Novel Bin Chapter 103: Did you dream that I died?
Chapter 103: Did you dream that I died?
Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor- Koneko, Proofreader-Ghostie
Monday, August 2, 8:20 am.
Wei Fuyuan got up early and went out to jog for five kilometers in the neighborhood near the apartment hotel. He bought steamed stuffed buns, fried dough sticks, and soybean milk at the breakfast shop. When he was thinking of going out and waiting near? “Sāntúchuān” for a certain rabbit, a notification sound came from the mobile phone in his pocket.
Wei Fuyuan took out his phone, and looked at the screen that showed a new WeChat message— it was sent by Xu Lei, a junior university girl who he had just recently met.
[Senior, is it convenient to meet today?]
He opened the app and before he could reply, there was another message.
[I have something to tell you.]
Wei Fuyuan: “……”
He was initially going to refuse. After all, he was not interested in girls, but when he saw the second half of the sentence, he changed his mind.
Wei Fuyuan replied with an [Okay] and made an appointment with her to meet at the cafe they had met yesterday at 10 o’clock.
After exiting WeChat, he hesitated for a moment and decided to send another text message to Bei Quan.
[I found Miuya’s friend, the girl who predicted her death].
Bei Quan doesn’t use a smartphone, his phone was an old Nokia brick.
After leaving “Sāntúchuān”, Wei Fuyuan had called Bei Quan’s number several times and sent many text messages, but the phone was always busy, and the text messages also sank into the bottom of the sea without any trace of response.
Wei Fuyuan thought that Bei Quan had blocked him,but he didn’t give up.
Wei Fuyuan always felt that Bei Quan would not be so cruel to him, and that he might secretly release him from being blacklisted at some point.
And when that time comes, he would tell Bei Quan how serious he is about him.
After making up his mind, Wei Fuyuan returned to the hotel and planned to go out to see Xu Lei after washing up.
At the same time, Bei Quan and Jiang Nan’an were on their way back to Fèng Xīngchéng from J province.
They got Xu Lei’s name from Luo Yanyan’s dead soul and informed Zhu Ling who stayed in “Sāntúchuān”.
Zhu Ling was very efficient, and after one night, she had already fully investigated Xu Lei.
“Ah, I’ve got it, I’ve got it!”
On the long-distance bus journey, Jiang Nan’an clicked on the information Zhu Ling sent to his mailbox.
“Wow, this girl… she’s a bit unlucky.”
Jiang Nan’an quickly looked through Xu Lei’s personal data and couldn’t help but sigh,“Could it be that she is the legendary one who bears the fate of the tian sha gu xing?”
Xu Lei’s mother died shortly after giving birth to the twin sisters due to an illness. Her father was involved in a car accident when she was just fourteen years old, and although his life was saved, he was left with a lifelong disability of limping due to a crushed fracture of his left lower limb. Additionally, her twin sibling Xu Bei was also killed in a car accident two years ago, the cause of death being quite suspicious.
“Look!”
Jiang Nan’an approached Bei Quan with his cell phone.
“According to the accident investigation records from the traffic police, the car accident happened at around 8:30 a.m., when the weather was clear and the road conditions were good, with Xu Bei running onto the road by herself.
The police investigation afterwards found that the driver was sober, healthy, not intoxicated or on drugs. He said that he didn’t even notice a girl standing on the side of the road, and when Xu Bei suddenly appeared in front of his car, it was too late for him to brake.
The email also included an archived photo of the crash site, which they didn’t know how Zhu Ling even managed to obtain.
In the photo, there was a straight two-way, four-laned road with good visibility. There are no obstructions or obstacles around. Using common sense, unless the driver was short-sighted and was not wearing glasses, it would be impossible not to see a big living human rushing out from the roadside.
Bei Quan stared at the photo intently, seriously studying it for a moment, before turning his head to the side and looking at Jiang Nan’an.
“What do you think?”
Jiang Nan’an almost without thinking, gave a reply.
“I think… it’s very much like ‘Ghost Covered Eyes’, right?”
Bei Quan nodded solemnly.
“Indeed, it’s very much like ‘Ghost Covered Eyes’.”
They looked at each other for a moment, and both Bei Quan and Jiang Nan’an read the same expression from each other’s faces.
——Where did the “ghost” that covered the “eyes” of Xu Bei and the driver come from? Why did it choose Xu Bei?
Holding onto this question, Bei Quan and Jiang Nan’an continued to look through the email.
Zhu Ling confirmed that Miuya, also known as Wang Jialin, was indeed a good friend of Xu Lei.
Therefore, the girl who left early because she predicted Wang Jialin’s death during the “live broadcast of the paranormal exploration in an abandoned amusement park” is undoubtedly Xu Lei.
“Now we can already be sure that the people around Xu Lei seem to be particularly prone to ‘accidents’.”
Bei Quan thought to himself for a moment.
“First of all, regardless of what happened to her father and sister, at least before both Wang Jialin and Luo Yanyan died, Xu Lei had made the correct ‘prophecy’.”
Jiang Nan’an still had doubts about these circumstances.
“But, what about the other two?”
Up till now, Zhu Ling had not found any evidence of whether Mo Fan and the other male anchor with his girlfriend’s death had any connection with Xu Lei.
