Even though it was difficult to see clearly in the pitch-black night, and even though the building was extremely tall, Lu Yanli could still see clearly what was happening downstairs.
A pool of soft, rotten flesh that was barely resembling a human figure lay quietly on the concrete floor, the bloodstains difficult to see clearly in the darkness.
How could it be? He jumped off the building
Is he the principal? If not, who is he
Lu Yanli was full of doubts, but now was not the time to calm down and think. He retracted his gaze and looked at the office again.
Suddenly, he found something wrong.
A cabinet door shook slightly, and I didn't know what was hidden inside.
Lu Yanli walked over slowly and stopped in front of it. He hesitated for a moment, then reached out and opened the wooden door. The scene in front of him shocked him.
Inside the door, a twisted bright red statue of a deity was quietly placed on the shrine.
Lu Yanli immediately went to the door and left the room without looking back. It was not until he left the room that he realized that he had just held his breath and cold sweat had already appeared on his forehead.
The moment he saw the statue, he had an impulse to kneel down and worship it without hesitation.
Is it because he chose to become a believer
Will the effect get stronger as time goes on? Will he be able to stay awake in the end
Lu Yanli unbuttoned his collar and looked down at the mark under his collarbone. It was getting brighter and brighter, almost bleeding. He buttoned his clothes again, looked back at the door, walked along the corridor to the end of the stairs, and stood in the shadows, waiting quietly.
At some point, there was a noise coming from downstairs, which was vague and not very clear.
"headmaster!!"
"Why did the principal jump off the building? What should we do?"
"There must be someone upstairs!"
"The principal has jumped off the building, should we..."
The dean of studies also rushed over. Seeing the body on the ground, he was shocked and angry. He fell to the ground and cried. Seeing him like this, other teachers also started crying. Unexpectedly, the dean of studies cried for only a few minutes. His tears stopped and he said, "The principal couldn't have jumped off the building. It must have been those two reporters! We must catch them!"
“Catch them!”
"Principal's revenge!"
The design of the school building was very strange, with only one staircase at the left end. Lu Yanli was standing on a high place, and could see the heads of people running up from below.
Every time they went up a floor, they would have one person guard the stairs while the others would go to the classrooms one by one to look for the person. If they found that the person was not there, they would immediately go up a floor.
If we continue like this, it's only a matter of time before we're discovered.
Lu Yanli quickly went to the toilet at the other end of the corridor. The door was not locked, so he rushed in directly.
"It's not on this floor either, it must be upstairs!"
"Search carefully, we can't let him get away!"
After a while, the group of people finally reached the top floor.
Lu Yanli held his breath, listening to their footsteps getting closer and closer, one door after another opened, and finally they reached the toilet.
In the toilet, cubicle doors were pushed open one after another.
"There's no one on this floor either."
"Impossible, where did he go?"
"Neither does the office."
The noise and footsteps hurried by, and I could hear the anxiety in the speaker's tone, and it gradually faded away.
Lu Yanli breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt something was wrong.
He did not hide in the bathroom, but climbed out of the window and clung to the outside of the water pipes and air conditioner on the outer wall. When he heard footsteps leaving and was about to climb back into the window, he saw a sharp gaze from the left that could not be ignored.
He looked sharply to his left.
On the left side of the teaching building, a head with a blurred face looked at him with a smile. When it saw that he had finally noticed him, the smile became even gentler.
The water pipe next to the arm began to break.
At the critical moment of life and death, Lu Yanli suddenly kicked the wall, climbed up a bit, clung to the window, and then flipped straight in.
As soon as he entered, he froze in place, his breath suddenly choking.
The voice-controlled light was not on, but one could still see a dark figure standing at the toilet door with his head lowered.
The moment Lu Yanli saw the figure, he lowered his eyes and did not look at it, but at this moment he caught a glimpse of the head floating outside the window out of the corner of his eye.
what to do
Lu Yanli had encountered this situation before, and he was used to seeking a glimmer of hope in a deadly situation. He clenched the gun and stick in his hands, slowly calmed his breathing, and walked towards the figure step by step.
He vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
Taking a quick glance, the figure was motionless, as if waiting for something.
