pozo profundo

Capítulo 94

"Are you feeling better?" I asked Su Qiao, but she had already slipped past me and entered my room.

"Okay, thank you!" Su Qiao pulled the round piece out of her pocket, and my head immediately started to throb. Was she planning to play some kind of hypnotic game again?

"Don't be afraid, hehe." Su Qiao winked at me playfully and said, "I just want you to tell me who knows who 'dreamed of'. Can you take me there?"

"Now?" I glanced hesitantly at the door, thinking that Fang Lei might be back soon.

"Not necessarily, I just want you to tell me who she is?" Su Qiao fiddled with the disc in her hand.

"She's a friend of mine. She owns a bar, but she's been to many places and knows a lot. I'll definitely take you to meet her when I have time." I didn't tell Su Qiaotian's mother directly about her situation. Subconsciously, I thought their meeting would be very interesting.

"Okay!" Su Qiao put the disc back. To me, it seemed like she'd only brought it out to subtly intimidate me. With a wry smile, I asked, "Is there anything else?"

"It's alright, but I'm thirsty and need some water." After saying that, Su Qiao turned around and poured a glass of water. She put the glass to her lips and then put it down, saying, "I forgot to pour a glass for Master."

"No need," I tried to stop her, but she had already poured me a glass of water very attentively and handed it to me. Reluctantly, I took it and took a sip.

"Alright, I won't bother you anymore!" Su Qiao smiled as she opened the door, then turned back to me and said, "Don't forget what you said!"

"I won't forget!" I quickly and confidently assured them.

After Su Qiao left, I lay back on the bed, feeling utterly helpless. The sunlight shone gently on my face, but I felt a chill. Where did this chill come from? From the depths of my heart?

Sigh! I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back and waist. I closed my eyes wearily, but as soon as I closed them, I saw that woman and Yin Xue's ashen face again.

I opened my eyes; the bright room couldn't hide any secrets. But I kept hearing a faint, almost imperceptible breathing sound near my ear, sometimes slow, sometimes fast, sometimes near, sometimes far. Frustrated, I got up and buried my face in my hands. At that moment, I suddenly longed to go home, and I missed my older sister, Lin Yao.

Lin Yao! I felt a jolt run through my body, took out my phone, and the number she had mentioned last time was still there. Without hesitation, I immediately dialed the number.

"Sorry, the phone number you dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." A polite yet cold, mechanical female voice replied. Frustrated, I turned off my phone. Why did this thing disappear when I wanted to call it?

Maybe I should wait until tonight; they'll call then! I consoled myself, and collapsed onto the bed…

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I drifted through the day in a daze, and even as it was time to go to sleep, I still felt like the day hadn't even begun. Pulling hard on Fang Lei, whose neck was already flushed red with embarrassment, I pleaded like a child, "Will you sleep with me tonight?"

"Stop messing around, you can't!" Fang Lei tried to shake off my clutches.

"It was fine yesterday, why not tonight?" I retorted, acting like a scoundrel.

"You..." Fang Lei's angry expression was really cute.

"I don't care, I don't care, I want you to sleep with me tonight. I was possessed by a ghost this morning, aren't you worried about what might happen tonight?" I threatened.

"This..." Fang Lei reluctantly gave in, and then pinched my arm hard. Ouch! As expected, a woman's heart is the most poisonous!

"Hehe!" Seeing that my evil plan had succeeded, I naturally ignored the pain in my arm and was about to hug her and take liberties with her when she immediately slapped my wicked hand away.

"Sweetie, didn't you say you were possessed by a ghost this morning? You need to rest now!" Fang Lei patted my head with a smile in her eyes.

"Huh?" I had really tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing the rice instead. I watched sullenly as Fang Lei pushed me onto the bed, even covering me with a blanket and sleeping next to me. I started to regret letting her stay. How was I supposed to sleep like this? Wasn't she obviously telling me to learn from the esteemed Uncle Liu Xiahui?

I wanted to tease her, but seeing her peaceful sleeping face, I really didn't want her to think I was sexually frustrated. Reluctantly, I could only stare at the ceiling and try to fall asleep.

Perhaps because I was possessed by a ghost that morning, my eyelids became incredibly heavy in less than three minutes. The next moment, my consciousness began to blur, everything went black, and I fell asleep...

