Chapter 163: Friend

When Lü Yang got back to his Rented Room, it was already past 8:30 p.m. He was very tired these few days, so he took a quick shower and went straight to bed.

After thinking about it, Lü Yang still gave Yi Ya a call. Yi Ya sounded a bit unhappy, probably because Lü Yang had not called her all day, but after they talked for a while, her mood got better.

Lü Yang learned from Yi Ya that they had reached the hotel at the foot of Millstone Mountain. It was raining outside, and the students from two classes would take a tour bus up the mountain after breakfast the next day to inspect historical sites.

After they chatted a little more and Lü Yang told Yi Ya to be careful and stay safe, he hung up the Mobile Phone and fell fast asleep.

Because he was so exhausted, Lü Yang quickly fell into a deep sleep.

…

Liu Residence.

Liu Hui put down her textbook and walked into the bathroom feeling very tired. She sat down on the Toilet to pee, then stood up, fastened her pants, and walked to the sink.

She didn’t know why she felt so sleepy. While washing her hands, everything in front of her eyes suddenly seemed blurry.

Liu Hui instinctively looked up into the mirror and saw that the Woman staring back at her wasn’t herself! Instead, it was someone else who had a creepy smile on her face. Startled, Liu Hui let out a scream and immediately snapped awake.

She rubbed her eyes and looked into the mirror again… it was her own reflection this time… Did she just imagine it?

Why was it so quiet at home?

Did no one hear her scream just now?

Before this, if she had screamed like that, several people would have rushed over to ask what was wrong.

Liu Hui picked up a towel, covered her face with it, gently wiped her face, and then left the bathroom. But she was startled again!

There was someone new in her room!

It was a Woman, sitting on the chair she had been using earlier, just watching her.

It was her! The Woman in the mirror!

“Who are you!?” Liu Hui asked the Woman, shocked. She moved closer to the bedroom door as she spoke.

“I forgot who I am…” the Woman shook her head.

“What are you doing in my house? Who let you in?” Liu Hui was ready to call for help at any moment.

“Don’t be afraid. I feel like I know you… I won’t hurt you. By the way, what’s your name?” the Woman smiled at Liu Hui.

Liu Hui turned around and ran toward the door. She pulled it open quickly, ready to shout for help, but found a solid wall outside. She almost bumped right into it.

“Ah…! Ah…! Ah…!”

Liu Hui bent down, staring at the wall outside the door, and screamed repeatedly. She had never encountered anything this Strange Point in her life.

“Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you. In fact, we must have met before, but you just don’t remember me… I also… sort of… don’t remember you clearly…” The Woman walked toward Liu Hui, seemingly trying hard to recall something.

“Stay away from me!” Liu Hui turned, pressing her back against the wall, looking at the Woman with fear.

“Uh… I said I won’t hurt you. I can’t hurt you either, because… right now, you are me, and I am you… sort of another you.”

“Who’s you? I am myself, you are yourself, what do you mean you are me and I am you?” Liu Hui got confused.

“Alright, let’s skip the complicated stuff and keep it simple… Do you… know someone named Lü Yang?” The Woman rolled her eyes a bit and asked.

“Lü Yang? You know him?” Liu Hui looked at the Woman curiously.

“I definitely know him… His is the only name I can remember right now… I even forgot your name… Yes! Find him. Maybe if I find him, I can remember who I am…”

Death Assassin Zhou Ling had been killed, completely erased by the Mysterious Domain. All traces she had left in this world and the ripple effects of her actions were gone.

Without her coming to find Liu Hui and using Liu Hui to get close to Lü Yang, the current Liu Hui naturally had not reunited with Lü Yang yet. That was why Liu Hui found it weird and a little excited when the Woman mentioned Lü Yang.

“Are you close to him? Are you a relative? How did you find me here?” Liu Hui seemed slightly more relaxed.

“Not a relative. We should be… very good friends… Yes, yes, definitely friends…” The Woman smiled even more happily.

“I don’t understand what you are saying. How did you get here? Who are you really? And what’s up with the wall outside the door?” Liu Hui asked the Woman.

“This place… only looks like your bedroom, but it’s not. This is an independent Interstitial Space, and right now… I’ve lost touch with my True Body…”

“The Interstitial Space came back here… that means my main Soul Essence… and another strand of Soul Essence were both destroyed… Luckily, I still have a few strands of Remnant Soul left with you, so I wasn’t completely eradicated…” The Woman spoke while struggling to recall things, as if she wasn’t necessarily talking to Liu Hui but sorting out her own thoughts.

