Chapter 22: Is It Painful
Chapter 22
Twenty minutes ago.
"Baby, you seem to be in so much pain!"
Brown, frizzy hair was wetted by water, looking rough and cheap.
A pair of slender, fair-skinned hands were fiercely pressing down on the other's neck.
"Mmm.....mmm....."
The moans of the drowning victim sounded particularly helpless as water gradually seeped into her throat.
Zhao Fangdian began to suffocate, her hands flailing about, desperately struggling, but the hands clasped around her neck seemed to have a supernatural strength that no amount of struggling could break free from.
Just as Zhao Fangdian felt despair, and was about to give up struggling.
Damn, am I going to suffocate?
Suddenly, the supernatural strength around her neck disappeared. Zhao Fangdian coughed violently, water spluttered down her throat, the pain unbearable.
"So your breath holding time is 32 seconds, Sister Fangdian." A clear voice sounded from behind.
"Very impressive."
"Cough...cough.....who the hell are you! I’ll...I’ll kill you! I’ll f**k your mother!"
Zhao Fangdian struggled violently, cursing loudly. The supernatural strength returned to her neck, as if it could snap her neck in the next second, defying all her attempts to break free.
"Such vulgarities are unacceptable."
[Holy sh*t, Yanyixi, you've changed!] Pandora exclaimed in her mind.
Before Zhao Fangdian could curse again, she was pressed back into the water.
Again and again, many times over.
Behind her, the girl,
"One, two, three.....twenty one, twenty two....." Yan Xi counted rhythmically, sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down.
Yet every time, she would pull Zhao Fangdian out from the water just before she suffocated.
The moment Zhao Fangdian gasped for air, before she could make a sound, she would be pressed back into the water.
Madwoman!
Madwoman!
Zhao Fangdian could not see the person behind her. She was almost bent over the sink, only able to make out the other's fair chin and bony, slender fingers in the mirror's reflection.
Zhao Fangdian also could not understand why this situation had suddenly arisen. Just now after using the bathroom, as she lowered her head to wash her hands, she was suddenly shoved headfirst into the sink.
"Cough cough! Cough cough!"
Wait...let her see who it was, she would...she would kill her!
Her lungs felt like they exploded. Water gushed in.
Can't take it anymore! I'm going to die!
"Let...go...vulgar...cough cough...mmm...cough cough....." Her head was pressed into the water again.
......
Again and again, Yan Xi mechanically repeated her actions, while Zhao Fangdian's curses turned into wails.
"Please...I beg you, please..." Zhao Fangdian finally began pleading incessantly. Because she realized the girl behind her was no normal person. With that kind of mad strength, no ordinary girl could do this - holding down another girl around the same height, suppressing her desperate struggles, all while calmly speaking. It was simply impossible!
After all, her own strength was certainly not weak!
The girl was unmoved, her face expressionless, calm to the extreme.
Zhao Fangdian's earlier arrogance completely vanished. It seemed that when the roles of oppressor and victim were reversed, the lion had become a rabbit in her hands.
Ridiculous.
Was it difficult to bully others?
Not at all.
Yan Xi's hands paused for a moment, her gloomy gaze becoming clear.
[I think you can stop now. If this continues, she may die!] Pandora persuaded at the side.
[Is that so?] An eerily bizarre smile suddenly appeared on Yan Xi's face. For some reason, Pandora sensed traces of anger and indifference towards life within it, cold to an abnormal degree.
[Lu Manyan!] Pandora yelled anxiously in her mindspace.
"I'm really looking forward to it."
[What are you going to do! Lu Manyan!] Pandora was shocked! Those words did not sound normal at all.
Yan Xi grabbed hold of the other's head with one hand, her strength increasing instead of decreasing. With her other hand, she directly chopped Zhao Fangdian's neck. Before Zhao Fangdian could react, she lost consciousness.
Pandora was frightened. That stance just now seemed like Zhao Fangdian's neck would be snapped by her merchant in the next second. If her merchant became a criminal, what meaning would this school instance have left! Damn it! Her sales record would be gone in an instant!
It scared her to death, luckily she was only knocked out.
[What a waste of 10 extreme points.] Just now she had spent 10 extreme points to strengthen her Strength value, just to become a...um...lion I guess...
But indeed, it was meaningless...
"Darling, do you think I'm pretty?" Yan Xi asked the unconscious Zhao Fangdian gently, bizarrely.
The passed out Zhao Fangdian and Qi Yili outside were similarly unresponsive, after all neither could speak nor answer.
"I guess you do too." Yan Xi dragged Zhao Fangdian by her collar bit by bit into the bathroom.
"So is this how you get treated no matter how ugly you are?" Yan Xi's tone changed, and she stopped.
"They all say I'm an ugly freak..." Yan Xi turned Zhao Fangdian's face upwards, brushing aside her drenched hair.
A face full of collagen, the colorful makeup washed away in blotches, but one could still see that Zhao Fangdian was by no means ugly.
"Then why would you be treated this way by me?" Yan Xi pretended to be puzzled.
Pandora shuddered, damn it! Talking to yourself like this was too abnormal!
"I see! It's because your heart is too ugly! Isn't that right, darling? Next time, I'd also love to slowly discuss this thing with your little friends." Yan Xi's gentle tone was as if she had discovered something fun.
"But I really am very thankful to people like Sister Zhao. They made me realize something." Yan Xi ripped off Zhao Fangdian's student card and directly threw her into a bathroom stall.
"Looks like ugliness is...original sin after all."
Yan Xi used Zhao Fangdian's student card to skillfully tie the bathroom door shut over and over, jamming it tightly.
This was taught by her former "good classmates" in the past.
As for whether she could get out?
It depended on luck and strength.
The ordinary photo on the student card seemed to be dampened by the water stains, the ordinary face in the dim west side bathroom seemed to become hateful.
Walking out of the restroom, Yan Xi suddenly sensed a fleeting glance.
[Was someone outside the door just now, Panpan?]
[Shouldn't be...I wasn't paying attention.] Pandora had almost been scared to death just now, where would she find the awareness to observe outside the door?
"Always watching me?" Yan Xi seemed to recall the words on that sheet of butcher paper.
"Nevermind, unimportant." Yan Xi left the restroom, walking towards Qi Yili.