Looking up again, Lu Yanli understood instantly. It was not lowering its head, but this thing was a headless corpse!
It stood at the door, waiting for its head!
After realizing this, Lu Yanli keenly noticed that the other party's toes were not in the right position, and he immediately understood what was wrong.
It had lost its head and couldn't "see" itself. Looking back at the head bouncing in the distance, Lu Yanli ran away.
The moment he passed by that figure, Lu Yanli felt an endless chill coming from the other person. Without stopping for a moment, he rushed out of the toilet and headed straight to the stairs opposite.
hurry up!
Faster!
If it could find its head...
In just ten seconds, Lu Yanli had already rushed downstairs and fired a shot into the air. A huge gunshot rang out in the silence, and he soon heard the voices of the group of teachers coming from downstairs.
“Here!”
"Quick! Stop him!"
The teachers were almost not human anymore, their expressions were fanatical and obsessed, their faces were pale, their foreheads and cheeks were covered with cracks, blood was seeping out of the cracks, they looked like a broken plaster statue. They gathered and walked upstairs, and had already reached the third floor, and were taking pictures with Lu Yanli who was running down from the fourth floor.
Lu Yanli didn't care about anything else, he just wanted to escape before the thing upstairs merged with his head. He rushed down at almost flying speed, directly knocked away the two teachers blocking his way, turned sideways over the railing, and jumped directly to the next floor. He used the wooden stick in his hand to smash the person in front of him away, and rushed out without looking back.
The moment he stepped out of the building, all the lights in the building went out.
Lu Yanli ran desperately.
That ghost has already seen itself.
Next, it will look for itself.
Lu Yanli didn't know why, but this thought suddenly popped up in his mind. The human instinctive fear reaction made him run away.
Inside the teaching building.
"Why is there a power outage? Everyone, take out your cell phones and chase after it."
"Who was injured just now?"
"Damn it, why is there a power outage at this time? Director, shouldn't the equipment in our building be repaired? No one can stand the constant outages."
There was a lot of noise in the dark corridor. The teacher took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone a beam of light in the direction.
"Director, another person has walked down from the upper floor. I don't know who it is."
"It must be that guy! Catch him!"
"Master, it... it doesn't seem to be..."
“Ahh—”
There were bursts of screams, and only the cell phones fell to the ground. As a figure walked by, the light disappeared instantly.
Lu Yanli was still walking around the campus.
He was slightly injured from the escape from the encirclement just now, but he had no time to bandage his wounds and just ran as fast as he could.
As long as Chu Xiu completes the game before midnight, he will survive whether he is dead or alive.
Looking at his watch, it was nearly half an hour before midnight. Lu Yanli took a breath, slowed down his pace, looked around vigilantly, and began to recall.
It should not be an illusion, before he discovered the Omniscient God, this religion was just a symbol that he had no impression of. But when he really began to understand the Omniscient God religion as a certain detailed religious cognition, the mention rate of this religion around him was so high that it could not be ignored, and it even directly affected the mission of outsiders.
What is the relationship between the omniscient god, ghosts, and missions
Is it a product of the mission? But why does the influence of a mission still exist after it ends
Moreover, the recent tasks have become more and more bizarre, and are no longer as simple as the ones I encountered at the beginning. In addition to the simple ghosts and their backstories, there seem to be many interfering factors. These must be inseparable from the omniscient god
Time slowly turned to midnight.
The remaining teachers in the school were all anxious. The school rules were very clear: no one was allowed to wander around the campus after 12 o'clock, otherwise, they would bear the consequences. They gathered together and discussed it, and simply left the school.
The principal is dead anyway, so it doesn't matter if they leave.
Chu Xiu was standing on the second floor of the teaching building opposite the main entrance of the school and could clearly see their figures walking out.
Strange, why did they leave suddenly
Chu Xiu was puzzled and before he could think about it, he saw the lights in a teaching building next to him suddenly dimmed.
It wasn't that the lights went out one by one, but that the lights in the entire building suddenly went out at once. It was as if someone had cut off the power to the building.
Could it be Lu Yanli who did it? Did he cut off the power
When Chu Xiu was about to contact Lu Yanli to inform him that the teachers had left, he noticed something was wrong.
