CH 14

DECEMBER 30, 2022 ~ M1ZUSHI

This behavior came entirely from Yuan Yuxue’s habit of performing tasks in the past.

The robot will not be tired and will not be allowed to stop, so Yuan Xuxue seldom gave himself time to rest. It seems that he was always working continuously – so as not to miss some subtle clues.

The house still exuded a damp and dilapidated atmosphere, like the dust that had been stored for a long time being blown away to see the light again, with a sense of decay and antiquity. Perhaps because the ghosts have disappeared, the gloomy feeling that had always been shrouded in the roof has dissipated a lot. It seems that this was just a very ordinary house.

Apart from the fact that the basement was also full of countless corpses.

The study and the second bedroom where Yuan Yuxue lived have been checked. Now Yuan Yuxue was going to the master bedroom.

This master bedroom was not much bigger than the second bedroom. There was an old-fashioned desk TV set in the room. The wallpaper was mottled and peeled off, the wall was yellow, and the upper part was hung with water stains and slightly cracked cracks. Yuan Yuxue found a wooden dresser, which obviously belonged to “Mom”.

He carefully rummaged through them and found an item out of place among them.

A translated collection of foreign novels.

The name of the novel was Monkey Claw. It was a very short story. Yuan Yuxue soon entered it into the database.

The story could be summarized as a couple who got a monkey’s paw and could make three wishes, but all three wishes brought terrible misfortune.

It looks very much like the fable of a horror novel.

The second valuable item found was the diary of “Mom”. Yuan Yuxue turned it over with his hand that was not stained with blood.

It was not recorded every day, but every few days a paragraph of text will be recorded.

Sometimes I complain about the soaring prices and the fact that meat could’t even afford a few pounds; Sometimes I was jealous to hear that the wife next door seemed to be talking about what bonus her son had received, while her child was still loafing around at home.

These piecemeal life records, suddenly, stopped for a long time.

The time of the next record has jumped to two months later.

The handwriting of “Mom” was crooked, which was different from the flat handwriting before. The strength was so strong that it cuts the paper and the paper surface was raised.

“I regret it. He hit me again.”

It was written in the diary.

She had no family and married her husband after graduation from college. This was originally a modest and imperfect marriage, which had lasted for twenty years without hesitation.

Before, her husband had a hidden tendency of domestic violence. After waking up, he knelt down to her and cried bitterly and promised to revise it many times. After they had children, they really seem to have corrected themselves and made up for the present. Until the economic downturn in recent years, the husband’s career was frustrated and the fierce side of his temperament was exposed. He started drinking, cheating and domestic violence again, threatening her not to divorce, or he would kill the child and then kill her if he had nothing.

She spent a long time in the midst of this muddled nightmare. The words in the diary were becoming more and more extreme, and more and more bloody.

She wanted to die and end her miserable days. But the next day after the suicide note was written, she suddenly calmed down, or was more like crazy… The woman said that she had got a “monkey claw”.

It was said that monkey paws could be used to make wishes.

She was really not a very ambitious woman. After thinking, she made a wish.

“I want a happy family and a husband who loves me.”

However, the next day, her husband still drank heavily and beat her. Nothing changed.

She dragged her body covered with bruises to cook, and heard the man’s angry voice in the living room – he seemed to accidentally spill the hot soup on his body, and he was yelling at the woman to bring him scalding medicine.

When the woman put down the pot in her hand, she smelled a strange smell of scalded flesh.

The smell soon made her hungry.

I’m hungry.

Never before, it overflowed from the stomach, like hunger that would engulf her.

She went out and bit his scalded hand when the man waved.

……

She ate him.

After the brief hunger was satisfied, the woman who woke up collapsed incomparably. She felt that she had become a terrible monster.

She pulled the battered corpse into the basement and locked the wooden door. At almost the same time, a loud clap came from outside.

The man cursed her in a fretful tone.

“Open the door quickly!”

The man she ate came back.

The monkey claw realized her wish in another way.

She will welcome a new husband every day. Until the wish comes true, there is a husband who loves her.

Before that, she will always be in a happy family.

……

Yuan Yuxue closed her diary.

“Mom” was a person before this. And she became a monster, perhaps starting from eating her first husband, or making a wish with a monkey’s paw.

Her diary mentioned her children before, using the word “baby” to refer to them. After the appearance of monkey claw, the word disappeared from her diary.

