Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Time passed by second by second, and the clock chimed again, like a savior's elegy, melodious and pleasant.

At exactly 7 AM, everyone in the auditorium was alive.

"C-can, can we sleep now... senior...?"

The Valkyries' eyes were swollen, and their eyeballs were bloodshot. Despite this, they were still forcing themselves to keep their eyes open.

"Ugh, I used to be able to stay up all night with no problem. Now I feel like my head is going to explode..."

"You used to stay up all night playing games and watching dramas. We almost died yesterday, okay? It's completely incomparable."

The Valkyries were like this, so the students who hadn't become Valkyries yet were even more tormented.

Because of the head-eating ghosts and the spirit tablets they had seen before, as well as all kinds of Shenzhou-style horrors they had never seen before...

They always gave people a chilling feeling.

Maintaining a clear mind and resisting pressure in such an environment was too mentally exhausting. It was not easy to hold on for the whole night.

Saori Tsuruyo trembled as she stood up. Her body lurched forward. She seemed a bit dizzy. After adjusting herself for a long time, she finally came back to her senses.

They hadn't eaten, and on top of that, they had been in a mentally tense state all night. When they stood up, their heads felt drained of blood, and their minds were unclear.

"Big brother, I'll, I'll go with you to find food..."

Saori Tsuruyo walked in front of Li Mo and offered proactively.

Li Mo looked out the window and then at the entrance of the auditorium. The two silhouettes from last night had completely disappeared.

"Your mental state isn't good. I can't bring you. If an emergency occurs, you'll only become a burden to me."

Li Mo shook his head and directly refused, not caring about the other's feelings at all.

The daytime was relatively safe, but there was also some information that Li Mo needed to verify, so he couldn't bring an ordinary person who would be a burden.

Shigure Kira, who was to the side, saw this scene and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

She had guessed that Li Mo would reply like this.

Sigh...

Such a straight man...

You're right, but the Gloomy Man, with his zero emotional intelligence, had refused a petite, cute girl's request three times in a row. It seemed that he had already entered the Buddhist path.

Although not considering emotions and making a purely rational decision was the most correct thing to do.

"Let's go. Now, it seems that only I can accompany you."

Shigure Kira stood up, grabbed her elbow with one hand, and stretched her body.

Her beautiful body lines were on full display, but no one appreciated them.

Because some were sleeping and the emotionless Li Mo didn't care at all.

This made Shigure Kira, who also worked as an idol, feel like a failure. Just last month at her idol performance, she had been cheered on by countless people. The lights on the stage were bright and dazzling, and as an idol, she was even more beautiful and radiant.

Li Mo glanced at Shigure Kira, paused for a couple of seconds, wanted to show a look of disgust, but found that he couldn't even move his facial muscles, and his mind was a mess.

Li Mo's brain rejected Li Mo's idea and didn't respond.

"Indeed, there is no better choice. You're coming with me," Li Mo said succinctly.

"Also, everyone listen carefully. Leave two or three people on watch. If any survivors come here, don't let them in. If you really can't stop them from coming in, definitely don't let them get close to the black coffin, and don't let them touch anything in the auditorium. This is the bottom line. You, as excellent Valkyries, should be able to do that easily."

"Your captain and I will be back before 7 PM."

After saying that, Li Mo walked toward the door. It was a bright, sunny 7 AM in the middle of summer, and the outside was completely white.

Shigure Kira pouted and quickly followed after borrowing a student's schoolbag. Why did it feel like she was the only option?

"I say, do you know the layout of this academy? Do you want me to show you some mercy and tell you? I used to be a frequent visitor to St. Freya," Shigure Kira said smugly.

"No need. Before we came in, I had already memorized the map," Li Mo replied casually.

Shigure Kira's smile suddenly stiffened. This guy was even more capable than she had imagined.

It felt like he knew every detail. But St. Freya didn't have any men from Shenzhou, so Li Mo was just an outsider who had memorized the map with one glance?

