Chapter 18 Who Is In The Bedroom? (4/95)
“Having a nightmare?”
Yu Xiaolu was a little surprised, then it seemed like she understood something.
“I think you must often work overtime and are exhausted, so you should rest well.”
“Mmm…”
An Qinglian felt that it made some sense, but she was very uneasy.
She poured herself a glass of water, and the ice-cold water went down her esophagus into her stomach, making her tense nerves relax for a moment.
At this moment, Yu Xiaolu spoke to An Qinglian.
“When you were asleep, I glanced outside and the basketball outside was gone.”
“Ah?”
An Qinglian paused, then looked at the mobile phone surveillance.
As two women living together, she, being cautious, naturally installed a surveillance camera on the door.
As a result, on her phone screen at this time, she found that the red basketball outside the door had long since disappeared!
Yu Xiaolu was still lying on the bed, muttering.
“That’s strange, who would come to get a basketball at this hour?”
“Oh, right? Don’t you have mobile phone surveillance? Take a look.”
After hearing Yu Xiaolu’s words, An Qinglian turned the surveillance to the interior, and the scene before her made her a little creepy.
On the shelf where a whole row of adult basketballs was placed, a red size 5 ball suddenly appeared!
An Qinglian’s face turned paler and paler.
She had personally seen Yu Xiaolu throw the ball out, and the door was locked, so how did the ball get back inside?!
An Qinglian, not believing it, quickly rewound the surveillance video.
In the surveillance, after the ball was thrown out by Yu Xiaolu, it had not moved. But about ten minutes later, the surveillance screen suddenly turned to snow, and when it returned to normal, the basketball outside was gone.
Turning the surveillance back to the interior… The size 5 basketball appeared on the shelf.
What was going on?
The fear and unease from the bottom of her heart made An Qinglian tremble uncontrollably.
This caused her to be unable to gain any sense of security even when she was by her friend’s side.
The scene in the dream was too real, so real that she couldn’t help but wonder if Yu Xiaolu was really bouncing a basketball while she was asleep.
“I… I’m going to the restroom.”
An Qinglian swallowed hard, her body went cold, and she walked with difficulty towards the restroom.
She sat on the toilet, but had no intention of relieving herself.
This rental house had a total of three surveillance cameras.
One faced outside, one faced the entrance, and one faced the bedroom.
She had checked the surveillance of the entrance and outside, but she hadn’t seen the bedroom surveillance yet.
An Qinglian slowly opened the bedroom surveillance with trembling hands.
Then she saw… Inside the bedroom, there was no one.
Yu Xiaolu, who was originally lying on the bed, had already disappeared.
And the quilt on her bed was neatly stacked, as if it hadn’t been touched at all!
Then who was in the bedroom?!
An Qinglian was already sweating profusely, her hand gripping the phone had turned pale from excessive force.
Her heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was going to jump out of her throat.
After making a difficult decision, she picked up her phone and called Yu Xiaolu.
“Beep… beep…”
The call was hung up.
But soon, a WeChat message arrived.
“What’s wrong?”
“Lu Lu, where are you?”
“I’m working part-time at a bar.”
Looking at this message, An Qinglian’s face turned even paler.
She gently opened the restroom door a crack and looked into the bedroom.
The tall Yu Xiaolu was still lying on the bed, scrolling through her phone, but for some reason, An Qinglian felt very unfamiliar looking at her back.
She even felt less and less like her friend.
More like… the girl who was bouncing a ball under the tree.
“Qinglian, aren’t you done yet?”
The person on the bed spoke.
But An Qinglian didn’t dare to respond and directly locked the restroom door.
With a “click,” in this small and silent space, it was so loud.
After locking the door, An Qinglian, who was almost scared to tears, typed two words on her phone with almost lightning-fast hands.
“Help!”
However… the message was not sent.
And no matter how she called, there was no response.
Looking at the big red exclamation mark and the “No Service” displayed on her phone.
An Qinglian’s face turned ashen.
She sat on the toilet, desperate and helpless.
Outside the door, Yu Xiaolu’s voice was still heard.
