Volume 2: Corpse in Yin Mountain Chapter 2: Terrifying Doll

  "What's going on with all these sudden movements?"

  I smiled and asked "Tell me, what's the difference between police and us?"

  "Generally speaking, he works during the day, while we work at night."

  "What else?"

  "They are on the ground, we..." He stopped suddenly and smiled at me, "You mean underground."

  I nodded and said, "Right, there must be a hidden compartment."

  I exchanged a glance with Shi Tou, then we both crouched down and started tapping around. Fortunately, the Lin Ge Hotel had already closed for business, otherwise the surrounding rooms would have thought that this house was haunted!

  "Lin Zi, over here!" Shi Tou beckoned to me with his hand. I walked over and helped him move the bed aside, pulling out a floor tile from the corner of the wall. He shone his flashlight into the square hole, where a rectangular box was placed. As I reached out to open the box, Shi Tou grabbed my hand and shook his head lightly, then pushed me back, indicating for me to retreat. After I took a few steps back, Shi Tou used his flashlight to pry open the lid of the box.

  "Whooshing" sounds for a few times, then there was a "pa" sound, the flashlight went out, I hastily called out "Shitou, are you okay?!"

  "It's nothing, just my flashlight got broken!" Shi Tou replied.

  At this moment, I suddenly felt that my eyes were dazzled by something, and then a great force came, I was kicked in the head, with a light thud.

  "Hide, there's an assassin."

  When I heard the stone say that, I rolled over and hid under the bed, not moving. I secretly thought that maybe the infrared sight of the gun had just aimed at me, which made my eyes dizzy, and for a moment the room was silent.

  It was a full ten minutes later when suddenly there was a loud "crash" and the window was kicked open.

  "Ah!" A soft cry, I realized it wasn't the stone's voice, and immediately crawled out. With the light from the street lamp outside, I saw the stone fighting with a man in black leather jacket. Without thinking, I rushed towards the man in black, he turned around and kicked me to one side with great force. I was going to grab his leg but didn't expect such strength, it hurt so much that I couldn't get up for a long time. The stone took advantage of his distraction, grabbed him from behind and pinned him to the ground, tightly gripping his neck and coldly asked "Who told you to come and kill us?"

  I rubbed my belly, stood up and went over to him with a fierce expression, saying "Quickly, tell me who sent you?"

  The stone's strength grew greater and greater, the man in black suddenly spoke a bunch of gibberish, the stone lifted its head and looked at me blankly. I shrugged my shoulders: "Damn it, just ignore him, who knows what he's talking about?"

  The stone made a sudden effort, and with a "crack" sound, the man in black fainted. The stone searched his body for half a day and finally found a small-caliber pistol and a few bullets, but nothing else was on him. I turned on the flashlight I had brought with me and immediately saw that the man in black had a pattern on his left arm, which looked like two plates stacked together. I pointed at the pattern and asked Stone, "Stone, have you seen this before?"

  The stone lifted his arm and looked at it, shaking his head and saying "No, I've never seen this pattern before."

  I took a look and didn't see anything else suspicious on him, so I waved my hand and said "Alright, let's get down to business!"

  The stone walked to one side, picked up a submachine gun, although I didn't know much about firearms, it looked quite advanced. Without thinking, I shone my flashlight into the box opened by the stone, and suddenly froze. A chill ran up my spine. The stone saw my abnormality, pushed me and asked "What's wrong?"

  I pointed at the box with my finger, and he was stunned too. After a long while, he finally said, "What's going on?"

  I shook my head and said, "I don't know." A doll over 30 centimeters tall with scars on its face that had been torn apart and stitched back together was the infamous Japanese horror doll. But what was eerie was that this doll's face looked exactly like mine.

  "Never mind," said Shi Tou, squatting down to pick up the doll. "This might just be Liu Wei's prank, don't take it seriously."

