Chapter 053: Escape Night
Rong Le was teleported to another place, with an ugly expression on her face.
He had a bad feeling in his heart. From the moment Yan Liu chose to teleport him away, he knew that he was not sure of defeating Yi Li.
Rong Le used this ghost to achieve her own goals, dealt with him, and even tricked him into giving up his murderous intentions towards her.
However, for some unknown reason, the ghost chose to protect him and turned against his own kind.
Rong Le slowly stood up and observed the surrounding terrain, and found that Yan Liu had teleported him to the vicinity of the administrative building.
Perhaps in his subconscious, this place where he first met was considered safe.
The library was not far from the administrative building, and Rong Le's cell phone suddenly rang.
He answered the phone, and Baiyue's voice came from the other end: "Where are you? We'll pick you up."
Rong Le: "How's the situation over there?"
Bai Yue: "I can't contact the outside world at the school right now. I don't know if the University of Michigan can detect Qiu Hai's abnormality. We came to the library as you said, but we tried everything and couldn't open the door to the top floor."
Rong Le: "I found the key to that door, but I can't go in now because I have to rush to another place."
Baiyue asked in surprise, "Where else are you going?"
Rong Le said slowly, "Go save a ghost."
Although he spoke calmly, Baiyue could hear the seriousness hidden in his tone.
"Are you okay? Wait for me to come find you."
Bai Yue hung up the phone, his head filled with questions. He then relayed the situation to Wang Qi and Chen Sisi, "I'm going to go get the key to the top floor from Rong Le. Don't act rashly, both of you. Try to wait until we get back."
Wang Qi folded his arms and said coldly, "I see. Go find Rong Le quickly. If you're any later, he might slip away again."
Rong Le's detached characteristics are deeply rooted in people's hearts. After spending a short period of time with him, Wang Qi and others saw through his true nature.
Baiyue sighed, feeling deeply that he was still worried about his old father at such a young age.
Why did he meet such a troublesome kid? He has seen so many naughty kids, but none of them can be as troublesome as him.
Rong Le hung up the phone. The library was considered safe now. All ghosts avoided it as if it were a safe zone.
Rong Le was very clear about Baiyue's combat effectiveness. Even the young Baiyue still had considerable combat power. Taking him with him would undoubtedly make the operation more secure.
After the two of them reunited and handed the key to Wang Qi, Rong Le took Bai Yue to the place in her memory.
Baiyue: "So, now can you tell me what happened?"
"It's a clichéd plot."
Rong Le looked forward: "The ghost wanted to kill me, but another ghost protected me. Although I don't know if it is still alive, I can't just leave it alone."
Bai Yue was lost in thought. "The human side is losing people at an accelerating rate. Without a suitable leader, the students simply have no power to resist. If this continues, the entire school will soon be overrun by demons."
Rong Le sneered, "Rong Qing might be hiding somewhere, leisurely enjoying this wonderful show. After all, he was the one who caused all of this."
"He will appear at the right time. Before that, we must make every possible preparation. Our enemy is not just a ghost, but also..."
Rong Le's expression froze.
He almost blurted out the words "City of Mist".
This was unprecedented for Rong Le. His vigilance unconsciously relaxed when he was around Bai Yue, which led to this low-level mistake.
He relaxed his guard.
Baiyue raised his eyebrows and didn't ask any more questions.
The two of them rushed all the way to the place where the conflict broke out. On the way, they encountered ghosts that rushed towards them and attacked them madly, but he dealt with them all cleanly and neatly.
"Baiyue really gives people a full sense of security."
"At this time, Baiyue and Rong Le hadn't yet become close friends, and she couldn't handle his confusing actions from time to time. If it were during the Polish era, she would probably have taken the cat away by the collar with a blank expression."
"By then, I was already a seasoned worker, a qualified owner."