“Qinglian, aren’t you done yet?”
“You won’t fall asleep in there, will you?”
Her voice became more and more strange and ethereal, as if it were distorted, and it was extremely noisy for An Qinglian.
Along with the calls from outside the door, the doorknob was also being twisted frantically, as if they wanted to break in directly.
“Help… help me…”
An Qinglian felt as if her voice was being squeezed, and she couldn’t even call for help.
“Knock knock knock…”
At this moment, there was some movement from the small window of the restroom.
An Qinglian looked up, and her already desperate mood almost made her die on the spot.
She saw a person wearing a black trench coat, a gas mask, and a blood-stained fire axe on his waist, like a murderer who had just dismembered a body!
He was clinging to the small window like a large gecko, knocking on the restroom window with his hands, gesturing for An Qinglian to open it.
But how could An Qinglian open the window for such a person who looked like he was not a good person!
With terrified eyes, she shrunk into the corner of the restroom.
The restroom doorknob was still being twisted frantically, and the murderer outside the window was knocking on the restroom window.
An Qinglian used to think that God would be kind to everyone in the world.
Even if he closed a door for her, he would open a window for her.
Now, it seemed that this damn God had not only closed the door and window, but also thrown a ghost into the house!
“Qinglian, are you okay?”
Click…
The sound of a key being inserted into the restroom lock was heard. Now, An Qinglian hugged her head with both hands, squatted helplessly in the corner, and quietly awaited death.
But at this moment, the murderer outside the window could no longer wait.
He pushed back with his feet, and with the power of his whole body, he swung the fire axe in his hand fiercely at the restroom window.
“Dang!”
The sharp fire axe directly split the iron bars of the window, and the sound of shattering glass followed. The masked murderer somersaulted into the restroom.
Holding the fire axe, he ignored An Qinglian and kicked the door that was about to open back.
“Children who don’t listen will be spanked.”
The restroom door panel was directly kicked flying, and the person outside the door flew out with it.
The murderer entered the bedroom with a ferocious and terrifying laugh.
And screams of terror and misery were heard from the bedroom.
“Ah!!!”
“Can’t you scream more nicely? You’re so noisy.”
The murderer’s laughter made An Qinglian, who was squatting in the corner, feel helpless.
The man’s maniacal laughter, the girl’s screams, this scene… was not right.
An Qinglian poked her head out and glanced into the bedroom.
She saw the masked murderer pressing a child’s shadow onto the bed, and with countless swings of his axe, the girl did not die. A little red and white flowed out, and she was still struggling and screaming.
Looking at this murderer, and the girl underneath him who didn’t look human at all, An Qinglian was terrified.
Fear of blood and the unknown occupied her brain.
But after what had happened before, An Qinglian did not think that the child was anything good.
She was likely a fierce ghost.
Then… what about this murderer?
Under An Qinglian’s gaze, the girl, who was hacked to pieces by his axe, gradually lost her life.
The girl’s limbs and torso, while flailing weakly, quickly turned into a dried corpse.
It lay on the bed like that, and all the red and white that was there had disappeared.
After dealing with this fierce ghost, the masked murderer slowly turned his head and looked at An Qinglian.
Looking at the fire axe covered in killing intent in the other party’s hand, An Qinglian’s brain felt numb.
She even felt like crying but had no tears.
No way…
What was she watching just now? Now it’s good, she just escaped from the wolf’s mouth and fell into the tiger’s den.
“Well… well…” An Qinglian gave an awkward smile and then backed away step by step: “Sorry, I didn’t see anything, thank you!”
Having said that, An Qinglian, with a mournful face, turned and ran. She didn’t want to stay in this damned place for another moment!
Fortunately, this was the first floor. The murderer had just smashed the tempered glass of the restroom, so she could escape through this window.
However, looking at her retreating back, Liu Haoyu, wearing a gas mask, frowned.
This unlucky college student’s fortune was still so dark, and even more critically, a black hand, whose owner was unknown, was on her shoulder.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu did not dare to neglect and quickly chased after her.
“Stop! I have something to tell you!”
The man with the gas mask and carrying the fire axe shouted from behind.
