Cataclysm Chapter 48: Play Till Death 4; Wall Encased Corpse

Chapter 48: Play Till Death 4; Wall Encased Corpse

Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations 

Editor: Girl from the East

 

Ye Youya took off her clothes and entered the bathroom. She turned on the water heater and the sprinkler sprayed out hot water of a moderate temperature. She reached out to test it and there was a flicker of hesitation on her face. Immediately, she stepped under the water sprinkler. She closed her eyes and reached for the shampoo with her hand.

After Ye Youya lowered her head and closed her eyes, the face of a middle-aged man was protruding from the bathroom wall that she didn’t see. The facial features protruded and his eyes were wide open. One could see a trace of perversion on his face. The corner of his mouth could not help bending upwards. From the face’s mouth, a tongue-like structure came out and licked the water that got sprayed onto the wall. The face then showed a satisfied smile. It was extremely gross.

<em>This again.</em>

That thing’s disgusting and abnormal gaze hovered over her body for a long time. Ye Youya had large goose bumps on her neck and arms and she felt nausea hovering in her chest, making her feel like vomiting.

She raised her hand to get the towel. When she touched the towel the back of her hand seemed to have been licked by something. She grabbed the towel and quickly withdrew her hand. After rinsing the foam off her hair, she backed away from the shower curtain, staring at the bathroom wall.

When Ye Youya’s back was facing the curtain, a human shape slowly protruded from the wall. The figure was closing in on her, it was quite intoxicated. She abruptly turned back and pulled open the shower curtain, behind it was just an empty wall.

But she didn’t dare to relax her vigilance. She could feel the presence of another person or something in the house. It often peeped at her, and the dirty and disgusting eyes were unbearable. It’s been getting out of hand lately, even trying to touch her.

Ye Youya checked around the house and found nothing unusual. So she played some sutras and the disgusting gaze disappeared. When she went to bed at night, she turned off the recording of sutras and climbed into bed.

Before, the thing would not show up for the entire night after she had played the sutras for a whole day. So Ye Youya fell asleep at ease. In the middle of the night, she felt something licking her face. She woke up annoyed, when her eyes opened, a face was protruding from the wall.

Ye Youya looked down and found that half of the thing’s body had climbed out of the wall and was trying to violate her. After she fully woke up, the thing gave a disgusting smile. Ye Youya’s pupils constricted, and finally she couldn’t help screaming, “Ah –!”

 

While Mao Xiaoli was riding her bike through Liyuan, suddenly a heavy object hit her bike’s rear seat and made a loud noise. The bike jerked, and the front wheels were two centimeters off the ground because of the weight behind. She looked back and saw a “meat mountain” on the rear seat of the bike. It was a very steady mountain.

Mao Xiaoli looked down at the rear seat of the bicycle, which was completely invisible after the “meat mountain” had sat on it, then she looked at the lifted front wheel because of the 20 kg mountain. After a few seconds of silence, she said, “Fatty, did you get fatter again?”

Fatty stares coldly at Mao Xiaoli with a pair of mismatched eyes. He took out a piece of cardboard and said, “No.”

Mao Xiaoli sneered at him. Every night, he goes to the branch office to get food and he even gets fried dried fish as snacks. After eating Chen Yang’s cooking, who can stay thin?

So Mao Xiaoli took Fatty to a gym at the gate of the school. There was an electronic scale at the entrance of the gym. Students who passed by liked to weigh on it. Mao Xiaoli got off of the bike and picked Fatty up. Fatty clawed the rear seat of the bike and was as secure as a rock.

“If you have the courage, take your own weight. You definitely exceed 20 kg.” Fatty turned a deaf ear and Mao Xiaoli said, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t weigh it now. I’ll tell brother Chen when I go back. Anyway, more than 20 kg is not good for a cat. Brother Chen will definitely make you lose weight.”

Fatty shook his whiskers and looked up at Mao Xiaoli. “You used to have a subtle curve between your neck and your shoulder, but now you have fat all around your chin and neck, and I can’t even see your neck.”

Judging from Mao Xiaoli’s attitude, she won’t give up until she gets Fatty’s actual weight. Fatty couldn’t help but pull out a piece of cardboard, “You’ve gained five kg.”

Mao Xiaoli didn’t believe it, so one person and one cat stood on the scale. After seeing their actual weight, they fell into silence and quickly reconciled. They even established an odd alliance. When Mao Xiaoli sighed in a low mood, she stepped on the pedal of her bike and heard someone calling her from behind.

