The closer they came to the girl kneeling in the middle of the classroom, the stronger the stench of decay grew.
When they were less than a meter away, the girl suddenly turned her head.
It was like a lifeless doll moving its joints, abrupt and without warning.
The girl still had that familiar face, but bright red blood streamed from her eyes, ears, beneath her nose, and the corners of her mouth.
"I open the gates to the human world for the demons from hell."
"Find me... call to me... I will be reborn... in every pile of ashes..."
The girl mechanically spoke those two sentences, then her eyes rolled back, exposing a white film, and she collapsed into a pool of blood.
Yin Chao had been about to help her up when someone suddenly appeared in the doorway behind him.
"Are you... Yin Chao?"
He turned to look at the speaker.
In real-world terms, not much time had passed since the first Instance.
But after going through all kinds of Instances, Yin Chao always felt as though it had been ages since he first entered one.
"Yang Fan?"
He looked at the newcomer in the doorway and asked, a little uncertain.
Yang Fan wore the same familiar white shirt. He pinched his nose in disgust and waved a hand through the air in front of him.
Then he replied in a muffled voice, "Where are we? Didn't the first Instance end?"
Lin Erba was puzzled. He did not know Yang Fan and was simply curious about why this man had appeared here.
His dark eyes looked the man up and down.
As the man urged them to hurry up and leave, Lin Erba leaned close to Yin Chao and spoke in a voice only the two of them