Chapter 213 Chapter 213
Park Yun-jae looked at Ahn Yoo-hee, and the girl squatting on the ground looked at him with pleading eyes.
After a long silence, Park Yun-jae finally said, "I don't know."
"I know." Li Tu walked over, squatted down under An Youxi's terrified stare, and looked into her eyes, "You are the sin."
An Youxi gritted her teeth and looked at Li Tu with eyes as if she wanted to eat him: "I don't know what you are talking about."
"An Yuxi and her followers bullied Han Xiuzhen, and then killed her one night."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire cafeteria fell into deathly silence. The students who were talking, eating, or lining up stopped what they were doing, all turned their heads, and looked at An Youxi in silence.
"I didn't!!! I didn't want to!! I didn't intend to kill her!" An Youxi screamed, she stood up, turned around and ran away.
Li Tu smiled and watched her leaving.
The students were still standing in their original positions, but their heads turned in the direction An Youxi moved, staring at her with lifeless dark eyes.
Ahn Yoo-hee ran to the buffet restaurant on the second floor.
Li Tu looked at Jin Chengyuan and the other two and asked, "Are you going to kill her?"
Jin Chengyuan chuckled: "We just want to live."
"But if I kill her, I won't let you get out alive." Li Tu said, "To the Strange Realm, all humans who enter here are food. Why would they choose not to eat just because food solves the problem of other food? Everything has already entered their mouths."
Jin Chengyuan obviously knew this, but he had no other choice: "As long as there is a 10% chance of escaping, we will try. Staying here will only lead to death."
The other two who followed him also nodded.
"Li Minyu, I don't know what your relationship with her is, but you'd better not get involved in this matter." Jin Chengyuan said coldly.
Li Minyu frowned slightly: "Killing a girl in exchange for your own survival, this method is really..."
"Let's talk about this after we get out alive." Kim Seung-won pushed Lee Min-woo away and chased after Ahn Yoo-hee.
Another person followed, leaving only the classmate who had traveled with Lee Min-woo, who looked hesitant.
"Sorry, I want to live too." The classmate said this to Li Minyu after hesitating for a long time, then walked past him and caught up with Jin Chengyuan.
Li Minyu looked at him silently. When the classmate passed by him, Li Minyu noticed a thin reddish line on the back of his neck, about a few centimeters long, which looked like a new scratch.
Was that a strange injury?
Injury to the back of the neck?
Li Minyu instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
What should I do? Should I chase him? The topic says that we need to solve the "crime", but it doesn't say whether the person who solves the crime can leave, or if the crime disappears, everyone in the class will leave.
Li Minyu was not willing to take the risk, so he decided to try his luck.
"You can't treat a girl like this." Having said this, Li Minyu also chased after him.
Lee Tu smiled as she watched them run upstairs to the buffet restaurant and said to Kim Hyun-jun and Park Yoon-jae, "It looks interesting. I want to go too. What about you guys?"
All the students turned their heads to look at the stairs leading to the second floor, motionless like puppets, who knows when they will suddenly move. Jin Xianjun and Park Yunjae were a little scared, so they nodded to indicate their willingness to go with Li Tu.
"Then let's go together." Li Tu had just finished saying this when he didn't know what order these stiff students suddenly received. They dropped their bowls, chopsticks and plates, turned their heads abruptly, and looked at Li Tu and the other two.
Those students who had their backs to them turned their heads 180 degrees, facing backwards, and stared at them intently.
Then, the first student puppet moved, and the others followed suit. Countless students stretched out their hands and rushed towards Li Tu and the other two.
"I #￥#——" Park Yun was so scared that he cursed for a long time, got up and ran away.
Jin Xianjun's face turned even uglier. He remembered that he still had a weapon, so he held the hammer and dodged and fought back.
It was obvious at first glance that these students were not human, so Jin Xianjun did not hesitate to attack them. Of course, their reactions and injuries after being hit were completely beyond the human range. The damaged parts looked like dents and cracks on wood, and there was no blood at all.
Park Yun-jae, who lost his axe, was more ferocious than Kim Hyun-jun. Seeing how pitiful he was, Lee Tu gave his scissors to Park Yun-jae.
Fortunately, these puppet students were not targeting Park Yun-jae and Kim Hyun-jun, they were just affected. Otherwise, with their abilities, it would not be easy for them to fight against the puppet students.
Their real target is Li Rabbit.
"You're trying to stop me from going to the second floor." Li Tu walked to the corner and pulled out the metal handle of the mop. It was a little light, but it had a strange enchantment and could still be used.
"Come to think of it, isn't it time for ten minutes?" Li Tu muttered to himself.
According to the rules of the game he and Qiyi set, if he couldn't find the item in a building after searching for ten minutes, he had to leave the building for five minutes before he could come back.
The goal of these guys on the first floor is to drag the party out until the end in ten minutes.
Li Tu swung the metal rod, and every time he attacked the puppet student, the puppet's body would be broken in half. When one was broken, several more would fill its place to stop Li Tu.
