At twelve o'clock midnight, two girls in the opposite dormitory were chatting loudly.
The sound insulation effect of the dormitory building was very poor. My roommate and I were disturbed every night and couldn't sleep well.
This day, we couldn't bear it anymore and went to knock on the door of the opposite dormitory.
The next day, they both died.
It was said that their mouths were sewn up and covered in blood and flesh!
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At twelve o'clock midnight, two figures appeared in the bright corridor.
They were wearing slippers and pajamas, with disheveled hair, one hand on their hips and the other knocking on the door of the opposite dormitory.
After a while, the door was opened.
Half of a face could be vaguely seen from inside.
They gestured and started a conversation.
The emotions on their faces were not very clear, but the overall atmosphere wasn't harmonious.
After chatting for about five minutes, the two people outside the door turned around and went back to their dormitory.
The footage captured by the surveillance camera in the dormitory corridor only showed these.
I was in an interrogation room right now.
"So, it means that only you and your roommate Chloe Lewis saw the deceased last night."
The person speaking was a middle-aged man in his forties, with gentle eyebrows and eyes. They all call him Caleb.
I held the tea he handed me and watched the surveillance silently.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Caleb continued to ask, "What did you talk about at that time?"
After hesitating for a moment, I finally spoke slowly, "Officer Foster, you should ask my roommate about these things."
Then, Caleb said calmly, "She is right next door to you now!"
I unconsciously looked at the wall beside me, and my heart skipped a beat.
Caleb seemed to sense something and asked excitedly, "Are you saying that it was your roommate who killed them?"
"No!" I immediately retorted, "I mean, my roommate is not human!"
Upon hearing this, Caleb's expression instantly twisted, and he probably thought I was crazy.
After a moment of silence, Caleb spoke again, "Jovie Davis, I hope you can cooperate with us."
I guessed that he would say that. The absurd claim of a supernatural being would never be believed, especially in front of the police.
Caleb continued. "Jovie, do you know what we found at the crime scene?
"A pink stapler!"
I suddenly realized that she used my stapler to kill them!
I stared at Caleb in a daze, and he continued. "But it's strange that we didn't find any fingerprints on the stapler.
"And why did the killer deliberately staple the victims' mouths after strangling them?"
I looked up and asked Caleb meaningfully, "Officer Foster, is it possible that the killer bound the mouth first and then strangled the person?"
Caleb looked at me in astonishment. "If the victims were still alive when their mouths were bound, why didn't they call for help?"
I lowered my head in silence, unable to help but think of the screams coming from the opposite dormitory last night.
They were clearly resounding through the sky, but it seemed like I was the only one who could hear them.
"Officer Foster, aren't you curious about how the killer entered the opposite dormitory? Why didn't the surveillance capture the killer?
"Or maybe it did capture them, but you just didn't notice!"
Upon hearing this, Caleb suddenly became interested. He put down the pen he was using to take notes and looked at me puzzled. "Jovie, what do you want to say?"
I took a sip of tea, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of my mouth. "Officer Foster, as I said, you should focus your investigation on my roommate."
Because my roommate, Chloe, was not human!
I could hardly remember when I discovered this thing!
Chloe and I used to have a good relationship. We were in our second year of graduate school and lived in a double room in the graduate student apartment.
So most of the time, we were together.
The close relationship in daily life made it easy for me to notice her abnormality.
Chapter 2She was a typical love-brained person. Once she entered a state of love, she would completely lose herself.
In my impression, she had only had one relationship, which lasted for six years. They were very close.
Her first love was also from our school. I met him twice. He was a clean and good-looking boy.
Just when I thought they were about to meet each other's parents, they suddenly broke up.
Now that I thought about it, it seemed that Chloe's personality changed a lot from that time.
At first, I thought she was just temporarily affected by the aftermath of the breakup, but as time went on, she became more and more abnormal.
I often woke up in the middle of the night and found her standing alone on the balcony, muttering something like a spell.
The next day when I asked her, she seemed to have completely forgotten and said she might have been sleepwalking.
