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Chapter 361 This is a surprise

The overhead lights didn't last long before dimming again, just as Gu Mian had predicted.

The corridor fell into a deathly silence.

Perhaps because she was in the thick of it, Gu Mian felt that the darkness lasted a rather long time.

He even tried to take a step forward.

Just as he took that step, the lights came on again, and the previously dark corridor became bright.

Then he saw the human figure that should have been standing at the other end of the corridor, a stiff, motionless person.

It's like a mannequin standing in the dark after the supermarket lights have been turned off.

And it's even closer now!
We're almost in the middle of this corridor!

If this continues, the light in the corridor will probably flicker on and off three or four more times before it reaches Gu Mian.

Every time the lights go out, it advances a long distance with malice.

When the lights come back on, people will see that the thing is closer to them.

Theoretically speaking, a normal person should panic and run away at this point, even though there is nowhere to escape.

But Gu Mian is not a normal person.

He picked up his chainsaw and hid it behind his back: "Isn't it just 'Red Light, Green Light'? I can do that too."

As he thought about it, he turned off the now-useless flashlight in his hand, took a big step toward the clothes rack in the darkness, and then suddenly stopped, motionless.

This is a surprise.

The light from the electric lamp arrived as expected.

Gu Mian remained stiff, staring ahead.

The clothes rack-like thing was indeed closer to her; it had crossed the middle of the corridor and was now only half a classroom away from Gu Mian.

But this thing clearly didn't expect Gu Mian to do something so inhuman.

The lights stayed on for a significantly longer time this time.

Gu Mian guessed that the other person might have been reflecting on life for a little while.

Given their current distance, if the lights go out twice more, they will be able to communicate face-to-face.

The lights stayed on for a little longer this time, but eventually went out.

The moment the lights went out, Gu Mian took the opportunity to take several large steps forward and raised the saw in her hand.

So when the lights came on again, the corridor was filled with the dazzling light reflected from the chainsaw.

At the same time, Gu Mian realized that she was very close to the other person, so close that she could poke the other person's butt if she took a few steps forward.

Indeed, the clothes rack opposite had taken a few more steps forward in the darkness, but it seemed to have sensed something was wrong early on. The moment the chainsaw emitted a dazzling light, it turned around, leaving only Gu Mian's backside exposed, as if it had noticed something amiss.

Gu Mian opened her mouth as if to say something.

But before he could speak, all the lights in the corridor went out.

Gu Mian waited for a while.

This time, the lights never came on again.

After spending more than ten seconds in the darkness, Gu Mian finally reached out and pulled out his flashlight, shining it forward. He could finally see the scene in front of him clearly again.

The clothes rack that should have been facing him was nowhere to be seen; it had vanished somewhere.

Gu Mian walked a short distance in the direction where the thing disappeared before he saw that the end point was also a door standing in the corridor, similar to the one he had just cut.

"It disappeared from here..." Gu Mian reached out and touched her chin. "It seems that this corridor is in the middle, with doors on both sides leading to other places."

There were at least two people behind the door that he had sawed a few times, and Li Yibai was behind that door.

There should be a considerable amount of space behind the door, because Gu Mian could hear the footsteps of the person behind the door running quite far before disappearing from sight.

At this moment, Gu Mian had quickly arrived at the door, thinking: "There should be a lot of space behind this door as well. The ghost disappeared from here, so did it go behind this door?"

Thinking of this, Gu Mian abandoned the door that he had just sawed twice, and instead picked up the saw and launched an attack on the door in front of him: "I must find it today."

The door was indeed very weak. Gu Mian made a large hole in the lock in just a few minutes, and the door was reluctantly opened.

There was no one passing by behind the door.

So even though Gu Mian's saw made an incredibly loud noise, no one behind him shouted "Run!" or anything like that.

Gu Mian, who had just opened the door, could now see what was behind it.

This is a very spacious platform, but it's impossible to tell what this place is for.

Gu Mian shone her flashlight around.

The platform splits into two branches, one to the left and one to the right, each leading to a different place.

Gu Mian quickly passed the platform, walked to the middle of the fork in the road, and looked to the left with her flashlight.

To the left was a dark, narrow, and rather short stairwell.

To the right was a relatively wide corridor, similar to the one I had just been in.

Just as Gu Mian turned her gaze to the right-hand corridor, she suddenly noticed what appeared to be a figure in the distance.

The light couldn't reach that far, and Gu Mian saw a figure flash by hurriedly in the darkness before disappearing.

“That is…” Gu Mian frowned as she looked at the figure in the distance.

Xu Xingcheng?
Gu Mian has excellent eyesight; years of assassination experience have honed his ability to "shoot a Japanese soldier in the head from 800 miles away."

So even though it was very dark around him, he could still see the fleeting figure.

"How could he be here? Theoretically speaking, he's not one of the twelve people participating in the game..." At this moment, Gu Mian recalled the conversation between Zhang Pingfan and Xu Xingcheng that she had seen earlier that day.

Perhaps Xu Xingcheng has some connection to the game they participated in.

Just as Gu Mian was about to follow, she suddenly heard a rustling sound behind her.

Behind him was the narrow stairwell, pitch black, where he couldn't see anything.

He immediately turned around.

But the narrow stairwell seemed to have eyes; it fell silent the moment he turned his head.

Gu Mian looked at the dark stairwell in front of her and considered for two seconds before giving up on Xu Xingcheng and walking into the dark stairwell.

The author missed a chapter number; this is chapter 361! Oh no, I can't change the chapter title, I'm dying!

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