Everyone was stunned.

Sun Xiaofang's reminder was either timely or untimely... But in the panic, they had indeed forgotten that there was still a classmate left in the classroom.

That classmate was Guo Zixuan. He probably still had no idea what was happening at the moment, right?

For these students who had grown up in a sheltered environment, they had gone through hardships in the campus, about to escape from a madman's pursuit, and finally saw the hope of survival—

But now, because of one person left behind, they had to run back to the classroom to save him?

Everyone was obviously unwilling. In fact, just the thought of going back and possibly encountering that terrifying person again scared some of them.

Wang Yue even started to secretly complain about Guo Zixuan. He already didn't like this person, saying it was all just a prank. If it weren't for this guy being so stubborn, they could have left smoothly by now.

But no matter what, because they were just ordinary young people... they couldn't bring themselves to abandon their classmate.

And in this dilemma, the first one to speak up was indeed Seigetsu Zhu—

"I'll go."

The class monitor's voice was calm and composed.

"Class monitor, you..."

Everyone looked at her in surprise.

Seigetsu Zhu's pupils were bright and clear. Even in this situation, she still managed to show a comforting smile to everyone.

"It's alright. You all go first, find help, use the phone in the guard room or call the police at the nearby phone booth."

There was a slight tremor in the girl's voice, indicating that she wasn't completely fearless. But her way of speaking remained calm and rational, especially in this critical situation, it made people involuntarily trust her.

The remaining people looked at each other. Wang Yue muttered in a low voice:

"But it's still too dangerous..."

Seigetsu Zhu didn't respond to this, but continued to give instructions:

"Turn on all the lights in the corridor. There should be a main switch in the guard room."

After saying this, she didn't hesitate and immediately ran towards the direction of the teaching building.

Sunny Xu was stunned for a moment, then quickly followed, turning around to remind the others:

"I'll go and take a look! Don't worry, everyone will be fine. Just do as Seigetsu said!"

...

When the two of them were running towards the bottom of the teaching building, Sunny Xu felt like he heard a buzzing sound of electricity. This dull sound spread throughout the empty and silent campus in an instant.

Sunny Xu looked up and saw that the buildings above were lit up, like giant torches standing under the gloomy sky.

The lights on every corridor were turned on by the main switch in the guard room, and the brightness flooded the once pitch-black night like a tide.

The two of them ran up the stairs once again.

The bright lights and the darkness of the corridor intertwined and overlapped, and the changing shadows flowed over them like flowing water.

Sunny Xu couldn't help but glance at the girl beside him.

The girl's chest was heaving violently under her school uniform shirt, her pure white cheeks were dotted with glistening sweat beads, her carefully arranged sideburns were damp and slightly disheveled, looking quite disheveled.

But she could still naturally show an optimistic smile in front of everyone, which made Sunny Xu find it somewhat unbelievable.

"...Seigetsu, you're really amazing."

He couldn't help but sigh.

Even though he had witnessed supernatural phenomena more than once, he didn't perform as well as her.

"Because we already know that guy's weakness."

Seigetsu Zhu replied with a light laugh.

"That's true."

The others didn't see it, they still thought he was just an ordinary madman... Well, a madman who broke into the school at night was no longer an ordinary person, but there was still a distance between him and the monster who could fly and walk on walls.

After a few breaths, they arrived at the entrance of Class 5 of the second year.

As soon as they heard footsteps, the boy sitting inside, wearing glasses and a checkered shirt, looked up unhappily.

"What are you guys doing? Isn't your voice too loud? If we get caught, we'll be criticized..."

"—A real serial killer has broken in!"

Sunny Xu shouted at him.

"What... what?"

Guo Zixuan finally realized that something was wrong when he saw the serious expression on Seigetsu Zhu's face, and he became flustered.

"I... I'll go first..."

He nervously put the pen on the table into his pen case, as if he still wanted to tidy up something.

Sunny Xu couldn't hold back anymore. This kind of person who dared to go back and get money during a fire was exactly this kind of person, right?

But just as he was about to take action, the class monitor next to him scolded in a tender voice:

"Don't tidy up, hurry up and leave!"

As she spoke, she walked quickly towards him and kicked the leg of the table. The pens, erasers, draft papers, and exercise books on the table all fell to the ground with a "clatter."Sunny Xu, who was stunned for a moment, quickly rushed forward and grabbed Guo Zixuan's thin arm, pulling him up from his seat.

"Let's go!"

"Okay... okay!"

The boy with glasses seemed to have just woken up from a dream at this moment and quickly caught up with the two of them as they left the classroom.

...

They ran frantically again.

From the classroom to the restroom, from the restroom to the laboratory building, from the laboratory building to the guard room, and from the guard room back to the classroom...

Sunny Xu heard the heavy breathing in his ears and felt that the girl beside him was starting to struggle.

At this moment, Sunny Xu couldn't help but think of Starry Lin, remembering her graceful and agile posture when she ran in the alley, like a deer in the forest.

People are indeed different.

