Chapter 61: The Truck

All the internet users in the country focused their attention on Guishe City. The national Ministry of Public Security and even the Ministry of State Security sent many people to Guishe City in secret. Moreover, there were rumors that three of the country’s seven military regions also secretly sent their best people in electronic warfare and other areas to form special teams that entered Guishe City.

Internet celebrity Han Cheng also flew to Guishe City tonight and accepted an interview with Guishe City Television Station for a special program. He claimed that no matter how much people on the internet insulted him for putting on a show or trying to get attention, he would not be shaken. He said he would use all his energy and online influence to fight against Death Killer until the police caught him.

Online, there were rumors that Han Cheng had a secret girlfriend who died in a Death Livestream, and people even pointed out which episode it was. But Han Cheng’s people always firmly denied it. When a reporter asked Han Cheng about it on television, he himself denied it in person. He denied knowing the girl in that Death Livestream episode. He only said that helping the police catch Death Killer early was every citizen’s duty.

Well-known media people from all over the country gathered in Guishe City. They used all their energy trying to get first-hand information about future Death Livestreams. Some foreign media also sent their own special teams to try to get first-hand reports during the chaos. They also wanted to use the chance to attack the Chinese government, which stayed strong in the financial crisis and made them very jealous.

The whole of Guishe City was like a building about to collapse in a storm. Undercurrents were surging, and all forces were competing for one goal only…

Death Killer.

The handsome, very righteous, and well-written internet celebrity Han Cheng was one of Yi Ya’s idols. Originally, Yi Ya wanted to stay alone at Lü Yang’s place quietly. Unexpectedly, she turned on the TV and saw this program. Without realizing it, she watched the whole thing, which made her feel a little cold. She even somewhat regretted staying here alone.

Some faint noises came from the direction of the bedroom. When Yi Ya heard them, her face changed. She stood up and rushed over, pushing the bedroom door open suddenly.

…

Beside the Guicang Expressway.

At the entrance of the gas station service area stood a large sign. Dim light shone on the words “Xingyue Gas Station” on the sign.

The Xingyue Gas Station service area was brightly lit, but there was not a single employee. The whole service area only had some people running around like headless flies. Lü Yang was among this group. They were currently searching everywhere for the young girl Yu Fan’s whereabouts.

After searching the entire gas station service area and not finding the girl, just as everyone began to suspect that the girl had left the service area and run onto the expressway, the college student Sun Yujiao suddenly pointed toward the gas station’s rooftop. “Look! She’s up there!”

Everyone looked in the direction Sun Yujiao pointed. Sure enough, the daughter of the family of three, Xiao Fan, was standing at the edge of the gas station rooftop. Half of her body leaned over the edge, as if she could fall at any moment.

“How did she get up there?”

“Xiao Fan! Be careful! Don’t go any further!”

Everyone talked among themselves. Some people shouted loudly up toward Xiao Fan.

The sound of a vehicle speeding up and then braking was heard. It was the middle-aged man who drove the minibus onto the expressway to search for his daughter. He had returned. After stopping the minibus and getting out, he followed everyone’s gaze and immediately saw his daughter on the gas station rooftop.

“Xiao Fan! Go back! Don’t jump! If something happens to you, how can I go on living!” The middle-aged man ran a few steps toward the gas station rooftop, crying and shouting. His knees went weak, and he actually knelt on the ground.

Lü Yang looked around, trying to see where he could climb up to the gas station rooftop to rescue Xiao Fan. But just as he prepared to run to the work area to find a staircase to go up, everyone gasped. Xiao Fan jumped down from the high gas station rooftop!

Xiao Fan’s father, the middle-aged man, quickly stood up and rushed forward a few steps. He shouted Xiao Fan’s name while stretching out his arms to catch her…

Xiao Fan fell heavily. The middle-aged man arrived in time and happened to stretch his arms out and catch her. But with a “crack crack” sound of breaking bones, the man’s two arms broke. Xiao Fan’s body only slowed a little before she fell headfirst and hit the ground heavily.

“Xiao Fan! Xiao Fan! Ah! Ah!” The middle-aged man cried out in agony. He wanted to reach out and lift his daughter from the ground, but both his arms were broken and he couldn’t even raise them.

Everyone rushed over. They worked together to lift Xiao Fan from the ground, but her head was already covered in blood, and her eyes were tightly closed. Her father knelt beside her, continuously crying out her name. Because both his arms were broken, he couldn’t even touch his daughter’s face now.

“Truck…” Under everyone’s calls, Xiao Fan finally slightly opened her eyes. But after only saying these two words, she closed her eyes again—this time, forever.

Four lives now.

Xiao Fan’s death once again proved that once the Ashes Urn appeared, the person whose name was written on it would die without a doubt.

While comforting Yu’s father, everyone present also felt afraid for themselves. No one knew when their own name might appear on that terrible white paper in the Ashes Urn.

And once a name appeared on the Ashes Urn, everything became irreversible… First, the person whose name appeared would become confused, constantly thinking about what they had forgotten. Then they would start to harm themselves crazily until the moment before death, when they finally remembered what they had forgotten. But by then, everything was meaningless.

Lü Yang repeatedly thought about the two words Xiao Fan said before she died: “truck.” Why did Xiao Fan say “truck”?

Could it be that what she remembered was related to a “truck”?

The words each person said before dying appeared in Lü Yang’s mind: “death,” “stop,” “Hell,” “truck.”

He started to have some ideas, but he wasn’t very sure yet.

Moreover, these ideas didn’t seem to help with how to leave this Mysterious Domain.

…

Everyone continuously tried to comfort Yu’s father. They helped carry Yu Fan’s body back to the restaurant and placed it next to her mother’s body. The teacher Yi Qiuhong also tore some clothes from her bag and simply bandaged Yu’s father’s arms.

“That couple is gone…” The college student Sun Yujiao told everyone. When they left the restaurant earlier, that couple had been sitting at the table without moving. But now they were nowhere to be seen.

“Don’t worry about them!” The fat salesman Xiong Yifei replied to Sun Yujiao. The couple’s earlier selfish behavior and words had made everyone somewhat displeased.

“We will all die sooner or later. There’s no way to leave this place.” Yu’s father, who had been very sad, suddenly spoke.

“Did you see something on the expressway earlier?” Yi Qiuhong asked Yu’s father.

“This place is a dead loop…” Yu’s father murmured on. “Earlier when I got on the expressway, I was clearly driving toward Guishe City, searching for Xiao Fan the whole way, and I kept going straight ahead… But… but… not long after I drove out, I saw another lit-up gas station ahead. When I drove down from the expressway, I saw all of you here again…”