Uninvited Guests

Late at night, I was sleeping and suddenly heard the sound of a door closing and locking downstairs.

After a while, there was a slight sound coming from the stairs, and the person was slowly going upstairs.

I quickly got out of bed and hid in the closet, and was horrified to hear the voice find my room very accurately.

At this moment I was quite sure that someone was standing at the door and could break in at any moment.

An hour ago, I ordered a bowl of noodles with soybean paste. There was a line of small words written on the bottom of the takeaway box:

【Be careful tonight. 】

Just four short words, I didn’t pay attention to them at the time, but now when I think of them, I feel a chill down my spine.

I have always lived alone.

And now someone has come in.

Who is that person outside the door?

Why did he enter my house? How did he get in?

Also, what’s with the words written on the bottom of the box?

Countless mysteries swirled in my head. In the silent darkness, I was squeezed in a small space, breathing rapidly and sweating profusely.

I really wanted to call the police, but the situation was urgent and I didn’t have time to grab my phone. Now I could only hide here and wait for death, praying desperately that the man would leave quickly.

It was eerily quiet outside the door.

Just as my heart was beating wildly, I suddenly found a card that looked like a love letter sticking out from the coat next to me. I took it out and saw that it read:

[I know you will hide here, but you will also be killed by him here.]

The small blood-red words almost pierced my eyes, and I felt a “boom” in my head.

Before I could think, the door lock was slowly turned open.

Through the gap in the cabinet, I saw a black shadow slowly walking in.

Just as he turned to close the door, I clearly caught a glimpse of the cold light from his sleeves.

He brought a knife!

What was written on the card was correct, that person really wanted to kill me!

Could it be that the person who left these words had already predicted the disaster that would befall me tonight?

I suddenly thought of something and covered my mouth in horror.

After my parents died in a car accident, I have been staying at home without going out, and I spend most of the day lying in my bedroom playing with my phone.

So, who put the cards in the closet and when did they put them there?

I shuddered at the thought that perhaps a pair of eyes were watching me from inside the closet as I fell asleep at night.

I saw the pair of shoes covered in the plastic bag had walked to the front of the closet.

The air suddenly became quiet.

However, the next second, he suddenly inserted the knife into the gap in the middle of the cabinet!

The closet door was opened by him with a “whoosh”, and clothes were scattered all over the floor. The man was searching frantically. I think he must be feeling very regretful at this moment.

Because when his back was turned, I sneaked out and hid outside the curtain.

I was about to take this opportunity to jump out of the window when I suddenly saw a line of words written on the windowsill:

[Don’t jump, there is his accomplice below, and that person is waiting for you. ]

I looked down tremblingly, and sure enough, a black car that had never appeared before was parked on the side of the road, and the interior of the car was lit.

The villa where I live is in a remote area and there are few people staying around. This line of words did not lie to me.

The man walked over to the bed.

He lowered his head, as if thinking.

Oops.

It suddenly occurred to me that I had just gotten up from the bed and the quilt was still warm. He could tell by touching it that someone had been here not long ago!

A feeling of fear crept into my heart and my head was buzzing.

The unfortunate thing finally happened.

The man laughed softly, his voice sounding a little hoarse:

“I know you’re still here.”

I’m going crazy.

“If it’s not under the bed, then where else could it be…”

The man’s footsteps began to wander around the room, and I knew that in a moment he would find me hiding behind the curtains.

I decided to take a gamble and jump off the building.

Anyway, it’s better than just sitting there and waiting to die.

Judging from the crazy force he used when he pried open the cabinet door just now, a girl like me is no match for him.

Listening to the footsteps gradually approaching me, I closed my eyes.

However, something unexpected happened.

There was a sudden noise from the first floor. The man turned around suddenly and rushed out at an astonishing speed.

My spirit suddenly relaxed, and I gasped for breath. I didn’t dare to relax at all. I rushed to the bed and wanted to get my cell phone to call the police.

But then the damn thing happened and I couldn’t find my phone.

I fumbled around desperately, and suddenly saw a line of small words engraved on the edge of the bed:

【You have been discovered. 】

！！！

I felt a chill down my spine.

I realized something and slowly turned my head.

A dark shadow appeared silently at the door.

The man was wearing a mask and stood motionless like a ghost, with only his two eyes showing as he looked at me.

At this moment, I suddenly rushed towards him madly.

He obviously didn’t expect me to do this. He was caught off guard and staggered by me. The knife in his hand fell over the railing and fell downstairs.

By the time he reacted and chased after me, I had successfully hidden in another room and locked the door.

