Chapter 051: Escape Night
Rong Le has had some bad luck this year.
It is the darkest moment, and the ghosts in the campus are frantically active. The rules have given them powerful strength, enough to reverse their previous disadvantages.
Rong Le was thinking of various ways to deal with the ghost in her mind. When she had listed more than a dozen plans, a slight sound suddenly appeared in her ears.
His face changed and he rolled over without thinking. The next moment, the ground where he was standing collapsed due to the attack, and he didn't even look back, but ran forward neatly.
Several shrill hissing sounds were heard behind him. When Rong Le turned the corner, he took the opportunity to look back and saw that there were indeed several ghosts. Among them was a low-level dog-shaped monster. Perhaps it was because it smelled the scent of humans that it was exposed.
Rong Le looked in the direction of the administrative building in front, and it seemed that there was no way to sneak in quietly.
According to his observations, these ghosts have different levels of evolution and are clearly divided into different levels. The lowest level ghosts have no intelligence and cannot even maintain a human form.
The higher the level of the ghost, the more it can maintain its human form and possess abnormal intelligence and strength.
These high-level ghosts must also have their own space for activities.
Rong Le looked at the brightly lit administrative building, knowing that a tough battle would be fought soon.
After chasing him to a position five meters away from the administrative building, these ghosts stopped at the same time, lingered there for a while, and finally left unwillingly.
Lower-level creatures can sense the presence of higher-level creatures and will not easily intrude upon their territory.
Rong Le looked up at the bright administrative building from outside and walked in.
Entering through the gate, you can see that under the bright lights, the cold and clean hall is empty.
This is not an area that students often come to. It can even be said that most students are unfamiliar with it.
After all, Qiuhai is a private high school governed by the student union. The principal's office is much more deserted than the student union's office. Rong Qing once invited him to join the student union, but he only took a quick look around here when he first loaded the module.
It seems that I can explore it properly this time.
Rong Le looked around and decided to go up the stairs. Although the elevator was operating normally, if there was a problem, it would be difficult to operate in the small space.
The main staircase is located in the lobby on the first floor, facing the door. Walking up from here in a swaggering manner is undoubtedly a provocation to the high-level ghosts here.
While Rong Le was generating a layout of the place in her mind, she walked to the side. There was a spare staircase almost at the end.
He went up the stairs and observed the movements inside when he was about to reach the second floor. The corridor was quiet.
Rong Le didn't find the layout of this place. Before the battle royale started, the people coming and going in the administrative building were all student union members. He and Wang Qi had no way of getting in, so he could only recall the path he had taken from his fragmentary memories.
The student union president's office is on the fourth floor, and the floors below seem to be other departments. Rong Le remembered when she came here that the building has a total of five floors from the outside. So according to normal logic, the principal's office is most likely on the fifth floor.
He needed to find a reason, a reason that would allow him to move around the building openly.
Rong Le's eyes swept across the corridor.
How many people are hiding in this building?
In other words, how many people and ghosts are there?
If there were students still wandering outside, it is very likely that they would panic and run to the building for shelter after hearing the broadcast. Moreover, there were still student union members here, and theoretically the possibility of them being infected was as low as that of Class A.
There was a sudden noise in the corridor.
Someone turned off several lights in the corridor, causing it to appear bright and dim at times. In the cold and quiet corridor, a door was slightly opened a crack.
After a long while, the people inside seemed to realize that there was no danger outside, and they bravely widened the gap in the door.
The light from the room shone onto the unlit corridor. Several people in the room were huddled together and locked together, not realizing that their shadows had completely exposed them.
Rong Le hid in the shadows, watching the boy at the far end nervously survey the corridor, and breathed a sigh of relief: "There's no one here, everyone, don't be nervous."
He seemed to be a member of Qiu Hai's second-year student union. Rong Le had seen him next to Rong Qing. He had come to the third-grade classroom to report to Rong Qing. When he noticed Rong Le looking at him, he smiled shyly and embarrassedly.
Perhaps they thought that there was no danger on this floor, so they relaxed a little.
