The King of Curses

Chapter 53 Compassion
"You already have eyes, but you're just pretending to be blind. I'll help you with this unnecessary thing."

The ghost's sinister laughter echoed in the room.

"Click."

Along with the woman's shrill screams, the pair of bluish-white ghost hands covering her eyes suddenly exerted force, and the fingers pierced directly under her eyelids.

“Gurgle…Crack…”

The lens is squeezed hard, and blood or other body fluids spurt out with a creepy sound, just like squashing a plastic bottle with both hands.

The woman endured intense pain that was unimaginable to ordinary people. She twisted her body wildly like a loach that had come ashore, with her mouth wide open.

Amidst the heart-wrenching cries, a pair of eyeballs were dug out by the evil spirit and slid to the ground.

"Snapped."

After this slight noise, all scenes and sounds disappeared.

The woman who had lost her eyes and the male corpse with only his head left could not be seen.

Whether it was a person or a ghost, they disappeared in an instant, leaving only an empty room.

Those horrible sounds, the life-threatening words and the shrill cries could no longer be heard; it was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

"The second room, still nothing."

Cen Dongsheng narrowed his eyes.

The situation that just happened is a re-enactment of a scene that actually happened in the past. Its authenticity is beyond doubt and is far from being comparable to fictional works such as movies.

Such tragic and bloody reality would make ordinary people, if not stunned by fear, at least tremble in fear for a while, and unable to eat or sleep for a long time.

But again -

Cen Dongsheng has gotten used to it.

As a front-line worker dealing with supernatural incidents for several years, I have experienced all the things I need to vomit.

But... he glanced at the little girl beside him.

She lowered her head, her hands tightly grasping the coat that he had just put on her. Her body was still shaking, and her mental state was obviously not very good.

...Are you scared?

This overwhelming and surreal horror experience is enough to cause a mental breakdown for those with weak psychological endurance.

But unfortunately, now is not the time to rest.

Cen Dongsheng patted her shoulder to comfort her and took the lead to take a step forward.

In the corner of the room, a new door suddenly appeared, slightly open, revealing bottomless darkness inside.

"Let's go, there are two more rooms to go."

*
The third room looks like an office.

But unlike the collective teachers' office, this office is more spacious, has better lighting, is decorated with a large globe, and the walls are covered with group photos and banners.

It looks like the office of a school leader.

A thin middle-aged woman who looked to be about fifty years old was sitting on a chair in the middle of the office, flipping through newspapers and writing reports with a gloomy expression.

The landline phone next to her kept ringing with a shrill tone as someone kept calling.

"What? Another media outlet is here to interview us... Didn't I tell them to get lost?"

"I told you all not to discuss this matter, but you didn't listen? Am I the principal or are you the principal? I will do the report myself, do you understand?"

The middle-aged woman wiped the sweat from her forehead, her pupils filled with anger.

"A bunch of people who are always causing troubles and not being able to do anything good, even after their death they are still causing me trouble..."

"What's this 'evil spirits are taking lives'? Is there anyone who believes this? How stupid."

"In order to keep this chair, I have to think of a way..."

She put down her pen, stood up and opened the window, intending to breathe some fresh air to relieve her boredom.

The sunlight poured into the office, and at this moment, the principal was suddenly stunned.

The scene behind her was reflected on the window glass.

In the middle of the spacious office, just a few meters behind her, stood a girl in school uniform.

Although it was a sunny day outside, she was soaked from head to toe by the rain, her skin was bluish-white and covered with dirty mud. Water droplets kept falling from her body, and a wet stain slowly spread on the ground.

There was a huge wound on the girl's face, and the wound was still moving slightly. It looked hideous and terrifying. It was impossible for anyone to survive with such an injury.

However, she just stood there, grinning and showing him a twisted smile——

"You are guilty, too."

The evil ghost appeared in front of people in broad daylight.

"Wha…what?!"

The principal was shaking and almost fell to the ground, with a look of shock on his face.

"There are actually ghosts in this world... How is this possible?"

She screamed in fear.

"Even if there really is a ghost...why did you come to me? I have nothing to do with you!"

“That’s why.”

The female ghost behind her looked at her quietly, but the voice seemed to come from the bottom of her heart.

"I'm your student, a part of your school, how can I feel that it has nothing to do with you?"

"Don't be ridiculous. Isn't it your own fault that this happened..."

"Yeah, I feel stupid. Some things can only be known after death. But..."

The ghost's voice gradually became gloomy and vicious.

My nose seemed to be able to smell the fishy smell of rain and soil. The figure behind me took a step forward, leaving wet footprints on the floor.

"Why are you lying? What are you hiding? Why can't anyone talk after I die?"

"I...I...I am doing this for the greater good, so that parents, teachers and students can all feel at ease..."

The principal turned around suddenly and found that there was no one behind him.

However, what made her despair was that there was indeed a wet mark on the ground that was slowly spreading, and it was not an illusion.

I don't know since when, in addition to the water stain in the middle, there were two more puddles on the sides, but the color was darker and darker, more like... blood stains than rain water.

The principal was trembling all over and his head turned stiffly backwards.

She saw more clearly that there were two more figures beside the female ghost in school uniform.

A woman with no eyes on her face, only two bloody holes; a man with most of his head hanging on his neck, looking extremely miserable in death.

"No, don't...save me, someone save me!"

The principal didn't dare to look anymore. She shouted desperately, trying to call someone over.

However, it was too late.

Next to the wet mark on the ground, a footprint slowly emerged, followed by the next one... The footprints suddenly appeared faster, as if an invisible person was speeding up and running towards her.

"——You are also a heartless person."

The last voice the principal heard in his life was very close.

……

"Boom!"

Ten minutes later, the door of the principal's office was kicked open.