But do sleepwalkers rotate their heads 180 degrees?
I didn't dare to tell her directly because at that time Chloe seemed unaware of her abnormality.
Until that evening, she brought a box of boneless chicken feet from outside the school.
That was originally our favorite food, but after that night,I had psychological shadow for chicken feet.
At the beginning, everything was normal.
There was a Korean drama playing on the computer, and Chloe and I sat on the foam cushion, blowing the fan and eating chicken feet.
Since we couldn't understand Korean, we could only stare at the subtitles with our eyes wide open. I didn't even notice that something was gradually increasing next to the computer.
It wasn't until the Korean drama ended that my gaze finally fell on the trash bag next to the computer.
I couldn't help but wonder why there were so many chewed bones inside.
Then, I slowly smelled the nauseating smell of rust in the air.
At that moment, Chloe next to me suddenly turned her head and her mouth was covered in blood.
I was so scared that I kept stepping back, unable to shout, and could only stare at her in shock.
From that moment on, I began to realize the horror of the situation.
How could someone bite their own hand without feeling any pain?
How could someone's half arm be restored to its original state the next day?
All of this implied that my roommate, Chloe, was not human.
As a graduate student who had studied for more than 20 years, I knew that no one would believe such strange things even I told others.
So at first, I remained silent. But what I didn't expect was that since Chloe became aware of her abnormality, her temper became more and more violent.
She looked fierce, and I felt like she could kill me in the next second.
"Officer Foster, if one day I die, maybe I will be buried by the white bridge behind the library," in the interrogation room, I spoke expressionlessly.
Caleb stared at me thoughtfully for a while. "Jovie, you can speak your mind, there is no one else here."
I helplessly smiled. "I told you, but you didn't believe me.
"By the way, I heard that a boy from our school went missing recently. I think he must have been killed.
"I just don't know where he was buried." I held the cold tea in my hands and took another sip.
Caleb frowned and looked at me for a while, then finally went out.
If he personally discovered something, would he start to believe me?
Chapter 3It seemed like a long time had passed, and I didn't know how many times the tea in my cup had been refilled, when Officer Foster returned in a hurry.
He looked serious and sat on the chair for a while before speaking. "We dug out a highly decomposed body of a boy by the white bridge behind the library.
"The time of death is about a month ago, and the specific cause of death cannot be determined.
"But through preliminary examination, no obvious fatal injuries were found."
As Caleb said this, he looked at me meaningfully and said, "Jovie, tell us everything you know."
I struggled for a moment and asked him in a complicated tone, "Did Chloe next door say anything?"
Caleb unexpectedly fell silent, and after a while, he spoke, "The strange thing is, what Chloe said is exactly the same as what you said."
I was instantly stunned, as if a bucket of cold water was poured over me from head to toe.
"But I think what you said is more credible!"
"Why?" I asked Caleb in surprise.
"Because there is fear in your eyes, as if you have truly witnessed something unimaginable."
I looked at Caleb in confusion. This reason seemed too hasty for the police.
However, Caleb didn't think so and changed the subject, saying, "That completely disfigured body is the boy who went missing a few days ago, named Enzo Jones. You should have seen him, right?"
Before he disappeared, I had met Enzo twice. He was a clean and pleasant-looking boy.
I nodded and said, "He was Chloe's first love."
"So, it was Chloe who killed Enzo that night and buried him on the spot, right?"
I nodded again, but Caleb suddenly burst into laughter and said, "How did you two manage to say exactly the same thing in every sentence?"
I helplessly lowered my head, knowing well in advance that Chloe would be the first to complain.
Fortunately, I was well prepared in advance!
After all, since the day I discovered her abnormality, I had been following her.
I took out my phone and handed it to Caleb. "Officer Foster, this is my evidence."
There was a video secretly recorded in my phone.
It was a full moon that day, and the moon was particularly round.
Although the image quality of the video was a bit blurry, you could tell at a glance that they were Chloe and Enzo.
They were sitting on the armchair by the white bridge, chatting happily.
