Qi Dengzui slightly raised his eyes: “Don’t worry, even if I die, you’ll definitely die before me.”
He never showed mercy to people who liked to spout nonsense.
Chu Yang sneered and said, “Don’t get angry, I just don’t want to die. I believe you feel the same. The Paranormal Academy doesn’t need dead weight. Now that the burden is gone, isn’t that perfect?”
Something in that sentence struck a nerve with Guan Si. His gaze locked onto Chu Yang, cold enough to carry frost: “If you can’t speak properly, shut up. Stay away from my Brother Qi.”
Qi Dengzui looked stunned, genuinely confused about why Guan Si had suddenly gotten angry. He paused for a moment, nudged Guan Si’s spirit, and said, “Go back first. We still don’t know what’s going on with Meng Shu. The announcement said not to casually check other people’s rooms. Her room is very dangerous right now.”
“Yeah.” Guan Si lowered his eyes, his voice muffled and heavy.
Even now, the entire instance was still utterly nonsensical. Qi Dengzui returned to his room and said to Guan Si, “Since this is an exam, the time definitely won’t be long. The pace will be extremely fast. Judging by how quickly Meng Shu got taken out, if we don’t find a way to break through soon, we won’t even last until the second rest period before we’re all wiped out.”
From the previous freshman exam, Qi Dengzui had noticed that every exam at the Paranormal Academy progressed at a breakneck pace. Once you fell behind, the system would even actively skip unnecessary time nodes to shorten the exam duration.
The last exam was just a freshman test, and it ended within a single day. This time it was a monthly exam, so the pace definitely wouldn’t be any slower.
Qi Dengzui noticed that this exam’s objective was:
【Survive until the end.】
But what exactly defined “the end”?
If they couldn’t fight the vengeful spirits, couldn’t destroy them, how could they possibly survive until the end?
From Ji Mi’s room next door came the sound of scratching at the door. Up until now, Ji Mi was the only one in the entire exam who hadn’t encountered a ghost, and his door had the least damage.
Qi Dengzui frowned and said, “I’ll go back into my body and take a look.” Before his voice even faded, he had already returned to his body.
The room fell into silence.
Then, after a moment’s hesitation, Qi Dengzui spoke up: “Guan Si, I can’t see you.”
Guan Si’s voice came from the direction where his spirit had been drifting: “What? You can’t see me? What about my voice, Brother Qi? Can you hear me?”
Qi Dengzui said, “I can hear you.”
He didn’t move his body, lying quietly on the bed.
A moment later, a thought suddenly struck Qi Dengzui. “Guan Si, can you see me?”
“Yeah.”
“I have an idea, but it needs to be tested.”
Guan Si quickly understood what he meant. “Brother Qi, breaking the rules might get you killed. Why not let me enter your body and test the rules for you?”
Qi Dengzui shook his head, and with a loud tearing sound, ripped off the cumbersome sleeve fabric that would hinder fighting, wrapping it around his hand in circles.
“Are you the secondary personality, or am I?” He let out a low chuckle. “I’m not dead yet. Why would I need you to do something like this?”
“Brother Qi…”
“Sticking to the announcement will only lead to death. Breaking the rules gets you killed, and being trapped in the room gets you killed too.”
Qi Dengzui looked at the repair formation beside the door, his gaze utterly unmoved.
He walked to the door, grabbed the handle, and with a clean, decisive motion, yanked it open in one direction.
“Rather than sit and wait for death, it’s better to take the initiative.”
The door swung open with a creak.
〈Ahhh, following God Qi all the way to this exam, I have to say it’s so satisfying. God Qi really is ruthless with few words, and his guts are insane. Truly god-tier!〉
〈Damn, which examinee is this? Has he always been this fierce?〉
〈To the person above, God Qi has always been like this.〉
〈My attention seems to be in the wrong place, God Qi and his secondary personality, it kind of feels a bit… romantic… Sorry, sorry, I’m guilty, I repent.〉
〈Repent for what? Come join us! Sister above just got into this? I already picked up on it last instance. The “Guan Deng” super topic welcomes you!〉
〈? Wait, isn’t the person above getting the positions wrong? How could 44 be on top? Can he pin down God Qi?〉
〈LMAO, Qi Si forever.〉
Guan Si watched Qi Dengzui’s actions and swallowed the words he hadn’t yet spoken.
He let out a sigh and followed Qi Dengzui as he flew out.
Just as he turned into the corridor where Ji Mi’s room was, Qi Dengzui quickly spun around and pulled back the leg he was about to step forward with.
He made a hand gesture.
【There’s a ghost.】
Because he couldn’t see Guan Si, he couldn’t get a response, and naturally couldn’t tell Guan Si,
This ghost wasn’t the black-suited vengeful spirit, but a female ghost in a white robe and long gown with hair hanging upside down. Her stomach had already been sliced open, various organs spilling out from the massive wound, enough to make anyone who looked at it want to vomit.
The female ghost scratched at the door again and again, her fingernails bloody and peeled back. She shook her already deformed head, and within her black hair, a pair of familiar eyes flickered in and out of view.
The female ghost’s feet, behind her, and even her entire walking path were marked with a clear trail of blood, winding and twisting, leading all the way back to.
Meng Shu’s room.