"I'm so lucky to have met some little mice."
Suddenly, a strange laugh sounded from above.
In the darkness, ripples suddenly appeared, and then a figure slowly emerged from the ceiling.
He was also wearing Qiu Hai's uniform, but his eyes were clearly scarlet, and his strange appearance all pointed to one conclusion.
They were discovered by the ghost. The students turned pale and stepped back in fear.
The ghost was obviously enjoying the cat and mouse game, he was in no hurry to finish them off, after his entire body emerged from the darkness, he walked down from the ceiling.
"After waking up, eating a few snacks can really make ghosts happy."
He smiled and licked his lips with his scarlet tongue.
"Why don't you accuse me? I'm looking forward to your resistance. Hopeful snacks are delicious."
There was a strange laugh in his throat.
Obviously, he was not worried about these students accusing him, just as there was a price to pay for accusing. If they wanted to accuse a ghost of this level, all of them combined would not be able to match the other party.
After the battle royale began, accusation became a balanced game, where those in higher positions could accuse those in lower positions. In other words, as ordinary students, they could not kill high-level ghosts.
Several students looked desperate. Just when they had resigned themselves to their fate, a voice suddenly rang out: "If that's the case, I'm sure you won't refuse a snack that's been delivered to your door, right?"
They looked in the direction of the sound in astonishment. The ghost also looked in that direction.
At the end of the corridor, a figure slowly walked out of the darkness.
The boy's aura was very similar to Rong Qing's. Qiu Hai's uniform looked as if it was tailor-made for him. He had a faint smile on his face. Even if someone didn't know who he was, no one would mistake him.
"You are...the president's brother!"
The boy's expression was beyond words. He probably didn't expect that someone would volunteer to die.
Rong Le: "Looks like there's no need to introduce myself."
The ghost stared at him with its crimson eyes: "Are you here to die together?"
Rong Le looked at them and said sincerely, "I couldn't contact Rong Qing, so I came to the administrative building to look for him. So... no matter if he has turned into a human or a ghost, has anyone seen him?"
This sentence was full of complaints. The boy had completely lost control of his expression and was in a state of collapse: "How could the president turn into a ghost? And is this the only reason you showed up?!"
Is he still a normal person?!
The ghost snorted arrogantly and said, "Even if he hasn't turned into a ghost yet, he'll probably be soon, right? That guy has been leading the human side against us for so long, he should become a ghost and rule the entire campus together."
The boy thought he was doomed, but he mustered up the courage to retort: "The president won't turn into a ghost. Even if everyone else turns into a ghost, he won't!"
"The president led us to control the ghost and protect the students. There's no way he would fail!"
The ghost was furious and said, "In that case, I will eat you first, and then eat the little ghost over there. When I see Rong Qing, I will tell him that I have eaten his brother. I want to see what kind of wonderful expression he will have!"
Seeing the ghost rushing towards him, the boy closed his eyes in despair. Rong Le raised his voice: "Wait, don't you want to know where Rong Qing is?"
This sentence effectively stopped the ghost's actions. He narrowed his eyes and stared at him coldly: "What do you mean?"
Rong Le said calmly, "Since you are so obsessed with my brother, why not just come with me? Rong Qing must be looking for me too. Follow me and you will find Rong Qing."
He said firmly, "You must be eager to see him, whether it's to turn him into a ghost or eat him."
"What's your purpose in doing this? Are you trying to save them?"
The ghost said this and laughed out loud at his own words.
He seemed to find it very funny, but Rong Le had no intention of laughing at all. He slowly stopped laughing and said in disbelief, "Really? In order to save them, you plan to take me to find Rong Qing?"
Rong Le laughed softly: "You don't think you can defeat Rong Qing just by yourself, do you? You think too highly of yourself."
"If you let them go, I can be your hostage and take you to find Rong Qing. Otherwise, you won't be able to find him by yourself."
His attitude clearly exploited the ghost's weakness.
It is undeniable that Rong Le's provocation did work.
The ghost stood there with an uncertain expression, and finally agreed to Rong Le's proposal: "Okay, I can let them go."
