I'm Not a Flame-Chaser - Chapter 373

"Don't talk like you're old. Aren't you still a high school student?" Chrono mocked, mimicking a pitching motion.

Kevin and Kosma, who were watching from the sidelines, swallowed hard. They looked at each other and saw an overwhelming fear in each other's eyes.

As for why...

"Then throw it away."

Chrono smiled radiantly.

Come on, come on.

Lin Kailang smiled.

Playing baseball with youthful energy and sweat—that's probably what it's all about.

Just ignore the shape of the baseball head in Chrono's hand.

The severed head that Lin had cut off had become the head of a strange, dark blue man. Unlike the toilet ghost, it hadn't simply disappeared. It was now being held by Chrono Jie's arms, its mouth stapled shut by Lin. It could only open its wide, panicked eyes, wanting to say something but unable to utter a word, and watch helplessly as Chrono Jie threw it away.

Lin smiled, gripped the Baseball Bat tightly with both hands, and then swung it in a wide arc, hitting a perfect home run.

"Smack!"

The moment his head was hit, it exploded into colorful fireworks, splattering Lin with brain matter, blood, and eyeballs before slowly disappearing.

"Phew... it seems the ghosts in this dorm are quite friendly."

Lin wiped away non-existent blood from his face and smiled easily.

"Speaking of which, why do you and Chrono seem so familiar with ghosts?"

After leaving the girls' dormitory, Kevin belatedly asked the two who hadn't shown any fear whatsoever.

"Really? Maybe it's just that the girls' dormitory is full of old, weak, sick and disabled people that makes you think that way." Lin casually replied, rummaging through his bag again. Absolute calmness prevailed in his dark eyes. "The next location is the western grove of trees in the school, which is also the location of the 'The Eye in the Tree' strange tale."

"It's a somewhat unfamiliar rumor." Influenced by Lin, Kosma wasn't so afraid anymore.

"It's nothing, it's just that when I go to that grove at night, I feel like the trees around me are watching me."

"..."

Don't say such terrible things with such a relaxed tone and manner!

"I have heard of it," Kevin interjected with a grim expression.

"I remember you took Mei there before, didn't you?"

Upon hearing this, Chrono and Kosma both turned their gazes to Kevin's face. Judging from his lingering fear, he had probably encountered something "strange." Coupled with tonight's "verification," what they thought was an illusion at the time was now enough to send chills down their spines.

"The Eye in the Tree ...you should know that our high school is different from other high schools, right?" Kevin took a deep breath, his eyes still flustered, but he forced himself to calm down. "Our high school has an 'Dissection Room'."

Chienyu Academy is an "outlier" school. It is just a high school, but its area and facilities meet the standards of a top-tier private university. It also has facilities that are only found in specialized schools, such as Dissection Room lab, a morgue, and a chemistry lab. However, these facilities are not open to students but are used by a small group of teachers and the principal.

"Our school has already distinguished itself from other schools in this respect alone, and I've heard that our school has an unusually Cadaver Teacher (a respectful term for cadavers donated for dissection). We're not a medical school, so where do we get so many Cadaver Teacher?"

Kevin lowered his voice; compared to ghosts, having ears on the walls was a far more chilling thing.

"So what we're guessing is... that the teachers at the school who use the Dissection Room are doing 'that kind of business'."

"Impossible." Lin Tang suddenly waved his hand to interrupt Kevin. "At most, she'll make up rumors like 'strange laughter coming from the Dissection Room's and 'waking up on the lab table.' She's not short of money at all."

"... Do you know the teachers in the Dissection Room?"

"Our relationship is alright, I guess." At this moment, the boy who was unfazed even when facing ghosts actually showed a slightly hesitant expression. "In short, she couldn't possibly do something like that."

"Oh... then I'll continue." Kevin was a little puzzled but not too concerned. "Some people were very curious about what those Cadaver Teacher were like, so they secretly sneaked into the morgue. They saw many Cadaver Teacher there, but strangely... they felt that those Cadaver Teacher seemed to be watching them."

How can someone who is already dead be looking at others?

In the dark, Formalin -smelling underground morgue, the corpses, still looking as they did in life, opened their eyes, filled with the whites of their pupils, as unsuspecting students passed by...

