Wenn die Liebe naht, ist es wie Schnee

Kapitel 60

“If you die, no one will avenge him,” Xia Chen said without waiting for a reply.

The two climbed over the wall and left the laboratory building. This newly built building, one of the city's ten ugliest buildings, was where countless wronged souls were buried. Unexpectedly, there was even a snake-bodied, human-faced monster.

The two got into the car, and Ye Cheng had already shaken off the other man and started the car.

Xia Chen frowned, recalling what had just happened.

"Ye Cheng, something feels off about this," Xia Chen asked, then turned to look at Ye Cheng's face in the darkness. He then recounted to Ye Cheng everything that had happened in that small house.

In the darkness, Ye Cheng's body trembled as the car jolted, and he kept his lips tightly shut and did not speak.

Ye Cheng drove calmly, and no one knew which direction he intended to take.

Xia Chen kept turning his head, waiting for Ye Cheng's answer.

With a creak, Xia Chen fell backward, and with a thud, his head hit the windshield.

Xia Chen rubbed his head, which was throbbing from the impact, and glared angrily at Ye Cheng. Ye Cheng pointed ahead in astonishment. Before Xia Chen could even curse him, he looked in the direction Ye Cheng was pointing, and what he saw made his heart skip a beat.

It's back!

The experimental building calmly blocked Xia Chen's path, like a burly man in the dark, bullying Xia Chen without hesitation.

Xia Chen looked at Ye Cheng in surprise.

Ye Cheng said, "I don't know why I came back."

"Could it be a ghost wall?" Xia Chen said.

"What?! A ghost wall? That's impossible!"

Before Ye Cheng could finish speaking, a black shadow suddenly darted past the car window in the distance. The two men exchanged a glance.

"What...is it..." Ye Cheng asked hesitantly.

"Chase them!" Xia Chen shouted.

Hearing Xia Chen's words was like hearing a divine revelation for Ye Cheng. He suddenly released the clutch and slammed on the gas. Xia Chen was thrown back by inertia, but at the same time, his heart sank.

The shadowy figures were multiplying!

A flickering black shadow drifted back and forth in front of the car headlights. Several times, Xia Chen clearly saw that the shadow, taller than a person, revealed its face. It was a human face! Like the face of someone who had emerged from the flames of war, the shadow's face was covered in blood and grime, and its mangled lips had two black holes in them! There was no nose!

In that instant, Xia Chen was dumbfounded.

Xia Chen had seen the face on that strange dark figure before.

To be precise, that was Xia Chen in the mirror!

"Chase!" Xia Chenye suddenly shouted.

Ye Cheng immediately slammed on the gas pedal, and the old car immediately started to protest with a loud "Grrrrr".

Under the bright yellow headlights, they chased after the black shadow, unknowingly walking a very, very long way. The black shadow was running at an incredible speed, leaving them further and further behind.

Xia Chen slapped his thigh and shouted at Ye Cheng, "Go west!"

Upon hearing Xia Chen shout "Go west," Ye Cheng turned the steering wheel without hesitation.

At dawn, the first rays of sunlight pierced the eeriness of the night.

Sparrows and crows flew across the horizon, looking like flying insects from afar. Sunlight radiated from the horizon like the petals of a blooming flower. The sky grew brighter, and the clouds on the horizon were tinged with a pale orange. In the blink of an eye, a burning sun burst forth. Its dazzling golden rays instantly soothed the earth's wounds.

The sun finally came out, and the terrifying experience of the whole night was finally over.

Xia Chen stumbled back to Yishi Academy, where the sunlight gave him a big smile.

What bad luck! Last night, he had planned to take Ye Cheng to get his wound treated. Unexpectedly, they saw a shadowy figure that looked exactly like them. As a result, they chased after it for half the night only to realize they had already lost it.

Therefore, Xia Chen had no choice but to return to Yishi Academy.

Yishi Academy remained unchanged, but Xia Chen knew in his heart that the answers to the Horror Files and the Nuwa Project were about to surface.

Back in his empty dorm room, Xia Chen collapsed onto his bed. Lying on the hard mattress, he stared up at the empty ceiling. He tried to recall what had happened yesterday—what exactly was that thing he'd seen in the darkness last night?

The terrifying feeling from last night still sent chills down Xia Chen's spine, and his hand trembled involuntarily. Suddenly, he remembered the account in the strange diary about Luo Shimin's impending murder.

