Rule-Based Horror: Mistaken for a Top Player Right from the Start!
Chapter 43

[Cafeteria Mind Games 1] New Rules Appeared, and Horrors Got Right in His Face

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But he was not given much time to react.

Chen Han's watch lit up again.

An electronic screen appeared.

The cafeteria rules appeared.

[Cafeteria rules] [1. If you find green vegetables in your food, do not eat them!] [2. Make sure you line up in front of a woman wearing a red hat.] [3. While lining up, if you see people you should not see, do not panic, and never speak to them.] [4. Do not eat in groups of more than four. If your group exceeds four people, change seats within 10 seconds.] [5. Do not speak to anyone without a school badge.]

It seemed the difficulty of this instance really was different from before.

First of all, Chen Han still did not know how to clear this instance.

Second, new rules had actually appeared while he was still completely bewildered!

Chen Han took a deep breath.

He scanned the rules extremely quickly.

There were two restrictive rules this time.

They were rules 2 and 5.

Make sure you line up in front of a woman wearing a red hat.

Do not speak to anyone without a school badge.

There were three conditional restrictive rules.

They were rules 1, 3, and 4.

If you find green vegetables in your food, do not eat them!

While lining up, if you see people you should not see, do not panic, and never speak to them.

Do not eat in groups of more than four. If your group exceeds four people, change seats within 10 seconds.

The livestream viewers marveled at the rules when they saw them.

"Are we sure this is still a beginner instance?"

"Why do I feel like this instance is practically normal difficulty?"

"They can't even eat a meal in peace."

For Chen Han, the most important thing now was to find the women wearing red hats.

Chen Han glanced around and finally spotted a few.

There were nearly ten people wearing red hats.

But only six of them were women.

Chen Han saw several players in the lines with the women in red hats.

It seemed there was nothing wrong with lining up like this.

Chen Han joined the line in front of the woman in a red hat nearest to him.

Since this was the cafeteria's peak hour, there were more than thirty people ahead of him.

There was no telling how long he would have to wait.

Chen Yinuo followed behind Chen Han as well.

He was still chattering away.

"What a shame about that math quiz. All five points I lost were for formatting."

"I wonder if I can get 150 on the next quiz."

"Chen Han, share a few of the math teacher's tips with me."

Chen Han glanced at him.

"Study hard."

Chen Yinuo immediately choked on his words.

Was it that he didn't study hard?

He simply didn't have the ability.

Seeing this, the livestream viewers started joking around, and the atmosphere grew considerably lighter.

"Hahaha, Chen Yinuo practically has 'speechless' written all over his face."

"This Chen Yinuo is so boring. All he ever talks about is grades."

"I feel like even Boss Chen Han is at a loss. What tricks are there to math? Just study a little, hahaha."

Apart from the players, most of the people in the cafeteria were holding little notebooks.

They were reading aloud in a noisy chatter.

They seemed very serious about it.

But their eyes were dull.

They were like robots in power-saving mode.

They were reading, but who knew how much was actually sinking in?

Chen Han casually surveyed the people in line.

He unexpectedly spotted an extremely terrifying student.

This student's body was covered in wounds of every size.

The sight was shocking.

What flowed from his body was not crimson blood, but black mud.

His eyes were also filled with red veins.

His face was sallow and haggard.

His frame was thin.

He looked as though he had been tortured for days without being given anything to eat.

He was standing at the serving window for Chen Han's line, facing Chen Han.

And he revealed an eerie smile.

Chen Han was startled to discover that both of his front teeth were missing.

His face was hideous.

Although Chen Han's hands were already shaking with fear, he still looked away without his expression changing.

The students around him seemed not to have noticed the student at all.

They continued reading.

The livestream chat was badly startled as well.

"That scared me to death!"

"He must be one of the people you shouldn't see mentioned in rule 3."

"Holy shit, even though I was mentally prepared, he still scared me. He looks way too terrifying."

"He looks like he's been abused."

"Holy shit, look beside Boss Chen Han!"

Chen Han shifted his gaze to his side.

Only then did he discover that, at some unknown point, a pair of feet in sneakers covered in blood had appeared beside him.

Chen Han swallowed.

Without even thinking, he looked up.

He saw a female student with an eerie expression.

The corners of her mouth had been slashed upward all the way to her temples.

At the same time, she held both hands in front of her chest.

Deep cuts were clearly visible on them.

The cuts were extremely deep, and they were obviously marks from slitting her wrists.

She was staring at Chen Han without blinking.

She was almost pressed against him.

The livestream viewers were scared out of their wits by the horror suddenly getting right in his face.

"What's wrong with this school? Why are there so many ghosts?"

"Holy shit, can they stop getting right in his face? I almost fell off my chair."

"This student died by suicide, right? Why else would she have marks from slitting her wrists?"

Chen Han could neither look left nor right now.

He could only shift his gaze straight down.

Li Hebing had actually been watching Chen Han very closely all along.

Because his assigned persona was "an ordinary student who really wanted good grades."

So naturally, unlike Chen Han, he did not have a good friend provided by his persona.

But he had still been watching Chen Han's reactions the whole time.

Even he had trembled in fright at the female ghost's sudden appearance.

Yet Chen Han still wore an innocent expression, as though he had seen nothing at all.

Li Hebing truly admired Chen Han from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Han's mental fortitude was simply exceptional.

It was beyond what ordinary people could match.

If an ordinary person saw a horror getting right in their face, their first reaction would definitely be to scream, but Chen Han could act as though nothing had happened.

In fact, more than two ghosts had appeared in the cafeteria.

There were over ten of them.

And these ghosts had deliberately positioned themselves around the players.

It was as though they were deliberately trying to frighten the players.

Quite a few players screamed outright.

Some reacted even more dramatically, scrambling and crawling straight out of the cafeteria.

These players reacted so strongly.

Although the students did not react at all.

Li Hebing noticed something, however.

They all wore expressions of amusement.

For an instant, their gazes drifted away from the little notebooks in their hands.

It was as though they were plotting something.

Li Hebing's instincts told him that these students were definitely not as simple as they appeared!

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