A figure walked sideways towards the teaching building.
Every time it passed a street lamp, the lamp would quickly go out.
Chu Xiu took a breath of cold air.
This is definitely not a living person!
He couldn't escape now, and if he ran down the stairs he would definitely run into him. Chu Xiu turned around and rushed into the classroom, but all the windows in the classroom were equipped with anti-theft nets without exception.
He pushed the glass window open with force, and the electric saw in his hand started cutting the iron anti-theft net as thick as his little finger. The sharp and piercing sound echoed in the silent campus, and sparks flew.
Chu Xiu didn't care about that. He sawed a hole in the security window with a few strokes, jumped out from the second floor, broke through the branches and fell on the grass. He rolled twice, then struggled to get up and walked in another direction.
The injury on his leg must have worsened, and blood was oozing from the wound on his thigh. But Chu Xiu didn't care.
In front of me, my shadow illuminated by the light disappeared instantly and was buried in the darkness
There was no need to look back to know that all the lights in the building had gone out.
Chu Xiu limped towards the darkness. He did not go far, but stayed near the teaching building to observe.
The most dangerous place is actually the safest place. When the other lit teaching buildings went dark, it was clear that the ghost had left.
Now all the teachers in the school have left, but for some reason a mysterious shadow has appeared. He must find a safe building where he can play games.
Yes, where is Lu Yanli? He should have escaped, right
Chu Xiu waited for about ten minutes, and the lights in the teaching building nearly a hundred meters to his left suddenly went out.
Where did the ghost go
Chu Xiu carefully calculated the ghost's route and immediately turned around to walk away. Regardless of the pain in his legs and the blood flowing, he tried his best to speed up and arrived at the teaching building farthest from the building where the lights went out just now.
Midnight is coming soon.
Inside the school, the last teaching building with lights on was completely extinguished.
The entire campus fell into darkness.
Lu Yanli hid in the dark, breathing softly.
Like Chu Xiu, he immediately moved to other buildings far away from that building after seeing the lights go out, trying to stay as far away from the ghost as possible.
He didn't know how long he would have to hide, but when he was escaping just now, he found that the school gate was locked. The gate and wall of No. 4 Middle School were quite high, and he couldn't climb over them in a short time. He couldn't leave even if he wanted to.
What's more, he was vaguely aware that that thing would not allow him to leave school so easily.
Therefore, the most urgent task now is to let Chu Xiu finish the game as soon as possible. Once he finishes, all the weirdness will end.
Lu Yanli had already thrown away the wooden stick. He unconsciously placed one hand on the mark below his collarbone and looked around vigilantly.
There is only one minute left until midnight.
Fifty seconds.
Thirty seconds...
As the time came, Chu Xiu and Lu Yanli were stunned for a moment.
A teaching building in the school suddenly lit up with bright lights. The corridors and classrooms were full of students coming and going. They were holding their textbooks, studying hard and discussing with each other.
If it weren't for the pitch-black scene in the teaching building a minute ago, this scene would have looked like an ordinary high school, busy and harmonious.
No one cared about them, and the students seemed not to see them. Lu Yanli stood where he was, trembling violently at this strange scene.
What is this
A ghost's illusion
Two students came up the corridor carrying textbooks and passed through him. Strangely, the two people actually passed through his body and walked straight forward. They had smiles on their faces and had no idea that they had just passed through a figure.
Lu Yanli reached out and pinched himself.
It hurts, it feels like I've pinched a solid spot.
He tentatively touched a group of students beside him, but it seemed like he was poking directly into the air. Lu Yanli withdrew his hand, made sure they couldn't see him, relaxed a little, took out his phone to contact Chu Xiu, asked for his location, and walked downstairs to the building where he was.
He wanted to see what this illusion was going to do.
"Ding-ling-ling... Students, class is about to start..." the bell rang.
The students who were wandering outside the corridor quickly returned to the classroom, picked up their books and test papers, and soon the sound of reading aloud could be heard from other classrooms.
Somehow, Lu Yanli suddenly remembered Teacher Li's introduction before entering the school, claiming that the school's evening self-study was also a major feature.
Indeed... quite distinctive.
