Academia sobrenatural pervertida - Capítulo 6
Chen Kai suddenly felt sorry for this woman. Maybe she wasn't a good person, maybe she really was a poisonous flower, but even the worst person shouldn't be left to fend for themselves.
"Um, um, let's help her!" Chen Kai muttered softly, his voice so low he could barely hear himself.
Feixiao gave him a cold look: "You're always looking for trouble. You said it yourself. Don't regret it later and blame me for dragging you into this!"
"No, no!" Chen Kai was very happy that he had agreed. Perhaps in Fei Xiao's eyes, humans were just born in the morning and die in the evening, passing away in an instant. But how could he know or understand this short, fleeting beauty? Even the most insignificant and hateful person has things they cherish, things they love most. He could not and would not understand these things.
I glanced back at the woman. She had an indifferent expression, her face shrouded in smoke, heavily made up, beautiful and alluring, yet tinged with loneliness. She must also have someone she cherished, something she couldn't forget, which was why she stood so lonely on the street corner, waiting stubbornly, like a poppy blooming in the wind, waiting for someone to be poisoned by her.
"You can leave now, I don't need anyone's pity!" the woman said, her hand making a beautiful arc in the wind, gracefully sending out a wisp of smoke.
"Don't be like this. We're not pitying you, we just want to help you." Her aloof demeanor made Chen Kai feel even more sorry for her loneliness.
"Everyone says that I am a despicable and hateful person, that I steal what others love, that I bleed them dry, but in the end, who sucked whose life, who stole whose happiness?" Her red dress bloomed in the night, adding a touch of indifferent detachment.
"Stop talking about this now. Think about what unfulfilled wishes you really have!" Fei Xiao said impatiently. This woman, the sensual woman smoking a cigarette, seemed to have too many grievances to pour out. If she were to listen to her endless rambling, it would be almost dawn.
"Hmph, if you're not sincere about helping me, fine, but don't try to put on a nice front. I've seen plenty of people like you!"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't be like this. It's not like there's any grudge between you two. Let's try to resolve this together!" Chen Kai hurriedly tried to mediate. What's wrong with these two? They both have such beautiful faces, why do they act like sworn enemies when they meet?
Feixiao sighed from the side: "Forget it, I'm not going to argue with a wild ghost like you. If you want to remember the past quickly, I have a way to make you remember it right away, so you don't have to keep waiting like this!"
The woman shook her head helplessly upon hearing this: "Why should I rely on others for my past and my memories?" She stretched out a slender hand and covered her face, her red nails highlighting her paleness.
"Then think about whether there's anything you're attached to?" Chen Kai asked her.
"You really are stupid! This is the place I care about most. Otherwise, why would I be standing here?"
"There must be something unforgettable for you, right? Something that happened right here?" Chen Kai was good-natured and didn't seem bothered at all by being interrupted.
"Yes! I think so~" The woman said, as if she remembered something, her eyes becoming deep: "It seems like someone was here with me, held my hand, and gave me something!"
"Isn't it almost there? And then what? Who is that?" It seems like we're not far from our destination.
"I forgot!" The woman shook her head. "I think I have something to ask him, but I forgot who he is. I only want to ask him one question. Once I get the answer, I will leave and never bother him again!" Her tone was full of bitterness.
"Sigh, this seems to be another one who's heartbroken?" Chen Kai whispered to Fei Xiao beside him.
"What is heartbreak?" Fei Xiao asked. He knew too little about these people's feelings, and he didn't want to understand them.
"It's when you care a lot about someone, but that person doesn't care about you at all!"
"Oh! If that's the case, then I guess I've never been heartbroken!" Fei Xiao said smugly. "It seems like everyone I've ever met cared about me a lot~"
"Sigh~" At this point, all that's left is to sigh; it's like talking to a brick wall.
It seems that all we can do now is make her remember who that man is, and that will make things much easier!
"Miss, let me call you that for now. Do you have anything that can remind you of that person?" Chen Kai asked her. This kind of thing about love was what people his age were most interested in.
"Don't call me that!" she said, sounding very unhappy. "It's like all those things are in my house. I'm a dead person; I can't take anything with me!"
"Where is your home?"
The woman casually tossed her cascading black hair and simply said, "Forgot~"
Chen Kai immediately felt that he couldn't communicate with either of them, as if this was his own business, and even the woman seemed indifferent.
"What can we do?" He shook his head, helpless.
Feixiao, who was standing next to him, looked up at the sky and thought for a while before saying, "Chen Kai, maybe we can try. She refuses to let me extract her memories, so I have no way to find out about people's past. But surely you humans have some way to find out about the dead?"