The horrifying knocking sound seemed to be going to break the door down. I moved everything that could be moved in the room to the door and listened to the noise coming from outside in fear.

I need something to defend myself.

I nervously rummaged through the drawers, but there was nothing inside except cosmetics and some sundries. I gradually collapsed and rushed into the bathroom attached to the bedroom with red eyes.

I turned on the faucet to the highest setting. The sound of water diluted the sound of banging on the door outside. I looked up, only to find that the mirror had been covered with a huge black cloth at some point.

As expected, someone had entered the villa.

The feeling of fear came over me again, and the black cloth wrapped my heart tightly until it suffocated me.

I reached out to tear it off, but soon I discovered the small words embroidered on its edge.

Every time the small words appeared, it was a reminder of my death, and I looked at it in despair.

This time, it read:

【Find a way to hide in the basement for a night. 】

It’s not a warning to me, but a reminder.

After several verifications in the previous times, this line of small words is like a life-saving straw to me at this moment.

I felt like a person who was about to die of thirst and suddenly found a new oasis. I rekindled my hope of life and opened the toilet door.

The knocking sound outside the bedroom door disappeared at some point.

Just as I was thinking about whether to open a crack and take a look, my vision suddenly went dark.

I turned my head.

The man was outside the window, trying to open it and climb up.

The cold seeped into every pore of my body.

I ran out the door quickly, but I didn’t go to the basement.

If I could just run out of the villa, wouldn’t I have a better chance of survival than surrendering in the basement?

What the small note said several times before all came true, but I can’t be sure that every word in it is true.

What kind of prophecy or hint? I don’t believe in these mysterious things from the bottom of my heart.

Maybe the person who wrote these words is in cahoots with the man just now?

The footsteps behind me had already caught up with me, but I had already reached the first floor.

The moment my hand touched the door handle, I felt so excited that I almost cried.

I’m saved! I’m saved!!

But when I opened the door, what I saw was a man also wearing a black mask.

He raised his hand.

The moment I fell, I saw a line of small red words on the door that were particularly eye-catching:

【Don’t open the door.】

There’s no use regretting, I know my death is approaching.

But to my surprise, when I woke up, I found myself tied to a chair on the first floor, and the two men were nowhere to be found.

I successfully freed myself from the rope using the self-rescue methods I had learned online. This time I didn’t dare to rush to escape. I first looked around to see if there were any clues.

Sure enough, on the coffee table not far away, under a tea bowl, there was a line of words written with a carbon pen:

[They are just outside the door, go to the basement quickly. ]

This time I followed its instructions without hesitation.

As soon as you enter the basement, a damp and moldy smell hits you, accompanied by a scent of decay.

The space was small, and it felt like something was rotten, with a faint stench rushing into my nostrils.

I suddenly found a mobile phone on the ground.

It’s a pity that there is no internet, but it’s enough.

I called the police.

“Hey, police, I’m so scared. Two gangsters broke into my house and they want to kill me. Come and save me…”

“Okay, don’t worry, tell us your exact address.”

“My home is at, at…” My mind suddenly went blank.

I was so frightened just now that my mind was in a mess. I stuttered for a long time but couldn’t utter a word. In the end, I could only ask the police to find me through the positioning of my mobile phone.

After I hung up the phone, my heart was still beating uncontrollably. Just as I was walking back and forth frantically, I suddenly noticed that a piece of clothing was exposed next to the weeds not far away.

My breath hitched.

Someone is hiding behind.

The black clothes looked like they were worn by a man, and at the moment he was squatting there motionless, waiting for me to come over.

The content of the words actually deceived me.

Could it be that its intention was to have me tortured and killed here?

At this point I had lost the will to live. There were two men upstairs searching for me, and there was an unknown person hiding in the basement.

I quietly wait for death to come.

But what I expected did not happen. I plucked up the courage to walk over, but found that there was only a coat and a mobile phone behind.

I was slightly stunned.

There was no one behind the weeds, and I felt relieved.

So who is the owner of these clothes and mobile phone?

Could it be one of the two people upstairs?

My intuition tells me this is impossible.

Because the screensaver of this phone is a photo of a man and a woman, both of whom have happy and beautiful smiles on their faces, which is fundamentally different from the two vicious criminals upstairs.

But why is this phone here?

My phone was password-protected and I couldn’t open it. I was wondering why, when out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of the corner of the wall.

Just this one glance, my pupils fluttered.

There was a pool of dark brown blood in the corner of the wall, with a lot of hair tangled on it.