The next moment, a shadow flashed by, and the ghost appeared in front of Rong Le.
His face was only a few centimeters away from Rong Le, and his tone was cold and dark: "Then, in exchange--"
"You belong to me now, Mr. Hostage."
…
Sometimes, the dividing line between ghosts and humans is very thin. When ghosts do not show their inhuman characteristics, no one knows who is their own kind.
The ghost's eyes returned to their normal black color, and he walked around the corridor like an ordinary student.
Not only that, he was also mocking her: "It's going to take you forever to find it if you keep searching room by room like this. Why not just call Rong Qing and ask him to come over?"
Rong Le's gaze didn't fall on him. She rummaged through the items in the room. "I said, I couldn't contact him, so I had to look everywhere. Besides, he wasn't in the president's office, was he? Otherwise, you would have found him a long time ago."
After the battle royale started, Rong Qing disappeared completely. He didn't speak in the group chat, even when someone tagged him.
No one could contact him, including his brother.
Soon, Rong Le successfully reached the fifth floor and found the principal's office.
The locked door was pushed open by Gui with an impatient slap. After entering, he looked around and was disappointed not to see Rong Qing.
Rong Le followed him in and started searching everywhere.
The ghost watched him rummaging through the documents and couldn't help but ask, "Then what are you looking for here? Rong Qing can't be hiding in these documents."
Rong Le said as a matter of course: "What if my brother left a mark on me somewhere?"
As long as it involves Rong Qing, the ghosts will shut up and let Rong Le act.
His eyes were always fixed on Rong Le. In fact, he didn't care whether he could find Rong Qing or not. No matter what, he would have a sweet and delicious prey.
And this prey was too much to his liking, so he was not in a hurry to eat it.
While Rong Le was searching, her eyes inadvertently swept across the bored ghost leaning against the doorway.
...Since they can communicate, there is the possibility of negotiation. As long as they are intelligent creatures, even if their positions are completely opposite, Rong Le can get the desired results through communication.
And now, this ghost is his reason for moving around in the building.
It took a while for the ghost to see him, and gradually lost his patience and turned his eyes away from him.
Rong Le naturally moved to the side of the desk, and by covering her eyes and moving her fingers slightly, she quickly opened the locked drawer.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, forming a happy arc.
His slender fingers took out the key, and he secretly took it out and hid it on his body.
The key was in hand, but the mission was not yet completed, so Rong Le tricked the ghost and left.
The ghost stared at him and asked, "Where to go next?"
Rong Le was thinking about how to get rid of it: "Since there is no one in the administrative building, I can only ask you to accompany me to the dormitory."
The ghost sneered: "No problem, if I can't find Rong Qing there, I will eat you."
…
When we left, it was already dawn.
Next, we will enter a continuous, long and painful period of tug-of-war.
Ghosts do not need to eat, but after a night, students urgently need food to replenish their strength.
Even if the students have food stored, they are just snacks and cannot really fill their stomachs. If they continue to be hungry, their physical strength will be lost, and they will not have the energy to run when they encounter danger.
The campus was very quiet at the moment, and there was no one else in sight except the two of them.
Rong Le walked slowly to a vending machine and bought two bottles of drinks and a bag of bread.
"Here, don't tell me ghosts don't even drink."
Gui took the drink and looked at Rong Le, who was sitting lazily on a bench by the roadside.
He hadn't slept all night and didn't have the energy of a ghost. At this moment, his physical strength was exhausted, his handsome face looked a little haggard, his green eyes drooped, and he was sitting on a bench slowly eating bread.
The ghost said in an inexplicable tone: "You...really not afraid of me."
Rong Le's voice was a bit nonchalant: "We are just using our relationship, right? Before the cooperation ends, what do I have to be afraid of?"
Having said that, achieving this is not an easy task.
The ghost felt a little complicated, and recalled the past events for the first time in a long time.
At that time, he had just arrived at Qiuhai and was only a freshman. When he stepped into the school gate, he was full of longing and expectation, thinking that he could spend a simple and peaceful time in this school.