"That's right!" Chen Kai exclaimed excitedly after hearing this. "You're so clever! We can go online or check the latest newspapers!" As expected of Fei Xiao, she's as shrewd as a shrewd person. How come he didn't think of that?
“Then come with us. It’s not good for you to stand here alone. You should have some memory of your past, right? Let’s go find it together,” Fei Xiao said to the woman.
"Okay, okay! Let's hurry over to an internet cafe and see if we can find one!" Chen Kai said, about to leave. "There's one nearby, let's give it a try!"
"Can it really be that simple?" The woman was skeptical, but she still followed them. After a few steps, she couldn't help but look back at the spot where she had just been standing. The leaves of the bushes swayed in the wind, and the blue bricks on the sidewalk gleamed faintly. It was just an ordinary street scene, so why was she so reluctant to leave? This scene, bathed in the dim yellow light of the streetlights, seemed to encapsulate all the happiness of her life.
Chen Kai found the nearest internet cafe, which was filled with smoke. Some idle people used the virtual world to express their emotions and vent their emptiness. Even though it was already night, the place was crowded with more people than the busiest streets during the day.
The three of them waited for a long time before they finally got an empty seat. Chen Kai turned on his computer, went to Baidu, and typed in "woman, death, xx city". The search engine started searching, and within a minute, the screen was filled with news about death.
Chen Kai felt a pang of anxiety upon seeing this. How could so many people have left this world? How could this peaceful and prosperous society, seemingly radiant with song and dance, bear so many deaths?
The three of them read through the messages one by one, all of which were about death: suicide, homicide, accidents, and disappearances that had not yet been found. After flipping through several pages, they still couldn't find any news that matched the woman in red amidst the deathly atmosphere of the messages.
Half an hour passed, and Chen Kai kept clicking on messages and opening web pages. "Wait a minute!" Fei Xiao suddenly pointed to one of the messages and said, "Take a look at this!"
A Baidu search only yielded results like "a lovelorn young woman commits suicide for love..." and "Yujing Apartment, XX Road, XX City". He certainly has a sharp eye!
The news came from a newspaper called "Xinmin Evening News," so I had to find that newspaper's website and click on the historical news search.
Another ten minutes or so later, I finally found the news about the prostitute's suicide in a news article from a year ago. The report was very brief, but it had a sarcastic tone. It said that a woman who worked in an illicit industry ended her life for her client. The word "prostitute" in the headline was in quotation marks, making it very eye-catching. In addition, the content was less than five lines long. I guess if this infatuated woman hadn't worked in such an industry, no one would have noticed her death.
"Is this it?" Chen Kai turned around and looked at the woman in red.
"Yes, I remember that apartment..." As she spoke, her hand holding the cigarette began to tremble, and tears seemed to well up in her beautiful eyes. Was that really a report about her? Her life, more than twenty years of life, filled with the bittersweet past, was summarized in just five lines, a mere glimpse into her final chapter, not even a tiny piece of news.
“Then let’s go there!” Feixiao said.
"What? Now? It's almost nine o'clock!" Chen Kai was surprised by his speed.
"It's better to resolve this before dawn tomorrow. She's been dead for a year and hasn't been reincarnated yet. If we delay any longer, it won't work!"
"Oh!" Chen Kai replied, "Then are we going to that Royal View Apartment?"
"This is all we could find!" Fei Xiao said, already heading out the door. "Let's hurry!"
Yujing Apartment is a well-known apartment complex in the city, famous for its high prices and expensive property management fees. It is a place where only the wealthy and powerful live, and ordinary people can only dream of living there.
"Wow! That's really nice!" Chen Kai looked at the gate of the community, which was as unique as a sculpture. The automatic door and the iron bars inside made it seem as heavily guarded as a prison.
"Let's go in!" Feixiao said, starting to walk inside.
"Sir! Wait a minute, sir!" A security guard next to him extended a hand wearing a white glove and stopped him: "Sir, do you have a resident card? If you're not a resident of the community, you need to register first before you can enter!"
"Resident card?" Fei Xiao said with a smile, showing no sign of guilt. "I have too many cards, I don't know which one it is. Do you have one that I can see?"
"Okay, okay!" The security guard turned around, walked to the guardhouse, and handed a card out the window: "It's this kind of magnetic card with the house number on it!"
"Oh!" Feixiao held the card, looked at it for a while, then reached into her pocket and magically pulled out an identical card: "Is this it?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The security guard nodded repeatedly, holding up Feixiao's card.
"Hehe!" Feixiao laughed and took the card back. "Can we go in now? I'm so sorry, I have too many apartments, I can't tell which one is which!" She had a smug look on her face.
Upon hearing his words, Chen Kai almost vomited up his dinner from the previous night. Others might not know, but he knew exactly how much wealth this narcissist had. Luckily, bragging didn't have to be taxed.
