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Chapter 338 The First Night [Four Thousand]

"What's going on!" Pan Yue also realized the seriousness of the situation.

She looked at the empty seat next to her in horror.

The person was right next to her just now, but disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The transition from darkness to light lasted only a few seconds, and a person standing in the middle of the stairs didn't even have time to run out of their sight.

Coco looked in the direction where Chu Changge had disappeared, holding a flashlight in one hand and grabbing Pan Yue beside her with the other: "I'm scared too..."

"Oh right, didn't he just go downstairs?" Pan Yue suddenly seemed to remember something.

Yes, Chu Changge did indeed walk downstairs, Coco was somewhat dazed.

Although he only went down a few steps, it was still considered going downhill. He knew that going downhill might cause him to disappear, but he still did it.

Coco didn't think it was a momentary oversight. An ordinary person with no experience might make such a mistake, but how could Chu Changge, who had experienced many dungeons, make such a basic error?

So... he did it on purpose? Did he know what would happen after he disappeared? Did he discover something and think that disappearing was better than staying here?
Thinking of this, Coco suddenly looked at Pan Yue in front of her. Pan Yue still looked terrified, but in the darkness, her face was inexplicably creepy.

What's more terrifying than disappearing is death.

"What's wrong with you? Why do you look like that?" Pan Yue turned her face around, her face pale in the light.

“It’s okay,” Coco shook her head immediately. After a few seconds, she spoke again: “It was the same the last few times. There were five of us here, and they disappeared one by one. Now I’m all alone.”

Pan Yue's eyes widened slightly, her pupils reflecting the light of the flashlight, giving them an eerie appearance in the darkness: "So... this strange thing really happened because of that game from a few days ago?"

It's because of the three ghosts in that game.

Coco observed the expression on the person's face, nodded slightly, and said with fear, "I guess the game didn't stop because of an accident, but... it turned into an even more terrifying game. We've become real players now. Do you still remember the rules?"

Pan Yue opened her mouth: "Three ghosts, nine civilians. The ghosts kill people at night, and the civilians hold a referendum during the day."

Coco, carrying the lantern, gently stepped down the stairs: "Yes, everything will be done according to the rules of the game."

"I suspect the three players playing the ghosts really want to kill us. 8 PM to 3 AM is the ghosts' killing time. We started the vote at 3 AM, and now it's the ghosts' killing time, which is why we're encountering such strange things..."

As she spoke, she quickened her pace and swiftly descended several steps.

But just as Coco was gently stepping onto the stairs, her wrist was suddenly grabbed by an icy hand.

She stopped abruptly.

Immediately afterwards, Pan Yue's voice came from behind: "Didn't you say that you would mysteriously disappear when you went down the stairs?"

An eerie silence fell over the surroundings.

Several seconds later, Coco's frightened voice rang out on the dimly lit staircase: "Um...yes, I was so scared, I just forgot..."

As she spoke, she turned around and looked at Pan Yue in front of her.

Pan Yue looked nervous and appeared to be an ordinary civilian.

"Why don't we go up?" Pan Yue said hesitantly, seemingly unaware of Coco's strange attitude.

The best option now is to go down into the building.

But they also saw it just now; someone disappeared after only walking down a few steps.

Coco nodded: "Now we can only go up, but... I don't dare to go ahead."

Pan Yue paused slightly: "Then I'll go first, and you can hold onto me from behind."

Pan Yue's expression also lacked confidence, clearly indicating some fear of walking in front.

Coco nodded silently and held tightly to the back of Pan Yue's dress.

As they talked, the two lifted their feet and began to move.

At the same time, Coco was also paying attention to Pan Yue in front of her, but just as she secretly turned her gaze to Pan Yue, the other party suddenly turned her head, her eyes filled with a strange light.

"What...what are you doing?" Coco seemed startled, looking at Pan Yue who suddenly turned around.

“Oh, right, I suddenly remembered something,” Pan Yue said, looking down at the person in front of her. “You told me that we encountered this series of bizarre events because of the player playing the ghost. So, what is your identity?”

The atmosphere in the dark stairwell was very strange.

