Chapter 16 The Rabbit

One afternoon, half a month later, when his adoptive parents were out, Pan Du brought his younger sister to this hillside. After knocking her unconscious with a stone, he threw her, still breathing, into an abandoned well.

The mouth of the abandoned well was small, and the inside was dark and very deep. He laboriously moved several large stones over and threw them into the well.

For his first murder, Pan Du felt no fear or panic. On the contrary, he was very calm, and even felt a faint sense of pleasure in his heart.

She deserved to die!

She was the cause of all this.

She should never have come into this world!

Learning from the techniques he had seen in police and gangster dramas, he began to clean up the scene with his innocent face, clearing away any traces that might have been left behind.

Until, under a tree, he saw a stuffed rabbit toy.

The rabbit's legs were spread apart, leaning against the tree. Its glass bead eyes glittered. Perhaps it was because he felt guilty, but he felt that the rabbit was watching him.

It was his sister's toy.

She was naturally timid, so she always held this toy rabbit when she slept, and took it with her wherever she went.

Just now, his sister had been playing hide-and-seek with him.

His sister was the police, and he was the thief. Just as his sister covered her eyes and faced the tree, he raised the stone and smashed it down hard from behind.

Thoughts flashed through his mind. This toy rabbit might become evidence in the future, so he couldn't leave it behind. He grabbed the rabbit's ears and threw the toy rabbit into the abandoned well as well.

But at that time, he would never have imagined that this rabbit would become a nightmare in his life.

From that day on, this rabbit began to appear in his life countless times. It would appear on the shoulders of his adoptive father when he carried his farm tools back home, in front of his adoptive mother at the busy stove, in his desk at school, and even beside his pillow after he suddenly woke up at night.

He tried all the methods he could think of, all the tools he could use, to hide, lock up, bury, burn, tear apart, and even throw the rabbit back into the well, time and time again.

But each time, it would come back, staring at him with its glass-like eyes, not speaking, and not moving.

Even more bizarrely, only he could see this rabbit. His adoptive parents, and even his teachers and classmates, did not understand Pan Du's panic at all.

And he... didn't dare to explain at all.

Pan Du fled the village as if he were running for his life. This time, he took the initiative to abandon the adoptive parents who had started to treat him well again after his sister disappeared.

He knew in his heart that this was his sister's revenge.

He could only run.

The farther the better.

Run to a place where no one knew, no one recognized, and no one understood his past. Over the years, he had traveled from place to place, changing his appearance.

His identity, name, contact information, and even his appearance, had become very different from before.

He was confident that even if his adoptive parents, or even his sister's ghost, stood in front of him, they might not be able to recognize him.

Because even he himself could no longer recognize himself.

But the good thing about doing this was that he had completely gotten rid of that damn rabbit.

It never appeared again.

Pan Du had consulted a psychologist, speaking from the perspective of a victim. The other party's answer was very subtle, but he understood.

All of this was his imagination. There was no rabbit at all. That rabbit had long been thrown into the abandoned well by him.

Together with his damned sister, never to see the light of day.

The rabbit he saw was just an image, his guilt and fear tormenting him, although he didn't think he had any.

So many years had passed, and he thought he had escaped from that village and that hillside, but everything that appeared before his eyes shattered his illusion.

He had never really escaped.

That rabbit... had come back to find him again.

No, it was his younger sister!

His younger sister had come to claim his life!

Suddenly, Pan Du, who was slumped on the hillside, felt a gloomy gaze, as if something extremely terrifying was staring at him from the shadows.

He immediately looked in one direction. Behind a few tree branches, a rabbit sat there silently, and through the gaps between the branches, a pair of eyes made of glass beads were filled with resentment.

How could this be?

Pan Du's breathing was rapid, and his heavy panting sounded like a leaky old bellows. He had just buried the toy rabbit, but in the blink of an eye, it had reappeared in front of him.

No, that's not right, it was following him!

The toy rabbit was still covered in dirt, especially on its paws. The dirt on them was very thick, giving the impression that it had been buried alive and had crawled out of the pit.

Like a vengeful ghost crawling out of hell.

"Don't, don't haunt me anymore!" Pan Du ran over like a madman, grabbed the rabbit and tore at it, and then, relying on his memory, ran to the abandoned well and threw the rabbit down, "You're already dead, you're dead, don't bother me anymore!"

"It's all your fault!"

"The reason you died is all your fault!"

"You shouldn't have appeared in this world. If you hadn't appeared, their love would have been all mine. They would have loved me forever and raised me as their own child!"

Pan Du grabbed anything he could find and threw it down, stones, clods of dirt... He was like a madman, trying to fill the entire well.

It seemed that this would bury the mistakes he had made.

But suddenly, his body froze, and his hand grabbed something strange.

It was soft and fluffy.

It was that rabbit!

It was leaning against the edge of the well, its eyes staring straight at him, but this time, Pan Du noticed something different from before.

The rabbit's face was slowly changing, especially its eyes. There was actually a gleam in those glass-like eyes.

Those were... human eyes!

They were also covered with bloodshot veins. Pan Du screamed. Just as he turned to run, suddenly, one of his feet stepped into empty air, followed by a rapid sensation of falling.

He had fallen into the deep well.

The deep well where he had disposed of his sister's body!

But... how was that possible?

He was clearly running backwards, and the deep well should have been in front of him. These were completely opposite directions.

Before he could think, he felt a sharp pain below him. Finally, he landed, and the great pain caused him to black out.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he woke up. One of his legs was broken, having hit a jagged rock.

The well was already dry and very dark, but what frightened Pan Du even more was that faint gaze was still there, right beside him.

Since things had come to this, he hardened his heart, felt for a stone, and began to dig in the well. He wanted to dig out his sister's bones and scatter them to the winds!

"If you won't let me live, then I'll kill you one more time!" Pan Du said with red eyes, "So you can't even be a ghost!"

After moving rocks and digging out a lot of dirt, he touched something soft.

It was a rabbit ear.