The rope, boning knife, and electric drill were thrown aside and covered only by a layer of weeds.

I suddenly thought of something and tremblingly went to open my coat.

Sure enough, it was full of dried blood stains!

I realized with horror that someone had been murdered in this basement.

The basement of my house was actually the place where a murder took place!

My throat tightened and I immediately squatted on the ground and started retching.

After a while, I heard footsteps outside.

Those two people have found this place.

My heart suddenly rose to my throat.

I am in the basement now, and there is no other way to escape except the door.

Even if I locked the door, as long as they insisted on breaking the lock, it would only be a matter of time before I was caught.

Hint, is there any more hint here? I need a hint to help me!
I turned on the flashlight of my phone, searched around with red eyes, and finally found it in the phone case.

I excitedly put my eyes on it, but what was written inside was:

[Mengmeng, I love you, let’s get married. 】

Each stroke of the ten characters is vigorous and powerful.

All of a sudden, so many memories flooded into my mind that my head almost exploded.

My name is Ye Meng.

That car accident not only took away my parents, but also caused severe brain damage to me. I suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and couldn’t remember many things.

But the moment I saw these words, I suddenly remembered a handsome and gentle face.

It’s Xia An, my boyfriend.

But why is his phone here?

The bloodstains in the corner of the wall pierced my eyes again. I staggered back, covering my mouth and having difficulty breathing.

Xia An, why is your phone here?

The blood in the corner…is it yours?

A suffocating pain lashed my heart fiercely. I seemed to see Xia An lying here covered with bruises, holding tightly in his arms the engagement ring he was going to give me.

He said he would put the ring on my finger with his own hands, he said he would use it to define my life, he said he would never leave me.

I remembered that the night before the car accident, I had blocked Xia An’s contact because I had an argument with him.

Later, when I came out of the hospital, my brain was traumatized and I didn’t remember a lot of things. I never contacted him again.

Could it be that during the time I was in the hospital, he came to my house to find me and was killed?

Xia An, is it your ghost protecting me? Are those words written by you for me?

My tears flowed down.

The great pain is yet to come.

I found a pair of deformed gold-rimmed glasses in the weeds.

The lens was broken, and there was dried blood on it. I could almost imagine what Xia An had gone through in his lifetime.

He must have discovered someone hiding in my house when he came to look for me. After a fight, he was outnumbered and taken to the basement.

The two men brutally murdered him.

My heart breaks when I think about this.

Such a handsome and gentle man, he shouldn’t have died like this.

It’s all the fault of those two bastards outside!

I’m going to make them pay.

A revenge plan quietly began to brew in my mind.

I want to die with them.

I lay in wait quietly, waiting for the footsteps to arrive at the basement door.

Step by step, they finally came down.

I felt the two of them stand still at the door for a moment, and then began to pick the lock.

Their movements were very skillful. After a while, two long shadows were dragged on the ground, and they came in under the cold moonlight.

The belief of revenge for Xia An overcame my fear, and I have never been so calm as I am at this moment.

I raised the boning knife tremblingly. I knew this would be the first time I killed someone in my life, and I knew it would also be the last time.

I waited for them to come toward me.

“Let’s take the car outside back later.”

One of them suddenly spoke.

I was wondering what this meant. Wasn’t the car theirs?

Another person said coldly: “Of course we have to take back the things that have touched human lives, but they are all evidence of crimes.”

I was stunned.

The severe pain came again, and I bit the back of my hand until it bled to control myself from making any sound.

I suddenly remembered the day of the car accident.

On that day, my parents took me to the city to buy things. Our family likes quietness and has always lived in the suburbs. We would go to the city at the beginning of every month to buy daily necessities and relax.

But on that day, it rained heavily. Although it was daytime, everything was dim. My father was driving carefully when he suddenly saw a figure rushing out from the side of the road.

He was a short, fat man with an ugly face. He was soaked by the rain and covered in mud as if he had fallen several times. My father immediately slammed on the brakes, but the tires slipped. He desperately turned the steering wheel and accidentally fell onto the steep slope beside the road…

A huge collision occurred, and my father’s stern shout rang in my ears: “Watch out!” I watched my mother rush towards me and block the flying glass for me.

She opened her eyes wide and slowly reached out to cover my eyes. The mother who had doted on me all my life used her body as the final shield for me.

But what happened next?

Was I discovered and sent to the hospital?

Who discovered me?

It seemed as if something was desperately crashing into the depths of my memory and was about to burst out.

