Chapter 387 - 370: Continue to Flog the Corpse_1

It’s Meiren Chu!

Pan Yue saw Meiren Chu’s gloomy face appear behind the door.

Yue Nu seemed to sense something and looked back.

The horrifying face slowly moved and disappeared from the doorway.

Yue Nu saw nothing.

Pan Yue stared at the screen for quite a while, until Yue Nu also disappeared from the screen. Only then did her stiff fingers, gripping the phone, move slightly.

What on earth is going on?

There were two Yue Nus...

The thing behind Yue Nu...

Lin Qi is a ghost, and she murdered someone...

And Meiren Chu, who appeared in the video from the very beginning...

Many strange things had happened in this twelve-hour-long video.

Pan Yue watched the progress bar for a few seconds and immediately decided to share this video with others.

But when she returned to her friends list, she realized she was the only one online.

All the profile pictures in her classmates list were grayed out.

Pan Yue stared blankly for a moment.

Right, everyone else is still at school; they aren’t online.

Is that why Yue Nu sent this video to me? Because I was the only one on the list who was online?

Pan Yue wasn’t sure if the others had received Yue Nu’s video.

But one thing was certain: even if Yue Nu had sent them the video, they wouldn’t be able to watch it because those at school didn’t have their phones with them.

Thinking of this, Pan Yue clenched her fists and resolved,

No, I have to tell the others about this tonight!

She glanced at the clock hanging in the living room. It was 1:04 AM.

At this moment, Gu Mian, Keke, and the others were standing before a stairwell.

For once, the four of them hadn’t been inexplicably separated. They had found an evacuation map nailed to the wall, explored a section of the underground area unharmed, and located several upward stairwells. However, every door leading to the surface was, without exception, chained shut from the inside. The chains were wrapped so tightly that not even the slightest gap could be seen, completely eliminating any possibility of squeezing through.

Before them now was the last stairwell door they hadn’t checked.

Unsurprisingly, this door was also locked from the inside.

These rusty chains could easily be sawed off if Gu Mian took out his chainsaw.

But taking out a chainsaw in front of so many people might cause some misunderstandings...

Li Yibai shone his flashlight on the chains securing the door. "This is insane! Why are all the doors leading up locked from the inside? How did the person who locked them get out?"

Gu Mian also raised his flashlight, sweeping its beam across the dark surroundings. "Maybe the elevator hadn’t been sealed off back then? Perhaps they locked all the doors from the inside and then took the elevator up."

Guo Jimei shivered. "If it were me, I’d be too scared to lock all the doors and then take an elevator up."

Keke, beside her, nodded in agreement. "I wouldn’t dare either."

Gu Mian walked forward to examine the rusty chains on the door, asking, "By the way, Li Yibai, Keke, have you guys heard any rumors about this school’s underground area?"

While they had been walking together, Guo Jimei had already told Keke that they were currently in the school’s basement.

Keke had looked quite surprised.

Li Yibai was the first to speak, shaking his head. "I’ve only heard that the school has an underground area. Rumor has it that it was sealed off many years ago due to some accident."

Keke was originally an instance player, so Gu Mian hadn’t expected her to provide any significant details.

Sure enough, she just shook her head, indicating she knew nothing.

Gu Mian continued, "When Guo Jimei and I met Meiren Chu, he found an old photo in here. It was a group picture of twelve people—six men and six women."

"A group photo of twelve people..." Li Yibai muttered.

"Six men and six women..."

He then mused, "Hearing you say that, it couldn’t be a group photo of the twelve of us in the game, could it? I don’t recall us ever taking a group photo together."

"Of course not," Gu Mian replied, fiddling with the chains. "I only glanced at the photo before giving it back to Meiren Chu. It was taken six years ago, and I didn’t recognize anyone in it."

Guo Jimei nodded. "I didn’t recognize anyone either, except..."

"Except who?" Li Yibai asked, looking nervously at Guo Jimei.

Frowning, Guo Jimei continued, "Except for one girl. She didn’t have a face, but I felt like I’d seen her somewhere before."

Keke flinched. "Don’t scare me!"

Li Yibai also frowned. "We definitely didn’t end up here for no reason. Maybe we’re supposed to find clues about the ghost here?"

Gu Mian said, "I don’t recall the rules mentioning anything as helpful as being able to find clues."

Chu Changge also said that our appearance in the school’s basement was most likely an accident.

The ghost probably wouldn’t be pleased to have them tossed into a place like this.

If the instance were proceeding normally, players shouldn’t be in a place like this.

Perhaps some accident occurred, and a power not belonging to the instance forcibly sent them here to find clues.

Why would players be forcibly sent to a place like this?

At this point, Li Yibai spoke up. "The rules also don’t say that ghosts can take on other people’s appearances. But with Li Wentao, it was clearly the ghost transforming into him that misled us, right?"

Gu Mian stroked his chin.

The one who transformed into Li Wentao wasn’t necessarily a ghost.

As he spoke, Li Yibai’s frown deepened. "And the rules didn’t mention that item Yue Nu talked about during the day, did they? The one that can directly reveal the ghost’s identity. Speaking of which, who got that item? Was it one of you?"

Of course, Gu Mian was ninety percent sure that Yue Nu was just trying to trick them about that item she mentioned earlier.

Even if such an item really existed, it was highly probable that only instance players like them could use it.

Special items existed in instances, and most special items within an instance were usually related to the instance itself.

Yue Nu must have found a relevant special item within the instance.

She definitely understood that special items could only be used by players, so she wouldn’t easily hand it over to someone who couldn’t use it.

If that thing really existed, Yue Nu most likely still had it on her.

「Meanwhile.」

Yue Nu’s two corpses lay splayed in the middle of the classroom.

The tightly closed classroom door was suddenly pushed open a crack, revealing a pitch-black corridor outside.