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Chapter 237 Green Face
Things suddenly became a bit difficult.

If they make one wrong move, they could both die here.

"Logically, we should choose the safer option." The fat man was panting heavily because running had exhausted him. "But I need to see if things go as we expect."

Ziliang looked up in confusion: "What?"

In the game, a female ghost is chasing the little figures representing Fatty and Ziliang, and in reality, the strange "thump thump" sound also appears.

But the two of them didn't see even a ghost, and the strange sound only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing.

Whether there is a ghost behind them is still uncertain, but it is obvious that there is something wrong with this experimental building; if there is no ghost behind them at all, and the commotion is just to lure them to the second floor, then they have suffered a great loss.

The fat man felt that he had finally been clever for once.

At this moment, Ziliang was looking at Fatty: "Hey Fatty, the stairwell is just ahead. Should we go straight upstairs or run to the main entrance?"

Because of the intense exercise, Ziliang's forehead was already covered in fine sweat.

At this moment, the fat man suddenly took out something, and Ziliang noticed that it was a camera.

The fat man, holding the strange camera, turned around eagerly: "Using this thing to take pictures can reveal invisible ghosts. We'll know whether there are ghosts behind us or not with just one photo."

As he spoke, he quickly turned around and then abruptly pressed the shutter button on the corridor behind him.

Ziliang only saw a burst of intense flashes of light, and he felt like his eyes were about to go blind.

Even so, he still managed to see the fat man's drastically changed expression through his eyes, which were almost blinded by the light.

Because the fat man had stopped for a moment, Ziliang had already run ahead of him. From this angle, you couldn't see his entire face, but you could still see his profile.

In the dimly lit corridor, the fat man's face changed from red to white, and then began to turn green.

But Ziliang never got to see the fat man's green face, because before the fat man's face could turn completely green, Ziliang was suddenly pulled and dragged by the fat man like a dead pig towards the stairs next to him.

"Run!" Ziliang heard the fat man say the same thing as the little character in the game.

What exactly did they see...?

Meanwhile, Hao Laoshi had already run into the cafeteria in a panic.

It wasn't that he wanted to eat; rather, he was simply heading towards wherever there were more people. Lunchtime had just passed, and the students were slowly making their way out.

Hao Laoshi stood at the entrance of the cafeteria, watching the students come and go, and felt a little more at ease.

He glanced at the students coming and going, then chose a bright and spacious spot to stand, and secretly looked at his phone.

He saw that the little character he had registered, "Honest Man," was following him and showed no sign of leaving the group, which relieved him.

Just now, when he was about to leave the classroom after class, he discovered that his registered character was no longer moving with him and was even talking to itself.

"You'll die if you go out"—he still clearly remembered the dialog box that popped up above the [Honest Man's] head.

Furthermore, other people in the classroom had told him about the events surrounding this horror game, and that countless senior students had reportedly gone missing because of it, making Hao Laoshi even more hesitant to act rashly.

He sat in the classroom for ten minutes until he found that the little man was obeying his commands again.

He cautiously tried to go into the corridor, but unexpectedly encountered something terrifying as soon as he stepped out...

As he recalled the experience with lingering fear, he stared at the screen, only to suddenly notice that a small female figure had appeared on the screen.

The little female figure was not far from him at that moment, and seemed to have just come out of the cafeteria.

"Why is there an extra little person here!" Hao Laoshi was so startled that he immediately looked away from the screen and then looked in the direction of the cafeteria. He saw a girl standing at the cafeteria entrance, seemingly thinking about where to go.

The sharp-eyed Hao Laoshi also noticed something above the female figure's head that looked like a nickname—[Little Maruko].

Admittedly, a ghost wouldn't allow such a cute thing to be on its head.

"Are you a player?" Hao Laoshi took a few steps forward. "Can you see other players' registered characters in this game?"

Player information could only be seen within three meters, so Hao Laoshi had no choice but to take a few more steps forward and finally came within the range where the player information could be seen.

He discovered that he could indeed access the girl's player information.

Peach Maruko had already noticed someone sneaking around, and she was a little flustered.

Although this person looked like a student, his behavior and demeanor resembled that of a suspicious middle-aged man. Fortunately, she did not turn around and run away, but instead tried to click on the player panel after Hao Laoshi moved over.

Two timid and hesitant players met up.

Upon seeing Peach Maruko, Hao Laoshi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had seen a long-lost relative: "Finally, I've met a normal person this time..."

Hao Laoshi was also the first person Peach Maruko encountered in this instance, and the two ended up talking a lot.

The students next to them were coming out of the cafeteria. There were still quite a few people there, and with the sun in the sky that seemed capable of melting ghosts, they weren't particularly afraid.

Peach asked with some confusion, "Have you encountered other players before? Why didn't you play together?"

She only acts alone because she can't find anyone else.

Peach originally wanted to try her luck in the cafeteria to see if she could find other players, but she actually found one. It was a suspicious-looking boy who looked a lot like an uncle.

It's really not Hao Laoshi's fault that he's like an uncle. He was originally an uncle, the kind with a beer belly. His age was just changed in the game to suit the image of a student... You can't really let a man in his forties be a high school sophomore.

Hao Laoshi shuddered when he heard the words "other players".

He quickly waved his hand, somewhat agitated: "Don't bring that up, I'm just really unlucky, I always run into people who are full of bad intentions..."

At this moment, Hao Laoshi's movements were a bit too big, and the students passing by under the shade of the trees looked over curiously.

While others were hiding from the sun in the sweltering summer heat, the two of them stood in a place where the sun was scorching and there was no shade at all, which was really eye-catching.

Hao Laoshi stopped his movements, but continued, "Let me tell you, there's a freak in this dungeon, a madman!"

He paused here, took a breath, and added, "Oh, right, there's one more..."

But just then, Hao Laoshi suddenly heard a woman's voice behind him: "Pervert? What pervert?"

Hao Laoshi paused for a moment, then suddenly turned around to look behind him.

A long-haired girl was standing behind him, a smile on her face. Hao Laoshi discovered he could access her profile—"Liu Ruyan".

He glanced down at his phone screen again and found that a third little figure had indeed appeared, representing Liu Ruyan.

Hao Laoshi found it rather strange.

Because he felt that Liu Ruyan in front of him was just like him, he knew that even if he became younger and put on a school uniform, there would still be a strong sense of incongruity. No matter how you looked at it, he would look like a sleazy middle-aged man.

Liu Ruyan was the same; she was a beautiful girl in a school uniform, but she didn't give off the feeling of a student, nor did she seem like a delinquent girl from the outside world who had sneaked in disguised in a school uniform.

Thank you to Nicholas Li, Seran, and Ling Xiaoye for the donations.
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