"Is it really Ma Manjiang?"
When Han Fei regained his senses and looked back at dorm room 204’s balcony, the figure had disappeared.
"Has the Ma Manjiang who disappeared in reality entered the Deep World? Is he already dead?"
The figure had an indescribable malice about him, and after Han Fei had successfully escaped the dormitory building, he gradually calmed down.
"This opponent is not simple—if I had been slightly careless just now, I probably would be dead by now."
Han Fei could not exit the game now, and if something went wrong, he would truly die.
"He must have been waiting for me in dorm room 201, but why did he choose that room? How did he know I would go there?"
Ma Manjiang was different from the Fierce Ghosts Han Fei had encountered before.
"Having his own child leave a note in dorm room 104 to lure me to another location, these are not things a mere Grudge could come up with. What on earth happened to Ma Manjiang? Could he be the Butterfly?"
Li Xue’s teacher had speculated that the Butterfly was related to the professions of teacher and doctor, and Ma Manjiang was a teacher at Yimin Private Academy.
For now, Han Fei decided not to think about these things and to stay as far away from the dormitory building as possible.
Looking at the school gates, the walls and gates of Yimin Private Academy were all covered in blood-drawn characters.
As Han Fei approached, the landlord’s ring issued a warning, suggesting that something very bad might happen if he got too close to the fence.
Unable to leave, Han Fei could only face what came actively; he adjusted his mindset.
"Ma Manjiang is the source of all the suffering in Yimin Private Academy; he can be called the most terrifying ghost in this school. Now that he has run into the dormitory, it means the academic building is temporarily safe."
Brave and detail-oriented, Han Fei took this opportunity to go directly to the academic building to look for Jin Sheng.
Most people, after experiencing such terrifying events, would try to find a place to hide, but Han Fei was decisive—he knew that running away was futile in the Deep World.
"Jin Sheng must be Jin Sheng—he is the key to the entire school’s tasks."
Although the teaching quality at Yimin Private Academy was poor, the school itself wasn’t small, and many parents were deceived by the various facilities of the school, which is why they sent their children here.
Hiding among the bushes, Han Fei kept his body as low as possible.
The school’s bushes also weren’t safe, and not long after setting out, Han Fei saw something lurking ahead of him.
That thing emitted a curse and an ominous aura, was as skinny as a rail, resembling a monkey or a deformed little person.
It tore at something for a long time before it ran off.
Han Fei slowly approached, and by the time he arrived, all that was left in the bushes was a tattered uniform and a crumpled student ID.
"Was that creature also a student at Yimin Private Academy? But how did it turn into that? What other horrible things have happened in this school?"
The campus under the veil of the night seemed particularly eerie, a place that hadn’t heard children’s laughter in a long time.
Han Fei walked to the edge of the bushes and crossed a cement road, finally entering the academic building.
Yimin Private Academy’s academic building was different from other schools, forming an "L" shape, with the academic building and the administration building close together.
Perhaps because of the school’s chaotic management, frequent losses, and bullying incidents, the security office was located at the deepest part of the academic building corridor.
Usually, the security guards would be on duty at the school gates, and when it was time to rest or review the surveillance, they would go to the security office in the academic building.
"Shu Mengting’s diary mentioned a security guard who also suffered at Yimin Private Academy. According to the diary, he was a nice person."
Han Fei hadn’t planned to visit the security office and wanted to head directly to the fourth floor, but as soon as he entered the academic building, his ring started to emit a chill.
He heard no unusual sounds and saw nothing abnormal, but the landlord’s ring wouldn’t deceive him.
The chill slowly grew stronger, something was approaching!
For safety, Han Fei didn’t force his way upstairs as that would expose his presence.
He stepped back few steps, opened the door of the security room, and temporarily hid inside.
"Player 0000, please note! You have obtained the victim’s videotape in advance, congratulations on meeting the requirements, you have successfully triggered the Grade G hidden mission—Surveillance Footage."
"Mission requirement: Watch the victim’s videotape in the security room, endure for half an hour."
"This mission is a timed mission."
The chill on the ring had not decreased in the slightest and was still intensifying. Han Fei hid behind the door, his face pale in the cold light emitted by the monitor.
The monitoring equipment in the security room was still operating normally, and a somewhat old computer and a small TV with a projector were placed on the small desk.
The TV screen was already shattered, as if someone had smashed it fiercely.
The computer was functioning properly, displaying ten minimized surveillance views.
Feeling the chill at his fingertips, with the unknown monster still lurking outside the door, Han Fei gently locked the room door. His attention was slowly drawn to the surveillance footage on the computer screen.
Ten surveillance cams, corresponding to different areas of the school.
"Are the cameras in this school broken? Why are all the surveillance footages so blurry?"
Now that the mission had been triggered, Han Fei could only think of ways to complete the task so that after delaying for three hours, he could have the trump card of logging off.
Taking the videotape from the Item Bar, Han Fei put it into the old projector and tried turning on the TV. Surprisingly, images quickly appeared on the cracked screen.
He quietly stared at the television screen, which played surveillance footage of the school at night.
The black and white footage was somewhat uncomfortable to watch, but Han Fei got used to it after a while.
The mission had begun, and the first five minutes showed nothing unusual, not even a human figure in the surveillance.
Han Fei didn’t dare to be careless, still staring intensely at the screen.
Around the seventh minute, the surveillance footage vaguely captured something. Han Fei wanted to rewind to check, but the buttons on the projector weren’t working.
At the tenth minute, something flashed past in the surveillance footage. This time Han Fei concentrated hard, and finally saw it clearly.
"Looks like a woman’s hair?"
Focusing intently, Han Fei kept his eyes glued to the monitor, afraid of missing anything.
By the fourteenth minute, he finally saw it clearly—the figure that appeared in the surveillance was a woman with her head lowered.
She was covered in blood, looking taller than Han Fei, walking past the view of the camera with her head hanging low.
Moving away from the TV screen, Han Fei continued watching.
At the seventeenth minute, the woman appeared again. This time, it seemed like she realized someone was watching her, and she deliberately stopped under the camera.
While Han Fei was extremely tense, the woman raised her disfigured face, bearing a terrifying smile.
The very next second, she disappeared from the surveillance footage!
"A ghost in the videotape? No, this tape must belong to a ghost."
With this thought, Han Fei’s complexion worsened, "Could she find her way here via the videotape?"
Instinctively turning his head to look at the computer monitor next to him, cold sweat broke out on Han Fei’s forehead.
At the twentieth minute, the woman didn’t appear in the television videotape but showed up in the real-time surveillance footage on the computer screen!