The New Singapore Horror Collection by S. J. Huang

Author:S. J. Huang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International

It was like walking the cemetery at night. She felt her way down the dark corridor, half expecting, with every step, to bump into something—someone, she corrected herself. A particular someone, in fact, and boy was she going to give him hell when she found him. She now wished she had asked the guard to accompany her, but really, between his paunch and his smoker’s lungs, she was probably better off on her own.

She thought she could hear a noise from a ways off. Her first instinct was to head for the laboratory, where all the expensive equipment was, but she reminded herself that she wasn’t looking for a thief. Prof Li’s interest all this while had been centred on the artefact, so…

She didn’t really want to venture, again, into the room where the sarcophagus was, but it’d be a lot worse if anything happened to it while it was under her watch. Like if it went missing, for example. She didn’t quite see the frail 70-something-year-old lugging the entire one-tonne-odd coffin out on his own, but he might very well be capable of lifting the concubine’s petite form.

Her heart skipped a beat when she saw that the door to the room was slightly ajar. She had closed it properly, hadn’t she? She was almost absolutely certain she had. She sidled up to the gap, careful to make no noise at all. Slowly, oh so slowly, she peered through the gap.

There he was. She swallowed hard. Her jaw tightened. And what the…The acrylic plate had been removed. He was bent over, back to her, and—she leaned in a little closer—oh yes, there were some strange noises. Splashing—no, slurping.

My god, what is that freak up to?

She tried to steel herself, but her knees insisted on being wobbly. Ignoring them, she slapped the door wide open and charged into the room.

“Just what do you think you’re doing!” she bellowed.

The bowed figure froze—then whipped around with a frightening suddenness. She quailed at the sight. His eyes were bloodshot and frenzied, and his lips—still dripping with the clear liquid he had clearly been imbibing—twisted themselves into a savage snarl. He advanced, fists balled.

“Professor Li—” she began, only to duck aside desperately as he sprung towards her. But there was no escaping the vice-like grips that clamped down on her arms painfully, digging into her soft flesh. That’s what a mouse must feel, rose a distant thought amidst the red-hot panic, when an owl seizes it with its claws. A moment of wild terror as she was driven through the air, her feet swept clean off the ground—then a flash of sharp pain and a shuddering gasp as she was slammed against the wall with a sickening crack. Her wiry assailant was much stronger than he looked.

“Why—must—you—interfere!” he screamed, firing flecks of spit right into her cowering face.

Her mind was working feverishly now. If she screamed, the guard just might hear her, but who knew what that maniac might do to her while her knight

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