Then, I suddenly heard——

“The couple died on the spot, and their only daughter who was still alive was taken away… Such a heinous crime must be punished by death to appease public anger!”

“In the end, four lives were lost in their hands. One of them just confessed that the other is still hiding in this villa. Oh, this criminal is really brave.”

The two men left after saying this.

My thoughts were still in a state of confusion, and the boning knife in my hand fell down with weakness. I realized belatedly that the two people just now did not seem to be the two who had been chasing me before.

I heard the voice of one of the masked men, and it was hoarse as if it was burned by smoke, but the voices of the two people who spoke just now were clear and steady, which could be said to be pleasant to hear.

The two of them seemed more like policemen.

The police are here!

Great! I’m saved!

I’ll rush out and find them to protect me!

Before I could get excited, everything went dark before my eyes.

A short, fat man with his hat pulled down low stood in front of me.

He was wearing delivery clothes.

It was the delivery guy I met in the evening.

At this moment, he slowly raised his head, and his scarred face looked extremely scary, completely matching the figure in my memory who suddenly rushed towards the road!

It was him, it was he who killed my parents!

It was he and his accomplices who brought me here!

It was he who killed Xia An who came to see me!
He was the culprit behind all this, it was all him!

I hurriedly bent down and tried to pick up the boning knife to protect myself, but a pair of black leather boots stepped on my hand.

My face turned pale and I looked up, only to find that the two men who had just left had returned.

“Nice to meet you.”

One of them sneered at me, his lips moving.

“Mr. Meng Wei.”

Meng Wei.

It’s been a long time since anyone called me by this name.

I slowly raised my head and found a mirror standing in front of me.

“Why are all these mirrors covered with black cloth?” The man looked down at me with a smile on his face. “It turns out that criminals also hate their ugly faces.”

In the mirror, I saw a man in delivery clothes being pressed to the ground in an extremely embarrassed and awkward posture, and two men in police uniforms handcuffed him.

A line of bloody words slowly appeared in the mirror. This time, the five words were particularly large:

【The game is over.】

16. [Meng Wei’s autobiography]

My name is Meng Wei.

Because of my ugly appearance, I had to work very hard to find a job as a delivery man.

The boss’s conditions are: wear a hat and a mask.

He didn’t say it too firmly, but I knew he was afraid that I would scare the customers.

When I was a child, I had a weak constitution and was prone to illness. My mother didn’t understand and listened to the village doctor and gave me a lot of hormones, which made me obese. My height also grew slowly and I was always half a head shorter than my peers.

Even more unfortunate is that when I was six years old, I was helping my family cook and make fire. I was too sleepy and accidentally fell asleep. Sparks flew and splashed on my face. As my family had no money for treatment, I was left with many ugly scars on my face.

I have had no friends since I was a child. My peers hated me when they saw me, and my teachers didn’t like me either. With such a face, it seemed as if all the bad things were related to me. I don’t know how many times I have taken the blame for others.

However, even if good-looking children make mistakes, they will be easily forgiven if they stick out their tongues, act coquettishly and cutely.

Because of my ugly appearance, I can’t even find a decent job.

This is the injustice of the world.

Later, after I started working, I met a friend who, like me, was looked down upon in this world because he had no money or power.

We live humbly and carefully, trying not to be discovered by the world.

有一天，我们外出野游，迷路了，附近只有一座别墅，我们饿到深夜实在捱不住了，所以鼓起勇气去敲门。

A girl who looked like a fairy opened the door.

Her eyes are pure and clear, and her smile is the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life.

She made each of us a bowl of delicious noodles with soybean paste, gave us water to drink, and let us stay overnight at her house.

My friends and I were so excited. No one had ever been so nice to us!

That night, I felt like I would be willing to die for her.

But when we woke up the next day, we found ourselves tied up in the basement.

The hemp rope was tightly around my body, and the drugged food gave me a terrible headache.

In front of us, an angelic-looking girl was standing with her boyfriend, looking at us as if we were commodities.

They are in the organ trafficking business.

“She’s healthy, but she’s too ugly.”

I heard a familiar comment from her rosy lips.

At that moment, the pain in my body was not as great as the pain in my heart.

“Be slaughtered like a pig,” she said happily.

It was because of this incident that I realized for the first time that I hated it so much.

I thought the hand reaching out to me from the abyss was salvation, but I didn’t know it was a vine from the depths of Satan, only to lead me into a deeper swamp.

Later, my friend and I took advantage of their inattention and escaped with a narrow escape.

The matter did not end there. We looked at each other’s hateful eyes and bruised bodies and vowed to take revenge.

