Chapter 079: The Dead and the Clues Thump... Thump...
The blood-stained figure slowly walked forward, its slender body making heavy footsteps that echoed through the pitch-black night.
The blonde-haired girl trembled uncontrollably.
Compared to the ghost films she had watched before, this ghost was far more terrifying!
"Don't... don't come any closer,"
"Run!"
A chill shot up from the soles of his feet to his head.
The tall man immediately turned and ran without a moment's hesitation.
"Hey, Honda, run!"
He couldn't care about the others, but he definitely remembered his friend.
"Thud thud thud..."
The tall man pulled his friend Honda and quickly ran up the stairs.
"Wait, wait for us..."
The blonde girl hurried to catch up, and her boyfriend wasn't far behind.
In just a few seconds, the four of them had disappeared.
"Lin-kun, we should also..."
Ryou Fujibayashi wanted to follow but was stopped when Lin Ye grabbed his wrist.
"We should go, she... she's coming,"
Ryou Fujibayashi became even more anxious.
"We'll go this way,"
After pulling Fujibayashi up to the second floor, Lin Ye turned and went in the opposite direction, not towards the blonde girl's group.
"Won't we go to them?"
Ryou Fujibayashi thought more people would be safer.
"Going there is pointless. We need to gather clues. We can't rely on them for now."
If the others had remained calm and not just run away, Lin Ye wouldn't have minded joining forces.
But judging by their reaction, he decided to let them act freely.
Their free movements might even help him uncover more rules and useful information.
"Besides, I think the more people there are, the higher the chance of being found."
"Eh?"
Ryou Fujibayashi was stunned.
"Then, what if they come after us first? The chances of finding fewer people isn't small either!"
"Don't worry, Ryou-san. I'm somewhat of a pro in this area."
These words eased Ryou Fujibayashi is heart a little.
At that moment, Lin Ye stopped in front of a classroom door on the second floor.
"2nd Year C Class,"
Lin Ye pressed the switch, and the lights came on, illuminating the classroom.
It was a miracle that there was still power in such an obviously long-abandoned school building.
"Let's look around, see if there's anything special."
"Mm."
Ryou Fujibayashi stepped in, feeling uneasy, and started searching, his eyes scanning the room.
The classroom, unused for a long time, was covered with a layer of thick dust, and the air was filled with a faint musty smell.
There were no books in the desks, and at a glance, the room was empty, with nothing of note.
After just two minutes,
the two had thoroughly searched the 2nd Year C Class.
"Lin-kun, we didn't find anything useful."
"Let's go to the next classroom."
The entire building was within the search range, but Lin Ye judged that the clues wouldn't be hidden too covertly. For example, behind the blackboard or in the corners of the classroom, requiring repeated searches to find them.
2nd Year B Class,
Lin Ye tried to open the door, but it was locked.
"Ka ka ka..."
The door handle still wouldn't turn.
"It's locked, we need a key."
Ryou Fujibayashi glanced nervously at both sides of the hallway, afraid the woman ghost might appear.
"Ryou, step aside two steps..."
"Mm."
Lin Ye took a step back, lifted his leg, and kicked it hard.
'Thud...'
'Thud...'
The door didn't budge.
From the force of the kick, he felt like he had struck a concrete wall, as hard as iron.
"It can be concluded that brute force alone cannot break the door."
Lin Ye looked at the glass in the middle of the front and back doors.
He quickly dashed forward and punched the window.
'Thud…'
The sound was still dull, and the glass didn't move.
"2nd Year B Class must either be an unsearchable area, or there's an invisible wall in front of us, reducing the area available for investigation."
Ryou Fujibayashi understood, but Lin Ye seemed to treat this like a game. Wasn't he being a bit reckless?
This was a dangerous and potentially deadly weird game!
"Or it could be that we can only enter with a special item, the key, which holds the information we need."
Ryou Fujibayashi is eyes lit up. If there were clues, they just needed to find the key to the classroom.
"We'll go to the next classroom, 2nd Year A Class,"
Similarly, the door to the 2nd Year A Class was tightly closed and could not be opened.
"Ahhh!"
At that moment, a sharp scream echoed.
"Don't come over!"
"It's all your fault. Who told you hiding here was safe? Now we can't get out!"
...
The direction was above, still a little distance away. Lin Ye recalled the aerial view of the school building from the video.
They must have been trapped on the fourth floor.
Ryou Fujibayashi pressed his hand to his chest, his heart pounding wildly,
as if... Lin Ye was right. The woman ghost prioritized attacking groups with more people!
On the other side,
facing the approaching bloodstained woman ghost, the four were trembling.
The tall guy was unintentionally pushed to the front.