“I really didn’t see anything!”
An Qinglian rode Yu Xiaolu’s electric scooter, her expression was close to tears.
“Don’t panic, I’m really a good person too!”
“You’re not a good person at all!”
An Qinglian twisted the throttle to the maximum, but the speed limit of the new national standard electric scooter made her feel like crying.
She looked at her speedometer.
Speed 25 mph, mood is carefree…
Carefree my ass!
Why could this man run at 25 km/h?!
If she could escape from here, An Qinglian vowed that she would buy a high-displacement motorcycle. This new national standard turtle electric scooter was useless!
“You… you don’t come over! If you come any closer, I’ll… I’ll call the police!”
Perhaps it was fate’s favor, or perhaps An Qinglian was lucky enough.
When she turned the next corner, she saw a group of traffic police officers checking for drunk driving late at night.
The traffic police, whom she usually avoided, were today like saviors descended from heaven for An Qinglian. Without a second word, she rushed towards the traffic police at full speed.
“Uncle Police, help!”
And Liu Haoyu, who was behind An Qinglian, scratched his head with some speechlessness. He was quite puzzled.
“Am I that scary?”
“Take a good look at your outfit, you’d better look in the mirror.”
Qin Liu was also a little speechless.
She had suggested that Liu Haoyu change his outfit long ago, but this man seemed to have some obsession with the fire axe, stubbornly refusing to change his weapon.
“I think it’s fine?”
Liu Haoyu had already hidden himself. He took out his phone and looked at his appearance through the front-facing camera, saying.
“Isn’t it quite normal? If I had a Bullpup assault rifle, I could start directly.”
“Stop dreaming about your CS: GO.”
Qin Liu covered her head helplessly.
“What about the hand on her?”
“That’s easy.”
Liu Haoyu pointed at Qin Liu.
“Hmm?”
Qin Liu saw this, pointed at herself.
“Me?”
“Yes,” Liu Haoyu nodded and said, “You go and remove that black hand.”
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On the other side, An Qinglian tearfully complained to a group of traffic police.
“Uncle Police, there’s really a murderer wearing a gas mask chasing me!”
The traffic police had never seen such a scene. They looked behind An Qinglian, let alone people, there wasn’t even a ghost.
“Young lady, it’s okay, speak slowly.”
“Hoo…” An Qinglian took a deep breath and told them everything that had happened.
The traffic police couldn’t help but lean back after hearing it.
“Are you saying there was a ghost that followed you home, and then another masked murderer broke into your house and killed the ghost, and then that masked murderer chased you for 25 km/h all the way?”
“Yes!”
“Um…” The traffic police thought for a moment and said, “I understand the principle, but remember to wear a helmet next time you ride an electric scooter.”
“I’m not kidding!”
An Qinglian was about to cry with anxiety. She pointed to her shoulder.
“Right here, there seems to be a hand grabbing me…”
“What’s wrong?”
The traffic police, seeing An Qinglian suddenly falter halfway through her story, were a little puzzled.
“…The feeling of being grabbed is gone?”
Hearing An Qinglian’s sudden change of tune, the traffic police couldn’t help but cover their foreheads and then said.
“How about this, girl, I’ll send a few police officers to accompany you home to take a look. I estimate that you’re probably too tired and have had some unnecessary hallucinations.”
“…Okay.”
Since they didn’t believe her no matter what she said, there was nothing she could do but let them see for themselves.
Led by An Qinglian, three traffic police officers arrived at her rental house.
When she opened the door, she found that everything inside was normal.
There was nothing red or white, no toddler size 5 basketball, and even the restroom window was intact.
“This?”
“So girl, where is the ghost you were talking about?”
“There really was a ghost…” An Qinglian was on the verge of tears, but her explanation was so powerless: “There was such a big murderer here just now, like this… ‘Duang’! ‘Hua’! hacking at that girl, and the girl’s screams were so miserable, but… but how did it all disappear?”
Everyone looked at each other. They were just traffic police checking for drunk driving, so they didn’t know how to handle this kind of situation.
Should they call 110 first?
