When the sun rose, the fragile temporary nightmare space-the overlapping space formed by Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School and Honghuai Ghost School-began to collapse. Zheng Mingliang and the other two players vanished from the library. Presumably, they had completed the Administrator's task and been sent out of the Nightmare Game the normal way.
All Su Bai, Zhang Pan, and the others had to do was leave the school before the overlapping space collapsed. After all, no one knew what horrors might occur if they remained inside a collapsing space.
Perhaps it was the Red Moon's power, or perhaps Su Bai's "what you think about by day, you dream about by night" brainwashing had proved effective. After successfully climbing over the wall and leaving the school, Zhang Pan and the others soon lost consciousness and fell asleep. When they woke again, the three students' memories had become muddled, and they could no longer tell whether everything they had experienced the night before had been a dream or reality.
When Su Bai saw a school security guard approaching the trio lying outside the wall, he turned and left as well.
By the time Su Bai left the school, the sun had risen above the horizon. Though the sky was only just growing light, the bustling neighborhood around Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School was already coming to life. Lights were on in the shops lining both sides of the street, and more vehicles and pedestrians had appeared on the road.
Strolling leisurely along the clean sidewalk, Su Bai could even see dewdrops on the tender green leaves in the pretty flower beds beside him, their clear surfaces reflecting the rosy dawn sky.
The air and temperature around him were completely different from those of the Nightmare World beneath the Red Moon.