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"Are the death ditions the same?"
"Yes."
"And the time of death?" Jiang g pressed on, tinuing to ask.
"People started dying the day after Yao itted suicide. It began with the security guards," Li Yanwei nodded as she spoke. "The end date..." She thought for a moment, and then, as if suddenly remembering something, immediately said, "It was before the third rehearsal!"
"Yes," she recalled. "It was definitely before the third rehearsal! Because after that i, the time left to prepare for the celebration was very tight. Some key performances even had to be rehearsed until te at night."
"The third rehearsal started at midnight!" she said excitedly. "I remember it very clearly!"
Midnight...
A total of nine people died.
Fatty secretly tensed up in his heart.
Acc to the information they received, the uping third rehearsal would also take pce at midnight.
tally, the number of people on this mission... was also exactly nine.
The blood drained from Fatty's face little by little, his pupils slowly trag.
Could it be that this time, they would repeat the tragedy of ten years ago?
"Miss Li," Jiang g suddenly said.
Fatty's train of thought was interrupted. He turned his head and stared bnkly at Jiang g, thinking this etri might be the st straw in the mission.
He wasn’t sure about the others.
But for him, Jiang g definitely was.
Fatty pressed his lips together, ging to his deeply rooted belief in staying with the strong. ‘Even if I die, I'll die with the doctor!’ His resolve was firm.
When Li Yauro face him, Jiang g suddenly switched to a soft, geone. "May I call you that?" he asked.
Li Yanwei’s voice pulled Fatty back from his daydreaming. She nodded, "Yes."
"Miss Li," Jiang g said while buttoning up his coat, "I have a question. It might sound offensive, but please bear with me."
Li Yanwei's brow furrowed slightly. After a few seds, she responded in her usual ft tone, "Please go ahead."
Tilting his head, Jiang g spoke slowly: "If Yao really killed all those people out of revenge, as you say, then..." He lifted his head, staring at the eyes behind Li Yanwei's sungsses. "Why didn’t you die?"
"As Su Yu's fiancée, I 't think of any reason why she would spare you."
The atmosphere instantly froze. Fatty, sensing the tension, didn’t dare to breathe.
Jiang g had flipped the table so suddenly.
Fatty had assumed that Jiang g was going to py it safe, try to pcate the woman, and then strategize ohey were out of her sight.
Being caught in the middle, Fatty felt a bit of pressure. He tried to discreetly shift his legs, only to find they were already cramping.
In the moment—
The woman in front of him reached out and took off her sungsses.
As soon as she removed them, Fatty's body went rigid. His mouth hung open, his face pale as a sheet.
Beh the sungsses weren’t eyes, but a pair of flesh-colored, deeply sunken cavities!
Around her eye sockets were tipede-like, grotesque cw marks, as if something had forcibly and violently gouged out her eyes!
"If Mr. Hao believes this ts as sparihen I’d rather she hadn't," Li Yanwei said coldly, fag Jiang g.
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"Drip, drip."
"Drip, drip."
Yu Wen and Zhou Taifu walked side by side, with the thin Feng Lan leading ahead. She occasionally turned baind Yu Wen to watch her step.
The reason? At some point, a rge puddle had formed on the floor beh them.
The puddle covered a signifit portion of the hallway leading to the musi.
Yu Wen asked if they could avoid it, but after some thought, Feng Lan said it would be difficult uhey waited until the day.
Tomorrow... Yu Wen stared at the puddle at their feet, her throat tightening.
This pce gave her an ominous feeling. The dim hallway seemed to be stripped of all light, and the water at their feet rippled with each step, sending out dark waves.
The ripples spread down the hallway, but showed no sign of returning.
It was as if there was no end.
Maybe... she should take Feng Lan’s advid leave, wait until—
She wavered for a sed, but in the moment, she bit her lip, her eyes returning to the cold, deadly focus of a battle-hardened warrior.
There wasn’t enough time... The situation was being increasingly abnormal. The ghost was tinually evolving, and each transformation made it stronger.
The limitations imposed by the rules were wearing thin.
If they deyed any loheir ces of survival would bee even slimmer.
She deed Feng Lan’s suggestion, giving the reason that her camera equipment was too delicate and could be ruined by water.
It seemed Feng Lan, whose intelligence was questionable, didn’t suspeything.
The sound of spshing footsteps echoed down the empty hallway, devoid of warmth. The ripples, shifting and distorted, seemed like bdes slig everything around them intments.
They could even hear each other’s heartbeats.
"Miss Yu, please hurry," Feng Lan said as she pulled out a key and unlocked the door to the musi.
In the dim light, her face flickered between light and shadow, looking unfamiliar the longer oared at it.
Feng Lan peeked into the musi, quickly sing the interior before immediately retreating. "I-I won't go in," she whispered. "I'll wait here for you."
"Where’s the light switch?" Zhou Taifu asked.
It was already dark outside, and the musi was huge. Without lights...
Zhou Taifu slowly swept his gaze across the room, which was filled with dark mist. Larger objects were barely disible.
A sense of dread began to grow in his chest.
"Mr. Zhou," Feng Lan’s voice sounded urgent. "We 't turn on the lights. At this time of night, no one is allowed in Building C."
She paused for a moment, then added, "If we turn on the lights and the school security sees, they’ll e to iigate."
The female guards, huh...
Zhou Taifu thought for a moment, then decided against turning on the lights.
Though he and Yu Wen, both former meraries, could easily handle a few female guards in a fight, there was o risk arming anyone.
Moreover, there was an unspoken rule in these nightmares—
Unless absolutely necessary, one shouldn’t attack teammates or NPCs, as doing so could trigger unknown sequences.
That was why it wasn’t until halfway through the mission that they finally decided to eliminate Zhang Yinyin, the unstable factor in their group.
She had been too devious, stantly scheming against them.
Once, if not for Yu Wen’s timely warning, Zhou Taifu might have been the o fall victim to the ghost.
Bringing his thoughts back to the present, they quickly decided to search the room, aiming to finish before the darkness pletely ed Building C.
(End of the Chapter)
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