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Chapter 69 - 69 65 The Cold Teaching Building

69: Chapter 65: The Cold Teaching Building 69: Chapter 65: The Cold Teaching Building Gazing upon the crimson chaos within the Security Room,

Feeling the lingering warmth of the partially intact corpses,

Luo Di tentatively reconstructed the sequence of events in his mind, based on what Xiao Ying had said about the noises on the fifth floor.

After parting with the class monitor,

With the support of the Investigator Battle Dress, he successfully escaped to the Security Room on the exterior of the teaching building and rendezvoused with the Security Team stationed there.

The Pseudo-Person related to the Skin did not give up there; she had pegged the class monitor as a must-kill target.

Utilizing her unique abilities and the absolute advantage she held in the Seam environment, she infiltrated the skin of the security team and ultimately carried out a large-scale massacre.

Almost annihilating the entire Security Team, the class monitor was perhaps the last survivor,

At the critical moment, Gao Yuxuan arrived just in time, providing cover as they retreated,

And the class monitor, injured and exhausted, even with his Investigator outfit damaged, could no longer run as rapidly as before, unable to seek help from the teachers at the gymnasium.

Additionally, it was not feasible to lead the Pseudo-Person towards the more dangerous infirmary,

So the two could only flee into the teaching building, hoping to buy time by taking advantage of its complex environment.

Thinking this, Luo Di immediately rushed out of the Security Room, looking up towards the fifth floor of the teaching building,

There was indeed faint noise coming from above, but it was very slight and impossible to discern the type of sound.

Now was not the time to hesitate; Luo Di immediately signaled Xiao Ying to keep close behind him.

If the events as he pieced them together were correct,

Both the class monitor and Gao Yuxuan were in extremely precarious situations,

And Luo Di also believed that the entire Security Team would not be easily wiped out; the Pseudo-Person must have been injured during the process.

If they could regroup with the class monitor, they might be able to band together and eliminate the target, as they had done in past practices.

But still,

A thorn seemed to be lodged uncomfortably within Luo Di’s heart; something about the entire Seam incident felt off, yet he couldn’t put his finger on it.

Now, he had three options ahead of him,

1.

Assist the friends he had made for the first time over the many years, just like old times, to overcome a formidable enemy and ensure their collective escape.

2.

Make haste towards the athletic field and seek the teachers’ assistance, but very likely ending up as fodder for Gong Xin.

3.

Follow Mr.

Guo’s advice and head for the relative safety of the dormitory building, hiding away like a dog until everything ends.

And yet, Luo Di hadn’t actually made a choice, or rather in his eyes, there was only one possible path.

Looking at the teaching building that had accompanied him for three years, draped in the shroud of nightfall, its silence conveyed an unprecedented strangeness.

The lights at the entrance flickered sporadically, their frequency as if beckoning.

Should he go in?

Luo Di had already charged in without delay,

Treading—the soles of his shoes upon the smooth surface of the stairs, producing a faint sound,

Ring, ring, ring!

An out-of-place bell signaling end-of-class suddenly rang out,

Followed by an outpouring of students from the upper floors, filling the corridor with laughter and chatter, as if truly returning to the days school let out.

Luo Di himself didn’t notice anything amiss; his mind was singularly focused on one goal—”Find the class monitor and Little Gao.”

Continuing upwards,

Each student that passed by his side seemed to genuinely exist, and Luo Di swept his gaze over each face, trying to spot one resembling the class monitor.

Initially, these faces had clear outlines,

But as their numbers grew and he ascended higher, the details of their faces diminished, with some losing parts of their features and others their entire face.

Yet Luo Di noticed nothing amiss and continued searching for the two.

When only one floor remained below the fifth, where the class was, the students had all departed, and the corridor became quiet once more, with no sign of the class monitor or Little Gao.

Maybe they were in the classroom.

With that thought, Luo Di continued up the stairs.

At this moment, a noise came from above,

Not the sound of shoes on the staircase, but something colliding against the steps.

Strange—a sound Luo Di had never heard before.

Something was for sure moving down from the fifth floor to the lower levels,

As Luo Di ascended from the fourth floor,

The speeds of the two nearly matched,

And due to the concrete walls separating the stairways, Luo Di couldn’t see directly what it was, he needed to reach the turn between the two floors to find out.

