All sorts of strange tales and legends seem to circulate around the school playground—
It could be a battlefield burying countless corpses, or a graveyard where bodies were once left to rot in the wilderness.
Gu Xinghe had also noticed on several occasions that Shuguang Boarding School was built with the playground as its central area.
Centered on the playground, the school is divided into two parts: a teaching area and a living area.
Imbued with many bizarre elements, the playground of Dawn Boarding School also became eerie in this atmosphere.
As soon as Sylph finished speaking, everyone saw a steady stream of blood seeping from the ground of the playground.
The thick, sticky blood filled the air with a lingering smell of rust.
It also makes people feel nauseous.
At this moment, the seeping blood began to flow slowly across the playground.
It then transformed into streaks of blood-red lines that outlined the ground, forming a bizarre yet aesthetically pleasing pattern.
Large clumps of bloodstains, arrays drawn with blood.
Seeing this scene before him, Gu Xinghe instantly recalled—
This is clearly related to what he saw in the library before, after encountering those strange words and images.
Then, the scenes of sacrifice that appeared in his mind were exactly the same.
Before anyone could react, the bright red blood had already spread across the entire playground and was slowly spreading outwards.
At this moment, the people in the center of the playground seemed to be placed at the center of this array drawn with red lines.
It was used as a sacrifice in this ritual.
Meanwhile, Sylph and Elaine simply stood at the edge of the playground, watching the people who were being sacrificed with slightly indifferent expressions.
Nevertheless, when Sylph's gaze swept over Gu Xinghe, who was among the crowd...
He subtly noticed that her gaze lingered on him for much shorter periods than it did on others.
She seemed to unconsciously avoid his gaze.
Don't die!
At that moment, he clearly heard her say those words in her mind.
But on the other hand, compared to the slight avoidance in Sylph's eyes...
Elaine, however, seemed to be observing the crowd in the center of the playground with a truly indifferent expression.
Gu Xinghe had once heard her say that only Carol and Rekaya were the most important people.
But at present, this "importance" is clearly only relative to the sacrifice at hand.
The mediums mentioned by the two examiners seem to be the roles they play in this current sacrifice.
At this moment, everything seemed to finally have an answer.
Looking at the scene on the playground, Gu Xinghe finally understood.
Why did he find the array diagram he had seen in the "forbidden book" in the library so familiar?
Although he did not experience it firsthand.
However, based on the information revealed in the live stream, it can be inferred that there is likely something "unbelievable" in the infirmary.
Here, in the teaching area are the health room, the art room, and the lost staircase that Gu Xinghe accidentally fell into.
In addition to the canteen, solitary confinement room, and library within the living area.
These six locations were then connected around the playground, eventually forming a pattern.
The array pattern he had seen in the library earlier.
The images are exactly the same as those generated when connected to the "unbelievable" locations on campus.
At this moment, it was almost as if to prove the correctness of Gu Xinghe's guess—
[The Seven Mysteries: The Graveyard on the Playground Has Been Discovered]
Side quest completed (6/7)
Was this final sacrifice, performed on the school playground, Sylph's purpose?
Or perhaps, this is the true nature of the seven incredible things at Dawn Boarding School?
But while the other players were still somewhat surprised and caught off guard by this sudden and bizarre change,
"We're only here to check on the current state of [Calamity], not to give you permission to activate it now!"
"Sylph, you broke the contract!"
The two investigators were furious. Their calm expressions vanished the moment they heard Sylph's words.
The two who came to the academy to assess the school never imagined that they would encounter such an unexpected disaster.
"If you want to confirm the current state of [the calamity], how can any other way compare to experiencing it firsthand?"
After all, isn't suffering what you advocate most?
But then, as if remembering something, Sylph suddenly realized something.
A smile appeared on her face, as if she were silently mocking the two of them.
"Oh, I forgot, you two aren't exactly devout believers."
"However, in any case... the sacrificial feast has now officially begun!"
As soon as Sylph finished speaking...
The blood that had been slowly flowing across the playground, constantly outlining a crimson array, suddenly surged violently at this moment.
Then, as if echoing the other six "unbelievable" locations that appeared on campus.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe and the others could clearly feel the ground beneath their feet begin to tremble.
A red glow seemed to emanate from the various buildings not far away.
The bright red liquid flowing on the ground now seemed to have turned into mist and seeped into the air.
From a distance, the entire campus seemed to be shrouded in this red color that exuded the smell of metallic rust.
[Blood worship] [Sacrifice] [Array diagram] [Fresh blood] [Limbs] [Reorganization]
Gu Xinghe's understanding of the strange texts and images he had seen in the library became clear at this moment.
It was a sacrifice that was described and recorded, and it was the scene that was unfolding before all of them.
And this was accompanied by the tremors that had previously come from the playground.
The group discovered that the ground beneath their feet had now cracked open.
Then, a blood-red chunk of flesh, which had been buried underground and was beating like a heart, was exposed.
"Dong-dong-dong-dong"
Rather than a piece of ordinary flesh and blood, what was before them seemed more like a living being.
At that moment, the trembling sound it emitted seemed to resonate with the heartbeats of everyone present.
One sound after another seemed to directly replace the sound of everyone's heartbeats.
Along with this sound, Gu Xinghe soon discovered that his body seemed unable to move, just like in his previous dream.
Even thinking seemed to stagnate, and thought became slow and meaningless.
Before Gu Xinghe's eyes, it seemed that only the vast expanse of red in this blood-red space occupied his vision.
[70……60……30……20]
On the player panel, he saw his sanity value plummeting at an irreversible rate.
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