The Whole Class Was Shocked—He Was a Ghost Controller

The Whole Class Was Shocked—He Was a Ghost Controller

Everyone looked stunned.

But those standing close to that student felt a storm raging in their hearts!

Because they were close enough, they could clearly hear the sound of every bone in the fallen student's body shattering.

They also saw his arms beginning to take on the shape of wood, his body turning into wood!

Roots had even begun spreading across his body!

It was as though he had truly become a tree stump.

The game continued.

Everyone became serious again.

When the game reached the fifth round, they finally made it through without incident. Everyone touched the tables in front of them and successfully survived.

They panted heavily, drenched in cold sweat, as if they had just brushed past the Grim Reaper.

"We survived!"

"We did it! I never thought it would be this easy, haha!"

Quite a few students began celebrating excitedly.

Then, they turned to look at the student who had been caught earlier.

They saw that moss had already grown on the student's head, and even mushrooms had sprouted. His feet had taken root as well. Other than his head still being human—

Every other part of him had taken on the appearance of a tree!

Everyone felt a lingering fear. They had not expected him to really be dead.

But before they could recover from their joy—

The Weird Scarecrow's voice sounded again.

[Congratulations. You successfully touched the tables and became the lucky ones who survived.]

[The second round of the Wooden Man Game will now begin.]

[There will be some new twists this time.]

"The second round?!"

"Are you kidding me?"

"Didn't you say we'd be able to survive as long as we cleared the game?"

The students immediately erupted in outrage.

But the Weird Scarecrow said sinisterly, [Those who don't want to play can just die.]

Everyone fell into complete despair!

They had never expected there to be a second round after completing the first!

If this continued, wouldn't there be a third round? A fourth round?

And it had even said it had prepared a [surprise]?

What the hell was that [surprise]?

The second round began smoothly.

The Weird Scarecrow still counted one, two, three.

But this time, when it counted to three—

A sharp spike suddenly shot out from beneath one student's foot, instantly piercing through his sole.

The pain came too suddenly. Caught completely off guard, the student screamed and clutched his foot as he collapsed to the ground.

A cold gleam flashed through the Weird Scarecrow's eyes.

The student rolling on the ground and crying out in agony stood up with lifeless eyes. He then stood motionlessly with his limbs spread wide, like a mannequin.

Everyone was drenched in cold sweat, their clothes soaked through.

So this was the so-called surprise?

Their faces were ashen. At this rate—

Who could possibly survive?

Two students died in the second round, while the others narrowly survived.

But then the third round arrived.

This time, there was a second surprise.

While spikes erupted from the ground, flying knives would also appear out of thin air.

If a student who had been pierced made any noise—

Or if their legs were severed by a flying knife and they fell to the ground, it would be considered a game failure. They would directly become real wooden men.

In the third round's third match, a student named Luo Wu had the bad luck to get picked.

He was Chen Yu's classmate, and they had even shared a desk before.

Spikes shot straight out of the ground, piercing through Luo Wu's feet!

Luo Wu had decent endurance, but the pain was simply too unbearable.

He let out a miserable scream and collapsed to the floor.

Everyone sighed in relief, thinking they had narrowly survived again.

It seemed the unlucky one was Luo Wu.

The Weird Scarecrow opened its eyes, releasing a crimson glow as it stared fixedly at Luo Wu.

[Hehe, someone's about to move again. He's about to become a wooden man.]

As soon as it finished speaking, an aura of rules erupted.

But at that moment.

Boom!

The classroom door was suddenly kicked open.

"Finally found this place. Those intestine ropes wasted far too much of my time."

A clear voice rang out first, followed by a young man appearing in the doorway with a faint smile on his face.

Who else could it be but Chen Yu?

The sudden commotion startled everyone in the classroom.

Even the Weird Scarecrow stopped releasing its rule aura and coldly looked at Chen Yu, who had disrupted the game.

Before the Weird Scarecrow could say anything.

Chen Yu took a step forward and rushed straight toward it.

The shadow on the ground suddenly sprang up with a whoosh, lifting the arrogant Weird Scarecrow as easily as one would pick up a chick.

The Headless Ghost Shadow gave a light tug.