"Although he's always bickering with Rong Le, Baiyue is truly a top predator. He's well-mannered and well-mannered, and his rhetoric is excellent. His martial arts skills are overwhelming in Poland, and he even manages the family business..."
"But why are Baiyue and Rongle together? The only three words that come to my mind are: together?"
The barrage was full of emotion.
When the two arrived, the battlefield was already in a mess.
Yi Li and Yan Liu were still there, the two ghosts were separated by a distance from each other. The surrounding ghosts ran away for fear of being affected. Yan Liu leaned against a big tree, gasping for breath in a miserable and weak manner, and he could no longer lift his arms.
Yi Li was in better shape than him, but he was also in a mess. With a gloomy face, he cursed Yan Liu as a lunatic, which earned him a low laugh: "I've been a lunatic for a long time, don't you know?"
Yi Li knew that he was a lunatic, otherwise the other high-level ghosts would not be unwilling to provoke him, but he did not expect Yan Liu to be so crazy.
For the sake of a human being, he actually fought with the intention of dying together with him.
Rong Le said, "It seems I'm not too late."
Yi Li's face changed, and he realized something was wrong at the first moment. He turned around and tried to escape, but he could not escape his fate and was imprisoned by Baiyue.
He turned around in horror and found that the young man's gaze at him was cold and heartless, as if he was looking at a dead object.
The long-lost fear made Yi Li tremble all over, and a thought was clamoring wildly in his mind:
escape!
However, he would not have the chance to escape. Baiyue cleared him away with a weary look, as if he was cleaning a stain.
Rong Le walked up to Yan Liu, ignoring the situation over there, and leaned over to half-kneel beside him and asked, "Are you okay?"
Yan Liu looked at him with a very calm gaze: "I should be fine, because I feel very refreshed."
"You don't have to feel guilty. I didn't decide to do this because of you. I'm just tired of this life and tired of Qiu Hai."
"Whether I'm a human or a ghost, I've been completely devoured by this academy."
"So, I'm already very satisfied to be able to choose the way I want to live in this miserable life. I choose to resist all of this, even if the price is a bit heavy."
Yan Liu smiled, his expression calm: "My journey ends here."
"By the way...I'm really glad I could see you at the last minute."
Rong Le's face darkened slightly. He kept trying to use the little red bottle, but the system kept popping up prompts:
[Not usable by non-humans.]
Yan Liu's eyes became a little blurry at this moment.
It seemed as if through Rong Le, I could see the young and immature self who had just stepped into the campus.
…
If I had been more patient, or tried harder to change myself, would everything have been different?
Yan Liu didn't know the result.
But he knew that even if he had the chance to do it again, he would still choose to take revenge on those students who bullied him.
Perhaps this is his irresistible fate.
Because we are in darkness, it is difficult to see the dazzling light.
And Rong Le's existence seems to represent another possibility for him.
This may be the reason why he chose to protect Rong Le.
[You have obtained your personal CG——]
"Yan Liu BE Line Light"
*
Chang Shan made a death list.
Everyone on the list is his target, and he intends to avenge Zhan Mingyue.
He understood that no one was trustworthy, not even his classmates who he spent every day with. The first ones to be affected by this plan were Xu Hao and his friends.
He got his phone back.
The action was simple. He only needed to squat in a hidden position, and when Xu Hao passed by humming a song, he would suddenly drag him into the dark from behind.
Xu Hao was a spineless man. After being beaten by him, he curled up in the corner and trembled, wailing.
Chang Shan searched his body and found his cell phone. After he asked where Zhan Mingyue's cell phone was, he got the unsurprising answer that it was in the hands of her roommates.
Chang Shan muttered to himself, "Why did you frame us as ghosts? Because you didn't want to expose the truth about your attack on us. You wanted to maintain the facade of being friendly classmates, so you took advantage of our inability to contact anyone else and fabricated the lie that we were ghosts."
Xu Hao didn't dare to speak at all. He huddled in the corner, looking at Chang Shan as if he were looking at the devil.
