Terror is resurging, but only I am.

Chapter 49 Mission Escape Points and Reversal Missions

Wang Xiaoming.

Wang Xiaoming.

Wang Xiaoming...

As Yan Ming flipped through the pages of the roll call, his gaze remained fixed on "Wang Xiaoming" at the end of the list.

The man and woman are trapped in a bizarre loop on campus without realizing it, which is normal. But Yan Ming doesn't understand why he is also in this loop.

This thick stack of attendance lists, assuming each cycle lasts 12 days (about two weeks), then the total time for each cycle is...

Several years?

Yan Ming frowned. He believed that he could never have stayed here for more than a few years. The name "Wang Xiaoming" on the roster was probably more of a psychological suggestion to him.

The reason is simple: the marbles he was carrying hadn't changed.

Every day at midnight, the number of balls in the marbles increases, which, according to the rules of this bizarre game, might be called "drawing cards".

By drawing cards, one can determine that the current "number of rounds (days)" has not changed, and this cyclical deception is easily exposed.

Unless the loop here is a true time loop, causing people to repeatedly experience the same 12 days, and it has a higher priority than the rules of the entire bizarre game.

Yan Ming thought it was unlikely.

Currently, using pinball props from games as a measure of one's own memory is still quite accurate.

He summarized the situation on these rosters, and without exception, none of them had more than two six-pointed stars following Wang Xiaoming.

In most cases there is only one six-pointed star, and only occasionally are there two.

Yan Ming could confirm that the handwriting was indeed his.

So what this strange sign is trying to indicate is...

After encountering these two classmates in the loop, he will most likely only survive for one day.
Is it even possible to survive past midnight tonight?

It seems that something even more terrifying and bizarre will appear before midnight.

However, after reviewing the entire roll call list, Yan Ming noticed that it was always Lu Mingzhe and He Lian who were the ones standing in front of him who survived to the end.

This suggests that their survival was not accidental; either they possessed great strength, or their connection to the Root Demon was the deepest.

It is necessary to stay by their side.

"What are you looking at?" Seeing Yan Ming lingering on the podium for a long time, Lu Mingzhe and He Lian, who were busy at their seats, looked over.

Yan Ming shook his head and stuffed the attendance lists back into the small drawer under the podium.

To him, these were just roll calls, but to Lu Mingzhe and his companion, they were likely real survival stories, revealing their inescapable fate.

The two of them most likely don't know about this, and Yan Ming felt there was no need for him to tell them.

Yan Ming walked over to the two classmates, who had obtained scalpels from the biology lab beforehand and were preparing to attack the crutch king who was lying on the chair.

The students who ran out of the eerie teaching building were terrified, tears streaming down their faces, and they trembled uncontrollably as they looked at the cold glint of the scalpel.

Yan Ming was impressed by the decisiveness of the two high school students. Fortunately, there was no inexplicable sympathy here, and they showed mercy even when dealing with ghosts. Otherwise, he really had to think carefully about whether he should stay with these two.

Yan Ming looked at the girl, He Lian, and found that she not only had no pity, but was also holding a small knife, eager to try it out, with an excited look on her face.

Fine, after all, I've lived in this environment for ten days, so I can't possibly sympathize with a ghost.

"Uh, uh!"

Upon seeing "Teacher Pan" approaching, the man with the cane suddenly became even more excited, as if he had seen his only savior, and rolled to the ground in a bound state.

Yan Ming squatted down and removed the sock from the other person's mouth.

He knew this classmate must know some secrets. One of the reasons he deliberately stayed on the podium was to wait for the "Crutch King's" psychological defenses to be broken.

It seems that these ghosts, to some extent, maintain the persona of "ordinary high school students" and are not purely eerie.

"Teacher Pan, please save me! I just want to survive. I want to gain those special powers before evening self-study ends, otherwise..."

Suddenly, the face of the Cane King seemed to melt, dripping a white, waxy substance. This white substance fell to the ground, making a hissing sound and emitting a little smoke.

Without hesitation, he brought his face close and licked away all the white oil with his tongue, thus completing his face.

"It's the boys' dormitory! You wouldn't understand. After lights out at 10 p.m., the teachers on duty at the dormitory completely change their appearance. It's terrifying, something you'd never understand! Only the class monitor, only the class monitor! He's the teacher's favorite. Back then, the teachers only trust him. Only he can help us survive."

