Inconceivable - Chapter 16
"Thank you." Julie quickly took it.
Missy asked curiously, "Your car can start now?"
Julie was quite embarrassed and quickly said, "Yes, I didn't expect it to start so quickly. It's really strange, it actually started like this."
Sample."
Her tears finally welled up in her eyes.
Julie started the car and drove off quickly.
Missy looked in the direction the car drove off, puzzled.
It was already dark when the car returned home.
Helen asked, "What do we do now?"
"Try to find Billy Blue." This is the most promising lead right now.
Helen thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Maybe he wants to die."
"What?" Julie was greatly surprised.
Helen whispered David's name: "David Egan, his girlfriend died on July 4th two years ago, in the same..."
He was murdered on the road. Maybe he blamed himself, or maybe he was sitting on the road waiting for us to run him over. The more Helen talked, the more sense it made.
Julie glared angrily at Helen: "Does thinking like that help you fall asleep?"
Helen cried out excitedly, "What happened between us? We used to be best friends!"
Julie said sadly, "We used to be...more than that."
Helen said sadly to Julie, "I miss you..."
A silence fell. Julie wanted to say something to Helen, but her heart was heavy with many things, so she simply kept her lips tightly shut and didn't even look at Helen.
Helen dejectedly opened the car door and left.
Helen walked into the house and found that her father was still awake, watching a baseball game live.
Helen greeted him casually, "Hi, Dad."
Helen didn't seem to hear anything. She went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out a can of diet cola.
The front door was opened silently, and a figure in a raincoat slipped into the house.
Helen opened her Coke and stared blankly into space. She felt very tired today; too many things had happened, and she felt like her brain was about to stop working. Especially Julie's silence just now made her feel incredibly lonely.
The game on TV seemed to be reaching its climax, and Dad, whose hearing wasn't very good, had the volume turned up really loud. Helen, annoyed by the noise, grabbed her Coke and left the kitchen.
In the shadows, a cold, arc-shaped glint appeared; the man in the raincoat revealed the hook.
Helen walked toward the stairs in annoyance, just as the shadowy figure in the raincoat disappeared into a room upstairs.
Helen took off her earrings as she walked, threw down her handbag as soon as she entered the house, and began to take off her clothes to change into her pajamas. Then she took out the shiny laurel wreath from years ago and fell into memories.
When she decided to enter the beauty pageant, the first person she told was Julie. Although Julie laughed at her for being silly, she still enthusiastically helped her prepare. Without Julie, she wouldn't have been able to steal the spotlight during the Q&A session. That night, she was so radiant; all eyes were on her. At that time, she was full of hope for a bright future and had something that made others envious.
Mu's boyfriend. But then, on that very night, they encountered that unfortunate event, that hapless fellow named David, and from then on, nightmares began one after another…
Suddenly, a hand reached out and rested on her shoulder, startling Helen. She turned around and saw it was her sister. Aisha had come in without knocking. Although Helen knew her sister had this bad habit, she still felt her heart almost stop beating.
Elsa looked at the laurel wreath in her hand and sneered, "Is this faded, washed-up beauty queen fantasizing?"
Helen calmed down and said angrily, "What is it?"
Elsa said dismissively, "The store needs to do inventory tomorrow, so be there before 10 o'clock."
Helen refused, saying, "No. I'm going to participate in the march tomorrow, July 4th."
The older sister completely ignored her reasons and said imperiously, "Dad made me manage the shop, I want you 10..."
Arrive before [time].
Helen sighed; she was truly exhausted today and didn't want to argue with Elsa: "The former queen is in a beauty pageant..."
"Participating in the march was a tradition, and there was nothing I could do about it."
The older sister seemed a little smug: "You and your hair are so pathetic."
“You can go now,” Helen said briefly.
Elsa gave a cold laugh, turned around, and muttered to herself, "How pathetic." Then she closed the door and walked out.
go.
Frustrated, Helen threw her things on the floor, pulled up the covers, and went to sleep.
The warm morning sunlight streamed into the room, making everything reflect a soft glow.
Helen was still asleep in bed, with something sparkling on her head—her beloved laurel wreath.
Helen woke up and instinctively reached to rub her hair. Suddenly, she felt something was amiss; she touched the laurel wreath, which should have been on the dressing table, and at the same time, large sections of her hair slipped from her fingers. Helen sat up and saw that her beloved hair had been cut into a messy, scattered haphazardly on the sheets.
Helen rushed to the mirror, only to see a large, blood-red word written on it in lipstick: Immediately...
Helen screamed in terror. Looking in the mirror, the words in red seemed to be written on her face. She smashed the mirror with her fist, but she still couldn't control her fear. Oblivious to the pain, she frantically struck the broken pieces of glass.
