Because of Tang Xinjue's words, a blank expression appeared on the girl's face.
She stared blankly at the red line, as if she remembered something. Her facial features wrinkled uncomfortably, the hand reaching for the red line began to tremble, and her breathing became as heavy as if she was pulling a bellows.
"It's me... it's my... flesh and blood?"
Tang Xin Jue stared at her: "You were killed by the school when you were alive. Do you remember where your bodies are?"
Student Jiang looked up blankly, his expression even more confused.
"A body? I... don't know."
When she woke up from the darkness of confusion and accepted the reality that she was a ghost who had been dead for who knows how long, she just wandered aimlessly in the limited space, thinking about nothing except hatred for the school, and never thought about this problem.
Tang Xinjue nodded softly: "I see."
"I've always been curious why you were suppressed here by the school. The game gave you stronger powers. You should be the real NPCs here, but you became the sealed ones... Now I know."
She chiseled each word: "They steal your power."
After being eroded by the red line, the examinee's flesh and blood will be assimilated into the red line, crushing their internal organs and then vomiting them all out of their mouths. This process will be accompanied by the rapid draining of vitality until only an empty shell remains.
When the assimilation reaches its end, their ending will probably be like the body possessed by the ghost in the men's dormitory, which will explode, creating more red lines and becoming new nutrients for the school.
——Then before this, where did the dense red lines under the floor of the men’s dormitory come from?
The answer is already obvious.
"The reason the Academic Affairs Office can control this instance to some extent isn't due to their own power within the game, but rather to a group of bodies they already possess. Those bodies are you, who were once buried here."
Jiang's pupils constricted. Before she could digest this information, Jiang Lan, standing beside her, asked, "If that's the case, can we use the red thread to find the Academic Affairs Office? Perhaps people can sense their own experiences."
Ke Ke frowned. "Even if the red thread is made of blood, it separates from the body at the moment of death. How can there still be a connection?"
"The red line affects more than just the body," Tang Xin Jue said firmly. "If that were all, the male ghost could have easily escaped when he self-destructed—but he didn't."
"Right!" Guo Guo suddenly understood and nodded vigorously. "And if the ghosts have no connection to the red thread, why would they want to eat it so much? How can eating it help them escape the environmental seal?"
This shows that what is bound to the red thread is not just their bodies, but also their souls!
Tang Xin Jue sighed and brought the topic back to the topic, saying to Jiang, "Everything leads to the red thread, so we brought it back. Living people are devoured by the red thread, but ghosts can consume it instead. It will temporarily allow you to move freely within the dormitory building, but if you can't control your instinctive desires and consume too much, you will explode."
After all, a person's body can only bear one person's share of "flesh and blood".
After hearing these words, Jiang finally regained his composure from his shock and rampage. His complex gaze fell on the red line, and he spoke softly, "I want revenge."
This is their first and last wish, their first thought when they wake up from the darkness, and the soft spot that can drive them crazy but also sober.
Student Jiang tilted her head back slightly and opened her mouth, and an extremely piercing scream came out of her mouth. The whirlwind that had been sweeping through the dormitory room finally stabilized and gathered around her.
"I'll just take one and see if I can get out." Jiang swallowed hard and said sadly, "Just, take one first."
"No." Tang Xin Jue shook his head again: "You are now occupying No. 13's body. She has not been eroded by the red line and is not lacking in flesh and blood. If you eat it, you will explode directly with No. 13."
"so……"
The others understood Tang Xinjue's meaning and turned their eyes to the unconscious No. 5, No. 6 and No. 10 who were being supported.
The student ghosts need a body to resume their actions, and they also need a compatible body to eat the red thread. But now, they have three dying bodies that are in urgent need of maintaining life!
Jiang followed their gaze and was shocked: "Ah, they are not dead yet?"
Just now, when they were staring at each other through the hole in the wall, she was still wondering why Tang Xinjue and his group brought back three dead people.
