Chapter 60: The Second Slenderman

Chapter 60: The Second Slenderman

Lin Qiushi once watched the slenderman when he stood outside of the window; the first thing he did was to pick up the top hat that had fallen from the tree branch.

It seems like this top hat was an indispensable object to the slenderman. In truth, Lin Qiushi had only seen him holding the top hat in his hands, but he had never seen him putting it on.

This was perhaps the greatest difference between the two slenderman. The only concerned was that they didnt know what were the actual differences between these two slendermen.

Another question lied in the conditions that would require them to pass on the top hat. Lin Qiushi felt that the transmission wasnt something easily done. There must be some sort of limitations to it, or they would have been annihilated otherwise. Through analyzing the current clues they have in possession, these conditions were likely related to the missing children in town.

Ruan Nanzhu had obviously come to the same conclusion as Lin Qiushi, but he was overall more comprehensive about the entire situation, As long as a child is taken from the town, someone would also be taken from our group. According to the missing people notices youve brought back before, the disappearances of the children happen in parallel with missing people from our group. And so, we could safely theorize that

Lin Qiushi added the words that he hasnt yet spoken, That the transmission conditions of the slenderman is to first find a child from town and then take them away?

Ruan Nanzhu nodded his head.

Lin Qiushi fell into deep though as he sank his chin into his palm. Their original assumptions were that there were no children to begin with in the town, but now that this theory contradicted their previous oneif there truly were children in the town, then these children might have already become non-human entities Could non-human children still be considered children?

This was truly a difficult question to answer.

All the more, there was a new missing persons poster that appeared in the plaza. If Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhus assumptions were right, then the next sacrificial lamb would be appearing quite soon.

Lets wait, says Ruan Nanzhu, After tonight, well know.

Lin Qiushi nodded his head.

They ran into Dong Tianwen, the one who had given Lin Qiushi some information before, just as they were leaving the cafeteria. Lin Qiushi hesitated a little, but in the end he still decided to go forward and typed on his phone before passing it to Dong Tianwen.

Ruan Nanzhu did not stop him as he stood next to Lin Qiushi.

Once the both of them returned to their dorm, only did he say, Whats the matter?

Lin Qiushi quietly said, Shes someone who offered me a little help before, after all, I wish for her to have a sound sleep tonight.

Ruan Nanzhu didnt comment whether it was a good move or a bad one. He eyed Lin Qiushi with a look and then turned around to take a bath.

Lin Qiushi fell onto his sides on the bed. He looked at his phone, dazed, as he wondered who would be the unfortunate one tonight.

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The night was a little cold.

The inn had fallen into dead silence. The people living inside of it had woken up early in the morning, and they wanted to quickly fall into sweet dreams before the night came to haunt them. Such was the same for Wang Tianxin.

He could not sleep, however, and suspect that it was because he had been sleeping the entire time during the day. Usually, he found it easy to fall asleep, but now he could not fall asleep regardless if he twisted and turned in his bed.

Wang Tianxin slept on the side of his body. He looked at the empty bed on his left and felt seized by a sudden sense of fear. His female companion, Liu Ya was still happily chatting and smiling at him on that exact bed just a few days ago. Within a timespan as brief as a short breath, Liu Ya was gone. At this moment, she had already been missing for two days, and it seems like she has already been met with misfortune.

Although Wang Tianxian wanted to forget this, the empty bed by his side repetitively reminded him of her.

Wang Tianxin felt a little bothered. He couldnt help himself from turning away from the bed to look at the window.

The colour of the night invaded the scenery from the window. Wang Tianxin could see the pale light of the moon and the sinister, aloof forest through the glass panels of the windows. He felt a little insecure, and he could also feel his body growing cold. After some thought, he rose from his bed and wanted to take a water bath in the bathroom so that he could relieve himself and go to sleep as soon as possible.

As he turned on the heater, Wang Tianxian soaked himself in the steamy, flowing hot water.

He had turned the heater up quite high to wash away all the chill from his body. This was supposedly a matter to indulge in, but Wang Tianxin suddenly felt something stopping the water beneath his feet from flowing out. What What was going on? Wang Tianxin mumbled in his heart. He bent down to examine the drain, and saw that a bundle of black hair was the reason the water couldnt go out.

How disgusting. It mustve been Liu Yas Wang Tianxin muttered to himself and tried to use his hand to pull the hair off, but as he did, Wang Tianxin felt that something was wrong. The hair seemed to be longer than hed expected, stretching on infinitely. Wang Tianxin had been pulling for a while and still, he couldnt pull the hair completely out of the drain. He felt something was definitely wrong. A layer of cold sweat and broke up on his back. Liu Ya Liu Ya didnt have such long hair.