Mao Xiaoli looked back and saw a girl panting, “Mao… Mao Xiaoli, right?”

“What can I do for you? Do you want to buy talismans or do you have a scoop for me?”

The girl shook her head, “Neither. Do you remember me? I’m the girl who was attacked by Dong Hong in Liyuan last time. My name is Ye Youya.”

Mao Xiaoli thought of her: “I remember you. Can I help you?”

“I heard them say you’re selling talismans. I don’t want to buy talismans. I want to ask if you are a Tianshi? I… I have encountered some strange things recently, and I am very afraid.” Ye Youya continued after a short pause, “I don’t know who to look for. I heard from them that you were selling talismans. During the cat demon incident, I knew it was you who introduced a Tianshi to the headmaster. So I want to ask you, can you find me a Tianshi?”

Mao Xiaoli inspected Ye Youya and handed her a talisman. Ye Youya took it, and then found that the talisman turned half black in an instant. She was shocked, “What’s going on?”

“Evil spirits have entered your body.” Mao Xiaoli took the talisman back and threw it into the garbage bin and said, “I’ll go to your house and have a look. Sit on the rear seat, I’ll take you there.”

Ye Youya looked down at Fatty, who occupied the back seat of her bike. She couldn’t find a place to sit down. Mao Xiaoli looked back, “Fatty, get in the basket.”

Fatty tossed his tail and reluctantly nested in the basket. The basket was too cramped, and the small holes of the basket created many meat cubes. Mao Xiaoli starred at the meat hill. She almost laughed in tears, and then took the picture very quickly. Fatty was calm and cold, he was motionless.

Ye Youya sat on the rear seat, wondering if the petite Mao Xiaoli could carry her. Just as she was about to speak, she heard Mao Xiaoli say, “Sit tight.” And then the bike went on very fast as Mao Xiaoli pedaled the bicycle, she seemed to be very relaxed.

Ye Youya swallowed up all the words she was going to say. She occasionally gave out instructions on the direction to her home. The rest of the time, she chose to be silent. When she was silent, she showed some interest in Fatty. Fatty’s mismatched eyes suddenly met hers, they were quiet eyes, as if they could see through everything.

Ye Youya smiles and pulls back her gaze.

Mao Xiaoli stopped downstairs and followed Ye Youya upstairs. As she stopped, Fatty jumped out of the basket and ran away. Ye Youya, “Fatty——”

“Don’t worry, it’s smart. Let’s go upstairs first, and you can describe the situation to me.”

“Not long after I moved here, I felt that there was something strange in the room that I was living in. Hair and ghostly shadows often appear. Things at home seem to have been used by someone else. The most terrible thing is I always feel a gaze staring at me. The eyes are hidden in the wall. I woke up in the middle of the night yesterday, and I found that it had crawled half-way out of the wall, it was trying to…”

“It’s a pervert,” Mao Xiaoli said.

They entered the house and Ye Youya brought Mao Xiaoli to her bedroom, where there is a big bed with one side against the wall. On the wall was a piece of wallpaper. Ye Youya stepped onto bed, “I put up the wallpaper in the middle of the night because I was too scared.” She tore the wallpaper off, and a face appeared on the wall with all the facial features. His eyes were fixed on the bed and one could sense the perverseness at a glance.

Mao Xiaoli rubbed her chin and studied it for a moment. She took out the Five Thunder talisman to test it, but she did not hear the wailing from the evil spirit. She thought for a moment, then turned to Ye Youya and said, “Go find a demolition worker and dig up the whole wall.”

Ye Youya didn’t understand the reason, but she did as Mao Xiaoli said. Half an hour later, two demolition workers came, they moved the big bed in the bedroom away, and then they began to chisel the wall. The two experienced workers soon noticed something was wrong. They carefully started to dig along the wall and they found a hole in the wall. A worker reached his hand in and grabbed something strange and hard. It was a round object. ¹He pulled on it hard and got it out. It was a gray round bead.

Another worker came and looked, but didn’t know what the gray round bead was. So he reached his hand in the wall and pulled something out as well. He got teeth and hair. He screamed and threw it away. Workers look down at the gray round bead. It was evident what this was now, it was clearly human eyes! His legs went soft, taking a few steps back, he fell down on the ground.

Mao Xiaoli saw the teeth and hair in his hands and said, “I knew it.” Then she picked up the spade and smashed the wall. Finally, she saw a corpse built into the wall.

