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Chapter 339 The Raging Waves
Coco turned around abruptly and ran out after her.

Just as they turned to run away, the crawling sounds behind them continued.

Coco vaguely heard someone behind her shout in a sharp voice, "Don't go!"

But nobody paid him any attention.

Pan Yue ran very fast, and in the blink of an eye, she rushed out of the dark building. Without any hesitation, she ran upstairs. After running several floors, she stopped panting as if she had no strength left.

She looked back while panting heavily.

Coco chased after them desperately.

She gripped the flashlight tightly, looking uneasy behind her, as if afraid that the terrifying person would catch up with her.

Fortunately, no humanoid figures with twisted and eerie bodies crawling on the stairs appeared behind them.

Coco clutched her clothes tightly, her voice trembling as she asked, "What...what was that just now?"

Pan Yue took a deep breath, staring intently at the dark staircase below, her voice urgent: "Didn't you recognize him? That's Li Wentao!"

Li Wentao.

One of the twelve game participants, he is in the same class as 007 and Yue Nu.

He was also the only native dungeon resident that Coco had never met before. She was originally worried that she wouldn't recognize Li Wentao, but now that problem was gone.

Because he was going to die.

Even if he's not dead now, judging from how he looked just now, he definitely won't last much longer.

Pan Yue's expression remained terrified. She suddenly grabbed Coco tightly: "You're right, people really do die! It really is related to that game. Everyone who came here has played that game! It was a ghost that killed Li Wentao!"

Coco looked panicked: "But we just ran away like that... Is it really okay to leave him there?"

"He's not going to make it!" Upon hearing this, Pan Yue suddenly released her grip on Coco's hand. "Even if we were there, he wouldn't survive. Besides, we don't have cell phones, so we can't call the police or an ambulance. Are you just going to wait there for him to die?"

"And..." Pan Yue, her expression agitated, suddenly lowered her voice, "Don't you think something's off about him? Something's very off!"

Coco looked at Pan Yue, who was in front of her with an excited expression, and showed a frightened look.

Pan Yue continued talking to herself, "Did you see that? The way he looked at us just now, it was like he wanted to kill us... I didn't dare stay there any longer."

That's true.

Coco still remembers those blood-red eyes. They were not the expression of a dying person pleading for help, but rather like those of a demon from hell, trying to kill everyone at once.

Is Li Wentao the player who was killed by the ghost on the first night?
But why did he show them that expression when he was dying—so terrifying, so full of resentment?

Just then, the two suddenly heard footsteps coming from above in the darkness.

"Who!" Pan Yue suddenly looked up.

Coco also quickly looked up.

The place suddenly fell silent.

The two waited anxiously in an eerie silence. Several seconds passed before a response came from above.

"it's me……"

Coco immediately recognized the voice; it was Li Yibai, one of the twelve participants, a native of the instance, and her classmate.

She shone her flashlight upstairs, and the light immediately dispelled the darkness, illuminating a small section of the platform.

Pan Yue clearly recognized Li Yibai's voice and breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterward, Li Yibai appeared from the corner of the stairs above, looking at the two below with a strange expression: "What are you two doing here too?"

Coco looked at Li Yibai above with some wariness.

She didn't know whether the person was human or ghost. Although the first victim had already appeared and the ghost could no longer kill, she still had to be careful.

At this moment, Pan Yue quickly walked up a few steps: "You were also inexplicably sent to this place, right..."

Coco followed Pan Yue with a flashlight.

“Yes, that’s right.” Li Yibai nodded quickly, but as soon as he finished nodding, a strange expression appeared on his face, as if he wanted to say something.

But Pan Yue interrupted him: "It's dangerous here, people can die!"

"What?" Li Yibai maintained a strange expression, his eyes darting around, and his gaze towards Pan Yue also held a hint of oddness. Coco nodded in agreement, "Pan Yue didn't lie to you, just now the two of us..."

But before she could finish speaking, Li Yibai interrupted her in a strange tone: "Aren't there three of you?"

As he spoke, he glanced behind the two women, but there was still complete silence behind them; no one made a sound.

Coco and Pan Yue were both stunned.

Three...?

In an instant, a chilling coldness surged up from my feet and quickly spread throughout my body.

Coco, who was at the very back, suddenly froze.

"run!"

Suddenly, Pan Yue blurted out a word, reached out and grabbed Coco and the somewhat confused Li Yibai, and ran desperately upwards.

Just as Coco turned the corner on the stairs, she caught a glimpse of what was below.

In the darkness, half a pale face appeared from around the corner, its scarlet eyes darting around before finally fixing their gaze on them.

It's Li Wentao!

Coco felt a chill run down her spine and immediately sped up, running upwards as fast as she could.

The three of them ran in the darkness for an unknown amount of time until they reached the end of the stairs and had to stop.

Pan Yue was exhausted and finally stopped when she reached the top floor.

There is a window on the rooftop staircase platform, which is quite rare.

At this moment, Pan Yue leaned against the windowsill, bent over, coughed incessantly, and then gasped for breath, unable to speak.

Li Yibai, who had been pulled up, sat down on the ground with a thud, too exhausted to ask what had happened.

Only Coco, whose body had been strengthened, could hold on; she only gasped for breath a few times but was not exhausted.

"You...you guys...what exactly happened?" Li Yibai, being male, was physically stronger than Pan Yue, and he was now able to speak intermittently. "And...what about Li Wentao?"

Coco pretended to be out of breath: "That game... the game 'When Darkness Falls,' it turned into a real-world game, and the three people playing the ghosts are trying to kill us!"

"Are you kidding me!" Li Yibai was clearly stunned by these words, and he didn't even breathe.

“I’m not kidding,” Coco took a deep breath. “Before we met you, we saw Li Wentao. He was just a few floors downstairs, unable to move. He was about to die! He had been pierced by two iron pipes! He couldn’t have come upstairs with us!”

"How is that possible!" Li Yibai's eyes widened. "Then what did we just see? Don't lie to me."

Just as Coco was about to speak, Pan Yue, who was leaning over the windowsill, suddenly exclaimed, "Gu Mian! I see Gu Mian! There's another building across the street, and he's in that building! He saw us too!"

Gu Mian?

Coco immediately turned around and looked out the window.

There is indeed another building about 100 meters away from the window. The location is very close, and you can see the building clearly.

Gu Mian was also on the top floor of the building across the street, where there was also a window. He was waving from behind that window.

Could it be that the person who disappeared downstairs was moved to another building?

"Gu Mian?" Li Yibai, panting heavily, got up from the ground and walked to the window. "What's he doing in this godforsaken place?"

But as he approached the window, he noticed that the expressions of the two girls next to him as they looked out the window suddenly became somewhat stiff, as if they had seen something terrifying.

Li Yibai looked at the opposite side with a puzzled expression.

Gu Mian was standing behind the window of the building across the street.

In the darkness behind him, a chilling face was faintly emerging.

It's Li Wentao!

Ah, without this chapter's mention of being late to write, I've lost so much of the joy of writing! Waaaaaah!

Gugu wishes for 10,000 jin every day this month. [Hands clasped together]

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