Chapter 314: 151 role-playing
The endless corridor seemed like it would never reach the other shore.
Xinkui was panting heavily, her legs had become unbearably heavy. If it weren't for Sima Kaoyu running beside her, giving her a sense of support, she might have been unable to keep running long ago.
But she had to keep running.
It was as if one day, someone told you to run for fifteen minutes, to run with all your might as if your life depended on it, and if you made it, all your wishes would come true.
Xinkui and Sima Kaoyu, listening to the footsteps behind them, ran desperately with this belief in their hearts.
But suddenly, the "door" opened.
In the corridor that you could never seem to run to the end of, the words "safe exit" appeared again. A door materialized out of thin air.
Xinkui swore that when that door opened, the moment Jiang Xianwu's figure emerged from it...
She absolutely saw Jiang Xianwu shining with golden light.
Even though, in reality, she didn't, but she still subconsciously felt like Teacher Jiang descended like a deity from the heavens, bringing hope!
Zhou Baiyu indeed arrived bringing hope.
Sima Kaoyu's legs gave way, suddenly losing balance, he finally couldn't resist turning back, just as the ghost lady was about to teleport—
A black and gold card traced an arc.
Like a throwing knife, a cold light flashed, thrown from Zhou Baiyu's hand. The next moment, the ghost lady... vanished.
Because the disappearance happened so swiftly, the scene fell into a strange silence.
The fight ended so quickly that Xinkui, Sima Kaoyu, and even Zhou Baiyu himself were somewhat dazed.
What happened to that big female boss?
Xinkui's eyes widened, he had turned back as soon as he saw the black card drawing its trajectory, but unlike his two companions, he hadn't been entwined by the hair and stockings.
And the original two companions were just a few meters away from him.
Sima Kaoyu and For Love's Sake, who were originally entangled by creepy things, began to crumble piece by piece.
The two, who nearly suffocated, began to gasp for air after finally escaping the predicament.
"I'm still alive! Mama mia! I thought I was a goner! Hahaha!"
At this moment, Sima Kaoyu just wanted to express gratitude for being alive, so much so that he hadn't noticed that all his abilities had returned.
Hearing Sima Kaoyu, Xinkui also realized that with the boss's disappearance, everyone seemed to be able to speak again.
"What the hell is going on? What happened? Are we safe now?"
Xinkui looked towards Zhou Baiyu.
"Why can't we ever get out of this corridor?"
Zhou Baiyu didn't immediately explain to his barrage of questions.
"Let's head to the safe exit first, if nothing unexpected happens, we should have passed the first stage."
Zhou Baiyu led his teammates towards the safe exit.
Sima Kaoyu and For Love's Sake obviously had some injuries, with dark bruises emerging all over their bodies.
But perhaps because they were rescued in the nick of time, these bruises, although severe, were also gradually dissipating.
After all, this place was fundamentally a low-level corruption zone.
It wasn't extreme enough to see the kind of tentacles or scarlet eyes that were hatched at higher corruption levels.
So, although the two faced danger, Zhou Baiyu's timely rescue meant they were only slightly frightened and suffered minor injuries.
The group followed Zhou Baiyu and quickly arrived at the safe exit that appeared at the end of the corridor.
The moment they crossed the safe exit, they entered a room with white walls on all sides and a lamp hanging overhead.
Beyond that, there was nothing else in the room.
[Congratulations on passing the first stage, () of your benevolent academy career. Next, you will enter the second stage. Please rest and prepare here for a moment, you will have fifteen minutes to exchange information with each other. At the same time, share your spoils of victory.]
[For having defeated the hidden storyline character, all members of the team will receive a one-time exemption. The killer will receive a redemption right, which can be used on oneself or others.]
[The killer will also receive a new hidden clue, which will appear later in the storyline (this part of the content is only visible to the killer, and cannot be disclosed to team members).]
[Countdown to the second stage, () of your wicked career life, is about to begin. Fifteen minutes.]
Fifteen minutes, in Zhou Baiyu's opinion, was actually quite ample.
Since it was a guild trial, and he was leading newcomers, it was necessary to let the newcomers know how to confront such highly intuitive recruitment in the future.
"Before you ask questions, you could share your understanding of this area," Zhou Baiyu said in a captain's tone.
By now, there was no one in the team who did not respect him.
Xinkui said:
"The last part of the corridor, where one cannot get out and keeps returning to the starting point, but as long as we keep evading, the female ghost behind us cannot approach. Does this mean..."
"Something very special to the game character happened in this corridor, something he has always been reviewing in his life, never able to forget what happened here, unable to break free from this memory, yet he cannot let go of this memory either..."
"So he can only continuously evade?"
Zhou Baiyu had to say, Xinkui was quite perceptive. Although he couldn't match Zhou Baiyu's own level with intuitive and luck buffs.
But as a Mutator, Zhou Baiyu was willing to mentor him more in the future.
It was a question previously posed by Xinkui, and now he had found some sort of answer.
Sima Kaoyu was not to be outdone:
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