To be honest, she wasn't really asleep, but she was too shy and didn't want him to sleep alone, so she stayed with him. Listening carefully, Fang Lei lay motionless in Lin Xiao's arms. She wondered if pretending to be asleep would stop him from being naughty. But it seemed this method was working, because she could hear his steady breathing; he must be asleep!

Gently opening her eyes, Fang Lei saw that Lin Xiao was already asleep. Looking at his innocent, childlike sleeping face, Fang Lei couldn't help but smile. Was this the man she would spend her life with? Sometimes, Fang Lei couldn't believe she had fallen in love with someone so suddenly, so unexpectedly and unprepared. Perhaps love was simply meant to catch people off guard. Gently holding his hand, Fang Lei felt that at this moment, nothing else mattered, yet she already possessed everything. Slowly closing her eyes, Fang Lei drifted off to sleep peacefully…

"So cold!" Fang Lei shivered, groggily opening her eyes. Was she awake? Fang Lei turned over, realizing someone seemed to be missing beside her. Where was Lin Xiao? Fang Lei tried to open her sleepy eyes. But she saw the door to the room was wide open, and Lin Xiao was standing in the doorway.

Where is he going? To the toilet?

Fang Lei's sleepiness had mostly vanished by this point, and upon closer inspection, even the last vestiges of sleepiness disappeared. Lin Xiao's eyes were empty and lifeless, and his expression was chillingly indifferent.

What's wrong with him? Is he sleepwalking?

Fang Lei immediately jumped out of bed, grabbed a coat and threw it on, while Lin Xiao had already left the room. Following closely behind, Fang Lei realized that Lin Xiao wasn't going to the bathroom; at least, he wasn't heading in that direction, but rather towards the stairs.

Should she call him back? But Fang Lei immediately dismissed the idea. She wanted to see where Lin Xiao would go and what he was up to. As Lin Xiao walked out of the guesthouse, Fang Lei couldn't help but shiver from the cold. The campus at night was chillingly cold, the slight chill making the entire campus feel like a giant refrigerator, as if freezing all living things.

In the dead of night, even the chirping of an insect was a luxury; Fang Lei could only hear her own breathing. Looking at Lin Xiao again, his shadow stretched long and thin in the moonlight, his profile obscuring the expression on his face.

Following slowly, Lin Xiao seemed to have no particular purpose. But when Fang Lei looked up, the old teaching building came into view. That low building was especially sinister in the darkness, like a filthy, lurking carnivore hiding in the silence, waiting for its prey.

Lin Xiao, are you going there?

Biting her lip, Fang Lei suppressed the urge to call out to Lin Xiao. He was walking with a ghostly lightness, slowly and evenly heading towards that place.

The night was cool and still; even without a breeze, Fang Lei's hands were numb with cold, while Lin Xiao seemed completely oblivious to the chill. Soon, Lin Xiao entered the old teaching building.

Without hesitation, Fang Lei followed immediately inside. As soon as she stepped into the old teaching building, she sensed a dark, resentful aura rising from every inch of it, steadily ascending in the darkness. The pungent smell of blood made Fang Lei stop in her tracks; this was a place shrouded in heavy resentment.

After pressing her palms together and quietly reciting an incantation, she opened her hands, and a cluster of blue flames immediately shot out from her palms. Unfortunately, it vanished in an instant. Fang Lei's already furrowed brows tightened even more. That was a unique exorcism hand seal of the Emei Sect, capable of summoning purifying fire. However, it seemed the resentment in this place was too heavy, so the purifying fire only existed for a moment before being swallowed up by the surrounding resentment.

There was no time to think about how to dispel the resentment here, because Lin Xiao had already gone up the stairs, and Fang Lei quickly followed. When they reached the second floor, they found Lin Xiao standing motionless in front of an iron door leading to the rooftop.

Volume 3: Delicacies from Hell, Chapter 33: The Murderer

Volume 3: Delicacies from Hell, Chapter 33: The Murderer

What was that dark mass? I rubbed my eyes, but I still couldn't see clearly. I could only see a wriggling object in front of me. I touched my face; it was ice-cold.

Where am I? My mouth is dry, and the wriggling creatures in front of me are spinning, making me dizzy. Struggling to steady myself, I realize my vision has almost completely disappeared, and it's so cold, almost bone-chillingly cold. Is this a dream? I want to wake up, but I can't. I feel my body moving, but it's not under my control.

