Chapter 16 Clues
Meanwhile, the camera in the live stream suddenly switched to the girl who had just run away.
Wait, I wanted to see the boss kissing, how did we get here?
"Wife, wife, where's my wife?"
[They should be following the main storyline now.]
The girl ran down from the rooftop crying. When she reached the third floor, Lin Xi, who had just finished class, noticed her running figure.
It was right after class, and there was almost no one in the hallway.
The figure of the person running past was particularly noticeable.
Having experienced multiple instances of alertness, Lin Xi immediately realized that there might be a clue, and without thinking, he took off to follow.
Not only Lin Xi, but several other experienced players also took the opportunity to catch up.
Seeing this, Huang Linye, who was in the same class as them, also wanted to follow, but Lin Dong stopped him: "Let Xixi go by herself. We'll stay in the classroom and have class later."
"What if there's some crucial clue?" Huang Linye looked eager to try.
Lin Dong was speechless, showing no intention of holding back his words against his employer: "You'd better protect yourself."
The classroom was filled with eerie beings who appeared to be ordinary humans; the morning's classes had already been thrilling enough.
Two players were even eliminated for violating bizarre taboos.
Huang Linye, in particular, is the type who is both bad at the game and loves to have fun.
Despite being timid, he insisted on trying things and teetered on the brink of death several times.
Lin Dong felt utterly exhausted.
Fortunately, Huang Linye listened to advice and didn't deliberately do anything reckless. Otherwise, Lin Dong would rather the mission fail than continue this job.
"Won't Lin Xi be in danger?" Huang Linye, hearing Lin Dong's dissuasion, sheepishly abandoned his idea of chasing after them.
Although Lin Dong and Lin Xi were both bodyguards he hired for the instance, he didn't want anything to happen to them.
"She knows what she's doing." Lin Dong remained calm, showing complete trust in his sister.
The live stream camera followed several players who had caught up with the stream all the way to the first-floor restroom.
The moment I stepped into the restroom, it seemed like it had gotten dark, and the dim yellow light inside flickered on and off.
There was a huge mirror at the entrance to the toilet. The projection of Lin Xi and the others in the mirror was distorted and turned into a red mist of blood.
A pale face suddenly appeared from within the blood mist.
Some timid players were so frightened that they took a step back.
Lin Xi's prop was a string of bells clipped to her waist, which were ringing incessantly, as if warning her about something.
She realized something was wrong and left the restroom without thinking.
No clue is more important than life.
But the other three players weren't as quick as her; by the time they tried to turn around, all that was left was darkness.
Then a gust of cold wind blew in, and the light bulb exploded with a bang, leaving only darkness.
The face in the mirror disappeared, and a long, drawn-out sob came from the toilet.
The crying was somewhat shrill and unpleasant, like a fine thread wrapped around a person's neck, making it difficult to breathe.
The wind, seemingly out of nowhere, picked up and blew even harder.
"Yes, there's someone..." one of the boys exclaimed first.
Everyone looked in the direction he was referring to and held their breath.
In the originally dark restroom, a faint red light shone from one corner. The door to the restroom stall was open, and a girl collapsed on the floor.
Blood slowly spread from beneath her, winding its way into a bright red "death" character on the ground.
Jiang Liyue was lifted up by Pei Ji with one hand, her two hands still covering his mouth. She quickly pulled her hands back when she felt the dampness in his palms.
"Don't lick it randomly, aren't you afraid of getting dirty?" Jiang Liyue wiped it on his clothes with disgust.
Pei Ji smiled broadly: "It's alright, Yueyue smells good."
Jiang Liyue didn't tell him about the fight they had just had, but when a startled cry came from afar, she seized the opportunity to change the subject: "What was that sound?"
"Maybe some classmates are just playing around," Pei Ji replied nonchalantly.
Those little bugs' game shouldn't disturb him and Yueyue.
Jiang Liyue knew he was talking nonsense, so she didn't call him out on it. Instead, she brought up the matter of going back to class.
Pei Ji only wanted to be with her, but seeing her insistence, he didn't refuse.
"Then can you put me down first?" Jiang Liyue said in a soft voice, trying to coax him.
Pei Ji couldn't refuse her, so he reluctantly bounced her up a few times before putting her down.
“If Yueyue gets tired, you must let me carry you, don’t be afraid to bother me,” Pei Ji added, “After all, good friends should help each other.”
Jiang Liyue's good friend's rhetoric had finally taught him a lesson.
Thick black fog enveloped the school like a giant dome, pressing down lower and lower as if it would soon devour everything.
Before leaving the rooftop, Jiang Liyue looked back one last time and squeezed the thin piece of paper inside her jacket.
This is what the girl gave her when she was squatting on the ground.
Besides the thin paper, there was also the white candle she had received the night before in her pocket. After confirming that everything was there, she quietly took Pei Ji's hand.
Pei Ji stared at her with infatuation, his eyes filled with love.
Jiang Liyue did nothing for the next day's classes; she ate, listened to lectures, and was no different from any other student.
However, after a day of observation, Jiang Liyue discovered that there were three kinds of strange things in the dungeon.
One type is like Aunt Pei Ji, the dormitory supervisor; they are aware that they are supernatural beings and also have consciousness of day and night.
The second type is the strange one, like the other students in the class, who are given instructions but no thoughts or emotions.
Finally, like my roommates, I was an eerie NPC at night and an ordinary human during the day.
The first type is a slightly stronger weirdo, so it can maintain its self-awareness.
The second type is the bizarre phenomenon unrelated to the plot, used to fill the number of NPCs in the dungeon. The last type is the bizarre phenomenon related to the player's dungeon plot.
For example, Zhu Huan and her two companions, and the bullied sisters who were beaten on the rooftop.
Jiang Liyue felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the time in the dungeon; in the blink of an eye, it was night.
She didn't have a watch, so she couldn't verify her guess.
All I know is that after nightfall at school, the classmates changed.
Their skin turned bluish-white, and their faces were covered with many wounds, some of which were still oozing a mixture of red and white brain matter.
Due to Pei Ji's terrifying aura, no monster dared to focus its gaze on Jiang Liyue, the only human in the classroom.
However, Jiang Liyue could still hear swallowing sounds from time to time.
Surrounded by such a group of strange beings, Jiang Liyue was not afraid, but she still focused more on Pei Ji's face.
Fortunately, Pei Ji didn't turn into that kind of person, otherwise it would be too unfair to her to kiss him.
Jiang Liyue heard the occasional sounds of people chasing and running outside the classroom, probably players fleeing for their lives.
At those times, all the students would look out the window with greedy, longing eyes, and a chilling aura.
Jiang Liyue suddenly seemed to understand where the gaze she felt when she walked down the corridor last night came from.
The students didn't leave the classroom until the bell outside struck twelve.
As Jiang Liyue walked down the corridor with Pei Ji, she smelled a fresh scent of blood.
The corridor, which was normal during the day, has returned to its dilapidated state from last night.
As they walked to the dormitory entrance, Pei Ji clung to her and kissed her for a while before reluctantly parting ways.
After seeing Pei Ji off, Jiang Liyue stood in the corner of the dormitory lobby and finally took out the note from her pocket.
It was written in blood-red letters: [After midnight, in the grove next to the teaching building].
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