At this time, Chang Shan was still wearing glasses, but he no longer had the gentle and calm temperament of the past. He looked like a devil crawling out of hell, or a madman who had lost his most important treasure.
"Madman... Even if you kill me, you can't bring Zhan Mingyue back to life. We're all accomplices! Think carefully about it, using your brain that's in the top five of your grade. How can you fight the entire class alone? Our primary enemy is the ghost, isn't it?"
Xu Hao swallowed his saliva and said, "So, let me go. I won't tell anyone about this. But if I disappear, they will definitely suspect you. You have to think clearly about the pros and cons of this!"
"Profit?" Chang Shan muttered to himself, "I know it very well, Xu Hao. You know I don't like to do things without confidence, so when I made a move on you, my plan had already begun."
He slowly revealed a subtle smile.
"—You are the tool in my plan."
…
The door of Class A was opened and someone walked in from outside.
Xu Shan, who was talking to someone, heard the noise and looked back. When she saw the person coming, she said dissatisfiedly, "Brother! Where did you go? What took you so long to come back?"
Xu Hao said calmly, "I'm just going to the bathroom. Why are you so nosy?"
Xu Shan snorted, and the phone case with the pendant hanging on it in her hand was shining brightly.
Xu Hao's eyes fell on it, staring at the cell phone pendant.
This was bought by Zhan Mingyue and him at a jewelry store. The blue bear pendant was so cute. It was his gift to her for her seventeenth birthday.
The girl appears to be disgusted, but in fact, she has always been tied to her mobile phone, which is a signature item of Zhan Mingyue.
"Where is your own cell phone?" Xu Hao asked with a raised eyebrow.
Xu Shan was a little embarrassed by his question, and said with some embarrassment, "It's been out of power for a long time. Anyway, there's an extra phone here, so I'll use it."
"Really?" Xu Hao said gently, no longer as noisy as before, but instead showing calmness and composure.
Xu Shan hesitated, feeling like something was wrong: "...Brother?"
Xu Hao waved his hand, turned his back to him and walked towards the boys: "You can play with it, I'm too lazy to talk to you."
Xu Hao sat back in his seat and started talking to the boys in their circle. He didn't know what he said, but the boys who were gathered there burst into laughter. Xu Hao also leaned back in his chair and laughed casually.
Xu Shan felt that nothing seemed to have changed.
She also returned to her friends and discussed what to do next. The blue bear tied to the mobile phone dangled between her fingers, and she seemed to have received the same eye-catching treatment as the girl.
…
Rong Le: "Rong Qing will definitely appear at the critical juncture."
After watching Yan Liu lose his last chance of survival, he found a place to settle Yan Liu, and his expression seemed relatively calm.
Baiyue: "You mean when the entire campus was surrounded by ghosts and the only remaining humans could be counted on one hand?"
Rong Qing's identity has been shrouded in doubt from the beginning. This student union president is too perfect. He leads the students to fight against ghosts and is the most solid and trustworthy cornerstone.
The students who lost Rongqing were like a group of lambs to be slaughtered. Even Class A could not maintain its dignity and could only dodge the attacks of the ghosts in a panic.
"We can't guarantee the survival of all students with our own strength. Only Rong Qing can do this. The only thing we can do now is to explore the secrets of the library."
Rong Le narrowed her eyes slightly, and only then could she see some subtle bad mood from his micro-expression: "I'm not interested in dealing with him. I just want to destroy this damn Qiuhai Academy."
Sure enough, the ghost's death did affect him?
Bai Yue seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly asked, "After this matter is resolved, do you want to come to MIT?"
He introduced to Rong Le, "The full name of the University of Michigan is Miskatonic University. It is an institution dedicated to training investigators. The school has a wide variety of disciplines and experienced professors. You can learn the knowledge that interests you, and our goal is to protect this world."
“If you come to the University of Michigan, you will definitely be an excellent student.”
