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Chapter 13 Escape Games
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After figuring out what he was touching, Bai Zhi was very silent for two seconds.
In such an extremely dark environment, any normal person's reaction would probably be to back away in panic or to scream and throw the hand away after suddenly touching a cold hand.
But obviously, Bai Zhi was not a normal person.
After a brief hesitation, Bai Zhi decisively chose to advance instead of retreat. Not only did he have no intention of withdrawing his hand, but he also stretched out his other hand.
At this moment, countless seniors flashed in his mind, and finally, they were only fixed on two characters, one was Yoshikage Kira who loved hands to death, and the other was idiot Kazuma.
The former was easy to understand, as for the latter... Bai Zhi was deeply impressed by the shocked look of Megumin when her hand was touched by Kazuma when they slept in the same room.
After all, in this kind of situation, the results would depend on who would get embarrassed first.
Frankly speaking, after touching the cold hand for a few seconds, Bai Zhi felt that the hand was quite smooth, and it felt quite comfortable stroking it...
Half a minute later, probably disgusted by his behavior, the cold hand shrank back silently.
"Tsk, what a pity..."
Withdrawing his hand, Bai Zhi looked regretful.
All anomalies had to follow certain rules, just like last night's enthusiastic Mr. Chen. Although it was some kind of ineffable mysterious existence, before there was any fear in his heart, the other party would not be able to do anything to him. So in the end, not only did it help him with his homework but it also took his garbage out for him, completely being used by him.
Based on this, what could be the rules of this anomaly that he encountered today?
According to the information he knew so far, the anomaly's appearance was a cute little boy with a school bag on his back. He liked to play the game of stepping on the shadows alone. Before him, five innocent students had been captured by him. But no one knew if they were dead or not. And his shadow had obviously not been stepped on by the other party before, but the other party took the initiative to find him...
Suddenly thinking of this, Bai Zhi couldn't help being stunned.
If this anomaly's rule was that those whose shadows were stepped on by it would be captured by it, then his experience obviously didn't not conform to this rule.
In addition, assuming that these anomalies had wisdom that was close to or surpassing human beings, then it going after him even after the official professional handlers arrived at the university meant that it didn't seem to be scared of them... It seemed that this water seemed to be quite deep?
Shaking his head, Bai Zhi continued to grope in the dark classroom.
About a minute later, there was a rather strange sound from the corridor outside where the lights were flickering. Bai Zhi frowned involuntarily when he heard the unpleasant hoarse sound.
That weird sound was simply challenging the limits of the human body. To describe it specifically... It was probably the sound made by the fingernails slowly scratching across the blackboard.
Holding his breath, Bai Zhi forcibly endured the unpleasant noise, raised his head slightly and looked out of the classroom.
In the corridor outside, a long-haired woman with only half of her body was lying on the ground and crawling forward, leaving a long trail of blood where it crawled, and the strange sound came from her mouth. Probably, the scream he had heard before was also made by her.
After silently watching the unknown creature crawling past the classroom outside the corridor, Bai Zhi lowered his head, found a chair, and took a leg off it neatly.
He whispered softly in his mouth. "I thought it would be a ghost type, but I didn't expect it to be a zombie type anomaly that can be touched and physically attacked... Are you kidding me?"
Seeing that the danger was gone, Bai Zhi didn't want to stay in this dark classroom that Yoshikage Kira might like very much. Instead, he pushed open the back door of the classroom with the leg of the chair and walked out.
Looking back at the intersection where the bloodstain disappeared not far away, Bai Zhi carefully leaned against the wall and walked in the direction the anomaly came from.
This weird place was full of insidious hints from the very beginning. The scream coming from behind, the dark classrooms on both sides, and the flickering lights in front were all urging those who entered here to make a choice.
Under the premise that the unknown anomaly behind was about to enter this intersection, do you choose to take the unknown risk and hide in the dark classrooms on both sides, or run forward along the direction of the lights?
In most cases, the choice of normal people is often the second one. This is a very simple multiple-choice question, because human beings always have an inexplicable fear of darkness.
But what if a premise—[shadow] is added to this factor?
Bai Zhi didn't forget that he entered this place inexplicably because his shadow was caught by the other party. This was a very subtle reminder that his shadow exposed to the light represented danger. If he wants to escape from danger, he must make his shadow disappear as much as possible.
The encounter in the dark classroom also confirmed this. After all, the anomaly in the corridor only appeared a minute after the hand appeared. The extra minute was clearly an escape time for those frightened to run out of the classroom.
Of course, these things were all Bai Zhi's own inferences, and he didn't know whether it was true or not, but in the current situation, it was the most sensible choice to choose the most likely option.
This corridor was not very long. It didn't take long before Bai Zhi walked to the intersection. When he carefully probed towards the intersection, Bai Zhi saw a door emitting a faint white light.
And just at this moment, a strange sound came from behind, perhaps triggering a mechanism, the anomaly with half body turned around, and when she saw him, she suddenly let out a strange cry and crawled towards him at an unreasonable speed.
-Looks like an abnormal type.
He didn't even bother to talk nonsense with this anomaly. Holding the chair leg, Bai Zhi got up and rushed into the shimmering door of light.
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In case if anyone didn't get the reference
Yoshikage Kira
Kazuma
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