Julie answered the phone: "Hello... What? My God!"
Julie's expression changed drastically. She quickly ran downstairs and drove away.
Shortly after starting the car, Julie heard a noise inside. She turned around and saw only her hat, which she had left there, on the back seat.
Julie turned her head and continued driving, but the sound kept coming, like a nagging scratch on her heart. Julie listened carefully and gradually realized that the sound seemed to be coming from behind the car; she had a bad feeling.
Julie's car pulled up in front of Helen's house. She got out and, guided by her earlier instincts, walked to the trunk. Julie hesitated nervously at first, but finally mustered the courage to slowly open the trunk lid. The sight inside made her scream: the trunk was full of crabs!
One of them was crawling out of the mouth of a corpse, and that corpse was Max.
In Helen's bedroom, Barry sat on the bed, comforting Helen, whose hair was disheveled.
Julie rushed in, panicked.
Reaching the car, Julie said irritably, "Don't ask me anymore, he's dead. I saw him with the crab."
"Get up." She handed the key to Barry: "You take it." She really couldn't bear to look at the scene inside anymore.
Helen stood to the side with a grim expression, wearing a hat.
Barry glanced at Julie, whose face was pale, and suddenly lifted the trunk, but a strange thing happened: it was clean inside, there was nothing there, the corpse and the crab had disappeared.
Julie cried out incredulously, "No, he's inside! I saw him! He's wearing your jacket, bye!"
Rui.
She must be hallucinating; women are so cowardly. Barry said sarcastically, "Where is he?"
"Was it carried away by crabs?"
Julie exclaimed excitedly, "I swear to God!"
Having just experienced another equally incredible and terrifying event, Helen said, "I believe you."
Julie stated definitively, "He came and took the body away."
Barry said in a sarcastic, high-pitched voice, "So scary!"
Julie: "I don't know why he hit you? Why he cut Helen's hair? He was warning us."
Barry's face darkened, and he said, "Let's go inside and talk."
Julie was so agitated she couldn't control herself. She yelled at Barry, "Where's your jacket? Look!"
"He's caught us, that's what he wanted. We can't call the police, not now, he's sure of it. He's watching us, waiting..."
Suddenly, Julie angrily shouted around, "What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for?"
Barry stormed toward Helen's house, with Julie and Helen following behind.
"What are you doing here?" Julie asked, noticing Ray waiting for her at Helen's door.
Ray came up to him, looking worried, and said, "I've been looking everywhere for you."
Barry rushed forward, angrily cursing, "You beast!" With that, he delivered a skillful straight hook...
Ray knocked him to the ground, and the two immediately began to fight.
Julie screamed, "Stop!"
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Ray, caught off guard by the punch, angrily yelled at his reckless friend, "What are you doing? I didn't do anything!"
“You’re lying.” Barry didn’t believe the explanation at all. He turned to Julie, who was trying to break up the fight, and yelled, “He’s lying.” He then slammed his fist down even harder.
Julie needed more information; this chaotic situation wasn't conducive to figuring things out. She shouted, her voice louder than Barry's, "Let him go! Take control!"
"No, wake up! He's the mastermind behind this!" Barry absolutely refused to believe that these were all coincidences.
"How many perverted fishermen are there? He's chasing me too!" Ray's words suddenly stunned everyone.
I received a letter.
Barry snorted dismissively. "Oh, you got a letter? I got hit by a car, Helen's hair was cut, there was a corpse in Julie's car, and you got a letter. How fair."
"What corpse? What are you talking about?" Ray realized there were some things that had just happened that he didn't know about.
Barry couldn't take it anymore: "Stop acting! You killed Max and took my jacket."
"Max is dead?" Ray suddenly realized that the only clue they had kept had also been lost.
Looking at the stunned Ray, Bairi became even more convinced that his judgment was correct. He pointed at Ray and said, "What's wrong with you? From the beginning, you've been pestering us, wanting to be friends. Are you unable to control your jealousy?"
"Go to hell!" Ray could not tolerate such an insult.
"Shut up!" Julie couldn't stand it anymore. Why couldn't these people use their brains? She said anxiously, "
We should unite, we should help each other.
Helen, who had been silent, looked up and glanced at Barry and Ray. She felt that Julie's words were more powerful than those of the two men who were supposed to protect them, and she decided to stand with Julie.
Barry calmed down a bit: "If it's not the fisherman, then who is it?... How do we find him?"
“Billy Blue.” Julie had been thinking about this person ever since she returned from the Egans’s house. “I think it’s his name.”
Ray looked up in surprise, the name seeming to touch a nerve: "How did you know?"