Terror is resurging, but only I am.

Chapter 56 No, buddy?
"Hey Yan Ming, why do we keep going in circles here? I think I'm lost, so sad QAQ"

"Huh?! The old woman's chasing after us!"

"Hey, are you deaf? Why aren't you replying to my messages?"

Seemingly realizing that Yan Ming knew of his existence, Li Yan stopped pretending and instead kept muttering incoherent words to distract Yan Ming and disrupt his thoughts.

Yan Ming really wanted to yell "Shut up!", but he was afraid that if he let Li Yan have his fill of scolding, the guy would become even more unruly if he responded. So he could only hold back and remain silent.

He looked towards the dormitory entrance, his mind racing as he considered his current situation.

The dormitory supervisor's double red light must be coming to find him.

To be precise, they came to find Li Yan, who was in his ear.

There's no time to think too much now; we need to escape the red light's pursuit first.

With the ability of the Blinding Ghost, Yan Ming only needed to transform the dormitory door in front of him, but now the dormitory manager was using his precious ability for a simple encirclement, and his situation was likely to get even worse.

First, ask your teammates if they have any ideas.

The dorm supervisor is after me, do you have a way to help me escape?

Because of the urgency of the situation, Yan Ming's handwriting was very messy. He Lian only glanced at it and roughly understood the meaning.

"it is good."

He Lian didn't waste time asking Yan Ming for the specific reason and readily agreed.

With a calm expression, she whispered a reminder: "Later, you can look for an opportunity to jump towards the door, giving yourself the momentum to leap forward."

Yan Ming nodded. He Lian's personality was quite stable, and she wouldn't say anything reckless at a time like this, so he chose to believe her.

Through the dormitory door, he saw the red light spreading across the corridor, indicating that the dormitory manager was gradually approaching.

Just before the two beams of red light converged, Yan Ming burst out of the dormitory and leaped high into the air to the right.

Throughout the process, he kept his head down, trying his best not to look at the dormitory manager's face.

The moment Yan Ming stepped into the corridor, he immediately felt a surge of power within him.

It was He Lian's telekinetic power.

These hands are bigger than I imagined; when they are clasped together, they can hold an adult in their palms.

He Lian did just that; her telekinetic hand gripped Yan Ming, and then a pressure slowly came from all directions.

Yan Ming: "?"

He felt that He Lian's telekinetic hands were very smooth, as if they were coated with essential oil.

A pair of such smooth hands clasped together, squeezing his entire body, and he was "flew" away under this force.

It feels like holding a bar of soap in your hands while taking a shower, and then squeezing it a little, causing the soap to slip out between your hands.

And now, Yan Ming himself is that bar of soap.

However, the pressure he faced was different from that of soap; he was launched at an unbelievable speed.

In just a moment, Yan Ming felt himself pass by the red light symbolizing the dormitory supervisor, and crash straight into the wall of the corridor.

During the high-speed movement, Yan Ming only had time to reach out and protect his head.

However, the expected impact did not occur. Just before he hit the wall, he felt himself being enveloped by those telekinetic hands again, and accelerated a second time.

The launch position was calibrated perfectly this time, and Yan Ming flew straight to the end of the corridor.

There was now a long enough buffer distance, so he was able to land steadily, appearing right in front of the stairs.

He tilted his head slightly and glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye. The two red lights merged and sped toward Yan Ming.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yan Ming immediately controlled "Teacher Pan's" body to run upstairs.

The dormitory supervisor's attention is now entirely on him. Taking this opportunity to distract him will give the others time to search for the safety bolt.

Yan Ming didn't need to say it; he believed the others could figure it out as well.

So "Teacher Pan" took big strides and began climbing the building to stalk the ghost.

This scenario is not much different from the asymmetric competitive games we discussed earlier, but the situation is clearly better.

Because the dormitory manager will continue to chase Yan Ming until he catches Li Yan.

He can confidently buy enough time for his teammates.

However, when Yan Ming ran to the fifth floor and looked down, the red light chasing him had disappeared without a trace.

Did he go after someone else?

No, they probably went back to rest and repair.

Judging from the strange cry of "Eek—ha!" that came from beside his ear, this guy had been chased by the dormitory manager for a while and then escaped into his ear canal.

About five minutes later, the dormitory manager shifted his focus and started chasing after Li Yan, who had Li Yan in his ear canal.

This means that the dormitory manager will not keep chasing them, and will at least give them some time to search and rest.

However, this may not necessarily be a good thing.

