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Chapter 363 Underground Storms
The cramped corridor made it hard to breathe.

Li Yibai lingered in the pitch-black corridor for a while, but finally couldn't bear the terrifying darkness any longer and ran off into the distance.

Shortly after he fled the terrifying corridor in terror, one of the doors was suddenly pushed open a crack.

At this moment, Gu Mian was standing in the narrow stairwell, looking down at Guo Jimei, who was sitting on the ground in fright: "You're the one who's playing tricks on me, so why do you look like you're the one who's scared?"

The hand reaching out from the corner belonged to Guo Jimei.

Just as Gu Mian was staring intently at the top of her head, Guo Jimei, who was squatting on the ground, seemed to sense something and looked up, just in time to meet Gu Mian's pale face illuminated by the dim light of the flashlight.

Then a scream echoed throughout the area.

Guo Jimei, who was sitting on the ground, was startled. She looked up at Gu Mian with wide eyes and asked, "Are you a ghost? You walk without making a sound."

Gu Mian took the flashlight out of her pocket: "If I were a ghost, you probably wouldn't be squatting here right now... But shouldn't I be asking you that?"

He reached out and turned on the flashlight. The bright light shone on Guo Jimei's face, and Guo Jimei raised her hand to shield her eyes, saying, "Don't shine it on me."

Gu Mian ignored Guo Jimei: "Of course I have to take a look at you and see what this pale hand reaching out from the dark corner to grab someone's trouser leg is. What if it's a ghost? Wouldn't I turn around and run away?"

Knowing she was in the wrong, Guo Jimei didn't argue. She remained silent for a while before explaining, "I was hiding here just now, and I only stopped you when I saw you pass by."

Gu Mian pondered for a moment, recalling the pale hand from earlier: "The way you greet people is quite unique."

“No…” Guo Jimei explained, “It’s because before you came… I saw something and that’s why I’m hiding here.”

Gu Mian touched her chin; Guo Jimei had indeed seen quite a lot.

The Yuan Qinghua I saw during the day turned into a ghost, and it seems she saw something strange again tonight, and even reached out her pale hand to grab someone's trouser leg.

Seeing that Gu Mian didn't speak, Guo Jimei continued, "At eight o'clock tonight, everything went black, and in the blink of an eye, I was here. I've been here from the very beginning..."

"Because it was so dark, I didn't dare to wander around, and I didn't even dare to turn my flashlight too bright."

"I wanted to observe my surroundings to see which way was the best to go, but before I could figure it out, I heard someone coming."

As she said this, Guo Jimei frowned. It was dark all around, but Gu Mian's flashlight shone on Guo Jimei's face, allowing Gu Mian to see her expression in the darkness.

Guo Jimei looked serious, as if she was recalling something: "I was scared when I heard the sound, so I just hid here. It was too dark for me to see my surroundings, and I didn't dare to turn on the light. I only heard someone walking towards me."

Gu Mian listened quietly to Guo Jimei's words.

"I heard the person getting closer and closer, and finally they just walked straight down the corridor! I didn't dare to make a sound... You know why I didn't dare to make a sound, right?"

Meeting teammates in a horror dungeon is like meeting an old friend in a foreign land; the two might even have a tearful reunion.

But the teammates in this instance may not be real teammates.

Gu Mian looked at Guo Jimei and said, "You can't see anything in this place with the lights off, yet that person could walk straight through this dark place. Only a ghost could do that."

Guo Jimei nodded hurriedly: "That's right! If you hadn't been passing by with a flashlight, I definitely wouldn't have dared to make a sound either."

That's what Guo Jimei thought.

But Gu Mian thought that people carrying flashlights weren't necessarily trustworthy.

There are also ghosts among the dungeon players, but these dungeon players don't have any night vision.

So the person holding the flashlight may not necessarily be a person.

Gu Mian rubbed the flashlight in her hand, then said, "It was so dark, you probably didn't know who the person who just passed by was, right?"

Guo Jimei nodded hesitantly: "I don't know... It was too dark for me to see. I only heard that person pass by here and never come back. The ghost went in the direction you were going. I was afraid it was still nearby, so I didn't dare to make a sound, which is why I wanted to reach out and grab you." Guo Jimei's shout just now was definitely powerful. If the ghost was nearby, it would have heard it long ago. There was no need for the two of them to hide anything now.

Gu Mian shone her flashlight in the direction she had just been walking.

The flashlight beam pierced the darkness, revealing a somewhat indistinct walkway.

“That person went that way…” Gu Mian muttered to herself.

Could the person Guo Jimei saw be the same clothes rack she had seen in the flickering corridor not long ago?

Of course, that clothes rack could very well be Guo Jimei in front of her.

Not everyone knows how to play dumb to outsmart others, but most people do know how to play dumb.

At this moment, Guo Jimei hesitated before speaking: "I think... that person seems to be Yuan Qinghua."

Again.

Since the equipment room incident this morning, Guo Jimei has been adamant about Yuan blue and white porcelain, and hasn't given up all day.

Gu Mian suggested a terrible idea: "Since you didn't see it clearly either, why don't we go take a look over there?"

Guo Jimei's eyes widened in the flashlight beam: "But the ghost could still be over there!"

Gu Mian said, "A ghost can only kill one person per night. As long as the two of us stay together, it won't dare to appear."

Upon hearing this, Guo Jimei nodded hesitantly, but then said warily, "How do I know if you're a ghost? You're not afraid at all being suddenly grabbed by a hand in this ghostly place, and you even came over to check on me..."

As Guo Jimei spoke, she took a few steps back, her eyes filled with suspicion.

Gu Mian shrugged: "I think it's more suspicious to be someone squatting in a corner in this godforsaken place, reaching out to tug at other people's trouser legs."

Guo Jimei fell silent.

In the end, the two of them walked together in the direction that Guo Jimei had mentioned.

The narrow staircase was shorter than Gu Mian had expected, and they soon reached the end.

"Elevator?" Gu Mian frowned and raised her flashlight to illuminate what was in front of her.

That's right, it's an elevator.

And it seems to be an elevator that has been abandoned for a long time.

The buttons and display screen next to the elevator had long since stopped working, and Gu Mian pressed them several times without any response.

The elevator doors were also covered in a thick layer of dust, so much so that even the gap in the middle was barely visible.

Even though the door was covered in a thick layer of dust, the sharp-eyed Gu Mian noticed that there seemed to be something above the door.

He raised his hand and wiped the dust off the door a few times, revealing what was on the door.

It was a square sticker, about two fingers long, with the words "Elevator No. 4, Basement Level" written on it in large letters.

This thing really looks like a class sign when it's stuck on the elevator door.

Guo Jimei, who was standing next to her, was stunned when she saw this: "This is... the basement of our school?"

(End of this chapter)