Coco looked frightened and raised her head to look at the person in front of her: "Of course I'm a commoner, so what is your identity?"

Pan Yue looked at Coco with suspicion: "Of course I'm a commoner too."

Neither of them seemed to trust the other, but they had no choice but to walk uphill together.

At this moment, Gu Mian was wandering around aimlessly with a flashlight.

He had suggested splitting up not long ago, and it has to be said that splitting up is indeed a major taboo in supernatural dungeons. Within minutes of splitting up, he had completely lost contact with the main group.

Although the so-called "main force" consisted of only Chu Changge and Keke.

When Gu Mian was descending the fourth set of steps, she suddenly noticed a change in her surroundings, and when she called out to the people above, she could no longer hear an echo.

You can't see the flashlight beam above when you look up.

Gu Mian was then certain that she had been transferred again.

Although we've been moved, the current environment is still pretty much the same as before.

It was still a dark building with long staircases, dusty floors, and piles of discarded debris.

Gu Mian even suspected that she was still in the same building, but had just been moved to a different floor.

The building seemed to have few windows, and Gu Mian searched for a long time in the dark with a flashlight but couldn't find a single one.

Having no other option, he went downstairs to see if the paranormal events would continue.

But this time he arrived downstairs without any hindrance, and even left the eerie building he was in. Nothing inexplicable happened during this time, and it was unclear whether this was the mercy of the instance or the calm before the storm.

He was now standing under the pitch-black night sky.

The time in the instance is the end of September.

The night breeze was very refreshing, and by then Gu Mian had a clear view of her surroundings.

This area is very open, and this is the only conspicuous place.

Two almost identical gray-black buildings stand side by side about 100 meters apart, each about nine stories high. Their somber exteriors have almost no windows, making it difficult to count how many floors they have.

The two buildings were separated by a tall, wire mesh-like structure, which looked to be more than three meters high.

The building he had just come out of was one of them.

Gu Mian stared at the two buildings in front of her under the night sky, trying to figure out the relationship between them.

"Perhaps I wasn't in the same building before and after I was moved."

Gu Mian narrowed her eyes: "Two buildings that look almost identical..."

As he spoke, he took a few steps forward, trying to get closer to the gray-black building across the street, but Gu Mian had only taken two steps when she noticed something.

It's the sign on that wire mesh.

Even though the iron mesh was more than three meters high, Gu Mian's saw could easily cut it open.

What truly prevented Gu Mian from easily taking action was the sign on the iron fence—"High-voltage electricity connected, do not climb."

"This is really going too far," Gu Mian muttered to herself as she looked around along the wire mesh.

Could this high-voltage electricity have been prepared specifically for him?

Why did I get myself all the way here while the other players are still on the other side?
A three-meter-high iron fence enclosed the two buildings, effectively separating them and completely preventing anyone from going to the other side.

This is really bad. Seeing this, Gu Mian stopped her plan to take out the chainsaw and instead stared intently at the building across the street.

Just then, Gu Mian suddenly saw Chu Changge's face appear in a window of the building opposite.

It was a window on the fifth or sixth floor.

Even though they weren't close, Gu Mian recognized him at a glance. Chu Changge was standing by the window, seemingly gazing at something.

Gu Mian followed Chu Changge's gaze and saw that the end of his gaze was the building behind her, and on that building, Chu Changge was facing a window.

A dark shadow flashed quickly through the window of the building behind them, as if someone had just been there.

Gu Mian frowned and looked back at where Chu Changge was.

But the place was completely empty, without a single person in sight.

"Hey, did you hear something coming from upstairs?"

At this moment, Coco and Pan Yue were carefully moving through the dark building.

They can't keep going upstairs forever.

After discussing it, the two decided to first check each floor they passed to see if there were any other people.

As they nervously made their way through each floor, they suddenly heard hurried footsteps coming from upstairs.

Pan Yue reacted quickly, immediately stopping to ask Coco.

Coco grabbed Pan Yue tightly, saying, "I heard it! It's right above us!"

"Don't say that, it's like there's something on the ceiling above us..." Pan Yue also hunched over slightly.

“Okay, okay,” Coco said in a very soft voice, “Should we go up and take a look?”

