Trembling At A High Altitude

He actually saw the squatting female staff member…

Li Teng quickly stood up.

After frowning and thinking for a while, Li Teng understood.

This was the brain automatically filling in the blanks of the dream.

The scene must have come from the video Li Teng saw on the fat man's phone.

Once his brain confirmed that the surrounding environment was familiar, it automatically incorporated the scenes from the video into his dream.

"Is there anyone inside?" Li Teng tried asking into the room.

"What do you want to do?" A muffled voice came from inside, as if through a wall, barely audible.

This occurrence wasn't surprising.

It was probably still Li Teng's brain filling in the blanks.

Perhaps it was his own subconscious thinking, a dialogue with himself.

"How did the fat man die? Did you kill him?" Li Teng asked into the room.

"No," the muffled voice replied to Li Teng.

"Then how did he die?" Li Teng asked again.

"The things people sometimes believe, especially what is established by fixed thinking, are often wrong. Perhaps reverse thinking can lead to the answer," the muffled voice replied to Li Teng again.

"Heh, as if you said anything at all," Li Teng shook his head.

The muffled voice's response was just his usual way of thinking when searching for answers in the Scripted World, nothing new.

This meant that he was actually just answering his own questions.

"Are you still there?" Li Teng walked up to the lattice door and asked again.

"Yes."

"Then why don't you come out?" Li Teng continued.

"I… don't want to come out."

"Why don't you want to come out?"

There was no reply from inside.

"If you don't come out, should I slide the door and go in?" Li Teng tried to intimidate.

"Okay, then I'll come out," the muffled voice replied to Li Teng.

A moment later, the latch of the lattice door made a sound, and then the door was pushed open from the inside.

Li Teng wondered how his brain would fill in the scene in the dream, as he had never witnessed this before, so he watched intently as the lattice door opened.

And then…

The female teacher with her head smashed in suddenly rushed out, her hands instantly clamping around Li Teng's neck like iron clamps, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Li Teng quickly grabbed the wrists of the female teacher's hands, trying to pry off the grasp on his neck, but her hands were as hard as steel, impossible to move!

Li Teng panicked, kicking and stomping the body of the female teacher, but he could not kick her away!

Li Teng's breathing became more and more difficult, he exerted all his strength and let out a loud roar…

But woke up startled from his dream.

He was not in the restroom, nor was he being choked by the teacher's corpse; he was lying on Yuki Noto's legs.

"Having a dream?" Yuki Noto touched Li Teng's face and asked.

"Yeah," Li Teng responded, trying to sit up, but he felt very tired and heavy.

He was still very sleepy and wanted to continue lying down and sleeping.

"It's still early, sleep a bit more," Yuki Noto softly spoke a few more words to Li Teng.

"Okay," Li Teng responded and closed his eyes again.

But suddenly, Li Teng felt that something was not quite right.

He quickly opened his eyes, and to his surprise… he found himself still in the restroom and his body was lying on the restroom floor, and as for his head…

It was resting on the legs of the female teacher with the shattered head.

The female teacher's shattered head was now forming an ugly insect mouth, and when Li Teng looked over, the insect mouth suddenly opened and ferociously bit towards him!

"Ah!"

Li Teng woke up again and sat upright.

"Ah... What's wrong? Were you having a nightmare?"

Yuki Noto, sitting beside him, was caught off guard and frightened.

Li Teng glanced at Yuki Noto but said nothing.

Heaven knows whether he had truly awakened from the dream at this point.

The lights in the hall were so bright that Li Teng felt dizzy.

He stood up from the sofa, his steps unsteady beneath him.

Yuki Noto also stood up, reaching out to support Li Teng, but he pushed her away.

Li Teng looked around the hall.

The male doctor was still lying on the coffee table.

The other three were still deeply asleep.

A sudden intense palpitation came from behind, and Li Teng swiftly turned his head.

To his discovery, the Yuki Noto behind him had transformed into the female teacher with the shattered head, and her head had now fully developed into an ugly insect head, shrieking as it lunged at Li Teng with its monstrous mandibles wide open.