The one attacking him outside Ji Mi’s room was his deceased girlfriend, who had turned into a vengeful ghost.
A vengeful ghost can turn those it kills into new vengeful ghosts!
<This is way too overpowered, the difficulty is off the charts?>
<This Qi Dengzui still dares to go out in the flesh and mess around, he’s really asking for death. I don’t want to watch anymore, let’s go watch Chu Yang’s side.>
<Why does God Qi always draw these insane exam rooms?>
Even though Qi Dengzui retreated as fast as he could, he was still discovered by Ghost Meng Shu. Ghost Meng Shu suddenly turned her head, her face deathly pale after all the blood had drained. She coldly glanced in Qi Dengzui’s direction and charged at him at incredible speed.
In the vast corridor, the sound of “tap tap tap” echoed one after another. Ghost Meng Shu extended her mangled, flesh-torn hand and viciously clawed at the spot where Qi Dengzui was hiding.
Qi Dengzui’s eyes sharpened, and a glazed fan suddenly appeared in his hand, blocking Ghost Meng Shu’s first attack.
Then, the glazed fan instantly detached from his hand and flew straight out, hurtling toward the candle lamps burning with flames in the corridor.
At the critical moment.
The lamps went out.
The entire corridor plunged into darkness.
Ghost Meng Shu suddenly lost her vision and panicked, darting around wildly. She stretched out her claws and scratched everywhere, but no matter what, she couldn’t find Qi Dengzui, who was right under her nose.
Announcement 3: If a vengeful ghost breaks through the door, immediately extinguish the lights in the room and remain silent.
Yes, that’s right.
Ghost Meng Shu couldn’t see him.
In the darkness, Qi Dengzui relied on the night-vision gauze given to him by the system to see everything clearly. He kept his breathing faint and steady, treading lightly as he left the area in front of Ji Mi’s door.
Since he could now see Ghost Meng Shu, could he also see the scene of Meng Shu’s death?
He followed Ghost Meng Shu’s blood trail to the door of Meng Shu’s room and gave it a gentle push.
The overwhelming stench of blood hit his nose directly.
In front of the door, a pool of blood hadn’t yet coagulated. Looking closely, one could still see traces of someone sitting here, and inside the room were the various organs Ghost Meng Shu had lost.
This was the first death scene of Meng Shu.
This was where Meng Shu died!
Qi Dengzui suddenly saw the light, and all his confusion was resolved in that moment.
They had come to Meng Shu’s room earlier but hadn’t seen anything unusual, and now that he came here again, he saw Meng Shu’s death scene.
The invisible ghost, the invisible death scene, the invisible Ghost Meng Shu, the completely reversed rules.
Everything, all of it, pointed to one fact.
Qi Dengzui gripped the glazed fan and suddenly smiled faintly. “Day-night campus, time shifting. Following this line of thinking, if I’m not wrong. Fierce Ghost Inn, space-time alternating. We’re actually in two completely different space-times with reversed rules.”
“Before the soul leaves the body, we’re in the body space-time, where the announcements apply. So, turning off the lights makes ghosts unable to see, and shops can’t be entered casually. The announcements are correct, but they only work in the body space-time.”
“After the soul leaves the body, we’re in the soul space-time, where the rules apply. So, shops can provide protection, and the repair array can indeed repair doors, but what it repairs is the door in the soul space-time, not the door in the body space-time.”
“This is why I can hear two vengeful ghosts scratching at the door, but can only see one ghost, because in the soul space-time, you can’t see or touch the ghosts from the body space-time.”
“And sound is the only medium connecting the two space-times.”
<Those earlier bullet comments were prophets, right? They actually broke through dimensions.>
<Damn, he figured it out just like that? Then is this dungeon about to end? Feels like it’s a bit too short.>
<No way, there’s still that liar who hasn’t been dealt with. Speaking of which, what’s the point of that liar? Feels like we haven’t seen his use yet.>
<Tsk, the live stream on the viewing site is capturing footage from the flying cameras set up in the exam room. There are plenty of places we haven’t seen. Who knows if the liar has been secretly doing something?>
Qi Dengzui said in a deep voice, “I think I know the cause of Meng Shu’s death.”
“She returned to her body, encountered a vengeful ghost in the body space-time, but repaired the door in the soul space-time. So she couldn’t block the ghost from the body space-time and was killed by it.”
The rules were now clear.
Qi Dengzui said, “The shops in the soul space-time have tools to deal with vengeful ghosts in the soul space-time. Guan Si, you go to the soul space-time first and handle the soul-space ghost.”
“What about you? Brother Qi,” Guan Si said. “You can’t go to the shops in the body space-time. How are you going to deal with the vengeful ghost and Ghost Meng Shu in the body space-time?”
Qi Dengzui said, “I need to first figure out who that liar in the rules is.”
Guan Si said, “The liar is part of the rules. It’s very likely that the liar can only lie in the soul space-time. Brother Qi, being in the body space-time is pointless for you.”
Qi Dengzui opened the door and stepped out, saying, “You have a point. I’ll head back to the soul space-time first.”
He returned to his room and lay back down on the bed. After a dizzying spin, his soul drifted out of his body, meeting Guan Si once again.
The two exchanged a glance.
Suddenly, Chu Yang’s voice sounded from outside the door.