"They felt very uncomfortable, so they left, but the problem was that the next day, when they passed through the western woods above the underground morgue, they felt... the same gaze as before."

"'There can't be a mistake!' one of them shouted frantically, and then that night they went to the morgue again, and they were horrified to find that the number of bodies... had changed."

"Has it decreased? No, it has increased."

"They saw it, their own bodies were inside..."

This is a standard ghost story, but most ghost stories lack logic in order to be scary. What happens to be... Lin is a person with a particularly strong sense of logic.

"They were all safe and sound in the end?"

No, no one has seen them again.

"So who started this story at the end?"

"..."

No one can answer that.

"Okay, so what happened to you?" This time, Lin didn't dwell on it and asked about Kevin's situation.

"When Mei visited our school, I took her to the grove."

"..."

Kosma, Lin, and Chrono all simultaneously revealed disdainful looks.

"Hey! I just wanted to find a quiet place to chat with her!"

"I understand, you went to a hotel at 11 p. m. just to play Ludo all night."

"I'm too lazy to argue with you!" Kevin snorted. "Then I felt someone watching us from behind, but when I turned around, there was nothing there. May said she felt very uncomfortable, so we left."

"Before leaving, I caught a glimpse of a hole in the tree out of the corner of my eye."

"There's an eye inside that's all white."

The Campus Seven Wonders Arc Flame-Chasers: A Boy's Daily Life (Part 6)

"Shh, shh, shh..."

The soft soil felt like human skin underfoot, and the rustling of the wind through the leaves sounded like sharp, mocking laughter. As they stepped onto this land, long, dark gazes seemed to stretch and coil around their necks.

Kevin noticed the gaze behind him the moment he passed a tree, but he didn't dare turn around.

His intuition told him that he couldn't turn back, because once he did, what he would "see" might be something he wouldn't normally "see."

"Um..."

Lin stopped halfway through his walk, glancing at a tree beside him before turning his sharp gaze to another tree.

"What's wrong?" Chrono asked him when she saw his actions.

"There are many."

This time, Lin gripped the axe tightly in his hand, warily scanning his surroundings. His gaze moved from one tree to another, unable to stop and confirm which one it was, as if every tree here had come alive.

"Hey... is it just my imagination?" Kosma took a half step back, stepping on a tree root, his pupils dilating and shrinking repeatedly with fear. "Are these trees moving?"

He suspected he was seeing things. A tree that was just ten meters away had suddenly become about five meters behind him in the blink of an eye.

"Don't scare me..."

Kosma and Kevin, these two cowards, were practically hugging each other. To put it more bluntly, the area around them was now filled with "demonic energy," and they could feel the piercing chill just by touching it.

Kosma stared intently at the tree, cautiously moving away from it, but before he could take two steps back, his back bumped against a cold object.

"..."

At that moment, cold sweat, accompanied by fear, poured from my pores.

He turned his head with difficulty and saw a dark brown tree trunk at the very edge of his vision.

Was this tree here before?

The trees on all sides seemed to be playing a game of "Red Light, Green Light." As soon as no one paid attention to one of them, it would approach at lightning speed, shrinking their standing space. The hoarse, mocking wind grew louder, and those malevolent gazes, along with the swaying branches, began to reach out to the crowd with bloodlust.

"What should we do, Lin..." Kevin didn't dare to speak loudly anymore.

He thought he just saw it: there was a hole in the center of a tree trunk, and a glimpse of an eyeball with only the whites of the eye visible flashed through it.

Could it be that these trees are truly possessed by the souls of the Cadaver Teacher in the underground morgue?

"No, since the Cadaver Teacher donated their bodies, it means that at least most of them were kind and carefree people, and it's impossible for them to become ghosts wandering the world."

"It's really impressive that you can think about this logically! But can you find a solution?" Once a person is in extreme fear, it is difficult to control their emotions. Kosma's voice soared to the sky. They stood back to back, looking at the approaching trees.

"It's simple. Since these trees couldn't have been possessed by the Cadaver Teacher in the underground morgue..." After thinking it through, Lin calmly rummaged through his backpack for a while. "Then there's only one answer."

Amidst the trees that were now wildly swinging their branches and rushing up, Lin Cong his backpack.

"I hope she won't cause me any trouble afterwards."

"Buzz!"

