PD -Chapter 72 Punishment of Evil

After Liu Xiaopeng and I finished investigating the villa where her father’s incident had occurred, we told her to inform her friends and try not to play that kind of game again. She needed to be cautious over the next couple of days.

So Sun Yuxin called her friend Jiaojiao… She was one of the people who had played Truth or Dare with her and her younger sister that night.

Sun Yuxin called Jiaojiao to warn her that she’d better avoid looking into mirrors lately. But Jiaojiao didn’t believe her at all.

“Sun Yuxin, what era are we in now? Can you stop being so superstitious?” Jiaojiao’s voice came through the phone. It sounded like she was applying a face mask while talking, so her words were slightly muffled.

“I’m not joking. What those two people said this afternoon makes sense. My dad’s death was too suspicious—it couldn’t have been a cerebral thrombosis. This might really have something to do with Bloody Mary,” Sun Yuxin continued earnestly, trying to persuade her friend to be careful.

But the other party still refused to listen and stubbornly said, “You said I can’t look in the mirror, right? Then I’m definitely going to try it!”

With that, Jiaojiao walked up to her bedroom vanity mirror and shouted at it, “Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary!”

Sun Yuxin desperately tried to stop her over the phone, but it was already too late. She only heard three repetitions of “Bloody Mary” from the other end, and then everything went silent.

“Jiaojiao!”

Fear surged into her heart instantly. Sun Yuxin kept calling her friend’s name into the phone, but there was still no response.

Just as she was about to hang up to check whether the call had dropped, a piercing scream suddenly erupted from the speaker.

“Aah!”

The scream was so sharp it felt like it was about to pierce through her eardrums. She immediately tried to ask what had happened—

But her throat seemed to lock up from fear, and she couldn’t make a sound anymore.

“Hahaha…”

At that moment, laughter came from the other end of the line.

“Did I scare you into pissing yourself?”

Sun Yuxin froze. After a moment, she finally realized it had been a prank.

“The two people you met this afternoon are just frauds trying to trick you out of money and maybe even more. And you actually believed them?” Jiaojiao’s dismissive voice continued through the phone.

Although Sun Yuxin was angry, she suppressed it since Jiaojiao was fine, and tried once more to seriously explain the situation.

But suddenly, the line went silent again. Then came a series of heavy breathing sounds.

From that breathing, Sun Yuxin could sense fear—because the way she herself had been breathing after the scream earlier sounded exactly the same as what she was hearing now.

“What’s wrong?” she asked again.

“The mirror… there’s really someone in the mirror!” came a trembling voice from the phone.

“Stop trying to scare me!” Sun Yuxin thought it was another prank and said angrily.

But there was no laughter this time—only chaotic noise, like static interference or objects crashing down in the room.

“You are the one who killed him…”

A faint voice came through the phone, mixed with crackling electrical static. It was so chilling that goosebumps instantly rose all over her body. Sun Yuxin could tell that voice did not belong to Jiaojiao at all.

After another burst of chaotic static, the call suddenly cut off.

Sun Yuxin felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. She tried calling back repeatedly, but no one answered.

After hesitating for a moment, she rushed out of her house, took a taxi, and headed to Jiaojiao’s home.

Jiaojiao’s parents were out of town, so she was alone at night. Sun Yuxin rang the doorbell for a long time, but no one opened the door. In desperation, she called the property management.

The property staff knocked for quite a while, but eventually had no choice but to call a locksmith.

The moment the door was opened, everyone instinctively covered their noses—the stench of blood inside was overwhelming.

The lights in the house were on. As the door swung open, a vast pool of crimson blood suddenly appeared before the three of them.

The locksmith immediately dropped his tools and ran. The property staff went weak in the legs and only remembered to call the police after a long pause.

But for some reason, Sun Yuxin didn’t feel fear right away.

She carefully looked at the figure lying in the blood pool—it was Jiaojiao, the same friend who had just been laughing with her moments ago. Her entire body was soaked in blood…

Especially her head—her hair had completely turned crimson, and her eyes were nothing but two empty sockets, as if her eyeballs had been violently ripped out.

This scene strangely felt familiar to Sun Yuxin… because her father’s death a few days ago had looked almost exactly the same.

Only then did fear, like a delayed tide, crash into her heart.

The words “Bloody Mary” resurfaced in her mind. She suddenly remembered that I had left her a contact number, so she immediately called me.

“You said there was another voice on the phone?” I asked from inside the car.

Sun Yuxin nodded. She was certain that voice did not belong to Jiaojiao. It had said: “You killed him.”

“Is Bloody Mary back for revenge? Was your friend involved in something?” Liu Xiaopeng asked.

Sun Yuxin thought for a moment, then suddenly looked up as if she had remembered something.

“Yes… there is something like that. But… it wasn’t Jiaojiao’s fault!”

“She once dated a guy. Later, for some reason, she broke up with him, and the boy threatened her—saying if she dumped him, he would kill himself.”

“At first, Jiaojiao thought he was just talking out of desperation. But then… he really did it…”

“But that still can’t be blamed on Jiaojiao, right?” Sun Yuxin asked.

I nodded in agreement, but my mind was already thinking about something else.

If Bloody Mary truly came for revenge, then why did it also kill Sun Yuxin’s father?

Clearly, her father had nothing to do with Jiaojiao’s ex-boyfriend.

“Is it possible…” I suddenly thought of something and said to everyone.

“In the thirty or forty versions I’ve read, there’s one theory… that when Bloody Mary appears, anyone who has committed wrongdoing will be punished!”

“The first appearance of Bloody Mary was triggered by your sister’s summoning. Your sister is only a teenager, so she clearly hasn’t done anything deserving punishment—so it targeted your father instead. And this time, Jiaojiao herself didn’t believe it and insisted on summoning it.”

I looked at Sun Yuxin and continued slowly:

“If we don’t stop it, more people will be killed next. Not just your father and Jiaojiao.”