Translator: Cinder Translations
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"Doctor," fatty gulped and said anxiously, "Aren't we leaving yet?"
To him, Chen Yao's disappearance meant the task was over.
And the time the door remained open was limited.
If they didn't pass through the door within the set time and returned to their world, they would be left behind forever.
He had once discussed this issue with Jiang Cheng.
What would happen if they were left behind?
At that time, Jiang Cheng was wearing headphones, sneaking a look at something on the computer, seemingly very excited, so he was rather dismissive towards fatty.
"They will be erased by an unknown force."
This was Jiang Cheng's exact words.
He reasoned that the past couldn't be changed, so only those who abruptly entered that world could be changed, and the simplest way to change them was to erase them without a trace.
When he mentioned the word "erase," fatty suddenly shivered. He licked his lips and asked in a low voice, "What does that erasure look like?"
"Unclear," Jiang Cheng said. "Maybe you'll just suddenly ascend while walking, turning to ash. Of course, if you're lucky, perhaps a corpse might be left behind."
"A disfigured one," he added.
"Are you talking about Fan Li?"
Fatty suddenly recalled seeing Fan Li's belongings being claimed in a newspaper when they first left the task, with his corpse also featured, albeit with an unclear face.
"Alright," Jiang Cheng took off his headphones and told fatty to leave, "Don't disturb me; I'm studying."
Fatty had no choice but to pat his bottom, stand up, and as he was leaving, he casually asked, "Doctor, are you watching videos on how to treat psychological disorders?"
"Pretty much," Jiang Cheng replied enthusiastically, staring at the computer, "But I'm mainly learning the moves."
"Moves?"
Fatty turned back in confusion.
Jiang Cheng suddenly sat up straight, becoming serious. "After all, you all know I'm the headliner. I want to use my flashy moves to nourish the barren hearts of the ladies who love me!"
Upon hearing this, fatty was stunned for a moment, then turned and walked toward Jiang Cheng. "Doctor, I also want to learn, as my childhood dream has always been to become a glorious psychologist."
As time passed, fatty grew increasingly anxious until he noticed Yu Wen had stopped.
He couldn't understand what Yu Wen was planning to do.
Was she not anxious to leave?
The two were neither far nor close, and fatty wanted to shout a few questions at her, but Jiang Cheng stopped him with a look.
After all, only Chen Yao and Su Yu had disappeared.
And on stage, there were still 15 strange figures with their backs turned to the two of them.
They had their heads down, motionless and silent.
"Mr. Hao," Yu Wen turned around and called out to Jiang Cheng, speaking in a tone just loud enough for him to hear, "The door is about to disappear; hurry up and come over."
"Doctor, we—"
As fatty made eye contact with Jiang Cheng, his voice abruptly stopped.
Jiang Cheng's gaze did not carry a threatening meaning; it simply made him understand that he needed to keep his mouth shut, immediately!
Then Jiang Cheng turned his gaze away, looking towards a completely unrelated direction, and the startled fatty instinctively followed his gaze.
It was the mirror.
Through the mirror, in the position corresponding to the dance classroom from 10 years ago, there was also an iron door appearing in the music classroom.
A faint glow enveloped the pitch-black door.
Fatty slowly widened his eyes.
At that moment, Yu Wen also noticed the abnormality of Jiang Cheng and fatty. Her original plan was to lure them over, as the "actors" separating the two groups clearly seemed off.
She suspected that the "actors" would only allow those carrying Su Yu to leave safely, while ruthlessly killing anyone else who got too close.
But now…
Just as she averted her gaze and turned to look at where Jiang Cheng was looking, her line of sight was blocked.
It was a figure with its back to her.
Quite tall.
Its white suit was stained with blood.
She almost immediately realized who it was.
Zhen Jianren.
In the next second, the confusion in Yu Wen's eyes slowly dissipated into fear.
How could he be here?
Shouldn't he be standing with the other "actors" behind her?
The scene began to replay like rippling water.
Led by Jiang Cheng, fatty once again passed through the mirror and returned to the current music classroom.
The door was within reach.
And this door felt extremely different to fatty, making him immediately realize that this door was the real one.
Only through this door could they return to their own world.
The door in the mirror was fake.
That was the last and most lethal trap.
He slowly swallowed and uncontrollably looked towards the mirror, where the door was already open, and Yu Wen was lying on the ground.
She was crawling backward with her hands and feet.
The fear in her eyes seemed to solidify.
After she realized the abnormality of Zhen Jianren, she immediately ran towards the door.
But what she didn't expect was that when she pulled open the door, she faced not her familiar home but Zhen Jianren with his back to her.
How could this be?
She was completely stunned; how could he be inside the door?
Then who was behind her?
"Pfft!"
A sharp pain rapidly spread through her body along her ankle as Zhen Jianren inside the door thrust a cane upward like a spear, instantly piercing through her ankle.
The precise and smooth movement was no less than that of a seasoned killer.
Blood splattered out, and a drop fell into Yu Wen's eye, resembling a spot of vermilion on rice paper.
After falling to the ground, Yu Wen crawled backward like a madwoman, while Zhen Jianren remained with his back to her, leisurely following behind her, making the scene eerily reminiscent of a horror movie.
The arm holding the cane twisted at an unnatural angle, the mechanical movement made no sound at all.
"Pfft!"
The other ankle was pierced too, the sound of the bone breaking was grating to hear.
"Ah! Ahhh!"
The screams echoed incessantly; Yu Wen's endurance far exceeded that of ordinary people, and the pain she was facing at this moment was unimaginable.
Through the mirror, she noticed fatty and Jiang Cheng. Upon seeing the door outside the mirror, she naturally understood she had chosen the wrong path.
"Save me!" Yu Wen cried out in pain, her once valiant face now filled with despair as she crawled toward the mirror, her words slurred due to the blood in her mouth, "Please, save me!"
A mirror separates two segments of time; the two could only see what happened in the mirror but could hear no sound.
"Doctor!" fatty exclaimed. "The mirror… in the mirror…"
His shoulder was suddenly pushed hard by someone.
"Go first," Jiang Cheng said, "I'll go save her."
(End of the Chapter)
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