Chapter 7 Horror Space
Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.
The sound of the girl’s high heels echoed lonely in the spacious corridor.
This was not the core area of the space station, so the heating system was only maintained at the lowest level… The light around was also somewhat dim, and even the ground a little further away could not be seen clearly.
And even so…
The girl’s footsteps were indeed exceptionally firm, as if nothing could stop her advance.
…
“Elus, we…”
“Mm, we’re about to reach the anomaly zone reported. If you see anything strange, don’t be surprised and react violently.”
The girl didn’t make a sound, because they could communicate with each other in their hearts.
Just hearing Elus say that, Lonis felt a inexplicable sense of tension.
Because her current state was very strange, not exerting any force on her body, just like when she was lying in bed sleeping. But her own body was indeed moving.
This was as if countless silk threads were connected to her skin, making her a puppet.
…
“E-Elus, I’ll try to keep calm… but you have to chat with me. Otherwise, it’s too easy to get nervous if you don’t say a word.”
“Alright, alright, you’re embarrassing yourself, little idiot. What do you want to talk about?”
…
The companions were not by the girls’ side.
Because in order to get the most accurate information, the companions’ job was to divert the robots’ attention. Because of this, Elus and Lonis were able to sneak into this crucial area without a sound.
…
“Say… say anything, okay? As long as Elus speaks, it’s fine, right?”
“Hehe, then let’s tell ghost stories.”
“Ghost stories?”
“That’s right? Once upon a time, there lived an old man in a shantytown. He was very frugal and never wasted water or electricity… But when the electricity bill was settled each month, he felt that it was more than his expenses.”
“Let’s skip the ghost stories, it’ll make me more scared!”
“Hmph, I’ll tell it no matter what! The old man became suspicious, so he turned off all the appliances at home and stayed elsewhere for half a month… When he returned, he found that the electric meter at home was still running! And the electricity consumption was not a small amount.”
“This… this is probably electricity theft?”
“Mm, the old man thought so too. So he thoroughly searched his home and finally saw an electrical outlet in a corner of the storage layer… But what was peculiar was that the wires did not lead to his house or his neighbors, but to underground!”
“Underground?”
Lonis subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva. If she were controlling her body herself, her legs would have gone weak, and she wouldn’t be able to walk at all.
“That’s right, the old man found out that his electricity had been stolen, so he was very angry. To find out what was going on, he hired a few workers to dig up that piece of floor… But no one expected that a large refrigerator was buried in the soil of the foundation.”
“!!”
“And the top of the refrigerator was wrapped with dense tape, as if it was avoiding something…”
“Wuwu, don’t say anymore.”
Lonis wanted to cover her fox ears, but since the sound came from her heart, doing so was impossible.
Sensing Lonis’s panicked cleansing, Elus became even more excited:
“A bold worker directly used his shovel to cut the tape on the refrigerator bit by bit~~~~”
“Wow…”
“And what was stored inside? It was the corpse of a fox-eared girl! Her clothes were all taken off, only torn white stockings remained on her legs. Her skin was completely bloodless and tightly wrapped with a rope. The liquid flowing from her body had turned into ice crystals, congealing on the inner side of her thighs…”
“What kind of strange ghost story is this!!!”
…
Although Lonis was a bit scared before the final reveal, she was not scared at all when she heard Elus talk about the fox-eared girl.
Because who would torture a fox-eared girl like this? This must be Elus’s fabrication!
…
“Oh ho, it seems the little idiot fox isn’t scared at all?”
“Who would be scared? It’s too elaborate, it must be made up!”
“Oh? But usually, if a murder occurs, the killer will hide the body in the refrigerator, right?”
“Eh?”
“Because whether it’s sinking into the sea or burying it in the ground, there’s a risk of being discovered. But refrigerated cabinets are the safest. As long as the little idiot fox is put in it, it will retain its appearance before death forever and will not decay?”
“Ughhhh!”
…
Although Lonis knew that Elus was teasing her, that cold tone was as if she were relating a true event.
So Lonis was so scared that her body trembled uncontrollably.
“Little idiot, don’t move around.”
“I don’t want to move around either, it’s… it’s still Elus scaring me.”
“Hmph, I’m not scaring you, I’m just giving you a preemptive shot, so you don’t get scared and wet yourself when you enter the core area later… Hmph, this is also my own body, and I won’t allow you to do anything so disrespectful!”
“Pre… preemptive shot?”
“That’s right…”
Elus smiled slightly and pushed open a heavy iron door.
And what greeted her eyes?
It was a temperature like an ice cave,
and dozens of disheveled girl corpses…
…
…
(Wh-what is going on?!)
For a moment, Lonis felt stunned.
A cold sweat erupted from her back, scaring her so much that she almost screamed and ran back to hide behind cover.
However…
“Idiot fox, don’t scream, didn’t I already remind you? You’re still scared, aren’t you?”
“R-remind or not, but… but this scene is really too…”
…
Just like the ghost story Elus told, the girls in the ice cave didn’t even have a complete piece of clothing on them. Their skin was completely pale, without a trace of blood.
Even more bizarrely, many of the corpses had their eyes open.
Those pitch-black pupils stared open without any light, making people feel a bone-chilling pressure at a glance, and they couldn’t even look at them a second time.
Lonis shivered a bit from the cold, but Elus smiled and said,
“Alas, that’s why little idiots are stupid. Well, I won’t scare you anymore. Although these corpses are corpses, they are not human corpses.”
“Not… human corpses?”
“That’s right. If I’m not mistaken, these should be clone puppet corpses… Hmm, look at the back of their necks, there are numbers on them?”
Elus bent down and lifted a girl’s head with her finger, saying so.
