Chapter 131
Chapter 131
As the fight reached its climax, Manager Xue arrived via the elevator and hurriedly intervened to break it up.
Manager Xue carried a golden bell.
As he walked over, he kept the bell in his hand, shaking it gently along the way.
The crisp “ding-ling, ding-ling” of the bell caused the family, who had been completely immersed in the brawl, to stop their movements.
The family members stood aside with vacant expressions, clearing the way.
Seeing this, Manager Xue stepped forward quickly and helped the girl up.
“Miss Wang, are you all right?” Manager Xue adjusted his reflective glasses and removed the Iron Bucket from the girl’s head.
Girl 206 had a knife stuck in the top of her head, and her body was riddled with needles.
The only patches of skin that hadn’t previously rotted had now been completely shredded by the family’s claws.
Her entire body was a mangled mess.
“I need to heal… I need to heal…” Girl 206 broke down, sobbing hysterically.
Disregarding any sense of modesty, she grabbed Manager Xue’s hand. “You! Come with me to the Hot Spring Pool!”
On Girl 206’s face, tear tracks and bloodstains were woven together, making her look both hideous and pathetic.
Manager Xue was likely unable to violate the code of conduct for his position.
After a moment’s consideration, Manager Xue nodded. “Of course, Miss Wang.”
“Please wait for me a moment.”
Manager Xue set the girl down and turned to head toward the Staff Elevator.
A minute later, he emerged.
However, this time, Manager Xue’s appearance seemed to have changed slightly.
It appeared his level of contamination had worsened.
His eyes had turned into vertical slits, and the tongue in his mouth had become much thinner.
Manager Xue flicked his snake-like tongue in a state of high agitation as he hurried down the corridor toward the girl.
Girl 206 was sprawling on the floor, gasping for breath, on the verge of death.
“Let’s go, Miss Wang. I’ll carry you in.”
Manager Xue picked up Girl 206 in a bridal carry and brought her into the Hot Spring Pool.
Jiang Li witnessed all of this from the side.
From within the Hot Spring Pool came the sound of Manager Xue “accidentally falling into the water.”
This was followed by Manager Xue’s groans of pain.
At the entrance of the Hot Spring Pool…
That entire family of Aberrations gradually regained their senses.
The Red-Skinned Man was the first to wake up.
He pushed himself up from the carpet with his elbows and dragged his bleeding feet toward Jiang Li.
The man grabbed Jiang Li’s sleeve and led her to the door of Room 206.
The entire family nodded to Jiang Li in gratitude, one after another.
After expressing their thanks, they dragged the man away with them.
Unfortunately, when they were giving their thanks, Jiang Li was temporarily unable to see them.
Jiang Li pondered for a moment.
To persuade Girl 206 to leave the second floor, she might be able to find some clues inside the girl’s room.
With that thought, Jiang Li took out the room card. With a “beep,” she swiped the door open.
The door to Room 206 opened.
Jiang Li was shocked for a moment by the sight inside the room.
The house was filled with hanging meat.
If one smelled carefully, the faint stench of corpses could be detected in the room.
To cover up the smell, after the girl had dismembered the family, she had cured them into preserved meat.
Those strips of preserved meat and sausages were hanging one by one outside the Balcony, undergoing a process of smoking and charring.
The thick black smoke contaminated the air outside the room.
The black smoke was carried by the strange winds, blowing everywhere.
This was the origin of the so-called “Black Wind” that broke through the windows after four in the morning.
Jiang Li opened the wardrobe; it was filled with blood-stained clothes.
These clothes belonged to adults, children, Fatty, and the thin.
They all belonged to that family.
Through the gaps in the clothes, Jiang Li’s gaze met a pair of eyes that had died with eyes open, refusing to close even in death.
Looking at those lifeless eyes, Jiang Li reached out and pushed aside the bloody clothes.
Hidden beneath the bloody clothes was a man covered in blood.
The man’s skin had been flayed off while he was alive, and his body had been wrapped in plastic wrap by the girl. She hadn’t had time to dispose of it yet.
This was the corpse of the Red-Skinned Man.
Clutched in the man’s hand was a Family Photo.
Looking at the man’s posture, he seemed to have been preparing to take the photo out to show it to someone.
But before he could speak, he had been brutally murdered by the girl.
Jiang Li tore a small opening in the plastic wrap.
She pried the man’s fingers open and took out the blood-smeared Family Photo.
Jiang Li unfolded the photo and glanced at it; there was nothing particularly special about it.