It should be dead, but the specific time cannot be determined.

At an early age, the family became too broken to cover up.

Yuan Yuxue recorded the key word “monkey claw” in the data. He hesitated for a moment and did not take the diary away. Instead, he restored it to its original position and closed the drawer of the dresser.

The seven minute protection time has passed.

The pause button that Hei Pi kept clicking finally worked. He just relaxed for two seconds as he watched Yuan Yuxue reappear in his life——

The new man’s exposed neck showed a pale and weak color. It was not difficult to imagine how ugly his face would be under that mask. But it was more difficult for Hei Pi’s eyes not to stay on the fingers of the other’s right hand.

Countless wounds cut in different depths, like red thread, wound around the knuckles of Yuan Yuxue. His fingers were relaxed and drooping, so the blood coagulated rolled down from his fingertips like drops of water.

One drop, two drops.

Hei Pi reached out and caught the drop of blood, as if he had been scalded. His palm suddenly shook, and his throat was dry: “Does it hurt?”

“I don’t have a red potion with me…” His voice was at a loss, with a certain emotion that the robot could not understand.

Yuan Yuxue shook his head as he deserved.

He wasn’t hurt.

So now Yuan Yuxue was still looking at the countdown of the beating movie and calmly says, “I still want to go in -“

“You need to rest.” His words were temporarily interrupted. It was Glasses standing in front of him, his lips taut, and his mood seemed unstable.

Glasses strode to Yuan Yuxue’s side. When he passed by, he just put something in Hei Pi’s hand, then pressed his hand on the play key and entered the movie again without saying a word.

Hei Pi looked at the red potion in his hand and didn’t care what Glasses meant to give it to him. The dignified look on his face relaxed a little. He just pressed Yuan Yuxue’s shoulder and asked him to sit on the sofa. Then he nervously picked up the originally beautiful and flawless hand, supported it with one of his hands, raised a little, and sprinkled all the red medicine on the thin and deep cut wound.

The medicine melts in the fingers like warm water covering the cold skin.

Yuan Yuxue was not used to such a touch, and he was also strange to the actions of his collaborators. Stunned for a moment, he was about to withdraw his hand, and Hei Pi quickly pressed his wrist.

The male student’s voice was a little hoarse, as if he had been warned at the top of his voice, “… Don’t move.”

……

When Glasses entered the film, the spirit became extremely unstable.

He stood in place for a while, and every move seemed to consume his physical strength greatly.

Finally, he came to the place Yuan Yuxue had been to, and also opened the diary – in view of the angle of the film, he could not completely see the content recorded in the text. But this will be intuitive and shocking. It also seemed to pull him into a nightmare in an instant, and his forehead was full of cold sweat, which bit by bit wet the vision in front of him. His body trembled and nearly twitched. The paper diary on his hand was wrinkled due to the unbalanced strength of his fingertips, and the handwriting became blurred.

This made Glasses suddenly wake up. He released his hand, tried to smooth the wrinkled paper, closed the diary and put it back to its original position.

Even if he was in this space, it was like some kind of great oppression and spiritual torture to him, but Glasses still stood in it for a long time.

He didn’t do the last thing until the end of the game——

The burning gas stove filled the floor with oil.

Glasses lit a fire. In the old house, the cracks on the wall were burned by the rolled flame, and opened a larger gap.

Once again, as before, he stood quietly in the fire.

Maybe not the same as before——

At the end of the hour specified in the game time, Yuan Yuxue got up and pressed the pause button. Glasses that had been in the fire just now appeared in the screening hall the next second.

From the bright ambient light of flame burning, it was replaced in a dark room. This contrast makes Glasses’s vision unadaptable. It took a few seconds to get back to normal vision.

He saw Yuan Yuxue standing in front of him.

The faint light on the film screen reflected on him, as if emitting a soft outline of light.

Glasses’s gaze suddenly trembled, and he closed his eyes at the next moment.

At the same time, Andre’s voice came from somewhere in the corner.

Andre said in a completely inaudible tone of joy, “Congratulations” to them: “The game is over. Congratulations to my three good friends for winning.”

Andre was more than unhappy. He was almost furious.

Obviously, it was the game that could best show human nature and cause internal strife among players, and they have completed the level of playing.

Was this reasonable?