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Deadline Is Death
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Late one night after getting off work, I was scrolling through my company group chat when a colleague shared a piece of news. The headline was horrifying. "Night-Shift Courier Murdered During Delivery, Police Suspect Robbery." I zoomed in on the crime scene photo that had been partially pixelated, and a chill ran straight down my spine. Lying in a pool of blood, the courier who had been hacked to death was unmistakably me. I had scrolled into news of my own death. Almost at the same time, my delivery app began vibrating violently. "Urgent pickup! Destination: Unit 704 Hawthorne Ridge Apartments, Building 7. Time limit: 15 minutes. Penalty for timeout: Death." As I stared at the notification that read "Pickup failed three times", the searing pain of my brutal death surged through my body. So that was it. I had already died three times. When I forced open the half-closed security door of 704 for the fourth time, a thin delivery envelope lay quietly inside. I tore it open. A photograph slipped out. It was a picture of my dismembered body. The timestamp showed tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. On the back was a single line written in fresh blood: "Next time, remember to pick it up on time." At that moment, the red indicator light on the hallway surveillance camera suddenly went dark. I looked up. From the ventilation opening in the exact same spot, a single eye was staring straight at me. The mole at the corner of that eye was identical to mine.
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Deadline Is Death Chapter 9
At 1:00 a.m., the lights came on in the main hall of the old house.My mother was sitting in a chair. When she saw me, her eyes lit up."Noah…"The other me stepped out from the inner room, a knife in his hand.My mother dropped to her knees, crying and begging. "I was wrong… please save me…""When you sold him back then, did you ever think about today?" I asked coldly. "Answer me."She only cried, refusing to respond.The other me raised the knife, aiming it over her head."Wait," I said. "If you kill her, will you really be free?""I don’t know. But I have to try." After saying that, he lowered his head in silence.My mother seized the chance and ran for the door. She stumbled, hit her head on the doorframe, and collapsed unconscious. Blood seeped from her forehead.I immediately called an ambulance.The other me dropped the knife and knelt on the floor. "You win.""What?""For the first time, someone chose not to kill," he murmured. "The loop is about to break."The s
Deadline Is Death Chapter 8
I looked at the man on the floor.The knife was in my hand. For a moment, it felt as heavy as a thousand pounds.The man woke up. When he saw me and the knife, he was so terrified that he lost control of himself.I lowered the knife. In the end, I said, "Get out."He scrambled away, crawling and stumbling as he fled.The other me looked at me. "Why?""He wasn’t on the list," I said.He was silent for a moment, then nodded. "The last one. Tomorrow night at the old house."He vanished into the night."Substitute death successful. Remaining loop time: 72 hours."For the first time, that message on my phone made my skin crawl. There was no one else at the old house, only my mother.The rain came down harder.Standing in the rain, I received a photo of a birth certificate.Twins.Noah Vale.Peter Vale.The word "stillborn" was circled in red. My mother had never told me I’d had a twin brother who died at birth.Rain splattered across the screen, mixing with my tears.At th
Deadline Is Death Chapter 7
"Joe Mack? Is that you?" Eric’s voice started to shake. "Don’t fool around with me…"Footsteps drew closer. I didn’t dare take a single breath."Noah!" he shouted my name. "Noah, are you still here?"I didn’t answer."Noah, I know this is your doing!" His voice cracked, on the verge of tears. "Get the hell out here!"I had already backed into the innermost stall. The door was ajar, and I watched the outside through the narrow gap."Open the door! Open it!" He slammed against something, his voice hoarse.I couldn’t see what was happening. I could only hear struggling. Muffled grunts. The dull thud of a body hitting a wall.It lasted about a minute.Holding my breath, I peered through the crack again. I pushed the stall door open and stepped out.Eric lay on the floor, eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling. There was a dark gash across his neck. The blood had nearly stopped flowing.The position of his right hand was strange; his fingers curled as if trying to grasp something
Deadline Is Death Chapter 6
"Because you’re easy to bully," he laughed."No connections. No friends. If something happened, no one would have your back. That batch of goods needed to be moved fast, and someone had to take the fall. You took it, I got promoted. Simple as that."On the phone, Eric spoke with complete confidence, mocking and sneering without restraint.I hung up.At nine that night, I went to a bar in the north called Night Harbor. Eric often entertained clients there. He had posted about it on his feed.I spotted him right away. His arms were around two women as he laughed loudly in a booth at the bar."That idiot actually called me to ask about it. I nearly died laughing." He shouted to the people beside him. "That was three years ago. What’s the point of digging it up now?"A bald man leaned closer. "Hey, Dawson, what’s the story?""Just a former subordinate who isn't right in the head." Eric waved his hand dismissively. "I cleaned up his mess back then, and now he’s trying to bite me bac
Deadline Is Death Chapter 5
After leaving the police station, I went straight to the old warehouse district on the west side of the city.Three years ago, Eric had been a regional dispatcher. Any abnormal package that passed through his hands should have been logged. If the records hadn’t been destroyed, they would still be s
Deadline Is Death Chapter 3
"No… that’s impossible… I was almost strangled to death! Look at my neck!"They had clearly seen the marks on my throat. Unfortunately, in the face of concrete evidence, every argument I made sounded futile."We need you to come back to the station and cooperate with the investigation," Officer Cr
Deadline Is Death Chapter 2
The key turned in the lock.I pressed my back hard against the door, the fruit knife trembling in my hand.Half a minute earlier, someone in the work group chat had shared another news article. It said the killer would dismember me.Was he really going to do it?Click.The lock opened.A viole
Deadline Is Death Chapter 1
"Huff—"The eye in the ventilation opening blinked. A dull thud sounded from inside.My legs gave out. I collapsed against the door of Unit 703, flinging the bloodstained photo aside.There was no time to think. I scrambled to my feet and ran. The stairwell filled with the pounding of my footstep
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