But the moment she flipped to the back of the photo, Jiang Li’s heart skipped a beat…
By the time she stepped out of Room 206, the girl had also just about finished in the Hot Spring Pool.
After soaking in the hot spring, the girl was no longer in a “transparent state.”
Jiang Li could now see the girl’s entire body.
Following the girl out was Manager Xue.
A layer of Manager Xue’s skin had been peeled off.
But he didn’t seem to have suffered any harm.
On the contrary, as Manager Xue flicked his serpent-like tongue, the skin on his face… looked even more supple.
“Miss Wang, I shall take my leave first,” Manager Xue said politely before departing from the second floor.
Now, only Girl 206 and Jiang Li remained in the corridor, facing each other.
“You were the one who killed their entire family,” Jiang Li said, looking directly at the girl.
The girl’s expression shifted slightly upon hearing this. “You went into my room?!”
Jiang Li did not deny it.
She took out the crumpled Family Photo, holding it between her fingertips.
“Miss Wang Xiaoran, please don’t be so quick to anger. Take a look at this first.”
Jiang Li handed the photo over.
The name “Wang Xiaoran” was something Jiang Li had found on the “group photo list” written on the back of the picture.
The customer records contained the guests’ surnames, but not their full names.
Based on the surname “Wang,” Jiang Li had found the specific “Wang family name” on the back of the photo that matched the girl.
“I don’t even remember my own name, so how could you possibly know it?” Girl 206 replied, her words laced with thorns.
She simply couldn’t understand what Jiang Li was talking about.
“You’ll understand once you look at the photo,” Jiang Li reminded her.
The girl took the photo. “Isn’t this just the family that bullied me? What’s there to see?”
The girl was sick of looking at every single face in that Family Photo.
Some of them had been skinned by her.
Others had come to seek revenge against her, only to meet a gruesome end at her hands.
This entire family hated her with a passion.
By the same token, the girl hated them just as much.
“Tilt the photo forty-five degrees, and you’ll see something different,” Jiang Li said.
Skeptical, Girl 206 held the photo and tilted it slightly.
Because of the change in perspective, the image in the Family Photo shifted.
In the middle of this jubilant Family Photo, in the empty space right at the front and center, a face suddenly appeared.
That girl was smiling like a flower, with her father on her left and her mother on her right.
Behind them were her grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, younger brother, older cousin…
The whole family was together in harmony, laughing with pure joy.
In an instant, an explosion of information flooded Girl 206’s mind.
The sheer volume of content made her feel as if her head was about to burst!
…She remembered.
She remembered… everything!
Several years ago, her family had organized a vacation.
The place they had booked back then was the “Clear Spring Hotel.”
However, after the girl arrived here, everything changed overnight.
For some unknown reason, she forgot everything.
And her family members, as if their memories had been wiped, completely forgot about the girl’s existence.
Every night before going to sleep, the girl’s parents would follow their vague impressions and knock on the hotel room doors one by one.
They would call out “Daughter, daughter” in the corridor, searching for that person in their memories who was becoming increasingly blurred.
This was why, on the night Jiang Li first arrived on the second floor, a couple claiming to be “Mom and Dad” had knocked on her door and called for their “daughter.”
Inside this building, there existed an Aberration Power that was far more powerful than the girl.
It controlled everything about her, watching the girl and her family slaughter one another, and… it never grew tired of the spectacle.
It was like a form of the most primitive and savage “revenge.”
“Do you see it clearly now?” Jiang Li asked her.
The girl lost control of her tears.
She covered her mouth and collapsed to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably.
Jiang Li looked at the girl and spoke in a low voice:
“Do you want to continue staying here, letting them hate you every day, being enemies with you every day, wishing for nothing more than your death, or…”
“No!!” the girl cried out emotionally. “No, not like this… I’m sorry, I’ve failed them… I’m so sorry…”
The girl clutched the Family Photo, her tears hitting the floor in large droplets as she wailed in heartbreak.
Behind Jiang Li, those confused “family members,” hearing the girl’s cries, opened their doors one after another and ran out to see what was happening.
Watching the agonizing pain of Girl 206, they each shouted in triumph.
Those people didn’t remember the girl.
They only knew that the girl was an enemy, that she was terrifying, that she was a monster, and that she would hurt them!
Listening to the jeering voices of her family, Girl 206 crawled on her knees to Jiang Li’s feet and grabbed onto her calves.
“Jiang Li… please, I beg you, take me away with you. I… I don’t want to stay here.”
“Please take me away, I’m begging you, as fast as possible!”