"The Laboratory Building is so dangerous. Why did you come here yourself?" Ye Chu was puzzled. Xiao Xiao could easily have sent two unrelated people to the Laboratory Building, so why had she chosen to come herself?
"Everyone knows how scary the Laboratory Building is," Xiao Xiao said, picking up a broom. "Nobody wants to come, so the school made a rule that cleaning it earns you ten extra credits."
Ye Chu understood immediately. Credits were tied to class committee positions, and Xiao Xiao wanted more credits so she could get a position with greater authority.
"Every class has a class president, a vice president, and a sanitation monitor. The president has the most authority. Our class president is a monster now. I want to replace her and do my part to help everyone survive."
Ye Chu nodded. He genuinely admired that attitude. He needed to come to the Laboratory Building to search for clues anyway, so they were both getting what they needed.
That night, in the Laboratory Building...
Ye Chu picked up a rag and wiped the dust off the tiles. The walls of the Laboratory Building were covered in white tiles, making it look far more refined than the classroom building. But the building faced away from the sun, and the entire corridor was shrouded in darkness, giving it an eerie feel.
Most of the classroom doors in the Laboratory Building were locked. Ye Chu tried pulling on one, but it wouldn't budge.
Ye Chu paid no further attention to the doors and continued wiping the tiles. Xiao Xiao stood beside him, diligently sweeping up the rubbish on the floor. The corridor fell silent.
Creeeak-
Ye Chu and Xiao Xiao both stopped and turned to look behind them. A door had blown open in the wind.
But Ye Chu had just pulled hard on that door without opening it, and now a gentle gust of wind...
"Has it already started?" Xiao Xiao looked fairly composed, if you ignored her slightly trembling fingers.
Ye Chu walked toward the door. Blood flowed out of the open room, staining the floor bright red. The light inside flickered a few times, then went out.
Bang! Two bright red handprints suddenly appeared on the glass in front of him.
Xiao Xiao bit her lip hard, forcing herself to stay calm. She grabbed the hem of Ye Chu's shirt and ran upstairs, explaining as she went, "Go to the third floor. There's a safe zone there."
After being dragged along for a few steps, Ye Chu whipped his head around, his eyes widening. Two dark figures had appeared at the other end of the corridor at some point. They were human, yet not human. Their bodies stood upright like humans, but their heads clearly weren't human heads. They looked like... a wolf and a fox?
Although he couldn't see them clearly, Ye Chu had a gut feeling that those were the two animals the dark figures resembled.
Xiao Xiao turned too and froze. "What... are those things?" she murmured.
Ye Chu shook his head. He had no idea what was going on with the two dark figures either, yet he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"Will they attack us?" Xiao Xiao's voice trembled.
Ye Chu took the broom from her hands. "Let's try it and find out." With that, he suddenly charged at the two dark figures.
Xiao Xiao: ?? Try what?
He raised his arm and swung at the two figures. They ducked backward, but the fox-headed one was unlucky enough to take a hit to the head and let out a whimper.
Ye Chu stood in front of them for a few seconds. Finding that neither figure seemed inclined to attack him, he turned away and said to the dumbfounded Xiao Xiao, "Let's go. Up to the third floor."
At the same time, Pei Yanchuan dragged Su Fengzi upstairs. "Which floor did Little Zhang say it was? The third, right?"
Su Fengzi clutched his head and grunted in agreement. "Fuck, what the hell was that thing just now?"
"A rabbit-headed person?" Pei Yanchuan said uncertainly. "But the way he swung that stick looked so familiar."
"I thought so too." Su Fengzi rubbed his aching head. "The last person to swing at me like that was Ye Chu."
Pei Yanchuan suddenly let go of Su Fengzi's hand and stopped walking. Su Fengzi looked up at him in confusion.
"It felt familiar to me because Brother Ye Chu swung at me like that too..."
Su Fengzi blinked in stunned silence. "That person... couldn't have been Ye Chu, could he?"
Following Little Zhang's map, they had first found the Laboratory Building and set about cleaning it diligently with a broom and a rag. Pei Yanchuan had gone to rinse the rag in a laboratory sink, only for a dark red liquid to flow out of the tap.
Left with no choice, Pei Yanchuan had taken the rag to the restroom instead. Just as he was about to open the restroom door, a red handprint had abruptly appeared on the glass.
Pei Yanchuan had frowned and moved farther away, only to see a mass of tiny tentacles suddenly sprout from the floor, trying to grab his feet. They reminded him of the disgusting bugs from the previous game.
Sure enough, he had heard Su Fengzi's frantic, bloodcurdling screams. "Aaaah! Fucking ***! Fucking ***!! Stay away from me!"
Besides the mass of tiny tentacles, two dark figures had also appeared in front of them. The one on the left was clearly a good deal taller than the one on the right, and both had rabbit heads.
Before they could react, they had watched the taller rabbit-headed person swing a mop handle viciously at them.
They had stepped back, but Su Fengzi hadn't dodged in time and had been struck on the head by the mop handle.
Su Fengzi: ...!!
He had yelped and clutched his head. By the time he looked up again, the two rabbit-headed people had vanished.
Recalling the rabbit-headed person's movements and the force of the blow, Su Fengzi nodded with certainty. "I'd stake my head on it. That thing just now was Ye Chu."
Pei Yanchuan: ...
[Brother Ye is as "cautious" as ever, hahaha.]
[How did this even get a sequel? Hahaha.]
[A way to solve this nobody ever imagined...]
The two ran to the third floor and ducked into a room at random. Pei Yanchuan rummaged around, hoping to find clues.
Behind a wall calendar, he found a sheet of rules.
[Laboratory Building emergency self-rescue guide: Please note that these rules only take effect when abnormalities occur in this building. If you see this guide, you are already experiencing severe hallucinations. Please follow the steps below. 1. Tell yourself that the abnormalities you just saw were all fake. Keep repeating this statement to yourself. 2. Hide in a classroom at random and lock the doors and windows. Check the insulated cup on the desk. If steam is rising from it, leave immediately and hide in another classroom. 3. If you hear knocking outside the door, nobody except the students on cleaning duty will enter this place, so please ignore it, ignore it, ignore it. 4. Likewise, ignore any sounds outside the window and close the curtains. However, do not use clips to secure the curtains, because there are no clips in the room. 5. Make sure the cabinet beside the door is completely empty. If there is anything inside, immediately hide in another room, immediately hide in another room. 6. Pour fresh blood into the insulated cup, then place it inside the cabinet. Draw a seal on the cabinet door using the pattern below. This is very important and can save your life at a critical moment...]
By the time Pei Yanchuan finished reading the final sentence, he had already unscrewed the lid of the insulated cup and was about to cut his finger. Su Fengzi grabbed him and stopped him.
Wrong.
Wrong... wrong! Wrong!
"Xiao Pei!" Su Fengzi's breathing grew rapid. His shout snapped Pei Yanchuan out of it, and clarity returned to his eyes. "Brother Fengzi? What's wrong?"
Looking at Su Fengzi's tense, serious expression, he realized something was amiss. Su Fengzi had precognitive abilities. "Brother Fengzi, which part is wrong?"
"All of it," Su Fengzi said gravely. "It's fake, especially the last sentence-a complete and utter lie!"
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