Finally the site is restored <(￣︶￣)>
The thunder and lightning behind them continued to chase relentlessly, and no matter how desperately the driver stepped on the accelerator, they couldn’t shake it off.
Bai Lixin: “Why did you bury Su Xiaohua’s head in the crematorium?”
Ran Jingjing: “Because Xiaohua told me before.”
“If one day she died, she wanted to be buried in the forest and use her remaining body as nourishment for the trees.”
“She said this when we were attending a teacher’s funeral. She pointed to the forest behind the crematorium and said this.”
“So I buried her head in that forest.”
Driver: “…”
‘You really don’t treat me as an outsider!’
The car finally entered the city. Just as the car was about to cross the intersection, it suddenly jolted. The three of them immediately felt a distinct tilt. The scene outside the window rotated, and the car tilted to one side uncontrollably.
Some strange things emerged from underground- black pillar-like objects twisted and writhed their bodies, like black earthworms.
These were the culprits causing the car to tilt.
They entangled around the car body, seemingly trying to drag the car somewhere.
Ran Jingjing looked at this sudden and terrifying scene outside the window in horror and held the box in her arms even tighter.
The driver glared angrily, his thick eyebrows furrowed into the sky. He pressed the accelerator hard, muttering curses under his breath: “Fuck, what the hell are these things!”
The frantic honking of car horns could be heard all around.
One after another.
Drivers stuck their heads out one after another, venting their anger at them who suddenly stopped in the middle of the road.
“Can’t you drive?!”
“Suddenly stopping at the intersection, are you fucking crazy?!”
“Get out of the way!!!”
“Do you want to die? Get the hell away!”
These angry passersby seemed oblivious to the terrifying black pillar-like objects and the thunder and lightning chasing them.
Bai Lixin looked back through the increasingly dense gaps in the black pillar-like objects. The chasing thunder and lightning was already behind them. The dense cloud brought not only lightning but also distorted air.
Amidst the drivers’ desperate shouts, the thundercloud reached the roof of the car.
A particularly bright lightning bolt suddenly struck, and for a moment, everyone’s vision was as bright as daylight, leaving only a white light.
Accompanied by the dazzling white light were the piercing sounds of horns.
It’s unclear how long passed. After the absurd commotion, what remained was a vacuum-like silence.
Bai Lixin waited for his vision to gradually return to normal. One second, he was trapped in a car in the bustling city, but now he was surrounded by a dense white fog that obscured everything.
The fog felt somewhat familiar. It was like the twisted perspective he entered back then in the crematorium.
He tried to reach out and feel around. It was empty around him, no driver, no Ran Jingjing.
After taking two steps forward, Bai Lixin kicked something.
He picked it up and found it was the box Ran Jingjing was holding in her arms.
Bai Lixin opened the box, and Su Xiaohua’s beautiful head still lay peacefully inside.
S419M’s voice was muffled, [This is getting more and more bizarre. A head buried underground for ten years without decay is already strange enough. What’s even more eerie is that the search for Su Xiaohua is only 20% complete. Could it be that Su Xiaohua was dismembered, and we still need to find her torso, legs, and feet one by one?]
Escape System: [This reminds me of a horror story.]
S419M: [What horror story?]
Escape System: [In a remote border town, there was a person we called A. A could foresee certain futures. One day, BC asked A to play hide-and-seek. A tried to use foresight to determine where he should hide but was instead told a passage.]
[A is in the sea, in the soil, in the belly of birds and animals, in the trees, in the market, in BC’s home.]
S419M shuddered, [A was dismembered by BC?]
Escape System: [Who knows? It’s just a simple story, only a hundred words long and without an ending. But I feel it’s similar to our current situation.]
“Why did you do such a thing!”
A sudden low and abrupt voice interrupted the discussion between the two systems. In this pitch-black fog where visibility was limited, a woman’s voice appeared untimely.
The voice was faint, but the severity and reproachfulness in her tone were unmistakable.
Bai Lixin, holding the box containing Su Xiaohua’s head, approached the source of the voice. As the thick kist gradually dispersed, two figures appeared before Bai Lixin.
Two people, one large, one small, stood opposite each other.
The girl seemed to have done something wrong and stood there with her head lowered, looking awkward and fearful.
Before her stood a woman. Both their faces were blurred by the mist, making their features indistinguishable.
The woman stood with hands on her hips, holding a feather duster, and addressed the girl in front of her, “Which hand did it? Put your hand out.”
The girl extended her right hand tremblingly. In the next moment, the feather duster came down hard on her hand.
There was a dull sound. The girl cried out in pain and instinctively pulled her hand back.
“Let me see you do it again! Haven’t you learned your lesson?” The woman’s voice was sharp. “You’re so young, only fourteen! How could you do something so disgraceful? How did I raise such a shameless daughter? At fourteen, you’re already so wanton, what about when you’re twenty? This time, I must educate you properly and make you remember! Let’s see if you dare to be so shameless again!”