But suddenly, the smile on Enzo's face froze instantly. His eyes widened, as if he was about to fall out in the next second.
He covered his chest in pain, watching the girl's body in front of him being torn apart.
In the video, Chloe was holding her own head, braiding her hair into a twisted braid.
I remembered Chloe said before that Enzo loved to watch her braid her hair into a twisted braid the most!
Caleb watched the video incredulously, his face suddenly turned pale with shock, and he could hardly speak.
I spoke first, "Officer Foster, if you think the video is fake, you can take it for authentication."
"Could it be that Enzo was scared to death?" Caleb's voice sounded a bit trembling.
"Enzo has congenital heart disease, and only Chloe knows about it."
Caleb gasped heavily, his eyes panicked as he kept scratching his head.
I stared at him motionlessly, feeling the shattered worldview that I had experienced before.
"Why did Chloe kill Enzo? And is she a human or a ghost?" After a moment of confusion, Caleb finally asked me.
Instead of directly answering Caleb's question, I told him a true and bizarre story.
I explained to Caleb in advance, "That this story is beyond reason. If you don't believe it, just treat it as a story."
Chapter 4The protagonists of the story were Chloe, Jovie, and Enzo.
Chloe had a first love boyfriend named Enzo.
They had been in love for six years, and just when everyone thought they were going to settle down, something unexpected happened.
Chloe got pregnant.
She eagerly went to find Enzo, thinking that this would accelerate their progress.
But she didn't expect that this sudden news would completely unmask Enzo.
Yes, Enzo had fallen out of love long ago.
He asked Chloe to have an abortion, saying that he already had someone else in his heart.
As a hopeless romantic, Chloe naturally disagreed.
She kept it a secret from her parents and took a long leave from her mentor, renting a room outside of school.
And so, her belly grew day by day.
She told Jovie that as long as she gave birth to this child, she could keep Enzo.
Jovie couldn't stand it anymore and went to find Enzo, hoping he would change his mind.
That day, Enzo went to Chloe's rental house.
It was also that day that Chloe seemed like a different person.
She crazily pounded her own stomach, and the child she had been longing for suddenly became a demon that wanted to kill her.
Jovie desperately tried to stop her and kept asking her why.
"Because Enzo is a pervert! He's not human!" Chloe lay on the bed, crying and shouting at Jovie.
Jovie stood still, not knowing what had happened, and could only silently accompany her roommate.
Chloe cried heavily, and it was a long time before she spoke with a lifeless face, "The child in my stomach is not Enzo's!"
That night, Jovie learned the truth. This devil Enzo actually took advantage of his girlfriend being drunk and offered her to someone else.
It was a disgusting transaction. It was fun for them to swap girlfriends and seek excitement.
It was that night that Chloe received a strange message on a dark forum.
Chloe and Jovie shared a common hobby, which was to like strange stories and some ancient legends.
That dark forum was specifically for discussing these things.
The message was sent by a stranger. Because everyone had hidden their real identities, there was no way to find any information about each other.
There was a strange link in the dialogue box.
Chloe clicked on it and looked at it repeatedly for a long time.
She felt that this was a compensation from heaven, because the link contained the occult arts to regain a new life.
As long as she recited the spell at midnight, she could regain a new life.
Chloe actually believed such an outrageous statement.
She regarded it as a life-saving straw and practiced the spell every day.
Until one day, Jovie came to the rental house and found that Chloe's big belly had deflated...
Chloe was bouncing and jumping, looking completely unlike someone who had been pregnant.
At that moment, Jovie suddenly realized that the occult arts might be real.
Chloe actually used the child in her belly as a price to exchange for her own rebirth...
"So, Chloe became like this because of the occult arts?" Caleb asked me incredulously.
I nodded and said, "I don't know if she's human or a ghost... She killed Enzo... Actually, I can understand.
"But slowly, she became more and more out of control... She became more and more irritable, and she would kill anyone who made her angry.
"The two girls in the opposite dormitory were too noisy and disturbed her rest, so she had the intention to kill them.
"I'm really afraid that one day... she will lose control and kill me."