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"Holy shit!" Fatty shouted, but only in his mind, as he feared that the female ghost who had just departed might be attracted back by his voice.

While cursing inwardly, Fatty quickly grabbed Zi Liang. "Fucking run!"

Pulled like that, Zi Liang also frantically turned and ran.

The two of them hurriedly dashed through the now somewhat messy laboratory, heading for the main door.

But just as they opened the main door, the two of them suddenly saw a white figure at the entrance.

Zi Liang was aghast. He desperately tried to turn and flee, but twisted his back in the process and nearly passed out.

Not only did he wrench his back, but he also slammed his head into a nearby lab bench with a loud BANG.

Just as he was desperately scrambling to get up and escape, a familiar voice suddenly came from the entrance: "What are you doing?"

It was the Doctor with the chainsaw!

Zi Liang instinctively looked up towards the door. He saw the Doctor who had sawed off his handcuffs standing there, a peculiar expression on his face.

Behind the Doctor was a poker-faced man with glasses, and a girl who looked rather cute...

Seeing this, Zi Liang clutched his back and stood up. "It's nothing... nothing serious. I just slipped a moment ago."

Doesn't really look like you slipped...

But Gu Mian ultimately didn't say anything that would make Zi Liang lose face. He looked up at the clock hanging above the laboratory's blackboard; it was now 1:10.

Upon seeing Gu Mian, Fatty heaved a sigh of relief and even considered completing the earlier twenty-minute toilet task.

But before Fatty could speak, Chu Changge, who was beside them, interjected, "What are you two doing in this place?"

Fatty, still shaken, took out his phone. "After class, I originally wanted to find you, Doctor. But the little character I registered started moving for no reason, so I had no choice but to follow it."

As he said this, Fatty glanced at Zi Liang beside him. "I ran into him on the way."

This whole affair was quite bizarre.

Fatty continued, "The moment we entered this lab building, the door locked behind us. Then, from the stairs behind us, we heard the sound of a ghost chasing us, so we ran up to this third floor... That ghost that was chasing us is still lingering outside our door..."

"Let's not talk here anymore," Zi Liang said, now standing straight while holding his head. "Let's leave this place first!"

That one glimpse into the toilet earlier had scared him half to death. Even if he had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare to continue dawdling and chatting here.

Seemingly recalling the earlier scene, Fatty also looked a bit unnerved. He flinched slightly and said, "We were hiding in the toilet at first. We only came out after the female ghost left... But right after we came out, we casually glanced over there and saw a face..."

Chu Changge also glanced towards the toilet. "Was it the female ghost that was chasing you?"

"No." Fatty shook his head, a bewildered expression on his face. "No... that face didn't look female. I don't think it was the one chasing us earlier. What do you think, Zi Liang?"

Zi Liang, his face pale, shook his head. "I only caught a quick glimpse. I just saw a face, a mouth, and nothing else... Are we really going to keep chatting here? This is far too dangerous!"

Zi Liang was surprised to see that Fatty, who had been whimpering and wailing in fear just moments ago, had suddenly perked up.

Fatty immediately said, "Doctor, we triggered a twenty-minute task in the toilet earlier."

"You can't be serious..." Zi Liang's face turned even paler. "You want to stay here and do the task?"

Although there were more people now, giving them a slight sense of security, everyone knew that these kinds of supernatural games weren't won by sheer numbers.

Even if one or two thousand people were thrown into a game like this and they all stuck together, those fated to die would still die—they'd just die together...

But the few people present seemed to have no such awareness at all.

Except for the cute-looking girl at the very back, who seemed a little scared, the other three actually began to consider the feasibility of this task.

Gu Mian rubbed his chin. "Actually, twenty minutes isn't that long. Does the task have any other conditions?"

Fatty shook his head. "It didn't say. It just said to explore the toilet, duration twenty minutes. It didn't say what would happen if we left midway, nor did it mention any other conditions."

Zi Liang watched, dumbfounded, as the three people in front of him discussed for a while and then made a decision.

Gu Mian stroked his chin, looking at Zi Liang and Willow not supporting wind. "Logically, it should be safer with more people going in, but this toilet can't fit that many... The first-floor door was locked when we arrived, but it's open now. You two can leave first if you want."

Hearing this, Zi Liang hesitated for a good while before finally making a decision. "Since the three of you have decided to stay here, at most only two of us would be leaving. Although having more people doesn't necessarily offer any advantage in a supernatural game, at least being with many people provides some peace of mind... I'll stay here. But let me make it clear, I'm not going into that toilet!"

He had a strong feeling that he would likely encounter something on the path from the third floor down to the first. On second thought, it seemed safer to stay here with everyone else.

At least if we die, huddling together might provide a little warmth.

Since Zi Liang wasn't leaving, Willow not supporting wind couldn't leave alone either. The final decision was that Gu Mian, Chu Changge, and Fatty would go into the toilet, while Zi Liang and Willow not supporting wind would stay outside.

Gu Mian watched as the two of them found a hidden lab bench, dove underneath it, and then pulled a stool in front of the bench to block themselves in securely.

"You guys go on in," Zi Liang said, poking his head out from a gap by the stool. He still seemed worried. "The ghost we saw earlier... it might still be inside..."

But the three of them seemed to completely ignore his concern.

Fatty had long since lost his earlier fear. Zi Liang watched as, after the Doctor carrying the chainsaw entered the toilet, Fatty also cheerfully dived in, looking as joyful as a student who hadn't had a day off in eight hundred years finally returning home.

Has Fatty been possessed by a ghost? Zi Liang wondered for a fleeting moment.

Twenty minutes isn't particularly long, nor is it particularly short.

Gu Mian and the others had entered the toilet at 1:15.

Considering there was still a female ghost upstairs, Zi Liang didn't dare to loudly ask the people inside what they had discovered.

He and Willow not supporting wind hid nervously under the lab bench for a long time. Because they didn't dare to peek out, they couldn't see the time on the clock above the blackboard.

They felt as if they had been waiting for a very long time.

So long, in fact, that they began to suspect Gu Mian and the other two might have died silently in the toilet.

Just as Zi Liang was growing restless in the cramped space, Willow not supporting wind, who was beside him, suddenly whispered, "It's been a long time, hasn't it?"

Zi Liang paused for a moment, then nodded.

Time always seems to pass exceptionally slowly when one is waiting. In truth, he didn't know exactly how long it had been.

"Should I stick my head out and see?" he suggested after a moment's thought.

Willow not supporting wind nodded. "Alright, but be careful."

Zi Liang listened intently for a long while. Once he was sure there were no sounds nearby, he nervously poked his head out from the gap by the stool.

The blackboard wasn't far from them; he could see it by tilting his head slightly.

Zi Liang looked at the time on it. It was now 1:33.

Twenty minutes aren't up yet! Still two minutes to go!

Only after seeing the time did Zi Liang let out a sigh of relief. He then prepared to pull his head back in.

But just as he was pulling his head back, he suddenly sensed that something wasn't quite right...