Chapter 141

Chapter 141

Qin Nan let out a sharp breath of relief.

Even so, he still didn’t dare let down his guard. Instead, he looked first at Jian Fan, his eyes asking a silent question.

Jian Fan ignored him and turned his gaze to the balcony door.

“Can you open it?” Jian Fan asked Lu Jing.

Lu Jing froze for a moment, then lowered his head to look at the handle on the balcony door.

The balcony door could only be opened from the inside, and right now, they were trapped out on the balcony…

Lu Jing still reached out and tried it. The door didn’t budge.

He turned back to Jian Fan and said, “No.”

Even without his answer, Jian Fan had already seen that much.

Qin Nan, meanwhile, was still hung up on the previous issue. “That thing… she really left? If we talk, we won’t lure her back again, right?”

Jian Fan looked at Qin Nan. “I’m not sure how far her hearing reaches, but I don’t think she’s interested in us right now.”

Clearly, the girl had gone after the other Player participants.

The noise they made while running was obviously much louder than the quiet conversation here. Qin Nan knew it was unkind, but he still felt a little smug. Xu Yijie had wanted to use their lives to hold the girl back. Who could have guessed the girl would chase after them instead?

Still, after that brief schadenfreude, Qin Nan did worry for a split second about Yellow Hair and Lin Junruo’s safety.

But only for a split second.

Their own situation wasn’t much better right now.

They didn’t know how the girl moved. Since she had been able to leave that room, did that mean she might appear directly on the balcony? And right now, they had nowhere to retreat. They were completely trapped out here. If the girl appeared, their whole group would be done for on the spot, without even a chance to run.

“What do we do?” Qin Nan asked.

Jian Fan frowned. Clearly, although they had survived one crisis, their situation was far from optimistic.

“How about I just break it?” Lu Jing suggested.

It was a glass door. Lu Jing felt fairly confident he could smash the glass directly. Once the door was broken, they could leave the balcony. At worst, they might get scratched by the shards on their way through and suffer some minor cuts.

“No,” Qin Weiyi rejected the idea outright. “The sound of shattering glass would be too loud. It would draw her straight over.”

No one knew how fast she could move, or whether they would be able to relocate and find a good hiding place before she arrived.

Besides, if the girl could move freely across this floor, then no matter where they hid, they would be in the same situation they were now.

Hiding would not solve the problem before them.

Lu Jing fell silent.

Mental work wasn’t his strong suit. Since violence was off the table, Lu Jing simply shut his mouth. As for the rest, he would leave it to Jian Fan and Qin Weiyi. Lu Jing was very at ease about this. He sat down on the ground and waited for the two Big Shot-level people to come up with a plan.

Qin Nan glanced at Lu Jing, then at Jian Fan and Qin Weiyi. In the end, he also sat down on the ground, fully prepared to lie flat and let the Big Shot carry him.

Still, he turned to Mu Xin and asked with concern, “Are you okay?”

Mu Xin had already recovered somewhat. She moved her legs and feet, then tugged helplessly at the corner of her mouth. “I’m fine. My feet are just a little numb.”

It wasn’t a big deal.

The urgent task was still to come up with a solution as soon as possible.

However, now that they knew the other party couldn’t see and could only rely on hearing, that did give them a small advantage. At the very least, they were temporarily safe.

As for the other seven Player participants, they still knew nothing. In that case, they could only-fend for themselves.

Although Jian Fan and the others were in a dangerous position, at least things were quiet for the moment, and they did not have to run for their lives. The others, however…

At that moment, the corridor was filled with the sound of six people running.

Xia Zeqin had long since vanished without a trace.
Yellow Hair dashed outside while frantically thinking of a countermeasure. Having made it to this world, he naturally had his strengths. Though he’d coasted to victory in the last world, that didn’t mean he was incapable.

He quickly realized Xia Zeqin had run out earlier than them, and now the other party had vanished without a trace.

This made Yellow Hair realize it wasn’t a good idea to run foolishly down the corridor like that. So almost as soon as the thought popped up, he began trying to open the dormitory doors.

On his third try, Yellow Hair finally found an unlocked dorm room.

He immediately dragged Lin Junruo inside.

Once inside, Yellow Hair made a “shush” gesture at Lin Junruo, then hunched down by the doorway, leaving the bedroom door open just a crack to quietly observe what was happening outside.

Passively hiding would only make him restless, and Yellow Hair knew his own temperament well, so he preferred to take a bit of a risk.

Moreover, with only a crack open, if that thing really caught up, he could still shut the door in time.

Beyond that, Yellow Hair actually had another suspicion.

That thing was blind.

Qin Nan and the others had been hiding on the balcony, clearly visible through the glass door, but that thing had changed targets. And in that hurried glance, he had seen that face had no eyeballs.

Of course, it was only a guess; Yellow Hair wasn’t sure.

But one had to take some risks.

While keeping an eye on the situation outside, he began to ponder their current predicament.

How had that thing appeared? They had been to the bathroom before and it hadn’t been there. How lethal was it? What abilities did it possess? They knew nothing.

Thinking of all this made Yellow Hair a bit irritable.

From now on, it looked like he’d have to stick close to Jian Fan and the others.

Brain work like this suited Jian Fan and them.

Shi Chen behind them had seen Yellow Hair drag Lin Junruo into the dorm room.

He immediately decided to do the same.

However, his luck wasn’t as good. He tried seven doors in a row without finding one unlocked.

And right then, a female voice suddenly echoed in the corridor.

“Thump, thump, thump-let me take a look, is anyone here? Mhm, I hear you-stop hiding.”

Despite the sweet voice, the four people in the corridor broke out in cold sweat. And that voice was drawing closer.

Shi Chen didn’t dare look back, just kept pushing forward, praying silently. Maybe the heavens heard his prayer, because on his eighth try at a door handle, it finally opened.

Shi Chen didn’t have time to feel relieved. He hurriedly dragged Wen Xi inside.

Liu Ji was right behind them, not far off.

Shi Chen didn’t shut the door immediately. He anxiously watched Liu Ji, and at the same time he saw the Red Figure drawing near in the distance.

Though she seemed to be walking slowly, every so often she’d suddenly advance a large distance, leaving an afterimage in the air. She was getting closer and closer…

Liu Ji finally caught up.

Shi Chen didn’t care about anything else. Once Liu Ji was inside, he immediately shut the door.

Liu Ji had charged straight in, losing control, and tumbled to the floor. It hurt, but compared to his life, it was nothing.

Xu Yijie was at the very back.

He watched helplessly as Liu Ji rushed into the dorm.

By the time he reached it, the dorm door was already shut.

“Open the door!” Xu Yijie shouted inside while pounding on the door.

How could Shi Chen dare open it? He had clearly seen the Red Figure right outside. The moment the door opened…

Before Shi Chen could think any further, Xu Yijie’s agonized scream came from the doorway.