Extra Chapter 10: Principal's Office
[The initial password has not been changed]
Below that is a smaller line of words, which seems to have been added later:
【Date: Principal's Inauguration Day】
The principal's inauguration day? Does anyone know when it is?
Li Mu felt a sense of despair.
Suddenly, he suddenly remembered the page he accidentally glanced at when his teacher closed the notebook.
At the top of the page, there seemed to be a form printed on it. One of the spaces seemed to read "Principal's Appointment Record," and below that, there seemed to be a date...
His memory became clear in an instant, like polished glass.
He no longer hesitated, stretched out his hand tremblingly, and quickly entered the string of numbers on the password pad.
"drop--"
The green light is on.
The heavy dark red metal door made a slight "click" sound and slowly opened a gap inward.
The three of them were ecstatic, almost crying, and hurriedly pushed the door open and squeezed in.
Behind the door was not a cozy academic affairs office, but an extremely narrow corridor that could only accommodate one person.
The walls were no longer cement, but some kind of dull metal that seemed to absorb the light.
The ceiling was low, oppressive, and there were no doors on either side of the corridor, only cold metal walls stretching endlessly forward.
It was eerily quiet here; even their breathing and heartbeats were amplified countless times.
They can only grit their teeth and move forward.
I don’t know how long I walked, it seemed as if time had lost its meaning here.
Just when I was about to be driven crazy by this endless depression and loneliness, changes finally appeared ahead.
A door appeared on the right side of the corridor.
A huge, double-leaf, dark golden door, carved with intricate and strange patterns. Above the door lintel hung a simple yet majestic bronze plaque with two words engraved on it:
[Principal's Office]
arrive!
The three of them looked at each other and saw extreme fear and a glimmer of hope in each other's eyes.
Gao Meng stretched out his hand tremblingly, wanting to knock on the gorgeous but cold door.
However, just as his fingers were about to touch the door panel—
"bite!"
There was a crisp sound above my head, like the sound of an elevator arriving.
Then, the entire narrow corridor, including the door to the principal's office, shook upwards ever so slightly...
Feng Tianning, who was following silently behind, suddenly felt a strong and strange aura and was ready to take action.
Li Mu raised his head suddenly, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
He saw that on the metal wall next to the magnificent door, a row of extremely tiny red numbers that he had never noticed before had suddenly lit up.
The number clearly showed——【6】.
Sixth floor?!
Rule 2: [The school only has a fifth floor. If you find a sixth floor, please ignore it.]
Rule 3: [If you unfortunately enter the sixth floor, please close your eyes and walk forward ten meters, and you will be able to leave the sixth floor.]
They...unknowingly...entered the non-existent sixth level?
The huge, unspeakable terror instantly submerged the three people like ice water.
And in their eyes, the gorgeous and cold door of the principal's office, which was just a stone's throw away, no longer symbolized hope of solving the problem, but instead became an entrance to an unknown abyss emitting extreme danger.
"Close your eyes! Close your eyes quickly! Walk forward ten meters!"
Li Mu roared with all his strength, his voice distorted by extreme fear.
He was the first one to close his eyes tightly and rush forward like mad based on his feeling.
Gao Meng and Zhao Sha did as they were told subconsciously almost at the same time, closing their eyes tightly and following Li Mu as they stumbled forward.
In the darkness, the other senses that have lost their vision are magnified to the extreme.
They could hear their own frantic heartbeats and heavy breathing.
I could feel the touch of the cold metal ground beneath my feet.
You can smell the lingering sweet and rotten stench, which is so strong here that it is almost suffocating.
They could feel even more clearly... Just as they closed their eyes and rushed forward, something seemed to be... startled in the direction of the magnificent door of the principal's office.
An extremely slow, extremely heavy...metal friction sound came from behind the door.
It was as if something huge, cold and rigid was slowly, slowly... trying to push the door open.
The sound of the door hinges turning was dry and harsh, and each sound scraped against one's nerves.
At the same time, an indescribable cold malice that seemed to be able to freeze the soul surged from behind like a tide, chasing them closely.
Quick! Quick! Quick!
Li Mu shouted wildly in his heart, moving his legs desperately, and counting the steps frantically in his mind.
One step, two steps, three steps... The cold malice was getting closer and closer, almost sticking to their backs! The heavy friction sound became clearer and clearer... Seven steps, eight steps, nine steps!
Step 10!
Li Mu stopped suddenly and opened his eyes suddenly.
The scene before him made him stunned for a moment.
Gao Meng and Zhao Sha also stopped, opened their eyes, and then let out an unbelievable, suppressed gasp.
They... were still standing in that narrow, cold metal corridor.
That gorgeous dark golden door to the principal's office, carved with strange patterns...
It still stood quietly in the same place, less than three meters behind them.
The door...wasn't opened.
The terrifying friction sound and cold malice just now... seemed to be just an illusion caused by extreme fear.
However, the three people's cold sweat, their still wildly beating hearts, and the nauseatingly sweet and greasy stench all reminded them that everything that had just happened was not an illusion.
Rule number three... Walk ten meters with your eyes closed... and you'll be out of the sixth floor...
They clearly did so.
Why...are you still here?
Are the rules...wrong?
This thought, like the deepest nightmare, instantly gripped the hearts of the three people.
Just then—
“Click.”
A soft sound.
It came from the magnificent door of the principal's office.
I saw that the door...the top lock...opened by itself.
Li Mu, Gao Meng and Zhao Sha froze in place, their blood almost frozen.
Rule 3 is invalid?
They are still trapped on this non-existent sixth floor, and the door to the principal's office is opening by itself?
At the moment when extreme fear was about to overwhelm their rationality, a calm, even lazy female voice exploded directly in the three people's sea of consciousness.
"Go in." It was Feng Tianning.
"Leaving the third rule does not mean leaving the space."
Her words were not fast, but they carried a strange soothing power that instantly dispelled the despair in their consciousness.
"It's a cognitive detachment. Only by shaking off the mental pollution of the concept of the sixth floor can you truly leave."
The three of them suddenly came back to their senses and looked at the door again.
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