[Spirit Walk]
The moment Xiao Ran threw the arm, he felt sharp, probing gazes lock onto him from every direction.
Daring not to slack off for even a moment, he immediately activated [Spirit Walk], pushing his speed to the limit. Wrapped in black mist, he shot up to the fourth floor in the blink of an eye.
"Ah!!!"
Before Xiao Ran could catch his breath, a furious roar rang out. He immediately felt a suffocating wave of Death Qi closing in rapidly from behind.
He glanced back at the wall behind him.
A mass of flesh, like a tumor, was spreading up the wall. Wherever it passed, the wall and stairs alike were corroded, then assimilated by the substance splitting off from the tumor.
Atop the tumor, eyeballs stared fixedly at him. In a daze, Xiao Ran heard the curses of many students.
"This is all your fault! Your fault!"
"He led the principal here! That bastard deserves to die!"
"We were innocent! He's the one who got us killed!"
"Kill him!!"
They were the resentful students from the first floor. In truth, tonight's rampage had no effect on them at all. The night ghosts had all attacked the dormitories on the higher floors; there wasn't even a single night ghost on the lower floors.
But Xiao Ran's arrival had drawn the crazed principal there, and all the students had ended up dead.
Their resentment, however, didn't weigh on Xiao Ran at all.
In his eyes, these students weren't human to begin with. After seeing the truth at the Meat Furnace, he was even more certain of that.
They were all things the Meat Furnace had recreated.
Their souls and bodies had both been reshaped by the Meat Furnace. They could hardly be called human.
By the time he reached