Ye Zun's fingers squeezed the Buddha statue, and it took all his effort to try and restrain the urge to avoid this sight. He softly asked, Who are you? Why must you do this? Youdoesn't it hurt?He closely fixed his eyes on the girl's face and saw the other party slowly open her mouth towards him, letting out an extremely faint sound.What are you saying?Ye Zun unconsciously leaned forward, wanting to hear clearly.The girl opened her mouth again. All at once, with her bangs covering her eyes, two tear streams of blood suddenly poured down her pale little face in the darkness.At this moment, a hand firmly grasped Ye Zun's wrist.
