Extra Chapter 21
The pattern was exactly a twisted circle with a slash in the middle.
It was exactly the same symbol as the one on the note in his hand, with a scribbled note next to it.
This may be the key clue!
Li Mu's steps subconsciously slowed down.
He was struggling fiercely:
The rules demand immediate departure; the bell could ring again at any moment.
If you go to pick it up, you may violate the rules and face terrible punishment from the administrator.
If you don’t go, you may miss the key to leaving this nightmare forever!
In the moment he hesitated——
"when--!!"
The second bell rang without warning and quickly, louder and more unmistakable than the first.
"leave!"
Wang Ke pulled him hard, his voice filled with extreme fear.
All the numb students quickened their pace instantly and rushed towards the gate in silence.
Li Mu watched the notebook disappear into the blind spot of his sight, gritted his teeth, and was swept out of the library door by the team.
The heavy wooden door slowly closed behind them, once again isolating the "safe" yet deadly silence.
Outside the door was the short, dim corridor.
At the other end of the corridor, at the entrance to the utility passage they came from...
A figure wearing red clothes, with his head lowered and holding a huge registration board in his hand, was standing there quietly, as if he had been waiting for a long time.
It’s the cram school teacher.
He slowly raised his head, revealing a numb and dull face, and his cloudy eyes locked on the group of four who had just come out.
On the registration board in his hand, the scarlet "X" mark behind their names seemed to be dripping with blood.
The library's "safe time" is over.
The hunt begins again.
No warnings, no questions.
The cram school teacher suddenly moved. His movements were no longer as stiff as in the classroom, but were twisted and quick with joints bending in opposite directions.
Like a vicious puppet controlled by invisible strings, it pounced on them on all fours with a teeth-grinding clicking sound, so fast that only a red afterimage was left.
"run!"
Li Mu roared.
The four of them had no time to think about the direction. Their survival instinct drove them to run for their lives towards the other end of the corridor opposite to the teacher in red.
There is the entrance to the utility passage leading to the boiler room.
Behind him, the teacher in red let out an inhuman, strange roar mixed with sharp laughter and crying, and chased after him at an astonishing speed.
The cold resentment surged over them like a real tide, almost freezing their limbs.
While running wildly, Gao Meng tried to gather his spiritual power again, but it had already been exhausted in the previous fight against the dormitory manager. At this moment, he could only squeeze out the last bit of potential. A barely detectable golden light appeared on his fist, and he suddenly swung back a thin stream of energy.
The energy hit the red-clothed teacher, causing him to pause slightly in his forward movement. He let out an even more angry and sharp roar, and his speed actually increased.
"It's useless. Our resistance will only make 'it' more angry." Wang Ke shouted desperately while running.
"Go to the boiler room. The pipes there are complicated. Maybe we can hide there."
The entrance to the utility passage is right in front of you.
The four of them rushed in, scrambling and rolling, knocking over a pile of abandoned tables and chairs. They didn't care about the pain and rushed desperately towards the direction of the stairs they remembered coming from.
The teacher in red followed closely behind and rushed into the debris passage. He didn't even take a detour and directly knocked away the obstacles.
The rotten wood and metal crumbled like paper before him.
Stairs! I see!
The four of them climbed up using their hands and feet. The sound of pursuit behind them was getting closer and closer, and the sharp roar almost pierced their eardrums.
Just as Li Mu was about to step onto the last few steps and approach the iron gate leading to the dormitory area——
"Bang!"
A loud bang came from above.
The iron door leading to the dormitory area, which they had previously closed with great effort, was suddenly slammed open by some huge force from the outside.
The twisted and deformed door panel bulged inward and got stuck on the door frame.
A terrifying breath that was even colder and more desperate, mixed with countless tiny whimpers and curses, poured down from behind the door like an ice waterfall.
It’s the dormitory manager!
Or rather, it was the more terrifying existence that was attached to her.
It didn't leave either, it kept waiting outside the door.
There is a wolf in front and a tiger behind.
They were completely trapped in this narrow stairwell.
Despair gripped everyone in an instant.
"Run up." At the critical moment, Feng Tianning's cold voice was like an ice spring pouring into Li Mu's sea of consciousness that was almost frozen by fear.
“Go to the top floor, to the abandoned art room.
That's where the 'rules' first got twisted and torn apart.
It is also a weak point in its power."
There was no time to wonder why the art room, no time to question.
Li Mu relayed the order hoarsely: "Up, to the art room on the top floor!"
Gao Meng roared angrily, bursting out his last bit of strength and charging upwards like a bull.
Zhao Sha and Wang Ke were also driven by the desire to survive and tried their best to keep up! The red-clothed teacher behind them had already chased to the bottom of the stairs and pounced upwards with a smirk.
In the crack of the iron gate above, several pale, swollen hands with black nails were frantically reaching inward, trying to completely tear open the barrier.
The four of them squeezed through the gap in the twisted iron gate and rushed into the corridor of the dormitory area - but the scene before them made them gasp.
The hallway was no longer the same as when they had left it! The lights were completely out, save for the emergency exit sign emitting a dark green, ominous glow.
The walls were covered with huge black stains that pulsated like blood vessels, and the ground was covered with a sticky dark red film that made a disgusting popping sound when stepped on.
The sweet, rotting smell in the air was so overpowering it was almost suffocating.
What was even more terrifying was that the tightly closed dormitory doors on both sides were shaking violently, and countless painful and distorted human faces appeared on the door panels.
They roared silently and banged against the door, as if they would break out at any time.
This place has completely turned into a devil's den.
"Left, fire escape!"
Wang Ke screamed and pointed in a direction.
The four of them stepped on the sticky ground and rushed towards the fire escape door at the end of the corridor.
Behind him, the teacher in red had already squeezed through the iron gate, and the terrifying existence above was about to break through completely.
"Bang!"
Gao Meng kicked open the door of the fire escape, and the four of them rushed into the even darker and narrower stairwell, running up madly.
One floor, two floors, three floors... the teaching building seemed to become infinitely high at this moment.
Their lungs felt like fire and their legs felt like lead.
But the cold malice and breath of death behind them lashed them like a whip, and they dared not stop for a moment.
Finally, the "top floor" sign appeared in front of us.
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