Chapter 416 A Guilty Mind "Ah!" Bai Wei couldn't help but let out a short scream.

"Bai Wei! What are you yelling about again!" Lei Kuan's angry roar came again.

Bai Wei was startled and realized that she had fallen far behind because she had been distracted.

She gritted her teeth and tried desperately to catch up, but the more anxious she became, the less her legs would obey her commands.

Su Tang, who was running at the front of the group, never looked back once.

She could clearly hear Bai Wei's every scream and imagine her panicked and disoriented state.

very good.

The NS-7 neurosuggestion inducer worked even better than she had expected. The most powerful aspect of this drug is that it doesn't directly create hallucinations, but rather amplifies the deepest fears in a person's subconscious.

Bai Wei has a guilty conscience, so everything she sees appears to be a ghost.

"Huff...huff...huff..."

Bai Wei felt like her lungs were a broken bellows, each breath burning with pain. She was soaked in sweat, which clung to her body, making her feel incredibly uncomfortable.

But what tormented her even more than the physical exhaustion was the mental anguish.

She didn't dare turn around, always feeling like something was following her.

It's not human, it's something... indescribable.

It made no sound, but Bai Wei could feel its "presence," as if it were always with her.

It's Wang Xiaoya! It must be her!

Once the thought pops into your head, you can't suppress it.

The rustling sound of the wind blowing through the poplar trees by the roadside sounded to her like a whisper: "She...is...watching...you..."

On her comrade's backpack, an untied rope swayed from side to side. In her eyes, the arc of that swaying motion transformed into Wang Xiaoya's feet, which swayed gently in the wind when she hanged herself.

"No...it wasn't me...it has nothing to do with me..."

Bai Wei's lips moved silently, her face paler than a corpse. She dared not make a sound, afraid of disturbing that "thing," and also afraid of being mistaken for a madwoman by her comrades.

"Bai Wei, you've fallen behind!"

A loud shout came from behind; it was the instructor who was running at the very back.

This roar was like a bucket of ice water, abruptly waking Bai Wei from her semi-mad state.

She shuddered and realized that she had unknowingly fallen to the very back of the line, a good twenty or thirty meters away from the main group.

"I'm...I'm sorry, Instructor! I...I'll catch up right away!"

Bai Wei was so frightened that she forgot all her fear and charged forward with all her might like a madwoman.

Seeing Bai Wei's flushed face, the instructor scratched his head, puzzled: "Has Bai Wei taken the wrong medicine today?"

The 5km cross-country run is over.

Bai Wei was practically dragged back to her dormitory. As soon as she touched the bed, she collapsed into a puddle of mud, too weak to even take off her shoes.

Seeing her dazed look, her two roommates ignored her and went about their own business packing up to go to the cafeteria.

"Hey, what's wrong with Bai Wei today? She's like she's possessed."

"Who knows? I guess she's cursed by Su An. Didn't you see how she reacts like a mouse to a cat the moment she sees Su An?"

The hushed whispers reached Bai Wei's ears without any attempt to conceal them.

She didn't even have the strength to lift her eyelids to refute.

Her mind was a complete mess, filled with those terrifying hallucinations from when she was running, flashing through her mind like a revolving lantern.

She was so tired that her eyelids felt as heavy as if they were made of lead.

Before she knew it, she drifted off to sleep, still wearing her sweaty training uniform.

...

"Sizzle... sizzle..."

A very faint sound, like fingernails scraping wood, jerked Bai Wei awake from her chaotic nightmare.

She suddenly opened her eyes.