The trees' revelry was abruptly halted by discordant noise.

Immediately afterwards, their branches trembled, shaking like sieves.

In Lin's hands, a ferocious beast roared.

"A chainsaw?! Where did you get that chainsaw from?!" Kosma shouted hysterically.

What Lin Cong his backpack was a roaring, sharp-toothed chainsaw that was spinning at high speed!

"Someone invented this folding chainsaw when they were bored, but her original intention was to use it to cut vegetables." Lin gripped the handle of the chainsaw and then rushed towards the trembling trees.

The group was left standing there, bewildered, staring blankly as Lin chased after the trees all over the place.

It's happening again. I think I saw this happen about half an hour ago.

The chainsaw Xiao Ke. They had never seen a chainsaw cut down a tree as quickly as tearing paper. Even with a regular chainsaw, you needed to find the right angle to cut a tree, rather than just slicing it in two with one stroke.

What flowed from the broken section of the tree was blood, fat, and some strangely shaped internal organs. It had no smell, but it looked extremely disgusting.

Faced with this bloody scene, Lin simply stepped onto the trunk of a tree and chopped it in two with a single stroke.

It was only then that the other three realized that there were so many of these "trees," which had somehow disguised themselves as ordinary trees. Now, Lin was finding them one by one and cutting them all down without any mercy.

"These haven't disappeared...aren't they ghosts?" Kosma's courage grew after discovering this. He was afraid of ghosts, but that didn't mean he was afraid of "monsters." He frowned and squatted down beside the tree trunk, examining the substance flowing from it. "It's not bark; it's a mixture resembling human skin and muscle tissue with tree fiber..."

Thinking about what Lin just said, that these trees weren't possessed by the Cadaver Teacher, then...

"These are all new species created by the teacher in that Dissection Room. No, according to her, they should just be some failed byproducts."

At this point, Lin cut down the last tree and stuck the chainsaw into the soil. "I remember she said she wanted to create a plant that could produce 'carnivorous' fruit, from the bark to the trunk to the fruit, all of which was edible meat, and it would grow extremely fast, so that you could just cut a piece of meat off it whenever you were hungry. This is probably the failed creation of that new species."

"If you're hungry, just cut off a piece..."

Kevin imagined a tree with jagged growths and fleshy fruits, the pink flesh and sticky fruit making him nauseous.

"It's not her style to just leave these trees here. I guess a bunch of them escaped from underground and are hiding here to attack people at night." Lin picked up a piece of entrails, sniffed it, and found no strange smell. "However, our curfew time happens to be out of sync with these guys' schedules, so only we would come here so late."

"Hey, Lin, you wouldn't..." Kosma felt a wave of nausea when he saw Lin's actions.

"As expected, it should be edible. Chrono, pack these up, then our dorm won't need to buy meat anymore."

"Great, it seems I can cook a big meal now."

Chrono also grabbed the internal organs without any hesitation and stuffed them into the plastic bag that Lin threw out. The two of them acted so efficiently that it was terrifying to watch.

The Campus Seven Wonders Arc Adventures of a Flame-Chasers Boy (Complete)

"Why would you carry plastic bags and disposable gloves with you all the time...?"

As the seven wonders of the campus were solved one by one, Kevin really thought they had a chance to get the 50,000 yuan. However, Lin's various behaviors along the way made him feel that this seemingly unassuming good brother was much scarier than the seven wonders of the campus.

Would a normal person carry a fire axe, chainsaw, black plastic bag, and disposable gloves with them?

Would any normal person calmly saw through trees that shed their internal organs and blood, one after another, and then intend to eat their flesh?

"I'm not like you, a shut-in who spends all day in his dorm playing games and only goes out when he's on a date with Mei. I have a lot of things to do."

"I hope the person who spent the whole week playing games with me in the dorm last week is not the same person you are now." Kevin's eyelids twitched. "And what's with this indignant look on your face about me having a girlfriend? Didn't that cute girl confess to you back then? You didn't accept her and even treated her like a man, didn't you?"

"Uh..." Lin also thought of the embarrassing incident last time, and he coughed in a pretentious manner, "Hua ... she is indeed very good, but unfortunately I am a person with lofty ambitions."

"Can't understand."

"My XP is big breasts."

"Finally, it's the last one."