Terror is resurging, but only I am.

Chapter 58 The Indescribable Sound
It was already dark.

The hands of the clock have reached 9:10.

The dormitory building was almost completely dark. Previously, there was a bright and clear red moon in the sky as a light source, but now, for some reason, thick clouds drifted over and obscured the moon.

It seemed to cover the entire dormitory building as well.

On the third-floor corridor inside the building, a humanoid creature covered in ears stood frozen in place, no longer moving.

Its incredibly long and slender arm reached out to the sky, firmly locking Yan Ming's neck, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.

Between the two, an invisible "air tube" connected Yan Ming and the dormitory manager's ears.

This utilizes "real" connections, connections in essence.

Although there was no physical contact, the connection was stronger than any physical contact.

The two maintain a strange balance that no one can easily break.

As time went by, Yan Ming could feel a slight warmth coming from the dormitory supervisor's ear.

Ok?
Yan Ming didn't dare to turn around and look at the dormitory supervisor, but he could sense that the supervisor's body seemed to be trembling slightly.

It's just like……

The ears are generally considered a sensitive area for the other person.

Therefore, it becomes hot and scalding.

Now, they have connected these areas, forming an almost intimate relationship.

Yan Ming immediately felt a chill; he couldn't imagine anyone being interested in a dormitory supervisor in this state.

Although she has a female figure, the thought of countless ears piled up on her body is incredibly distasteful.

"call--"

Yan Ming let out a long breath. It wasn't easy for him to maintain this balance because the dormitory supervisor's arm was directly gripping the back of his neck, not Teacher Pan's.

So he had to hold Teacher Pan's head tightly and cover the other's eyes with his hands.

We absolutely cannot let Teacher Pan go. This guy isn't a normal person either. If he gets away, he'll be hard to catch.

This forces Yan Ming to hold his breath and exert force simultaneously in order to keep his hand from slipping out.

Fortunately, the blindfolded ghost looked small and thin, but as a ghost, it was quite strong and seemed to be able to hold on for a long time.

perhaps……

Just hang in there a little longer.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"Stop!"

"Huh—no way."

Deep in his ears, Li Yan's voice gradually lost its previous vitality; it was clear that he was now somewhat panicked.

However, He Lian on the other side couldn't hear his pleas for mercy, and her telekinetic hands kept slapping around Teacher Pan.

The dormitory supervisor could clearly see the location of Yan Ming, the blindfolded ghost, but He Lian couldn't see him. She could only follow "Teacher Pan's" instructions and swing her weapon in the general direction.

Fortunately, the telekinetic hand was large enough, and the power could be easily transferred to Yan Ming.

By using his other hand to stabilize the head from another direction, the force was thus transmitted to Li Yan in Yan Ming's ear.

Driven by inertia, Li Yan began to move along the essence of "connection" towards the dormitory manager's ear.

This movement was beyond his control, because the power within his ears was far less than He Lian's telekinetic power outside.

"No way! Yan Ming, your ears smell so sweet, but the dorm supervisor's ears smell so sweet! I don't want to go from a sweet place to a sweet place!"

"Save me, save me!"

"I'll agree to anything you want!"

Judging from what he could hear, Yan Ming could sense that Li Yan was gradually fading away; the guy's voice was slowly diminishing, as if it were truly slowly leaving his ears.

Finally, Yan Ming felt that his ears seemed to have become much more relaxed, and Li Yan's voice seemed to be coming from the other side of the earth.

"Help me, buddy, I'm not kidding..."

The sound stopped abruptly, as if there was no follow-up.

The next second, the dormitory supervisor suddenly released Yan Ming's neck, as if it had fallen into a state of confusion.

It turns left and right, constantly circling in place, as if searching for something, but never quite pinpointing its exact location.

"boom."

Yan Ming and Teacher Pan fell to the ground together. He kept looking at the shadow of the dormitory supervisor on the floor tiles and breathed a sigh of relief after judging the supervisor's condition.

Successful.

If it were merely that Li Yan's voice had become softer, he would never easily sever the "connection" between himself and the dormitory manager, because he knew that Li Yan was now a cunning ghost who might pretend to leave to deceive him.

But it's different now.

The dormitory manager's computer clearly "malfunctioned" because Li Yan entered his ear canal, which basically confirms that Li Yan has completely left.

Therefore, Yan Ming no longer maintained the essence of "connection" and directly removed the essence of himself that he had taken out of the charging cable.

