Chapter 309: 149: A life that was wrong from the very beginning_2
During the group's frantic run, he had always been the slowest of them all. If not for Zhou Baiyu keeping pace beside him, Sima Kaoyu's mental defenses would have collapsed long ago...
But at this moment, finding that his once proud abilities had failed... Sima Kaoyu began to panic, after all, being a newcomer, facing this kind of silent ability deadlock, he was momentarily flustered.
So much so that in an instant, he looked back.
"Idiot! I told you not to look back!"
Zhou Baiyu cursed out loud.
The next second, like charging into battle for love, Sima Kaoyu was entwined by the female ghost's hair and those strange silky things.
"You two, you can't stop, just keep running forward!"
Every time he spoke, it took a great deal of strength, but Zhou Baiyu still had to speak out, afraid that if he didn't remind them enough, he wouldn't be able to lead these newcomers any longer.
He was also pondering how to overcome the enemy.
"Based on the current situation, we definitely can't last for fifteen minutes, the footsteps are still getting clearer."
"In the surrounding environment, all other rooms are dark, only one office has the light on."
"But no matter what, it's strange that we can't reach it. Unless—"
Zhou Baiyu could feel that his two teammates were still alive, but if he just managed to "survive fifteen minutes of evasion," he might clear the level, but his two teammates might not.
In this case, Sima Kaoyu and the one charging for love might end up dead.
He needed to find a way to suppress the boss, then completely kill the boss.
Up to this point, his abilities had been sealed. This boss symbolized the highest power of the campus area, so he must find a way, some means to confront the boss.
From the surrounding set-up, the clues must be in the only room with light. But being unable to reach it meant that something was definitely amiss.
"Unless, the direction I'm moving in is wrong."
Zhou Baiyu suddenly thought of this possibility.
The female ghost was chasing from behind, the seemingly finite corridor just wouldn't end no matter how far they ran. Could it be possible that the direction of their sprint was wrong?
Zhou Baiyu had no time to ponder and hesitate.
The intuition of a forerunner, combined with a gambler's style, led him to make an extremely bold decision.
He closed his eyes and, the next second, turned his head and bolted in the opposite direction.
The footsteps grew closer and closer to Zhou Baiyu; he even wondered if he would be entangled by the hair and silky things like the others, whether he had any other cards up his sleeve to break free?
But strangely, the footsteps suddenly changed direction.
He was still sprinting nonstop, feeling nothing entangling him; the footsteps that were in front of him, were back behind him, and... the sound gradually faded.
Not just the footsteps, even the voices of his companions disappeared at that moment.
Zhou Baiyu abruptly opened his eyes, and the glare of the incandescent lamp shone on a massive office desk.
The new plot had finally been unlocked.
He only saw an oversized men's suit draped over the female ghost's body, completely shrouding her.
Two attractive long legs were wriggling on the ground, the black stockings like a spiderweb burnt by fire, started to unravel and fray, adding a touch of erotic zest to the eerie scene.
If one just focused on those legs, this shot by itself made Zhou Baiyu feel as if the atmosphere wasn't so dreadful anymore.
But with the female ghost's upper body shrouded in an oversized men's suit... it all began to look bizarre.
"Indeed, it was because of the direction."
The moment Zhou Baiyu closed his eyes and ran in reverse down the corridor, he found the way into this room.
Afterward, what he saw was this bizarre, distorted scene.
The door on the other side of this office suddenly opened.
Once again, Zhou Baiyu saw the words "Safety Exit."
He didn't think twice, as it seemed that the room had only this one frozen image.
As Zhou Baiyu continued to approach the safety exit, the lights in the office flickered on and off and finally went out completely.
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When Jiang Xianwu's footsteps also disappeared, Xinkui, already terrified to the brink of insanity, broke out in cold sweat.
With the disappearance of their mainstay, Jiang Xianwu, both felt the air of despair.
They kept running forward, the only thing they could do was to follow Jiang Xianwu's advice, not to turn back, not to stop.
Keep sprinting until the fifteen minutes were up.
But the sound of high heels was getting closer and closer. Without Jiang Xianwu, the pair's "rationality" was steadily declining.
In a severely oppressive environment, one either cowers in fear or explodes in defiance.
Key Runner Insane wanted to explode, but Xinkui merely shook his head at him and kept running.
Xinkui still believed in Jiang Xianwu after all.
But under the pursuit of the boss behind them, he himself didn't know how much longer he could hold on.
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"Congratulations, you have come to the treasure room of (). No matter what problems you encounter at school, they can be solved here."
After Zhou Baiyu entered another safe exit, he had activated the final hidden plot.
It was a bedroom.
The bedroom was plastered with posters of historical figures, no computer, no phone, not even a gaming console.
The most conspicuous thing in the bedroom was a bed.
The voice-over had not yet ended.
"As the most deserving to die, you have triggered the hidden plot, the tragic high school chapter of () is about to end. Please choose your weapon to clear the level carefully. If you choose incorrectly, you will face death. The game will be over."
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