Xuan Jingyuan wanted to ask more, but Zuo Lin'an stretched, lay straight down on the bed, and turned over to face the wall.
“Sigh, I had classes all day today. I'm absolutely exhausted. I'm going to sleep first. If there's anything else, we can talk about it tomorrow.”
Hearing this, Xuan Jingyuan fell silent.
He recalled Zuo Lin'an's schedule today.
In the morning, he slept in. During the day, he either slacked off, daydreamed, spaced out, or slept through classes. He didn't even attend evening self-study and just hung around the dorm.
And he called that an exhausting day?
But Xuan Jingyuan also knew he wouldn't get any more answers out of him right now.
“In that case, let us rest first.”
Xuan Jingyuan's current goal was to try and build a good relationship with these two natives. Once they were on good terms, many of his questions would surely be answered.
Under the blanket, Zuo Lin'an's hands tightly gripped the cards and the gold hairpin. If any player came over right now and pulled back his blanket, they would immediately see these items.
To say he wasn't nervous would be a lie.
And there were still about twenty minutes left until ten o'clock.
It was an agonizing wait.
Fortunately... his words just now had managed to fool Xuan Jingyuan for the time being.
Like this, Zuo Lin'an finally made it to the verge of lights-out without any further incidents.
At this point, there was only one minute left before lights-out.
It was also time for Xuan Yi and Xuan Er to leave. After carefully scanning the dormitory's surroundings to ensure there were no suspicious characters, they pushed open the door and left.
They even turned off the lights on their way out.
Once the two of them departed, the other four players who originally lived in this dorm finally found an opportunity to sneak back in. As soon as they stepped through the door, they quickly scrambled into their beds to sleep.
They were honestly quite pitiful.
The last few seconds ticked away.
Ten o'clock sharp!
Zuo Lin'an felt a familiar darkness wash over him. When he opened his eyes, he saw a vision of himself waking up and getting dressed in the dorm this morning.
This was the first time he had broken a school rule today.
Because he hadn't worn his school uniform.
Thus, he materialized inside the dormitory this time.
By the time Zuo Lin'an snapped out of it, the morning vision had vanished, replaced by the pitch-black dorm room and the blood-red moonlight streaming in through the window.
【As a student of Lingyang First High School, you have lost your student status for violating the school rules. As punishment, you must struggle to survive in the Scarlet Dream until midnight. If you survive, you will regain your student status.】
【Congratulations, you have obtained a temporary Death Rule: Anyone who enters the Scarlet Dream shall die! Method of execution: Up to you! During the dream, you may only execute this rule!】
【As a specter of the Scarlet Dream, it is your duty to hunt down the players.】
【Enjoy the slaughter!】
Xu Youyou and Zuo Lin'an exchanged a glance. They scanned the entire dorm room, and after confirming that they were the only two present, they both let out a sigh of relief.
Xu Youyou instantly switched to his specter body state. On Zuo Lin'an's end, he handed the cards and the gold hairpin specter item to his living body, which then went to hide in a corner of the bathroom.
His specter body then left the dorm alongside Xu Youyou, pulling the door shut behind them.
At this moment, the entire dormitory area was in utter chaos. Players were being hunted by specters and scattered in all directions, with screams echoing everywhere.
Of course, many players were able to use qinggong, making it relatively easy for them to temporarily evade the specters and take the opportunity to regroup with people they knew.
Zuo Lin'an signaled to Xu Youyou with his eyes. They should take advantage of the chaos to kill a few players now, so they wouldn't end up too passive later.
As for the principal, they would naturally have a chance to meet up with him later.
Xu Youyou nodded subtly. It wasn't wise for them to speak right now, lest they be overheard by players.
Moreover, most of the players appearing in the dorms were here because they didn't have school uniforms. Players whose uniforms had been snatched away were naturally a tier weaker than those who still had theirs.
Compared to the truly powerful ones, they were much easier to kill.
However, just as they were about to start hunting players, an unexpected incident occurred.
Some players actually initiated an attack on them!
“There are two of them here. This one's mine!”
“Then leave the other one to me. This is perfect for completing the main quest.”
Zuo Lin'an turned his head, and a pair of crimson slit-pupils immediately filled the opponent's field of vision.
The player rushing toward him gasped sharply at the sight, freezing right in his tracks.
“Th-this is...”
Zuo Lin'an had seen plenty of martial artists and immediately determined that this person was a First-Rate martial artist.
His strength was decent, and he was holding a nail in his hand. Since he was attacking with this nail, it definitely had an effect that could repel specters.
In that case...
Zuo Lin'an curled his lips into a smile and took a step forward. Before the man could even react, Zuo Lin'an materialized right in front of him, close enough for their faces to almost touch!
“Ah!”
He let out a startled shriek. As he recoiled, he reflexively stabbed the nail in his hand toward Zuo Lin'an.
【Player used a specter item. Special effect can repel specters!】
【Triggered specter item Gold Hairpin Token of Love's Special Effect One: True death only occurs if both bound individuals are killed simultaneously. The player's talent cannot take effect.】
The player before him realized he had successfully struck the specter. But before he could celebrate, he felt his neck being pierced from the side by what felt like a blade carved out of pure ice!
The chilling sensation penetrated from his neck straight into his marrow, as if freezing all the blood in his body.
“Ugh... You...”
“Wh-why... didn't it work...”
Zuo Lin'an twisted the blade slightly. Blood gushed out in torrents, staining half of his own body red, and the player quickly drew his final breath.
Dead.
The death of this player was merely the beginning for Zuo Lin'an.
Over the next period of time, he continuously searched the dormitory area for players. Once he spotted one, he charged straight at them and slaughtered them without hesitation.
During his hunt, he encountered special effects from specter items that could repel specters eight times, special talents that could repel specters three times, and other restrictive effects eleven times.
In about half an hour, he killed twenty-one players.
What frustrated him the most were those eleven restrictive effects.
Some forced him to stand in place, unable to move. Others made him lose his sense of direction; even though he intended to pursue a player, he would end up walking in the opposite direction.
Sometimes, he would suddenly switch targets mid-chase.
“Sigh...”
After Zuo Lin'an busied himself for half an hour, the dormitory area finally quieted down. This wasn't because the specters had killed all the players, but because there were no longer any isolated players left.
There were about ninety players in the boys' dormitory building, all gathered on the top floor, making it difficult to approach them now.
The girls' dormitory building had slightly more, around a hundred or so, also gathered on the top floor.
As for the other players who had entered the dream tonight, they had all gathered in the cafeteria and Academic Building No. 5.
At this moment, Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou were whispering in the woods outside the dormitory area, surrounded by over a dozen other specters.
These were also NPCs who, like them, had come to guest star.
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