Now that he is no longer connected to the dormitory supervisor's ear, even if Li Yan recovers, he will not be able to repeat the same trick and will not be able to return to his ear through the connecting pipe.

Looking down at the shadow of the dormitory supervisor, just as Yan Ming had predicted, the supervisor was almost caught in a paradox of the rules and had entered a "crash" state.

As the dormitory manager, it will relentlessly pursue Li Yan for violating the taboo of "do not look at what is improper".

Then Yan Ming violated a similar taboo and was targeted by Li Yan, who then crawled into his cochlea.

Now, with the help of the Blind Ghost and He Lian, Yan Ming has finally escaped Li Yan's entanglement.

The dormitory supervisor was chasing Li Yan, who happened to be inside its own ear. It could find its target, but it couldn't hang it on the execution rack.

Therefore, it will not pose any threat to other people in the dormitory building for the time being.

As long as you don't actively look at the dormitory manager's appearance, you're almost guaranteed to be safe.

He also found the Doctor Ghost, so now all he needs to do is find a way to open the dormitory door.

"It's finally over... Did it have a bug?"

Like Yan Ming, Lu Mingzhe used the shadows on the ground to judge the dormitory manager's condition.

If it were a "mirror image," it would probably violate the dormitory supervisor's taboo, but a shadow would not.

Yan Ming made Teacher Pan nod.

"That's good." He Lian smiled, feeling a sense of relief.

Lu Mingzhe immediately reminded the other two: "Be careful, don't look up at the dormitory manager from now on, unless you also want to be chased by the dormitory manager."

"Of course, of course." The crutch-wielding king chuckled awkwardly. He hadn't put in any real effort so far, and he was secretly relieved that Li Yan hadn't set his sights on him.

The group retraced their steps and returned to the second floor.

The beam of red light that had been on the stairs stopped completely as the dormitory manager halted, remaining motionless in the air.

Yan Ming remained cautious. He guessed that the red light was probably not the dormitory manager or his clone, but he still did not look directly at it.

First, check the area below the red light to make sure there is no shadow from the dormitory supervisor.

With that, he knew what to do, closed all four eyes, and reached out to touch the source of the red light.

Upon receiving it, Yan Ming sensed that the source of the red light was actually a small, elastic ball.

He immediately identified what it was.

eye.

And it's highly likely that it's Li Yan's eyes.

Yan Ming recalled Li Yan's appearance earlier; that guy's three eyes corresponded perfectly to the three beams of red light now present. So the proliferation of red light was due to the ghost eye?
He couldn't help but purse his lips, feeling somewhat helpless.

I used to think that the red light was the dormitory manager, and naturally assumed that the number of dormitory managers was constantly increasing. I avoided these red lights that I thought I should not look at. Now I realize that my guess was completely wrong.

It's a pity. If the Doctor Ghost had been there, this kind of mistaken guess probably wouldn't have happened.

Thinking this, Yan Ming couldn't help but glance at the flower brain he had just put in his pocket.

Fortunately, his brain wasn't shattered.

Although it's very bouncy, it's not fragile, probably because it's protected by some strange ability.

"Come and see what's going on outside!"

Suddenly, the cane king noticed something and pointed outside the dormitory building.

The group immediately gathered around to observe. As the mission progressed, the area around the dormitory building was completely enveloped in thick fog.

At the same time, the dense fog was no longer content with simply surrounding the dormitory building, but began to pile up layer by layer and gradually rise.

It is conceivable that when the dense fog accumulates to a sufficient height, it will gradually close completely, until the entire dormitory building is buried in the fog.

Nobody knows what will happen then.

In short, it's definitely not a good thing.

Obviously, this task has a strict time limit and needs to be done faster.

Yan Ming took out the safety bolts he had found on the fifth floor, and He Lian also took out three more from her pocket.

So far, a total of four safety bolts have been found, and we are only one bolt away from the mission objective.

However, when He Lian took the safety pin from Yan Ming's hand, she immediately let out a scream, looking at the others with disbelief.

"How come this is also a '3'?!"

She arranged the safety bolts in a row in her palm, and the numbers on the four safety bolts were "5", "3", "3", and "1".

Yan Ming carefully observed the two safety bolts that were both numbered "3". They were no different from the others, except for the number.

"Could it be a universal one?" Cane King asked, puzzled. "Let's try it once we find the last safety bolt. What's so special about a safety bolt? As long as it works properly, it's fine."

