Chapter 146
Chapter 146
Immediately after, the sound of a glass bottle shattering echoed from the Storage Room.
A loud commotion of crashing and banging broke out inside.
Amidst the sound of objects being thrown and jars being smashed, Wang Xiaoran’s terrified screams rang out.
“Ah!! Stop it, don’t hit my face… Who the hell are you?!”
Inside the school building, several staff members who were passing by the Storage Room on their way to class found the noise strange.
The staff gathered around and pushed open the door to the Storage Room.
To their surprise, the Storage Room was… empty.
There was only a shattered glass bottle on the floor, with a few wisps of black smoke drifting from the shards.
“There’s no one here. We must have been hearing things. Everyone disperse, get ready for class.”
Teacher Liu, the grade director, had a faint suspicion that there was a ghost in the room.
However, with colleagues and students present, it wasn’t appropriate for him to say much.
Just as Director Liu was about to leave, something seemed to crawl across the floor in front of him and grabbed his pant leg.
Director Liu’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly kicked out twice at the empty air in front of him.
After kicking the ghostly thing that had grabbed his foot back into the room, Director Liu immediately locked the door.
A frantic pounding on the door came from inside the Storage Room, accompanied by strange, muffled wails.
The crying sounded exactly like someone whose tongue had been ripped out, unable to make any clear sounds.
Director Liu brushed off his sleeves, muttered a few curses about his bad luck, and hurried off to his classroom.
Inside the Storage Room, Jiang Li had already rushed out while Director Liu had the door open, having finished her beating.
Locked inside the room were the hideous-faced Elevator Attendant and a half-dead Wang Xiaoran.
The Elevator Attendant pinned the transparent Wang Xiaoran firmly into a corner.
Wang Xiaoran’s mouth and hair were covered in thick, viscous blood.
She wanted to scream for help, but unfortunately, the Elevator Attendant had already brutally torn out her tongue. She couldn’t make a single coherent sound.
Wang Xiaoran trembled, shrinking back into the corner.
She shook her head incessantly, her eyes pleading, hoping the Evil Ghost Elevator Attendant would let her go.
Eventually, she even began to kowtow.
But the irony was that when she used to beat Han Xueping like this, Han Xueping had also knelt on the ground, begging for mercy over and over again.
Yet every plea had only been met with more excited kicks and punches from Wang Xiaoran.
She… had never once let Han Xueping go.
Painful memories were triggered within the Elevator Attendant.
This Wang Xiaoran, who had once bullied her into the dirt, was now groveling before her like a dog.
The Elevator Attendant picked up the tools in the Storage Room and stabbed Wang Xiaoran over and over-in the neck, the chest, the ribs…
Every instance of bullying Wang Xiaoran had inflicted upon Han Xueping in the past transformed into a sharp blade at this moment, stabbing deep into her own flesh.
On the Storage Room’s surveillance footage, blood erupted from the empty air.
Bloody handprints clawed at the walls and smeared across the glass windows.
But no matter how much Wang Xiaoran pleaded for help, no one would save her again.
Because now… she had become a true Invisible Person.
Outside the window.
Jiang Li, also an invisible presence, kept her eyes fixed on everything happening inside the room.
Wang Xiaoran’s abdomen was sliced open, and her internal organs and intestines spilled out.
“Yingying, the heart is still warm. Want to go in for a bite?” Jiang Li turned her head and asked Red Infant with a smile.
Red Infant took a couple of glances into the room and waved his small hand in disgust. “Forget it, forget it. A rotten heart and liver-even a dog wouldn’t eat that.”
Having dealt with the matters on the 2nd floor, Jiang Li found a half-open door and pushed it open to walk out.
At the same time, the light before Jiang Li’s eyes dimmed.
She returned once more to her original timeline.
Behind Jiang Li, the 2nd floor of the Clear Spring Hotel also reverted from its dilapidated state back to its proper vitality.