He had a gloomy personality and was ignored by his classmates in his previous school, so his parents transferred him to this prestigious private high school in the hope of improving his situation.
However, what he encountered was not hope, but a nightmare.
Within two weeks of transferring to the new school, he became the target of bullying by the bad students in the class.
This time it was even worse, and scars began to appear on his body one after another.
He curled up shivering, hoping as usual to survive this long, dark hell.
From then on, his life continued to slide towards a muddy hell.
It was unknown how long this kind of life lasted. He became completely confused and isolated himself from the outside world. His grades also plummeted, falling from Class A to Class D.
His parents were disappointed when they heard the news outside of school and reduced their contact with him.
The living environment of Class D was even worse. His appearance was just a new target of abuse for these people, or perhaps his cowardly behavior made them even more excited.
Until one of his routine abuses, these people accidentally went too far. They immersed his entire head in a pool filled with water. The suffocation caused by the deprivation of air made him subconsciously struggle. In the pain, he vaguely heard the arrogant laughter of the abusers outside.
He struggled subconsciously at first, but then gradually became quiet, and his limbs gradually stopped moving.
Only then did those people realize that they had caused a big disaster. They hurriedly fished him out and tried to see if he was still alive. He suddenly spat out a few mouthfuls of water and gradually regained consciousness.
After realizing what was happening, he slowly let out a low laugh.
——This was the closest he had ever been to death.
This time, the feeling of being on the verge of death seemed to have turned on a magical switch, and his personality underwent a subversive change. He began to fight with those who were looking for trouble, and even though he was covered in bruises, he still bit like a mad dog.
Yes, he was crazy. His entire personality and self-esteem had been shattered and trampled in the mud, destroyed and recast by the melting pot of Qiu Hai, and evolved into a shell that could better adapt to survival here.
He abandoned his weak human body and voluntarily became a more powerful ghost. He wanted revenge and would trample under his feet all those who looked down on him, making them wail in agony.
He began to enjoy everything here.
He will dedicate his entire life to this campus, waiting to devour every lamb that falls here.
Gui looked at Rong Le with mixed feelings. Rong Le was actually very famous in Qiuhai, not only because of his status as the student union president's younger brother, but also because he was equally outstanding.
As a student who transferred in the third grade, it is reasonable that she would not be able to accept Qiu Hai's unique living system at all, but Rong Le withstood the pressure and even never participated in the accusation, but she was never bullied.
Not only that, he integrated into Class A shortly after entering school and became a part of it. That group of arrogant students in Class A had already been together for two or three years, and it was difficult for outsiders to truly integrate into the group.
It is obviously the same, or even more unfavorable situation, so why can this person handle it perfectly and even do better?
Rong Le raised her head and drank the drink in one gulp, then stood up and said, "Let's go."
The ghost said a little later, "...I understand."
He began to think, if he didn't find Rong Qing in the dormitory, would he really eat him?
Rong Le was unaware of its gaze. After eating, he looked a little distracted, walking lazily on the road with one hand in his pocket. Qiu Hai's school uniform made him look tall and straight.
He seemed not to be worried at all about finding Rong Qing in the dormitory. He had a smile on his face and looked nonchalant.
It stared at the slightly curled black hair on the side of his face, which swayed as its owner walked.
"This is it." Rong Le finished speaking, and when it didn't respond, she tilted her head and asked, "Are you listening?"
The boy looked at it in amusement as it panicked and said, "You're making me doubt that you're not trying to look for it seriously at all."
The ghost said in a stern voice, "...Nah, nag! Stop making random guesses, or I'll eat you up right now."
The boy shrugged indifferently and walked into the dormitory building first.
They went straight up to the third floor without any obstacles along the way. Rong Le came to the dormitory door, unlocked it, pushed the door open and walked in.
The lights in the dormitory were off, and the entire dormitory was visible from the door, with no one inside.
Gui didn't know whether he was relieved or what, he stood at the door and coughed twice in a pretentious manner: "What a pity, it seems Rong Qing is not here either."