His tall figure had no deterrent effect; his face was pale, sweating with fear.
"Hey, hey, hey..."
"Don't come, we have no grudges, no enmity, just let us go and everything will be fine…"
But the woman ghost showed no reaction, only closing in step by step.
"Think of something! Quick, think of something!"
"Big guy, charge at her!"
"You said it was just a woman ghost, what's there to fear?"
...
"Alright, I'll charge, Honda, you take the chance and run!"
The tall guy patted his companion's hand, and the others let go. The next second, he angrily picked up the blonde girl and charged towards the woman ghost.
In just a few seconds,
the blonde girl's shock turned to terror.
"Ahhh! Let go of me!"
This man was using her as a human shield!
She struggled and slapped, trying to get the tall guy, Zeyano, to let go of her.
"Let go of Chiharu,"
Her boyfriend, Kyozaki, shouted angrily, but dared not move forward.
As they neared, the tall guy suddenly threw the blonde girl toward the woman ghost and, without hesitation, rushed outside.
'Bang...'
As he took just one step, the tall guy suddenly fell to the ground.
His feet had been entangled by black hair, dark and stained with blood.
"Hey... I... help me, Honda... help me..."
As he stared, horrified, the blonde girl managed to get up, even though her legs were weak, she gritted her teeth and crawled up.
Her boyfriend, Kyozaki, ran too, seeing his chance. The woman ghost had shifted her focus away from them.
But only Zeyano and Honda felt the pull in their hearts, wanting to help, but seeing their friend Zeyano entangled in the bloodstained figure, unable to break free, fear won over.
"Sorry..."
He ran faster, past Zeyano, disappearing into the distance. In the end, Zeyano was left with nothing but despair and the agonizing pain as his body tore apart.
It was like being sliced by a knife,
his body was being disassembled.
Consciousness faded, plunging into complete darkness.
...
...
'Crack…'
The sounds of screaming and escaping echoed,
but at this moment,
Lin Ye and Ryou Fujibayashi, standing in front of the 2nd Year A Class, heard the distinct sound of the door lock turning.
"Lin, Lin-kun, this…"
Ryou Fujibayashi pointed at the door handle.
"Mm, it's open, and it's related to what's happening over there."
It was likely that someone had died.
After a participant dies, a previously locked classroom door opens? This almost seemed like a way to force them into self-destruction.
"So, what do we..."
"Let's go in and take a look."
Lin Ye carefully opened the classroom door, then switched on the lights. In an instant, the second-grade class A classroom was brightly illuminated.
It was not much different in layout from class C.
Ryou Fujibayashi, holding onto the corner of Lin Ye's clothes with one hand, timidly followed like a little kitten as they entered.
Ding…
Suddenly, the sound of the intercom came through.
In the next second, the intercom voice was heard.
"Classmate Heidao is so beautiful, and her grades are so good. I heard she's also a [***], I really envy her!"
"I wonder who will be able to win her heart in the future. That man must be very lucky."
"No one in our school qualifies."
"Hahaha, who knows, maybe a handsome transfer student will show up…"
...
...
The four sentences were somewhat noisy, making it hard to hear clearly. Was it the poor broadcast quality, or had the speech been affected by some uncontrollable force?
But for Lin Ye, it was enough.
This was a clue, this was intelligence.
If class A in the second grade had information from the intercom, then what about the other classrooms?
"Ryou, let's take a quick look around to see if there's anything suspicious. Hurry up."
"I got it."
Ryou Fujibayashi also knew time was tight, so he immediately started searching with his eyes scanning for any suspicious items. But after a while, he found nothing.
"Let's go!"
Listening to the direction of their footsteps, Lin Ye confirmed the position of the other three people.
Lin Ye led Ryou Fujibayashi around the first floor. After a while, they finally found the three girls with yellow hair.
The tall guy was nowhere to be seen.
Something must have happened to him.
"Where's the tall guy, Zeyano? Did he die? Was he killed by the female anomaly?"
The three girls were still a bit cautious towards Lin Ye and Ryou Fujibayashi, seemingly worried that they might be female anomalies in disguise.
"You mean Honda?"
In the face of Lin Ye's gaze, Honda and the others answered tremblingly.
"We... we were trapped on the fourth floor. Zeyano... Zeyano was bound by the female anomaly's hair, and then... and then... he disappeared."
Recalling Zeyano is desperate eyes, Honda still couldn't forget it. The guilt was tormenting him. He had abandoned his own friend.
In the end, he didn't even have the courage to help.
"It seems the female anomaly can only deal with one person at a time."
Just that one sentence seemed to give the three people a hint of hope.
It seemed… it really was like that. If the female anomaly could deal with everyone at once, the three of them wouldn't have been able to escape.
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