"Didn't you say … the five people who died were all prostitutes?"
Lin Sanjiu shifted her gaze away from the newspaper and stared at the young man.
"Yes, that's right!" The young man emphasized. Then, he lowered his head and saw the huge headline on the newspaper. He immediately panicked. "I didn't lie to you. That's what happened in history. However, this is just a game. Once someone enters the game, it will affect the development of the situation. You can't blame me for this … "
What he said wasn't wrong. Ever since the players interfered, the development of "Jack the Ripper" had strayed further and further from the truth. Not only was there an additional tailor among the victims, the number of victims had reached five. However, the game did not seem to be ending anytime soon.
Lin Sanjiu thought about it blankly for a while. The more she thought about it, the more confused she became. However, her instincts told her that something was amiss. It was like a nerve in a wound, throbbing in her head.
"Besides, when we came in, we only heard from the woman that two people were already dead." The young man did not look at Lin Sanjiu when he spoke. He just lowered his head and explained, "Naturally, I thought it was just like what happened in history. The victims were two prostitutes … How would I know that wasn't the case?"
"Forget it, forget it," Lin Sanjiu frowned and waved her hand at him. "Let's wait for a while. Let's see if the game will end."
The game did not end.
She waited for a few hours. The sun rose and set in the game, but the game was still going on. When night fell, the Potato brothers did not come out from the coachman's house. Lin Sanjiu became suspicious. She rushed into the coachman's house and found that the brothers had already escaped from the back door. She asked the coachman and his wife, but no one knew where the brothers had gone.
The game had progressed so far that it could no longer be measured according to the historical process. Another victim was found dead in a secluded and dark corner. He died the same way as the previous victims.
With so many deaths, the streets around Whitechapel became much quieter. The homeless prostitutes and hoodlums had all gone to some unknown place to hide. However, when night fell and the rain fell, there were barely any pedestrians in the street.
The rain in the game was getting heavier.
It was a dark and rainy night outside. Occasionally, a flash of lightning would flash across the room and illuminate the living room. Lin Sanjiu was sitting with a corpse with livor mortis spots. The room was deathly silent.
If anyone had come in at that moment, he would have been frightened out of his wits, but since the young man had gone out to see Jack the Ripper again, no one came in here again. The candles in the house had long burned out, and Lin Sanjiu had nowhere to go. Since she couldn't toss Annie's body out, she placed Annie on the sofa and sat beside her.
She did not want to look at the corpse, and dared not to look at it. This was the most acceptable alternative.
Lin Sanjiu sat in silence for a while. She couldn't sort out her thoughts, but she couldn't alleviate the anxiety in her heart. What's more, there was a corpse sitting coldly beside her. Whenever lightning struck outside, she could see Annie's body when she tilted her head. In the darkness, the corpse's chest seemed to rise and fall as if it was about to breathe again.
Should he just throw it in the bedroom?
Lin Sanjiu thought to herself a little hesitantly.
Ever since her experience at Kisaragi Station, Lin Sanjiu had always been strangely sensitive and nervous when faced with such situations. Putting the corpse in the bedroom wasn't a big deal, but Lin Sanjiu was afraid that she would turn her head unknowingly and see Annie's ghastly pale face emerging from the darkness.
After all, this wasn't Kisaragi Station. It wouldn't make sense for a ghost to appear in a pocket dimension filled with serial killers...
Lin Sanjiu suppressed these messy thoughts and stood up. She walked around the apartment in the dark. She had no idea what was going on with this game, so she might as well find something to do. The apartment was small and run-down, and there was a lot of junk. She searched around the bedroom, but she couldn't find any extra candles.
As the owner of the tavern, he was too poor.
Lin Sanjiu sighed. She turned around and walked slowly toward the bedroom door. After staying in the dark for so long, her eyes had adapted to the environment. She walked slowly, but she didn't bump into anything. Just when she reached the door, she suddenly heard a faint noise.
It was hard to tell what the noise was. However, the noise was fleeting and disappeared into the rain outside the window. Lin Sanjiu thought she had heard it wrong.
Lin Sanjiu stood quietly at the door and listened for a while.
There was no sound.
It wasn't quite right to say that there was no sound. There were many people living in this small courtyard, so she could hear all sorts of vague noises from her neighbors. She could hear coughing, quarreling, and the sound of doors opening and closing. However, the living room of this small house was silent, as if it was far away from the world.
Lin Sanjiu slowly walked back to the living room. In the darkness, everything looked the same as before. The chairs were in a mess, the low table, the coat rack that was kicked over by the young man, and the motionless corpse on the sofa. It seemed that the noises just now were from her neighbor's house.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and sat down. This time, she sat a little further away from the corpse, but not too far away because the sofa was very small.
As soon as his body landed on the sofa cushion, the sofa immediately emitted the same subtle noise as just now.
Someone was sitting on the same sofa.
Lin Sanjiu felt as if she was drenched in ice. Slowly, slowly, she turned her head.
At the same time, the corpse turned its head slowly and flashed a row of white teeth at her in the dark.
The black shadow beside her let out a low chuckle. His voice was hoarse, and it was the same voice she heard in the alley.
"It's not Annie!"