Xia Chen immediately got up, jumped out of bed, picked up his phone which was charging, and called Luo Shimin. A woman's gentle voice came through the phone: "Hello, the user you dialed is not in service."

Xia Chen frowned and immediately dialed Hu Rongrong's number.

To everyone's surprise, Hu Rongrong's phone was switched off.

He glanced at his watch. It was indeed class time. The two little girls should be in class. Perhaps he was overthinking things. The diary was a lie; it must be someone's prank.

Thinking of this, Xia Chen took the diary out of his pocket. For some reason, a thought popped into his head: he wanted to finish reading the diary.

Opening the diary, my own crooked and messy self came into view.

Xia Chen turned the pages one by one, and cold sweat gradually broke out on his back.

"On May 15th, that day Xia Chen... Luo Shimin... corpse. Luo Shimin died a horrific death, bitten off below the chest by 'it'. She became... a snack, I guess 'it' probably didn't like... her taste. Xia Chen cried that day, he held her corpse and cried bitterly."

"May 17, sunny. Xia Chen and Hu Rongrong were attracted by... Hu Rongrong was injured."

"On May 20th, cloudy, Luo Shimin was revived."

"On May 21, a torrential rainstorm hit. Xia Chen and Luo Shimin... Xia Chen went crazy... Hu Rongrong noticed something was wrong."

"On May 22nd, it was raining. Xia Chen wandered around Yishi Academy, trying to find her. I found it a bit funny, really, really funny."

The next few pages were entirely covered in blood, which mercilessly obscured all the writing, making it completely illegible.

What exactly happened between May 22nd and May 27th? And why did Luo Shimin die?

"On May 27th, it was cloudy. I remembered Xia Chen's true background. He was a... child."

"May 29th, cloudy. Today I want to talk about some things I know. For example, for example... the death. Perhaps, many years later, someone from the Xiamen Group will see this book...? Unfortunately, by then, all three people mentioned in the diary... will be dead."

Xia Chen grew increasingly frightened as he read, feeling more and more that the diary was foreshadowing their fate.

Could it be that something really happened to Luo Shimin? Xia Chen immediately put down his diary and dialed Luo Shimin and Hu Rongrong's numbers again. Luo Shimin's phone was still out of service, and Hu Rongrong's phone was still switched off. Xia Chen was worried; he was genuinely concerned that something might have happened to Luo Shimin and Hu Rongrong.

Just as Xia Chen was about to call Hu Rongrong, he heard a loud bang as the door was kicked open, and Hu Rongrong stood in the doorway with tears streaming down her face.

"Xia Chen, something's happened to Xiao Min."

Hearing this, Xia Chen was also startled. He looked at Hu Rongrong, who had a worried expression on her face.

Hu Rongrong continued anxiously, "When I got up, Xiaomin and Xiaorou were both gone. I went to the classroom to look for them, but they said Xiaomin didn't go to class at all. I went to the dormitory supervisor to ask, and she said she hadn't seen Xiaomin come out at all. Most importantly, the dormitory supervisor said she had always thought Xiaorou was dead, and no one had told her yesterday that Xiaorou was alive, nor had anyone told her that Xiaorou should come to our dormitory."

Xia Chen's heart sank, thinking that something had happened to Luo Shimin.

Hu Rongrong then burst into tears, saying, "I asked the girls who checked our dorm room last night, and they said they only saw Xiaomin and me talking. We were standing in the middle of the room, talking to a third person. She thought we were acting in a play and didn't pay any attention."

Oh no! The students who checked the rooms last night only saw Luo Shimin and Hu Rongrong. They were talking to a third person, completely oblivious to the fact that the third person wasn't even there.

The third person was none other than Xiao Rou, who was already dead and whose body had been mashed up!

The word "bad" immediately came to Xia Chen's mind.

008 Revenge

Spring day, sunny day.

Li Xiao frowned as soon as she entered the office. She had seen unreliable people before, but never anyone this unreliable. Her little Ye Ye, her darling little Ye Ye, had actually placed a large character on her desk.

That bastard! Can't he stop sleeping on his desk in public? How tired must he be to have to sleep on his desk? Doesn't he worry about getting rheumatism, a cold, or vitiligo?

Okay, let's say you want to sleep, at least try to look presentable while you sleep, right? You could at least sleep with your head on the table, there's no need to lie your whole body on it, is there?

