I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 96 - Someone in the Living Room

Chapter 96: Chapter 96 Someone in the Living Room

Fang Xiaocao dragged her exhausted body back to the Xintiandi Residence.

As she pushed open the door, there was a fleeting sense of returning from another lifetime.

The physical fatigue was just a minor episode.

However, the endless scheming, suspicion, and reasoning along the way left Fang Xiaocao so mentally drained she wanted to cry.

After changing out of her gear and hastily showering, Fang Xiaocao threw herself onto the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

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In her dream!

She seemed to have returned to the orphanage.

But waiting for her was not the kind director or the cool Zhi Qi, but that Scar-faced Monster called Gemini.

“Afraid?”

The Scar-faced Monster’s deep voice echoed in her ears, giving Fang Xiaocao the sensation of plummeting into a dreamlike abyss.

“Betrayal and setbacks are merely spices of life. Who among the living has a continuous peace and ease?”

The Scar-faced Monster said in his raspy voice.

“You…”

Fang Xiaocao opened her mouth to speak, barely getting out a word before the Scar-faced Monster cut her off with a gesture.

“Go back and uncover the truth!”

The next second, a dizzying sensation overcame her, and Fang Xiaocao awoke from the feeling of a high fall.

“Huff, huff, huff…”

Fang Xiaocao gasped for breath, cold sweat covering her smooth forehead, giving her the sensation of a damp back.

“Why would Gemini appear in my dream?”

Fang Xiaocao’s eyes widened with terror as she murmured to herself.

“No…”

“Something’s not right!”

Fang Xiaocao muttered, reaching for her phone.

The time on the phone screen: 00:00!

Seeing this time, Fang Xiaocao grew even more scared.

Wasn’t this the déjà vu of a horror movie beginning?

“Are you asleep?”

With trembling hands, Fang Xiaocao unlocked her screen and sent a message to Hot Noodles.

“Huff, huff~”

A sudden sound of breathing rose next to her ear.

Fang Xiaocao’s movements froze.

Turning her stiff neck, she looked beside her.

A ghostly white face entered her field of vision.

“Ahh~”

Fang Xiaocao let out an involuntary scream.

“Ahh~”

Fang Xiaocao abruptly sat up…

“Is this…”

“Was it a dream?”

Fang Xiaocao mumbled in a daze.

She quickly turned her head, looking beside her.

There was no pallid face in her line of sight.

“Huh…”

Fang Xiaocao breathed a sigh of relief.

“A dream within a dream?”

Fang Xiaocao blinked and murmured.

She glanced at her phone only to find the screen was still lit.

The time on the phone screen was identical to the one in the dream: 00:00!

“What the hell?”

Fang Xiaocao exclaimed instinctively.

She grabbed her phone and unlocked it.

She opened the chat with Hot Noodles on WeChat.

Seeing that there wasn’t the message she thought she had sent in her dream, she finally relaxed.

“Even if it’s a dream within a dream…”

“Why was it so vivid, even the time was the same.”

Fang Xiaocao murmured to herself.

“Could I have been hypnotized?”

Fang Xiaocao frowned and muttered.

A Senior Hypnotist could do that.

They just need to plant a seed in the subject’s mind.

When the subject is in a certain state, the hypnotic effect triggers automatically.

Fang Xiaocao knew how to perform this kind of hypnosis herself.

“Could it be that Gemini hypnotized me before he died?”

Fang Xiaocao carefully recalled the moments before Gemini’s death, analysing each of his movements and looks.

“There wasn’t anything unusual!”

Fang Xiaocao muttered irritably.

“Quack quack quack!”

Her phone’s frog ringtone startled Fang Xiaocao.

“Who could it be this late?”

Fang Xiaocao grumbled in dissatisfaction.

Lighting up the screen, she saw a message from Hot Noodles.

Fang Xiaocao was taken aback!

“Why would he message me so late?”

Fang Xiaocao murmured, opening the chat with a sense of puzzlement.

[Hot Noodles: There’s someone in your house!]

[Hot Noodles: He’s right outside the door!]

Seeing the message from Hot Noodles, Fang Xiaocao’s scalp went numb instantly, her eyes widened in horror as she looked toward the bedroom door.

“Click, click!”

Just then, a strange noise came from the bedroom lock.

The next second…

The doorknob began to turn frantically!

As if someone on the other side was twisting the doorknob in a rage.

Fang Xiaocao’s hairs stood on end in an instant!

Watching the continuously turning doorknob in terror.

She was living alone!

How could there be someone in the living room…

And coming over to tamper with her lock?

“What the hell, am I facing a home invasion?”

“Was he startled by my yelling and came over to silence me?”

These were Fang Xiaocao’s first thoughts.

At this moment, she was somewhat grateful that she had the habit of locking her door while sleeping.

“What… what should I do?”

Fang Xiaocao messaged Hot Noodles in a panic.

[Hot Noodles: Call the police!]

[Hot Noodles: Call Wang Qiang!]

Without a second thought, Fang Xiaocao immediately opened her contact list and dialed Wang Qiang’s number.

“Hello?”

“Xiaocao?”

Wang Qiang’s voice came through her ear.

“Officer Wang, help me!”

“There’s someone in my living room!”

Fang Xiaocao hurriedly said.

“Thud, thud, thud!”

The person outside began to bang on the door forcefully.

It seemed he heard Fang Xiaocao calling for help.

The banging was so intense that the door emitted groans of strain.

“Where are you?”

Wang Qiang asked in a grave tone.

“Xintiandi Restaurant!”

As she was getting dressed, Fang Xiaocao replied.

“Ten minutes!”

“I’ll be there within ten minutes.”

“Be careful, and whatever you do, don’t open the door,” Wang Qiang instructed her.

“Okay, I understand,” Fang Xiaocao replied solemnly.

“Beep beep beep…”

The phone’s earpiece transmitted a series of busy tones.

Wang Qiang had hung up.

Fang Xiaocao put her phone into her pocket.

She quickly took out two Flying Daggers and gripped them in her hands.

They were a parting gift from Qian Xia just before he left.

Her gun and Dagger had been confiscated by the police.

But Qian Xia’s Flying Dagger had not.

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It was a privilege of the Ye Family of the Capital.

Authorized bodyguards could legally possess weapons for self-defense.

After Qian Xia’s patient teaching, Fang Xiaocao had also learned the principle of launching a Flying Dagger, managing to successfully project it using wrist strength.

As for accuracy, well…

Nine throws out of ten would hit…

One throw would not!

“Thud, thud, thud…”

The violent door-pounding continued.

Each blow to the door stabbed at Fang Xiaocao’s tensed nerves.

Time ticked by, second by second.

The solid wood bedroom door became unstable.

Fang Xiaocao knew she had to do something.

If she allowed the person outside to keep going, the bedroom door wouldn’t last much longer.

“I’ve already called the police, you’d better leave quickly!”

Fang Xiaocao shouted out the door, trying to intimidate the person outside.

She hoped the intruder would back off upon realizing this.

After all, he was just a thief.

He should be afraid of the police.

That was what Fang Xiaocao was thinking.

Sure enough, upon hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, the banging on the door stopped.

“Hehe…”

A man’s eerie laughter came from outside the door.

“The fun’s over, huh…”

The man’s hoarse voice was like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing against each other.