"I'm pretty good right now," Rong Le said nonchalantly. "Not only that, I'll be even better in the future. I'll become a legendary investigator, with influence that ordinary people can hardly imagine."
This is too much boasting.
The legendary investigator is not an honor that can be easily obtained. It is closely related to the events and abilities of the investigator. The total number of such investigators is also extremely small. It has been hundreds of years since the last legendary investigator appeared.
And even though the young man in front of him was intelligent, he was still far from that influential title.
Rong Le seemed to have seen something from his expression and teased, "At least I won't become a rookie investigator."
Bai Yue was speechless. "I've been wanting to say this for a long time. Your ability to disguise yourself is truly eye-opening. I've never seen someone so quickly switch from innocent to arrogant and difficult. You're the first."
Thanks to Rong Le, he has completely broken away from the false teacher-student relationship.
This unconventional kid shattered his delusion and left a deep impression in his life.
He is not as innocent and sensible as when we first met. Instead, he is full of evil ideas and you will fall into his trap if you are not careful.
Baiyue really wanted to travel back to the past and wake up the confused self at first.
Rong Le said coldly: "It's really difficult to deal with. It's not as reliable as when I was a teacher."
“…” He is truly his nemesis.
Baiyue: "Anyway, what should we do now?"
"We can try to go to the teaching building and maybe save a few more people, and then return to the library before dark. Before that, we can find some food to replenish our energy. Let's go, Baiyue."
The young man turned around and looked at him, his bright eyes with a dark green luster, full of vitality, emitting a radiance that made people unable to look away.
"Okay." He replied after a moment.
…
Rong Le frowned slightly, looking at the several missed calls on her phone.
Zhan Mingyue is always unavailable.
He was originally very confident in Zhan Mingyue. After all, he could see how much Chang Shan cared about her, and there would basically be no problems with him around.
But there is always a chance of something happening.
Rong Le pondered for a moment and said, "After entering the teaching building, we will split up and move forward. This way, the investigation will progress faster..."
Baiyue said decisively: "No, I refuse."
He looked at Rong Le staring at him in a daze, and said helplessly and unhappily, "Are you some kind of little animal that can't interact with people for a long time?"
"Every time we're together for a short while, you think about leaving the team and going it alone. Do you feel uncomfortable sharing the same air with others?"
He gradually became more venomous.
The barrage said:
"Baiyue's true nature is gradually being exposed, and the relationship between the two is almost reverting to the close friendship they had during the Polant period."
"Upstairs redefines best friends."
"Have you noticed something? Both of them are masters of rhetoric and have extremely high emotional intelligence, but only when they treat each other do they reveal their unpretentious side."
"Rong Le rarely acts with others. He always seems to find excuses to leave the group and do what he wants, even if teammates would make his situation easier..."
"Social impairment, or inability to form close relationships with others?"
"I think it's both. Don't forget that when the Polish module was first loaded, Rong Le sought diagnosis from Kurosawa. Although we didn't see the specific hypnosis scene in his mind, we can sense from his language that Rong Le may have unknown memories, which may have influenced the formation of his personality."
"A big boss suddenly appeared upstairs."
"Rong Le was a little flustered by Bai Yue's questioning. It turns out that Bai Yue was not as mature as he is now when he was young. He won't be so aggressive in the future."
"After all, this will scare cats away."
The comments were all saying that since the live broadcast room could not be banned, the real world had already regarded this live broadcast room as an important channel for obtaining module intelligence.
The special response department also relied on the intelligence they collected to significantly increase the survival rate of the pioneers.
What's more, observing the module from Rong Le's perspective gives you a psychologically happy experience.
After the fog lifted in an important urban hub, the attention to this live broadcast room was unprecedented. The eyes of the whole world were focused on that person, as if watching a grand performance.
In the module, Rong Le also sighed helplessly.