After a while, Li Mo led Shigure Kira to the edge of the fence.

"Weren't we going to collect food? Why are we here?"

Shigure Kira asked in confusion, but when she came back to her senses and looked more closely, she realized what was going on.

The several-meter-high fence was neatly lined with bloody human heads. The blood had dried, but traces could still be seen on the wall below.

There was a head every half meter, arranged systematically.

Thankfully, it was daytime, and the heads were like they were sleeping, with their eyes tightly closed.

"The situation is starting to worsen."

Li Mo stopped ten meters away from the fence. There weren't any of these heads when he climbed over the wall earlier.

These heads were placed here, clearly to prevent any living person from leaving by climbing over the wall.

"Worsen? What's wrong?" Shigure Kira didn't realize the severity of the situation and asked in confusion.

Li Mo pondered for a long time and said seriously, "A single head-eating ghost is not intelligent. They can only follow their instinct to kill, just like the heads we faced yesterday. They would blindly rush toward us, and when the grave incense was lit, they would lose their target and become dormant."

"And when I climbed over the wall earlier, there were no heads here. This means that these heads were placed here last night to stop us from leaving."

Li Mo took out the coin stained with an anomalous rule. As soon as he took it out, the heads nearby suddenly opened their eyes, as if they were about to wake up.

Li Mo didn't plan to fight them head-on right now, so he immediately put the coin away to avoid eye contact between the ghosts and the coin.

The heads closed their eyes again the moment he put the coin away.

"I originally planned to let you climb over the wall to leave, so there would be no need to collect a large amount of food, but now it seems that someone doesn't want us to leave."

"Many people died last night, many."

Li Mo asserted. His voice became heavy, his cloudy eyes became even dimmer, and a hideous corpse spot appeared on the back of his hand.

His body had already begun to rot.

And the heads on the wall hadn't emitted the smell of corpses, and they couldn't even find any corpse spots. They were obviously killed last night.

"Didn't we survive last night?" Shigure Kira asked.

"Those who died were the others in the school. The head-eating ghosts continuously occupied their bodies, gaining some intelligence."

"Last night, did you see a silhouette at the door?"

Shigure Kira thought for a moment and suddenly remembered the human figure in the darkness.

"Yes, it stood there without moving. I thought they were just timid survivors who were afraid to come closer in the darkness."

Li Mo made it clear: "That was a person occupied by a head-eating ghost, someone who had gained intelligence. It saw us."

Shigure Kira immediately said, "How is that possible? The grave incense was burning normally. The auditorium should be able to block the perception of ghosts."

"Yes, it can block the perception of ghosts, but it can't block human eyes," Li Mo said seriously.

Ghosts couldn't perceive them, but humans could see them.

That ghost stood at the door, staring at them in the firelight.

And there was the inverted head at the window. The thing that its spine was connected to made Li Mo very concerned.

"We were being watched by that ghost all night!" Shigure Kira instantly felt her scalp tingle. She didn't dare to imagine what would have happened if everyone had fallen asleep last night.

That ghost might have mixed into the crowd, waited until 7 PM at night, and eaten them one by one.

"You're right. Thankfully, none of us slept yesterday." Shigure Kira's heart was beating fast. She thought that they had survived safely last night, but it turned out that there was such a horrifying gaze upon them.

Li Mo didn't emphasize last night. His thoughts were even more extensive and farther-reaching than Shigure Kira's.

"What I'm most afraid of right now isn't this, because the grave incense is burning normally. The ghosts can't perceive us. Even if they know our location, they can't find us. As long as the grave incense is burning normally, and as long as we're hiding in the firelight, the ghosts won't be able to find us, even if they're standing right in front of us."

"If my deduction is correct, and that ghost truly has human intelligence, wouldn't it take advantage of the fact that the grave incense doesn't have any effect during the day to mix in with the survivors and enter the auditorium?"