"It might not be that simple." Lu Mingzhe frowned deeply, feeling uneasy about this unexpected situation.

seem……

They've always underestimated the task.

If I find the safety bolt, can I leave this dormitory?

This dormitory building clearly has a "story," and simply finding the safety bolt won't complete the task.

"We were just two rooms away from finding the first and second floors. We were just about to go up to the third floor when we bumped into the dorm manager who was actually wandering around."

"I had just retreated to the second floor when I saw you about to come downstairs. I wanted to remind you, but it was too late. You were still caught by the dormitory manager. Fortunately, there are no problems now."

Lu Mingzhe briefly explained the current situation to Yan Ming.

Yan Ming also wrote down his discovery and his entire experience.

I was chased by the red light to the fifth floor, where I found a safety bolt in one of the rooms, just as the middle-aged man walked in.

He called that room the Node, and in that room I saw things that happened in the past, and he took away a pair of shoes from the past.

I took advantage of the chaos to remove his brain. Now he should be blind and deaf, relying entirely on some kind of ghostly power to move around, but he's not very agile.

The three slips of paper were passed from hand to hand, and they also noticed the brain that Yan Ming had removed.

Unlike a normal person's brain, this is a flower brain composed of two brains.

“A node? Something that happened in the past…” Lu Mingzhe immediately started brainstorming, “Could it be some kind of time node that symbolizes time travel?”

However, he quickly dismissed this speculation: "No, it should just be some kind of suggestive illusion. Could it be that the shoes taken by the middle-aged man were the real safety bolt?"

"Huh?" the cane king exclaimed, somewhat incredulous. "Then we've been looking for the wrong thing? We've been wasting almost twenty minutes of our time?"

Yan Ming frowned as well, instinctively feeling that this was unlikely.

If sneakers are the real safety device, then this task is far too sloppy.

It could even be described as extremely poor quality.

Yan Ming had seen some bizarre games that displayed blood-written text.

Overall, it's a game system with fairly precise wording. If it really is using fabricated mission descriptions to mislead players and increase the difficulty of missions, then that would be far too disgraceful.

At least Yan Ming felt it shouldn't be like that.

Or……

Because the timing was wrong?

The game setting of Wangcheng was opened more than 20 years ago, and Wangcheng No. 1 Middle School should also be a side quest setting from more than 20 years ago.

The dormitory building is an even bigger subplot.

It's quite reasonable for the task to deviate from its intended course...

At the same time, Yan Ming thought of that middle-aged man.

He could tell that the middle-aged man was likely a veteran player from over twenty years ago.

Because this guy is about the same age as Dr. Zhang and his colleagues, and he also knows the method of implanting "brain implants".

This middle-aged man should also receive a corresponding task notification after entering the dormitory building, but judging from the previous situation...

Did the middle-aged man not even bother to look for the safety bolt?
There was a lot of dust around each safety bolt, which showed that this guy had never been inside those rooms.

It wasn't that we tried it first and then discovered the safety bolt wasn't working; we knew from the start that the safety bolt wasn't working.

why?
Yan Ming's mind raced, and he got the answer almost instantly.

It's not because too much time has passed that the dormitory building's tasks have gone astray.

Rather, the task has already been completed.

Furthermore, this veteran player already knew that the dormitory building mission had been completed, so when he saw the mission description, he immediately deduced that leaving the dormitory building was definitely not done by relying on the safety latch!

Yan Ming sorted out all the doubts he had previously observed and organized them into a credible logic.

He had a vague idea of ​​the reason, but he still couldn't figure out how to successfully escape the dormitory.

But there's no need to rush. Since the middle-aged man has returned to the dormitory on his own initiative, it means that he is certain that there is a way to leave the dormitory and that they will not be completely trapped.

In any case, let's find the remaining so-called "nodes" in the dormitory building first.

The more node markers you acquire, the greater your advantage will be in the future.

Just as Yan Ming was about to tell the others his guess, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with his ears.

First came a low hum, then a crisp voice.

"Waikira".

Yan Ming's eyes widened as he stared blankly at a certain spot.

There is nothing there.

But he heard it.

I heard a "ghost" talking.

I just can't understand it.

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My ear was connected to the dormitory manager, and it seems to have undergone some kind of change that I don't understand.

　New author, new book, seeking everything~
　　I hope everything goes smoothly. I'll ask the editor tomorrow if it can be published, and when it can be published QAQ
　　
　
(End of this chapter)