Dreadful Radio Game - Chapter 162

Su Bai took the box and directly walked out. Aroma subconsciously followed behind, but Su Bai suddenly halted his footsteps.

“I’ll go alone.”

This attitude and tone was like a man pushing away the woman who was stuck to him complaining that he was hot after they were stuck together like glue and rolling on the bed.

Aroma was stunned. She bit her lip as she watched Su Bai push open the door and leave, but she did not follow. She just directly shouted: “The car is parked outside, you can directly use it.”

After Su Bai left, the military personnel driver was already standing beside the car and holding the car key in his hand. Su Bai received the key, opened the door and sat inside.

No matter what, Su Bai didn’t mind if his threat to Wang Xue was effective or not. He had already found the item she obsessed. He just needed a little bit of time to complete the task. If Wang Xue had already gotten over it and left, all of Su Bai’s efforts would have been in vain.

Su Bai kept running the red lights. There were traffic police at some of the intersections, and they wanted to give chase, but they stopped after they saw clearly Su Bai’s number plate. They had good eyesight and tacit understanding.

Su Bai was also happy and carefree. This was not playing a game. He had no time to have a high-speed chase with the police like in the movies. Aroma could tell that Su Bai was anxious. That was why she lent him her car. It was more convenient at such crucial moments.

Su Bai kept on rushing until he reached Chu Zhao’s housing area. Almost twenty minutes had passed. These twenty minutes were like an ordeal for Su Bai. He got down from the car, held on to the box and immediately rushed upstairs.

When Su Bai arrived at Chu Zhao’s home entrance, he did not call to open the door. He immediately kicked it open. Su Bai saw the housekeeper lying on the floor. Extremely serious level of rigor mortis could be seen on the housekeeper’s corpse, meaning she had been dead for a very long time. In truth, she really had died a long time ago. It was very normal for rigor mortis to appear.

This meant that thing which borrowed the corpse had left or perhaps something had happened.

Su Bai flipped over the housekeeper’s corpse. Her face was ashen, bearing a malevolent look. There was a fingerprint in between her eyebrows. A ferocious aura was transmitted from that fingerprint. It was that fingerprint which forcefully scattered the housekeeper’s soul, or it was better to say, that thing’s soul.

……

Someone came over!

It was obvious that Xiao Hui could not have released this ferocious fingerprint or used this type of method. A zombie’s aura would definitely not have such effect. Su Bai was certain about this.

He stood up. There wasn’t anyone else other than the housekeeper’s corpse in the living room. Su Bai walked towards the bedroom door and pushed it open. Xiao Hui was sitting quietly by the bedside.

Su Bai approached Xiao Hui and gently pushed her. Xiao Hui’s body directly fell on the bed without moving.

“Damn it.”

He was too late; she had already left.

Su Bai clenched his fist, and his knuckles turned pale.

He finally sigh and sat at the bed side. Xiao Hui was still quietly lying there. Su Bai shook his head. If everything was in vain, then so be it. Su Bai wasn’t too depressed. Since things had reached this stage, just making sure to keep looking forward would be enough. Furthermore, if he really wanted to calculate, Su Bai did not encounter a loss. Obtaining a blood jade which was beneficial to his vampire lineage, strictly speaking, was not considered a loss even if he had used up bullets worth a hundred and fifty story points. It could even be considered a profit.

It was only a little unreconciled feeling. Acting as a detective running up and down for so long only to end up having that woman liberating herself one step before he got it. A woman’s thoughts were hard to comprehend.

Su Bai opened the rosewood box. There were ribbons and hair clips as well as other girly stuff inside. There was also a note, but unfortunately, the wording on the note was faded. He could only see a rough outline, and the meaning was almost similar with what was written in Chu Jianguo’s notebook. Looks like the other party completely mimicked the experience of the first murder game.

“Tell me, should I burn this note for you or bury it with you?” Su Bai muttered to himself. “If you’re liberated, then just be liberated. Why drag your niece along? You previously said you would return your niece a healthy body once you were liberated. Why did you bring her along to the yellow springs[1]? You’re really insincere as a senior.”