He had been paying attention to the class leader's condition.

In the movies he had watched before, there would often be a scene where a group of people were being chased by monsters, and one of them suddenly fell and couldn't get up. The others had to risk their lives to save that person. Sunny Xu sincerely hoped that this kind of thing wouldn't happen to them.

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Fortunately, the distance from the teaching building to the guard room was not far, and they only needed to pass through a straight corridor. The road was lined with street lamps, casting a halo of light. The shade of the trees on the bluestone ground made it impossible to see the figure of the possessor chasing after them.

They looked ahead again. At this moment, the iron gate had already opened, and several girls were standing at the door waving their hands at them.

Although the remaining students couldn't rush forward to save people, they could at least gather the courage to wait at the door.

Everything was developing in a good direction. It seemed that this long night was finally coming to an end...

*

"Yes, yes! It's at the school. My classmates may be in danger. Police officers, please come quickly!"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran out of the roadside telephone booth.

Since the phone in the guard room couldn't get through, he had to run to the nearby intersection to call the police.

The intersection was not far from the school, and he was hurrying back when he suddenly saw a figure flashing not far ahead.

The person ran out of the bushes by the road, and there was no light coming from the campus behind him, so Wang Yue couldn't see his face clearly.

"Who?!"

The person ignored him and quickly left through another small path.

Wang Yue hesitated for a moment and didn't chase after him. He was more worried about his classmates. He gritted his teeth and continued running towards the school gate.

But at this moment, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The school was pitch black?

How was that possible... Where were the lights in the corridors?

They should have turned on the main switch according to Class Leader Zhu's instructions. The campus should be brightly lit everywhere...

Wang Yue had a bad feeling in his heart.

He suddenly thought of the phone that couldn't get through in the guard room, and the figure that had just escaped...

Could it be that the person who attacked them had accomplices?

...

"Clang."

Another dull sound.

The light spot under their feet suddenly disappeared.

Sunny Xu turned his head abruptly and found that the street lamps behind him were extinguishing one by one.

"How could this be? The lights in the corridor..."

Seigetsu Zhu didn't stop, her tone filled with worry.

As she said, the entire teaching building not far away suddenly went dark, like torches being blown out by a gust of cold wind.

"What's going on?!"

Guo Zixuan was completely puzzled and felt even more panicked.

And the worst part was that the two iron gates at the end of their line of sight began to slowly close right before their eyes.

"Run! Run faster!"

"Hurry! The gate is closing!"

The girls waiting outside the gate stomped their feet and shouted, their voices filled with tears.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

One bad situation followed another. Just as the road they had passed by had just turned dark, the familiar sound of footsteps resounded from a distance again.

Sunny Xu's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but look in the direction where the sound was coming from.

What he saw shocked him to the core. In the dense darkness, a spider-like figure crawled along the outer wall of a three-story building, leaping forward several meters.

It was the first time Sunny Xu had seen such a hunting posture with his own eyes. It was like a frog swimming on the water, able to jump far with just a kick!

"Run! That guy is chasing us!"

He couldn't help but shout.

Guo Zixuan didn't even have the courage to look back. After a frightened scream, he ran faster and quickly surpassed the two of them.

At the same time, Sunny Xu noticed that Class Leader Zhu was gradually falling behind. He gritted his teeth, suppressed the panic in his heart, slowed down his pace, and walked beside her.

"You..."As their gazes met, they suddenly heard a series of footsteps approaching rapidly from afar, quickly converging behind them.

The arrival was faster than Sunny Xu had imagined! It was like a ferocious beast that had locked onto its prey, no longer hesitating, and bursting forth with its true speed.

"Ah!"

Seigetsu Zhu let out a startled cry.

Before anyone had time to react, she was knocked to the ground by a tall, thin shadow that sprang out from behind.

*

"Go!"

Guo Zixuan roared, throwing himself out of the closing gate.

"Why did the lights suddenly go out?"

Wang Yue, who was near the school gate, saw a few anxious students in the distance and couldn't help but shout at them.

"Where's the class president, where's Xu?"

"I..."

Guo Zixuan, who had narrowly escaped, turned around to find that the gate still left a gap just wide enough for one person to squeeze through.

And through this gap, everyone saw the scene—

Their class president was knocked down by the murderer.

"I..."

Guo Zixuan's pupils contracted sharply, his previous joy vanished, and he couldn't help but tremble.

"Get in there! There's still a chance! Hurry to the guard room and turn on the circuit breaker!"

Someone shouted behind him.

"I..."

At this moment, Guo Zixuan, the last one to run out, was the closest to the iron gate. If he could get up and rush in at this moment, everything would be in time, but—

"I..."

He couldn't even stand up, his legs were shaking uncontrollably.

"Let her go!"

And at this moment, the high school students standing at the door, all reflected in their pupils was the figure of a boy who was roaring in anger and recklessly rushing forward—

"Thud."

With a slight noise, the gap disappeared.

The iron gate closed completely, like a chasm separating the inside and outside of the campus into two worlds.