It's not like I'm being paranoid. Ever since I encountered the female corpse, all the strange things have been related to my right ear.
Just now, this hooligan girl scratched my right ear, and the blood that flowed out just happened to drip into her mouth. How could there be such a coincidence in the world?
Actually, I never hit women. Just now, Huang Po and I were dealing with those three yellow - haired hooligans, and I didn't pay any attention to this hooligan girl.
Who'd have thought this hooligan girl was so stupid. She actually tried to swing a can of Red Bull forcefully at the back of Huang Po's head.
If that hit landed, Huang Po might have died on the spot. It was actually a light punishment to hit her.
However, when I saw the blood drip into the depths of her throat, I immediately got nervous and loosened my hand from her neck.
Seeing me let go, this hooligan girl got up and tried to scratch me wildly. Huang Po grabbed her hair and gave her a slap, which made her behave.
By now, my anger had subsided, replaced by worry and nervousness. I asked the hooligan girl, "Do you feel any discomfort in your throat?"
"Go to hell!" the hooligan girl shrieked.
Huang Po gave her another slap. As for those three yellow - haired hooligans, after getting beaten up, they were lying on the ground, too scared to get up.
I waved my hand, signaling Huang Po to stop hitting people. Then I said to the hooligan girl again,
"I'm not joking with you. If you feel uncomfortable, tell me right away. This might cost you your life."
I thought of Xinyi. She just accidentally kissed my right earlobe, and then she died in a strange way.
If my ear has recovered, it's okay. But if it's still poisonous, the hooligan girl who swallowed a drop of my ear blood might die.
Seeing my serious expression, the hooligan girl finally started to panic. She felt herself carefully and shook her head. "I don't seem to have anything wrong."
"If you're okay, then you can go." I waved my hand, not wanting to argue with these stupid kids anymore.
The hooligan girl was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said angrily, "You beat people up and don't even offer any compensation? Just let us go like this? I'm going to call the police!"
"Go ahead and call the police! We left our food here, and you came to take it. Is this considered theft or robbery?"
"As for the fight, there is surveillance video in the Internet café. You started it first, and we were just defending ourselves."
"Also, you just tried to smash the back of my friend's head with that can of Red Bull. If that hit landed, the person might have died on the spot. This is attempted murder. Do you know that?"
"If I hadn't stopped you, you'd wait to be shot. So, do you still want to call the police?"
These young punks just got hot - headed when fighting. After being lectured by me, they immediately wilted.
I thought for a while, picked up a few packs of chips from the table, and took four cans of Red Bull. "Take these snacks. Let's call it quits here. Don't provoke us again."
When the four young people got the chips and Red Bull, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but twitch slightly.
It really made me speechless. What were these kids after? They got beaten up, but they were happy just because they got some snacks.
Probably feeling embarrassed, the four young guys quickly went to the cashier to refund their Internet fees and left the Internet café after getting their food.
Huang Po and I exchanged a glance and couldn't help but smile wryly in resignation.
"Forget it. I'm not in the mood to watch a movie. Let's keep playing games."
"Okay."
We restarted the game. Maybe the fight had turned our luck around. We went from a losing streak to a winning streak, and our cooperation often had flashes of genius. It was incredibly exhilarating.
Time flew by when we were playing games. After we won another round, we suddenly noticed that it was already dawn outside.
"Shall we play one more round or go out for a meal?" Huang Po asked.
"Stop playing. Let's go out and eat something, then head to Dashan Temple."
We weren't really here to play games; it was just to keep ourselves awake and avoid dozing off.
Right now, the top priority is to shoo away that ghost on my back, pull out that bloody tongue from my ear, and prevent the female corpse from guessing my birth time and marrying me.
If I can't handle all these things, I might die in my sleep without knowing why. How could I really be in the mood to play games?
We left the Internet café and found that it was still early. Although it was dawn, there were few people on the street.
Huang Po and I decided to have breakfast and then take the bus to Dashan Temple.
We went to a nearby steamed bun shop, ordered two baskets of steamed buns and two bowls of wontons, and began to dig in.
When we were almost done eating, a middle - aged man walked into the shop. After sitting down, he couldn't help complaining, "These kids these days are really outrageous. They can do anything."
Huang Po, who loved gossip, immediately picked up the conversation, "What happened?"
"Guess what I saw when I came out of the neighborhood just now?" The middle - aged man was quite good at building suspense.
"What did you see?" Huang Po was definitely a perfect straight man for the comic dialogue.
"There were three guys and a girl standing in the corner of the neighborhood, kissing and groping each other. It's just too much." The middle - aged man looked extremely pained.
Huang Po immediately perked up: Weren't these the four young guys who had clashed with us at the Internet café?
He roughly described their clothes and hair colors, and the middle - aged man nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, it was them."
"That girl is so shameless. If she were really dating one of them, it would be okay. But she was with three of them in turn. If I were her dad, I'd choke her and have another one from scratch."
Damn! That's so wild! Huang Po looked extremely excited.
I wasn't interested in this kind of gossip. After all, I was on the verge of losing my life. Who had the time to care about such public displays of affection?
"Let's go. We still need to catch the bus to Dashan Temple," I called to Huang Po.
Just as we stepped out of the breakfast shop and were about to go to the nearby bus stop, we heard panicked and shrill cries from the opposite neighborhood: "Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
My heart tightened involuntarily, and I instinctively looked in the direction of the sound.
Then I saw the three young guys running out of the neighborhood in a panic.
All three of them looked terrified, and their voices were distorted with fear.
My heart sank, and I grabbed Huang Po and ran towards the opposite neighborhood.
At the corner of the housing estate described by the middle-aged uncle, I saw the hooligan girl lying on the ground, struggling desperately.
Her hands were tightly gripping her own neck. Her eyes were wide open, and her tongue stuck out of her mouth. She was gasping desperately for breath.
This scene made it seem that she was trying to strangle herself.
I quickly stepped forward and tried to pull her hands away from her neck, but at that moment, her thin arms were like steel clamps, and I couldn't pull them at all.
"Let go! Come on, let go right now!" I was extremely anxious.
The hooligan girl heard my voice. Her wide-open eyes rolled, and she saw my face.
Then, a strange smile appeared on her face.
With a soft "click", her hands snapped her own hyoid bone.
Her tongue, which had already been sticking out, suddenly fell out and hung on her chin, swaying back and forth.