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Chapter 10 Life

Under the moonlight, the dilapidated school building looked like a crouching beast, ready to devour everyone.

Gu Mian and Xiao Ban stood under the main gate of the teaching building, the glass door locked.

There were indeed faint screams coming from within, but the sounds were already very weak.

Kosaka stood anxiously in front of the gate. Gu Mian was very curious about her lack of teleportation ability, but now was not the time to discuss that.

He was searching everywhere for a suitable stone.

Kosaka looked at him dejectedly: "It's no use..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as she uttered those three words, Gu Mian, who had found the stone, slammed it into the glass door, and the fragile glass shattered instantly.

He then smashed it a few more times, creating a large hole that one person could pass through.

Kosaka seemed a little dazed.

Gu Mian threw the stone down: "I've broken the iron gate at the school gate before, so I thought I could break this gate too."

These doors are probably useless against players.

After all, the instance probably didn't expect players to bang on the door in the middle of the night.

Another scream came from the school building, and Kosaka immediately rushed inside in a panic.

Gu Mian followed closely behind.

She ran so fast that Gu Mian behind her couldn't keep up and lost her.

In the dimly lit corridor, he reached out and took out the paper he had found in the Purple Heart Ice Crystal's dormitory where he had died.

"They're going to kill me!"

"They want to stick talismans on me, trap me in a gloomy box next to a disgusting rat hole, and have them stare at me and laugh every day, making me stay here forever to torment me."

Screams continued to echo as Gu Mian reached the third floor.

There was a dead rabbit in a box on the third-floor corridor. It looked like someone had stepped on it, and its head was now flattened.

Kosaka seems to have found Li Quanmei; she's upstairs.

The laughter of a group of children echoed from above, sounding like laughter forced out of their nostrils, reverberating through the eerie schoolyard.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry, teacher..." Her faint voice came from above Gu Mian's head.

One can imagine how Kosaka is now holding Li Quanmei and crying bitterly, while the other twenty-eight vengeful spirits are attacking them.

But Gu Mian wasn't in a hurry to go up.

First, we need to find Li Quanmei's body. The outcome of actively removing the talisman and the talisman automatically becoming invalid after ten years may be different.

So where is Li Quanmei's body?
He stood at the door of Class 4, Grade 8, recalling everything from this instance.

Some people say Li Quan looks like a rabbit.

"The rabbit trapped under a cardboard box in the hallway"

"They trapped me in a gloomy box, next to a disgusting rat hole, and stared at me and laughed every day."

Beside the rat's nest, under the box, he is watched by twenty-eight vengeful spirits every day.

So this place is...

The sounds of beating and cursing came from above again, this time more intense.

He pushed open the door and entered the dark classroom, went to the podium, and kicked the lectern off.

Several fat rats scurried out in fright, then scurried back to the podium in the darkness.

Gu Mian looked down at the hollow podium, which was about ten centimeters high, then bent down slightly, reached out and grabbed the edge, and suddenly lifted it up.

A strong, putrid stench hit us.

A twisted, humanoid figure lay quietly beneath the podium, its entire body highly decomposed, with rats scurrying out of its rotting eye sockets—it was utterly disgusting.

She had a talisman stuck to her head, similar to the one in the photo.

The corpse was still holding something in its hand. Gu Mian took it out and found that it was the second half of the page on the Ghost Nourishing Soul Talisman.

"The Curse for Nourishing the Soul of a Vengeful Ghost"

"The greater the resentment at the time of death, the stronger the vengeful ghost will become. Affixing this incantation to the corpse will suppress the ghost's power and prevent it from leaving the body within a certain distance." "Remember! This talisman will still retain its imprisoning function after ten years, but it will no longer have the ability to suppress vengeful ghosts. After ten years, the ghost will be even more terrifying."

"If this talisman is removed voluntarily, the vengeful spirit will erupt uncontrollably, and the talisman will no longer be able to restrain it."

Laughter continued to erupt from upstairs; the students seemed to find pleasure in tormenting others.

Just as the children upstairs were laughing the loudest, Gu Mian ripped off the sticker on the human-shaped head with a tearing sound.

At that moment, it seemed as if a thunderclap had sounded in the sky.

The laughter above my head stopped abruptly, like a duck whose neck had been stepped on.

The laughter instantly turned into screams, which made Gu Mian's ears hurt.

One scream after another came from above, sounding like people were dying horribly.

By the time Gu Mian arrived at the scene, the fire had already spread.

The vengeful spirit, suppressed for ten years, unleashed a torrent of fury that could incinerate the place she had hated for so many years.

It was on the sixth floor, in the warehouse at the very end, where the flames reignited, as if we had returned to that night many years ago when everyone was burned to death.

A girl with a bob haircut, big eyes, and fair skin stood in the middle of the warehouse, while Kosaka knelt beside her.

She sobbed as she pressed the doll's head to her chest, saying, "I'm sorry, the teacher is late..."

The two were surrounded by fire; flames raged in the warehouse, the corridor, and the classroom—the fury of a vengeful ghost.

"Teacher" Li Quanmei, whose face was as thin as a rabbit's, didn't show any emotion. Instead, she stared at Kosaka with wide eyes: "Did you tell them that I told on you? Did you say you didn't believe me and only believed them? Did you say that it wouldn't matter if a liar like me died?"

Kosaka paused for a moment, then tears welled up in her eyes as she gently touched the girl's face in the moonlight.

"Silly child, how could you trust others so easily?"

"You listened to what they said, so you wanted to get revenge on the teacher and burned her to death along with them, right?"

"No, in my heart you've always been the best and most obedient child. I've stayed here for so many years because I wanted to take the best child with me with me."

In the dim light, the doll-headed boy's eyes seemed to flicker.

Li Quanmei didn't make things difficult for Gu Mian, who was not far away, because the talisman in his hand had already explained everything.

But the raging fire did not stop, sweeping across the entire building as if it would burn it to ashes.

"Once you've burned enough, leave." Gu Mian gave the two of them a deep look, then threw the talisman in her hand into the fire.

The talisman burst into flames the moment it came into contact with fire, but turned to ash and smoke in a short while.

This copy ultimately failed to mutate.

Because Li Quanmei's outburst was so powerful, the entire school was set ablaze, as if it were in a crematorium.

Flames raged overhead as Gu Mian lay on the playground gazing at the stars.

It's unclear what the outcome will be between Li Quanmei and her teacher, but that's none of his business.

Five hours have not yet passed.

To be more precise, in less than an hour, everything in the instance was gone. All twenty-eight vengeful spirits were wiped out, the school was almost burned down, and all the players except those who had left were killed.

What else to play?
Gu Mian was left all alone.

He looked up at the sky with a headache: "Am I really going to have to stay in this empty dungeon for another four hours?"

But immediately, a panel that suddenly popped up changed the situation.

[Warning! Warning! Red-level warning!]

The Ghost High School dungeon is facing massive destruction! Almost all dungeon characters are missing! The dungeon map has suffered epic damage!

Data analysis failed!

[Replica structure anomaly!]

[All players in this instance will be forcibly teleported out of the instance in ten seconds. Please be aware!]

【10, 9, 8...】

"Holy crap?" Gu Mian exclaimed as if the sky had fallen when she saw the panel.

Thank you Ling Tu for the reward (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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(End of this chapter)