CHAPTER 389: CHAPTER 372: WORTHY OF ME_1

Pan Yue watched wide-eyed as Chu Changge, his expression unchanged, walked towards Yue Nu’s body. He then squatted down and started searching it for something.

She clenched her fists, daring only to watch from the side, not uttering a word or stepping forward.

As he searched, Chu Changge said, "You weren’t here earlier today, so you don’t know that Yue Nu had an item. She claimed it could reveal the ghost’s identity."

Upon hearing this, Pan Yue, who had been cowering to one side, widened her eyes slightly. "Is it still on her now?"

After examining both bodies, Chu Changge said, "Earlier today, she mentioned giving that item to one of us randomly, but I suspect it was always on her. However..."

At this point, Chu Changge stood up and glanced at the pitch-dark window.

It was pitch black outside, and the teaching building opposite was almost invisible.

He continued, "But it doesn’t seem to be on her now."

Pan Yue opened her mouth, about to say something, when footsteps echoed again from the dark corridor outside. This time, it sounded like several people.

She turned to look out and immediately spotted Gu Mian’s group of four, who had almost reached the classroom door.

Seeing Gu Mian and the others, Pan Yue rushed towards the door, her voice filled with excitement. "You’re here!"

Li Yibai, following behind Gu Mian, seemed taken aback by Pan Yue’s enthusiastic tone.

Gu Mian noticed Li Yibai eyeing the suddenly-appeared Pan Yue with a wary expression. After all, Pan Yue was Li Yibai’s primary suspect.

Keke and Guo Jimei also clearly didn’t understand why Pan Yue was here.

Seeing Pan Yue run out of the classroom, Gu Mian quickly took a few steps forward to the doorway and looked inside.

The four of them had successfully removed the main door leading to the ground floor. The first thing they did after getting out was head towards this classroom.

After all, they didn’t have a base in this school, so they could only try their luck in a familiar place.

When Gu Mian had been downstairs, he had noticed the lights in this classroom were on.

He hadn’t expected to actually run into other people after coming upstairs.

And they’d run into three... no, four of them.

Gu Mian stood at the doorway, his gaze sweeping over Chu Changge, who was standing in the classroom, before shifting to the two identical corpses on the floor.

Clearly, Yue Nu was the one who died tonight.

And two of them, at that. What in the world?

One corpse appeared to have been stabbed from behind, its back a mangled ruin of flesh and blood.

The other corpse’s face was somewhat more unsettling. No external injuries were visible, but its expression was grotesque. One of its hands was bent and stiff like a claw, as if it had been clutching something, but its hand was empty now.

As an instance player, Gu Mian was only surprised for a brief moment by the appearance of two Yue Nu corpses.

But the others were different.

At that moment, Pan Yue was pulling Keke and Guo Jimei towards the classroom, her tone urgent. "Quick, come and see!"

Keke and Guo Jimei, not knowing what was going on, soon arrived at the classroom doorway.

Naturally, Gu Mian heard a scream.

It was Guo Jimei.

This was a typical reaction for an ordinary person seeing a corpse. Keke, beside Guo Jimei, was clearly a seasoned veteran who had been through many instances; her face merely paled slightly, and she immediately covered Guo Jimei’s mouth. "Don’t let anyone else hear!"

Li Yibai hadn’t reached the door yet, but seeing Keke and Guo Jimei’s reactions, he understood something. He paused, seemingly steeling himself for a moment, then walked over.

Despite this, he still sucked in a sharp breath when he saw the scene in the classroom.

"What’s going on?!" Li Yibai exclaimed, recoiling several steps and raising his voice.

Li Wentao’s death last night had somewhat accustomed him to corpses.

But tonight was different. There were two corpses, and they looked exactly alike.

"The ghost killed two people? No, there are two Yue Nus? How is this possible?!" By now, Li Yibai had retreated all the way to the window. He gripped the sill with one hand, staring in disbelief at the two corpses in the classroom.

"Everyone..." Pan Yue suddenly spoke up. "Come look at this."

As she spoke, she took out her phone.

Guo Jimei, clutching Keke tightly, trembled as she moved closer to Pan Yue.

Just then, Chu Changge also walked over and stood beside Gu Mian.

Gu Mian glanced sideways at him. "How did you get out?"

Chu Changge shook his head slightly but said nothing.

Pan Yue had already started playing a video.

The others craned their necks to look at the phone in Pan Yue’s hand.

Gu Mian glanced at Chu Changge, then also turned to look.

Pan Yue had barely let the video play for two seconds before she started dragging the progress bar at the bottom. "This is a video Yue Nu secretly recorded in this classroom. The beginning isn’t useful. I’ll drag it straight to the end for you to see."

Gu Mian noticed Pan Yue seemed very hurried as she dragged the progress bar, as if she were very nervous.

She quickly dragged the progress bar almost to the very end.

Gu Mian saw on the screen that Yue Nu was sitting in the middle of the classroom, her back to the door. At this point, there were no corpses in the classroom.

Then, the door behind her was slowly pushed open.

What followed was a moment that would make anyone want to scream.

Guo Jimei pressed her hand tightly over her mouth as she watched what happened next.

Blood splattered across the screen. Gu Mian saw 007, weapon in hand, kill Yue Nu.

Seemingly afraid Yue Nu might still get up, 007 even stabbed her many more times until Yue Nu lay motionless on the floor. By then, Yue Nu’s back was a mangled ruin of flesh and blood, and the original color of her clothes was indiscernible.

But surprisingly, not long after, another Yue Nu pushed open the door and entered.

Gu Mian, of course, also saw the shadowy figure behind her.

But this Yue Nu seemed completely oblivious as she walked towards the camera. The video ended the moment she bent down; there was nothing after that.

The figure following her must be the reason there are two corpses here now, Gu Mian thought, glancing at the floor.

"So, Lin Qi is the ghost!" When the progress bar stopped at the end, Pan Yue finally couldn’t hold back anymore and said to the others beside her, "She’s the one who killed Yue Nu! We have to vote her out tonight!"

"That’s impossible!" Li Yibai was the first to speak after Pan Yue.

His face was pale, and his body trembled slightly. "Lin Qi absolutely cannot be the ghost! She would never kill anyone!"

"Then how do you explain this video?" Pan Yue raised her voice. "It clearly records her committing the murder! Don’t tell me she’s a civilian. The rules say civilians can’t kill other players! But she killed with impunity. She absolutely cannot be a civilian!"

Li Yibai’s eyes widened. He paused for a moment, then immediately began to argue, "Didn’t you say yesterday that you saw Li Wentao was the ghost? But was he? Was he? What if, just like last night, this Lin Qi in the video is the ghost in disguise? Besides, two Yue Nus have inexplicably appeared now. Lin Qi being in this video might also just be some kind of freak occurrence!"

Pan Yue’s lips trembled. "You..."

But just as she opened her mouth, they heard a single footstep from one end of the corridor.

Everyone immediately turned their heads to look.

Gu Mian also turned his head in that direction.

In the direction of the sound, 007’s face, half in light and half in shadow, appeared in the corridor.