The scenery beside him also instantaneously reverted back to the bathroom where the fat man had died.

Having been prepared this time, Li Teng kicked fiercely at the corpse of the teacher, and after blocking it, he turned and fled the bathroom, sprinting towards the direction of the guest rooms in the villa.

After running for a while, Li Teng stopped under a street lamp and then turned to look towards the bathroom.

The teacher with the shattered head did not follow.

Suddenly, Li Teng felt something was off under his feet, and he quickly looked down...

Everything on the ground was normal.

After looking around himself once again, Li Teng walked towards the direction of the guest room in the villa.

"Why am I going back to the guest rooms in the villa now? Am I not dreaming? There's no one in the dream's villa guest rooms, it would be completely pointless to go back."

Li Teng stopped.

"Alright then, where should I go now? Or should I try hard to wake myself up?

"But how can I tell if I'm truly awake?"

Li Teng felt a headache coming on.

"I almost forgot, there is one place I should visit.

"The conference room on the third floor of villa number 6.

"There's something wrong with that curtain, but previously I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Now that I'm in the dream, if I go back and look, perhaps I can recall some details that I had overlooked before?"

Once Li Teng had decided, he headed straight for villa number 6.

Soon, Li Teng arrived in front of Villa number 6.

The door was locked, and it was pitch-black inside the rooms' windows.

This was not surprising since the villa had been locked before, and everyone was only able to get in after the female worker took out a key to unlock the door.

Li Teng did not have a key now.

But that wasn't a big issue.

After all, he was in a dream.

Li Teng kicked fiercely at the front door, and the lock indeed came loose.

After several more kicks, the lock broke off with a snap, and the door to the villa was kicked open.

The motion-sensing lights inside had already come on. Li Teng remembered the female worker going in and flipping a main switch by the door, turning on all the lights in the villa.

So, he went over to take a look and indeed found a main switch on the wall.

After switching it on, the whole villa was brightly lit.

Suddenly, there was that sensation of palpitations again coming from behind—he felt them more and more frequently now!

Li Teng suddenly turned around.

There was nothing behind him.

He walked over to the window and looked outside.

It was murky outside, only the distant streetlights were somewhat glowing.

He hadn't looked outside from this window before, so clearly, the scenery outside now was also a figment of his imagination.

What exactly was that heart-pounding sensation?

Li Teng felt that he was getting closer and closer to the answer.

But leave that aside for now—let's go to the third floor to see if there may be some details that were previously overlooked.

The entire villa was incredibly quiet.

Li Teng could only hear his own footsteps.

The lights inside the villa were very bright.

Whether it was the lights in the hall or in the corridors and stairways, they were all very bright.

So bright that it made Li Teng feel somewhat dazzled.

In this dream, he always felt dazzled by the brightness, which sometimes made him involuntarily close his eyes when facing strong light.

This was also the biggest difference between a dream state and a non-dream state.

Before he fell asleep, he hadn't felt that these lights would make him dizzy, but now the feeling was very pronounced.

It was as if a person who hadn't slept well was forcibly carrying on with tasks.

Is the key to solving this the strong light?

The dazzling light that made him dizzy?

As he thought this, walking up the stairs, in no time Li Teng arrived on the third floor, in that large conference hall.

At a spot resembling a bar, he found the control switch, turned on the projector, then walked over and powered up the computer tower.

The computer's boot screen was projected onto the side wall's screen.

Li Teng slowly walked towards the screen.

He stood where that man had earlier been killed by the mysterious power.

Then, he stared intently at the screen in front of him, wanting to find the answer.

"Reverse thinking...

"Damn! I finally know how they died!"

At a certain moment, Li Teng's mind jolted, and he suddenly came up with the answer.

"No wonder he only realized what was happening at the moment of his death. He must have seen the scene I'm imagining right now."

Looking at the screen before him, Li Teng was almost certain of his judgment.

Indeed, reverse thinking was necessary.

Everyone was now in danger; he had to wake up quickly, tell everyone the answer, and eliminate all the hidden dangers if they were to have any chance of getting out of Xianyu Villa alive.

