Chapter 131 - 123: The Eerie Crying in the Restroom
Boom!
Like a silver pot suddenly shattering, Li Yu kicked open the door, and the light instantly poured into the room.
Inside the room, the scene before him made Li Yu's skin crawl as he raised his gun and fired several shots.
What he saw in the room was a head, grinning at him with a wide smile.
The hair was somewhat long, spilling onto the floor. The lighting was dim, and at first glance, it looked just like a real person.
As he walked closer, Li Yu saw that it was a plastic head from a hairdressing salon, used for apprentices to practice haircuts, and beside it was a white-clad mannequin, turned away from Li Yu.
Li Yu found this sight extremely eerie; he clearly hadn't seen this mannequin and the head the first time he entered.
Now that he's here, he must have missed someone, Li Yu thought to himself.
Just as he wanted to go around to the back of the mannequin—because it was facing away from Li Yu, and from the back, he couldn't see the front—
Li Yu felt a chill down his spine, his body reacted instinctively, and he darted to the side, toward the couch typical of a KTV's long sofas.
As he moved, he could feel a cold gust of wind slashing past him.
Clang!
As Li Yu turned around, he saw a disheveled woman with a large cleaver that had just struck the table. The table... that's where Li Yu had just been standing.
Cold sweat poured out of him, thankful for his quick reflexes, or he would have been sliced in two.
Bang, bang, bang! Li Yu fell onto the long sofa, the light shining on him, and immediately opened fire at the woman.
The disheveled woman, with a smile on her face, fell straight backward, and Li Yu's bullets oddly missed!
Seeing this, Li Yu quickly got up and chased after the woman.
But somehow, as the woman fell, she didn't move like a normal person; she scuttled away like a dog, extremely fast, and soon vanished from sight.
Li Yu ran through the spacious corridor but still couldn't see any sign of the woman. Thinking back to that woman's eerie smile, that madness, lunacy, eyes wide with frenzy but pupils filled with mockery, the thought of that face made him feel increasingly unsettled.
Boom!
A gunshot drew his attention; the sound came from downstairs.
Thump, thump, thump, footsteps followed from behind, and Li Yu hurriedly turned around—it was Li Tie.
Li Yu and Li Tie ran to the window and saw Yang Tianlong holding a gun. Before they could speak, Yang Tianlong noticed them and said, "A lunatic just jumped down from the third floor. A man, I don't know what happened, he jumped and started blabbering, shouting 'wife, wife.' I shot him dead."
At these words, Li Yu remembered the woman he had just encountered. According to the man Li Tie had interrogated, there was no mention of a woman.
So what was the deal with the eerie woman he had just encountered? Li Yu did not believe in ghosts, but the situation he had just faced certainly seemed strange.
After telling Li Tie about his encounter, the two decided to move together, putting on their Night Vision Goggles, and decidedly not turning on the lights.
They went straight into the private room and started searching again, one by one.
As they were halfway through their search, they suddenly heard a sharp, despairing and frenzied laugh.
In the vast, empty house, the laughter echoed continuously, and for a moment, Li Yu and Li Tie couldn't determine where it was coming from.
Li Tie, hearing the laughter, looked somewhat frightened; it was damn eerie.
The house was already damp and cold, with a strong seal, and little sunshine from outside ever reached inside, making the house seem even more ghastly.
The laughter continued, and after Li Yu and Li Tie stood there for a while, they figured out a direction and ran towards it.
Suddenly, the laughter came to an abrupt halt, followed by a shrill, piercing cry. The sound didn't resemble that of a human; it was more akin to the howl of a cat in the middle of the night, but even more sinister than that.
Li Yu suppressed the unease in his heart and loaded his gun.
The two stopped at the entrance, looking up to see it was the bathroom.
At the entrance of the female restroom, there were two mops covered in hair—long and black, tangled around the mop handles. On one mop handle, there was a large, fresh bloody handprint, still dripping blood.
Even Li Yu, who didn't believe in ghosts and deities, felt a slight tremor in his heart. What the hell!
The women's restroom!
Li Yu didn't dwell too much and charged in, followed closely by Li Tie.
As soon as he entered the restroom, his gaze went to the farthest stall next to the window. Through the light from outside, the floor tiles reflected a dark shadow.
More importantly, from inside that stall, long hair dangled all the way down to the floor.
Li Yu didn't approach further, instead carefully listening to the woman's sobbing.
Suppressing the eerie feeling in his heart, he began to speak, "You...." initially wanting to inquire, as he wasn't sure whether this woman was in cahoots with those people.
Before he could finish, he stopped himself. Just now, this woman... had tried to kill him!
By using the head of a human-shaped doll to divert his attention, and then attacking from behind.
This woman, whether genuinely insane or feigning it,
indeed, had tried to kill him!
With this thought, he raised his gun, ready to fire into the stall.
Then he heard a voice from inside, giggling eerily and whispering lovingly, "Mommy loves you, baby, mommy will always love you, don't be scared, mommy is here to accompany you now."
Hardly had the words ended when he heard the sound of a window opening, followed by a thump!
Then came a shout from Yang Tianlong downstairs: "Fuck! You scared the shit out of me!"
Jumping from the eighth floor, survival for an adult seemed unlikely.
Li Yu rushed to the window and saw the disheveled woman crash directly onto the cement bollard at the entrance. Her head, like a watermelon, struck the sharp edge of the bollard and split in two.
No wonder Yang Tianlong complained; he had been observing when suddenly he saw someone jump from the building right before his eyes, their head splitting open like a watermelon, with eyes still rolling on the ground.
Li Yu pondered and opened the farthest toilet stall. As soon as he did, several plastic babies rolled out.
There were also plastic human heads and large amounts of hair used in hair salons for extensions and the like. But mostly, there were plastic babies. One of them was dressed the best, swaddled in clothing with a pacifier, its eyes pitch black and shiny.
...
At the entrance, they encountered 5 people, with Li Yu killing 3 on the stairs and Li Tie killing 2.
Yang Tianlong downstairs killed 1, plus the woman just now, 1.
12 people, which matched the number Dapao got from interrogating that man initially.
Now, it all depended on Dapao and Xiao Hang pursuing those two people.
Li Yu stood on the rooftop, surveying the surroundings, squinting his eyes towards the direction of Dapao's pursuit.
Hopefully, it would be resolved soon, Li Yu murmured.