Chapter 18
A strange woman's figure appeared in the bathroom mirror, but outside the mirror, there was nothing behind Xu San.
The style of the comic suddenly changes in the second half, moving towards the supernatural.
Xu San wanted to turn around to see if there was really someone standing behind him, but his neck seemed rusty and he couldn't turn it. The woman in the mirror suddenly burst into flames, her skin and flesh singed.
Blackened, smoking hands grabbed at the back of his neck. He tried to escape, but his body was frozen and he couldn't move. He watched helplessly as two hands like burning charcoal grabbed his neck from behind, his skin sizzling with heat, and the flames spread to his body.
His entire body was engulfed in flames, he screamed miserably, his skin blackened and cracked, his fingers charred, his broken lips revealing his teeth...
Xu San yelled and sat up from the bed, looking down at his hands, sweat dripping. It turned out to be a dream.
"Damn it!" Xu San's eyes were swollen from drinking. He angrily held a cigarette in his mouth, pushed aside a beer bottle on the bedside table, and found a silver lighter with a tiger head pattern. "It's all because of that crappy news. It gave me a nightmare!"
"So what if they found a body? It's been five years, and everything that needs to be burned has been burned to ashes. I don't believe the police can find anything else!"
A flame shot out of the lighter and he moved it towards the cigarette.
"Whoosh..." A gust of black, smoky wind blew from behind my head. The flame of the lighter went out.
Fight again and destroy again.
The third time, Xu San suddenly realized that something was wrong.
His eyes slowly turned and looked behind him. A figure seemed to be floating behind him. He had short hair and wore black-framed glasses.
He turned suddenly and fell off the edge of the bed onto the floor covered with beer bottles.
There is nothing behind me.
"Damn it, I scared myself..."
Xu San got up, put on his coat and walked out, looking annoyed.
A small hand grabbed the hem of his trousers. He screamed in fear and kicked out.
"dad……"
It turned out to be Xixi. The child was kicked and rolled out, lying on the ground in pain.
"Why did you suddenly show up!" Xu San was furious.
"Xixi is hungry..."
"Aren't there cookies in the kitchen? Go help yourself!"
Xixi crawled weakly toward the kitchen, like a sick puppy. Xu San, his steps swaying with alcohol, walked out the door and down the stairs without looking back. It was pitch black outside.
Xu San walked into a dark alley. "Now that I've made some money, I have to have some fun. Let's go gamble a few more times. I'm sure I can turn the tables tonight..."
He suddenly stopped and looked up.
The alley seemed like a tunnel with no end. In the deep darkness, the figure of a woman wearing black-framed glasses was faintly standing there.
"Feng...Prison Captain Feng..." Xu San's eyes bulged out, and his teeth chattered. "No, you're already dead!"
Snap! He slapped himself hard: "I must be having a nightmare again!"
Fingerprints appeared on his cheeks, and he looked forward. He was stunned and muttered, "What is this place?"
The alley has turned into a corridor.
The white walls were painted with peeling paint, and identical wooden doors were lined up on both sides.
Xu San looked around in shock. "This is... the corridor on the third floor of the base! How did I get back here?"
In the shadows, Teacher Feng's body gradually began to burn. Suddenly, with a whoosh, she instantly moved in front of him, her torn clothes emitting flickering flames, and her eyes, like holes flowing with magma, stared at him from very close to his nose!
Xu San was so frightened that he froze, his teeth chattering, and his eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.
Black smoke and sparks came out from between Teacher Feng's open lips, and he uttered a hoarse voice: "Is that you..."
"It's not me!" Xu Sanda yelled and turned around and ran away.
But they were blocked by an iron gate. Next to the gate was a sign: "Girls' Dormitory Area".
"Help!" Xu San shook the fence desperately, making a rustling sound, but he couldn't move the big lock on the door at all.
"Is that you..." Teacher Feng left black, gray, and charcoal footprints, approaching behind him.
Xu San slid to the ground, leaning against the iron bars and holding his head: "Teacher Feng, spare me, I was wrong!"
Teacher Feng pointed a black finger at him: "Where did you go wrong?"
Xu San closed his eyes in fear: "That night I knocked you out and stuffed you into the toilet cubicle..."
"Then what?"
"The next day, after the police arrived... I poured gasoline all over you, lit a cigarette, and put it between your fingers. I knew you didn't have the strength to put it out and it would fall and ignite the gasoline.
"Then I carried the bucket of oil and poured it all over the corridor... Finally, I locked the iron gate, ran downstairs, and told the police that you poured oil and set fire to the building..."
Accompanied by Xu San's lines, the comic uses a flashback style to depict the events frame by frame, briefly outlining the course of events.
But there is also a depiction of details.
For example, the silver tiger-head lighter that Xu San used to light his cigarette.
For example, it clearly depicts Teacher Feng lying in the cubicle. There is a deep dent on the side of her head, and blood covers half of her face and soaks her shoulders.
Her eyes were slightly open, looking down at the burning cigarette butt between her fingers. She was breathing hard, blood foaming at her mouth. She seemed to want to say something, but no sound came out.
She tried her best to control her fingers and try to put out the cigarette.
His trembling fingers couldn't hold the cigarette, and the burning butt fell into the gasoline under his palm.
The roar of flames filled the picture... The memory ended.
"I was wrong, I was wrong, Teacher Feng!" Xu San held his head and begged for mercy.
"Why..." Teacher Feng's burned and broken hands grabbed his hair and forced him to raise his head. His terrifying face looked down at him.
Xu San collapsed and screamed, "Why?! Do you think I want to kill you? Who told you to meddle in other people's business? What does Qiu Yue have to do with you? You're courting death!"
His anger gradually overwhelmed his fear, and he roared, "You damned old woman, you've ruined me. You've made me a murderer! You've made me lose interest in the college entrance exam, and I failed and ended up in a junior college! You've ruined my future, ruined my life, you..."
He suddenly felt something and raised his hand: "What is this?" His hand was wet.
There was a large pool of liquid on the ground where he sat.
"It's gasoline!" His face changed drastically. He grabbed the iron fence and shook it desperately, "Help!"
Teacher Feng let go of his hair, stretched out his other hand, and between his blackened fingers, a burning cigarette appeared, which he handed to Xu San.
Xu San dodged in fear: "No..."
Teacher Feng's hoarse voice swirled like a curse. "Go to hell." She loosened her fingers.
The cigarette fell into the gasoline, and the flames suddenly wrapped around the two of them. The thick smoke seemed to overflow the screen. Xu San's blackened figure struggled and screamed in the flames. Teacher Feng also stood in the fire, looking down motionlessly, with a grin on his dark face.
In the next frame, the flames and smoke gradually dissipated, and Xu San's carbonized body curled up at the foot of the wall. Teacher Feng walked away in the swirling smoke. The vague figure had intact skin and hair, suggesting that his great revenge had been achieved and he had been liberated.
The camera zoomed out, revealing only a curled-up, charred corpse.
The environment changed again in the smoke, and the illusion of the corridor in the Zangmo base disappeared, returning to the previous alley.
The sixth episode, "Fire," comes to an end, with the caption "To be continued..."
Before Chang Ting could recover from the bizarre plot, someone suddenly patted his shoulder from behind, and he jumped up from his chair.
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