And in Jiang Nanan’s perception, precognitive ability, although rare, was not absent. But, he had never before heard that there was a correlation or a causal relationship between precognitive ability and someone’s suicide.
“Never mind.”
Bei Quan lowered his voice and said.
“As long as we see Xu Lei, we can always ‘ask’ for clarification.”
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August 2, 10:15 am.
Wei Fuyuan waited for fifteen minutes for Xu Lei who had asked him to meet.
Compared to yesterday’s meeting, overnight, Xu Lei looked much more haggard.
The girl’s face was pale, with a faint shadow under her eyes, and she looked as if she hadn’t rested well.
“What’s wrong with you?”
When the girl sat down, Wei Fuyuan opened his mouth and stated his concerns.
“Are you not feeling well?”
Xu Lei shook her head with a bitter face. She lifted her eyelids, and at the moment she met Wei Fuyuan’s gaze, her body stirred as if she was frightened and quickly lowered her eyes again.
Wei Fuyuan: “……”
The girl’s reaction was so unusual that Wei Fuyuan subconsciously frowned.
“Did something happen?”
Xu Lei’s lips mumbled for a moment, and only a single sound came out.
“I ……”
Her fingers unconsciously twisted the tablecloth, as if she did not know how to speak.
Wei Fuyuan: “What’s wrong?”
“Senior ……”
Xu Lei still lowered her head and did not dare to look at Wei Fuyuan directly. Her eyes focused solely on her fingers, she took a deep breath before finally seeming to have made up her mind before speaking aloud softly.
“Senior, I …… had another dream last night …… again ……”
Wei Fuyuan took a second to understand what Xu Lei meant by this sentence.
“You mean ……”
To verify his suspicions, Wei Fuyuan asked, “Precognitive dream?”
Xu Lei nodded her head.
Wei Fuyuan’s heart suddenly fluttered in panic.
He knew that Xu Lei’s dreams were not ordinary at all, as every time someone would have an accident just like what she had seen in her dream. The best-case scenario was that the person would have a permanent disability, but in the worst case, the person would lose their life.
“Who did you dream about?”
Wei Fuyuan hurriedly asked.
Xu Lei did not answer, instead only clutched the tablecloth in her hands even tighter, so tight that she almost yanked it off the table directly.
“Tell me!”
Wei Fuyuan asked again more frantically, “Who did you dream about last night?!”
The girl’s lips quivered as she squeezed out a syllable.
“You.”
Her voice was extremely quiet, so quiet that even Wei Fuyuan, who was only separated by a table could hardly hear it.
“What did you say?”
Xu Lei swallowed hard and repeated herself again.
“It’s …… you ……”
Wei Fuyuan’s eyes widened.
“What did you say?!”
Xu Lei bit her lips, not daring to look at the Senior sitting across from her.
Wei Fuyuan: “Are you serious? You dreamt about me?”
He pointed to himself, his face was full of shock and disbelief, “You dreamt that I died?”
Xu Lei took a deep breath, “Mm.”
Wei Fuyuan’s brow lifted up high.
Honestly, more than being afraid, Wei Fuyuan felt dubious.
He felt that this was nonsense and still had plenty more time ahead of him. He was alive and well, was healthy and energetic, and in the prime of his life with an unlimited future. His heart was still in the right place, and he was determined to chase after a certain ruthless bastard, so he won’t end his life anyway.
“Xu Lei.”
Wei Fuyuan called his underclassman’s name in a deep voice.
“What exactly did you dream about last night?”
The girl let go of the crumpled tablecloth and turned to tear the napkin in front of her.
She was like someone with an anxiety disorder, only by relying on scattered energy could she collect her disordered thoughts and give Wei Fuyuan a relatively composed description about her dreamscape as Fable ?
Xu Lei told her Senior that she dreamt that she had become Wei Fuyuan. “She” was standing alone on the top floor of a building and was looking down at the lit-up street below from a condescending angle, before suddenly jumping and falling straight down.
The last scene in the girl’s dream was the sound of the wind lingering in “her” ears as she plummeted, with the ground getting closer and closer.
The sensation of losing speed was so real that the girl woke up from her nightmare.
She sat in a room full of darkness for two minutes before finally realizing that she had dreamt again— this time, she dreamed of Wei Fuyuan’s death.
“……”
After listening to Xu Lei’s account, Wei Fuyuan fell silent for some time.
“You mean, I jumped from the roof of a building?”
Then, he confirmed it with the girl.
“Was I the only one?”
Xu Lei nodded once, “Mm.”
“So ……”
Wei Fuyuan frowned.
“I committed suicide?”
Xu Lei darted a quick glance towards him, immediately bowing her head again.
“I don’t know ……”
She replied naively, “But …… I didn’t see anyone else.”
Wei Fuyuan asked again.
“Was it day or night?”
Xu Lei whispered, “It should be at night ……”
She carefully recalled before adding.
“No, I should say, it was late at night. The surrounding area was quiet and there were only a few cars and pedestrians on the road.”
Wei Fuyuan: “……”
He felt that Xu Lei’s description gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
This was a very similar experience to the one he had when his soul was shot out of his body by Bei Quan when he empathized with other people— they all share a perspective with another person and feel all the feelings that the other person would feel at that particular time.
Only Xu Lei’s “empathy” was not? the past that had actually happened, but the future.
——But, how could I jump to death….?