Extra 14 Study Room (Part 2)

Choose for yourself? Li Mu felt a chill. This was simply gambling with his life.

At this moment, a girl who had been keeping her head down in front of her suddenly began to tremble slightly with her shoulders, and let out extremely suppressed, almost inaudible sobs.

Rule 6:

If you hear crying, ignore it. It's not coming from the study room.

Li Mu and the other two immediately forced themselves to look away and focused on their blank notebooks, but their ears pricked up involuntarily.

The crying was intermittent, full of despair and fear.

Faintly, they heard a few broken words slipping out from between the girl's fingers:

"...Red...don't...sixth floor...Principal...eat..."

Red? Sixth floor? Principal?

These keywords instantly pricked the nerves of the three people.

What does this girl know?

Gao Meng couldn't help but wrote a note:

【Ask her what's wrong? What do you know?】

Hand it to Li Mu.

Li Mu hesitated for a moment. Article 5 of the rules stated that learning issues could be discussed, but spreading rumors was prohibited.

Is this a learning problem? He glanced at Rule 5:

Trust your classmates, but don't take their word for it.

Ultimately, curiosity and the desire to survive overwhelmed caution.

He wrote a note:

[Classmate, what's wrong with you? What did you mean by red, sixth floor, and principal?]

Throw it gently onto the girl's desk.

The girl's crying stopped abruptly.

She raised her head sharply.

A pale, swollen, tear-stained face appeared in front of everyone.

Her eyes were wide open, but her pupils were as small as needle tips, filled with extreme fear.

She stared at Li Mu and the other two, her lips trembling, as if she wanted to say something, but her throat was strangled by the huge fear.

She suddenly grabbed the pen and started writing and drawing frantically on the paper. Then she threw the paper ball back to Li Mu like a hot potato, then immediately lowered her head, buried her face deeply in her arms, and her body shook like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind.

Li Mu's heart was pounding as he unfolded the paper ball.

On it was written in a frantic, almost penetrating handwriting:

[It's fake, everything is fake! The rules are fake, the principal is fake, it's deceiving everyone! It's hungry, it wants to turn us all into its food! Red is a warning! The sixth floor is a trap! Don't believe it! Don't go looking for it! Run! Run away! But you can't escape... No one can escape... We will all die... We will all...]

The handwriting stopped abruptly here, and the last few words had been completely scratched out by crazy lines.

The intense fear was like ice water pouring down on my head.

Although her words were incoherent, the girl was clearly accusing the principal, or rather the rules themselves.

Is it hungry? Food?

Thinking of the sweet and rotten smell and all the previous strange things, a terrible guess formed in Li Mu's mind.

Just then—

“Da…da…da…”

Slow and heavy footsteps came from the door of the study room.

A tall man in a gray uniform, with a face as stiff as a puppet, walked in holding a registration board in his hand.

His eyes were cloudy and lifeless as he slowly scanned the entire study room.

Is an administrator.

Rule 7 flashed through their minds.

All the students immediately lowered their heads and even breathed lighter.

The administrator began to patrol the aisle with stiff steps.

His steps were slow, and every time he landed, there was a clear "thump" sound, striking everyone's heart.

He walked past the rows of seats without stopping anywhere.

Li Mu and the other two lowered their heads and nervously stared at the pair of gray trouser legs and shiny leather shoes out of the corner of their eyes.

One step, two steps, three steps...

The administrator walked over to their row.

The footsteps... stopped.

The pair of shiny leather shoes happened to be parked next to Li Mu's desk.

Li Mu's blood seemed to freeze! He could feel that turbid and numb gaze falling on the back of his head.

One second... two seconds... three seconds...

Gao Meng and Zhao Sha were so frightened that they almost stopped breathing.

“Ding-ling-ling——!”

A sudden and shrill bell for the end of get out of class suddenly rang out from outside the corridor, breaking the dead silence in the study room.

The administrator seemed to have pressed a switch. His stiff neck turned and his cloudy eyes glanced at the door.

Then he took a step forward and continued walking forward, as if the previous stop had never happened.

Li Mu and the other two felt as if they were exhausted, almost collapsing on the table. Cold sweat had already soaked their backs.

The bell rang? Did that mean they could leave? Or something else?

The students in the study room began to pack up their things silently. Their movements were still quiet, but they moved much faster, as if they were unwilling to stay there for even a second longer.

The girl who threw the note to them was the first to rush out of the study room and her figure quickly disappeared in the corridor.

Li Mu glanced at the timer at the door. It had just passed 35 minutes. It hadn't reached the one-hour limit yet.

"Are we... leaving too?" Zhao Sha asked in a trembling voice.

Li Mu looked at the students who left in a hurry, and remembered the words "the dormitory is absolutely safe" and "escape" on the girl's note.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, follow them! To the dormitory area!"

Rule 5:

The dormitory is absolutely safe, but only between 8pm and 8am the next day.

It was still some time before eight o'clock, but they had to find the location of the dormitory first.

The three of them immediately packed up their things and walked out of the study room among the crowd of students leaving.

The atmosphere in the corridor seemed to become more depressing.

The lights flickered, and the dark green paint on the walls on both sides seemed to become even darker, and the black mold spots exposed in the peeling areas seemed to be wriggling.

The students in front all lowered their heads, walked hurriedly, without any communication, like a group of silent ghosts, heading in the same direction.

Li Mu and the other two followed closely, not daring to fall behind or look around.

Just as I passed a door with a sign that said "Teacher's Office", the door suddenly opened a crack without any warning.

A pale, swollen hand with black nails suddenly stretched out from the crack in the door.

It grabbed Zhao Sha, who was outside the team, and at the same time, a hoarse and greedy voice sounded:

"Latecomer... come here... turn in your homework..."

Zhao Sha was so frightened that her scream got stuck in her throat.

"Get out of here!"

Gao Meng reacted extremely quickly. With a roar, the meager spiritual power in his body burst out instantly, and he punched the ghost hand with a faint golden light.

"Bang!"

There was a dull thud, as if it had hit some rotten, water-soaked wood.

The ghost hand shrank back in pain, and a suppressed, resentful roar came from the crack in the door.

The office door slammed shut with a loud bang.