My Sister Never Said She Was a Creepy Tale - Chapter 99

Outside the window, vehicles sped past. Yue Yiyue listened to the melodious music by her ear: Pick up quickly, pick up quickly.

Thank goodness… thank goodness she got in this car.

Thank goodness this driver was a chatterbox, and thank goodness she spoke kindly to the other party in the end.

If any small mistake had occurred in any step, she would not have obtained this information.

“Yiyue, what’s wrong? I’m on my way to your place.” Yu An’s voice on the other end was a little noisy—car horns, a bustling crowd, and a shop blaring music.

“Where are you? Can you hurry up and take a taxi over there? I’m going to call a few people to protect you later,” Yue Yiyue hadn’t expected Yu An to leave so quickly, and she was grateful for Yu An’s swift departure.

“Huh?” Yu An hadn’t expected to hear this when answering the phone. She covered the mouthpiece: “My monster radar is beeping wildly. I also feel like something is about to happen, so I left early. I’m almost downstairs at your place now.”

“Who are you calling to help us?” Yu An looked around. Besides an auntie exercising in the corner muttering, “Young girl… Building Three…”

Yue Yiyue clearly heard something about “Building Three” coming from the other side. Just as she was about to listen closely to what the sound was, Yu An’s voice interrupted: “I’m about to enter the elevator now, alright? You be careful yourself.”

Yue Yiyue raised her hand and rubbed her right eye, which was suddenly twitching violently: “Okay, okay, you be careful too.”

Listening to the sound of the machine steadily ascending from the phone, Yue Yiyue gave one more instruction: “The key is on the table. Send me a message when you’ve unlocked the door.”

“I’m at your door. The elevator here is really boring; it doesn’t even have an advertising screen to look at.”

The sound of the door opening was followed by Yu An confirming she had the key and that Gu Nanqiu was still sleeping.

Hearing this, Yue Yiyue finally felt relieved and hung up the phone.

She dialed another number. Ye Qiu’s sleepy voice answered: “Hello? What’s up?”

“Can you contact the forensic doctor right now? Could you ask the forensic doctor to hire some reliable people to protect Gu Nanqiu? Zhou Qingyi, the younger daughter of the Zhou family, has issued a bounty for Gu Nanqiu. I’m very worried about her.”

“Me? I… I don’t need it. I’m very safe right now.” Yue Yiyue looked at the Zhou Corporation building across the street. She had twenty minutes before she needed to go inside.

“Can they rush to Gu Nanqiu’s side within twenty minutes?”

“It’s very troublesome to explain this, but do you trust me?”

A rustling sound came from the other end of the phone, sounding like someone putting on clothes.

A muffled voice came through the phone: “You really are impolite…”

Another yawn: “I’ll take a taxi right over. I’ll contact the person you mentioned later. I should have her contact information, yes.”

“It’s related to Zhou Qingyi? Hmm, then some things seem to make sense.”

“I haven’t been able to reach her sister for a while either.” The sound of a door closing came from Ye Qiu’s side, and the elevator dinged. Yue Yiyue softly acknowledged it. She looked outside. A strange-looking bird flew across the sky, and a commotion arose downstairs. It seemed like some important figure was arriving.

Yue Yiyue took a step back, listening to Ye Qiu’s breathing on the phone, and quietly watched downstairs from behind the curtain.

A car stopped in front of the Zhou Group building. Bodyguards shielded a person wrapped in a large towel and wearing sunglasses, who walked inside with their head down.

Reporters, who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, quickly moved with the person covered in the towel.

Watching their every move being captured by cameras was rather boring.

“Why did you suddenly stop talking?”

Yue Yiyue finally reacted. She gave Ye Qiu a few more instructions, telling her to be safe.

Ye Qiu gave a few perfunctory “Mhms” and started asking about Yue Yiyue’s location, at which point it was Yue Yiyue’s turn to be evasive.

In the end, Yue Yiyue simply said she had some things to attend to and needed to leave now.

Before the other party could react, she hung up the phone and set it to Do Not Disturb.

She looked at the new message that popped up: “Enter through the West Gate, and someone will lead you to me. Thank you. She is the only person I can trust.”

“Remember, do not look directly at anyone wearing white clothing. Something very, very terrifying will happen.”

“We don’t have bodyguards wearing red bow ties here. If you see one, you must run.”

“The red rooms contain mass-produced warped heads and monsters. The white rooms contain new rules. The purple room is safe. If you encounter anything, please go to the purple room.”

“Finally, there are many versions of me here, a lot of me. Those Them wandering outside the rooms are all fake!!!”

Yue Yiyue looked at this information and realized that the person who just entered was not the elder CEO Zhou.

Who was that person?

Zhou Qingyi?

She checked some news websites. The latest news was indeed related to the Zhou Group, as she expected. The clear photos showed a person who was completely covered, so much so that not a single strand of hair was visible. The comments below suggested, “Elder Zhou really looks unwell, perhaps she’s been warped by a monster.”

She was momentarily stunned. Since when did people become so accepting of this?

Everything was normal during the Spring Festival…

Thinking of this, Yue Yiyue paused. She really hadn’t checked any mobile news during the Spring Festival.

When they went out, the others chose the location, and she just followed.

She seemed to have little perception of the outside world.

If the world had silently changed during that time…

Especially those few days after her mother went out, she was paralyzed at home, barely moving.

Yu An had also mentioned a concept: the world is folded…

The phrase “Building Three” flashed in her mind, as well as the sounds she heard when she left home.

When Yu An took the elevator up just now, it seemed there was no announcement.

The last time she heard an announcement was when she delivered food to the rich neighborhood.

Her memory suddenly went back to that time.

