Su Deng watched as these figures, entangled and controlled by countless threads, tried to tear him apart. He gripped the hilt of his sword again, ignoring the roars and howls of everyone, including Su Muye, and slashed out with all his might.

"one!"

Halfway down the corridor, the figure disappeared, and she uttered a single word.

"two!"

With another slash, all the figures in the corridor were wiped out.

"three!"

The last number was uttered, and the third sword slashed towards the ceiling.

The hanging dolls, along with the chandeliers on the ceiling, all creaked and fell, turning to ashes in the waves of swords.

The corridor was a mess, and all the people had disappeared.

Su Deng straightened up and looked at the dark, long corridor. "Three times. You lost."

"You cheated!" Xiao You's voice came from the darkness.

Su Deng said calmly, "You said you had three chances, but you didn't say you couldn't kill them all."

"You... Hmph!" Xiao You sneered, "You didn't find me, you lost. I'm going to turn you into a doll!"

"Your true form isn't here. You used a bunch of illusions to confuse and deceive me. Even if it's cheating, shouldn't it be you who cheated?" Su Deng's eyes revealed sarcasm. "A sore loser monster?"

"I'm going to turn you into a doll!" Xiao You screamed, and countless threads flew out of the darkness, surging towards Su Deng.

Su Deng remained calm, neither dodging nor flinching. Just as the silk threads were about to reach him, he threw out the divine-level material he had just taken out.

Boom——

A phantom appeared, carrying endless scorching flames, burning away all the threads and turning into a fireball that disappeared into the darkness.

A piercing scream rang out, and the mess in the corridor vanished, restoring the cleanliness and tranquility of the girls' dormitory.

A moment later, footsteps came from the stairs, and girls in school uniforms appeared, each heading back to their own dormitory.

...School's out.

It's broken.

[404: Player Su Deng used the divine material, Divine Flame, to unleash a divine attack, defeating the boss monster in this dungeon. Now, all that remains is to solve the last two strange tales and leave the girls' dormitory to clear the dungeon.]

This is amazing material; it's really useful.

It should have been used sooner.

Su Deng exhaled a breath of stale air and stepped back to stand against the wall.

The last two ghost stories are about Aoyama Junior High School being a mental hospital and the idea that looking in the mirror at midnight can drive people crazy.

As for mental hospitals...

Su Deng decided to ask someone she knew.

After thinking it over, I decided on Hu Xiaojing.

Lights out at 10:30, leaving only one hour for washing up.

When Su Deng arrived, Hu Xiaojing was carrying her things to take a shower. When she saw Su Deng, she put everything down.

"Didn't you say you don't stay in the dorms? What are you doing here?"

Su Deng paused for a moment, then said, "I have something I'd like to ask you."

Hu Xiaojing laughed and said, "The top student even came to me for advice?"

Su Deng wasn't joking with her. Seeing that no one was around, she asked directly, "Have you heard about the fact that Qingshan Middle School used to be a mental hospital?"

Hu Xiaojing was taken aback. "I've heard of it, but it's all just rumors. Don't take it seriously."

Rumor has it that the land around Qingshan Middle School, especially the dormitory area, used to be a mental hospital. Later, something happened at the mental hospital, and everyone died. They died with their eyes wide open in disbelief, so every night they would come out and wander around the girls' dormitory, disappearing together at dawn.

They are either evil spirits or spirits trapped here.

"That rumor is false, but one thing is true: this place used to be a mass grave..."

Strange talk about this happens everywhere. Because of the many strange things that have happened at Qingshan Middle School, the school's higher-ups have tried their best to suppress the rumors and find many excuses to cover them up in order to prevent the school from closing down.

But Hu Xiaojing had heard from some of her senior classmates that Qingshan Middle School was relatively remote, not in the city center, and had been established for thirty or forty years. Before that, it was a mass grave.

Back then, it was still the feudal era. Some homeless people who died weren't allowed to be buried in their ancestral graves, so they were all thrown into mass graves.

After liberation, the mass graves were cleared, and the land was fenced off for building construction.

But it was a graveyard after all, with countless corpses thrown there. Putting aside whether the feng shui was good or not, the yin energy was definitely very heavy. Teenagers have the strongest yang energy, and with the righteousness of being a teacher, the yin energy could be suppressed, so the school was built.

They also said that in a few years, this place would become a blessed land.

"I heard that there were burial mounds near the school playground seven or eight years ago! A few years ago, when the girls' dormitory was being renovated, the construction team even dug up bones from underground..."

Hu Xiaojing whispered to Su Deng, "Actually, there's no concrete evidence of ghosts, but it's true that we hear women and babies crying in the middle of the night, but no one has ever seen them..."

Su Deng seemed thoughtful. "Then what happened to that girl who looked in the mirror in the middle of the night and went crazy the next day?"

"This..." Hu Xiaojing glanced around to make sure no one was watching before whispering, "You've heard of mirrors that can reflect things people can't see, right? Like those demon-revealing mirrors..."

"That girl was a student from the year above us. After hearing these warnings from the dorm, she refused to listen and deliberately got up at midnight to comb her hair in front of the mirror..."

"Then, something dirty appeared in the mirror that shouldn't have been there..."

He was terrified.

After that, the rumor that you shouldn't comb your hair in front of a mirror at midnight became even more famous in the girls' dormitory, and no one was curious enough to try it anymore.

"But I only heard about these things, and I don't know if they're true or not. Anyway, I've never seen them. Whether they exist or not, it's true that those things haven't harmed anyone..."

"However, the library caught fire tonight, but after checking, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the library..."

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