  I thought for a moment and shook my head. "No, this wasn't left by Liu Wei, it was left by the person who called me. I don't believe a dead man can make phone calls."

  I had just taken the creepy doll from Shi Tou's hand when a red light flashed again, I already knew what it was, "Damn," I cursed and dived to the ground, rolling back under the bed. Shi Tou retreated two steps and leaned against the window.

  "Lin Zi, roll down to the foot of the wall." Shi Tou shouted. I didn't think much and rolled two circles on the ground, leaning against the wall root. Soon, I heard a series of light sounds, the bed was beaten into a sieve, and I also had a lingering fear.

  I was hiding and couldn't help Shi Tou with anything, I heard Shi Tou softly counting to 25, then softly said "arrived", after that he jumped to the window and fired two shots, then showed a faint smile and said "done".

  I patted the dust off my body and asked "What are you counting?"

  "Bullets," Shi Tou replied, "The UMP only has 25 rounds of bullets." After finishing speaking, Shi Tou opened the window and looked around, then pulled me out saying "Let's go, we need to leave quickly."

  "Wait a minute," he pushed his hands away, crawled back under the bed, pulled out the terror doll and climbed to the top of the building with the stone.

  They say going up the mountain is easy, but coming down is hard. For me, it's easy to go downstairs, but hard to go upstairs! I exhausted a lot of energy just to climb to the top floor, and the stone smiled at me and said "Linzi, you should practice more!"

  I gave him a white eye, wiped the sweat and said "I'm much stronger than normal people, don't compare me with you trained monsters."

  The stone smiled "heh heh" and said "Leave quickly! Murder is hard to explain."

  I was also afraid of being discovered, and in this case, it would be hard to explain, so I wouldn't be able to avoid going to the police station. Shi Tou and I quickly gathered up the rope and climbed down to the ground floor, hastily leaving the scene.

  The stone took all the guns away, saying that he wanted to find a secret place to hide them. After all, China's control over guns is extremely strict. I didn't object and returned home alone, casually throwing the terrorist doll aside, then lying straight on the bed with a feeling of faintness.

  In a daze, I suddenly felt the creepy doll moving. I sat up with a start, staring at it in terror. Suddenly, I realized it had grown bigger, or maybe I had shrunk. It was now as tall as me. At that moment, its rolling eyes were fixed on me, filled with disdain and murderous intent. The hatred in its eyes seemed to burn with an intense fire that could incinerate everything. I licked my dry lips, jumped off the bed, and prepared to run out of the room. But my legs suddenly gave way, and I fell to the ground. As I looked back, it seemed to be standing up and walking towards me. Its body swayed unsteadily as it moved slowly, its joints twisting irregularly with a scraping plastic sound. The rolling eyes, which seemed to be moving, were wide open, staring at me. On its head, the bald scalp was visible where the wig had been pulled off, and bright red blood oozed out of each hole.

  I rolled over and hid under the bed, but I could still hear the creaking of the floorboards and the plastic sound, it was so close, accompanied by crying and resentment. I'm scared, I'm terrified, I want to escape, can't escape, my back skin feels like goosebumps in the cool touch.

  "Lingzi, what are you hiding under the bed for?" Suddenly, Shi Tou's voice rang out. I saw him crouching on the ground, smiling at me. I rushed out and hugged him tightly, just like a lone ship finding a safe harbor in a storm. When I opened my eyes again, I suddenly realized that Shi Tou's clothes looked just like the plaid on a horror doll. I turned my head abruptly, and my own face was terrifying, with the corners of my mouth curled up at myself. My nose was already pressed against his face, but no matter how hard I pushed him, I couldn't push him away. Slowly, I felt my breathing becoming difficult, slowly suffocating...

  "Ah!" I exclaimed, sitting up with a start. It was all just a dream, yet it felt so real. The sheets were already drenched in sweat, and that terrifying doll had clearly been thrown to the floor by me, but now it was leaning against the wall corner, its eyes staring straight at the bed, eerily ominous.