Chapter 7: The Curse

  "I said I know that nine-tailed fox spirit, do you believe me?" The witch stared at my eyes and said.

  I stuttered and couldn't speak, she came over and patted my shoulder, saying: "Child, there are still five months left, go back and enjoy life well, no one can save you, if you're interested, you can go back to that village to find her, she will leave your way of death in a certain corner."

  Every word the witch said I didn't doubt, I believed them all. It seems that this time it's really over. Although I imagined there would be revenge, when this day finally came, I was still a little scared.

  She slowly pushed open the door and walked out, dispirited and dejected, dragging her heavy footsteps, not knowing where to go. She had only walked about a hundred meters when she heard footsteps coming from behind her.

  "Hey, wait a minute!" Xiao Rou's voice once again entered my ears.

  I turned around and smiled slightly, saying: "Xiao Rou, thank you, you still know how to see me off!"

  "Hey..." Xiaoyu let out a soft sigh and said, "Don't be so worried, you still have five months left, you should be happy. Besides, I can tell that the witch is still willing to save you."

  "But didn't she say no one could save us?"

  "I don't know why she said that just now, but you know, the reason you can come here is all because of her arrangement. Otherwise, your soul wouldn't have returned."

  "Does she have such ability? Who is she after all?"

  Xiao Rou shook her head and said, "I can't tell you this now, you'll know later. I'll take you back to your world soon. And do you know why you're able to know so much? It's because of your performance, others don't have the right to know these things. So you are one of a kind."

  "What's with 'my world'? What do you mean?"

  Xiao Rou shook her head again and said, "Wait until later and you'll know. This place is not somewhere ordinary people can enter, so think about what kind of place this is. Also, don't mention anything that happens here to anyone, or you'll put that person in danger, remember."

  Xiao Rou sent me back to where I was first discovered and smiled, saying: "Do you know what the most correct thing you did just now is?"

  I shook my head to show I didn't understand, and she continued: "That's how you cleared up the thing from eight years ago, proving that you're an honest person. If you do even better next time, then Grandma Wu will save you, and there'll be something beyond your wildest dreams. Good luck, fate will bring us together again, goodbye."

  "What is it exactly?"

  "Now close your eyes and go back to your world." Xiaoyu said as she placed one of her hands in front of my eyes.

  I don't know how long it had been, maybe a very long time or perhaps just a short while, but I was woken up by a cold gust of wind. In front of me stood two people, Zhang Bao and Wang Hui.

  "Zhang Bao! Wang Hui, is it you two?" I exclaimed incredulously.

  After I woke up, they quickly came over and helped me up. Zhang Bao looked at me and said, "You're finally awake."

  "What's going on with you two? Why didn't I see either of you just now?"

  They didn't answer me, their expressions were unusually solemn. Wang Hui said in a low voice: "I went to a mysterious place, but I can't tell you where it is, it's for your own good."

  Zhang Bao saw Wang Hui said so, and followed up saying: "I'm the same too, I also went to a mysterious place, can't say either."

  Listening to them two say that, my heart thumped again. Could it be that they also went to that unknown place and saw the witch?

  The two of them are now staring at me, it's clear that they also have something to ask me. I coughed lightly and said: "I went to a mysterious place too, maybe we're all the same in this regard, but what about you two besides this?"

  "Someone asked me something and I didn't say anything!" Zhang Bao replied.

  "Some people also asked me about it, and I didn't say anything." Wang Hui replied in the same way.

  I didn't say it out loud, but I was clear in my mind that the two of them might have had similar experiences to mine. In other words, someone asked them about their past mistakes, and they didn't say anything, whereas only I spoke up about my regretful past. At the time, Xiaoyu said that if we hadn't spoken up about our past regrets, we wouldn't have known what happened later on. This means that the two of them had no idea about the nine-tailed fox spirit and didn't know that there would be information about our deaths in Wang Xiaya's room.

  "What's wrong, Little Dragon?" Zhang Bao asked.

  "It's okay, I'll take you two somewhere."

  I took them directly to the yard next to where we accidentally killed Wang Xiaoya back then, and now it's all desolate, apparently no one has lived here for many years.

  "Xiao Long, why have you brought us here?" Zhang Bao's face showed a look of terror.

  Wang Hui also looked a bit embarrassed, staring at me in confusion.

  "Twelve years ago, we did something in this courtyard. At that time, we were still young and ignorant, but what's done is done. We may have been punished for it. Today, we come here to atone for our sins and also to see how we will die in the future."

  Zhang Bao patted me on the shoulder and said, "Are you crazy?"

  "I'm not crazy, let's go in now."

  Although they were both a little scared, they still chose to follow me into the room where we committed heinous crimes in our childhood.

  The decorations here are still the same as eight years ago, making my mood very tangled. The scenes of the past directly flooded into my mind, making my heart beat faster again.

  "Now let's three of us confess!" I said to the other two people.

  The three of us all faced the confession from that year, after finishing I started crazily looking for clues like notes or something else, finally found an old diary in a corner.

  He gently blew away the dust on top and came before us two. Wang Hui asked me, "What's that thing in your hand?"

  "If I'm not mistaken, this records how we die." I said slowly.

  "It seems you've really gone mad today!" Zhang glared at me and was about to walk out of the room.

  I grabbed him, "Zhang Bao, we're all grown up now, stop being so chivalrous, isn't it recorded how we'll die, just take a look and you'll know."

  Zhang Bao nodded helplessly and directly snatched the notebook from my hand, opening it.

  On the cover were some strange symbols, Zhang Bao opened the first page...

  July 2006:

  (1) On this day, I found a new skin, that of a beautiful woman, and hid in a small village to prepare for a transformation like light, I think these foolish humans will not know me.

  (2) I had a premonition that there would be an earthquake, but I didn't expect the flood to erupt. This is not what I imagined, so in order to hide better, I want to show others a good teacher's appearance, so I took three children to my residence.

  (3) What I never expected was that these three little brats were sinister and actually used such a vicious method to kill me off. They not only killed that shell of skin, but also ruined my hundred years of cultivation, so I decided to take revenge.

  In June 2014:

  (1) On this day, I finally thought of a way to kill them all, and now I record it as follows:

  On August 1, 2014, Zhang Bao will die in a car accident. On September 1, 2014, Wang Hui will die by suicide. On October 1, 2014, Zhao Xiaolong will die in the house where I was killed.

  "Bang" As I read to this point, the book suddenly fell to the ground. I saw Zhang Bao's eyes staring at me with his hands shaking violently, as if he wanted to devour me!

  "He suddenly said to me: 'Is it interesting? Little Dragon?'"

  "What's wrong? What happened?"

  "What's your take on this? Isn't this joke going a bit too far?" Zhang Bao said gritting his teeth.

  "You think I'm joking?"

  "Or else? Or else a book would suddenly appear in a room that's been dead for eight years, and if it did, someone would have taken it away. And on the third paragraph of the first page, it says Wang Xiaoya was murdered. I'd like to ask, since she's already dead, how could she write the third paragraph? Originally, I thought you suddenly wanted to come back and reunite with us, but it turns out you just wanted to play a prank on us? Who are you trying to scare? At first, it wasn't wrong, my idea was what killed Wang Xiaoya, but didn't you all participate too?"