After he discovered this oddity, Wang Tianxin let go of the hair in his hand and hurriedly wanted to leave the bathroom. However, upon reaching for the knob of the bathroom, he realized that someone had locked it from the outside.

Fear seized him, and he began to wail loudly for help. However, in the dead of the night and everyone was asleep, who could have heard him?

Wang Tianxian grew more frantic with fear and began using all his might with the intention to hit the door open. He turned around and looked at the drain only to realize that something had begun to bubble up from it as if something was trying to come out of the drain.

Help! Someone, help me!! Help me Anyone!! Wang Tianxin tore his throat shouting. As more water poured out of the drain, finally, his feet were soaked in a thin layer of water. Wang Tianxin was so afraid that he was shivering all over his body. Unfortunately, in a world such as this, there was no saviour to be had.

From the drain, a few fingers reached out of it.

The drain was small to begin with, but those long and thin fingers forcibly squeezed themselves out. After its fingers, there was an entire palm, then an arm, long and slender.

The arm was extremely long. After it reached out it began fumbling around, trying to find the person in the room. Wang Tianxin was frightened to such a state that he began weeping, his entire body shivering like a sieve.

Wang Tianxin was hiding in a corner, praying hard in his heart that that creature would not find him.

Unfortunately, there were limitations to how big a bathroom could be. He could hide for a while, but not forever. Very quickly, that arm found Wang Tianxins leg.

Wang Tianxin wanted to shake himself free, but he had no chances against that hand, that was as concrete as steel.

He was dragged across the slippery floors of the round and into the direction of the drain.

An adult person could never have fit into the drain, that was only as large as a fist, but this extremely grotesque scene was exactly what was happening at this moment.

First, it was his foot, then his leg, and then his thigh and his stomach. Bit by bit, and inch by inch, just like a spider devouring its prey. Wang Tianxins pained cries came to a stop and his eyes turned vacant as if hed sank into a strange state of consciousness. He didnt struggle, nor was he fighting for his life. His body was stiff as he was finally pulled into the darkness of the sewers.

Very quickly, everything returned to its former peace. No one would know what exactly had happened here once.

Lin Qiushi, who was asleep, appeared to have heard a commotion. However, hed had a sleeping-pill fairy next to him, so he hadnt woken up. He had only uncomfortably turned around.

Ruan Nanzhu hugged him from behind as if he was hugging a child. The warmth flowed from his solid chest to Lin Qiushis back and made him feel more secure.

The insecurity had only been momentarily. Lin Qiushi changed into a posture that he was comfortable with before falling back asleep.

On the morning of the second day, everyone quickly noticed the missing person during breakfast. Wang Tianxin, who had often shown up early, was nowhere to be seen.

Even Wang Tianxin has been taken? Lin Qiushi showed Ruan Nanzhu his text message, should we take a look at him?

Ruan Nanzhu, Sure, let us take a look.

Lin Qiushi nodded his head.

Everyone was wondering where Wang Tianxin had gone. They wanted to go to Wang Tianxins room. A few others had also come along. Among them were Dong Tianwen and her male companion.

Depending solely on his near-perfect memory, Ruan Nanzhu led everyone to the little path they came by yesterday and headed towards the ruins.

Thankfully, there was only one road here and there wasnt much space to get lost.

Lin Qiushi walked next to Ruan Nanzhu and carefully watched their surroundings. Right now, he was far more concerned about the slenderman who wasnt wearing a top hat. Who knows what that slendermans purpose was in the little town.

After walking for quite some distance, the ruins that Ruan Nanzhu had mentioned appeared in front of them.

Everyones gaze froze. They knew that Ruan Nanzhu most likely wasnt lying.

Ruan Nanzhu took a look at the time, and said, Wait here. Even Im not certain what time he would be arriving.

And so, everyone quietly waited.

A place like these ruins werent things that gave people happy thoughts. The only reason worth celebrating was that they were enough people in number, so they didnt need to be afraid.

Lin Qiushi was sitting next to Ruan Nanzhu as he played with his phone. Ruan Nanzhu looked at the fog in front of him, appearing to be pondering over something.

As time passed by, everyone fell into dead silence.

As morning transitioned to the afternoon, when the sky was about to darken and someones patience was about to run out, a persons silhouette appeared in the fog It was the missing Wang Tianxin.

He seemed to have just walked out from the little town. He was expressionless and with just a single look, he was very different from his usual self. He walked until he arrived at the ruins and stopped, appearing to be waiting for something or someone.