She also knew that she had committed an unforgivable sin and had to flee with her parents, so they drove out.

The police also knew what happened next.

I rushed out and caused her family to have a car accident.

I saved her when she was only breathing her last, just to lure her boyfriend over.

Let them die together.

……

As I wrote these words, I was already sobbing and holding my head in deep regret.

“Comrade police officer, I have deeply realized my mistakes. If I can be spared the death penalty, I swear I will spend the rest of my life repenting and being a good person!”

To my surprise, the policeman in front of me remained indifferent from beginning to end.

A sarcastic smile crept up the corners of his mouth again.

“Oh? But I have another version of this story.”

17. Facts

What Meng Wei’s childhood was like is still unknown and requires further investigation.

But what is certain is that the reason he killed people was definitely not what he said.

Meng Wei is a delivery man. Unlike what he said about being bullied in the workplace, he has received care from the whole society.

His boss knew that his family was not well off, so he personally paid for his basic necessities; his colleagues knew that he was short of money, so they introduced him to good job opportunities; he once exceeded the delivery time limit, and at that time he showed his antisocial personality and went to find customers with a knife.

But he didn’t expect that the other party received him very gently and gave him water to drink.

And that unfortunate girl was Ye Meng, the deceased in this case.

Meng Wei fell in love with Ye Meng at first sight and fell deeply in love with her.

He pursued her with extremely perverted and terrifying means. Even after being rejected many times, he refused to give up and kept pestering and harassing her crazily. He even broke the window of Ye Meng’s villa, climbed into her bedroom, and hid in the closet for three whole days.

He stole Ye Meng’s clothes, secretly used her water cup, and fantasized that she could be with him forever.

Just like what he wrote in the memo on his phone:

“When you love someone so deeply, you want to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and bury him completely in your bones.”

Ye Meng was extremely upset, but in order not to worry her parents and to avoid revenge from Meng Wei, the naive girl chose not to tell her parents about the incident, nor did she choose to call the police.

She lived in fear every day of her villa being filled with love letters written by Meng Wei, and finally decided to escape.

But all this had already been discovered by Meng Wei.

Ye Meng finally persuaded her parents to leave, but halfway through the journey, Meng Wei suddenly rushed out.

The Ye couple were killed on the spot, but the dying Ye Meng was found by Meng Wei and dragged back home alive.

The blood on that road has not yet dried.

Meng Wei imprisoned her.

Xia An is Ye Meng’s boyfriend. The cruel Meng Wei used Ye Meng’s mobile phone to send him a message to lure him over, trapped him in the basement, and beat him to death right in front of Ye Meng.

The boy came here with full of hope, thinking that he could be with his beloved forever, but he didn’t expect to die in the basement.

The last words he said before he died were: “Meng Meng, don’t look.”

Just like Mrs. Ye who died protecting her daughter, she used her last bit of strength to cover her eyes.

Ye Meng has always lived in love and protection. She is innocent, kind and simple, but Meng Wei’s intrusion destroyed all of this.

After Meng Wei and his companions killed Ye Meng, Meng Wei gave all the money in the villa to his companions and lived in the villa alone.

Ye Meng’s figure could not be erased from his mind. He lay in the girl’s bed day and night, imagining that she was still by his side… Later, he often had hallucinations, and sometimes even thought that he was Ye Meng.

He himself was disgusted by his extremely ugly body, so he covered all the mirrors in the villa with black cloth.

In other words, the scenes that he imagined that night of being chased by two people were all what he had let Ye Meng experience.

The content of those words was not any hint, but what really happened to Ye Meng.

During the days when Ye Meng was imprisoned, one night, she suddenly woke up and saw that Meng Wei was not there. She hurriedly hid in the closet and prayed desperately that he would leave and let her go.

But she was soon discovered and severely beaten.

The sentence Meng Wei said most often was: “Why did you run away? Why did you leave me? Was it because I was not good to you?”

……

In the end, Ye Meng also died in that basement.

He was tortured before his death and all his hair fell out.

“Meng Wei, you have failed the kindness of this world towards you.”

I was sentenced to death.

The night before my execution, I suddenly wanted to eat a bowl of noodles with soybean paste.

The police were very nice and accommodated my request.

But I was crying while eating it, it was so bitter, it was different, the taste was completely different from what I remembered.

The food she made was a little sweet and very fragrant, not bitter at all. I have never eaten anything so delicious in my life.

I finally realized I could never eat it again.

If I could go back in time, I would say thank you and leave when she handed me the cup of warm water.

Just say thank you.