The writhing black mass drew closer. As I looked more closely, my vision suddenly cleared, and I gasped. It was a mass of countless corpses, kneaded together—numerous hands and feet, and countless faces of all shapes and sizes. Yellowish fluid oozed from the bluish-black skin, and I saw smug smiles on countless faces. I tried to back away, but I froze. I could only watch helplessly as it drew nearer. Did it want to devour me? I felt an overwhelming terror. I didn't want my body to be kneaded into this disgusting mass of corpses.

Looking up, it seemed to be growing larger and larger, its surface constantly being filled with new corpses—corpses kneaded and mangled beyond recognition, limbs that appeared to have been severed from their bodies, faces that seemed to still be grinning maliciously…

Run! Run!

I screamed in my heart again and again, calling out to my body, but I couldn't move. I felt a patch of bluish-black, decaying skin in front of me, and then my whole body shuddered. I seemed to feel the sticky sensation of those dead people's hands and feet touching my body.

"No!" I screamed, and suddenly everything went black. My whole body trembled uncontrollably, whether from the cold or fear. I forced myself to stop the churning in my stomach and opened my eyes again, only to find myself standing in front of a door. Looking down at myself, I saw that I was wearing pajamas.

What happened to me? Where am I?

Looking around, I realized I was standing in an unfamiliar place. It was dark and I couldn't see clearly, yet it felt strangely familiar. It was so cold. I tried to calm myself down, and after thinking carefully, I suddenly remembered—wasn't this the second floor of the old teaching building?

How did I get here? Am I sleepwalking?

Just as I was about to turn around, I suddenly heard a faint cry for help from inside the door—a woman's voice, and it sounded very familiar. Who was it? I frowned; this couldn't be my imagination. It was so late; the rooftop of the old teaching building should be behind this door. Who would be up there? My hand was already reaching for the door. What lay behind it?

Fang Lei silently watched Lin Xiao's every move from around the corner. When he suddenly looked around, Fang Lei actually breathed a sigh of relief. His eyes seemed to have returned to normal; at least, bright eyes were more real than empty, lifeless ones. Seeing that he seemed about to open the door and go inside, Fang Lei hesitated whether she should show herself, but ultimately refrained.

I pushed the door open, and a gust of cold wind blew in, making me shiver. The moonlight was bright, seemingly watching over the dark earth with an eerie gaze. On the rooftop, I saw two figures, appearing as two black silhouettes in the moonlight.

"Yu Bo?" Taking another step forward, I saw one of the figures—it was Yu Bo. His狰狞 (zhengning, meaning ferocious or hideous) and haggard face was almost unrecognizable. His sunken eyes and pale complexion looked so eerie in the moonlight, like a demon from hell. And the other person was... Su Qiao? But at this moment, Yu Bo's hands were tightly gripping Su Qiao's neck, and judging from her pained expression, she seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

"Let go!" I rushed over. Yu Bo seemed surprised that someone else would come to the rooftop so late at night. He was startled and immediately let go of Su Qiao's hand.

"Su Qiao!" I immediately grabbed Su Qiao, who was almost lying on the ground, and pulled her to my side, looking warily at Yu Bo in front of me.

"What do you want to do, senior? Are you crazy?" I looked at him in disbelief. His eyes were bloodshot, as if he had lost his mind. He pulled out a long, sharp knife from behind his back. The gleaming blade made me gasp. At this point, it would probably be useless to call for help.

"Since you're here too, I'll send you all to your deaths as well. Hehe!" Yu Bo sneered as he slowly approached us. I glanced back at Su Qiao; she seemed still reeling from what had just happened and was still panting heavily.

"Senior, why? Why did you hurt Su Qiao?" I hoped to buy him some time or distract him.

"Why? Just because she borrowed that book, she deserves to die!" Yu Bo brandished a sharp knife in front of me viciously, saying, "That book is what that bitch likes, so anyone who borrows that book is a bitch and deserves to die!"

I simply cannot understand Yu Bo's logic. Perhaps the logic of someone who has gone mad is inherently incomprehensible.

“That woman isn’t despicable; she’s your mother.” I already guessed who she was. Besides Zhuo Peici, who else could Yu Bo hate so deeply?

“She’s not my mother. This shameless woman who seduces other men, she can do without my father, without me, she only wants other men!” Yu Bo seemed to have been hit where it hurt.

"But the other people who borrowed this book did nothing wrong!" I tried to argue.

"Yes! They all have them!" Yu Bo shouted, his desperate cries echoing through the lonely, desolate night. "They all want to learn to cook well, thinking that they can seduce other men if they can cook?"