The speed of the encirclement was fast, but Li Tu's destruction was even faster. He was like a galloping horse, and he managed to kill a line through the layers of encirclement and headed straight for the stairs on the second floor.
Most of the puppets chased after them, only a few were still struggling with Kim Hyun-jun and Park Yoon-jae. The huge gardening shears were difficult to operate, and Park Yoon-jae was a little weak, so he soon couldn't bear it. He turned around to ask Lee Rabbit for help, but when he turned around, he saw the pink-haired boy stepping onto the second floor stairs without even looking back at them.
I originally thought that following Li Tu would be safer, but now it seems that this is almost like seeking death.
"It's over, we're going to die here." Park Yun-jae's voice was full of despair.
"It's okay. These monsters... probably aren't the type that will eat people right away." Jin Xianjun said while fending off the attacks of the puppet students.
Park Yun-jae: "Not right away? So you can eat it later?"
"I guess so. They are all puppets," Jin Xianjun replied.
He vaguely remembered that the illustrated book had mentioned that this kind of fake monster that only acted according to a certain pattern was either an extremely low-level monster that was not worth noting, or a puppet in the hands of a powerful monster.
This time it's probably the latter.
Although puppets do not devour humans, as powerful and bizarre tools, they will attack people according to the orders of their masters and bring them back as food, so if you don't put in enough effort to resist, the final result will still be the same.
"Come on, you must come back alive." Kim Hyun-jun was comforting Park Yun-jae as well as himself.
At the same time, he also felt a little regretful for following Li Tu. It was obvious that the other party would not encounter danger along the way as they were chasing the Core Weirdly. He was really naive.
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The buffet restaurant on the second floor.
Just like the first floor, it was time to eat here. The students eating and the kitchen staff filling the empty plates were all repeating their tasks mechanically. When An Youxi ran in in a panic, they didn't even look up and continued to eat with an indifferent look.
Ahn Yoo Hee also ignored them. She rushed into the second floor and immediately went into the back kitchen. The chef didn't stop her. IU did what she was supposed to do, as if the intruder didn't exist at all.
After opening the cabinet and flipping open the drawer, Ahn Yoo-hee finally found a boning knife. Compared to a kitchen knife or a meat cleaver, it was smaller and sharper, making it more convenient for girls to use.
This time the enemy is not a monster, but a human of the same race.
An Youxi bit her lips tightly. She wanted to go back alive. She would be the one who survived in the end.
Hearing footsteps approaching, Ahn Yoo Hee immediately hid.
"Mr. An, please stay here." Jin Chengyuan stepped onto the second floor and shouted loudly.
Students were busy eating at the tables, while others were carrying trays to the self-service counter and queuing to pay. No one was looking over here.
The student uniforms on the second floor were not black, but light beige, closer to modern styles. Because they were similar to the current student uniforms and the colors were also similar, it was impossible to tell who was where at a glance like on the first floor. Jin Chengyuan could only hold back his temper and look for them one by one.
While searching, he said, "Don't hide. You won't leave here alive anyway. The core of this strange land is Han Xiuzhen. Since you can't survive, how about using your life to help us?"
In the kitchen, after hearing these words, Ahn Yoo-hee lay on the ground, crawled slowly to reduce the sound of his footsteps, and crawled deep into the back of the kitchen.
All restaurant kitchens have a back door. Although it is not known where the back door here leads to, it is obviously the only way for Ahn Yoo-hee to leave.
"You killed Han Xiuzhen, right? You did a good job, murderer. No wonder you are called a criminal." Jin Chengyuan persuaded while looking for someone, "Don't hide, you will die anyway. I promise you that I will not tell these things to others. I remember that the police ruled Han Xiuzhen's death as an accident. Your family must have been very worried about this matter. It was not easy to hide the truth for you. Don't worry, I will not tell others the real reason why I killed you. How about I save some face for you and your family?"
"So, you're also being exhausted by me, okay?" Jin Chengyuan and the other two looked around all the students in the restaurant, but there was no sign of An Youxi.
Looking in the direction of the kitchen, someone made a gesture to Jin Chengyuan.
Jin Chengyuan sneered: "If you don't come out by yourself, but let me find you, then you won't die so easily. Do you understand?"
An Youxi said nothing. She had already reached the back door of the kitchen. When she opened it, she saw a face in front of her. She was so scared that she almost screamed.
The man immediately covered An Youxi's mouth and put his finger on his lips to signal her to stay quiet. An Youxi nodded, and the man put down his hand.
"Senior, why are you here?" An Youxi asked in a low voice.
Lee Min-woo responded, "To help you. I don't think it's a good idea to kill someone to be saved. I want to help you."
An Yuxi lowered her head, her messy long hair covering most of her face, and even Li Minyu couldn't see her expression clearly.
"Really? Thank you, senior." An Youxi said.
But she thought in her heart: I don’t believe a word you say, senior.