As soon as the principal arrived, he immediately chased down and attacked a panicked female player.
Zuo Lin'an was about to step forward to help, but he quickly noticed a familiar figure.
“Oh?”
Was that... Yan San?
Zuo Lin'an recalled what had happened earlier in the principal's office in the administrative building.
He had used a piece of paper to entice Yan San into killing the principal, which allowed the specters to unseal the principal ahead of schedule and gain a powerful ally. In return, Yan San, as a player, had obtained a 【Talent Advancement Stone】.
By now, Yan San had surely used the item to upgrade his talent.
Zuo Lin'an had already been planning to hunt Yan San down to retrieve the item. Now that he had run into him, he naturally wouldn't let him slip away. With a swift turn, he charged toward Yan San.
Yan San had been hiding sneakily behind a pillar.
The moment the specters appeared, his only thought had been to escape as quickly as possible.
However, perhaps due to sheer bad luck, every time he tried to flee, a specter would happen to pass by.
After this happened two or three times, his escape was delayed again and again, dragging on until now.
Just as he was desperately praying to remain unnoticed, he never expected a specter with crimson eyes to spot him and lock its gaze onto him!
Zuo Lin'an rapidly closed the distance.
Perhaps because Yan San was utterly terrified, while they were still twenty to thirty meters apart, he frantically waved his hand in Zuo Lin'an's direction.
【Player has used the talent Freeze. Can freely lock onto a target within a hundred meters and freeze them for ten seconds!】
【You have been frozen!】
Zuo Lin'an's eyes widened slightly. He was frozen right where he stood, completely immobilized mid-stride.
Seizing this opportunity, Yan San turned and fled, running as fast as his legs could carry him. Zuo Lin'an could only watch helplessly as his target escaped.
Still...
This guy's talent was likely just a common talent, and this was its enhanced effect after using the 【Talent Advancement Stone】.
From what Zuo Lin'an knew, the 【Freeze】 talent was a dime-a-dozen common talent that normally only froze a target for five seconds.
Yet, when used on him just now, the duration was ten seconds.
“What a waste!”
Using a precious 【Talent Advancement Stone】 on such a common talent was truly a pity.
But to Yan San himself, there was probably no concept of waste.
After all, he would never hand the item over to anyone else.
However, running away like that meant he had missed a golden opportunity. Yan San only needed to spend two or three seconds to come over and search him.
If he had, he would have found a large pile of cards on Zuo Lin'an.
Ten seconds later, Zuo Lin'an regained his mobility.
By this time, Yan San had already run far away.
Cowardly though he was, Yan San was still a Second-Rate martial artist. By desperately burning his true qi to execute qinggong, ten seconds was more than enough for him to reach the vicinity of the academic building.
Zuo Lin'an did not want to approach the academic building for the time being, so he ultimately gave up on pursuing Yan San.
“I'll deal with him tomorrow.”
He didn't believe Yan San could avoid violating the school rules for the next few days. Even if Yan San managed to be careful, Zuo Lin'an could easily force him to trigger a violation.
At that moment, Zuo Lin'an looked over toward the principal. He saw the principal tightly grasping the female player with both hands. With a single bite, the principal tore her throat open.
Blood sprayed instantly, staining a large patch of the concrete floor and splashing onto the surrounding lawn and trees.
After confirming the player was dead, the principal retrieved a blood-stained card from the mangled corpse and casually tossed the body aside.
It seemed they were done here.
The principal walked over, accompanied by the only two remaining specters. They handed Zuo Lin'an two cards.
“Only two.”
“The other two players holding cards have already escaped and grouped up with the others near the dormitories.”
Zuo Lin'an took the cards and tucked them away.
Now, he had seventeen cards.
“Are we still going to hunt players now?”
The principal nodded. “Of course. It doesn't matter even if we get repelled. We can always continue tomorrow.”
Zuo Lin'an thought about it. “In that case, I'll go too.”
After all, as long as his living body wasn't found, he couldn't be repelled.
Besides, there was still about half an hour left before midnight. He couldn't just find a place to space out and pass the time, could he?
“Let's go,” the principal said.
Zuo Lin'an followed them to the dormitory area.
He saw that all the players in the dormitory area had already come out of the buildings and were standing on the concrete courtyard outside.
They had likely realized that hiding inside the dormitory buildings made it difficult to escape if they encountered specters.
Moreover, with so many people, any congestion in the corridors or stairwells could easily lead to being blocked and killed by their own allies.
Under the blood-red moonlight, Zuo Lin'an looked ahead and saw a dense crowd of people.
Initially, the principal and the others had slaughtered the players here until only a hundred or so remained. Now, with the addition of those who had fled from the cafeteria, the number had surpassed two hundred once more.
With so many players ahead and only four specters on their side...
Wasn't this a bit too difficult?
“Hmm?”
Upon closer inspection, Zuo Lin'an noticed that these players did not seem to be united. They were faintly divided into three distinct groups.
One group, though serious, clearly carried an air of arrogance. They were obviously powerful players who held trump cards.
This group consisted of about forty to fifty people.
Another group was fully prepared, either holding bizarre specter items or poised to trigger their talents at any moment.
This group made up over seventy people.
The remaining hundred-odd players were filled with terror and anxiety. They had been pushed to the very entrance of the dormitory area, practically blocking the gateway.
If a specter appeared, they would undoubtedly be the first to be attacked.
It seemed these hundred or so useless players had been forced to the front by the other two groups.
Looking closely, Zuo Lin'an noticed a few decent-looking female players among the marginalized group, constantly batting their eyelashes and trying to find a protector.
If this were the real world, some men wouldn't mind playing along.
But this was a specter dungeon, and a Scarlet Dream at that.
This was a place where one could lose their life at any second. Even the most lecherous men would only feast their eyes to satisfy their urges, not daring to actually get involved.
“Principal, who is holding those two cards?” Zuo Lin'an asked.
The principal pointed in a direction, which happened to be right where the most powerful group of players was gathered.
“They're all over there?”
“The female player standing on the outermost edge with a peach blossom hairpin in her hair has one card.”
“And the dark-skinned female player next to her has the other.”
“The players here don't know you're immune to repel effects yet. How about it? Want to go give it a try? I can help create an opportunity for you.”
Zuo Lin'an pondered for a moment.
“Sure, but let me head back to the dormitory first to hand my cards over to my living body for safekeeping.”
If he got frozen by a player again, he couldn't guarantee they wouldn't search his body this time.
Rate on N.U.
