However, from a different perspective, when everyone turns into an ugly monster, and they make up the vast majority, it is those who haven’t turned that seem out of place.
It’s even possible that the one who hasn’t turned into a monster is ultimately treated as the "monster" by all the others.
Han Fei ran for his life down the corridor with all his might. Ma Manjiang, nearly three meters tall with countless faces in his belly, chased him like a wild beast, followed by several students with eyes that lacked pupils.
Those students had no idea what was happening; they simply followed blindly behind Ma Manjiang. In their eyes, the teacher must be right.
In Jin Sheng’s memory, all the people in the school had become twisted. Though the place looked like a normal school, possessing a beautiful and simple facade, who could have imagined the terrible and disgusting things hidden beneath it?
The dim corridor seemed to have no end. Han Fei felt Ma Manjiang closing in; his speed was no match for Ma Manjiang’s, nor was his strength or ability. This was exactly how Jin Sheng truly was.
"Is there really a way out?"
Before starting the task, Han Fei had held a glimmer of hope, but after truly experiencing what Jin Sheng had gone through, despair grew wildly within him like a toxic weed.
His own strength was far from sufficient, he had nowhere to draw support from, and all the students he came across wouldn’t listen to him and would even become Ma Manjiang’s accomplices, lending a hand to a tiger.
The more people he encountered in his frantic escape, the more who despised him, the more who wished he would just die quietly. What kind of despair was that?
Looking back, Ma Manjiang had no eyes; instead, he had two mouths where his eye sockets should be, and his "gaze" seemed as if it was about to devour someone.
The distance between them had closed significantly. If Han Fei didn’t figure out a way to turn the tables soon, he would quickly be caught and then torn into fragments.
"Ma Manjiang holds absolute dominance in this school. This beastly madman is very good at disguising himself; he has deceived everyone in the school with different faces. If I want to get everyone’s help, I first have to tear off Ma Manjiang’s hypocritical mask!"
Glancing out of the corner of his eye, Han Fei felt that if he stopped, he would be killed instantly. There was no chance of resistance; the power difference was too great.
In a closed school, a new student ostracized and despised by everyone, how can one expose the hypocrisy of a teacher who is even the son of the principal of Yimin Private Academy?
Time was not on Han Fei’s side. This was not an equal duel but a one-sided crushing.
"If nobody in this school believes Jin Sheng, then there wouldn’t be four victims in the Yimin Private Academy Kaidan murder cases. That means there must be at least three other people in the school willing to believe Jin Sheng, who ultimately stood with him."
His mind racing, Han Fei recalled the other three victims within Yimin Private Academy.
Wild Dog Zhang Guanxing, Security Guard Old Li, and Jin Sheng’s homeroom teacher.
If anyone in the school could help Jin Sheng, it would be the other three victims.
"Ma Manjiang, controlled by Butterfly, had become even more troublesome than in Jin Sheng’s memory; he did not do what he was supposed to do now but chose to come and kill me directly."
"Although it can eliminate me at the earliest stage, it also indirectly protects the other three victims. Even if I am killed by Ma Manjiang, my sacrifice will have value."
While fleeing for his life, Han Fei remained incredibly calm as he pondered.
"I need to determine the positions of the other victims as soon as possible, seek their help, and see if I can find Ma Manjiang’s weakness."
Han Fei was experiencing Jin Sheng’s despair, but after all, he was not Jin Sheng. Even in this most adverse environment, he still wanted to kill Ma Manjiang in turn.
As an Outsider in Jin Sheng’s memory, Han Fei would lose part of his memory every time he died, and that blue Butterfly must face the same penalty after its death as Han Fei did.
The blue Butterfly wanted to kill Han Fei over and over again, to replace him in completing the Manager’s task and take control of the real Jin Sheng.
Han Fei likewise wanted to kill that blue Butterfly over and over here, to find clues about the Butterfly from it!
Passing through the corridor, Han Fei ran toward the first floor; the first person he was going to look for was the Security Guard.
In Jin Sheng’s memory, the architectural layout of Yimin Private Academy was the same as in reality. The infirmary was on the second floor of the administrative building, and the security office was on the first floor of the teaching building. The two were not far apart, but for Han Fei, this distance was fraught with potential killings.
The doors and windows of each classroom could open at any time, with countless arms waiting behind them. They wanted to violently drag Jin Sheng back into the classroom; they wanted to blind Jin Sheng’s eyes, to pierce through his ears and turn Jin Sheng as one of them.
In Jin Sheng’s Memory World, being part of the group, these two simple words, could come at a bloody price.
Having had the experience of performing the Manager’s tasks before, Han Fei predicted in advance that some places might be hiding Ghosts and Monsters. The density of Ghosts and Monsters in Yimin Private School wasn’t as high, which was the only good news for Han Fei.
Dangerously passing through the corridor, Han Fei entered the stairwell.
At the corner between the first and second floors of the teaching building, a bespectacled teacher was scolding a student. On the surface, this teacher seemed no different from a normal person.
Upon seeing the male teacher, Han Fei’s Brain Sea immediately produced this teacher’s details. He had also taught at Yimin Private Academy, Jin Sheng’s mathematics teacher, with no distinguishing characteristics and no disciplinary issues.
"Why would he also appear in Jin Sheng’s memory, and as a normal person at that?"
Han Fei didn’t dare to rashly seek help from him, intuition warning him that things couldn’t be that simple.
As he passed by the math teacher, Han Fei suddenly sped up, but to his surprise, the teacher had been watching him the whole time before he then took off his glasses.
Out of his dark eye sockets, countless black threads emerged, tightly winding around Han Fei’s legs, fixing him in the stairwell, preventing him from escaping further down.
"This guy is in cahoots with Ma Manjiang!"
For a student, seeking help from a teacher couldn’t be more normal.
But teachers in the school appeared in Jin Sheng’s memory in such a form, looking exactly like normal people on the outside, but with black threads emerging from their eye sockets that couldn’t be broken free from, binding Jin Sheng in place.
"In reality, Li Xun probably never believed Jin Sheng’s words, instead, he was dead set on Jin Sheng, not letting him do anything out of line."
From Li Xun’s perspective, he had maintained the order of the school and caught the person disrupting that order, fulfilling his duty as a teacher.
Yet on the other hand, he didn’t truly solve the problem; instead, his rough and indiscriminate actions drove Jin Sheng to greater despair.
No response came from cries for help and shouting, all the students looked at him with intense dislike, and even the teachers didn’t believe him.
With his body entangled and pierced by the black threads, Han Fei’s strength dwindled. He struggled desperately, but was unable to escape the inevitable end.