“So…” Su Qiao suddenly spoke up from behind me, “So you killed those women and cooked them, right?”

"Yes, if they like cooking so much, then they can cook until they die. Haha~~~!" Yu Bo laughed loudly, saying, "I've eaten them all, they're really delicious~~!" After saying that, Yu Bo even licked his lips, looking like he still wanted more.

"Is it delicious? Are you happy?" Su Qiao asked, enunciating each word clearly.

"Delicious, of course it's delicious!" Yu Bo nodded and said, "Happy, I'm very happy."

"Really? As happy as when your mother died?" Su Qiao seemed to have calmed down.

"When she died...when she died?" Yu Bo slowly put down the knife in his hand, lowered his head, and muttered to himself.

"You only hate someone when they betray you if you love them. How can you hate someone if you don't love them? You may feel extreme disgust and hatred towards them, but this extreme disgust and hatred is precisely caused by your extreme love. Your mother loves to cook so much, so you like it too, so even if you use people as ingredients, you can still cook very well. That's because subconsciously, you have always taken your mother as your standard."

"No, no, I didn't!" Yu Bo shouted like a child.

"You love her so much, so of course you can't tolerate her betrayal. Your mother used her excellent cooking skills to seduce other men, so in your logic, all women who want to learn to cook well become shameless women who want to seduce other men, and you need to clean them up, right?" As expected of a psychologist, she completely rendered my arguments, which I had been thinking of for so long, useless.

"No, no, I didn't!" Yu Bo shook his head vigorously and said, "They all have to die, you vile women!"

"Senior, let go. Have you forgotten your father? He needs your care. What will he do if something happens to you?" I suddenly remembered his father, who was suffering from dementia.

“Father…Father?” Yu Bo’s body seemed to tremble, and he murmured to himself, “Father, my father. I have killed that vile woman. It’s alright, no one will hurt you anymore.”

"You killed Zhuo Peici?" I was stunned. Could he really bring himself to kill his own mother? How old was he when that car accident happened? How could that be?

"She deserved to die, she deserved to be hit by a car! Hahaha~~!" Yu Bo seemed to get excited again, saying, "I only pushed her a little, the one who hit her was that truck!"

"Lin Xiao, don't mention her mother's death again," Su Qiao whispered in my ear. "He might be plotting to kill again."

"She deserves to die, they deserve to die, and you all deserve to die!" Yu Bo brandished his dagger again and charged straight at us.

"Watch out!" Su Qiao shouted behind me. I seized the opportunity and kicked at the knife in Yu Bo's hand. I knew I only had one chance; if I missed it, I might not see the sun rise tomorrow. Fortunately, it seemed that God was looking out for me, and I actually managed to kick the knife away from his hand with one kick.

"Hurry up!" I grabbed Su Qiao and ran towards the door, but I didn't expect Fang Lei to already be standing there.

"Lin Xiao, watch out behind you!" Fang Lei watched as Yu Bo pulled out another dagger from his waist and stabbed it towards Lin Xiao's back.

Damn it! I turned around abruptly, only to see a gleaming flash of light. The knife was about to pierce me, and it was too late to dodge. I quickly reached out and grabbed Yu Bo's wrist with lightning speed. The knife was just a hair's breadth away from slicing my face.

I don't know if people are particularly strong when they're in a hurry, but with one effort, I pressed Yu Bo to the ground and quickly put my whole body on top of him. I held down his hand holding the dagger and pressed it hard against the ground.

"Lin Xiao!" Fang Lei rushed over.

"Ahhh!" I was just feeling a bit smug, thinking I'd actually subdued Yu Bo, when he suddenly slammed his knee into my stomach. The excruciating pain sent me sprawling to the ground. Yu Bo, however, pounced again like a wolf. Without thinking, I launched a flying kick. Taking advantage of the instant Yu Bo was hit, I leaped to my feet.

"Lin Xiao, get out of the way." Fang Lei's words were still behind me when a purple ribbon flew past me. With a gentle roll, it tightly bound Yu Bo's entire body, rendering him unable to move.

"Ah, ah~~!" Yu Bo tried his best to stab the silk ribbon wrapped around his body with the dagger in his hand, but the silk ribbon was no ordinary thing. It was transformed from the Lotus Hairpin, a magic treasure of the Emei Sect. Of course, it could not be destroyed with ordinary weapons.

"Quick, call the police!" I shouted to Su Qiao, who was standing to the side, completely stunned.