Serial Player
Chapter 426 - 102: Are You Afraid?

Chapter 426: Chapter 102: Are You Afraid?

Henan Zhongzhou City.

In a residential area in the suburbs.

Li Yao, who entered the elevator, couldn’t help but show a disappointed expression.

She had just found out through a phone call that her parents wouldn’t be coming home tonight. They still had work to do, so they had to stay downtown.

The rare winter vacation had been mostly occupied by cram school, and her police officer parents didn’t spend a lot of time at home.

This made Li Yao a little disappointed, but she, who had been mature since childhood, didn’t complain.

She just prayed that her parents’ work would go smoothly and that they would be extra careful.

Compared to her parents, who were tirelessly searching for criminals with twisted worldviews, her only problem was not having anyone to accompany her, which was nothing.

"If only they could catch the criminal soon," Li Yao prayed in her heart.

As the elevator doors slowly closed, Li Yao suddenly saw a pale hand reaching into the elevator door crack.

The elevator doors, which were about to close, reopened.

A man wearing a black hoodie and a mask appeared outside the elevator.

He was carrying a translucent plastic bag, which seemed to contain a freshly killed fish, with the bright red blood filling the bottom of the bag.

Seeing that someone was entering the elevator, Li Yao unconsciously stepped back to make room.

But when the man entered the elevator and the elevator doors fully closed, Li Yao vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

Facing the elevator door, she could see the scene behind her in the smooth elevator wall.

After entering the elevator, the man hadn’t pressed any floor button but just stared silently at Li Yao’s back, as if evaluating her.

Li Yao’s heart tightened, she knew her neighbors in the building, but she had never seen this man before.

Eliminating the possibility that he was going to her floor, he must have another purpose!

At the same time, Li Yao saw clearly that the plastic bag in the man’s hand did not contain a freshly killed fish, but a black weapon nearly 30 centimeters long!

Weapons, masks, Li Yao’s heart trembled. She remembered the criminal her parents had talked about at dinner.

He was a psychopath who specialized in attacking young women in remote corners. Each victim was stabbed to death from behind with a 20-centimeter-long weapon, dying a tragic death.

The victims had already reached their doorsteps, but they still couldn’t escape.

Although the victims cried and shouted for help outside the door, their family members didn’t hear any movement inside.

"According to analysis, the murderer likes to show off and finds pleasure in the victim’s painful struggle. He has a typical sadistic mind. He also has some anti-investigation techniques; all we know is that he wears a mask when committing crimes."

Was this man the killer her parents were chasing?

But wasn’t he active in the downtown area?

Her heart started beating faster, and her legs felt weak.

Li Yao, forcibly suppressing her fear, stealthily pressed her phone in her hand.

When the man entered the elevator, he emitted a very uncomfortable aura; it felt as if a rotten smell was filling Li Yao’s nostrils.

Although she had blocked his line of sight with her body, he let out a creepy laugh after Li Yao pressed her phone.

"Are you scared?"

The voice was weird and androgynous.

At the same time, Li Yao saw in the mirror on the wall that he had removed his mask.

For a moment, Li Yao’s tensed nerves seemed to snap.

It was a horrifying face, covered with knife scars and burn marks. It seemed as if pus was oozing from the wounds.

Li Yao didn’t respond. Facing a psychotic killer, anything she said might provoke him.

She quickly pressed the emergency call button in the elevator.

As long as the property staff saw her, there was a possibility of being rescued.

Unfortunately, no one responded, and only the noisy electric current echoed in the elevator.

"Are you scared?" The man asked again, raising the plastic bag and reaching his hand inside.

"Afraid of my face?"

Li Yao, who was getting desperate, didn’t know how to respond.

The phone had no signal, and the emergency call button received no response.

Li Yao didn’t give up and quickly pressed other floor buttons, as she remembered that some residents liked to smoke on the corridor balconies.

If she could encounter them, she still had hope to survive.

But it seemed as though all the elevator buttons had malfunctioned.

Only the ’17’ button, corresponding to Li Yao’s floor, remained lit.

As the elevator slowly ascended, Li Yao’s heart sank deeper and deeper.

She knew she was heading toward hell.

Resist? There were rumors that one of the victims was a taekwondo champion.

Escape? Could she really?

Get to her door before him?

Those victims might have died at their doorstep because of such thoughts.

"Am I going to die?"

Li Yao remained silent, tears blurring her vision.

She then turned, her voice trembling but resolute, "My parents will definitely catch you!"

The man grinned, his terrifying face even more sinister.

"They... always say that. I really want to see the look on their faces when they discover their daughter’s skin peeled off." A monstrous man.

’Ding dong’

The elevator came to a stop.

Li Yao knew she had arrived at her floor, but she didn’t turn around.

She knew that as soon as she did, she would satisfy the twisted serial killer’s interest.

If he wanted to see his prey struggle in pain, she would not give him that satisfaction.

But in the next second, she saw the man’s astonished expression.

An astonished look on the monstrous man’s face meant he either saw an agent of justice or...

An even bigger monster!

"Well, this is quite a lively scene." Another voice came from outside the elevator.

Before Li Yao could react, she was pulled out of the elevator.

It was a handsome young man with short curly hair.

He spoke softly, "Don’t cry, go home early. Your parents will be back soon."

Li Yao looked at the young man’s face, feeling somewhat familiar.

The young man’s accent brought a strange sense of closeness to Li Yao. She had lived in that place before.

Human memory is unreliable, like a worn-out hard drive that’s easily wiped. Events of the past are like drawings on the sand - time passes, memories blur, and eventually everything becomes indistinguishable. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t recall any memories of the young man.

Before she had a chance to react, the young man entered the elevator.

...

Feeling the elevator doors closing behind him, He Feng looked at the man before him.

Killing intent surged!

"Wait! I can provide all the equipment and game coins! I can even help..." The man leaned back against the elevator wall, looking as though he would rather fall down the elevator shaft than stay here.

Unfortunately, this was his chosen hunting ground. One that led straight to hell, where he should have been enjoying the cries and pleas of his prey.

But now, he had become the prey.

Feeling the pressure from the boy, the man quickly offered his services.

He would rather become a tool for the [Player Organizations], providing all the game coins and equipment.

This was the biggest bargaining chip a [Player] could offer.

Countless individual [Players] had racked their brains to avoid such a fate, but he was now begging for it.

Become a tool, become a slave - as long as he could stay alive, he wanted to live!

"No, you can’t have anything." He Feng interrupted him, his expression indifferent, yet seeming to burn with some kind of flame.

"Are you scared?"

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