Volume 9 – Chapter 30: Ontology

Tick.

A crisp sound came abruptly from the room, as if something had fallen on the concrete floor.

It was the sound of marbles… rolling.

A small marble was slowly rolling out from the dark room where the door was opened.

Tick –

Multiple

“ticks”

haunted the room. Immediately, marbles in the color of green, blue, and even multi colored rolled out from the door crack. The scene made the marbles appear like eyeballs.

Some of them were even bouncing. Each of them rolled… and stopped at Luo Qiu’s feet.

Luo Qiu took a quick glance, then bent down and picked up one of the marbles in his hand. Then, he glanced at the crack of the door.

A face was staring at Luo Qiu at this time.

It was a very small face with thin hair tangled indiscriminately, like the dark green wakame growing by the sea. The eyes were huge but not symmetrical. The eyeball on the left had even peeled off, and just hung on the face. It almost broke off.

He couldn’t find a nose on this face at all. The cheek on the right was badly mutilated. The wound was seemingly afflicted by a scratch. There was something soft in the color of grey being squeezed out from the uneven wound.

Luo Qiu blinked and stretched out his hand to grab this little face directly. His palm was big enough that he could grasp the popped head with one hand.

The black door and the cracks in the room did not stop Luo Qiu’s next move after grabbing the head. Luo Qiu pulled it out directly, and placed it under the flashing light to look at it.

“So this thing is still there.”

Boss Luo grabbed it in his hand. It was just a rag doll that was so old that it could be thrown away as garbage.

Luo Qiu looked at the cracks in the room where there was no more movement, and casually said, “I went back here once when I was young. I lost this little one somewhere I didn’t know. My grandparents were still there at that time. I think they found it after I left.”

There was still no movement inside the room. Boss Luo squatted down and picked up the scattered marbles one by one. He suddenly said, “Are you not going to come out?”

A heavy and sharp voice suddenly sounded, “Aren’t you afraid?”

Luo Qiu said calmly, “This is also my house. What should I be afraid of…or, what are you afraid of? It’s not good to be scary like this.”

There was silence in the room for a long time before the voice sounded again, “I…I don’t know someone is coming back. I will stay here for a while. Don’t worry, I will absolutely not touch anything in this room. I…I will leave right now. But please don’t call the police!