Day of Imprisonment

A cramped cubicle, a computer monitor covered in sticky notes, the computer date showing today is Monday, July 29th, 7:41 AM.

Luo Xi looked around, a blank expression on his face.

“This is… What’s going on?”

One second ago, a blood-soaked Mao Ge was choking his neck, looking at him with a resentful smile, then snapped his neck. The next second, he was back in his workstation, and everything around him seemed to have returned to normal.

“Is this transmigration, or rebirth? Or perhaps, was I just dozing off and having a dream?”

Luo Xi muttered.

As someone who enjoyed reading web novels, he had always had a wild imagination.

Everything that had happened felt like a dream.

“Wait, maybe it really is a dream!”

Luo Xi picked up his backpack next to him and took out his medicine bottle.

Empty.

At this moment, someone passed by him.

It was Gao Shengjie.

That effeminate guy.

“Lao Gao, Lao Gao.”

Luo Xi quickly stopped him.

“What’s wrong?”

Gao Shengjie turned his head to look at Luo Xi, looking puzzled.

“Do you remember, Mao Ge in the storage room, covered in blood, like a big spider…” Luo Xi said, gesturing with his hands.

“Huh?” Gao Shengjie looked completely bewildered.

“Oh, never mind, it’s nothing, you go ahead.”

“Crazy!” Gao Shengjie rolled his eyes, striking a flirtatious pose.

Luo Xi sat down and rubbed his face.

“I knew it, I’m having another episode. Everything before was a hallucination, or I was just dozing off and having a dream. But this won’t do, I have to call Mom and have her bring the medicine over, otherwise, I don’t know what I’ll see on the way home.”

He took out his phone, found his mom’s number, and dialed it.

“Honestly, you’re so old already and still can’t stop making me worry. I have errands to run too, I don’t have time to bring you medicine.”

“Then, what should I do?”

“Fine, I’ll find a delivery guy to send it over to you. This child… You didn’t see anything strange, did you?”

“No, Mom, don’t worry, I still had one pill just now, I already took it. I was just worried about not having any to take at noon.” Luo Xi, reporting good news and not bad, remembered that he seemed to have said these words before. Last time, it was his mom who called, which made him feel a little dazed.

“Okay, be careful, remember to answer the delivery guy’s call!”

After a round of nagging, she hung up the phone.

Luo Xi rubbed his face, got up to get some water, then go to the bathroom, and wash his face to clear his head.

In the hallway, he ran into Wu Rui walking towards him.

“Morning!” She was wearing a floral dress, with light makeup, showing the unique youthfulness and figure of a woman of her age, with charm and a touch of playfulness.

“Morning!”

Luo Xi responded. He wanted to chat a little more, but Wu Rui had already walked into the women’s locker room like a gust of wind.

Bathroom.

Luo Xi, who had just finished his business, was washing his face. He turned the faucet on to the maximum and splashed the cold water hard on his face.

He liked this feeling of icy stimulation.

The cold water made his mind clearer.

He looked up, and the self in the mirror was grinning strangely.

The problem was that Luo Xi wasn’t smiling. He waved at the mirror, and the self in the mirror gave him the middle finger.

“Sigh, here it comes again!”

Luo Xi sighed.

The him in the mirror looked like a pervert, with a weird smile, just staring at him.

Footsteps sounded outside, and at the same time, the mirror returned to normal.

The half-open door curtain was lifted, and Gao Shengjie, the effeminate guy, walked in.

He didn’t even look at Luo Xi, with one hand behind his back, seemingly in a hurry to use the restroom.

Luo Xi stepped aside, but just as the two were passing each other, Luo Xi suddenly glimpsed in the mirror that the other party was holding a knife in the hand hidden behind his back.

This instantly made Luo Xi feel vigilant.

Which normal person brings a knife to the bathroom?

Sure enough, the vigilance worked, because in the next moment, Gao Shengjie suddenly went crazy and swung the knife to stab, and it was aimed at Luo Xi’s neck.

But the prepared Luo Xi pounced forward before the other party could act, knocking him to the ground.

Perhaps the force was too great, the two collided and fell, and the knife in Gao Shengjie’s hand slipped away.

“Damn, Lao Gao, what are you doing?”

Luo Xi questioned, but Gao Shengjie didn’t say a word, his face gloomy, and he got up to pick up the knife.

Luo Xi was quick-witted and quick-handed, and just as the other party grabbed the knife, he knocked him down again.

The two wrestled together.

At this moment, one side was holding a knife, but the wrist was firmly grasped by the other side, and the two sides began to compete for strength.

“Lao Gao, are you sick? Why are you stabbing me with a knife?” Luo Xi had the upper hand in strength, not because he was so strong, but because the other party was thin and weak, and not as strong as him.

“Luo Xi, what are you pretending for? Hehe, it’s already like this, either you die or I die, I’m just striking first.”

Gao Shengjie gritted his teeth and glared, his neck veins bulging, his expression extremely ferocious, grabbing the knife with both hands, adjusting the angle of the blade, aiming at Luo Xi.

However, Luo Xi held his wrist tightly, and for a while, they could only stalemate.

They didn’t notice that someone walked in quickly from outside the bathroom, holding a pen in reverse, and without any hesitation, directly and fiercely stabbed it into Gao Shengjie’s eye socket.

Pfft.

Blood spurted out, and Luo Xi could even see the details of Lao Gao’s eyeball being pierced and squeezed by the pen tip at close range.