Before the first repair, there was only one beam of red light chasing Li Yan.

After the dormitory manager finished making repairs, the red light chasing Yan Ming became two beams.

This indicates that the dormitory manager has successfully created a double agent, allowing for a pincer attack from two directions, significantly increasing the success rate of the arrest.

This is the second time it has been repaired.

Yan Ming had a bad feeling.

Could it be that the dorm manager can create a clone every time the dorm is renovated?

According to his own perception, it only took about five minutes from when the dormitory manager gave up chasing Li Yan to when he started chasing him again.

If the rest period is only five minutes, and each time a clone is created...

In just one hour, nearly twelve dormitory supervisor clones will appear inside the dormitory building!

At that point, He Lian wouldn't be able to break free of the blockade simply by using essential oils.

You might find yourself suddenly surrounded by a dense red glow throughout the entire floor without even realizing it.

You can't look directly at the dormitory supervisor's body, or you'll be chased by more than ten dormitory supervisors...

No.

The search for the safety bolt must be done as quickly as possible; they probably won't even have half an hour.

This mission must be completed as soon as possible.

As Yan Ming opened the door to his fifth-floor dormitory, he began to recall his entry into the dormitory building and all his interactions with Li Yan, analyzing which action had violated the taboo of this ghost.

It's hidden inside the ear.

Yan Ming thought of the first sentence engraved in the cabinet in the dormitory.

Now he understands what it means.

Li Yan really did manage to get into his ears, but this was by no means without reason.

This person was merely corrupted by the dormitory manager's abilities; at most, it was a derivative mutation.

If it truly ignores all conditions and enters the ear directly, then the dormitory management, as the source of pollution, should possess the same ability, so it could directly enter his ear.

This makes it easy to catch him, which is obviously more efficient.

Apart from wishing ghosts, the harm caused by ghosts is almost always traceable.

So what "signs" would the dormitory manager give?
Li Yan mutated because he saw the dormitory manager with his ghost eyes, and he also saw Li Yan's eye sockets and the ears on his forehead, which is why he was locked on.

But if I remember correctly, it should have been the cane king who looked at Li Yan first, right?
Why was it him who got infected?
Yan Ming couldn't figure it out, so he could only make a note of it for the time being.

"Wait, there's a safety bolt here." He bent down and saw a safety bolt deep under the bed, exactly the same one he had seen in He Lian's hand before.

"Wow, it's a safety pin! Do you want to get it? I think you can't reach it? Do you need my help? Just let me out, really."

At this moment, Li Yan's sarcastic and obnoxious voice came again.

Yan Ming did not reply, but instead tried to reach the safety bolt deep under the bed himself.

failure.

He looked around and realized that the dormitory didn't even have a clothes hanger, and there was nothing long enough to hook the safety bolt.

Helpless, Yan Ming had no choice but to crawl under the bed to retrieve the safety pin.

Yan Ming wasn't afraid of getting dirty, because it wasn't him who would get dirty, but Teacher Pan, so he didn't care about such actions.

The distance between the bed board and the floor in the second-year dormitory was very narrow. Yan Ming needed Teacher Pan to lie completely flat before he could barely move inside.

However, it wasn't too difficult; he touched the safety bolt after moving for about a few tens of seconds.

Feeling the cool but solid feel of the safety pin, Yan Ming immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

This room is the dormitory near the stairwell, which is similar to their previous guess; the safety bolt was more likely to have been discarded in a dormitory near the stairwell.

Yan Ming glanced at the number on the safety pin, which was engraved with the number "3".

Is it the electrical box on the third floor?
Fortunately, the safety bolts weren't hidden too deep, and we've already found two out of the five so quickly. Hopefully, everything will go smoothly from here on out.

Just as Yan Ming was about to get out from under the bed, he suddenly heard a crisp footstep coming from the corridor outside the dormitory.

"clatter."

Just that one sound.

It was like a footstep that slipped out unintentionally, and then there was no more sound.

anyone? !
Yan Ming, who was under the bed, froze. He was unsure who was outside the door.

If they were those three students from Wangcheng No. 1 Middle School, their footsteps wouldn't have been just one sound, and it seems they wouldn't have been able to search the 5th floor so quickly.

Dormitory manager...

It won't be the dormitory manager either.

I had noticed before that the dormitory manager walks almost in a suspended state, making no sound at all.

and so……

Is it that middle-aged man with presbyopia?