Okay, even if we take a step back and say you're completely sprawled out on the table, that's fine, but at least try to maintain a certain appearance! Don't look like a corpse, sprawled out in an unsightly "X" shape.

Okay, let's take a step back and say, even if you were to spread your legs out on your desk, could you please stop drooling? Your drool is practically flooding the entire Earth. I think the so-called 2012 doomsday prophecy was all caused by your drooling while you were sleeping.

Okay, let's take a step back and say I can tolerate you drooling, but please, don't sleep on my desk and drool!

Li Xiao angrily reached out to push Ye Cheng, but suddenly Ye Cheng's eyelashes fluttered. He must be fast asleep. Li Xiao hesitated for a moment and withdrew her outstretched hand. She smiled with relief, and not only smiled, but also took off her uniform and covered little Ye Ye with it.

Li Xiao dragged over a chair and sat down next to Ye Cheng. She touched her chin and admired Ye Cheng's "graceful" sleeping posture like a child.

She looked at that familiar face, his sharply defined features, and... and his mouth, which was constantly drooling. What had he been doing yesterday? How could he be so tired that he was drooling in his sleep?

Li Xiao looked at Ye Cheng ambiguously, then suddenly her eyes widened.

She noticed something white under Ye Cheng's head, and her heart skipped a beat. That...that was her new silk scarf!

That bastard! He drooled all over his new scarf! You know, drool stuck to a silk scarf is impossible to wash off! Even if it could be washed off, she wouldn't want to walk around with a silk scarf covered in drool every day! Good heavens, he's gone too far!

Just as Li Xiao was about to unleash a lion's roar to rage at Ye Cheng, she suddenly had another impulse. Li Xiao took out a lipstick from her pocket and quickly drew a circle on Ye Cheng's eyelid. One circle wasn't enough, so Li Xiao followed up by drawing two lines next to the circle, making him look like a pirate.

Ye Cheng's nose also suffered an unfortunate turn; the mischievous Li Xiao drew a big red dot on it. Of course, that wasn't enough for her masterpiece. She then drew six "mustache" next to Ye Cheng's mouth, transforming our tough guy Ye Cheng into a complete effeminate Mickey Mouse + Pirate King.

Li Xiao was secretly delighted, just waiting for Ye Cheng to wake up.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and Xiao Wang hurriedly walked in.

"Brother Ye... Brother Ye..." Xiao Wang was stunned for a moment when he saw Ye Cheng's appearance, then burst out laughing. Li Xiao quickly put his index finger to his lips, signaling Xiao Wang not to tell Ye Cheng.

Having grasped the message, Xiao Wang tried hard to suppress a laugh and said to Ye Cheng, "Brother Ye, let's get started! The forensic identification center people are here." He called twice, but Ye Cheng didn't react. Xiao Wang was about to push Ye Cheng when Li Xiao stopped him. Li Xiao looked at Xiao Wang confidently and said, "Watch me."

After saying that, Li Xiao deliberately spoke in a voice that only a bat could probably hear: "Little Ye Ye, let's get to work!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Ye Cheng sat up abruptly, his eyes half-open in one hand. He looked at Li Xiao, puzzled, and shouted, "What did you say?"

"We're getting started. The people from the forensic identification center have already arrived," Li Xiao said.

Ye Cheng immediately jumped off the table, straightening his clothes as he said, "Li Xiao, go to the archives department right away and find my file. I'm going to see the forensic doctor right now. Oh, and buy me some coffee on your way back."

As Ye Cheng spoke, he put on his clothes, muttering to himself, "What's wrong with me today? Why can't I put my clothes on?"

Only then did Ye Cheng realize that the clothes belonged to Li Xiao. He smiled sheepishly and handed the clothes to Li Xiao.

"Li Xiao, thank you," Ye Cheng said.

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly, but at that moment, the impatient expert from the forensic identification center seemed to be unable to wait any longer and hurriedly walked in.

"Officer Ye, let's get started right away. I have other things to do." Before he could finish speaking, the forensic expert chuckled.

"Officer Ye, what's going on here today?" The forensic doctor asked in a deliberately mysterious tone, speaking in broken Beijing dialect, but his words revealed his joy.

Ye Cheng, of course, had no idea that he had been tricked while he was sleeping. He rubbed his eyes and walked over, saying, "Today we're going to sing a forensic report. Let's begin."

Before he could finish speaking, Ye Cheng exclaimed, "Ouch, why am I bleeding?" As he spoke, he raised the hand that had just been rubbing his eyes.