Ye Youya was holding onto the door, her legs were soft and her whole body was shaking. Her voice shook when she asked, “There’s a hidden body in the wall?”

Mao Xiaoli didn’t think it’s good to stimulate her. After all, she slept here every night so close to a corpse, it’s like sleeping together with a corpse. The most disgusting thing is that the corpse was a very obscene man. Even Mao Xiaoli felt chills when she thought about it.

“Call the police.”

Fatty pushed open the window and jumped into the second bedroom in the house. The door of the second bedroom was tightly locked. He walked a few circles on the headboard drawer, he opened a compartment and took out two pictures inside. After picking up the photos, he jumped out of the window, closed the window back, and jumped to the ground flexibly.

Landing hidden in the green grass he heard the sound of police cars. They stopped at the house. Fatty looked up and saw policemen in the neighborhood. After a while, Mao Xiaoli came down from the stairs. Fatty quickly jumped to the rear seat of the bike as Mao Xiaoli got on the bike.

After everyone had left, Ye Youya pushed open the second bedroom door and found several cat hairs on the drawer. She opened her drawer to check, there were at least two photos missing. She frowned and tried to contact others.

She didn’t want to be killed yet because she had exposed herself.

Mao Xiaoli went back to the Branch Office and told others about it, but they didn’t care. A few days later, Mao Xiaoli came back to say that they had found the cause of the man’s death. He was a serious alcoholic. He accidentally fell into the soft concrete and was asleep five years ago.

When the building was still under construction, the workers poured the concrete into the formwork and sealed it into the wall without noticing. They also don’t know whether the drunkard was alive when he was sealed into the wall, and how desperate he would be if he woke up alive.

Mao Xiaoli said: “The enclosed wall was exactly where Ye Youya’s master bedroom was. The police found the surveillance video of that year, which clearly recorded this scene. However, the real estate owner was afraid that the matter would spread out and he would be ordered to stop construction. So not only did he not say anything, but also hid the surveillance video.”

Chen Yang asked, “Who is the property owner?”

“Mr. Qian.” Mao Xiaoli added, “What coincidence. I don’t think Mr. Qian is a good man. This is retribution. In the past two days, he had been detained by the police for investigation, and news has spread that there was a corpse hidden in the wall of one of his buildings. Even if Mr. Qian was not arrested, he would go bankrupt.”

Mr. Qian couldn’t wait to invest all his money into real estate after his wife died. However, who would dare to buy a house when his land had such a problem?

Zhang Qiudao said, “What a coincidence.” He looked at Chen Yang, “The last time you said you saw Ye Youya in the hospital – was that the same person?”

Chen Yang, “The same one. At that time, Mr. Qian happened to have an eye injury and happened to be in that exact hospital.”

Fatty jumped in from the door holding two photos in front of himself. The photos were of some age, they were slightly yellow. There was a family of four, a pair of young parents and two girls. Another photo showed Ye Youya growing up with another girl who looked exactly like her.

Zhang Qiudao took the photo and suddenly said, “Ye Youyou and Ye Youya are sisters.”

Mao Xiaoli: “Who is Ye Youyou?”

“Mr. Qian’s current girlfriend, I heard she had a miscarriage.”

Chen Yang took two photos and murmured, “What a coincidence.” After staring at it for a long time, he said, “Kou Xuanling, can you contact the criminal police to get the identity information of the corpse hidden in the wall? Including the surveillance video.”

Kou Xuanling: “Sure.”

Mao Xiaoli: “What did you notice, brother Chen?”

Chen Yang: “It feels like these people are all wrapped up in one trap, they are all linked together. I wonder if Mr. Qian, Ye Youya and Ye Youyou, are like Dong Hong and Yang Hong, maybe they are related to the mysterious organization as well.”

“Hck!” Mao Xiaoli: “No way.”

Chen Yang: “I’m afraid that’s most likely true, and don’t you think we’ve all been involved in it recently?”

Everyone was stunned. Ma Shanfeng said thoughtfully: “First Xiaoli, then the director. You two participated in the campus cat incident and now the wall with the corpse incident. You guys came into contact with Dong Hong and Ye Youya respectively. Qiudao received the job of the woodcarving Bodhisattva and was in contact with Mr. Qian and Ye Youyou. Speaking of it, Kou Xuanling and I are the only ones who had nothing to do with it at this point.”