As Pan Yue moved toward the stairs, she said, "Of course we need to. Isn't that what we want to do? Find the other people and figure out what's going on?"

Coco hesitated before speaking, "What if it's a ghost? What if we encounter a ghost and it kills one of us?"

Pan Yue puffed out her chest slightly, as if to bolster her courage: "Things are quite bizarre right now... We have indeed encountered some strange events, but I don't think anyone will die. You said the people playing ghosts would kill people, but would they dare?"

Coco couldn't explain to her that one of the three ghosts might be a real ghost, so she could only nod in agreement: "We still need to be careful..."

Pan Yue did not refute, but carefully pulled Coco behind her to the stairs.

As she went upstairs, she said to Coco behind her, "No one will die, don't worry. We'll call the police as soon as we leave this place."

Coco didn't say anything.

At this moment, the footsteps coming from upstairs seemed to quicken.

But shortly after Pan Yue spoke, the hurried footsteps disappeared, and the place instantly returned to silence, as if the sound had never happened.

Pan Yue and Ke Ke had already arrived at the entrance to the stairs on this floor.

At that moment, Pan Yue was standing in front of the door, cautiously peeking out and asking, "Is anyone home?"

No one answered.

The thick darkness filled the area, and Coco carefully adjusted the flashlight.

But the light still couldn't penetrate the door, and the darkness inside seemed about to surge out, which was unsettling.

The long staircase behind them was also pitch black, as if something might climb up at any moment.

"What should we do?" Coco asked Pan Yue in the softest voice.

Meanwhile, small beads of sweat appeared on Pan Yue's forehead. She clearly heard footsteps, but no one answered...

She sensed a hint of dread in the air.

Just as the two people in the hallway were hesitating about whether to go in, they suddenly heard a voice coming from inside the dark door.

"I've fallen down, help me..."

It was a very weak male voice, so weak that it was impossible to tell whose voice it was.

The people inside looked like they might faint at any moment.

There are really people!

Upon hearing this, Pan Yue immediately tried to step inside, but Coco stopped her: "Do you really want to go in?"

“I’m a little scared too,” Pan Yue said, grabbing Coco’s hand, “but we have to go in.”

After she finished speaking, she lifted her foot and quickly walked inside.

Coco followed behind, holding a flashlight and jogging to catch up.

The flashlight beam wasn't enough to pierce the darkness of the entire floor, so the two had no choice but to grope their way through the building.

"Where are you? Who are you?" Pan Yue raised her voice and shouted in the dim light of the flashlight.

Coco stayed close to Pan Yue, warily looking around.

The weak voice continued to ring out.

"I'm...I'm on the right side of the door...Please help me..."

right?

Coco changed direction, turning the flashlight to the right after entering the door.

However, the floor area was so large that all that could be seen in the light was discarded cardboard boxes and some steel pipes.

Pan Yue quickly took a few steps forward.

Coco quickly grabbed her flashlight and followed.

"At this……"

A weak voice could still be heard in the darkness.

Pan Yue sped up.

Coco almost started running.

They hadn't run far in the dark when they saw a hand appear in the range of the flashlight.

"Found it!" Pan Yue looked at the hand that appeared in the light with surprise. She immediately took a few steps forward, wanting to see the person who had fallen to the ground.

Coco followed, moving the flashlight beam forward, and the two of them could vaguely make out the person making the sound.

The instant I saw it clearly.

Pan Yue, who was ahead, immediately felt her hair stand on end and almost turned around and ran away.

Coco's hand trembled violently, almost dropping the flashlight.

The boy in front of them had two iron pipes piercing his abdomen and ribs, with the pipes, covered in blood and bits of flesh, protruding from his back.

He kept crawling on the ground, the iron pipes on his body scraping against the concrete with a screeching sound.

"I fell down... help me..."

His voice also became strange, like a sound made by pinching his throat, the shrill sound echoing continuously in the empty building.

Coco saw the person on the ground raise their head, convulsing as they reached out their hand, their scarlet eyes fixed on her, a terrifying sight.

At that moment, Pan Yue, who was in front, suddenly shuddered and turned to run away.

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