Lu Yanli finally met Chu Xiu in a building closest to the school gate. The mirror on Chu Xiu's body was still intact, but he looked pretty bad overall, with blood all over his legs and pale lips, and he was holding on only by willpower.
"I'm going to play games right away. Please meet me downstairs." Chu Xiu took out a mirror. "I calculated that at my current speed, it will take no more than ten minutes to walk to the fourth floor. If I don't give a warning within ten minutes, you must leave immediately."
Chu Xiu could follow the rules and leave immediately after the game was over, but during the time he was apart from the other party, the other party must have collected a certain amount of intelligence, and he hoped to learn some information. So he was ready to extend the time as much as possible.
Lu Yanli nodded and added: "When you encounter danger, you must also issue a warning, and I will do the same accordingly."
"Okay, the gunshot is confirmed."
Hearing him say this, Lu Yanli stretched out his hand: "I'm out of bullets."
Chu Xiu: "I didn't think about it." Then he took out two rounds from his magazine and handed them to the other party.
And then, he limped into the building.
Lu Yanli stood not far away, watching everything.
The sound of students reading in unison came from upstairs. Chu Xiu took out a mirror, pointed it at his face, read out his own name, and walked up a step.
"Chu Xiu."
"Chu Xiu."
His eyes never left the mirror. He held the railing with one hand and held the mirror with the other, climbing up the steps one by one.
It was indeed a bit weird to hear his own name being called. When Chu Xiu finished the first floor, he didn't notice anything wrong. He just felt a little awkward when his own name was called.
He started walking down the floor.
Take one step forward. "Chu Xiu."
Level 2. "Chu Xiu."
When he reached the third level, Chu Xiu's voice paused slightly.
The scene in the mirror... changed.
The mirror began to be covered with a layer of mist, and it was hazy and unclear. Chu Xiu had to reach out to wipe it, but when he wiped it clean, he was shocked to find that his face in the mirror was a dead face with purple skin and white eyes!
This face is clearly his own!
His heart was trembling violently, but he did not dare to stop and continued to walk forward.
What terrified him was that with every step he took, the dead face in the mirror would rot a little. It was barely visible at first, but became more and more obvious as time went by. When he stepped onto the last step of the second floor, the face in the mirror had rotted away to the point of being completely unrecognizable. It looked horrible and disgusting.
Calm down, don't panic.
Chu Xiu took a deep breath, turned around, and continued to walk up to the third floor.
The scene in the mirror changed again.
But this time, after just one glance, Chu Xiu stood there in a daze. His hand holding the mirror was shaking and he almost couldn't hold it steady.
In the mirror, a woman's face that was extremely familiar to him emerged.
It’s Chu Xian.
It's his...sister.
Chu Xiu took a deep breath, called out his own name to his sister in the mirror, and continued walking up.
This call seemed to wake up the woman in the mirror. She looked left and right, her short dark green hair swaying slightly.
"Sleeves? Is that you? Where are you?"
Chu Xian used to like calling him Xiu Zi, which was a nickname she specially gave him.
"Chu Xiu." Chu Xiu called out again, took a step forward, and there was no response.
"Hey? Xiuzi, don't scare me, where are you?" Chu Xian in the mirror was confused and looked around.
Chu Xiu took a deep breath.
He suddenly remembered.
Before he and Chu Xian were drawn into the mission world, one day, Chu Xian suddenly told him seriously that when he was alone at home, he heard Chu Xiu calling his own name.
At that time, she didn't believe it and thought she was hallucinating, but she listened to the recording again after being pleaded with by the other party, which made the siblings a little panicked. Chu Xiu specially stayed with her at home for a whole day, but there was no such strange thing again, and Chu Xian gradually stopped paying attention to it.
"Chu Xiu." He called again.
In the mirror, a hint of fear appeared on Chu Xian's face, and he began to look for someone everywhere.
"Don't scare me? I'm telling you, if you act like this, I'll definitely beat you up when I find you." Chu Xian entered the room with threatening words, but when she searched all the rooms and couldn't find anyone, she heard a scream instead, and the fear on her face could no longer be concealed.
"Chu Xiu." Chu Xiu's lips were bleeding and his mind was in a mess.