Lin Sanjiu sprang to her feet and realized that there was another blurry figure crouching at the feet of the black figure. That was probably Annie's corpse. At the same time, the black figure also sprang to his feet. With a wave of his hand, a metallic gleam flashed in the darkness.
This was the worst place to run into Jack the Ripper. It was pitch-black all around, and there were all kinds of furniture and junk everywhere. Even though Lin Sanjiu was very agile, she still tripped over something after taking two steps back. She fell to the ground, and the sword slashed across her shoulder. This time, the wound was so deep that it tore open her flesh.
The shadow laughed again and stood tall in front of her. The young man had guessed that Jack the Ripper was big, and he was right. This man was the biggest person Lin Sanjiu had ever met since she entered the game. Judging from the man's strength and agility, Lin Sanjiu didn't know how long she could last without her evolved ability.
"Is anyone there?!"
Lin Sanjiu turned around and dodged the sword that was coming at her. When the tip of the sword sank into a piece of wooden furniture, Lin Sanjiu shouted, "Is anyone there?! Murder! "
The black shadow let out a low sigh and pulled the sword out of the furniture. Then, he pounced at Lin Sanjiu again.
If Lin Sanjiu was an ordinary woman, she would have been caught by him. However, Lin Sanjiu was agile. She crouched on the ground and grabbed the piece of furniture. Then, she threw it at him, and it landed on his calf. The shadow groaned uncontrollably as if it was in pain. Seizing the opportunity, Lin Sanjiu rolled on the ground and scrambled to her feet. Then, she stumbled to the window nearest to her.
In such a cramped living room filled with stumbling objects, Lin Sanjiu didn't have much confidence in protecting herself, let alone subduing or killing the man. However, if she couldn't expose the murderer to the public, she wouldn't be considered to have "caught" him, and the game wouldn't end.
Therefore, even though Lin Sanjiu knew that the black shadow would pounce on her again, she seized the opportunity and banged on the window with all her might. She shouted, "Help! Help! "
Lin Sanjiu only had time to shout before she heard a gust of wind behind her. Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to turn around. She dodged and the sword grazed past her and stabbed into the window.
Seeing that the man was stuck again, Lin Sanjiu kicked him in the stomach. The black shadow groaned in pain and fell to the ground.
However, the black shadow was blocking the way to the main door. Lin Sanjiu was so anxious that she had no choice but to shout outside the window again. This time, just as her voice faded away, a flash of lightning flashed across the night sky and illuminated the faces of two people who were leaning against the window.
They were the Potato brothers.
"Jack the Ripper is here!" Lin Sanjiu was startled. Then, her eyes lit up and she shouted, "Quick, catch him!"
The windows of the 19th century were not soundproof at all. Her words echoed in the rain. The potato brothers were stunned for a moment. Apparently, they had heard her. However, the next moment, they looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders. Then, they gave Lin Sanjiu the same smile.
Lin Sanjiu felt a chill run down her spine.
She didn't understand why the Potato brothers refused to come in and catch the murderer, but she knew she didn't have much time left. When the black shadow stood up again, Lin Sanjiu quickly retreated. She wanted to grab something to defend herself. However, she had already retreated to the side of the sofa and stepped on something round. She lost her balance and fell to the ground again.
Annie's pale face stared at Lin Sanjiu in a daze under the dim light from the window.
Lin Sanjiu was startled, but it was too late. The sword was already coming for her, but she didn't have anything in her hand. In a hurry, she could only raise her forearm. She wanted to save her life at the cost of half her arm.
At this critical moment, the door was suddenly pushed open.
The young man's voice was full of frustration, "I've been looking for you all day, but I couldn't find Jack the Ripper —"
Before he could finish saying the word "hero", he was dumbfounded on the spot. He stammered with some excitement, "Ah, ah … Mo, Mo Fei …"
The black shadow froze. He seemed to understand that if the young man ran out of the house, he would be in big trouble. Without saying a word, he turned around and swung his sword at the young man.
"Run!" Lin Sanjiu yelled. She took the opportunity to get up and dashed toward the door from the other side.
Even though the young man was an introvert, his reaction wasn't slow. He stumbled a few steps back and dodged the sword, but he almost lost his balance. Even though he was infatuated with Jack the Ripper, he obviously didn't want to die in Jack's hands. Hence, when Lin Sanjiu pounced on him, he let out a cry and rushed out of the house with her. They ran into the rain.
Lin Sanjiu had no idea where the Potato brothers had gone. The courtyard was empty, and there was no one around. Lin Sanjiu couldn't rush to her neighbor's coachman's house because the two houses were close to each other. Jack the Ripper was coming from that direction. She could only shout as she ran. However, the rain was too heavy that her voice was drowned out by the roar of the water. No one seemed to hear her.
Lin Sanjiu rushed to the main road and panted. Her eyebrows and eyelashes were wet from the rain. She shouted at the young man, but there was no response. When she turned around, she realized that the young man was nowhere to be seen.
"Did Jack the Ripper catch him?"
The moment the thought crossed her mind, she immediately turned around and squatted outside the wall. However, at this time, a voice she couldn't understand, accompanied by two streaks of bright light, instantly tore apart the curtain of rain behind her.
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