Blood mist filled the sky, blood was everywhere, and eerie red lights flickered throughout the academy.
And a piece of writhing flesh that appeared in the very center of the playground, seemingly within reach of everyone.
It was not a real physical attack on the body, but a mutation caused by mental pollution.
Even when it first appeared, it combined the already extremely high concentration of pollution and eerie atmosphere in the school.
The very existence of flesh and blood exceeds the threshold that everyone's mental strength can withstand.
Everyone on the playground at that moment felt a real and intense sense of dread.
Accompanied by the sound of bloody flesh, like a monster deliberately mimicking the beating of a heart in order to hunt its prey.
Everyone felt a painful sensation, as if their hearts were about to burst at any moment amidst the tremors.
At this moment, under the continuous influence of that pulse-like sound, everyone felt a splitting headache.
It's like having long steel nails hammered into the brain one by one, seemingly trying to snap all the nerves in the body.
However, despite this, they couldn't even raise their hands to cover their heads.
The moment they saw the bloody chunks of flesh appear, everyone's bodies instantly became paralyzed.
It's as if the physical shell responsible for external activities has already been taken over.
And the increasingly slow thinking speed is also being gradually eroded.
Gu Xinghe tried to move his still-functioning eyeballs.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that everyone else present was either kneeling or lying on the ground.
The black lines that were originally only visible when eating stewed meat in the cafeteria finally revealed their hideous appearance.
The winding, spiraling black lines covered their arms, then climbed up their shoulders to their necks.
Until finally, it completely took over their entire faces.
At the same time, the blood-red mass of flesh in the center of the playground also began to extend fleshy limbs.
It wrapped itself around the other people who seemed to have fallen into a semi-conscious state.
Blood-red tendrils coiled around the other players, as if trying to weave them into a giant crimson cocoon.
Then it slowly absorbs the nutrients from their bodies.
On the other hand, compared to the other players who were unconscious but still had expressions of terror on their faces.
Carol and Rekaya lay face to face on the ground marked with blood-red lines, their hands clasped together.
A peaceful smile appeared on their faces.
But the increasing amount of red blood seeping from the ground seemed to be slowly engulfing the two of them.
However, Gu Xinghe soon had no time to care about anyone else.
At this moment, the bloody chunks of flesh that had been buried under the playground ground were exposed.
The surrounding ground also developed more and more cracks due to its exposure.
Finally, the playground surface could no longer withstand the continuous and intense impacts from underground.
These spiderweb-like cracks burst open, and the ground was subsequently torn apart.
At this moment, the enormous flesh and blood that was originally at the very center suddenly burst open.
Then, the small pieces of meat that had been sprayed on the ground began to slowly reassemble.
Using the blood on the ground as a binder, a bloody monster made up of countless blood-soaked limbs and fragments rose from the ground.
Their shapes are distorted and bizarre, like human figures randomly pieced together.
Along with these monsters appeared a considerable amount of water that had already seeped onto the playground surface.
At this moment, it gushed out even more, instantly turning the playground into a huge pool of thick blood.
The space was stained with large clumps of blood, with mangled limbs and a dwindling sanity.
[The Seven Mysteries: The Human Model in the Infirmary] Has Been Discovered
Side quest completed (7/7)
But then, the electronic notification sound that suddenly rang in his ears slightly revived Gu Xinghe's thoughts, which had been almost at a standstill.
Why... would the game system prompt him at this moment that he had discovered the "unbelievable" thing in the infirmary?
At that moment, he suddenly realized—
All seven of the "unbelievable" elements from the side quests have come together in the playground at this moment.
The head symbolized by the weeping plaster statue in the art room, and the hand reaching out from the corner of the solitary confinement cell.
The stewed meat eaten in the cafeteria symbolizes the [body], while the anatomical model in the health room symbolizes the various [organs].
The lost staircase is symbolized by the staircase itself and the centipede spider encountered, representing the [legs].
And the [knowledge] within the library's "forbidden books" that led to this sacrifice.
They were all buried together in the end in the playground at the center of the academy.
At this moment, these fleshy monsters that appeared on the playground had absorbed human fear and various forms of pollution.
This is a tangible object formed by "combining" the body parts symbolized by the seven ghost stories on campus.
This resulted in the distorted and bizarre human figures before us, whose various parts appeared to have been randomly pieced together.
At that very moment, several giant cocoons on the ground began to merge with each other, and the flesh-and-blood monsters began to devour each other.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe inexplicably recalled a scene from when he and Carol were feeding fish in the pond.
I recalled the scene of fish cannibalizing each other back then, just like the scene before my eyes now.
They knew they were born with a huge deficiency, and at this moment they began to make up for it.
Those in higher positions devour those in lower positions, and are then devoured by those in even higher positions, until finally a single supreme being is born.
By this time, Gu Xinghe had also vaguely understood—
The way the headmaster once told Carol and Lecaya could keep them together.
It seems that everything located in the center of this playground is destined to either be devoured or be devoured.
And in the end, whoever is left...
It is an indescribable, irrational pollutant, or perhaps something possessing multiple consciousnesses.
It was all destined that it would be "one" born from the convergence of all the lives of all people.
You are in me, and I am in you; this is probably the ultimate definition of being together forever.
But compared to other beings, these players selected into the game instance are more like sacrifices of flesh and blood.
As Sylph had said before, this was a feast of blood.
And this playground now seems to have truly become a graveyard for their bodies.
Gu Xinghe looked at the dirty blood splattered on his body and the blood-red tentacles that kept reaching out to him from all around.
If others are caught off guard by this "face-to-face kill," it means they've already been killed before they even realize what's happening.
At this point, he could be said to have retained the last bit of consciousness, but he could only helplessly watch his current situation.
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