Chapter 134

Chapter 134

Jian Fan had no particular opinion.

He didn’t answer Qin Weiyi. Instead, he turned his head and continued staring at the red words on the broken half of the mirror.

Jian Fan was thinking. What information was that time trying to reveal? And what connection did that time have to the timestamps on the five newspapers in the cabinet?

Wen Xi’s gaze fell on Jian Fan.

She was clearly paying some attention to him.

Shi Chen didn’t like to talk much either, but Shi Chen’s silence was different from Jian Fan’s.

Shi Chen simply wasn’t talkative and was somewhat introverted by nature. Jian Fan was different. Wen Xi could sense an aura around him that warned strangers to keep their distance. More importantly, she clearly remembered what Yellow Hair had said on the bus.

In the last world, Jian Fan had been the one to lead them through the breakthrough.

That obviously made him a high-level Player.

So when Jian Fan stared at the mirror, Wen Xi also looked over at it.

“This was probably written with lipstick,” Wen Xi said, looking at the line of red words.

Jian Fan didn’t make a sound.

Qin Nan, who was outside, heard her and clicked his tongue. “So this is still a girls’ dorm? Lipstick, hair clips, hair ties… It should be a female college student’s dorm?”

Middle school students weren’t allowed to wear makeup, so they probably wouldn’t have lipstick. And women who had already entered society probably wouldn’t still use those cutesy, girlish strawberry hair clips. That left female college students as the most likely possibility.

After hearing Qin Nan’s words, Lin Junruo said, “A female college student’s dorm, and it’s connected to death… Could this be the story of a victim who died or committed suicide after being bullied, then turned into a ghost to get revenge?”

Jian Fan, who had been motionless this whole time, suddenly turned to look at Lin Junruo.

Under Jian Fan’s gaze, Lin Junruo froze all over, and even her words turned into a stammer. “W-Well, I was just saying it casually.”

“It’s possible,” Jian Fan replied.

Lin Junruo was stunned and let out an “Ah.” She had never expected that Jian Fan would actually approve of what she said.

“Maybe not a ghost,” Jian Fan added.

Lin Junruo blinked.

Qin Nan thought it over and understood what Jian Fan meant. “The setting is a girls’ dorm, there are bloodstains, and twelve people are involved. In that case, the possibility of campus bullying is very high. In other words, a girl was subjected to campus bullying. Whether directly or indirectly, she paid for it with her life. If this is a horror Script, then after the girl died, she became a ghost and came back to take revenge on the twelve perpetrators who hurt her back then. If it isn’t, then it’s a simple revenge Script. Someone is avenging the girl and doing all these things.”

In truth, whether it was campus bullying or not, the story was essentially about someone dying, followed by revenge.

“But,” Qin Nan said, leaning against the doorway and rubbing his chin, “an escape room in the Realm of Death shouldn’t be this simple, right?”

That reminded everyone.

How could the Realm of Death possibly arrange only a simple escape room? There had to be another move waiting.

However, the game had only just begun. The Realm of Death’s arrangements might still be yet to come, so no one paid too much attention to that point for now.

“The bathroom is tiny, and there aren’t many places to hide things.” Qin Weiyi brought the topic back to the matter at hand. Then his gaze landed on the water tank that seemed to be filled with blood. “The key can’t be in there, right?”

If it was… Qin Weiyi didn’t dare reach in and take it. That was way too disgusting.

“Just flush it and you’ll know, won’t you?” Qin Nan said from the doorway, as if it were obvious.

Qin Weiyi paused.

He had actually forgotten that.

Qin Weiyi went straight up and pressed the flush button beside the toilet.

The toilet soon made the sound of flushing. The blood-colored liquid in the tank gradually went down, then spread into the toilet bowl. The blood-colored liquid churned into a crimson whirlpool in the bowl, then slowly drained away. In the end, it returned to the appearance of clear water. But at the same time, the blood-colored liquid in the tank, which had been gradually decreasing, suddenly began to rise again.
By the time the sound had completely faded, the tank had filled once more with blood-red liquid.

Qin Weiyi stared at the sight, at a loss for words.

Jian Fan watched in silence. Then he stepped forward, crouched down, found the valve on the pipe beside the toilet, and tightened it shut. After that, he pressed the flush button again.

This time, the red liquid in the tank did not rise back up.

Qin Weiyi scratched his hair, a little embarrassed.

He had forgotten to shut off the water valve. No wonder the water in the tank hadn’t gone down. But then Qin Weiyi frowned. The water in the tank had still been that red liquid just now. Who knew whether the problem was with the tank or with the pipes?

Jian Fan had already straightened up.

His gaze fell into the tank.

The situation inside was now clear at a glance. It was nothing more than an ordinary tank mechanism. There was nothing they needed inside.

“Nothing,” Jian Fan said.

Hearing that, Qin Weiyi refused to give up. He took a step forward and peered inside for a few moments before frowning. “If it’s not in the tank, then where else could it be?”

No one could answer that question.

“Maybe it’s not in the bathroom?” Yellow Hair said as well.

The place was only so big. They had searched everywhere they could. Where else could a key be hidden?

Qin Weiyi frowned. He gave the bathroom one final look, and after finding nothing, he headed out. Wen Xi thought for a moment, then also left the bathroom.

In the end, only Jian Fan and Shi Chen remained inside.

Jian Fan was not surprised that there was nothing wrong with the tank. After finishing all that, he turned his attention back to the mirror.

He stood in front of it for quite a while. Then, as if something had occurred to him, he suddenly walked toward it.

Shi Chen watched Jian Fan, curious as to what he was about to do.

Qin Nan was also staring at Jian Fan and was just about to ask him what he was doing when Yellow Hair suddenly shouted, “Holy shit!”

“What is it?” Qin Weiyi asked him.

Aside from Jian Fan and Shi Chen, everyone instinctively looked toward Yellow Hair.

Yellow Hair looked shocked. He raised a hand and pointed toward the balcony. “Th-then what is that?”

In truth, there was no need for Yellow Hair to say anything else. After his startled cry, everyone glanced at him, then followed his line of sight. And with that one look, they all froze.

A red mist was spreading out from the balcony, drifting in their direction.

The red mist was not moving quickly, but the dorm was only so large. No matter how slow it was, it would reach them in two or three minutes at most.

And this red mist…

Even if they had no idea what it was, given what a damn bastard the Realm of Death was, could anything about this red mist possibly be good? Was it trying to wipe out the whole group right at the start?

“What do we do?” Yellow Hair looked to Qin Weiyi beside him, seeking help.

Qin Weiyi was frowning now as well.

He took only one look at the red mist before immediately opening the Points Mall and starting to search for any item they could use right now.

But there was nothing. Next page-still nothing.

Qin Weiyi rapidly browsed through the mall, but he couldn’t find a suitable item. Meanwhile, the red mist was already right before their eyes.

Qin Weiyi cursed inwardly.

Had the Realm of Death really gotten so vile that it wanted to annihilate them the moment they entered?