Getting closer to the corner,

The noise grew clearer, Luo Di felt as if he had heard this sound somewhere before,

Stepping onto the last step, the thing opposite “fell” down as well,

He could see nothing on the level plane,

But something touched his shoes,

And Luo Di seemed to have guessed what it was, sweat pouring insanely from deep inside his pores, running down his cheeks, seemingly urging him to look down quickly.

Even if he didn’t want to look, he still had to confirm,

His gaze shifted downward, slow and trembling,

A lock of silky black hair first entered his view, scattered messily on the steps,

Under the overly dense black hair, some sort of spherical object was hidden, currently completely obscured, its features indiscernible.

Luo Di could feel the icy coldness from the black hair even with shoes on, and the chill brought by that spherical object.

To verify,

He could only bend down, reach out to touch that lifeless black hair, to seek the answer to the question in his heart,

When he gently lifted the uppermost strands of hair,

A rosy lip peeked out halfway, and he could vaguely make out that all too familiar nasal bridge,

The skin his fingernails touched was also incredibly soft, so familiar,

Continuing to lift the hair above the nasal bridge,

Slowly peeling away…

Wide-open!

The lifeless eyeballs, with pupils fully dilated, even in their dispersal, still managed to meet Luo Di’s gaze.

At last, he had found it,

The class president was right beneath his feet,

Just when the class president’s head suddenly opened its mouth, as if about to say something, Luo Di out of habit clicked his tongue.

Click!

The crisp tongue sound tore through the silence of the hallway,

At the same time, a hand with human warmth, clearly out of place in this environment, pressed against Luo Di’s forehead, bringing the breath of a living being.

Buzz!

Zzzzz~

The flickering light illuminated the number [4] in the stairwell.

There was no head beneath his feet at all,

The only two beings in the stairwell were Xiao Ying, who was standing on her tiptoes on the steps in front, using the height the steps provided to reach Luo Di’s forehead.

Sternness and panic, two emotions that should not appear simultaneously, were both displayed on her face,

Seeing Luo Di’s eyes gradually focus, becoming expressive and meeting her gaze, Xiao Ying finally took a deep breath.

“Whew~ You scared me to death, Luo Di.

You were walking and then suddenly stopped, and your forehead felt ice-cold, but now it’s finally warming up.

Don’t get too emotional.

The Seams are always trying to worm into our thoughts, a moment’s inattention and you could turn into something bizarre.”

“Thank you.”

Luo Di did not stop for a moment, even if it was just the mental influence from the Seams; at the thought of that head, he couldn’t stop himself from quickening his pace.

Upon reaching the fifth floor,

Class 5 of Senior Year Three was located in the second classroom to the left of the stairwell entrance, typically less than ten steps to reach the classroom door.

However, as the two of them stepped out of the stairs and turned left into the corridor, they both froze, with Xiao Ying, out of nervousness, gripping Luo Di’s empty sleeve tightly.

The corridor in front of them seemed to stretch on indefinitely,

What used to be a semi-open corridor (with classrooms on one side and a railing on the other), was now enclosed, with classrooms on both sides and stretching infinitely into the depths.

Clearly, the influence of the Seams had reached here, or rather, targeted the fifth floor specifically.

“Let’s go.”

Luo Di didn’t feel any fear, the one-armed man continued forward, knife in hand, while Xiao Ying, with the smiling face of the class president in mind, mustered the courage to quickly follow.

As they passed by the surrounding classrooms, they subconsciously glanced at the nameplates,

Senior Year Three █ Class

The class number was smeared out with a black block, and the classroom across had the same situation.

Moreover, the middle section glass of each classroom was either covered with newspapers or nailed with wooden boards, making it impossible to see inside clearly, but faint voices could be heard, sometimes even recitation of texts.

Occasionally, they could see inside some classrooms, only to find the seats deserted, with multimedia equipment playing incomprehensible, strange images, and ceiling fans spinning.

Faced with the endlessly extending corridor, Luo Di’s patience gradually wore thin, walking turned to running, until…

Snap!

His foot stepped on a puddle of blood, nearly frozen due to the cold, and his head instinctively turned to look.

[Senior Year Three Class 5]

He pushed open the unlocked classroom door,

Since all the windows in the classroom were sealed, and the light sources destroyed, the interior space was completely dark, without a glimmer of light.

This sort of absolute darkness was highly discomforting,

He could only proceed by shining a flashlight into the interior,

Where the light reached,

A corpse was nailed to the blackboard, spread-eagled,

But the grayed hair dangling from the head was possibly identifiable as that Pseudo-Person associated with Skin, now devoid of the slightest breath of life.

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