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Chapter 345 Wen Tao Flies to the Moon
A sudden gasp of shock echoed down the stairs.

Immediately afterwards, the sounds of frantic fleeing followed.

Pan Yue was the first to run away, followed by Li Yibai, who was pulling 007 and trying to run upwards.

Pan Yue had only run a short distance uphill when Coco, who was close behind, grabbed her arm: "We don't need to be afraid. He can't kill anyone anymore. Have you forgotten? A ghost can only kill one person a night!"

Upon hearing this, Pan Yue hesitated and stopped, but the panic on her face did not diminish. Instead of going down again, she looked at Li Wentao from a distance.

Although Coco said that, her body still followed Pan Yue up a few steps, and she didn't seem to want to get too close to the bottom.

007, who was being pulled by Li Yibai, symbolically climbed a few steps and stopped not far from Gu Mian, looking down.

Gu Mian is currently closest to Li Wentao, and he hasn't moved.

The first victim has already been identified, so the ghost shouldn't kill again unless it wants to take everyone down with it.

Meanwhile, Li Wentao, who had been hiding under the dark staircase, emerged.

His face was still deathly pale, but his expression was one of utter terror, unlike what one would expect from a ghost.

Even so, the people on the stairs took several steps back, watching the people below warily.

“You…” Li Wentao looked flustered and at a loss, “You’re here too…”

Then, as if suddenly realizing something, he opened his mouth urgently: "No...it wasn't me! He was already dead when I got here!"

As Li Wentao spoke, he excitedly took a few steps forward, wanting to go up the stairs.

Immediately afterwards, Pan Yue's voice rose: "Don't come any closer!"

Li Wentao stopped abruptly, seemingly at a loss for what to do, but still looked up at the stairs with pleading eyes: "It really wasn't me, I couldn't possibly do such a thing! You've misunderstood!"

The impatient voice echoed incessantly in the dark stairwell, sending chills down everyone's spines; Li Wentao stood at the bottom of the stairs, making everyone shudder.

At this moment, Coco spoke up in a trembling voice: "You're talking nonsense! We clearly saw that you were about to die, but then you turned around and chased after us like a madman. Didn't you want to kill us?"

Upon hearing this, Li Wentao looked somewhat bewildered: "What do you mean 'dying soon'? What do you mean 'chasing you'? I don't know anything about that! I've been on another building the whole time, and I didn't run into you at all! Oh, right... Gu Mian, I also ran into Gu Mian..."

As he spoke, he tried to turn around to look at Gu Mian behind him, but as soon as he turned his head, he saw the fat man's face, which had turned blue and purple, and he stopped turning his head abruptly.

Li Wentao dared not turn around again, so he remained in this strange position and said urgently, "Gu Mian, haven't you been with me the whole time? You can testify that I haven't been pursuing them!"

Before Gu Mian could speak, Pan Yue's shrill voice rang out: "You went to Gu Mian's side after chasing us! I clearly saw you sneaking around behind him, not knowing what you were up to, and after you got to the other side, no one chased us anymore! You're clearly the ghost, the murderer in this game! And..."

"Moreover, we found our way here by following the trail of blood you dragged. It's clear that you came down from up there and killed Fatty Wang. If you didn't kill him, why are you hiding down there so furtively, afraid to come out!"

"I don't..." Li Wentao said in a panic, his voice rising, "When I came here, I saw that he was already dead! Then I heard you coming downstairs, I... I was afraid you would misunderstand, so I hid here!"

“Yes,” Pan Yue glared at Li Wentao, her eyes reflecting light in the darkness, “You didn’t have time to escape, so you hid here. You didn’t expect to make a sound and be discovered!”

Li Wentao's eyes were already red, and he stared intently at Pan Yue: "I already said it wasn't me! Why do you always target me? Why do you say I killed him! I know... it was you!"

"You killed someone, and that's why you're trying to frame me!" Li Wentao's eyes were bloodshot. As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed towards Pan Yue.

Pan Yue was caught off guard and took a step back in a panic, but bumped into Coco. The two of them lost their balance and fell heavily to the ground.

Pan Yue's head slammed against the stair railing, and blood began to flow.

At this moment, Li Wentao, his face contorted with rage, charged toward her.

Pan Yue tried to get up in a panic, but it seemed as if she had been stepped on, and she suddenly fell back down on the stairs. Li Wentao was getting closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye, he was right in front of her.

Immediately afterwards, Pan Yue felt Li Wentao grab her by the collar and slam her against the wall next to her.

"Go to hell!" came an angry voice from above.

"Help!" Pan Yue cried out in terror.

But just as her head was about to hit the wall next to her, Li Wentao suddenly staggered and failed to strike.

It was Chu Changge who grabbed Li Wentao's arm.

At that moment, 007 quickly caught up and hugged Li Wentao.

Li Yibai was still left behind, while Coco was still sitting on the ground, seemingly stunned. Gu Mian was still on her way upstairs.

But Li Wentao had gone mad, and the two men couldn't hold him back. He was still struggling, and he used both hands to choke Pan Yue's neck.

Although the two men were pulling her and she couldn't exert much force, Pan Yue was already feeling suffocated.

Just then, a sound suddenly resounded throughout the entire building, like the sound of a school broadcasting gymnastics exercises—

"The first night has ended, and voting will begin soon. Please select your voter within one minute."

It's three o'clock!
Startled, Coco looked up and asked, "What is this? How do I vote?"

"I don't know!" Li Yibai exclaimed anxiously. "Even if I throw it out, what good will it do!"

At this moment, Pan Yue was still being choked by Li Wentao, and she could barely feel the air. In this critical moment, Pan Yue desperately tried to speak through her choked throat: "I...I vote for Li Wentao!"

"Jingle Bell--"

The phone rang in the darkness.

The woman from Yue, who was writing something in her bedroom, suddenly looked up at the telephone in the middle of the living room.

She is a player in this instance, and is in the same class as 007, Class 23 of Senior High School.

But it was during dinner that she learned she was a day student and was taken home by her mother who came to pick her up, losing contact with 007.

Yue Nu already knew the rules of the game, but she didn't know how she should vote at 3 a.m., but now she does.

She was mentally prepared, so she wouldn't be too surprised no matter what happened at 3 a.m.

It's just a phone call at 3 a.m., but...

The phone rang so loudly, yet the parents in the next bedroom didn't react at all; they were sleeping far too soundly.

Without delay, Yue Nu quickly went to the phone and answered it.

Immediately afterwards, a mechanical voice came from the microphone—

"The first night has ended, and voting will begin soon. Please select your voter within one minute."

When will there be a chapter summary? I'm so lonely!

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