How to wake up? How to be sure he was truly awake?

Why was he trapped in a dream world?

Fortunately, he had many experiences of forcibly waking up from the nightmare world in the Scripted World before.

Although it might not be applicable, what if it worked for this world?

Li Teng walked over to the window and looked outside.

Then he opened the window, flipped himself out, and let himself fall head-first.

There was a thud.

Li Teng only felt as if his whole head had shattered into pieces.

And then...

He woke up.

He was still lying on Yuki Noto's legs.

But Yuki Noto was not touching his face, nor asking if he had had a nightmare.

But it was...

He had fallen asleep, leaning back on the sofa!

"Am I truly awake this time?" Li Teng frowned.

He struggled to sit up, only to find that his head was spinning severely.

"Damn! Am I still not awake?

"Do I have to jump off the building again?

"What if this time I'm actually awake?"

Li Teng slapped his face hard, trying to make himself feel a bit more alert.

Then he shook Yuki Noto's body and stared at her to see if she would suddenly turn into the ghostly figure of a female teacher with a shattered head.

"Ah... I... I..." Yuki Noto realized she had fallen asleep and couldn't help feeling ashamed.

She was supposed to be the only one awake, yet there she was, also dozing off.

It was as if none of the six people were keeping watch at all.

"Walk with me around the hall, stay behind me," Li Teng said to Yuki Noto.

"Oh? Alright."

Although she didn't know what Li Teng wanted to do, Yuki Noto knew he must have his reasons.

So Yuki Noto followed behind Li Teng, walking around the villa's grand hall.

Every now and then, Li Teng would suddenly turn back.

He was checking to see if Yuki Noto had turned into the ghostly female teacher.

He was also waiting for that feeling of heart palpitations.

The two of them walked around the hall three times.

Li Teng, while walking, closed all the curtains.

Behind him, Yuki Noto never transformed into the ghostly female teacher.

Li Teng also didn't experience that feeling of palpitations.

"Alright, we don't have to walk anymore." Li Teng walked back to the sofa to sit down, gesturing for Yuki Noto to sit as well.

"Did you discover anything?" Yuki Noto felt that Li Teng wouldn't have had her walk around the villa's hall for no reason.

"I think I've found the answer," Li Teng said, looking up at the light above.

"The answer to this Xianyu Villa mission? What is it?" Yuki Noto was quite excited, she knew that when Li Teng said he had found the answer, he was almost certainly right.

"Let's go to the bathroom first," Li Teng suggested after pondering for a moment, then stood up.

"Oh? Alright then." Yuki Noto was slightly disappointed that Li Teng had not revealed the answer yet, but she still stood up.

Li Teng walked toward the bathroom, and when he and Yuki Noto reached the bathroom door, he did not enter.

"Do you still remember what happened with that female teacher? What did she do after she entered? Can you tell me everything in detail?" Li Teng asked Yuki Noto.

After she came in, she looked at herself in the mirror on the bathroom wall, then went to the toilet; it looked like she thought the seat covers were too dirty and not disinfected thoroughly, so she pulled out tissues and vigorously wiped the seat before tearing off a lot of paper to place on the seat, and only then did she take off her trousers and sit down..." Yuki Noto recounted to Li Teng.

"Are you sure you saw all this?" Li Teng's face showed a strange smile.

"Yes! I was the only one with her at the time, and after she went to the bathroom, I waited right outside the door," Yuki Noto replied to Li Teng.

"Come with me, I know what's going on," Li Teng nodded to Yuki Noto, then headed toward the door of the villa's main hall on the first floor.

Yuki Noto followed behind Li Teng.

They walked for a while, and just as Li Teng was about to reach the door, he suddenly felt a strong surge of heart palpitations...

Li Teng quickly turned to look at Yuki Noto.

"What exactly did you find? How did they all die?" Yuki Noto was completely puzzled.

"I've discovered..."

Li Teng did not finish his sentence, instead he suddenly reached out and turned off the master switch beside the door.

The entire villa's grand hall was instantly plunged into darkness.

A pitch-black darkness, where one could not see their own hands.