What's going on
What! Why would his current mission affect his past world
Chu Xian in the mirror took out his mobile phone, turned on the recording setting, recorded a few words of Chu Xiu's voice, and hurriedly ran out of the house.
The picture in the mirror darkened.
The fourth floor is almost here.
Chu Xiu took a deep breath, wiped the water stains from the corners of his eyes, and continued walking up.
He continued to look in the mirror.
This sight startled him again. In the corner of the mirror stood Lu Yanli.
How could he get here?!
Because the game command prohibited it, Chu Xiu didn't dare to look back. He turned the corner and stood at the stairs on the fourth floor.
Lu Yanli did follow.
What he didn't realize was that ten minutes had already passed. He took advantage of the short period of time to quickly check the entire building.
The teaching building was quiet, and there were teachers teaching. However, when he tried to use a mirror to look at the group of people, there was nothing in the mirror.
And that black shadow has disappeared.
Lu Yanli thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason, so he just followed. Then he saw Chu Xiu almost stopped after taking a step, not knowing what he saw in the mirror, with a confused look on his face.
He carefully avoided the angle so that the mirror would not reflect himself, and kept timing by looking at his watch.
What Lu Yanli didn't know was that this was just an ordinary task.
If "God" had not intervened, Chu Xiu and the others would not have met Wen Qing and Yun Qian. They would have randomly picked up two ordinary students to play games before reaching the Yinming Road. They might have survived, or they might have died.
The horror games on the second and third days will just be simple horror games, and they will not be caught in the vicious circle of reincarnation.
The last day of the mirror game is actually on the fourth day. They will encounter the shadow and the strange scene of students attending classes on campus. They need to uncover the mystery of the school through the next three days of games and the students they meet. In this way, the game is finally over.
But now, the mission has been completely destroyed, and both time and space are completely beyond the control of the mission. However, the only two people left, Chu Xiu and Lu Yanli, will not know, nor can they know the truth.
Now, Chu Xiu once again encountered a situation that was beyond his control.
In the mirror, there was the scene of him and Chu Xian doing a mission.
Before... He was not like he is now. He tried to let the taskers help each other, or at least help when they could. After all, the power of each person is small, and only by unity can they fight for a glimmer of hope.
This truth was taught to him by Chu Xian. Chu Xian was very smart and courageous, but she was more like an unrealistic idealist.
When a mission was about to end, Chu Xiu watched helplessly as a group of taskers he had rescued attacked Chu Xian in order to survive, causing her to slow down in her escape.
However, she was swallowed by the ghost.
The moment he returned to the real world, Chu Xiu strangled the man to death with his own hands and left with Chu Xian's body.
From then on, he would never save anyone again, and everyone was just a pawn that could be used by each other.
Now, the mirror once again reflects the scene at that time.
Chu Xiu wanted to shout loudly, hoping that Chu Xian would get out of the way.
Get out of the way! Don't!
No, this is a mission, she's dead... She's dead!
Chu Xiu gasped for breath, clutching the mirror tightly, his eyes bloodshot.
A knife appeared in front of Chu Xian, and it seemed that it was about to stab him.
No… No!
"Get out of the way! Chu Xian! Get out of the way!"
Chu Xiu roared regardless, stretched out his hand, and pushed away the knife in the mirror that was about to stab him.
He succeeded.
In the mirror, Chu Xian suddenly showed a weird smile. She grabbed the hand that Chu Xiu stretched into the mirror and pulled hard. Chu Xiu was pulled into the small mirror.
In the corridor, the mirror fell down and was caught by another hand.
Lu Yanli turned the mirror back to face himself, not daring to touch it. He stood there, still a little confused.
What did Chu Xiu see just now
Chu Xian, who is it
Lu Yanli stared at the back of the mirror, and was hesitant to turn over the front.
What will happen if you turn the mirror upright
Will Chu Xiu die
"Ding-ling-ling... Students, get out of class is over..."
The bell rang for the end of get out of class.
Lu Yanli instinctively assumed that the group of students couldn't see him, so he didn't move.
Unexpectedly, groups of students came out of the classroom. They soon discovered the stranger on the stairs. They stood at the stairs, staring at him with all pairs of eyes.