“What are you talking about? Are you a ghost? You have a soul?” Liu Hui was getting more scared and confused the more she listened.

“Because I’m still very weak right now, I’ve lost most of my memories… and my soul power is weak. This Interstitial Space isn’t very stable for now and might collapse anytime… I brought you in just to test what I can do at the moment… I’m going to be very busy in the days ahead…”

“Interstitial Space? What is that? Why don’t you have a body? Why are you staying with me? If you want money, I can ask my family to give you some. Please don’t stay inside my body…” Liu Hui was even more confused.

“You don’t need to understand too much. To put it simply… for some reason, I previously… had split myself into three parts: one strong and two weak. The strongest part was temporarily attached to your body, one weak part stayed with my True Body, and another weak part was attached to another body…”

“While my strongest part… was transmitting back to the main body, my original body… disappeared mysteriously. It was probably destroyed… Otherwise, what’s happening now wouldn’t make sense…”

“And now… I’ve lost connection with the other Soul Essence as well… Luckily, I took so many precautions… and there is this Interstitial Space. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even have Remnant Soul left…”

“If I guessed right, someone must have attacked my True Body while I was with you… Yes, killed me… Yes, yes, that must be it… Before I find a solution, I’ll be staying with you…”

“I don’t want you inside my body! And I don’t want to be with you!” After hearing the Woman’s words, Liu Hui panicked and frantically patted her own body.

“Haha, that’s not for you to decide. Meeting me is your good fortune! You look so silly; you must get bullied often. And right now, I have no choice… I must stick with you whether I want to or not…”

“No one in this world can bully me, which means, no one will dare to bully you either. We will become good sisters… Yes… sisters… From now on, if anyone dares to bully us, I guarantee they’ll die horribly!” The Woman laughed again.

“How can you be like this? I have bodyguards! I never asked you to protect me! Who wants to be with you? If you want money, I will definitely ask my parents to give it to you…” Liu Hui looked at the Woman gloomily but didn’t dare to go closer.

“You really are silly! I can’t make you understand no matter how I explain it! Forget it, let’s end it here for today. I’ve been busy all day and I’m exhausted. When I feel better, I’ll explain it to you slowly…”

“Hey! You still haven’t told me how I can find Lü Yang?” Liu Hui remembered something and quickly called out to the Woman.

“Wait until I can remember… what he means to me first…” After saying this, the Woman suddenly vanished into thin air.

As the Woman disappeared, everything around Liu Hui also shattered like broken glass and scattered away. When Liu Hui let out a loud cry and suddenly woke up again, she found herself standing in front of the bathroom mirror, daydreaming.

“What was I just doing?” Liu Hui looked at her reflection in confusion, then looked at the towel in her hand, as if she had forgotten something and couldn’t recall it no matter how hard she tried.

…

Jing’an Residential Area, Lü Yang’s Rented Room.

In the middle of the night, Lü Yang suddenly woke up.

He remembered having a nightmare, but he couldn’t recall anything about the nightmare.

Lü Yang sat quietly on his bed, not turning on the light, just trying very hard to remember what the nightmare was about.

A sudden ‘click’ sound came from the living room, like someone out there had accidentally bumped into something.

“Who’s there!?” Lü Yang shouted loudly toward the living room and reached to turn on the bedside switch.

The light didn’t turn on—there was a power outage.

Two more faint, rustling sounds came, like footsteps. Without another word, Lü Yang grabbed a hammer and a flashlight from his bedside and rushed out…

This was really a leftover habit from his time in the Eerie Domain of Lutou Mountain… Lü Yang now usually kept his flashlight nearby.

He shone the light around, then again…

No one was in the living room.

‘Drip’, ‘drip’…

A very clear dripping sound suddenly came from the direction of the bathroom. Lü Yang immediately shone his flashlight that way, only to find that the bathroom door was shut!

Lü Yang never closed the bathroom door when no one else was home, and he clearly remembered that when he went back to his room after showering and brushing his teeth, he had not closed it.

Could a thief have broken in?

Daring to steal from me? Asking for death!?

Lü Yang strode over and tried to push the bathroom door open, but it was locked from the inside!

“Crap!” Lü Yang cursed loudly, raised his foot, and kicked hard at the bathroom door. The first kick broke the latch lock; the second kick sent the door flying open…