Riiip—

The Weird Scarecrow was instantly torn in half. Countless straws burst apart and sprayed out from within.

Chen Yu had effortlessly used the Headless Ghost Shadow to kill the Weird Scarecrow.

There was no hesitation whatsoever.

When the students saw this, they froze at first. When they came back to their senses—

They all sharply sucked in a breath.

Was this guy even human?!

He had appeared and casually dealt with the Weird Scarecrow?

What the hell was this?

Chen Yu ignored the stunned students. Instead, he walked over to the Weird Scarecrow's corpse and began eating it.

No, more accurately, he was eating straw and branches.

Crunch—

Gulp—

Crisp sounds of teeth chewing through grass and wood rang out.

They assaulted everyone's eardrums and shook their souls.

"This thing being able to appear in the school must be closely connected to the Ghost Infant."

As Chen Yu ate, he spread the Slaughter Ghost Domain.

Everything around them turned into a black-and-white backdrop.

Under the Slaughter Ghost Domain's ability, Chen Yu could clearly see a faint, hazy thread connected to the scarecrow's corpse.

Following that thread, Chen Yu used the Slaughter Ghost Domain to look through the wall.

The thread stretched far into the distance, all the way to the school's back hill!

Then, Chen Yu quickly devoured the scarecrow completely.

[You have devoured the Weird Scarecrow.]

[The Weird Scarecrow has been digested.]

A surge of energy filled Chen Yu's body before ultimately flowing into the Ghost Pat Shoulder.

[You have obtained a new Anomaly Ability.]

[Weird Scarecrow Anomaly Ability: Use a game as the medium to establish suitable game rules (rules permitted by causality). Once others agree, if a violation occurs, they will instantly become wooden, turning into a wooden man or scarecrow.]

"A game?"

Chen Yu smiled faintly. "This Anomaly Ability is pretty good."

Though the ability was useful, it still had its drawbacks.

It could only be used if the other party agreed to join the game, using the game as a medium.

It was like the Silver-Horned King's Purple-Gold Gourd in Journey to the West—when he called someone's name, they had to answer before they could be sucked into the gourd.

"Y-you're Chen Yu?"

At that moment, Luo Wu recognized Chen Yu. His eyes widened as he cried out in astonishment.

"Hello. Long time no see."

Chen Yu smiled and greeted him.

With a stunned look on his face, Luo Wu said, "Y-you're this powerful? You actually..."

At that point, he glanced at the few remaining weeds on the ground and swallowed.

"Holy shit, isn't this a student from our school?!"

"Yeah, I've seen him before!"

"He actually ate the anomaly?!"

"Thank heavens! Classmate, thank you so much!"

Several people among the students recognized Chen Yu and shouted excitedly.

As ordinary people, they had no right to know about anomalies, since the authorities had kept such information under wraps.

But after anomalies wreaked havoc in the school, even if they hadn't wanted to know, they had no choice but to learn.

At the same time, they understood that Ghost Controllers in this world could be either good or evil.

And Chen Yu had just saved them, so he was clearly a kind Ghost Controller!

Since he was a student from the same school and showed no hostility toward them, everyone finally relaxed completely. Some of the male students gathered around Chen Yu, firing question after question at him with respectful, admiring looks.

The female students, meanwhile, acted like they were lovestruck. They crowded around Chen Yu, showering him with praise and questions.

"Classmate, how did you do that?"

"Yeah, you're a Ghost Controller, right? What anomaly did you control?"

"Can you teach me how to control anomalies too? I want to fight these anomalies just like you."

"That was incredible! You fed that scarecrow the moment you appeared. I'm guessing you control some kind of ghoul anomaly, right, bro?"

"Have you been watching too much anime? A ghoul? He definitely controls one of China's Taotie anomalies..."

"Classmate, do you... do you have a girlfriend? We're still high school students, but... but I think we could try being together..."

"Classmate, you're so handsome. I really like you."

Faced with their excessive flattery and questions, "Sorry, sorry, I still have something to do. The anomaly here has been dealt with, so there probably won't be any anomalies coming after you for the time being. Stay in this classroom and wait for the Investigation Bureau's rescue. There are Head Balloons outside, so don't go out no matter what."

