At the most dangerous moment, Liu Xianxian had found the statue that they had been searching for. Theoretically speaking, it should have been a happy occasion, but Ma Yin could not bring herself to smile.
She knew that there was a third person hiding in the storeroom, and at that moment, that person was probably standing in a corner, watching them.
Should she leave? Or should she take the risk?
"No, I still think it's too dangerous. After all, we already know the statue's location, and we can come back tomorrow. There's no need to rush." Ma Yin tried to persuade her best friend. "Listen to me, we'll leave first."
"It's just two questions. It won't take more than a few minutes." Liu Xianxian was stubborn. The man that she liked had become a thorn in her heart that she could not get rid of.
Letting go, Liu Xianxian walked deeper into the storeroom alone. "It'll be over soon. I'll know the answer soon."
She sounded like she was possessed, and her tone was strange.
"Liu Xianxian!"
Ma Yin panicked. She wanted to leave, but she did not want to leave Liu Xianxian there alone.
Holding the chair with both hands, she chased after her.
The two girls came to the last shelf on the left. Liu Xianxian pointed at the gap between the shelf and the wall. "The back of the shelf has been hollowed out, and the statue is inside there."
Ma Yin leaned against the shelf and used the light from her phone to look inside. She could see an ugly human face deep inside the shelf.
When the light hit the statue, the eyes of the statue seemed to blink slightly.
"There's only one statue in the whole storeroom, so this should be it." Liu Xianxian grabbed the edge of the shelf. "What are you waiting for? The thing that we've been looking for is right before our eyes. Come help us! "
"I have a feeling that someone purposely hid this statue behind the shelf." Ma Yin looked at the statue, and for some reason, she felt that it was familiar.
The two pushed the shelf open, and a faded stench drifted out.
"Do you smell that stench? It seems to come from the statue. It feels like … the stench of a dead body? "
"How could a statue give off the stench of a dead body?" Liu Xianxian walked to the statue with the phone, and the light shone on the statue.
It was a statue of an adult male. He was slightly bigger than a normal person, and he was not wearing any clothes. He had a good body, but his face was so ugly that it was hard to look at him directly.
Rarely would a sculptor do something like that unless there was a special meaning to it.
"The words are carved on the base, and the face is ugly. It's exactly the same as the sculpture in your video." Liu Xianxian looked at the statue in front of her, and her fingers trembled slightly. She had finally found this statue, and she could finally figure out the question that had been troubling her for a long time.
The space between the shelf and the wall was only about a meter wide. The sculpture stood in the deepest part of the shelf like a devil with its arms wide open, ready to embrace a lost traveler.
Standing in front of the statue, the stench became stronger, but Liu Xianxian acted as if she couldn't smell it. She put her hands together, not daring to look at the statue's eyes, and silently lowered her head.
"In my heart …"
"Wait!"
Before Liu Xianxian finished, she was interrupted by Ma Yin. "Think about it carefully before you ask. According to the ghost story, the statue can verify the authenticity of a statement. If the statement is true, it will shed tears of blood, but if it's false, something scary will happen."
"I know." Liu Xianxian refused to listen to any advice. She took another step forward and whispered to the statue, "The person that I like in my heart, he also likes me, right?"
Inside the eerie storeroom, the girl voiced her question to the statue. She looked into the statue's eyes with anticipation.
If the statue shed tears, then it proved that she was telling the truth.
Liu Xianxian couldn't help but feel nervous. She could even hear her own heartbeat.
One second, two seconds …
Half a minute passed, and nothing happened inside the storeroom.
The statue did not shed tears, and nothing scary happened.
"The legend is fake?"
The energy in her body seemed to have been sucked out. Liu Xianxian leaned against the wall, and all her hope dissolved into a bubble.
Ma Yin stood behind Liu Xianxian. She had expected this result.
Most of the time, people did not do something for the result; they just wanted something to look forward to.
Patting Liu Xianxian's shoulder lightly, Ma Yin did not know how to comfort her roommate.
"I'm fine." Liu Xianxian had a trained smile on her face. "This statue once appeared in the video recorded by your sister. Quickly go and see if you can find any clues. Don't worry about me."
Ma Yin nodded. She took out her phone and paused the video at the location where the statue appeared.
"The statue in the video looks exactly like this statue. I only need to find out who the original owner of this statue is, and then I'll be able to find the killer."
She took out her phone to record the statue, not missing a single detail.
The camera moved from the statue's chest to its face, and the strange sense of familiarity grew in Ma Yin's heart like she had done something like this before.
"Have I forgotten something?" After she finished filming, Ma Yin put her phone away. "The legend about the statue is fake, but for me, at least the appearance of this statue proves one thing — the video that my sister sent me before she disappeared is real."
She stared at the statue that was inches away from her. Looking at the ugly face, a sudden urge rose in her heart.
Reaching out to touch the statue's cold skin, Ma Yin asked a question that had been bothering her for a long time. "Has my sister been murdered?"
Missing and murdered were two different things. Even after so many years, there was still a sliver of hope in her heart.
After waiting for two seconds, Ma Yin shook her head. "The legend is fake, so why would the statue cry? It's all made up, but the two of us still believed it. "
She was talking to herself, and after that, the stench in the air seemed to thicken, and the light from the phone started to distort. The most important thing was that the originally quiet warehouse started to make thumping sounds, as if something had knocked against the shelves.
Ma Yin sensed that something was wrong. She raised her head and prepared to leave when Liu Xianxian, who was standing behind her, suddenly screamed!
"Xiao Yin! Look at its eyes! "
"Eyes?" Ma Yin soon realized something, and she turned to look at the statue's face.
Two streams of bloody tears slid down the statue's eyes. The blood reeked of Foul Odor, forming a stark contrast with the statue's pale skin.
"The statue is crying?"
Ma Yin was stunned, and soon, she was surrounded by fear. "The statue will cry when it's telling the truth, but when Liu Xianxian asked the statue about it, it didn't react."
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