[HEQrC]

21

"That's right," Xing Ye patted Wu Yu's shoulder, "Good brothers should know how to advance and retreat together like this."

Wu Yu glared at him murderously as the four went down the floors together.

The staircase was so run down that it seemed it would shatter with just a few stomps. Xing Ye silently counted the number of steps- there were still 13.

The air seemed to have changed again when they stepped into the third floor. While the fourth floor had a moist and foul odor, the third floor had the fresh scent of.... Blood.

To explore the campus ghost stories, a flashlight was naturally required so your phone wouldn't run out of battery. Earlier in the afternoon, Xing Ye bought a small but powerful flashlight from the campus supermarket and made sure it was at full battery before entering the female dormitory. The lights along the hall were all broken so Xing Ye pulled out the flashlight. Under the light, the four discovered that the floor was completely wet, covered in a red liquid. No matter how you looked at it, it was clearly....

Boy A was just about to scream when Xing Ye stuffed the flashlight in his mouth, speaking icily: "Don't scream, endure it!"

Boy A sobbed as he bit the flashlight. Boy C also wanted to cry but didn't dare to under Xing Ye's tyranny.

Wu Yu's face also didn't look so good as he walked through the third floor halls.

"Shouldn't we go down to the bottom floor to find a way out?" Xing Ye asked.

"You think we can escape just by going to the first floor?" Wu Yu said, "The third floor is clearly a lot worse than the fourth floor, so we can use this to assume that the further down you go, the harder it is. If we don't look for clues in each of the floors, even I wouldn't be able to escape."

Oh? Wu Yu didn't seem too confident in himself. He didn't use QR codes on ordinary people nor had the mirror's high confidence in his luck. That means it was probably the first possibility: Wu Yu had a teammate.

That person definitely wasn't Cao Qian and it wasn't clear whether they were in the female dormitory.

"Then, then let's go look," Xing Ye clicked his tongue, "So dirty. My shoes are limited edition, if this can't be washed off, I can't get new ones even if I have the money."

"Right now, you still care about some stupid shoes?" Wu Yu almost died from anger.

"500,000 RMB a pair." Xing Ye casually made up a number.

The four walked through the third floor and saw Cao Qian standing in front of a dormitory door. Wu Yu saw her guarded expression but still decided to ask, probing: "What happened?"

"This space is different from what I had imagined. Time stopped." Cao Qian said. "Originally, I thought that even if I couldn't find important information, I could leave the dormitory as long as I survived until dawn. However, that doesn't seem to be the case."

"How did you know?" Wu Yu ditched the three deadweights and cautiously walked over.

Cao Qian didn't reveal any fighting intent as she pointed at the window. Xing Ye stood beside her and looked out the window to see a full moon, shining brightly in the sky.

The brightness wasn't a problem, but today was only the 28th of the lunar calendar. How could it be a full moon?

"The wristwatch is also frozen at 12," Cao Qian raised her arm with the watch, "Time seems to have stopped."

Xing Ye was suspicious that she had found the prop but on the surface, he continued to act like he didn't understand: "Are you sure that your watch just isn't too cheap and broke? I said that you can't buy things that are too cheap because you can't use them for long and the quality's just too low."