I can rewind time to prevent death

Chapter 319: Chapter 273 Ugly Girl (4000 words)_2

That was the year before the global outbreak of strangeness; the girl was 16 years old.

Li Lanlan, his wife, delivered meals on time every day, placing the dishes full of food outside the small door of the detached building. Sometimes the Ugly Girl had a poor appetite, ate very little, or didn’t eat at all, but Li Lanlan still took back the food and replaced it with fresh ones.

When delivering the food, Li Lanlan would occasionally stand outside the door and talk to the Ugly Daughter inside, who would respond from within and also inquire about her parents’ health and whether her genetically healthy brother was well.

The girl never mentioned wanting to go out because she knew from a young age that she was ugly, and going out would frighten people, bring shame to the family, and perhaps make her parents never able to lift their heads in pride again.

Days went by one after another.

Suddenly one day, Li Lanlan found that the two meals she had delivered the day before hadn’t been touched inside the small door.

She spoke a few words at the door to her Ugly Daughter, but there was no response.

Li Lanlan was puzzled. She removed the uneaten food from before and replaced it with fresh ones.

However, when she returned in the afternoon to deliver food, she found that the morning’s meals were still untouched.

After three consecutive days of this, Li Lanlan told her husband Wang Kunpeng that their daughter might have had an accident inside the room. But she was scared and didn’t dare to go in.

Wang Kunpeng didn’t think so. He suspected that the ugly girl might have found an opportunity to run away.

After all, having been locked up for so many years, it was normal for a child to grow up and want to go out and see the world.

Of course, it would be good if she ran far away and never came back. They feared she might show up nearby and startle people. If the neighbors discovered that this couple had been lying all along, it would be hard to explain.

The illiterate couple knew they were in the wrong, and no matter what, letting it get out would definitely ruin their reputation.

So Wang Kunpeng decided to wait until nightfall when it was dark and others couldn’t see, to check the room inside the high wall.

That evening, he prepared a flashlight and drank a large bowl of alcohol to muster up the courage to open the small door that led to the area inside the high wall.

Li Lanlan, also holding a flashlight, waited outside for him; the temperature was minus five degrees that night, which was quite cold in the south.

Before long, Li Lanlan’s lips turned purple and her body began to shiver, though it was unclear if it was from the cold or fear. The beam of the flashlight she was holding trembled violently.

Not long after Wang Kunpeng entered, there was suddenly a sound of hurried footsteps, as if someone was desperately running out, including sounds of falling. Then Wang Kunpeng was seen rushing out with a dusty face, swiftly closing the small door behind him.

Li Lanlan asked if he had seen their daughter when he went in, but he didn’t speak.

After two days of silence at home, under Li Lanlan’s repeated questioning, Wang Kunpeng finally opened up. He said as soon as he walked behind the high wall, he felt fear and didn’t dare to enter the small building. He just stood outside, peering inside through the window nailed shut with iron nails.

Although it was only a fleeting glance, there was indeed a figure swaying inside. It was unclear who it was, but Wang Kunpeng suddenly heard the figure say a sentence, “Do you want to come in… and keep me company?”

The voice was ethereal and indistinct; in his terror, he couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman, which scared him into running straight back out.

A week passed like that, and the food delivered went untouched.

The couple could only guess that their daughter was either dead or had escaped.

This speculation was confirmed a week later.

As the weather started to warm up, a faint stench of decay wafted from the neighboring stand-alone building. Wang Kunpeng didn’t notice at first, until Li Lanlan realized something was amiss.

She approached the small door, took a deep breath, and almost passed out from the overpowering stench.

By then, the couple could finally confirm that their daughter had died inside the building; the smell must have been from her decomposing body.

They dared not enter the building, nor did they dare to alert anyone. When Wang Kunpeng went to the market, he purchased a large quantity of lime powder and scattered it around the exterior of the stand-alone building, then he took advantage of daylight to enter the high-walled enclosure and quickly spread lime powder over the building’s outer walls, as well as burning a vast amount of dry grass outside the high walls.

This kind of dry grass was special; when burned, its thick smoke exuded a strong odor that completely masked the stench of decay.

Thus, every day Wang Kunpeng was spreading lime powder and burning dry grass at irregular intervals. After two weeks, the smell gradually dissipated.

At this time, the couple still had not ventured inside the stand-alone building.

The reason was simple: as Wang Kunpeng spread the lime powder on the outer walls within the high enclosure, he inadvertently looked up and thought he saw a shadowy figure swaying in the window on the second floor.

He took a closer look, then dropped the lime powder he hadn’t finished spreading and ran out, his face deathly pale.

Back in the main house, he told his wife Li Lanlan that he had just seen their daughter, at the position of the second floor of the stand-alone building.

After analyzing the situation, they surmised that the Ugly Girl had hanged herself on the second floor, and her body was still hanging from the beam. What Wang Kunpeng had seen must have been his daughter’s body swaying slightly on the beam.

Hearing Wang Tao’s account, Yan Junze said, “That sounds quite ordinary. If that’s considered a strange occurrence, I fear you’ve never seen truly terrifying strangeness.”

Wang Tao quickly shook his head: “I haven’t finished. At the time, it did seem normal, it’s just that Wang Kunpeng and his wife scared themselves. But they had always kept their secret from everyone and did not dare to enter the stand-alone building. So they planned to find an opportunity to tear down the building and let their unfortunate and ugly daughter rest in peace here. For this reason, Li Lanlan even specifically purchased a large amount of offerings for the deceased and burned them outside the high walls, praying that her daughter would be released soon.”

“Mm-hmm, and then?” Yan Junze was feeling that something was amiss.

“And then?” Wang Tao paused, then his face became terrifying, “Then, the strangeness erupted.”

He paused again, then said, “Actually, for a few months before the strangeness erupted, everything was normal. To others, that stand-alone building was just a storage room that Wang Kunpeng had modified, and no one suspected anything. Until Wang Kunpeng borrowed an excavator, planning to flatten the building himself. You know, he learned how to operate excavators when he was young. By doing this, he could secretly bury his daughter’s body underground, never to be seen again.”

“Was the building flattened?” Yan Junze asked.

Wang Tao shook his head: “No, because the day before he was set to start the work, Wang Kunpeng suddenly fell ill and became completely paralyzed. The excavator remained outside the building, and from its high cab, one could just see into the second-floor window of the stand-alone building.”

“You mean…”

“Yes,” Wang Tao affirmed: “You could clearly see the spot where the ugly child hanged herself. The person who had borrowed the excavator wanted to drive it away; after climbing into the cab and catching a glimpse of what was upstairs, he got so frightened that he tumbled down, leaving the excavator behind. Only then did Wang Kunpeng’s secret come to light, but by that time the strangeness had already erupted, and no one dared to entertain any thoughts about that stand-alone building anymore.”@@novelbin@@

“Later, someone else, disbelieving the tales, climbed into the cab of the excavator and after seeing the scene in the second-floor window, while not panicked to the point of insanity as before, came down with a pale face and trembling body, saying the Ugly Girl’s body was still hanging there, and it seemed, it seemed to have undergone some changes.”

“Changes? What kind of changes?” Yan Junze asked curiously.

Wang Tao swallowed his saliva, his gaze blank as he stared ahead, unaware of Yan Junze’s expression, and spoke slowly, “According to observers, the girl was indeed hanged from the beam, and her hair had covered her ugly face. Although she was dead, her hair seemed to be continuously growing. Two weeks ago it had passed her shoulders, and upon a later observation, it had grown down to her waist.”

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