Rong Le had his back to it, so it couldn't see his reaction.
It pretended to be regretful for a moment: "Well, it seems that this bet... I won."
Rong Le: "Indeed."
"What I mean is, although I did win and I could eat you right now according to the requirements, I changed my mind."
The ghost acted arrogantly and said condescendingly, "I can avoid eating you, as long as you become a ghost, become one of my kind, and stay on this campus with me."
"We share endless life, coexisting with the supreme spirits and gods. We have unlimited time to do anything. No one will laugh at us or exclude us. We will live happily forever in Qiu Hai."
Rong Le turned around and commented, "That sounds really good."
The ghost raised his voice, and there seemed to be some joy in his tone: "You agree?"
Rong Le: "No, I didn't expect you to invite me, and I certainly haven't thought about abandoning my human identity and becoming another species. The conditions you offer are very attractive, but unfortunately, this world is just so terrible."
"I'm used to facing this."
The ghost said, "So you rejected me."
Rong Le's tone was very calm: "Yes."
The air suddenly became heavy, and an expression of anger, annoyance and even ferocity flashed across the rejected ghost's face.
...yet it eventually relaxed.
"Well, I appreciate you keeping your own mind, even though you rejected me."
The boy laughed again, his green eyes narrowed like a cat. Ghost refused to look at him like this any longer, turned coldly and walked out: "I'll take you outside the dormitory building, and I won't care about you anymore."
Rong Le: "Thank you very much."
He smiled and walked out of the room with the ghost, glancing at the dormitory one last time and closing the door.
*
"What's your name?"
"I don't have a name."
As they went downstairs, the two of them had this conversation.
Rong Le put her hands behind her back and approached the ghost with a smile, but the ghost had a cold face and looked like he was declining.
"Is it because you've abandoned your human identity that you've also abandoned your name?"
Rong Le guessed curiously, took a few quick steps to the front, turned around, and walked backwards while observing its expression.
The ghost sneered. When he came, he was intrigued by the young man, but when he left, he became the one who pursued him closely, acting curious about him.
However, once you’ve had enough fun with toys, you’ll throw away the boring ones, right?
He said sarcastically, "That's it. As a human, I'm a coward and incompetent. All day long, I'm toyed around by a bunch of idiots. The parents of this body abandoned their child, turning me into a poor, unloved creature. This is my story. Has your curiosity been satisfied?"
The surroundings suddenly became quiet. After a while, Gui couldn't help but turn his head to look and found that Rong Le was very quiet.
“…”
This is better, at least this time he can still retain some subtle self-esteem.
"Oh? It's really rare to meet a living person."
Suddenly a sound was heard in the corridor.
The two stopped and looked at the figures blocking their way.
The school uniform of this school can no longer be used as a proof of identity. High-level ghosts have been disguised and have blended into the crowd, wearing human skin that is difficult to distinguish between real and fake. No one can tell whether the people around them are human or ghost.
Standing in front of them at this moment were four or five boys from Qiu Hai, with nameplates on their chests that read "Class 2-A".
The leading boy said with a grin, "You two, are you human or ghost?"
Rong Le and Gui exchanged a subtle glance.
Rong Le said, "Before asking this question, shouldn't you first reveal your identity?"
The boy's gaze naturally turned to him. "Wouldn't that be boring? After all, ghosts and humans don't know who is their own kind. A human might brazenly walk down the street disguised as a ghost, and a ghost might hide its identity and blend into the crowd, disguised as an ordinary person."
"It's not appropriate to bring charges when the numbers on both sides are unequal. I think everyone is aware of this. I think we can save some energy and just ignore each other. This is the best outcome."
Rong Le spread her hands, her tone still light and carefree.
"You are indeed right."
The boy said in a tone of praise, then changed the subject: "But I don't intend to let you go just like that."
Rong Le: "Really? Two ghosts confronting each other. This must be the funniest thing on the first day of the Battle Royale."
He ignored the shocked look from the ghost next to him and continued:
"Are you right?"
He raised his voice slightly, "Junior Yili, the top student in Class A."
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