The downpour gradually eased, and the sky slowly darkened.
Watching Da Da Da Ju Hao get dragged into the shadows by a hand just a few steps in front of them, everyone fell silent for quite some time.
Although they had expected this outcome, the way things unfolded was far more unexpected than they had imagined. Still, Bai Zhi looked thoughtfully at the scene before him.
The other party had been only one step away from iron gate, so before Da Da Da Ju Hao disappeared, Bai Zhi and the others had clearly seen the change in her expression.
...The sheer terror on her face, as if she had seen something utterly horrifying.
When she looked toward them from outside the school... what exactly had she seen?
There were too many possible explanations for them to be certain.
But at almost the same moment, the same thought occurred to all four of them.
—That presence which had silently infiltrated their group at the very beginning might still be among the four of them.
Perhaps Da Da Da Ju Hao had been taken away precisely because she saw the so-called truth after stepping outside the school.
But likewise, it was possible that she herself was the presence that had infiltrated their group, and her actions just now had been meant to deliberately divide them and make them wary of one another...
...There were simply too many possibilities.
So in the end, amid silence, the four returned to the Security Room.
Now that it had grown dark, Shang Jiuyue turned on the lights in the Security Room.
He did not know about elsewhere, but the Security Room had electricity. Earlier, he had even used the electric kettle to boil water and make coffee.
They had all seen the scene of that inhuman