The person who attacked was extremely decisive and precise, and more than half of the pen shaft was directly inserted, and then he slapped it hard with his palm, and the entire pen was completely submerged. Lao Gao stiffened like he was electrocuted, didn’t even scream, trembled, and then stopped moving. The strength in his hand was also completely gone, and the knife fell to the ground.

Luo Xi gasped for breath, first looked at the knife on the ground, then looked up.

Opposite him, Wu Rui was also looking at him.

How could it be her?

"Fuck you, you idiot, what are you looking at? Believe it or not, I'll gouge your eyeballs out."

With this wild curse, the image of a sweet and innocent girl instantly collapsed in Luo Xi's mind.

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Old Gao is sick, and this Wu Rui is clearly not normal either.

"Still looking? What are you standing there for? Hurry, drag the body to the partition inside. You drag, I'll wipe the blood. It'll be troublesome if people come in and see."

Wu Rui was like a professional killer at this moment, as if she had just killed a chicken instead of a person.

She tore off a lot of toilet paper and began to wipe the blood stains on the ground.

She glanced outside from time to time, probably afraid of others coming in.

Luo Xi hesitated slightly, but still dragged Old Gao's body to the innermost partition of the toilet, then posed the body to sit on the toilet. After looking at it, he crossed Old Gao's legs, so even if someone looked down, they wouldn't see his legs.

"Old Gao, it's not my fault, Wu Rui did it. Besides, if you hadn't tried to kill me first, it wouldn't have ended up like this... Why did you go crazy?"

Luo Xi muttered to the corpse.

He even bowed.

On the toilet, Old Gao's eyes were wide open in death, a pen stuck in his eye socket.

Going outside, Luo Xi saw that Wu Rui had already wiped the blood stains on the ground.

She was very efficient, as if it wasn't the first time she had done something like this.

Looking closely, the knife that Luo Xi dropped on the ground earlier was now in the woman's hand. She held this obviously combat-style dagger, seemingly contemplating something.

"You-" Luo Xi just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by her.

"Hurry up and wash your hands clean!" Wu Rui looked at her watch, frowned, and muttered in a low voice, 'Not enough time'.

Immediately afterwards, she hid the knife in her lower back, then grabbed a large wad of blood-stained toilet paper, quickly walked into the innermost partition where the body was, closed the door, and there was a rustling sound inside, as if she was groping the corpse. Then, the sound of locking could be heard, and finally she climbed out from above the partition.

Her movements were agile, crisp, and neat.

Locking the door from the inside had the advantage of not having to worry about Old Gao's body being discovered in a short time.

Luo Xi stared blankly. Wu Rui walked over at this time, with a ferocious look on her face, and said: "Go do what you need to do, pretend you don't know anything. You better be smart, or you'll be the next one to die."

After saying that, she quickly left, leaving Luo Xi with a head full of question marks.

Back at his workstation, Luo Xi looked at Wu Rui in the next partition from time to time, and found that she was wearing headphones and listening to customers' calls very seriously.

There was nothing unusual about her.

She was smiling, and her smile was still very sweet, but in Luo Xi's eyes, this smile was different from the past.

"So, is all this real, or is it just my illusion?"

Luo Xi was a little confused and unable to judge.

Because nothing similar had happened in the past.

There was also a mirror on the workstation.

The mirror read: Have you smiled today?

This was obviously a kind of psychological suggestion. For the job of answering customer calls, the mentality was very important. The meaning of the mirror on the workstation was to remind the staff to maintain a good attitude and be optimistic.

But at this moment, Luo Xi found that the 'self' in the mirror had a sneer on his face, as if mocking him.

Similar situations were commonplace in the past when he hadn't taken his medication.

Luo Xi had long been accustomed to it.

"Idiot, you should have struck first and killed that woman."

The 'Luo Xi' in the mirror said at this time, with a tone of disappointment.

"Get out of here, don't bother me," Luo Xi said in a low voice.

He tried not to look at the mirror.

But the other party's voice could still be heard in his ears.

"Calling you an idiot is an exaggeration. Anyone with half a brain knows that the situation is not right. Think about it, last time when Brother Mao suddenly turned into a zombie, the other women were so scared that they wet their pants, but that Wu Rui was still able to pull you away. Doesn't it seem strange that she wasn't very scared?"

"..."

Luo Xi thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

The 'Luo Xi' in the mirror seemed to see that the other party was a little tempted, and hurriedly said: "Last time, we were strangled to death by Brother Mao, but after a daze, everything seemed to return to the starting point where nothing had happened. You thought it was an illusion, but how do you explain the girl killing someone just now? Also, Old Gao was fine, why did he want to kill you for no reason? Have you never thought about it, aren't you curious? This is obviously a problem, very wrong, very wrong..."

"This..." Luo Xi had of course thought about it, but all of this had a premise, that is, what happened was not an illusion. If it was an illusion, then there was no need to explore it.

"Waste, you are really a waste. Do you think all this is an illusion? Is it because you didn't take your medicine, so it's like this?"

"Isn't it?"

"How about we assume that if all this is not an illusion, do you still think it's normal?"

"Of course it's not normal."

"If it's not normal, what would you do?"

"Find out the truth!"

"That's right... Remember, find out the truth. If you kill me again, I'll have to call you an idiot again!"

Luo Xi wanted to say something, but found that the 'self' in the mirror had returned to normal.

At the same time, Wu Rui next door leaned over, with a strange coldness in her eyes.

"What were you muttering to yourself just now?"

"Nothing, I was on the phone," Luo Xi pointed to the headset microphone.