Chapter 0579 – Water, Mirror
Xiao Zhu’s mind was completely confused as a familiar cold sensation came from her wrist.
She felt the water spread over her mouth and nose, and her lungs were filled with water, she couldn’t breathe at all.
Desperately flailing her arms and legs, she tried to make a sound, but there was no one to respond, and all she could see was the woman in the mirror slowly lifting her own head, revealing a face that was hard to describe.
If it was normal, the woman in the mirror should be considered a beautiful woman, but unfortunately the woman’s features were all blistered and swollen.
What was even weirder was that the woman’s face kept changing, her black hair spreading out, and after a while, it actually made Xiaozhu slowly feel familiar, and she was terrified to realize that the woman’s features in the mirror were actually starting to become the same as her own.
She waved her hands, but she couldn’t control her body, the sound of the water flowing was ringing in her ears, Xiao Zhu felt as if she had been locked into the mirror, her body and the female ghost had switched!
”Help me! Save me! Save ……” gasping for air, but without her lungs but without any oxygen entering them, Xiaozhu grimaced before she suffocated, and out of biological instinct, she slammed into the glass mirror in front of her!
”POW!”
The sound came as blood blurred her eyes, but the feeling of suffocation was gone.
”Kotake!” Shing’s shout came from her ears, and the woman’s consciousness finally came to her, her body shook and she fell backwards.
”What’s wrong with you?” The man hugged Xiaozhu from behind, blood seeping out of his forehead and staining his eyes red.
”The mirror, there’s someone in the mirror!” Xiaozhu hugged Shing’s arm and pointed at the mirror, screaming.
The mirror in the washroom was cracked by her impact, and a blood-stained piece of the mirror came off the wall.
Ah Cheng hugged Xiao Zhu and slagged off the glass in the woman’s hair, he was also frightened by what the woman had just done.
”Don’t be afraid, I’m here, and I’m here.” As Shing held the woman back, he realized that there was something wrong with this washroom.
The black hair at the sink drain seemed to be floating like seaweed as the water continued to rise and slowly overflowed from the sink.
A drop of water fell to the floor, and the atmosphere in the room became even more feared, the silent flow of water seemed like a suicide holding a knife and slashing his wrist, and what dripped to the ground was not water, but blood.
”Let’s get out of here first.” Shing hugged Xiaozhu and forcefully dragged her out of the room.
”The water pipe is still turned off ……,” Xiaozhu’s voice sounded a little weak.
”Couldn’t care less, we’ll get some more people to come in with us later, I’ll take you to the hospital first.” Originally, Ah Cheng didn’t feel much terror, but the woman’s sudden madness just now made Ah Cheng’s heart lift up.
As if he was a bird of prey, when he turned back towards the bathroom, he suddenly saw that the blood on the pieces of the shattered mirror was writhing, like those little worms in the river water, slowly converging into a few words.
I’m in the mirror! She’s in your arms!
Snapping to these words, Shing almost let go of his hold on the woman, he had realized that this wasn’t a prank, and that something spooky was probably really happening in the rehabilitation school.
With blood still seeping out of her forehead, Xiaozhu was a completely different person from her previous cute self, and with her wounds untreated she looked a little scary.
The lights in the corridor flickered more frequently, the hospital in order to be able to speed up the child’s recovery, the wall skin was plastered with many cartoon pictures and animal pictures.
At this time under the light, the light and darkness change, causing those cartoon figures to become grotesque, and that one smiling face looks particularly frightening.
More and more water in the washroom overflowed from the washbasin, and the water inside was as if it had a life, flowing out of the bathroom and following behind Ah Cheng’s feet.
Shing didn’t notice, and a normal person wouldn’t even think about it, his entire attention was focused on the cartoon portrait on the wall.
”This is the first time I’ve realized that this is so scary to look at at night, I’m going to have to talk to the principal about replacing them all later.”
The few words that had just appeared in the mirror kept surfacing in Shing’s mind as he assisted Xiaozhu, who had her head hanging low, and could feel the softness of the other’s body, but not the temperature of the other’s body.
”Xiaozhu?”
He tried to call out, Xiaozhu in his arms raised his own head, his wounds spreading out to the sides, the blood from his forehead sliding down the tip of his nose across his entire face, looking very grim, “Ah Cheng, I feel so tired, my head is so dizzy.”
The elongated tone of voice, and the thick nasal sound, was as if the woman’s nasal cavity was filled with water.
It was hard to describe the feeling of looking at a once beloved girlfriend who was now somewhat unfamiliar.
”Hold on a little longer, I’ll take you to the doctor here.” Ah Cheng lightly bit the tip of his tongue, his girlfriend was now in such pain, he would even have the idea of wanting to abandon her, too not something.
He quickened his pace, but as he walked he realized that the corridors of the rehabilitation school seemed to have become longer.
”I’ve been walking for a while ……” The feeling of uncertainty in his heart grew stronger, clenching his teeth, holding Xiaozhu and running wildly towards the front.
But just as he took a step, his feet seemed to have stepped on something and slipped to the ground.
He and Xiaozhu all fell to the ground, and when he looked back, he realized that the corridor had been wet with water at some point, and a stream of water followed him like a snake with a highly poisonous poison.