Chen Yu casually brushed them off and prepared to leave.

At that moment, Luo Wu called out to him, "Chen Yu... bro..."

He did not know how else to address Chen Yu respectfully, so he added "bro" after his name. Then he asked, "Where are you going?"

"I need to find Li Kun,"

Chen Yu said.

"Li Kun... that bastard was the one who sent me a message saying he was holding a birthday party at school, which was why I came here..."

Luo Wu seemed to realize something, then said nervously, "Could it be..."

"You guessed right. That guy deliberately set you up. The anomaly in his body has already revived,"

Chen Yu said directly.

Anomaly revival?

The crowd did not understand.

Although Luo Wu did not know what anomaly revival meant, nor how terrifying Li Kun was, he still told Chen Yu everything he knew. "When I came to the school, I saw Li Kun following someone toward the back mountain."

"Someone?"

Chen Yu had gained a new clue and immediately asked, "Who was it?"

"I don't know. The figure was pretty tall, and I could only see his back then,"

Luo Wu said.

"Alright, thanks."

"Can we follow you?"

Luo Wu spoke up, believing it was extremely dangerous to stay here.

"Uh, if you want to follow, then follow."

After receiving the news, Chen Yu did not linger and headed straight toward the school's back mountain.

The other students followed Chen Yu.

Chen Yu also noticed that the Intestine Rope in the distance had been broken open.

Led by Li Hao, he brought his group of students through the Intestine Rope and followed behind Chen Yu as well.

It was said that...

Schools...

Were all built atop Mass Graves.

Because students possessed strong yang energy, capable of suppressing all evil spirits.

Thus, during the day...

When students were at school, the entire campus would be filled with a sunny atmosphere, vibrant and youthful everywhere.

But once the students left the school...

And it was nighttime...

The school would become exceedingly gloomy and terrifying!

That was why the vast majority of horror and thriller novels used schools at night as their setting.

Chen Yu moved through the silent school.

The air carried only a faint scent of osmanthus blossoms, from the osmanthus trees the teachers had planted around campus.

All around him, footsteps echoed—tap, tap, tap.

Wave after wave of sound collided with the walls, spread outward again, and formed an endless cycle until the force of the sound completely faded away.

The surroundings were pitch-black.

It felt as though countless terrors lurked within the darkness, ready to deliver a fatal strike at any moment.

Chen Yu briefly opened his Ghost Domain.

He found the area shrouded in eerie energy, though it was not particularly strong.

This proved that the surroundings had merely been subjected to an eerie medium rule. No actual eerie entity was present here.

Those students were safe for the time being.

Chen Yu withdrew his Ghost Domain and headed toward the back mountain.

Beyond the school lay the back mountain.

The back mountain was a large mountain. Usually, quite a few people came and went there. Whenever there was a holiday, students, elderly people, and even young people liked coming here to hike.

The government had specially developed the area as well.

At the entrance to the back mountain and along both sides of the path, they had set up quite a few plastic mannequins.

These mannequins had originally been meant to add to the scenic enjoyment of the back mountain.

But once night fell...

There were no streetlights here, only dim moonlight.

The plastic mannequins appeared exceptionally terrifying, like ghostly figures standing in the darkness, staring fixedly at Chen Yu.

Ahead lay utter darkness.

No one knew what they would face after taking that next step.

An unbearable terror would swiftly seize a person's heart, making them want to flee this dead place filled with the sound of silence at once.

Even Chen Yu felt a trace of revulsion and discomfort here. Moreover, what drifted through the air was not the fragrance of grass and trees.

It was the bloody stench of human flesh.

Chen Yu stepped forward and entered the pitch-black back mountain.

The surrounding trees resembled tall, slender black human-shaped sticks. Their branches were like waving hands, slowly swaying in the darkness as if welcoming Chen Yu's arrival.

The air around them instantly turned cold and gloomy.

All around, there was only the rustling of leaves blown by the wind.

It sounded as though those lifeless trees were letting out hoarse screams.

The remaining sounds were like some indescribable things whispering and moaning incessantly beside your ears.

Anyone who entered this area would find it difficult to remain rational.