At this sight, everyones breaths stopped as they continued to observe.

Quickly, the slenderman that Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu saw before appeared as well. He was wearing his usual formal suit and wearing a top hat. His long and slender limbs slowly moved forward before he finally stopped in front of Wang Tianxian.

Prepare yourselves, began Ruan Nanzhu.

Everyone gathered their spirit. Lin Qiushi grasped the sharp item in his hand tightly.

The slenderman raised his hand and just like Ruan Nanzhu had expected, he reached for the top hat on his head and then pulled it with force with the intention to take it down from his head.

Although this was an extremely horrifying sight, Ruan Nanzhu had warned them in prior, so everyones faces had merely just paled. They hadnt overreacted.

The slenderman used more and more strength, and finally, he tore the top hat down from the top of his head. Just as he was prepared to pass the top hat to Wang Tianxin, Ruan Nanzhu gave the order, Go! and ran into the direction of the slenderman.

The slenderman was shocked stiff by the appearance of the crowd of people. He took a few steps back and let out an angry howl. His long and slender hand reached out to catch two people and shoved them heavily aside.

Lin Qiushi averted the slendermans hand and targeted the top hat. Wang Tianxin behaved as though he wasnt aware of what was happening around him. His gaze was fixed on the top hat. Lin Qiushi lunged at it and caught the top hat.

Give it to me!! Wang Tianxin angrily called out.

Lin Qiushi ran with the top hat in his hand. Wang Tianxin followed closely behind him looking as if he wanted to tear Lin Qiushi apart.

At that moment, the others have already opened war with the slenderman. The slenderman had extremely superhuman strength. Normal people were definitely not his match for certain. But thankfully, after losing his top hat, his strength had begun to diminish.

His body began to shrivel as if all his flesh had begun to evaporate, leaving behind only a wrinkled layer of skin.

Ruan Nanzhu held back the people who still wanted to rush forwards, and said, Its enough. Step further awayQiuqiu, come to my side!

Holding the top hat, Lin Qiushi slipped around Wang Tianxin like a dog and let out a huge breath of relief when he heard Ruan Nanzhu before hurrying to his side. Hed owed this to his usual workouts. Otherwise, hed have long been dead if he had such encounters.

Wang Tianxin disregarded everyone around them completely. His only target was the top hat in Lin Qiushis hand.

This time, Ruan Nanzhu didnt hold back. His knife came for Wang Tianxins leg.

Wang Tianxin wailed aloud. Lin Qiushi noticed that no blood flowed out of his woundsWang Tianxin was certainly no longer human.

Ruan Nanzhu, too, saw Wang Tianxins wound and made a decision in his heart. Wang Tianxins speed didnt slow down even after hed been wounded. On the contrary, he seemed to be even more aggressive than before as he threw himself at Lin Qiushi.

Ruan Nanzhu coldly snorted and then once again came his dagger, relieving Wang Tianxins body of his head immediately.

Wang Tianxins head fell to the ground, but his body was still moving. His eyeballs glared at Ruan Nanzhu with a gaze filled with vengeance.

Ive found the key! came Dong Tianwens voice, Quick, let us return to the town!

Ruan Nanzhu, Where is the door?

Dong Tianwen answered, Under the billboard of the plaza!

A group of people yelp happily upon receiving the key. They ran towards the little town. Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu no longer bothered themselves with Wang Tianxin. They quickly ran after the group of people.

Everyone had run towards the town until they wanted. And then, after they arrived at the towns plaza, they were startled stiff by the sight before them.

In front of the signboard, a huge silhouette had appeared. That person was dressed in a black suit and his limbs very terrifyingly long. The only difference was that he wasnt wearing a black top hat. At that moment, he pried open his mouth, revealing rows of sharp teeth and giving them a very eerie and sinister smile

Dong Tianwens heart fell upon seeing this creature and said, How could there be another one

As she spoke, that slenderman reached out to grab one of them and then tossed them high into the sky.

There was a heavy sound as that persons body fell to the ground. The person who was tossed into the air was very unfortunatehe died on the spot after hitting the back of his head.

Return it to me The slenderman said three words and fixed his gaze on Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi lowered his head and realized that the black top hat hed dropped was once again in his hand.

And yet, Ruan Nanzhu snatched the hat from him and told Dong Tianwen, Go, unlock the door. Let me lure him away!

Gritting her teeth, Dong Tianwen nodded.

Authors Comment:

Slenderman: raise up high, raise it up high.

Everyone: Other people act cute to get money, but you act cute to take lives.

Translators Comment:

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Translated & Edited by Dust Bunny