Looking further away, the door to the single room next to the washroom slowly opened.
A low figure appeared behind the door, leaning against the door panel, obviously the light wasn’t that dim, but her face couldn’t be seen clearly, only that she was wearing a soaked tunic.
”Raven?”
The single room where the little girl had appeared happened to be the small room where the woman had kept Shizuku at noon.
Shing was about to make a further move when his cell phone was suddenly pinged, and he answered it almost subconsciously.
”Has the child returned to school yet? The principal and I asked many of the merchants outside, and they all said that they hadn’t seen Wen Wen, and that the child is most likely still in the school, only hiding somewhere.”
The one who called was Ms. Wang, and when he heard her voice, it was as if Shing had grabbed a lifesaver: “Wen Wen is at the school! You guys come quickly! Xiaozhu is hurt!”
”Injured? Good! I’ll be right there!” The phone was hung up in a hurry, and Ah Cheng had wanted to say a few more words.
He put away his cell phone, but just as he moved the screen away, he saw Xiaozhu tilting her face and looking at him in a very awkward position, “Who are you talking to on the phone?”
”Ms. Wang, she’ll bring someone over in a moment.” Ah Cheng was a very cautious person, he did not question the other party too much after realizing that Xiaozhu’s tone was not right, and he did not venture closer just now after seeing the black shadow that was suspected to be Wen Wen.
In his opinion, it was better to leave this place first.
”I’ve already searched that single room before, the little girl is clearly not there, could it be that the child is playing hide and seek with us?”
How on earth could a little girl with defective intelligence and a not-so-normal brain do anything to fool adults?
The more Ah Cheng thought about it, the more terrifying it became, his mind flashed back to a horror movie he had seen a long time ago, the female protagonist was a strange person with the appearance of innocence as a child, who had actually lived for a very long time, and every time she was adopted, she would break the peace of that family, and even cause that family to be colored with a hint of blood.
”Could this child have the same disease?”
Not daring to continue thinking about it, Shing dragged Xiaozhu and rushed out of the long corridor, but when he reached the door, he realized that the door leading outside had been locked at some point.
”Where’s the key?” As Shing rummaged through his pockets without finding the key, he shook the door to his room with both hands as hard as he could until the light overhead went out.
The low figure hiding in the single room stepped out, hands stretched forward as if to stop something.
”Don’t you come any closer!”
As he watched the figure run faster and faster down the long corridor, Shing loosened his grip, ready to leave Kotake behind and jump out the window alone.
But strangely enough, he let go of his hand, but Xiaozhu’s body was still pressed against him in the same way.
The woman’s face was leaning tightly against Ah Cheng’s chest as she raised her head, “Ah Cheng, don’t you want me?”
Blood was spreading on the woman’s face, the sound of water dripping was ringing in his ears, Ah Cheng didn’t know why, he felt that the woman’s face gradually became unfamiliar, it seemed like another woman.
Forcefully flicking the woman’s head to the side, Ah Cheng’s breathing became rapid, his heart beating fast: “You wait here, I’ll go out and call someone!”
The sound of water dripping in his ears didn’t go away, instead it grew louder, the low figure in the corridor had moved closer, and the woman on the floor crawled towards him, her hair sticking to her arm, eventually grabbing a death grip on Ah Cheng’s leg.
”Don’t leave me here alone!”
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”Who locked the door? Did the two of them find Shizuku?” A quieter looking woman stopped at the classroom door, “She didn’t answer the phone either, it can’t be that she didn’t find anyone and sneaked away, right?”
From the words one could hear the woman’s dissatisfaction with the other teachers at the school.
Take out the key, open the door of the room, the ground is full of water stains.
”What happened?” The woman stopped at the door for some time and turned on the light that came with her cell phone, “That call from Xiao Cheng said that Li Xuezhu was injured, the two of them were looking for a child in the school, so how could they injure themselves? Is there a third person here?”
She reached out and pressed the porch light switch, but the porch light wouldn’t open at all as if it was broken.
Tiptoeing forward a few steps, the woman raised her cell phone and the bright light cut across the long hallway and she saw that the door to the washroom was open and a small, little girl was standing in front of the mirror.
This child stood on her tiptoes and put her hands in the sink as if she was fishing for something.
After a while, something even more surprising to the woman appeared.
The girl stuck her own head into the sink as well, burying her entire face in it.
”Shizuku?”
The woman looked at the child’s back and thought it looked familiar as she sneaked closer towards the washroom.
”What does this kid want?”
There was standing water on the floor, so even if she was careful she would still make a noise, and when the woman reached the door of the washroom she saw it.
In the shattered mirror stood the monster with a swollen body at that moment, wearing a bloodstained tunic and one hand pressed against the back of the girl’s head.
”She’s trying to drown the girl?!”
At the critical moment, reason overcame fear and the woman rushed into the washroom ready to save the girl.
Seeing the woman rushing in, the strange man in the mirror felt surprised.
Right where the woman had just stood, black hair was spreading like water plants, and if the girl had turned around to run away before, she would have crashed headfirst into the middle of the big net woven by the black hair.