As Su Bai talked, he took out his lighter and burned the note. When the note was just lit, Su Bai suddenly thought of something and hurriedly waved his hand and extinguished the flames.

Due to Su Bai’s quick ‘rescue’, only a small corner of the note was burnt.

Su Bai’s expression turn solemn, and then he revealed a smile.

“Not right, something’s not right.”

He still held the note in his hand. Su Bai then stretched out both hands and let them droop at the bedside.

“How could I forget such an important detail? Thallium was used as the poison during the first time. Thallium was also used during the second time. The medical records stated clearly that your condition worsened after you returned to school. You couldn’t have suddenly lost your consciousness and have your mental capacity deteriorate.

“Those people spent so much effort to identify the poison and only found out after a month. Why didn’t you as the victim and participant mention it?

“Furthermore, the most important point, why didn’t your partners mention it?

“If they knew it was thallium poisoning and gave the relevant treatment early on, you wouldn’t have to die.

“This had become a paradox. What did you do, or what were you thinking? To lead yourself to be unable to say what poisoning… your good friends also chose to remain silent.”

Su Bai extended four fingers. One of the finger had a gap with the other three fingers, meaning there were two teams. One team was Wang Xue all by herself, the other team was Red, Lily and Yuan.

“Aroma’s senior spoke from her heart when she was near death. There was no need to lie to the junior she was fond of. It was meaningless. This means that what Aroma’s senior Red mentioned might be correct but might not be the whole story. There might be some parts omitted.”

Su Bai slowly squinted his eyes, his voice turned deep and low.

“After confirming this point, the remaining points could be filled up. Twenty years ago, four of you girls started this murder game for simple excitement. In the end, because the other three were terrified after witnessing the evil side of human nature, they witnessed the dark side of the students they normally had contact with. That’s why they were terrified and cowered and chose to end the game.

“But someone did not choose to end it and continued on. Since she already had the experience from the first game, she could replicate it. It was only a little bit more complicated and troublesome because she was on her own without any help. She had to handle the task of four people previously. That’s why she was slower. The most unfortunate matter was that the other three girls found out what she was doing.

“I don’t know what she wanted to do and what exactly was her motive, but this motive shocked the other three girls. The three girls had no choice and decided to use the accumulated information and selected group from the first murder game to conduct a true murder game towards her!

“A portion of Chu Jianguo’s notes were based on his investigation, another portion was based on his speculations as a police officer of many years. There definitely had many assumptions inside.

“For example, Wang Xue, your cause of death was discovered to be thallium poisoning. This is why Chu Jianguo deduced thallium was used during the first murder game.

“If you look from a different angle, what if a different poison was used during the first murder game and not thallium?

“As a victim, as the participant of the first murder game, even though you, Wang Xue, knew you had been poisoned, even you were unsure what poison was it. You were still sober the first few days your poison acted up, but there was nothing you could do!

When the poison gradually flared up and you lost consciousness, everything could only be handled by your parents and those doctors.

Through the doctor’s continuous experiments and conjectures, they finally confirmed it was thallium poisoning one month later through the help of the newly developed internet method, getting confirmation from medical university experts overseas. By the time they found ways to expel the poison from your body, you couldn’t hang on against the strong effects of the poison and finally passed away.

“Those three girls who joined you in the first murder game were the true murderers and naturally wouldn’t leak the information out.

“This way, everything made sense.

“No, there’s one more point. Hold on…”

A ring appeared in Su Bai’s palm. A ring made of an unknown material with a unique style and a very weird look. Xiao Hui had thrown out this ring when he confronted her in the washroom and triggered the reality task.

“In truth, even though I do not know what this ring is, I could use the method those people who investigate your poison used and follow suit. Nowadays, it’s simpler and faster.”

Su Bai took out his phone and opened the browser and entered Baidu picture search. He then snapped a picture of the ring and confirmed his search for a similar picture.

Very soon, a picture of a similar ring of the same design appeared.

“Oh… So this is how it is.” Su Bai was enlightened.

At this moment, Xiao Hui, who at first seemed to have her soul dispersed, slowly sat up from the bed.