Yan Ming couldn't help but hold his breath. He had been paying attention to the middle-aged man's movements before, but after entering the floor, the man seemed to have completely disappeared.

Clearly, this person had discovered their group's existence long ago.

However, it's uncertain whether the middle-aged man harbored any obvious hostility towards them, since he probably didn't know they were entering the dormitory to take his brain.

If they knew, it would be dangerous.

Yan Ming's gaze swept over everything in his vicinity.

The bed board represents "support".

Clothing represents "covering".

A lip balm in your pocket might represent "moisturization," while a charging cable represents "connection."

Based on his judgment of the nature of these things, Yan Ming could basically guess what would happen after he used the Blinding Ghost's ability to extract their essence.

As for these shoes, they are essentially no different from the clothes; they should be the same thing.

Wait, why is there a pair of shoes?
Yan Ming blinked, realizing that the clean sneakers under the opposite bed were completely illogical.

He had never found shoes under the beds in other dorm rooms before, and he only just noticed that there was a pair of men's shoes under the other bed.

Strange, are these shoes newly introduced, or have they always been here?
Yan Ming tried desperately to recall, but he couldn't remember anything.

"Hehe, I actually put the shoes here to remind you that this bed is occupied."

Li Yan's incoherent words came to his ears again. The appearance of these shoes had already made Yan Ming extremely vigilant, but there were likely other people in the corridor now, and he simply didn't have time to pay attention to this strange phenomenon.

"That's right, the node is indeed here."

A deep, middle-aged voice came from the dormitory entrance, as if the speaker had found something.

Yan Ming, who was under the bed, twitched his ears and caught the key words.

node?

What node?
I had a feeling that the middle-aged man was looking for something, and I initially thought he was looking for a safety bolt, but now it seems that's not the case.

Yeah, the safety bolt wasn't placed in a very well-hidden spot, so this guy must have been in the dorm building for a while now.

If you're looking for a safety bolt, you should be able to find it, right?
Could it be that the middle-aged man wasn't actually looking for a safety bolt?

node?

What do nodes represent?
With a thought, Yan Ming began to focus his attention on the four eyes of the Blindfold Ghost.

Two eyes observe reality, two eyes peer into the essence.

The difference between the two perspectives represents the "truth" within its own rules.

If there really is such a node in this dormitory, it should be able to be discovered by the Blindfold Ghost.

When Yan Ming did this, the things in his field of vision changed accordingly.

The things in the dormitory room gradually became brand new, as if time had turned back here, and in the blink of an eye, we were back to more than 20 years ago.

We've returned to a time more than twenty years ago, when students still lived there, and when Wangcheng served as a game venue to welcome players.

Right across from where Yan Ming was hiding under the bed, his eyes and hands spotted another male classmate hiding under another bed.

The student was trembling uncontrollably, his face filled with terror, as if something dangerous was about to appear.

"clatter."

A very slight sound came from beside Yan Ming, and then he saw the male classmate opposite him stare wide-eyed.

The man frantically put his index finger to his lips, repeatedly making a "shush" gesture to tell Yan Ming not to make any noise.

But it was already too late.

Yan Ming couldn't see what it was, but something unseen had entered the dormitory, slowly paced around, and then grabbed the male student from under the opposite bed.

The movements were extremely exaggerated. The male student struggled desperately, his feet gripping the railing of the upper bunk as he wrestled with the creature holding him.

Then this struggle became pointless, and the shoes came off his feet. The male student was torn and dragged out of the room, leaving only the shoes lying on the ground, crooked and twisted.

Yan Ming looked at those familiar shoes and instantly realized something.

Are those the same shoes that were on the other side of the bed in the past?

This dormitory is a key point...

Does it refer to some kind of "memory node"?

Just as Yan Ming was guessing, footsteps outside the door quietly extended into the room, and Yan Ming, who was under the bed, saw the middle-aged man's feet walk in.

"This is it."

The middle-aged man spoke, then bent down, looked down at the other side of the bed, and reached out to take the brand-new sneakers.

Eh?
At the same time, Yan Ming looked at the back of the head so close to his own, his heart filled with astonishment.

The skull at the back of the head had been removed, thus exposing the brain inside.

Didn't you notice me?
However, without any hesitation, as if he had no teacher, he naturally reached out and easily removed the middle-aged man's brain.

No, buddy?
　New author, new book, seeking everything~
　　If it's a regular book, it should be available soon. I hope I can successfully collect enough readers to read before it's released! QAQ
　　
　
(End of this chapter)