Here Lies The Wicked - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Out Of Body Experience

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Bloodied cash. 

Some of the oldies claimed that this cash was stained with the blood of the dead. 

This was cash attached with the grievances of the dead. 

There was another saying: after a person died, he would have some kind of obsession he had yet to let go of. 

“Boss, I’ll come back in a bit.” Fang Zheng ran out of the market after speaking to Butcher Zhang. 

After leaving the market, the girl’s skinny body was trying its best to hold the bag tight as dawn broke. She seemed like she was planning to cross the road when she arrived at the junction outside the market. 

She stood at the pedestrian’s crossing and watched the cars fly by. She took a few steps back in fear, as if she was a terrified kitten. It was a heartbreaking sight. 

There were fewer cars on the road after some time in the cold night. The little girl looked left and right. Once she saw that there were no cars, she carried the slipping bag with all her might and tried to cross the road awkwardly. 

At this very second—screech! 

Sounds of tires screeching to a stop could be heard. 

A car, which was moving at the speed of 80km on a street with a speed limit of 50km, had made brake prints of over ten meters before coming to a stop about three meters from the girl. The girl was so shaken that she fell onto the ground together with the bag she had been holding onto tightly. 

“Are you trying to die?! Don’t you use your eyes when you walk?!”

The driver rolled down his window and yelled at the girl before stomping on the gas and driving off. 

“Sorry, sorry, sorry!” The girl apologized in fear while wiping away tears. She picked up the bag with all her might and retreated back onto the pedestrian walk. 

After the scare, the girl did not dare cross the road again. Her skinny and lonely body was shivering in the middle of the night as she continued wiping her tears. 

She was terrified. She stood on the pedestrian walk alone and helpless. It was as if she was a forgotten leaf left in the corner of a big tree. Her head was lowered almost to her chest, and she continued wiping her tears. She did not dare cross the road again; she continued clutching onto the bag in her arms. 

Fang Zheng could not stand it anymore. He turned off the phone he had used to snap a photo of the angry driver’s number plate and planned to go over to help the girl out. 

Just as Fang Zheng was about to appear, the girl, who seemed like a frightened kitten, attempted to explore the world again. She looked left and right for a few minutes before crossing the road carefully and fearfully. 

A beam of light appeared in the night: a car was approaching her. Like a startled bird, the girl hurried back to the pedestrian walk. 

The car gradually came to a stop a few meters away from the pedestrians’ crossing. It was waiting for the girl to cross the road. 

The girl had a thankful smile on her face. Upon reaching the other side of the road, the girl bowed in the direction of the car and thanked the driver. 

Fang Zheng continued following her from a distance. When he entered an old, seemingly abandoned apartment building it was livelier than he expected. 

Everyone in the neighborhood had gathered together and were gossiping. It seemed like they were living with each other in harmony. 

Fang Zheng met the Grandma Xu the little girl was talking about as well. She was loving and amiable as she praised the girl for being clever and sensible. There was one thing that seemed off though: these people seemed like they were not bothered by Fang Zheng’s presence. No one came over to talk to him, and no one looked at him as well. It was as if he was an outsider in this world. 

Fang Zheng started scrunching his eyebrows. He continued following the girl. She finally stopped in front of a door and pulled out a key that was hanging around her neck on a red string. 

She tiptoed and raised the key to slot it into a rusty, old keyhole. 

It’s just…when the key came in contact with the first pin, bang! It was as if the mist and cold were broken. 

The dull, heavy, and resounding sounds of metal colliding with each other could be heard. Anyone outside the building could probably hear them as well. It was as if time had traveled from modern civilization back to the dark ages; the dull sounds of metal colliding with each other painted a picture of debris being splattered everywhere. They were heavy blows to the heart. 

It was as if hell was being unlocked. 

Bang! 

The dull and heavy sound of metal colliding with each other could be heard again. The key had come in contact with the second pin. 

Bang! The third pin. Bang! The fourth pin…

A total of seven loud bangs were heard. All pins snapped in the lock, and as the door was slowly opened. A gush of creepy, cold, and bloodied wind rushed out the door. 

Fang Zheng held his breath. He focused on what was behind the door; he wanted to see what that seemingly dark world was hiding. 

At the same time, his gaze was burning with anger. 

However, Fang Zheng was too focused to realize that there was a hand reaching toward him in the darkness…pat! The hand landed on Fang Zheng’s shoulder. 

His shoulder sank, and Fang Zheng had goosebumps all over. He regretted being too careless. The world went blurry for a second before he could defend himself, and Fang Zheng realized he was back to reality. 

The crowd was in the hallway. 

The girl was opening the door. 

The bloodied world behind the door: it was all gone. 

There were policemen around him busy carrying out corpses covered in white cloth from each apartment unit. 

Loud sirens of police cars could be heard from outside the building. 

There were noises all over the place. Tenants who had been sleeping in their units were woken up by the sirens. They wanted to come over and see what was going on but were stopped by the cops. 

The hallway was sealed off. No one was allowed near the area. 

At this moment, corpses were still being carried out. 

It was already the eighth body, the ninth, the tenth…Some of them came from families of four. They were all dead. 

The only door that was still closed was the girl’s door in front of him. 

“When was I unwittingly blinded by ghosts and had this out of body experience?

“Was it the moment I walked into the building?”

Fang Zheng had cold sweat on his back. 

He looked at his surroundings in confusion as well. ‘Why were there so many cops all of a sudden?’

“Officer Chen, bring these normal people back to the station. We, the professionals, will handle the situation here.” The person who was speaking was the man wearing shades who had pulled Fang Zheng back to reality.

At this very moment, Fang Zheng’s eyes widened. 

He was stunned. He did not know what to do. 

A gray qi came off the man in shades before getting absorbed by the human skin-made scripture. 

However, the man did not seem unusual at all. 

At this very moment, footsteps could be heard from the stairs. A bald, middle-aged man came down the stairs and the man in shades said to him, “Boss, did you find anything upstairs? I didn’t see anything downstairs. It seems like it was just this floor.”

Fang Zheng could no longer pay attention to the outside world. He saw two clouds of Gray Qi come off the bald, middle-aged man. 

They appeared one after another within a minute… 

He had already gathered three clouds of gray qi at a sweet deal from these two men…