"He said that as long as I pretended to be lame to help him distract Teacher Pan, he would protect me for the whole night after I returned to the dormitory."

The white oil returned to the head of the Cane King, and his face bounced twice like jelly. The dust on the ground that the white oil had just touched turned into pockmarks on his face, making it look like a dense patch.

Dormitory building?
The dormitory building was mentioned again, so it seems there really are some strange things there, and they only appear after 10 p.m.

And the teacher turned into a monster...

Is this the same transformation scene of Teacher Pan that I saw in my class?
Yan Ming recalled that eerie scene and mentally connected the two.

Furthermore, the person mentioned the class monitor of Class Four, which sounded like exactly what that guy was planning.

The doctor's ghost is on that class monitor.
Yan Mingyao looked at the brightly lit teaching building across the street. With his eyesight, he could see the general situation inside Class 4 of the second year of high school, but he couldn't see clearly.

The squad leader has probably already hidden himself; it won't be easy to find him now if we go back.

What else do you know?

Yan Ming placed the note in front of the Cane King.

The Cane King instinctively shook his head: "I really told you everything I know. I haven't researched any of that nonsense..."

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, his expression turned serious, and he said tentatively, "However, I once mentioned something at a teaching seminar held by the grade leader."

Seeing that "Teacher Pan" showed great interest in the matter, the man with the crutch breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"They said that the last exit from the school that allowed 'skipping school' had been closed a long, long time ago, and no one could get out anymore. The teachers only had to deal with the 'transfer students' from outside. Unless... no one could successfully leave."

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingzhe, who had been listening nearby, immediately became excited: "Unless what?"

The cane-wielding man simply shrugged and said helplessly, "I didn't hear it either. The grade head was speaking very softly. I was just passing by the office when I handed in my homework, so I didn't dare to listen for a long time."

Then he looked at Lu Mingzhe and He Lian with some curiosity: "To be honest, I'm very curious. You two are living such a good life here, so why do you insist on skipping school? The class schedules don't restrict your behavior. You just need to stay in this safe teaching building. Why do you always have such a bad idea?"

"What do you know?! So many people..." He Lian thought of something and became somewhat agitated.

Lu Mingzhe pulled her back and shook his head.

On the other hand, Yan Ming was still pondering the words of the Cane King.

Was the truancy route closed a long time ago?

The last exit... Could this refer to the evacuation point of Wangcheng?

A similar evacuation point to the underground experimental area of ​​a hospital?

No, they can't be said to be similar. The evacuation methods for the two should be different. The only similarity is that they are now completely closed.

However, this is good news for Yan Ming. As long as he can find the exact location of the evacuation point and see what kind of marbles are embedded there, he will know the conditions for flipping the place over.

That gave us specific information on two evacuation points, bringing us one step closer to the "path to becoming a ghost."

As for the other information revealed by the Cane King, he already had his own judgment.

The so-called "transfer students from outside" definitely refers to people like him, and perhaps Lu Mingzhe's dozen or so female classmates are also included.

As long as they weren't native residents of the Grade 11 building, they could all be considered "transfer students" and would be "secretly" disposed of by each class.

Yan Ming already had a clear idea of ​​the specific methods. His twelve corpses were still on the rooftop, and now he was probably only missing the last one, "Li Xiaoyu's" corpse.

Fortunately, "Li Xiaoyu's" body is currently "pretending to be a ghost" as the Blindfold Ghost, and together with Teacher Pan, they probably won't be taken away by that teaching building that came out of the textbook anytime soon.

Without the last body, the bizarre event of "killing" Yan Ming could not have succeeded, and for now it's quite safe.

After all, the blind ghost doesn't show itself until it leaves its possessor; only a few special ghosts related to "eyes" can see it.

such as……

A spy?
Yan Ming's first thought wasn't about inferior spying ghosts like Fan Xiaochuan, because Fan Xiaochuan had only eaten his eyes; he was a spying ghost born from the rules of pretending to be a ghost.

The real spy should be the survivor known as Ghost Eye; only the two Ghost Eyes on Yan Ming's forehead and the survivor's corpse's forehead can be considered the real deal.

Unfortunately, the ghost-eyed corpse became bizarre after entering the teaching building, and along with the seven nurse ghosts, it disappeared without a trace.

Do you know where that broken truancy exit is?

The cane king thought for a moment: "A long, long time ago, three people successfully skipped school. I heard that they left through a gap at the back of the dormitory building."