The people who broke in shouted in fear. What they saw was sticky blood flowing all over the ground, and the principal's body lying against the wall, his eyes wide open.

There were hideous wounds on her waist and chest, and the organs inside were missing.

*
"Hmm... still no?"

Cen Dongsheng scratched his hair and looked at the principal's office which had become empty again.

He originally thought that it was a challenge set by the core ghost, requiring him to overcome many difficulties before he could meet the final BOSS. However, he had already reached the third room and still hadn't encountered anything.

How strange. If he was right, there should be evil spirits in these rooms, which were equivalent to their own nests...

In other words, these ghosts are not here, right?

Except for the male ghost. Cen Dongsheng felt that the male teacher who appeared in the illusion and was the culprit looked familiar. It was very likely that he was the evil ghost who tried to sneak attack but was killed by him, leaving only his head - the "grade leader".

What about the rest?
Could it be that they all went somewhere else?
Cen Dongsheng remembered that the remaining survivors were all gathered in a classroom. If all the evil spirits were targeting that place...

Then they can only wish for the best.

The door to the last room appeared in the corner.

However, before Cen Dongsheng could take a step, Yi Qingyan had already walked over first.

"and many more?"

Cen Dongsheng was a little surprised.

Was she not afraid? Or had she come to her senses?

"This is the last room."

Yi Qingyan put her hand on the door handle.

"Brother, we have seen so many... What do you think about the tragedies that have happened in this school?"

She seemed to have really calmed down, and her tone was light.

"No."

Cen Dongsheng spread his hands and answered.

"You'd better not take it to heart. After all, it happened in the past and we can't change anything."

The girl fell silent.

"It happened in the past... nothing can be changed..."

She repeated these two sentences in a voice that only she could hear.

"?What are you mumbling about?"

"nothing."

Her long hair obscured her face, and Cen Dongsheng just vaguely felt that the girl was smiling at him.

"Brother, thank you for being with me all the time."

"Don't say stupid things."

Cen Dongsheng walked over, rubbed her head habitually, took the girl's hand away, and held the door handle himself.

"I brought you here."

*
After entering the last room, they quickly noticed the difference in the environment.

“Times have changed.”

The people passing by like phantoms had changed into new school uniforms. The walls and playgrounds inside the school had obviously been renovated, looking more modern and familiar...

In other words, this is the current Caixin Middle School.

"It's something that happened recently."

In other words, several years have passed since the series of tragedies caused by the female ghost.

The protagonist this time is a boy who lives in the school dormitory.

Just like the girls in the first story, Cen Dongsheng and Yi Qingyan observed his every move and lived an ordinary campus life.

This boy is a warm and responsible person. He actively participates in every class affair. If anyone gets into trouble, he is always the first to step forward to help, even if that person is a stranger he doesn't know at all.

Moreover, it can be seen that he does these things from the bottom of his heart.

There are such people in society, but they are rare. What's more important is that their enthusiasm may not bring rewards and will be extinguished sooner or later.

As for this boy...

Considering that what we have seen so far are the tragic experiences of the ghosts before their birth, I am afraid it is more than just "no reward".

And the facts were just as Cen Dongsheng expected.

This is an unpleasant story.

Compared to blatant evil, there is another kind of evil in this world that is small, unnoticeable, hidden among the crowd, and drifting with the atmosphere.

This boy never thought that he would be misunderstood and slandered because of his eagerness to help others, just like the story of the farmer and the snake.

"I, I didn't do anything. I saw her fainted on the side of the road, so I helped her back..."

"Stop being disgusting and keep lying! Did you give her alcohol? Or did you drug her?"

"If it wasn't you who did it, why did you bring her back?"

"Expose him! Expose him!"

There were sharp female voices, indignant male voices, and voices secretly gloating. Amid countless noisy background sounds, he gradually became silent, and the color of his body became gray and dim until it disappeared.

The next moment, they finally arrived at the last room.

To be precise, this is not even a house, but a rooftop.

The boy stood on the edge of the rooftop, looking down with an expressionless face.

Without any hesitation, the sound of wind came to my ears.

"boom!"

Along with the dull sound of the skull cracking, a flower of blood splattered on the ground.

His hands and feet were broken, and he fell in the middle of the flower bed with twisted limbs, trembling like a dying insect.

Screams of students could be heard all around him, and eyes of fear or surprise fell on him.

The vision became blurred and the world fell into darkness——

……

"..."

The final door is in sight.

This time, there was no longer darkness behind the door, but light.

But this time the room was no longer empty. Instead, there were five corpses lying neatly on the ground.

From left to right, the female high school student who was murdered, the teacher couple who were killed by the evil spirit, the principal whose heart and lungs were hollowed out, and the male high school student who committed suicide.

They all maintained a dying look, lying there motionless and quietly.

"Um……"

Cen Dongsheng stroked his chin.

Now that you have finished the story, the next step is to fight the boss. Is it just a matter of pushing open the last door?
His mentality was calm, but the girl next to him obviously didn't think so.

“Do you feel sad when you see this?”

Cen Dongsheng asked.

"……Um."

She nodded slightly.

……

There seemed to be no next room.

Before the war was confirmed, Cen Dongsheng was not in a hurry to move forward.

He watched Yi Qingyan slowly walk towards the corpses, as if she was quietly and attentively looking down at each of their faces, some of which were still open-eyed after death, and some were extremely miserable.

"Hey, aren't you scared?"

he called after her.

"...kind of."

Having said that, Yi Qingyan never turned her head.

If Cen Dongsheng could really see the expression on her face at this moment, he might be surprised, or even suspect that it was the King of Equality who had descended into this era.

The way she looked at the corpses did not match the impression she had given her before, nor did it match her age. There was no fear in her, only a strange...

Compassion.

(End of this chapter)