Chapter 48

Chapter 48

Terror filled Huang Shiya’s eyes.

“When we finished eating and went ashore, there were clearly six of us, but somehow, strangely, there was one extra person in the group.”

Huang Shiya was trembling all over.

“Back then… back then, I was walking at the very end. I realized something was wrong, and then I saw there was an extra person in the group. I… I… I was so scared that I ran away, and then… and then…”

After that, she seemed to have encountered something terrifying, but no matter what, she could not remember it.

John fell into thought. He guessed that afterward, Huang Shiya must have mistaken Lyu Jicheng for that extra person, then killed him.

“Ding-dong!”

Just then, a message came in on John’s phone.

John immediately opened it to check.

At the very top was a photo. The moment John saw it, he confirmed that the man before him was indeed the teacher, Wang Xu.

According to the information, this fellow was now a real estate tycoon. Land in many places was under his control, and most importantly, seven years ago, he had purchased Chongmen Island and developed it into the wildly popular resort it was today.

And the very first group of guests back then had been Huang Shiya and the other five!

They had stayed on the island for seven days, then left in a hurry.

According to the investigation, after the six of them returned, all of them showed varying degrees of panic. Zhao Ze had even fallen ill for more than half a year.

What made him even unluckier was that his family members had died in accidents one after another. Supposedly, he had offended someone and was being retaliated against. It was only in the past few years that things had slowly begun to improve.

Moreover, half a year ago, they had all still been extremely abnormal, suspicious of everything and everyone. But after that half year passed, they suddenly returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. Seeing this, John felt puzzled. If it was revenge, why had only Zhao Ze been targeted? And what exactly had they encountered the first time they came to the island?

Then he thought of the serial murders during their second trip to the island, and a chilling idea suddenly crawled up John’s spine.

He immediately sent a message to his friend, asking him to look into a few things.

A short while later, he received the information his friend sent over.

John glanced at it, and a look of understanding appeared on his face.

Then he looked at Huang Shiya and said calmly, “Now that things have come this far, you should tell me the truth, shouldn’t you?”

“What… what do you mean?” Huang Shiya asked uneasily.

“What exactly happened when you came to the island seven years ago?”

“I… I don’t remember!”

The moment she heard the words “seven years ago,” panic instantly appeared on Huang Shiya’s face.

“Is that so?”

John gave a cold laugh.

“Then let’s wait. If you really don’t remember, then according to the rules of this mission, the Fiend should make its move. We’ll wait and see whether you get killed. If you don’t die, then I’m sorry.”

With a flick of John’s wrist, a dagger slipped from his sleeve into his hand.

Huang Shiya’s face immediately filled with panic.

“If you said you didn’t remember when we first came to the island, that might have been fine. But now, your memories should have recovered quite a bit, shouldn’t they?”

Strictly speaking, aside from the crucial point of her own death, her memories should have mostly returned. After all, this island was reminding them of the past every second of every day.

And when it came to acting, she was still far too inexperienced.

“Don’t worry. I’m not the police, and I have no interest in what you’ve done. I only want to survive this mission. You don’t want to die here either, do you?”

John’s words became the final straw. Huang Shiya steadied herself, then said,
“Fine, I’ll talk!”

“Seven years ago, we did come here. But back then, there weren’t six of us. There were seven. The seventh was an old classmate of ours.”

Huang Shiya did not say the person’s name, but John knew it had to be Liu Sibo.

“At the time, we didn’t know how he’d gotten onto the island. We only found him when he was poisoning our food. Luckily, we hadn’t eaten much, so none of us had any reaction. After that, we caught him on the island, and then…”

“You killed him?”

Huang Shiya clutched her head in agony.

“I… We didn’t mean to kill him. We only wanted to teach him a lesson. Back then, just like we used to, we drew slips of paper from the X box, and then followed what was written on them to… to play with him. But when Xie Baoguo finally stopped, he… he was already dead.”

Hearing this, John noticed something.

“You said you drew the punishments from a box? In that case, you were prepared for this all along?”

“That box… Zhao Ze probably prepared it. After all, he was always the one who prepared the box before.”

Huang Shiya sounded uncertain.

“Go on.”

“Then… we were terrified, so… so we hid his body in a secret room inside the amusement park.”

The amusement park?

John’s heart lurched. So that was it. No wonder Brother Liu had insisted on going to the amusement park after arriving on the island. It turned out he had already noticed something was wrong back then.

A thrill of excitement ran through John. Incredible. Absolutely incredible. How could a person be that amazing?

At this point, he practically worshiped Liu Ye.

“Brother Zhao?”

“Ah. Keep going!” John cleared his throat and said.

“After we dealt with the body, we agreed that no one could ever speak of it. Then we took the boat and left. But for some reason, after that, we forgot the whole thing. Then, a few days ago, we came to the island again. I didn’t lie to you about what happened after that. I really did see an extra person in the group. He kept attacking everyone in the team. I was too scared, so I secretly ran off! After that, after that…”

Seeing that Huang Shiya was about to keep forcing herself to remember, John quickly cut her off.

“Enough. That’s enough. Don’t think about it anymore. It’ll be dangerous if you keep going. Right, there’s one more thing I want to ask you. How much do you know about your teacher, Wang Xu?”

“Teacher Wang? He…”

Huang Shiya had just opened her mouth when she suddenly clutched her throat in pain. John immediately backed away from her. He could see something squirming beneath the skin of Huang Shiya’s neck.

“Ugh…”

Huang Shiya vomited, and a few pinkish chunks spilled from her mouth.

John, who knew a little about the human body, recognized them at once as fragments of her stomach.

“Help…”

Huang Shiya reached a hand toward John. But after uttering that single word, she started vomiting again.

Large amounts of shredded organs poured from her mouth. Her entire body withered at a visible speed.

In the end, she literally vomited herself to death while still alive.

Clearly, she had violated some Taboo. Miss Zhang had sensed yin energy on her.

John hurriedly left the place. Huang Shiya was dead, which meant she would definitely turn into a Fiend as well. If she came after him then, he would not be able to handle it.

But after taking only a few steps, he realized something was wrong. Huang Shiya’s corpse on the ground had suddenly changed. The skin on her face had become hideous, looking as though someone had carved it with a knife. The flesh and skin had all curled outward.