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Chapter 341: I Want Them All
Li Yibai was stunned: "Chu Meiren, you're here too!"

Pan Yue turned around and looked at Chu Changge in surprise: "Didn't you suddenly disappear? How come you're here again?"

Coco also looked at Chu Changge, who had suddenly appeared behind her. She saw that Chu Changge didn't seem to like the title 'Beauty Chu', but he just frowned slightly and didn't say anything.

"I suddenly disappeared. I was moved to the rooftop. I stayed here for a while, trying to see if I could find anything..." As he said this, he shone his flashlight, the light sweeping across the faces of the three people in front of him. "What's wrong with you guys? What kind of expressions are those?"

Chu Changge didn't recognize Li Yibai, but she didn't pay much attention to him either.

Upon hearing this, Pan Yue immediately tensed up again: "It's a long story. Keke and I ran into Li Wentao a few floors downstairs. Li Wentao was dying! He was pierced by two tubes and was bleeding a lot... He was staring at us like he wanted to kill us! We were so scared that we ran away immediately. We ran into Yi Bai on the way, but we didn't expect Li Wentao to keep following us!"

Pan Yue didn't even catch her breath: "The three of us ran for our lives, and when we got to the rooftop, we saw a building across the street, and Gu Mian was there; but Li Wentao actually appeared there too! And he was perfectly fine. We clearly saw him almost dying before, but now he's standing there perfectly fine. He's lying to Gu Mian! He's the ghost in this game!"

Li Yibai, standing beside him, looked bewildered, seemingly lost in thought.

At this moment, Chu Changge was already looking out the window.

There were indeed two people standing in the opposite window: one was Gu Mian, and the other was Li Wentao.

At this moment, Li Wentao still looked bewildered, seemingly unaware of why the people here looked so frightened.

Gu Mian looked quite relaxed, as if she were taking a walk after dinner.

The atmosphere over there is completely different from here.

"What should we do?" Coco glanced at the building across the street, then turned back to look at Chu Changge.

“Don’t rush. Do you remember the time in the game rules? From 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. is nighttime, and ghosts can kill people. At 3 a.m., we can hold a vote to vote the ghost out,” he said, raising his wrist. The fluorescent numbers on the watch face were very conspicuous in the darkness. “It’s 2:40 a.m. now.”

Li Yibai snapped out of his daze: "But... how are we supposed to vote for Li Wentao? And what will happen if he gets the most votes? Will he really die?"

The twelve of them originally planned to play the entire game in the classroom.

Twelve people gathered together to vote publicly, and then each person's votes were counted.

But they haven't all gathered yet, and they don't know how to vote—whether they should read out the name of the person they want to vote for or write the name on a piece of paper. They don't know any of this.

As for whether the person with the most votes will die, nobody knows.

"Don't rush," Chu Changge put his hand down, "maybe we'll find out in time."

Pan Yue's brows were furrowed tightly, as if she were very anxious.

At this moment, Chu Changge walked towards the window: "Let's meet up with Gu Mian and the others first."

“Meet up?” Pan Yue repeated, “But Li Wentao is over there! He, he is…”

Chu Changge turned around and said, "We can't draw conclusions based solely on what we see. You said that you two saw Li Wentao on the verge of death, but only you two saw him. The fact that Li Wentao might be a ghost also came from you two. None of the rest of us saw him, so we can't make any hasty conclusions."

As Chu Changge spoke, she looked at Li Yibai and asked, "Did you see that?"

Li Yibai shook his head blankly: "But I saw Li Wentao was just in this building a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye he was in the building across the street!"

“We were also inexplicably moved here,” Chu Changge said, “so suddenly moving a distance in this place is nothing unusual.”

Pan Yue's expression twisted, and her voice rose sharply: "So you don't believe us? We really saw it!"

Gu Mian was still looking across the street from the window.

As soon as Chu Changge appeared, the people opposite seemed to have some kind of friction, and it looked like they were about to fight. Li Wentao, standing nearby, looked puzzled: "What on earth are they doing?"

Gu Mian shook her head: "I don't know either."

As he spoke, he glanced at Li Wentao, who looked puzzled, and asked, "By the way, have you been staying in this building the whole time?"

Li Wentao nodded in the darkness: "Yeah, when I suddenly came to this place, I thought I was dreaming, but after staying for a while, I felt it wasn't quite like that, so I walked around the building for a while... I only dared to go to slightly brighter places, but even in slightly brighter places, I still felt like someone was hiding in a corner watching me... So I found a place to hide."

Gu Mian nodded thoughtfully: "I see."

"What about you?" Li Wentao looked at Gu Mian nervously. "Are you like me?"

“That’s right, I also came here suddenly,” Gu Mian replied.

Li Wentao nodded in confusion, then suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Oh right, you just told me we're here because of that game..."

He hesitated for a moment, "You're talking about the game 'When Darkness Falls,' right? Why are we here and related to that game?"

It seems this person isn't quite clear on the current situation; I don't know if they genuinely don't know or are just pretending.

Gu Mian then began to explain the science to him.

At this moment, Pan Yue glared angrily at Chu Changge: "If you don't believe us, you can go down there and see for yourself. Even if Li Wentao is gone, the bloodstains will still be there!"

Chu Changge spoke softly: "It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that sometimes what you see with your own eyes isn't necessarily the truth. The first round of voting is especially important, so we must confirm it."

“Okay,” Pan Yue said, “then let’s go down there together and see if there is any bloodstains. I roughly remember which floor it is.”

At that moment, Coco suddenly whispered, "Didn't they say they would suddenly disappear when they went downstairs?"

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "It does disappear suddenly, but based on my and Gu Mian's personal experience, the disappearance is just because it's been moved to another place. I think it's very likely that a 'ghost' is behind it. It disappears when we go downstairs because it doesn't want us to leave this building..."

"What do you mean by disappearing when you go downstairs?" Li Yibai seemed confused, but no one was there to explain it to him.

Coco asked in a confused tone, "But Gu Mian was directly transferred to the building across the street."

Chu Changge continued, "The ghost doesn't know the identities of the others, and since this is the first night, everyone's identities are unclear. The ghost will definitely do its best to find the most obvious civilians, which is why it has gathered some people together for observation. Before that, it should have sent those whose identities were not easy to determine to other places to avoid making mistakes. Gu Mian is obviously one of those people."

"And look, out of the twelve people participating in the game, I only saw eight. This shows that the ghost's energy is limited and it can't take care of everyone at the same time, so it abandoned the others on the first night," Chu Changge continued. "And Wang Pang and Lin Qi, who disappeared at the beginning..."

"What?" A voice suddenly interrupted Chu Changge's words. It was Li Yibai. "Lin Qi is here too? And he disappeared?"

Coco glanced at Li Yibai. Yes, this Li Yibai has a very good relationship with Lin Qi, the character from 007. They are childhood sweethearts and neighbors who grew up together.

"Don't worry," Coco reassured Li Yibai, "He should be alright..."

Just as Coco was comforting Li Yibai, Chu Changge glanced at them and continued, "The two of them may have been excluded because their identities were difficult to ascertain, but it is also possible that their identities were confirmed and they were killed... After all, no one has seen them since they disappeared."

But there must be one of them alive between 007 and the fat man, because a ghost can only kill one person in a night.

Upon hearing this, Li Yibai became excited and kept asking Coco about 007's disappearance.

At this moment, Pan Yue, who had been silent, suddenly spoke up: "Is it possible that one of them is the one hiding something? Or... that both of them are?"

I want them all! [Hint: Vote]

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(End of this chapter)