“Not necessarily. If things go as we predict, I might be the next one.” Kou Xuanling said, “I have inquired to the criminal police and they will send the information to us directly after filing the request. Just now I had a question. If Mr. Qian wanted to hide the surveillance video, the video should have been destroyed. Who gave the video to the police?”

That’s a valid question, but at the moment they didn’t have a clue.

Mao Xiaoli, “Then, I think Fatty was tricked too. If Ye Youya was also a member of the mystery group, she was deliberately playing Dong Hong. Dong Hong really wanted to kill her, if Fatty didn’t show up, she would be dead. When I went into her room, I didn’t see any cat toys, cat food or pictures of cats. She didn’t seem like a cat lover.”

Fatty shook his cat fur. Chen Yang looked at Fatty thoughtfully and picked up the cat fur that had fallen onto the table. “If that’s true, then we are all exposed.”

Kou Xuanling’s mobile phone had a new email alert. He clicks on it to see a video and a document. He opened the computer login email and opened the video.

In the video, a drunk man staggered into view and then fell into the concrete. Chen Yang pointed to the corner of the screen, “There’s a person here.”

Kou Xuanling paused to zoom in. It’s a young girl. Chen Yang said, “She’s been following the drunk. She looks a little familiar.” Chen Yang picked up the photo in his hand and compared: “It’s Ye Youya.”

After reading the real information of the drunk, Chen Yang said: “The body in the wall is Ye Youya and Ye Youyou’s adoptive father. He was an alcoholic with violent tendencies and has a record of molesting their young daughters. Shortly after Ye Youya’s adoptive father disappeared, her adoptive mother went mad and was sent to a sanatorium. There was no news after that.”

Kou Xuanling: “Is the death of the adoptive father related to Ye Youya?”

“Perhaps.” Chen Yang said, “Dong Hong’s death has something to do with Ye Youya, and Mr. Qian has something to do with the two sisters. Yang Hong and Dong Hong are also related. If they are all related to the mysterious organization, then these people must be of the same organization. But they are in the position of hunting and being hunted. Some people know the identity of each other, and some don’t know.”

“Or they know each other, but didn’t know they’re going to be killed. Yang Hong, for example, would cover the people’s eyes before he killed them. The victims did not know who killed them, so they could not get revenge. However, Dong Hong persuaded him to kill and torture a woman in red, which led to the exposure of Yang Hong’s identity. He was then sought after for revenge by a fierce ghost. Dong Hong didn’t know the identity of Ye Youya and was killed. Mr. Qian didn’t know Ye Youya and Ye Youyou, he was toyed with to death by them together. Let’s assume that everyone’s motivation and every move is vetted by someone. When they played with other people’s lives, they didn’t know that they were also being played with by someone else.”

In other words, when everyone takes the first step, they are already in the position of being played with to death.

“I don’t know what is behind it. The only thing that can be confirmed is that it is very good at playing with people’s hearts.”

Mao Xiaoli: “What should we do?”

Chen Yang looked down. “Wait for the other party to come to us. Before that, try to find out more details of that other party.”

“Sure.”

Ma Shanfeng came out and said to all in the living room, “The investigation on the mysterious organization entrusted to the criminal police has been completed. This is their progress for now. They said that occult matters might be involved, and they hoped that the Tianshi community would intervene. I’ve posted the information to the group chat. You can look at it there.”

On hearing this, several people looked up and were quite surprised. Chen Yang opened the materials and said, “That’s fast.”

Zhang Qiudao and several other people came to look at it and found that there were not only Dong Hong and Yang Hong recorded in it, but also dozens of seemingly unrelated cases. In fact, clues could be found from all the seemingly unrelated cases.

Once these associations were linked together, a spider web quickly formed, making them shiver.

Some of the most typical cases happened in different sanatoriums. The dead were doctors from the sanatorium, and they were from different provinces. Their deaths were very different. It seemed absurd and coincidental. They were classified as accidental deaths. A doctor died of severe malnutrition. At the time of his death, his body weight was less than 35 kg and his height was 180 cm, he was basically a skeleton.

This method of death was called Skeleton Death. When the doctor died, he stayed in the sanatorium for half a year without returning home. His family got the news of his death and went to the sanatorium. After forensic examination, the doctor did die of severe malnutrition. According to his colleagues, they were told that he had severe anorexia. The family members who heard this statement got very angry.