Needless to say, Jiang waved his hand, and two strong winds blew up in the void, falling on No. 5 and No. 6 and disappearing in an instant. The two people who had closed their eyes for a long time suddenly took a breath and opened their eyes.
The next second, Jiang leaned back, and No. 13's body fell to the ground. She then entered No. 10's body, looking thoughtfully at the wound on her arm.
"She is very weak. Her strength is decreasing, and she will die completely soon."
She closed her eyes and said, "This feeling is familiar to me. It seems that I have had this experience before when I was half asleep and not fully awake."
She now basically believes Tang Xinjue's speculation.
It is not surprising that the school dared to kill countless students here and then use their bodies to do unscrupulous things.
Ever since No. 10 and the other two were possessed, the "red threading" of their bodies seemed to have stopped. Jiang even pulled out a thin red thread from No. 10's wrist, swallowed it whole, and smacked his lips twice, saying, "I don't feel anything."
Tang Xin Jue: "This newly formed red thread hasn't been processed by the Academic Affairs Office yet, so it should only be a semi-finished product. And since you're eating your own, the total amount hasn't increased."
She already had more guesses in her mind, but there was no need to say more at this moment. She handed over the red thread she had brought out and said, "Try this."
Student Jiang stretched his neck and sucked the thread in. Just as he was about to speak, his expression suddenly changed. He raised his hands in a daze, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
Then she turned and rushed to the hole in the wall, tentatively extending a hand.
His arms stretched out freely, then his shoulders, his head, his whole body... When Jiang was standing in the corridor, he was so excited that he couldn't even speak.
Tang Xin Jue reminded him in time: "A red line has limited effectiveness. Don't stay outside for too long."
Jiang was pulled back from the daze, still in a state of disbelief. It took her a moment to organize her words: "You know, I felt like I had been hungry for five hundred years and finally had a meal. It was the first time I knew what it meant to be full. No, it was the first time I drank a sip of water..." She gestured incoherently, trying to express her feelings.
The other two girls who possessed No. 5 and No. 6 ate the red thread and also showed indescribable strange expressions.
This was the first time they left the dormitory where they had been imprisoned for so long, and walked into the secret corridors that they had never known before. They felt as if they were in another world.
"I was wondering why they always knew what we were doing and what we were discussing, and they appeared everywhere like ghosts." A girl's eyes flushed: "So they were hiding here!"
When she got excited, a sinister aura exploded from her body, and she couldn't wait to dig deep into the ground to find the Academic Affairs Office.
Jiang came over with a bunch of red string and said, "Don't worry, eat first and then do anything."
Girl: “…Okay.”
Zhang You was taking care of the remaining girls. Seeing Jiang and the other ghosts eating heartily, he was still a little worried: "Xin Jue, the male ghosts in the previous dormitory also ate the red thread, but they couldn't find the Academic Affairs Office. Can we do it this time?"
"We are different." Tang Xinjue leaned against the wall, his voice clear.
The ghosts in the men's dormitory had already been decimated by the last exam, as they had slaughtered the students themselves. However, the women's dormitory remained intact, with a large number of freshmen's evil spirits lurking around covetously. Otherwise, the Academic Affairs Office wouldn't have been cowering until now, not daring to show up.
"There's one thing I don't understand." Zhang You walked over to her. She had just meticulously grasped some of the information in Tang Xin Jue's words, and after integrating it in her mind, she asked a question: "If the red line was created after the replica was formed, then these students' bodies were actually kept by the school a long time ago, which is why there is an opportunity to use them, right?"
——Then how perverted is this school that after torturing students to death, they would store their bodies, alienate their flesh and blood, and extract their power?
Moreover, if the school could really independently create something as sinister as the "Red Line", it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was favored by the game. How could it correspond to the weaker party in the copy?
Tang Xin Jue was not surprised that Zhang You would think of this. He smiled and replied, "Who said these red lines must have been created in the game?"
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