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Chapter 70 - 70 66 Between Corners

70: Chapter 66 Between Corners 70: Chapter 66 Between Corners A minute ago,

As Luo Di started running through the corridors,

Xiao Ying, who was clinging to his sleeve, also began to run, keeping up with Luo Di’s speed,

Yet, in the midst of running,

Xiao Ying…

A familiar and gentle voice suddenly came from behind,

Xiao Ying subconsciously stopped running, turned her head, and instinctively shouted out:

“Class president!”

Echoes reverberated through the lengthy corridor, but all that responded to her were endless darkness and faint sounds of reading from the next classroom,

There was no class president behind her, nor was anyone calling her, it seemed to be nothing more than a hallucination brought about by the Seam.

But it was this pause, when Xiao Ying turned back around, Luo Di, who had clearly been holding onto her sleeve, had vanished without a trace; she had completely failed to notice his departure.

In an instant,

Standing all alone, she immediately felt an oppressive sensation from the teaching building, as if countless black arms were grabbing at Xiao Ying’s body, the most primal and deepest Fear surged like a flood.

She began to instinctively step back, aiming to retreat to the staircase behind her, thinking of leaving the strange and eerie teaching building,

Moreover, the class president’s voice just came from behind, perhaps running back might really allow her to encounter the class president.

But…

to go back meant to abandon Luo Di,

Forward or backward?

Various factors were urging Xiao Ying to choose escape, Fear had already permeated her entire brain,

Three seconds passed,

She abruptly swallowed two pills and, clenching her jaw, ran forward.

…

[Senior Year, Class 5]

Luo Di’s all-too-familiar classroom,

That Pseudo-Person he had been worried about was already dead, and very conspicuously, even somewhat deliberately, pinned in the Blackboard region.

Its mouth was unnaturally stretched open, the corners of its mouth completely torn, its jaw dislocated,

The pituitary that existed between the Pseudo-Person’s skull, which was the most important part, seemed to have been destroyed.

Using the flashlight’s beam, Luo Di also discovered what was used to nail the body down – it was the largest silver needles from Gao Yuxuan’s box.

Perhaps as he had surmised, Gao Yuxuan and the class president had managed to meet up and together, they defeated this Pseudo-Person.

The right hand holding both the Zombie Blade and flashlight slowly turned, the light moving from the podium to the desks inside the classroom,

On the desks or in the aisles, there were a few security guards’ bodies scattered about, mostly upper torsos, exactly matching the situation from the Security Room earlier; many bodies were incomplete, they were here all along.

The battle had moved from the Security Room to the classroom,

The transition in between might be related to Gao Yuxuan’s intervention,

Luo Di also noticed a detail, the skins of these bodies were stuck to each other, as though someone had assembled them into some kind of giant Monster, which ultimately was still defeated.

The flashlight’s light continued to pan across, gradually moving towards the back of the classroom,

Strangely,

If the class president or Gao Yuxuan were still in the classroom, they should have reacted immediately upon seeing this beam of light coming in, but the whole classroom was terrifyingly quiet.

Luo Di had wanted to shout their names loudly, but his subconscious stopped him from doing so,

He just kept rotating the flashlight slowly, planning to catch a glimpse of the two people potentially hidden among the classroom Corners.

Or rather, he hoped more that there was nobody in the classroom, that the victorious class president and Gao Yuxuan had already evacuated from here, perhaps they had already gone to the infirmary, just missing him.

The beam sequentially scanned over the desks they had occupied, finally landing on the empty area in the last row where Luo Di had done push-ups during break times.

A human silhouette, mostly obscured by the desks, was in the deepest Corner,

Facing away,

As the light captured a head of black hair, Luo Di felt as if frozen, his entire body’s muscles turned stiff.

He still did not call out,

But instead, with extremely uncoordinated steps, he walked into the pitch-dark classroom, passing through the aisles between desks, slowly approaching the back row.

Tap tap tap~

His footsteps rang out unusually clear in the silent classroom, but the individual crouched in the back row Corner was undisturbed, seemingly busy with something.