At this point, his expression suddenly changed: "You guys aren't thinking of going over there to check it out, are you? The dormitory building is very dangerous..."

But halfway through his sentence, he blinked again, seemingly lost in thought: "But I've never gone back to the dorm during class time. It shouldn't be dangerous at this time, right? The teachers are still in the teaching building, and there's probably only a dorm supervisor in the dorm..."

Upon hearing this, Yan Ming made his own judgment. He turned to look at Lu Mingzhe and He Lian and wrote a new note.

I need to go to the dorm before lights out, do you guys want to come with me?

It's not even nine o'clock yet, and the main threat to the dormitory building comes from the teachers, who are all in the teaching building.

There's no reason not to go and take a look first.

While Lu Mingzhe was still hesitating, He Lian agreed: "Okay."

When Lu Mingzhe looked at her, she said without hesitation, "No matter what, it's the only known passage through which someone has successfully escaped. We must go and see it, even if it's just to study the patterns, it will greatly help our escape."

Then let's go quickly.

Yan Ming untied the crutch king, but did not loosen the handcuffs binding him.

"You lead the way." Lu Mingzhe understood Yan Ming's meaning and urged the cane-wielding king to go ahead.

The group quickly moved along the safe route they had just taken, keeping quiet the whole way, and successfully descended the stairs to the dormitory area.

The dormitory building wasn't far from the teaching building. After crossing a small path, two gloomy and dilapidated old buildings appeared in front of the three of them.

“This is indeed the dormitory building for the second year of high school. I haven’t been here for a long time,” Lu Mingzhe said to Yan Ming, looking at the building.

"Shh!"

The cane king turned around and shushed him, then said, "Keep your voice down. The dorm supervisor has excellent hearing. Even though we don't need to go into the dorm building, I don't want him to find out!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingzhe shut up, while the Cane King was more astute than expected. He led them along the edge of the dormitory building, and before long they actually found a gap that had been sealed off.

"This is it! This is it! I've led you here. Now you can let me go, right?"

The Cane King pointed to the gap and said in a low but excited voice.

Evacuation point?
Yan Ming's gaze fell on the iconic green-painted field around him, and he made a judgment in his mind.

That's right, it's here.

Wait a minute, that person is...

Yan Ming looked at the person walking from another path and was immediately surprised.

Li Yan?

The ghost-eyed corpse transformed into a classmate after entering the teaching area. He claimed to be named Li Yan. Yan Ming couldn't find him after entering the classroom, but unexpectedly, he met him here.

The moment Li Yan saw Yan Ming, he became alert, mainly because of Teacher Pan's appearance, but then the ghost eye on his forehead rolled its eyes.

"Yan Ming? Is that you?" Li Yan looked up in surprise, as if he could see the blindfolded ghost sitting on Teacher Pan.

Yan Ming looked at the ghost eye and understood.

This ghost eye can not only see through the blindfolded ghost, but also recognize that the blindfolded ghost is him.

It might be considered one of the few special ghosts capable of countering the Blindfold Ghost.

Calling it a nemesis is far from enough; after all, the Blindfolded Ghost is a type of wish-granting ghost.

“I didn’t expect you to find this evacuation point too, but you probably can’t see the blood-letter quest here,” Li Yan said with a smile. “Besides the normal evacuation route, there’s another quest evacuation point in Wangcheng. As long as you complete the quest, you can evacuate Wangcheng. Unfortunately, it’s already over.”

Mission extraction point?
Yan Ming looked closely at the gap and indeed saw no embedded marbles near it, which meant that the two evacuation methods were completely different.

In this case……

According to ghost topology, how do you reverse the evacuation point?
What is the task?

Yan Mingxian ignored Li Yan's identity and simply showed him the note.

“You can’t see it? Oh, you really can’t see it. Only I can see the blood-written words.” Li Yan nodded and continued, “At midnight, escort at least three students trapped in the fog here, hold the gap for at least 5 minutes, and then evacuate together.”

Yan Ming noted down the mission objectives, but at the same time, questions arose in his mind.

If we want to reverse this evacuation point, do we just do the mission in reverse?

Before 12 o'clock, at least 3 students who escaped from the fog must be brought back.

But I can't even get out myself, how could I possibly catch him?

Yan Ming felt it was a tricky situation, but a flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind.

No, there's definitely a way to get out!
A method that someone had suggested to me a long time ago!

　New author, new book, seeking everything~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)