The face of the auntie who vaguely gave her directions in her memory gradually overlapped with the face of the auntie she had just seen exercising.

After a moment of unexplained dread, Yue Yiyue pursed her lips. She reassured herself, perhaps she remembered incorrectly. After all, she had been highly abnormal lately—or rather, twenty-percent abnormal.

Forget it. First, I need to confirm whether that person is Zhou Qingyi. I’ll worry about the rest later.

Putting her phone away and returning to her seat, Yue Yiyue looked at the driver apologetically: “I’m sorry, I had a lot of family matters, and they are all taken care of now.”

“I’m going to pay the bill and leave. Please help yourself.”

“I apologize, I happened to overhear your conversation,” the driver called out to Yue Yiyue. She got up and said apologetically: “I just heard you mention ‘Gu’ over the phone…”

“She’s the person Little CEO Zhou is looking for, isn’t she?” the driver asked Yue Yiyue tentatively.

Noticing the look of immediate vigilance in Yue Yiyue’s eyes, the driver shook her head: “I didn’t mean to eavesdrop on your conversation.”

“I was just about to come over and tell you that everything had been served, and I overheard a little bit as I walked by,” the driver clasped her hands together: “I heard they found the medicine, and someone would be bringing it. Is that person you?”

This driver’s mind was very quick, immediately piecing together the whole situation and revealing new information.

Yue Yiyue was somewhat confused about who this driver truly was.

She scrutinized the seemingly ordinary driver in front of her, her vigilance reaching a state of full alert.

“Relax a little,” the driver said, seeing Yue Yiyue’s expression and knowing her guess was close to the truth. She waved her hand: “My name is Gu He (GuˇHeˊ), the Gu from grain and the He from sapling. My grandmother named me hoping I would grow tall and fast like a rice stalk.”

“Hmm, I have a colleague you might know, named the forensic doctor.” As she spoke, she pulled out a brown leather wallet from her pocket and displayed a special bureau identification card.

Yue Yiyue looked at the information on it, and the logo in the corner was the same as what she had previously seen with the forensic doctor.

After sending a message to the forensic doctor, Yue Yiyue checked the time. Only ten minutes were left. She didn’t have much time to waste here.

“What do you want to do?”

Five minutes later, Yue Yiyue was supporting a person wearing sunglasses, a mask, and a large hat covering most of their face, walking toward the agreed-upon location.

As they walked past, a vendor making  suddenly dropped his spatula and shouted a booming announcement: “Oh, I forgot about this! Setting up a stall here is subject to a fine!”

“Hurry and move over there. I think I just saw some flashing lights.”

The vendor apologized while dragging his cart and following Yue Yiyue and Gu He toward the entrance.

Fearing that the person beside her would be discovered by this sudden intrusion, Yue Yiyue quickly walked a few steps ahead and whispered: “Don’t speak when we go in. Cooperate with me. We’ll decide what to do based on the situation.”

Gu He nodded and patted Yue Yiyue’s supporting hand to signal that she had heard.

After walking two more steps, Yue Yiyue asked anxiously: “Did you remember all those rules? If we are attacked and separated, remember to run into the purple door.”

After passing security and entering the door, Yue Yiyue saw a receptionist in a black suit walking toward them.

“Ladies, honored guests of CEO Zhou, the CEO has been waiting for you in the conference room for a long time.” She then gave a strange look to Gu He standing beside them and then lowered her head to look at the information in her hand.

“Excuse me, we may need to verify the situation of this young lady here. This is for the safety of our CEO Zhou.”

Yue Yiyue took out her phone: “The matter has already been discussed with your CEO Zhou. She told us to go straight up. Who are you to question this?”

“CEO Zhou is truly something. She can’t even handle such a small arrangement. I am carrying the medicine and must get to CEO Zhou immediately, or your CEO Zhou will die instantly.”

“The fact that she didn’t come down personally to greet me is truly infuriating.”

Yue Yiyue spoke half-threateningly, half-arrogantly, not slowing her pace for a second, pulling the person inside.

The receptionist blocked Yue Yiyue’s path: “I’m sorry, but please try to understand my position too.”

“Understand you?” Yue Yiyue scoffed, tightening her grip on the hand of the person behind her and rolling her eyes: “Damn it, I still need to go make some money later. Don’t block my path. If I understand you, who understands my four-dollar taxi fare to get here?”

As she spoke, her hand tightened. Gu He appropriately feigned unwillingness, pulling her hand back slightly, revealing a scar on her wrist, and dramatically inhaling a sharp breath, as if enduring some pain.

“Hurry up! I told you, CEO Zhou will give us great rewards, just like you usually do to me. Just a little bit more!”

Yue Yiyue’s volatile voice rang out in the lobby, filled with impatience. The sudden shouting startled the person behind her.

The person wearing the mask moved, seemingly wanting to say something, but Yue Yiyue yelled her back down.

“I told you, once this is done, I’ll marry you when we get back! You just have to be obedient and come once. I’m begging you—”

As these words were uttered, the expressions of the people in the lobby toward Yue Yiyue were indescribable.

A few people silently rolled up their sleeves.

Their eyes looked outside, seemingly having captured something. A group of reporters, holding cameras and microphones, were peering inside. They all looked expectant, waiting for this seemingly extremely volatile person to drop the next bombshell.

The security guards’ faces were dark, and their hands went to the batons on their belts.

The turn of events made the receptionist a little overwhelmed. Her face froze for a moment, then returned to normal the next second. She no longer bothered with verifying anything.

After all, the numerous scars seemed to match what the boss had mentioned. She said with a forced smile: “Please, go inside quickly.”

“We can discuss everything slowly once we are inside…”