Slowly~

The view passed over the obstructing desks,

The flashlight’s circular beam fully shone over,

Revealing the true situation in the back row Corner,

The head, torso, and legs squatting on the ground were all exposed,

There was no mistake,

This was the class president,

The black, tight-fitting investigator’s uniform was unique to the class president,

“The mission to ‘Search for the Class Leader’ had finally been accomplished,

and the Pseudo-Person of the skin variety had been confirmed dead,

The class leader herself also appeared unscathed,

This should have been a cause for great celebration,

Technically, it should’ve been an emotional and tearful reunion.

But at the moment, there was not a trace of joy in their rediscovery after disaster,

Rigid, cold, eerie, and bizarre,

An indescribable sense of oddity,

Luo Di still did not call out, continuing to walk out of the region with desks and came to the spare space at the back of the classroom.

Thump~ The sole of a shoe stepped into a puddle of fresh blood, still warm.

The circular light above was like a stage spotlight, perfectly enclosing the corner where the class leader was, the blood flowing from her.

However, this was not due to the class leader being injured, but rather there lay a body in front of her, dressed in a male school uniform.

The class leader crouched there, “vigorous” in her activity,

Like performing CPR,

Like trying to stop bleeding,

Or like doing some motion that, to Luo Di, was all too familiar.

But considering the amount of blood all over the floor, chances of revival were slim, one could even say the person had long since been completely dead.

Luo Di walked on the warm blood, drawing closer,

He wanted to confirm the identity of the deceased.

Tap~ But as he approached, his tongue involuntarily clicked as if warning him of imminent danger.

As he stopped in his tracks,

His gaze caught a flash of metal luster, it was a metallic prosthetic arm on the floor, the identity was pretty much confirmed.

Deputy class leader Gao Yuxuan,

But what Luo Di saw next was even more terrifying.

The class leader was not performing any rescue actions but was instead using her index finger, which had grown into a scythe-like nail, to cut into Gao Yuxuan’s neck.

Witnessing these skillful cutting movements,

Seeing those sharp cutting nails,

Luo Di immediately thought of the dismembered corpses in the Security Room,

Suddenly,

The class leader, who had her back to him all this while, ceased her motion.

Crack, crack, crack~

The neck began to turn, emitting distinct sounds of joint movement,

Until the head rotated 180 degrees before stopping to face Luo Di behind her,

Still with that iconic smiling face from memory, only now it was smeared with bloodstains.

In that instant,

All of Luo Di’s memories about the class leader were linked together, all the images and information were integrated.

‘Luo Di, we’re planning to attend the practice during the midterm of Founding Day, are you interested?’

‘Accidents like this have never happened before you, and I personally suspect that one of you has a special constitution that attracts ‘accidents’.’

‘Wenwen used to go to First High, and because of certain matters, she transferred to your school.

Her uncle is really strict with her, ever since high school started, we can only meet on weekends occasionally.’

‘Luo Di, I have three days off during the winter break without extra classes, can I come to see you?’

‘I’ve never tried eating while watching TV before; it’s so blissful~ I wish I could live like this forever.’

‘Why did you go to No.

13 Settlement District right before the incident and happened to knock on the third-floor door where Pseudo-Person lived?’

‘Luo Di, you must bring out your best performance in tomorrow’s Admissions test.’

‘Damn it!

I left my clothes in the dorm; I need to go back and get them!

You guys don’t need to wait for me, head to the stadium first.’

…

One by one, words devoid of emotion squeezed out from Luo Di’s lips:

‘You returned to the dorm to construct the “Seam”…’

The class leader didn’t respond, merely brought her finger to her lips, signaling him to keep quiet, as if she was in the midst of something very important.

Once Luo Di stopped moving, stopped talking,

She slowly turned her head back, focusing intently on severing the entire head.

Once everything was done,

The class leader wiped the blood and sweat from her forehead with her arm, holding the severed head and looking at Luo Di,

‘You began to suspect me quite early on, but you intentionally raised the threshold of suspicion due to our relationship.

This is your shortcoming, a flaw that must be corrected…

Luo Di.’

Ps: This book will officially be on shelves tomorrow.

All the setups in the book up to now will converge here, and all the truths will be unveiled.

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If we achieve our goals, I promise to continue extra updates until the end of this volume tomorrow.

P.S.: As usual, updates will start at 5 PM tomorrow.”

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