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Chapter 364 Twelve People
Still at school? Gu Mian frowned but remained silent.

He turned to look at Guo Jimei, who continued, "Gu Mian, look, isn't this the elevator on the basement floor of our school?"

Gu Mian, of course, had no idea about a negative level or not.

He wasn't originally part of this instance, so even if this damn school had some kind of underground elevator, he wouldn't know.

Therefore, Gu Mian could only remain silent, pretending to be thinking seriously, and did not answer Guo Jimei's question.

Fortunately, Guo Jimei didn't seem to be paying attention to him at all, but was staring intently at the elevator in front of her: "That's right, we're still at school, and we've been taken to the basement level!"

Gu Mian really wanted to ask Guo Jimei how she knew this was the elevator on the basement level.

But reason kept him quiet.

Judging from Guo Jimei's expression, it seemed as if the "Gu Mian" she knew knew about this underground basement level.

"The school closed this basement level many years ago, supposedly because something happened..." Guo Jimei muttered to herself in a low voice.

Gu Mian stroked her chin, surprised that it would come in such a useful way today. It was truly a rare occurrence: "Are you sure that person has come this way, right?"

Guo Jimei was slightly taken aback before speaking: "Yes, I heard those footsteps coming, and they never came back."

Gu Mian frowned. "No return"... This idiom is really quite frightening.

There's no one here.

The only elevator that leads to other places has long been closed, so you have to go back the way you came to get out.

But the person Guo Jimei mentioned has disappeared here, which is incredibly strange. It could very well be the motionless ghost that Gu Mian saw in the corridor—if Guo Jimei is telling the truth.

There was no one else, only himself and Guo Jimei.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she glanced at Guo Jimei, who was still staring at the elevator door, showing no particular interest in her.

Gu Mian withdrew her gaze. Since she couldn't find anyone and couldn't confirm Guo Jimei's identity, she could only think of other things first.

Now that this basement level has been closed, they should be unable to find their way out.

The only hope is that the ghosts who threw them here will throw them out again.

"Speaking of which..." Gu Mian stroked her chin, "If the ghost throws us in here and doesn't intend to care about us, wouldn't all of us who were thrown in here die inside?"

Upon hearing this, Guo Jimei shuddered: "That's right, that way the ghost can kill all of us directly!"

But theoretically, a ghost can only kill one person per night.

Whether it's a deliberate kill, a passive kill, or an accidental mistake.

You cannot kill a second person in one night, otherwise the ghost that killed more people will also die.

Even if a ghost suffocates a group of people here, it still counts as murder, even if it didn't kill them with its own hands.

“Don’t rush,” Gu Mian said. “A ghost can only kill one person per night, otherwise it will die too. If we all die here, it will also perish. I don’t think the ghost that moved us wants to sacrifice itself.”

Gu Mian saw Guo Jimei breathe a sigh of relief.

He continued, "And we might not necessarily find a way out..."

But just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him, which he could hardly hear if he hadn't had good hearing.

Gu Mian immediately looked back. Was someone behind her?

Behind me was still that dark, cramped corridor, and I couldn't see anything inside.

"What's wrong?" Guo Jimei asked cautiously upon seeing this.

She seemed not to have heard the voice from earlier. Gu Mian shook her head: "It's alright. Since this place is blocked, let's look for an exit somewhere else."

Guo Jimei clearly didn't want to act alone, so she followed Gu Mian without hesitation.

The two quickly emerged from the stairwell and arrived at the slightly larger platform where Gu Mian had just been.

As Gu Mian walked down that dark corridor, she made a point of looking inside, but there was nothing there.

This platform leads in three directions.

One is the elevator they just came out of.

One is the corridor that Gu Mian initially entered.

The last direction is the direction from which Xu Xingcheng's silhouette appeared.

Without hesitation, Gu Mian walked directly towards the corridor where Xu Xingcheng had just appeared.

He found that the underground corridor did indeed resemble the layout of a school, but the area of ​​a teaching building should not be this large.

Gu Mian was carrying a lantern in front.

Guo Jimei, who was standing next to her, cautiously spoke up: "I heard that the basement of our school is an entire building."

"The whole one?"

“Yes,” Guo Jimei said, “It is said that all the teaching buildings and dormitories have a basement, and they are all connected by passageways.”

That's quite novel.

"I heard from people in the previous grades that the school's staircases and elevators used to lead directly to the basement, but something happened later and the whole place was sealed off..."

Gu Mian walked down the corridor while listening to Guo Jimei talking beside her.

The corridor was very long, and Gu Mian suspected that this was the "passage" between the basement levels that Guo Jimei had mentioned.

As the two of them walked along the dark corridor, Gu Mian saw another person's back in the distance.

This time it's Chu Changge's turn.

He was pushing open a door in the corridor, glancing at it before stopping at the doorway. He then frowned, seemingly deep in thought.

Gu Mian had only seen him for a few seconds when Chu Changge looked over as if he had noticed something.

Good, Gu Mian thought to herself that she had two more comrades-in-arms, though she didn't know if they were human or ghosts.

At this moment, Chu Changge had already walked up to him.

Guo Jimei was slightly agitated: "It seems we've all been sent to this place."

She seemed happier the more people were brought in.

Gu Mian ignored the slightly agitated Guo Jimei beside her and looked at Chu Changge: "Were you also summoned here right at eight o'clock?"

Chu Changge nodded: "Yes, I also found this."

As he spoke, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a photograph.

Gu Mian reached out and took it.

It was a photo that was almost faded, but you could still make out what was on it.

Twelve people.

(End of this chapter)