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Chapter 552 A Day Without Gu Mian

run!
Without turning his head, Liu Yiji suddenly ran down the stairs next to him.

The thing behind them followed closely.

He heard something following him!

After resting for a few hours, Liu Yiji was full of energy. He ran up the stairs, taking big strides, each stride covering two or three steps, and almost flew down the stairs.

The thing behind them didn't move away.

He heard the rustling sound following closely behind him, and Liu Yiji's pores bulged, and the hairs on his back stood on end.

The clock tower has seven floors, and he was originally on the top floor.

Realizing he had been discovered by the ghost, he fled down three or four floors in one breath, but he still couldn't shake off the ghost.

The sound behind him grew closer and closer. Liu Yiji could even feel the plush toy's hand touching his back, the area that was touched feeling numb and itchy.

I'm about to be caught...

Feeling the touch behind him, Liu Yiji's eyes widened.

No way! If I get caught, I'm finished!
He suddenly noticed a large open window at the corner of the stairs ahead.

Upon seeing the window, he rushed towards it without a second thought, completely disregarding the possibility of being half-dead from the fall.

Before the plush toy behind him could make its next move, he braced his hands on the windowsill and leaped out of the wide-open window.

"boom!"

Liu Yiji fell heavily to the ground.

There was no one around the square, so there was no panic.

Having performed numerous jumps in previous instances, Liu Yiji was already adept at assuming landing positions, which allowed him to escape serious injury after jumping from the third floor.

After landing heavily, he frantically reached out to brace himself, only to find that his right hand was completely powerless and out of his control.

He quickly used his left hand to pull himself up, thankfully his left hand was still usable.

His right arm hung limply on his shoulder, swaying slightly with his movements, and a sharp pain shot through him.

He knew his right arm was broken.

It's not a serious injury.

Ignoring the injury to his arm, he stood up and ran away.

But then came the sound of something landing behind me.

The teddy bear jumped down after it!

Liu Yiji didn't look back, he just ran forward with all his might, but his leg was also slightly injured, and it was extremely painful to move. He limped as he ran.

The speed of a ghost is beyond what players can match, let alone Liu Yiji who is lame.

Immediately, he felt something reaching out from behind his neck.

Then I felt a weight on my body, as if something was pressing down on me.

He was running to the entrance of an underground parking lot. Without turning around, he could see behind him through the reflection in the glass next to him.

He tilted his head slightly.

He saw his reflection showing two hands tightly encircling his neck, while a life-sized teddy bear had completely climbed onto his back…

Can't run away.

Liu Yiji closed his eyes in despair.

But just then, he heard what sounded like someone rushing towards him from the side.

Before he could even open his eyes, he felt something bump into him, then his body felt light, and the sensation on his neck disappeared.

Liu Yiji immediately turned around and saw that the person who came was Bai Wu. She forcefully pressed the teddy bear to the ground, raised a knife high in her hand, and stabbed it in the abdomen.

The area had been cut open and sewn with crooked red thread. Bai Wu's cut actually separated all the red thread neatly, and glutinous rice flowed out from the teddy bear's belly, along with some fingernails.

After these items were shipped out, the once lively teddy bear lay on the ground, motionless.

Liu Yiji held his breath, staring at the plush toy lying on the ground for several minutes. Only after confirming that the toy was no longer moving did he exhale, then looked at the suddenly appearing Bai Wu in shock: "This is..."

Bai Wu must have been running too fast, because it took him a long time to catch his breath: "This is the way out. Besides not being caught, there is another way to survive."
"The name of the instance is 'Hide and Seek for One Person,' not 'One Ghost Catches Many People.' It can be played by just one person and one ghost, but the instance has brought in six players and sent out six ghosts to chase each one. This is unreasonable."

"It wasn't until I saw a group of children playing hide-and-seek in the clothing market that I realized that when one person plays hide-and-seek, the rules only apply between that person and the ghost. The person hides, and the corresponding ghost chases. This ghost will not try to catch the other person."

"Each ghost corresponds to a player, and they won't attack other players, which means you can interfere with the ghosts trying to catch me! And I've discovered something..."

"My doll was intact when I left that room, but when I saw it a second time, I found that its eyes had been gouged out."
"The doctor said he had tested his own teddy bear and found it to be indestructible, but when I saw my teddy bear again, I found that its eyes were missing. Of course, it couldn't have dug them out itself!"

"So I had an idea: could it be that players just can't destroy the dolls corresponding to themselves? I suspect that my doll's eyes were gouged out by other players, and it must have been done after I left!"

“In short,” Liu Yiji concluded with a frown, “our only way to survive is to destroy each other’s dolls, right?”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the doll on the ground and saw that it showed no signs of moving again.

Bai Wu nodded: "Yes, so it was a mistake for us to separate in the first place. But when I came to find you, I didn't expect you to be chased by a ghost. It seems I came at the right time."

Liu Yiji shook his arm: "Indeed, I think it was already watching me when I made the call. So, this doll... you killed it?"

Bai Wu shook his head: "How could a ghost be killed by a player? You must have been in quite a few dungeons, have you ever seen a ghost killed by a player? It's just that the doll's contents have been released, so it lost its target."

As she spoke, she glanced at a puddle of glutinous rice on the ground, in which a few fingernails were mixed.

Ghosts determine their targets by looking at the nails or hairs on their bodies.

Now that these things have all fallen out, the ghost has naturally lost its target.

Bai Wu reached out and handed the knife in his hand to Liu Yiji: "Now we two must not separate. I just saw the ghost that was looking for me. If it comes, you..."

Just as she was speaking, a plush toy arm suddenly reached out from the underground parking garage next door, grabbed Bai Wu, and dragged her into the darkness.

"Ah—" Bai Wu screamed, but her voice immediately disappeared into the dark garage.

Liu Yiji, who had just taken the knife, immediately took off to chase after Bai Wu, but his limping legs made it impossible for him to catch up.

He used his phone as a flashlight and chased Bai Wu frantically for several minutes in the dark underground parking garage, but still couldn't find him.

"Bai Wu?" Liu Yiji looked around at the surrounding cars and shouted loudly.

Only his own echo reverberated in the underground parking garage.

He was panting heavily when he quickly opened his phone book to dial Bai Wu's number.

Half a second later, a faint cell phone ringtone came from a dark direction.

Liu Yiji hesitated for a moment, then followed the sound.

The light from the phone dispelled the darkness, and after walking for half a minute, he finally arrived near the source of the sound.

He listened carefully and discovered that the sound was coming from a red car.

Liu Yiji held up his phone and shone it through the windshield of the car.

A headless corpse sat in the driver's seat.

His hand trembled.

Immediately afterwards, something rolled to its feet.

He looked down and saw Bai Wu's head with bulging, piercing eyes.