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Xu Ming put the 'Essence of Earth' into his pocket and returned to the classroom.

Sure enough, the teacher and the other three students returned.

They stood silently, like statues, at the place they had fled from.

Xu Ming didn't say anything, and the game started again!

"One, two, three, freeze!"

Xu Ming quickly turned around, and in the instant he turned, he picked up his phone and pressed the shutter button.

Click!

The purple-gold light once again enveloped the entire classroom.

As soon as Xu Ming pressed the shutter button, he began to rush forward.

When the light faded, Xu Ming was surprised to find that the remaining four people seemed to have anticipated his move. They not only covered their faces with their hands in advance, but also stumbled backward.

Fortunately, when Xu Ming was counting, they had moved one step closer to him. With one addition and one subtraction, Xu Ming hadn't fallen far behind.

However… considering the actions of the mummified corpse just now, as well as the behavior of the owner of Ichiraku Ramen and his daughter Ayame, who are also considered “strange”, Xu Ming can basically confirm it.

Although they are a whole, all belonging to the game 'Red Light, Green Light', they seem to have independent thoughts, but they must abide by the 'strange' rules.

'Strange' truly lives up to its name; it is indeed quite peculiar.

Upon reaching this conclusion, Xu Ming couldn't help but frown.

As we all know, the truly terrifying enemy is one with a brain.

Xu Ming had other things on his mind, but he didn't slow down. He directly targeted a girl with a bun hairstyle and chased after her.

This time, the girl slipped out through the back door.

Xu Ming quickly followed and saw the girl with the bun hairstyle disappear into a room around the corner.

After Xu Ming followed, he discovered that the girl with the bun hairstyle had entered the school's infirmary!

Xu Ming quickly followed him inside.

An enormous medical room suddenly appeared before Xu Ming.

I don't know if it's because of the special nature of the ninja profession, or because ninja school students have to do real combat training and often get injured.

The ninja school's infirmary not only occupies a large area and has many beds, but is also fully equipped.

Xu Ming even saw two oxygen cylinders piled up in the corner, as well as a trolley containing surgical instruments such as hand-operated scalpels and hemostatic forceps.

On the edge of the yellow trash can next to it, where medical waste was discarded, several blood-stained bandages were still hanging, though the bloodstains on them had turned black.

There were three hospital beds, all covered by tattered gray curtains. The curtains swayed as if someone inside was gently pulling them, whether it was from outside or from somewhere else.

In the corner, a makeshift handwashing basin was installed. The basin was covered with mold, and the green mold covered the basin, making it look rather disgusting.

There was a mirror on the wall behind the pool, covered in dust, making it hazy and obscuring the view.

Xu Ming paced back and forth in the infirmary, hoping to sense the location of the 'Essence of Earth' again, but to no avail.

Time passed second by second.

Just as he was feeling a bit annoyed, he glanced at the mirror behind the sink and his expression immediately turned serious.

The man in the mirror was carrying a strange little girl on his back.

The little girl was wearing a tattered dress, her skin was ashen, her expression was cold, and her eyes were filled with endless icy coldness. She was the girl he had been looking for!

Xu Ming quickly pointed his phone at the mirror and took a selfie.

Click!

A crisp sound rang out.

However, Xu Ming quickly realized something was wrong.

That wasn't the sound of a camera shutter!

When the light faded, Xu Ming immediately noticed that several narrow cracks had appeared on the mirror in front of him.

Glug!

Immediately afterwards, a large amount of blood gushed out from the crack!

At first, it only leaked out drop by drop, then the blood gathered into blood streaks, forming bloody marks on the smooth mirror surface, as if the mirror had a life of its own and had been killed.

This scene looked incredibly bizarre.

However, an even stranger scene unfolded.

Suddenly, the blood seemed to come alive, beginning to writhe wildly, and then forming a line of blood-red characters on the mirror's surface—

I'm so cold...

I'm so dark-skinned...

Find me quickly!

Xu Ming frowned, his expression grave.

The 'strange' creatures follow certain rules, and the blood-red words on the mirror are clearly a hint.

However, it's just another game similar to hide-and-seek; these kids have absolutely no creativity.

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Ming began to carefully examine the entire infirmary.

He slowly lifted the curtain of the first hospital bed with a crowbar.

A mummified corpse, with only half its body remaining, lay supine on the hospital bed.

The mummified corpse had its hands outstretched and its mouth wide open, as if it were shouting.

However, he was clearly not the target Xu Ming was looking for.

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Xu Ming then lifted the curtain of the second hospital bed.

The hospital bed was empty, with only a black, charred silhouette imprinted on the white sheets.

Xu Ming quickly lifted the curtain of the third hospital bed.

A corpse, with only its head, arms, and legs remaining, lay scattered on the hospital bed.

Of all these parts, the only one missing is the patient's body...

What exactly happened in this medical room?

Why are the corpses here all so strangely shaped?

Questions flooded Xu Ming like a tidal wave.

Moreover, the most crucial 'essence of earth' was also not found.

Xu Ming refused to believe it and, disregarding the dirt on the ground, deliberately lay down to check under the hospital bed.

The area under the bed fits the description of being dark and cold, but unfortunately, I still couldn't find it.

Just then, a slight strange noise came from the direction of the sound, and Xu Ming quickly looked in that direction.

The sound was clearly coming from behind a door in the infirmary.

The room behind that door was probably used to store medicines and miscellaneous items, and also served as a storage room for doctors.

Dark, cold, could it be...?

Xu Ming recalled the words on the mirror once again.

In fact, medicine storage rooms also meet these two characteristics.

To avoid direct sunlight on medicines and to maintain a certain ambient temperature, medicine storage rooms will definitely try to block out light, and may even lack windows.

Xu Ming arrived at the door of the storage room.

The door's surface has turned yellow, with large areas of paint peeling off and the edges and corners severely worn.

Just then, another strange noise came from the storage room.

Xu Ming picked up a crowbar, wedged it in the door crack, and pried it open with force.

The door panel that the crowbar touched immediately burst open, and a large amount of wood fibers blasted out.

However, Xu Ming forcibly pried open a large hole in the door.

Just as he was about to press on and pry the door open,

Suddenly, a scarlet eye popped out from behind the door, staring intently at Xu Ming through the hole.

Roar!

The thing behind the door suddenly let out a roar.

Immediately afterwards, the wooden door was slammed hard, and white dust mixed with moss fell from above like snowflakes.

Xu Ming's body leaned back instinctively.

What the hell is that stuff locked in the medicine storage room?!

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The thing behind the door was banging on it wildly, and white dust kept falling from above.

Xu Ming quickly held his phone camera up to the hole and pressed the shutter button.

With the soft click of the shutter, a purple-gold light instantly filled the entire medicine storage room, even overflowing from the cracks in the door.

Then Xu Ming heard a shrill scream coming from inside the door.

Xu Ming quickly pried open the door to the medicine storage room.

Then he saw a blood-red zombie, its skin seemingly oozing blood, rolling on the floor and slowly turning to ashes.

After the rotten smell in the medicine storage room had dissipated a little, Xu Ming went inside.

At the far end of the storage room was a simple cot with a tattered quilt on it.

A large number of cardboard boxes were piled up in the corner. Perhaps because they hadn't been organized for a long time, the boxes were piled up haphazardly into a small mountain.

Judging from the markings on the cardboard box, it should contain medical devices such as syringes and gauze.