How to Stop the Villain from Going Crazy
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 5 - With such formidable physical fitness, could he still be considered a human? (1)
Bo Li cautiously waited for another ten minutes until everyone was finally asleep.
She guessed that these people were circus guards. They had greasy black beards, dirty nails, and tattered hats. There were hunting knives and keys hanging from their waists.
What made her most uneasy was that they each slept next to an old-fashioned rifle. She could even see the grease on the barrels used for maintenance. That realistic detail gave her goosebumps.
Calm down.
Bo Li told herself to not pay attention to those details. Just keep moving forward. The backpack was almost within her reach.
But, everything here was too real.
There were leftovers on the wooden table. She didn't know what they had for dinner, but an unpleasant smell rushed into her nose. It smelled like rotting raw meat.
Three greased animal traps were drying on top of old newspapers on the ground. The newspapers were soaked with dark grease.
It was only now that Bo Li knew that animal traps were so big and heavy. They were longer than her arm and needed to be maintained with grease like guns.
If she hadn't really transmigrated, her brain wouldn't have been able to come up with these details.
This discovery made her tremble again.
Bo Li took a deep breath and forced herself to focus. Keep walking. Don't look back.
She didn't know if it was because her back was to the guards, but she felt that if she turned around, she would see them awake and staring at her.
It was too easy for her imagination to run rampant in the darkness and the unknown.
Bo Li tried her best to suppress her wild thoughts. She reached her backpack, found the hidden clasp, and gently pressed it.
With a quiet click, the clasp came loose.
She couldn't stop herself from looking back. She saw that the group of people were still asleep. They hadn't woken up.
Even though they were sound asleep, she had the uneasy feeling that someone was watching her.
It was as if someone was staring at her in the darkness. She felt a cold and penetrating gaze.
Bo Li had goosebumps. She felt extremely uneasy, but she had come so far. There was no turning back. She could only muster up her courage and open her backpack to find the first aid kit.
She didn't take anything else out. Even if she took something else, she didn't have good places to hide it. It would be an unnecessary risk.
Bo Li grabbed the first aid kit with her mouth, quickly closed the backpack, put the backpack back in place, and quickly walked towards Erik's tent.
One step, two steps.
The distance was getting smaller.
She was almost there!
That chilling feeling of being watched didn't disappear. On the contrary, it felt like it was getting closer.
Someone with a limp seemed to be following her. That person's steps were calm and orderly.
Bo Li's heart was pounding. Her palms were covered in cold, sticky sweat. She almost dropped the first aid kit.
However, just when she bent over to enter the tent, a hand suddenly reached out, grabbed her by the wrist, and forcefully pushed her to the ground.
With a dull thud, Bo Li hit the ground hard on her back.
She endured the sharp pain and raised her head. The first thing she saw was apathetic eyes gazing out from holes in a white mask.
"He's the only one here that wears a mask."
The person following her was Erik!
Bo Li gasped and struggled to get up, but he grabbed her wrist and pushed her down.
He silently looked at her with his thumb on an artery on the side of her neck. He suddenly increased his strength before relaxing just as quickly as if he was considering whether or not to kill her.
She didn't have the time to ponder how he had the strength to stalk her and restrain her with one hand when he was seriously injured. She anxiously shouted, "I came here to save you!"
No response. The air was eerily still.
He stared at her without blinking.
Bo Li had wanted to observe his gaze, but the white mask was too weird. His eyes seemed cold and lifeless.
After a while, she might even develop a strange feeling of unfamiliarity. It was as if the person in front of her wasn't a person, but an unknown species.
She gulped and tried to say in a sincere tone, "I really want to save you… I didn't expect that Mike and the others would be so excessive…"
She thought these words would get a response from him. Unexpectedly, he tilted his head and pulled out a sharp dagger!
Bo Li's mind went blank. For a few seconds, she felt a chill in the back of her head. Blood was rumbling in her ears, and her throat seemed frozen. She couldn't speak.
She had worked as an actress in Los Angeles for a while. She had acted in various genres: comedy, horror, and musicals. As long as there was money to be made, she would even be happy to play a corpse in a morgue in a detective tv show.
So, this wasn't the first time she was faced with such a scene, but the knives on the set were fake. The dissected bodies in a morgue wouldn't rise up in resistance.
At this moment, it was as if she entered a catatonic state. She didn't know how to react.
As the dagger got closer, she got goosebumps all over her arms. Her back was wet with sweat, and even her teeth were chattering.
Was he going to kill her? Or, how was he going to kill her? Stab her in the throat?
The dagger was getting closer and closer.
She was stiff all over, and the cheek that was closer to the dagger was even a bit numb.
At this moment, Erik suddenly moved his thumb and pressed it on her jaw to forcibly open her mouth.
She had guessed right! He was going to stab her throat!
She was so frightened that she couldn't even scream. She could only watch as he forced her mouth open and… tapped the dagger on her teeth. Huh?
He wasn't going to kill her? What was he doing then?
He tapped the dagger on her teeth again. His eyes were still indifferent and empty, but Bo Li read a different meaning in his eyes this time.
He was signaling for her to continue talking.
Bo Li immediately collapsed to the ground. It was as if her body had turned into a pile of mud. She couldn't even lift a finger.
She remembered to breathe again and gasped several breathfuls of air. Feeling as if she had survived a calamity, she said in a choked up voice, "... I'm very sorry for treating you like that in the past. You know too many things. I can't compare to you at all… She always praises you while hitting me. I just don't want to be beaten… I'm sorry. I didn't know Mike would do that… I'm really very sorry…"
Perhaps due to survival instinct, for the first time, she recited her lines so sincerely that even she believed them. "I'm sorry… I really want to help you. The medicine I have here is from my hometown. If you don't believe me, I can use the medicine on myself first."
No response. Erik never said a word.
After a while, he put his dagger away and helped her up.
T/N: Next part will be posted August 10th at 10:15 PM EST.