Chapter 13: The Bride of the Eerie King (13)

“If you ask me who hates me, I think I know who it is.”
Tang Mu parted her lips and uttered a name. “Wang Qing.”
“What a wretched person,” Xue Fen balled his small fists in irritation. “To sabotage people like this, she can get rid of two competitors at once. Absolutely vile.”
“It’s fine, there are still three beds left,” Tang Mu pointed at the remaining beds. “Let’s see what that Silent One monster is all about, then we’ll settle accounts with Wang Qing!”
As she spoke, Tang Mu licked her lips, her eyes fierce. “I just hope Wang Qing is still alive by then.”

She checked the time.
22:42.
The corridor on the second floor was dead silent, everyone hiding away in their rooms.
Xue Fen and Joseph had already curled up together on the narrow cot, silently awaiting the Silent One’s attack.
But Tang Mu was not yet resting.
She laid out all her remaining tools and waited by the door for the arrival of this new monster.
22:59.
One minute left.
…
The final ten seconds.
One second.
“Ah!”
No one knew which room the shriek came from, but it was easily over a hundred decibels.
At once, chaos erupted in that room.
“Don’t eat me, please, don’t—”
“Aaaah!”
The screams, the thud of something heavy hitting the floor, and the grisly sounds of flesh being chewed.
No one knew exactly what was happening in there. But it was nothing good, that much was certain.
“Tang Mu, sis.” Xue Fen mouthed words to her, gesturing anxiously at the bed. “Quick, get on the bed.”
“You two get in first,” Tang Mu mouthed back, “I’m waiting for the monster.”
Xue Fen was full of questions.
Everyone else was terrified, doing everything to avoid direct contact with the monster. Why did Tang Mu seem almost excited, as if she feared the thing wouldn’t show up?
The Silent One didn’t keep her waiting long.
“Hee hee hee~”
It appeared as a child—if one could even call this a “thing.”
“Would you look at that, someone’s not afraid of me, not staying quietly in their coffin~”
Two braids hung from its head.
It wore a treetop-green school uniform, a pale green plaid skirt, and rubber bands shaped like light-colored stars at the ends of its braids.
It looked exactly like the ragdoll Joseph had been carrying around the whole time!
Joseph recoiled in shock.
He immediately hurled the doll away, then wiped his hands as if he’d touched something revolting.
“Brother Joseph, I’m so heartbroken,” the monster, now calling itself “An Xiaoyue,” said sadly when it saw his reaction. “I thought you kept me close because you loved me. Your hands were so warm, I’ll never forget it.”
As it spoke, “An Xiaoyue” crawled right into the narrow bed beside Joseph and lay down next to him.
It clung to him like an octopus, arms tightly wrapped around his body.
Joseph’s disgust was plain as day.
But in this round, making any noise was forbidden.
Not even a single expletive was allowed.
The monster’s face gradually pressed closer to Joseph’s. At the same time, blood began to seep from its features, its once neat and tidy visage splitting open to reveal a mass of mangled, bloody muscle beneath…
“But why do you only like Tang Mu and not me? What’s wrong with me?!”
When it reached the last sentence, its voice suddenly rose to a piercing shriek!
Everyone’s eardrums felt like they were being torn.
The entire room reeled under the onslaught of its voice.
As the foul, bloody stench threatened to engulf him, Joseph finally snapped.
He grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed the monster.
“Aaaaaah!”
The Silent One shrieked in rage, wounded by the F-grade tool.
“How dare you! You hurt me! I’m furious, you’ll all die!”
As the monster’s hands reached for Joseph’s throat, Tang Mu spoke up. “Hey, look at me.”
She made a sound.
Mechanism triggered.
The monster’s face grew even more grotesque.
“Hee hee hee~”
“I’ve been wanting to rip that face off of yours for so long, hee hee hee~”
“Now I can finally kill you, hee hee hee~”
“I’ll tear you apart, piece by piece, and then—”
Tang Mu pulled out the [Paper Bride (F)] and stuck it to the corner of the wall.
The monster rushed at her—and immediately began smashing its own head against the wall, over and over!
It was furious. “How dare you—” Bang!
“I’ll kill you—” Bang!
“What is this thing? Why can it—” Bang!
In barely half a minute, the monster’s blood-drenched face was cracked and ruined, almost unrecognizable as anything human.

Now it was like an automatic iron hammer, pounding the wall again and again with no restraint, as if it needed no one to force it—like a living, breathing, self-powered drill.
“Ah, how pitiful,” Tang Mu tutted, clicking her tongue. “Are there any more Silent Ones? Or is it just you?”
“Why should I tell you?” the monster’s face twisted with rage, but the next instant—Bang!
Its head slammed into the wall again. Who knew how many times it had already bashed itself?
“If you won’t say, then just keep going,” Tang Mu said, making no move to retrieve the tool. “It’s over an hour till one o’clock. I guess you’ll just have to keep drilling holes here for a while longer.”
The monster was speechless.
“I’ll kill you! I swear I’ll kill you!” It felt its dignity as a monster had been trampled.
But—Bang!
The pounding continued, the wall smeared with blood.
It was a pitiful sight.
Tang Mu couldn’t be bothered with it anymore.
An E-grade monster couldn’t be killed with Forgetful River water.
As for any tool that could finish it off, Tang Mu hadn’t found one yet.
So… just leave it for now.
After all, unlike humans, monsters could smash their heads against the wall and even create supernatural shockwaves.
“Joseph, Xue Fen, let’s go,” Tang Mu signaled to the two of them. “Let’s check out the top deck. I keep hearing movement up there.”
There was a constant thumping,
But whether it was the legendary sound of marbles rolling, or something else scurrying around, she couldn’t tell.
As for the Silent One—
It watched as Tang Mu was about to leave and felt utterly indignant at having to smash its head into the wall endlessly.
“You! You… take down that Paper Bride! If you do, I’ll do whatever you say!”
Desperate to escape the tool’s control, the monster was ready to abandon any pretense of pride.
But—
Tang Mu didn’t believe a word.
“Why should I trust you? Who’d believe a monster’s promise?”
The monster was speechless.
“I’m telling the truth!” Bang!
“Just let me go, I’ll do whatever you want!” Bang!
The sound of its head pounding against the wall grated on Tang Mu’s nerves.
“You’re really too noisy with your head-banging,” she complained with a look of distaste. “Can’t you do it a little quieter?”