"Same cause of death?"

"Yes."

"What about the time of death?" Jiang Cheng pressed on relentlessly.

"People started dying the day after Chen Yao's suicide, the security guards," Li Yanwei said, nodding. "The deadline..." She paused, then seemed to remember something. "It was before the third rehearsal!"

"That's right," she recalled. "It must have been before the third rehearsal! Because of that incident, the time left to prepare for the celebration was very tight. Some key programs even had to be rehearsed very late."

"The third rehearsal started at midnight!" she exclaimed. "I remember it clearly!"

Midnight...

A total of 9 people died...

Fatty tensed up inwardly.

According to the information they received, the upcoming third rehearsal would also be at midnight.

Even more coincidentally, the number of people on their mission this time... was also exactly 9.

The color drained from Fatty's face as his pupils slowly constricted.

Could it be that this time, they would repeat the tragedy of 10 years ago...?

"Miss Li," Jiang Cheng said suddenly.

Fatty's thoughts were interrupted. He turned his head, staring blankly at Jiang Cheng. This eccentric man was probably their last straw in this mission.

He didn't know about the others.

But for him, it definitely was.

Fatty pursed his lips, his idea of clinging to a strong ally deeply ingrained... "Even if I die, I'll die with the doctor!" His conviction was firm.

When Li Yanwei turned her head in his direction, Jiang Cheng suddenly changed to a gentle tone. "May I call you that?"

Li Yanwei's voice pulled Fatty back from his imaginary world. She nodded. "You may."

"Miss Li," Jiang Cheng said, buttoning up his coat. "I have a question, which may be a bit offensive, but I hope you'll bear with me."

Li Yanwei's eyebrows furrowed slightly. After a few seconds, she spoke in the same monotonous tone as before. "Please ask."

Jiang Cheng tilted his head and slowly said, "If Chen Yao really killed so many people out of revenge, as you said, then..." He looked up, staring at Li Yanwei's eyes behind her sunglasses, "Why didn't you die?"

"As Su Yu's fiancée, I can't think of any reason why she would let you go."

The atmosphere instantly froze. Fatty, sensing something, didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

Jiang Cheng played his card too suddenly.

Fatty had thought Jiang Cheng was going to play it safe, stabilize the woman first, and then figure out a plan after leaving.

As the person currently standing in the middle, Fatty felt a little pressure. He stealthily tried to move his calf, only to find that it had cramped.

The next second...

The woman in front of him reached out and took off her sunglasses.

At the same time as she took off her sunglasses, Fatty's body began to stiffen. His mouth was wide open, his face as white as a sheet of paper.

Under the sunglasses were not eyes, but a pair of fleshy, deeply sunken holes!

The skin around her eye sockets was covered in hideous, centipede-like scratches, as if something had used the most brutal means to forcibly dig out her eyes!

"If Mr. Hao thinks this counts as letting me go, then I'd rather she hadn't," Li Yanwei said coldly, facing Jiang Cheng's direction.

...

"Drip."

"Drip."

Yu Wen and Zhou Taifu walked side by side. Feng Lan, thin and frail, walked in front, occasionally looking back to remind Yu Wen to watch her step.

For no other reason than that a puddle of water had appeared under their feet.

The puddle was large, covering the corridor that was the only way to the music classroom.

Yu Wen asked Feng Lan if they could go around it, but after thinking about it, the latter replied that it would be difficult, unless they waited until tomorrow.

Tomorrow... Yu Wen stared at the puddle under her feet, her throat involuntarily bobbing.

The feeling here was very bad. The dim corridor seemed to have lost the protection of light. The water under their feet was disturbed by their footsteps, creating circles of dark ripples.

The ripples spread into the depths of the corridor, but there was no sign of them returning.

As if there was no end...

Or else... listen to what Feng Lan said, leave first, and wait...

She was distracted for a second, but the next second, she bit her lip and her eyes returned to those of a female Shura who reaped lives on the battlefield.

Time waits for no one... The anomaly was becoming more and more obvious. The ghost was constantly evolving, and each time it finished evolving, it would become stronger.

The restrictions imposed on it by the rules were dwindling.

If they waited any longer, they would only have a slimmer chance of survival.

She rejected Feng Lan's suggestion, with a good reason, saying that the camera was delicate, and it would be terrible if it accidentally got wet.

It seemed that Feng Lan, whose intelligence was a mystery, did not suspect anything.

The sound of stepping in water echoed in the empty corridor, without a trace of warmth. The ever-changing reflections of the ripples were like a sharp blade, cutting the surrounding things into pieces.

They could even hear each other's heartbeats.

"Miss Yu, please hurry," Feng Lan said, taking out the key and opening the door to the music classroom.

In the dim environment, her face was flickering, and after looking at it for a long time, a strange feeling rose.

Feng Lan poked her head out and quickly glanced into the music classroom, then immediately retracted it. "I... I won't go in," she said softly. "I'll wait for you here."

"Where's the light?" Zhou Taifu asked, turning around.

The sky outside was already dark, and the music classroom was very large. Without a light...

Zhou Taifu slowly scanned the inside. It was all a mass of black mist, and the larger objects could only be faintly seen in outline.

An ominous premonition fermented in his heart.

"Mr. Zhou," Feng Lan's voice sounded rather anxious, "You can't turn on the lights. At this time, people are not allowed in Block C."

She paused, then said, "If the school security sees the lights, they will come to check."

Those female security guards...

Zhou Taifu thought about it and finally gave up the idea.

Although a few female security guards were definitely no match for him and Yu Wen, two former mercenaries, it was not necessary to alert the enemy.

Also, there was an unwritten rule in the nightmare...

Unless necessary, you can't attack teammates or NPCs, because it may trigger unknown consequences.

That was why it wasn't until halfway through the mission that they finally decided to get rid of Zhang Yin Yin, an unstable factor buried beside them.

She was too dishonest, constantly plotting against them in secret.

If Yu Wen hadn't reminded him in time, he, Zhou Taifu, would probably have been the next one killed by the ghost.

Regaining his thoughts, the two discussed searching as quickly as possible, and they had to leave Block C before it got completely dark.