Specters of the Seven-Day Trial Chapter 8

After Riley Gu took off her clothes in the locker room and went into the bathroom, there were already two people inside.

There are six shower cubicles in the bathroom, three against the left wall and three on the right. Each cubicle is covered by a white shower curtain.

Riley Gu chose the innermost cubicle against the wall and went straight into the shower curtain. She turned the water flow to maximum. As she felt the water at the right temperature, she sighed comfortably and pushed her wet hair back.

"Brother, what do you think I should do tonight? If He Wei dies, I will have to live in a dormitory alone tonight, right?"

A weak voice came from next door. Hearing the name "He Wei", Riley Gu became wary of their conversation.

"It's kind of creepy to think about staying in the dormitory all night alone." Another male voice said, "You've been in contact with He Wei the longest, didn't you notice anything unusual? He died on the first day, so unlucky, and the way he died...hiss...I don't dare to think about it."

He Wei's roommate is a college student named Wang Kele. He is not very brave and sounds like he is about to cry: "How can I know? We went to bed early after the haunted scene last night. Before going to bed, he told me how pretty the girl Shuixing is and how S3xy her personality is. We didn't talk about anything else. We were not in the same group during the cleaning in the afternoon. When I rushed over, he was already...just...into a meat paste."

"Alright, alright!" another man stopped him quickly, "Brother, to be honest with you, if the male teacher was not still in our team, everyone would be a suspect, I would really like to invite you to our dormitory to spend the night, but you also know that in this situation, we can't take anyone lightly, otherwise we will have a group meeting later and see who is willing to take you tonight."

Wang Kele cried, "How could I have such an unfortunate roommate? Now that he's dead, everyone is suspecting me."

"Is there really nothing unusual before He Wei died?" the man asked again worriedly.

Wang Kele was anxious: "Brother! I really don't know! He and I only slept together for one night."

Riley Gu faced the wall and wiped the water droplets off her face: ...

My friend, this statement is ambiguous.

Two more people walked into the bathroom.

"Hey, someone is already enjoying it. The water flow is quite strong."

From the voice, it was the grumpy old man Zhang Guoqiang.

The shower curtain behind Riley Gu was pulled open. He was startled and looked back.

His roommate was standing behind him with a burning look in his eyes.

"Go, go." Riley Gu waved at him, and subconsciously covered her lower body with one hand, "There's room on the other side, I can't squeeze in here."

Noah raised the corner of her lip slightly, her voice as clean as melting snow, and announced the good news immediately: "Riley Gu, I have a name."

Riley Gu didn't have high expectations, so he asked, "What's your name?"

If a man dares to say names like "baby" or "sweetheart" again, he will curse.

Noah squeezed into the bathroom cubicle without any hesitation and took Riley Gu's hand.

Riley Gu was embarrassed and shrank into a corner: "Why are you... still touching me?"

"Riley Gu." Wang Kele climbed onto the partition without knowing when. Due to his height, he could only show his eyes when he stood on tiptoe. He looked at Riley Gu, then at the tall man who was forcibly holding his hand, and asked, "Is this consensual, or is this forced?"

Riley Gu raised her hand and pressed his head down: "Take a bath! Your thoughts are too dirty, wash your brain well!"

The man then flattened his palm and stroked it with his fingertips: "Riley Gu, my name is Noah."

Noah is illiterate and doesn't know how to describe his own name. If Ethan Bo hadn't told him, he wouldn't even know how to pronounce these two words. So he had to write them for Riley Gu, carefully writing every stroke.

"Noah?" Riley Gu looked up at him, and was a little stunned.

In the mist, the man lowered his head, his hair was neatly cut short, his nose was high, his black eyelashes were wet by the shower head, the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, and his expression was relaxed as if he was smiling.

If it weren't for his weird behavior, he'd actually be a very attractive man.

"My name is written like this, do you understand?" Eun Jin raised her eyes to look at him, and asked worriedly, "Isn't it a nice name? Is it better than the name 'baby'?"

Riley Gu came back to her senses, swallowed her saliva, and looked down at her hand: "Write it again, I didn't see it clearly just now."

Eun-jin patiently wrote it again, this time even slower than last time.

Yes, thank you for the kindness.

Jin, the Jin of beautiful jade.

It sounded a bit feminine, but the meaning was okay. Riley Gu pulled back her hand: "That's good. Congratulations. You finally got your name back."

Eunjin smiled, turned sideways, and squeezed under the shower to wet her hair: "Don't worry, I have a name now, which means I am just like an ordinary person, not a bad person. You can rest assured to be with me in the future."

Riley Gu understood that he was worried about the fact that everyone doubted him and was unwilling to team up with him, and felt a little distressed: "I never doubted you, really."

Because with your IQ, you can't be a villain.

At this time, footsteps were heard outside again.

"There are only two places left, this..."

"It's okay. Candi and I will share a room."

It was Ethan Bo's voice.

Riley Gu then realized that En Jin had unknowingly taken her shower spot away from her. The two of them were now squeezed in a small space, but there were no extra seats outside.

He glanced at the man and said unhappily, "Wash it quickly. I want to use it after you wash it."

*

"Brother, I'm done washing. I'm leaving now."

Wang Kele's voice came from outside.

Wang Kele held the basin, lifted the curtain, walked out in slippers, and said hello to the man next door.

As he passed the man's cubicle next to him, he heard a clear "puff" sound.

Turning around, I saw blood splattered on the white shower curtain.

It looked as if someone had poured a basin of blood on the curtain from inside.

Wang Kele was dumbfounded and stood still.

The frosted shower curtain was stained red in large patches, with blood dripping down. From under the curtain, red water was surging like a rising tide.

It wasn't until the red spread to Wang Kele's feet that he regained his voice and screamed: "Someone's dead---"