Something's wrong with how I'm watching anime.

"escape..."

"The only thing we can do now is keep running, keep moving in this corridor, and pray that the monster can't catch us and that we won't encounter any new monsters."

"Keep running away?"

Hearing Zhang Hao's words, Chen Jie shook his head with a wry smile.

"Isn't this no different from waiting by the window?"

A person is hanging outside a window railing for some reason, with thousands of meters above the ground behind them.

However, don't be overjoyed just because you can hold onto the railing and won't fall.

In fact, it is a slow death process.

People get thirsty, hungry, and tired, and the arms gripping the railing will become increasingly sore. When willpower can no longer overcome the material reality, you will despairingly watch your hands lose their grip on the railing and decline.

Dying in fear is more painful than dying outright.

The same principle applies here as boiling a frog in lukewarm water.

You can run for a while, but you can't run forever.

Running indefinitely will eventually lead to exhaustion, and at that point, all you can do is offer your neck for slaughter.

"That's true... your stamina is the best among us, so you'll definitely be the one left in the end."

Upon hearing Chen Jie's words, Zhang Hao frowned, his fist clenched as if he were about to immediately swing it and smash it towards Chen Jie's face.

However, he held back.

"I can think of two paths right now."

Zhang Hao said coldly:

"One option is to enter the classroom, go out through the window, and run outside the teaching building. While we still have enough energy, if we run fast, it's not impossible to escape from the monsters outside."

"The other way is to keep running down this corridor..."

"But we don't need to run that long..."

"Don't forget, we were live-streaming before," Zhang Hao emphasized.

"After entering here, the signal suddenly disappeared and the live broadcast was interrupted."

"I know many people will think the signal interruption was a staged effect in our live stream. But it's also possible..."

Zhang Hao closed his eyes.

“Some viewers might be worried and call the police. If just one or two people do, the police will arrive within an hour.”

"If people outside can discover the unusual phenomena inside, we may be rescued."

"Would you rather escape for an hour or go out and fight for your life right now?"

Hearing Zhang Hao's next words, Chen Jie and Zhang Liya, who had been somewhat desperate, regained their hope.

The premise is that they can actually hold out for that hour.

"Awooo—!!!"

A piercing scream suddenly came from outside the teaching building.

The cry was exactly the same as the one they heard when they entered the teaching building. However, this cry contained many additional emotions.

However, this did not prevent everyone from shuddering as if they had PTSD.

"That sound must be coming from outside. There really are monsters outside too."

"Run... Do we really think we can survive if we just run for an hour?"

Chen Jie looked at Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao shook his head: "I don't know."

"But now all we can do is fight for our lives and pray that we'll be lucky enough to survive."

Chapter Ninety-Three: Lightning

The resistance to death is an instinct of all living beings; never doubt the human will to survive. As long as there is even a glimmer of hope, people will give anything for it.

"One hour..."

Zhang Liya and Chen Jie kept repeating this word.

An hour may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of a person’s life, but for them, it can be a pivotal moment that determines their entire destiny.

Time, please pass by faster.

The same thought crossed the minds of all three.

However, what is destined to happen will happen.

Humans are merely thinking reeds; too many external shocks can easily destroy them.

"Tap...tap tap..."

Heavy, hurried footsteps sounded ahead of them, as if announcing the official start of this game of hide-and-seek that concerned everyone's fate.

A figure slowly emerged from the darkness, tall and...

Ok?

Zhang Hao and the other two were stunned for a moment when they saw the figure that appeared in front of them.

The familiar white mask, and the four vertical eyes on it, all told everyone that the monster that had led the fat man into darkness not long ago had reappeared.

But why did this monster shrink in size?

His once imposing, towering frame, which almost filled the entire cross-section of the corridor, making even O'Neal look like a child standing next to him, now appeared much shorter and thinner.

Although it is still extremely oppressive as before, the visual impact is not as great as it was before.

Could it be that the monster has brothers or offspring?

As Zhang Hao thought this, the cursed spirit seemed to sense the weakening of the fear and despair emanating from the prey before it.

Even a slight reduction in power was enough to ignite the cursed spirit's fury.

A savage aura emanated from it once more, and the monster let out a deafening roar.

Zhang Hao and his two companions seemed to snap out of their daze, and without saying a word, they turned around and continued running wildly.

However, the three of them soon discovered an embarrassing situation.

The monster's heavy footsteps were steadily approaching them, even though they were running at the maximum speed they could muster.

The monsters are faster than them...

Perhaps they had the misconception that the monster wasn't very fast because of its bulky size.

But actually, the cursed spirits just wanted to play with them before the hunt.

As the embodiment of a curse, an extraordinary being, even if agility is not its forte, how could ordinary people possibly surpass it?

Blood food...blood food is needed....

The cursed spirit yearned for all of this, especially after he sensed that terrifying aura enter the teaching building, the core of this domain, and then suddenly disappear, his unease intensified.

This is a two-tiered hunt...

It is hunting for prey, while others are hunting it.

Whoever completes the hunt first will have the last laugh.

As long as you eat these three blood-eating foods.

It will be able to advance to a higher level, and this domain will no longer be so damaged. The thing wrapped in the core, the cursed object containing boundless power, can also be truly used by it.

In that case, perhaps I would no longer be afraid of that strange white flash, or the humans shrouded in a power similar to a curse.

...............

"Brother Hao!"

Zhang Liya let out a desperate scream.

After the fat man was dragged away and his fate was unknown, she, the woman, was the slowest runner in the team.

The relentless pursuit of death from behind, that soul-piercing sense of impending doom almost became tangible.

Even if she couldn't turn around, or dared not turn around, she could still feel death breathing on her neck.

Hearing Zhang Liya's shouts behind him, Zhang Hao gritted his teeth.

Why has it come to this?

Why do this damn paranormal live stream?

Why did nothing happen so many times before, but something happened this time?

Even knowing that regret is useless, one's heart is still filled with all sorts of remorse at such times.

The corner is just ahead.

This inverted corner is also a turning point that determines fate.

As the saying goes, anyone can accelerate in a straight line, but being fast on curves is what truly matters...

Ugh, ugh, ugh... What am I even thinking?

At this point, Zhang Hao found all sorts of strange thoughts popping into his mind. It was as if his brain was forcing him to ignore external information, such as Zhang Liya's desperate cries behind him, telling him to just focus on escaping for his life.

Seeing Zhang Hao and Chen Jie, they rushed into the corner.

Zhang Liya felt as if she could feel the monster's sharp claws touching the back of her neck, and she was utterly desperate.

Such despair means giving up, giving up the strength to take a step, and letting the body crash into the wall ahead due to inertia.

But just as she was about to hit the wall, a pair of hands suddenly reached out from around the corner, grabbed her, and forcefully pulled her back.

It's Zhang Hao.

Unlike Chen Jie, he did not continue to flee, but instead hid around the corner.

After catching Zhang Liya and throwing her aside, he immediately pulled out a Swiss Army knife he had prepared and stabbed it toward the monster's throat.