“What if people outside find out? What would they say? That we didn’t educate our child properly! Where will we put our faces? Put your hand out!”
Just as the feather duster fell again, the figures, one large and one small, suddenly dissipated.
Footsteps came from behind.
Bai Lixin turned around and saw two figures with blurred faces appear out of thin air behind him.
“I was just playing with you, why did you take it seriously?” The taller figure spoke to the girl in front of him. “You weren’t serious, right?”
The girl trembled, “But you pick me up after school and buy me breakfast, are all those nice things fake?”
The boy replied, “If I want to pursue you, of course, I have to do this. But I didn’t expect you to be so easy. I just bought you a few baskets of soup dumplings, and you willingly came to my bed.”
“I thought you, a good student, were consistent inside and out, but it turns out you’re not a virgin anymore. How old are you? Twenty? Were you this slutty before?”
The girl trembled and raised her head, seemingly looking at the man speaking.
But after shivering for a few moments, she turned and ran away in a hurry.
As the girl left, the two figures disappeared into the air again.
Shortly after the fog dispersed, new figures gathered around Bai Lixin.
This time, it wasn’t just two individuals but what seemed like a party.
Round tables were neatly arranged and filled with people.
Amidst the cheerful music, a woman in a wedding dress walked arm in arm with her husband down the aisle.
This time, everyone had no faces except for one person—the bride.
The bride wore a white mask on her face.
The mask had facial features that looked no different from a stick figure and a polite smile.
When it was time for the toast, the emcee spoke, “Let’s congratulate this newlywed couple.”
“The groom is handsome, young and promising. He became a university professor at such a young age.”
“And our bride is gentle and virtuous.”
“They unite for love, let us once again congratulate this newlywed couple.”
The lively scene dispersed again with the applause from the guests.
The next moment, it gathered into a new scene.
The table was filled with sumptuous food, and several people sat around it.
Their faces were still blurred by the fog.
After eating and chatting for a while, a figure in an apron walked out of the kitchen carrying cooked dishes.
It was the woman who had gotten married earlier, and she still had a mask on her face, looking different from the others.
The mask displayed an impeccable smile, which was oddly unsettling.
Setting down the dishes, the man sitting at the main table suddenly spoke, “Alright, daughter-in-law, don’t be busy. You’ve done so much already, sit down and eat together.”
The woman was stunned for a moment, then she put on a “smiling face” and sat down obediently, eating slowly and gracefully.
The man at the main table spoke again, “My dear in-laws, I really envy you.”
“Your daughter is so sensible. What luck did our reckless son have to marry such a good daughter-in-law?”
“She has a good temper, cooks well, and has a good character. Unlike this one in my family, we spoiled him since he was young, and has developed all the habits of a young master. He always thinks highly of himself, only your daughter can tolerate him.”
The people sitting at the guest table burst into laughter after hearing this, “My daughter has been obedient since she was little.”
“Right, Xiaohua?”
The woman wearing a mask lowered her head slightly, seeming a bit shy, which caused everyone present to burst into laughter.
The atmosphere seemed so pleasant, but Bai Lixin noticed that the woman’s mask seemed thicker than before.
The original mask was just a small oval, covering her face, but now it gradually extended backwards, reaching towards the back of her ears.
The scene ended as everyone left the table, and the masked woman cleaned up the leftovers alone.
Shortly after the scene disappeared, a new one appeared again.
This time, it seemed to be in a courtroom, with a very solemn atmosphere.
The masked woman sat below, while a man stood at the defendant’s table. Judging by the man’s silhouette, he should be the masked woman’s husband.
On the plaintiff’s side was a girl.
Next to the girl, a lawyer, also a woman, was launching one sharp attack after another.
Her words were sharp and her rhythm steady, catching the defendant off guard.
Finally, the case ended with victory for the plaintiff.
The defendant was convicted of stalking and secretly filming the girl, and ultimately sentenced for molestation and invasion of privacy.
Everyone still had blurred faces, except for the masked woman.
As her husband was sentenced, the woman’s gaze remained fixed on the female lawyer and the police officer beside her.
Only when the sentencing was over did the masked woman whisper, “I really envy them.”
The scene abruptly stopped, dispersed, and then reformed again.
This time, it was in a dim room.
A man was in front of the computer, peeping at the candid photos on the screen, and the masked woman brought the prepared meal to him.
At this point, the mask on the woman’s face had completely enveloped her head.
The man lazily leaned back in his chair, glanced at the food, then suddenly stretched out his hand and slammed the meal directly onto the floor.
“You brought this to me, is it for dogs?!”
The bowl crashed to the ground with a loud “bang”.
Shards scattered everywhere.
The man stood up and walked unevenly.
He raised his hand abruptly, and the woman instinctively recoiled.
The next moment, the man’s slap fell, hitting the woman’s mask and sending her crashing to the ground.