It was as if the “invisible Miss Wang” ever coming here had been nothing more than a dream.
Jiang Li used the small spray bottle filled with hot spring water to spray her entire body.
Her body gradually restored itself from its transparent state.
There had been three people in the smoke-filled storage room earlier.
Jiang Li, Wang Xiaoran, and the Elevator Attendant.
Jiang Li deliberately left half a bottle of hot spring water on the steps.
If the Elevator Attendant needed it, she could use it.
The Red Door next to Jiang Li creaked. In the second before it closed, it seemed to be pushed open a bit wider by something transparent.
Watching the narrow crack in the door gradually widen, Jiang Li knew the Elevator Attendant had come out.
The Elevator Attendant had been following her.
Jiang Li had already guessed that it was no coincidence the Elevator Attendant appeared in every Parallel Space-Time.
It was because the Elevator Attendant had been stalking her.
Jiang Li continued forward, following the steps upward.
The Elevator Attendant behind her sprayed the remaining half bottle of hot spring water. After restoring her form, she remained silent, not saying a single word.
As Jiang Li climbed the stairs, the woman followed closely behind.
Halfway up…
At a corner in the stairwell, Jiang Li saw a chubby little girl in a school uniform, hugging her knees and weeping bitterly.
This Han Xueping in School Uniform had likely snuck out the moment the door between dimensions opened.
Han Xueping’s sobs echoed through the gloomy stairwell.
Seeing Jiang Li approaching, Han Xueping looked up, her eyes misty with tears as she pleaded for help.
“Big sister, I think… I think I’m lost. Where is this? Can you take me out of here?”
Jiang Li turned a deaf ear to her, looking straight ahead as she continued up the stairs.
Han Xueping in School Uniform continued to pursue her relentlessly from behind.
Faintly, the sound of clanking chains rang out.
“Big sister, please help me, okay? I’m really lost, I don’t know where this is…”
“Big sister? Big sister…”
As they went further, the voice of Han Xueping in School Uniform became increasingly agitated.
Han Xueping suddenly let out a resentful roar:
“Why are you treating me like this too! Why? What makes you any different from the people who bully me?! Huh?!”
Han Xueping wailed and sobbed.
She knelt on the stairs, desperately trying to grab Jiang Li’s ankles.
Though it made walking more difficult, Jiang Li never once looked back.
The first rule of the [Safe Stairway Passage Rules]:
[The sound of crying is often heard in the stairwell. If you hear crying, do not ask questions, do not pay it any mind, and do not look back.]
Seeing Jiang Li gradually walking away, the features of the “Han Xueping in School Uniform” behind her slowly tore apart.
Beneath the shedding skin of its face, it transformed into the visage of a blood-covered Malicious Spirit.
The Malicious Spirit had iron chains around its neck, locking it firmly within the stairwell.
Shackles were clamped onto its hands and feet, making it impossible for it to leave this sinister passage.
At the Malicious Spirit’s feet lay a pile of leftover bones.
The owners of those bones were all passersby who had forgotten the rules and poked their noses into business that wasn’t theirs.
After passing the Malicious Spirit, Jiang Li continued upward.
She walked until she reached the 3rd Floor of the Clear Spring Hotel.
The 3rd Floor was the floor belonging to the Curly-Haired Woman, Ms. Song.
Images from the short video of the 3rd Floor flickered through Jiang Li’s mind.
The scene in the video was the Cabin outside the school.
A Curly-haired Girl with a high ponytail-the student version of Ms. Song-was chewing on a lollipop. She was leading several boys and girls as they surrounded a corner of the cabin.
Each of them held a long wooden club studded with nails.
They tapped the clubs against their palms one after another, every face wearing a mocking expression.
In the corner, Han Xueping huddled against the wall, hugging herself.
Her entire body was trembling violently.
“Tsk, tsk. You’ve really grown some backbone, haven’t you? This report letter… who were you planning to send it to? Do you have a relative at the Education Bureau?”