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Chapter 24: Clues

Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Clues

"An underground room that never existed?" Li Changhe muttered to himself while glancing at the black skeleton in the distance. He still ignored everyone and approached in one direction on his own.

"Yes, we went through the trouble of finding the old school’s blueprint again," Yang Dong shook his head. "Indeed, there was no underground room on the blueprint. However, we were able to find it in reality and even investigated. We found nothing. Afterward, we also found some teachers and students from the old campus..."

Speaking of which, Yang Dong glanced at the phantom behind Li Changhe. Could this not be one of the parties involved? At the moment, Yun Ting was exuding a cold aura, probably because Yang Dong mentioned finding the students and teachers from back then, reminding her of events from when she was alive.

Yun Ting spoke indifferently, "That’s right, Yanyun High School had no underground room, at least not in my time. However, some people claimed to have seen stairs leading down to a basement level. It was considered a ghost story."

As she spoke, the faceless figure began to sway, the scattered strands of hair also moving without wind. It seemed that her emotions were greatly disturbed now. At least Yang Dong and Invisible Red Dust took a small step back. They remained uneasy about Yun Ting.

Yun Ting, of course, noticed their movements and sneered coldly.

"In other words, at least twenty years ago, this ghost had already existed. The underground room that sometimes appears and sometimes doesn’t must be related to the ghost," Li Changhe mentioned as he stood up, blocking the two’s line of sight. Otherwise, if things escalated, Yun Ting would probably fight Yang Dong and the others before dealing with the skeleton.

"It seems so at the moment," Yang Dong glanced at Li Changhe, feeling a bit strange about him standing in front of the female ghost. But he still nodded and said, "So, the Strategy Group initially thought the underground room was the ghost’s true form. I was going to destroy the underground room, but as you know, I was teleported away, and a spacious tunnel appeared where the underground room had been. That’s where we found this skeleton."

"What... did the underground room look like?" Li Changhe asked a strange question.

"What do you mean? It’s just a common storage room with..." Yang Dong frowned, then was at a loss for words. He couldn’t recall the layout or size of the underground room no matter how hard he tried. He had even looked at pictures of the underground room several times before starting the task.

Invisible Red Dust also furrowed his eyebrows for a while, shaking his head, "White ceramic tiles... and then... I can’t remember." Although the two of them had just been there a few minutes earlier, their memories seemed to have been forgotten.

"You didn’t notice this detail?" Li Changhe laughed.

"Where did you discover that?" Earth Knight asked in confusion, "Are you really a detective?"

"Have you heard them mention the appearance of the underground room? Whether it’s the workers, the contractor, or the student from twenty years ago behind me, none of them know the size and layout of the underground room."

"What does that matter? We didn’t pay attention to Room 303’s appearance either when we were in it," Earth Knight argued. Just now, they had explained the ghost possessing Li Changhe, but they didn’t introduce anything about how big Room 303 was or its layout.

"The point is different. The underground room swallowed three living people. Normally, one would want to turn the room upside down. The size and layout wouldn’t be overlooked. But Young Taoist Green Moss didn’t mention it," Li Changhe whispered, then laughed. "Of course, I suddenly asked because I forgot what the thing looked like. I just received the information earlier."

All of the [Players] participating in the task were well-prepared, and they had received photographs of the underground room. However, they had all forgotten about them now.

Yang Dong frowned, "Is this related to this ghost? Does it unintentionally erase our memories of the underground room? But... what purpose does this serve for the skeleton?"

"First of all, is this ghost intelligent, or can it communicate like my sister here?" Li Changhe didn’t respond to Yang Dong’s question but asked another one instead.

"Of course it is. It started off by showing us its power. A ghost with no intelligence couldn’t do that," Earth Knight responded. "As for whether it can communicate, that depends on whether it’s willing to listen to us or not. Should I go and jump around in front of it for a while?"

"With this monster’s size, does it need any displays of power against us?" Li Changhe smiled, "Look, we’ve attacked it several times already, and it didn’t even care."

"So you’re saying it... can’t actually attack us?" Yang Dong and Invisible Red Dust exchanged glances.

Exactly, ghosts have limitations. They are always restricted by some force without leaving instances or possessing people. For instance, Sadako could only crawl out from the television, and Mary Shaw could only tear off her target’s tongue.

In this skeleton’s case, its limitation should be that it couldn’t attack people at will, or at least not under certain conditions.

"So we can’t kill it, it can’t kill us. We’ll just have to wait for the task to end and then we’ll inevitably fail?" Earth Knight looked at the distant skeleton and clicked his tongue. "This thing would pose a great danger if it made it outside."

"No, Eight-direction’s point is, why does it have to hide the underground room?" Laughing Gentleman said. "If it’s already in an invincible position, why hide? It must be a clue. As for the reason..."

"It’s hiding its identity to prevent us from lifting the restrictions it imposed. After all, isn’t it easy for all of you to kill it once the restrictions are removed?" Li Changhe provided the answer.

"Do you already have the answer?" Laughing Gentleman asked quietly.

"More or less," Li Changhe said.

As the two of them spoke, everyone else felt like idiots, unable to understand a word.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Earth Knight exclaimed, "Don’t play riddles."

"Firstly, point one: the ghost has existed for over twenty years, or even longer, appearing in older, more ancient times."

"Secondly, point two: the ghost’s appearance is a half-skeleton."

"Lastly, point three: it doesn’t want us to know what the underground room looks like."

After Li Changhe finished these three points, everyone still felt clueless. Only Laughing Gentleman said, "The underground room... white ceramic tiles, covering an area of... about 50 square meters, height... about two meters. The room is rectangular in shape overall."

"How did you remember it?" Even Yang Dong was shocked now.

"Mental suggestion, sidewriting," Laughing Gentleman briefed. Li Changhe understood that she used mental suggestion to bring out the fragments of her memory, then used sidewriting to complete them. This woman truly was Yanyun’s talented girl; Li Changhe couldn’t have done that himself. He could only visualize a few small details, nothing as precise as her.

"You see, this is the [Great Wall] level of ability. Unlike some people who only know how to shoot. I really don’t know if it’s Laughing Gentleman who’s above average, or if Qingtai Laoge is below average," Li Changhe taunted Yang Dong.

Yang Dong was mentally exhausted because Eight-direction never let him off the hook.

"I’m a fighter, I don’t use my brain, okay?" He sighed, "Anyway, can you tell us the identity of this ghost?"

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