They stated that the doctor’s lifelong hobby was eating all kinds of delicious food. Before entering the sanatorium, he weighed 85 kg. How could he possibly suffer from anorexia? Even if he had anorexia, at least the sanatorium should send him to see a doctor in time.

The sanatorium indifferently showed the contract and said that doctors already agreed before signing the contract. Once they signed up to work in the sanatorium, they could not leave for one year. In other words, the dead doctor violated the contract and should pay compensation for the violation.

The statement of sanatorium made the family members dare not make any more trouble.

After that, two doctors from another province also signed the contract for a sanatorium. They entered the closed senior sanatorium under the temptation of the high salary and welfare. They died of suffocation and head trauma respectively within one year. The sanatorium’s statement was that they “suffocated from face washing”’ and “got hit during a game of hide and seek”. The former drowned by burying his face in the wash basin while washing his face, while the latter had head trauma by playing hide and seek with the patient where he accidentally hit his head and died.

Next came doctors from other provinces. The cause of deaths was all strange, but forensic investigations showed that they were normal deaths. Since only one or two doctors died in the sanatoriums in different provinces, no one noticed the oddness.

Although some family members could not accept the absurd death reasons given by the sanatorium, and suspected that the coroner was colluding with the sanatorium. They found the sanatorium disappeared quickly when people started the investigation. After inquiry, it was found that the sanatorium was a high-grade sanatorium. As the family disturbance affected the recovery of the patients, the directors chose to move the sanatorium. Among themselves, the relevant procedures that need to be handled were handled normally and recorded and there was no doubt made.

Hundreds of people die every year in every city, perhaps even more. Similar instances to these deaths, or normal deaths or accidental deaths, all are like a drop of water into the ocean and can not cause the slightest waves.

Therefore, no one will pay attention to and link the insignificant death events in each city and province, so naturally no one noticed. When Ma Shanfeng told the criminal police about the speculation of a mysterious organization, it so happened that a young criminal policeman in the team recalled the death of a doctor in his hometown a few years ago.

The place was not big. Things could become the headline news with even a bit of wind and grass. At that time, the doctor lying on the hospital bed before his death, looking like a skeleton, was extremely terrifying. The young criminal police couldn’t forget that scene, so when they found that there were files of multiple doctors’ deaths in the archives, he mentioned the sanatorium.

After an investigation, it was found that nine cases of accidental death of doctors in sanatoriums were distributed in eight cities in five different provinces. When linked, they could find that after the doctor died, the sanatorium suddenly moved out of the city, changed its name and suddenly appeared in other cities to continue to recruit one or two doctors.

Each doctor signed the same confidentiality contract and died within six months or a year after entering the sanatorium. When they died, the sanatorium seemed to be waiting for their family members to come to the door to discuss the statement. Then asked the forensic medical examiner to carry out the autopsy, and finally gave the absurd and reasonable cause of death.

As if playing with the dead and their families with a bad attitude, it was cold and cruel.

“It’s like a cold, targeted game where doctors are the object of play. When they sign a contract, they become entertainment products. They are shut in the sanatoriums, tortured for six months or a year, and finally die in a ridiculous way.” Zhang Qiudao said.

“There’s something wrong with the sanatorium.”

Mao Xiaoli: “It is very fishy.”

“I mean, it’s not easy to move a sanatorium out of the city. There are a lot of patients and families involved. Unless the patients are also faked.”

“The patients are real. There is information on every patient and their method of death.” Chen Yang pointed to another document, looked up and said, “All the patients in the sanatorium are dead, earlier than the doctor who died of the first skeleton. The methods of death are also “skeleton death”,” face washing” and” hide and seek”. Yes, they used to be patients in one sanatorium. As they died in various odd ways, their family members came to their door, and the doctors coldly gave these absurd ways of death as answers. Since the patient’s mental state was abnormal, even if the death method was absurd, it was recognized.”

Zhang Qiudao: “The dead was the doctor who once tortured the patients in that sanatorium?”

Chen Yang: “Obviously.”

“Indeed, it involves occult matters, and it needs Tianshi to deal with.” Kou Xuanling asked, “Do you remember which nursing home Ye Youya’s foster mother was sent to?”

“Ye Youya and Ye Youyou volunteered in that sanatorium for five years,” he said.

Five years ago, the adopted father of the sisters fell into the concrete and was sealed into the wall that was used to build Mr. Qian’s building.

Chen Yang, “The time fits.”

 

 

 

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