He folded his arms, his tone as nonchalant as ever:
"I'm truly defeated by you. I forgot that at your age, you need the recognition and reliance of your peers. I understand how you feel, but I don't have time to play house with you right now."
Baiyue: "You really are so easy to upset. When you get hurt, you get so angry that you try to attack others to cover up your own problems? You are obviously the immature brat, right?"
The two of them looked at each other unwillingly, then snorted and looked away.
"We've wasted enough time bickering. Let's stop dwelling on it. Let's go to the library as soon as possible, together." Rong Le glanced at him, emphasizing the pronunciation of the last few words.
Bai Yue turned his head away and said, "Good idea. If we hadn't had that conversation just now, we might have already explored the entire first floor."
The two walked towards the teaching building. After this period of tossing and turning, almost half of the day had passed.
Before entering the teaching building, Bai Yue glanced at the sky and frowned slightly: "It might rain in this weather."
Rong Le said calmly, "It's good if it rains, it can wash the entire campus."
After all, the environment outside is scary enough.
Baiyue didn't say much. The two of them went to the first floor and unexpectedly found it extremely empty.
Rong Le touched her chin in confusion: "To be honest, I thought we would receive a warm welcome just by walking in. Was I wrong in my judgment?"
"Or perhaps some special situation has occurred." Baiyue glanced upwards, as if he could see through the barrier of the ceiling and see the scene above. "Let's go up."
The teaching building is not tall, and the third floor is where the third grade is located. Along the way, they saw many traces left by ghosts, indicating that there are indeed many ghosts here.
But where did these ghosts go, and what led to the current situation?
Rong Le had a bad feeling in her heart.
This premonition reached its peak when they arrived at the door of Class A. Just standing at the door, Rong Le and Bai Yue frowned uncomfortably, and their extraordinary inspiration was frantically sounding the alarm.
Rong Le's heart sank, she pressed down with her palm and pushed the door open.
The classroom was dark, and the light coming in from outside created distinct shadows on the ground, breaking the originally quiet space. The first thing Rong Le sensed was the dizzyingly strong smell in the air.
Sweet and fishy, so rich that it is almost decadent.
Rong Le's face changed slightly, and she couldn't help but take a step back, with her back against Bai Yue's chest. He put his hand on Rong Le's shoulder, his expression more solemn than ever before.
In the darkness, one could see desks and chairs in the classroom piled up in a mess, and many figures in school uniforms lying on the ground. They lay powerlessly on the ground, their faces still filled with fear, their expressions frozen in the last moment of their lives, as if they had experienced unimaginable massacre.
In the center of the classroom, stood a silent black shadow, motionless as if dead.
When he heard the noise at the door and turned around, Rong Le dared to confirm: "Chang Shan?"
Chang Shan's eyes rolled slightly, and he said softly, "Ah...it's you, Rong Le."
Rong Le said in a deep voice: "Chang Shan, what happened here?"
Why did all the people in Class A die?
Judging from the traces at the scene, the ways these people died were different. Some were stabbed to death by people around them, while others lost their lives in the chaos. There were a large number of traces left by ghosts wreaking havoc, and most of the traces came from the people lying here.
Most of the students in Class A turned into ghosts.
The school's top elites, the class that could almost be said to have the greatest chance of survival, were piled up in this classroom in such a funny and terrifying way.
It's so absurd, it makes people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.
As soon as you open the door, you can feel the despair and tragedy coming towards you.
It was as if hell on earth had descended upon this classroom, and an unbearable tragedy slowly unfolded before Rong Le.
"...Everyone is a demon, including me."
Chang Shan said with a smile. He stood in the middle of the classroom, his thin body shrouded in darkness where no sunlight could be seen. The curtains of the classroom were all drawn, tightly blocking out any trace of light.
He stood among his classmates and slowly looked at them, his scarlet eyes flashing with an ominous light.
At this moment, no one could connect him with that gentle and calm young man.
Chang Shan almost sighed and said:
"As you can see, I killed everyone."
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