"Let's go!" Chen Kai and the woman hurriedly followed inside. The security guard behind them looked completely bewildered, muttering, "Strange? Wasn't that room empty?"
The three of them took the elevator upstairs and found the room mentioned in the newspaper.
"Open the door quickly!" Chen Kai said to Fei Xiao. "Don't you have a key card to open the door?"
"You actually believe that's real?" Fei Xiao said with a smile, waving the card in her hand. Only then did Chen Kai realize that it was a phone card.
"You, you're such a con artist! Now that we're inside, what are we going to do about the door?"
"Hehehe, leave it to me, I'm the best at this!" Fei Xiao grinned mischievously, his handsome face almost crooked from laughing.
After saying that, he twisted the doorknob with his hand, and the door creaked open, showing that no one had lived there for a long time.
"The door wasn't locked!" Chen Kai exclaimed. "What luck!"
"No wonder there's no lock?" The room was pitch black, and a dusty smell filled the air.
"Turn on the lights!" Chen Kai felt terrified in the darkness, especially since someone had died in this room.
"Kid!" The woman's voice suddenly rang out behind him: "I've been dead for so long, I haven't bought any electricity, how could I possibly have lights?"
"Ahhhhh!" Chen Kai suddenly hugged Fei Xiao in front of him. "You scared me to death! Why did she suddenly start talking?!"
"You're so annoying! Weren't you talking to me the whole time? Why weren't you scared just now?" Fei Xiao, being carried by him, dragged Chen Kai into the room: "Let's look for something."
"Can you find anything?" It's so dark here, you'd be lucky to even see an outline.
"Sure!" Fei Xiao and the woman said in unison.
It seems there is a difference between humans and ghosts; that's no exaggeration.
"Quickly find all the things that resonate with you! Once I summon the Thought Entity, we can find the person you're longing for!" Fei Xiao said to the woman.
The woman ignored him, muttering to herself, "Yes, yes, this is it!"
"Is this your home?" Chen Kai timidly peeked out.
"It was on this sofa that I cut my wrists. Afterwards, I felt cold all over. Even though I lost so much blood, I couldn't feel any pain. My heart ached more than anywhere else..."
"Huh~" He regretted asking her that question.
"The place where you stand was once stained red with blood. What good is such a large expanse of red? He will never even glance at me."
"Wow!" Chen Kai exclaimed, dragging Fei Xiao to another spot. He was terrified.
"Enough with the nonsense, let's hurry up and look!" Fei Xiao said, and started looking for some odds and ends.
The woman also snapped out of her reverie, exclaiming, "This, this, and this—I remember them all!" A moment later, she carried a large pile of things from the house and dumped them on the floor. There were clothes, shoes, cosmetics, perfume, and other items.
"Isn't this a bit too much? Of course you remember these things, they're all things you've used. Keep looking through them and see if there's anything that looks like a souvenir, like a ring, a necklace, or something else?" This woman is too crazy, she's going to exhaust him.
"Oh!" The woman suddenly became obedient, completely losing the arrogance she had shown at first sight, and dutifully rummaged through the pile of things.
After a while, I found about a dozen items, including necklaces, perfumes, handbags, and jewelry. "These seem to have a strong resemblance to these. Why don't you give them a try?"
"What is this?" Chen Kai pulled out a tattered diary from a pile of junk. It had a plastic cover and looked like it was from a long time ago, standing out starkly against the luxurious items.
He opened the envelope; there seemed to be writing inside, but it was too dark to see clearly. "Feixiao, take a look!"
"To Chen Yanfei: You are intelligent, talented, and diligent in your studies. Wishing you a bright future and boundless possibilities!" The letter was written in neat, upright characters.
"So your name is Chen Yanfei!" Chen Kai said to the woman.
"Is it? Let me see!" She snatched the notebook from Feixiao's hand. "This looks like my high school yearbook. The first page was written by our homeroom teacher."
"That doesn't seem to matter, does it?" Chen Kai said, taking the notebook over and putting it aside. There seemed to be a hard thing inside the cover. He took it out and touched it. It looked like a ring, round and hard, probably a little girl's toy. He put it back in and put the notebook aside.
Feixiao rubbed her hands together in front of those things: "Let's begin!"
He placed his hand on the pile of things, as if holding a sphere in his arms. A moment later, a cloud of mist rose from his hand, and human faces appeared. He exclaimed, "All done!"
He turned to the woman and said, "Quickly see if there's anyone you remember well!"
"Wow, so many!" Chen Kai exclaimed. There were at least a dozen faces. Chen Yanfei must know way too many people.
"No, there are duplicates!" Fei Xiao said, then turned to the woman and said, "Quickly take a look and see who those duplicates are?"