Luo Yu eventually couldn’t resist and fell asleep.
Because she had stayed up too late, she almost didn’t wake up in time for morning classes the next day.
Strangely, she had fallen into a deep sleep, yet in the morning, she had a very peculiar dream.
In the dream, she lay on a grassy field, a gentle breeze brushing her face, looking at the stars. As she watched, two huge red lanterns suddenly appeared in the night sky. The lanterns had gaping, blood-red mouths, devouring all the stars in the sky.
Then the lanterns themselves began to flicker in place of the stars.
The flickering suddenly exploded into countless fragments. The fragments floated in the sky, slowly arranging themselves into a sentence:
Wake up, you’re going to be late.
Startled, Luo Yu woke up immediately.
Looking around, the dorm was empty. Everyone had gone to class; she was the only one left.
It made sense. With the conspiracy exposed, Liu Shuang had no need to act like a good person and wake her up.
Fortunately, even without being called, Luo Yu wasn’t late.
She washed up and went downstairs as usual. Seeing the dorm supervisor, she smiled politely at the kind elderly woman—after all, if the supervisor hadn’t helped last night, she might not have survived today.
The supervisor’s reaction was strange.
First, she widened her eyes in shock. Then she removed her reading glasses and wiped them. Finally, she raised her hands wildly toward Luo Yu.
It looked as if she was saying: Stay away, don’t touch anything.
Luo Yu left, puzzled. Perhaps this woman was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, not used to others showing goodwill.
At that moment, Yang Tian came downstairs and saw the scene.
She felt smug, thinking that Luo Yu must have tried to get information from the dorm supervisor and failed.
“Hey, Luo Yu.” Yang Tian caught up a few steps behind her. “Not bad. Didn’t expect a newbie like you to make it to the third day alive.”
Luo Yu detected the mocking tone in her words. She didn’t indulge it, snapping back, “Just lucky. Still can’t compare to you, Yang Jie—you’ve got experience, protection, and don’t even take the game seriously.”
Yang Tian’s face fell immediately.
She had relied on Sun Heng’s protection to act boldly in the game. These days, she didn’t even try to hide publicly flirting with him in front of other players.
Being exposed so directly by Luo Yu caused her considerable embarrassment and indignation.
But then she thought again and felt smug once more.
Hmph, pretending to be all high and mighty, but deep down, she was jealous of having protection, of not facing danger herself.
In a survival game, dignity was meaningless. Flirting with a man was fine. As long as you could survive, any method was acceptable.
Besides, she wasn’t just a pretty face relying on men. If she weren’t clever, how could she have gotten information from the dorm supervisor?
Now she knew that the secret of Qinggang High School was related to the small forest and the wolves roaming there.
At noon, she planned to show off in front of Brother Sun. When everyone explored the small forest together, she wanted Luo Yu to go first—preferably meet with some accident and die, so she wouldn’t continue to annoy her.
“Hehe, little Luo Yu, keep your tough mouth.”
Yang Tian playfully pinched Luo Yu’s cheek, but her eyes held deep disgust and malice.
“Wonder how many will survive today.” She smiled coquettishly and waved to Luo Yu as they parted on different floors of the academic building. “Little girl, don’t die by accident, okay…”
Yang Tian walked away like a victor, proud and completely trusting the protective tools Sun Heng had given her. She didn’t even notice a small green mark forming on the back of her neck.
It had appeared after she registered her information with the dorm supervisor last night. Overnight, it had grown from a pimple-sized mark to about half the size of a palm.
As for Luo Yu…
Crazy!
She cursed silently, thinking Yang Tian’s brain was clearly malfunctioning.
With so many players in the team, why was Yang Tian picking a fight only with her?
Crazy!
Luo Yu spent the entire morning class in a foul mood. She wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but since those red eyes appeared, the teacher in the class hadn’t targeted her at all.
Where did those red eyes come from?
The monsters at Qinggang High seemed afraid of them. Were they the school’s behind-the-scenes boss, or…?
Strangely, Luo Yu even associated them with the two huge red lanterns from her morning dream.
The red eyes had never harmed her; if anything, they seemed to be helping her.
What on earth was going on?
The more Luo Yu thought, the more confused she became. She still couldn’t recover the memories she had lost on the first night.
Eventually, she decided to set those questions aside and focus on the important issues she had enough information on—issues closely related to Qinggang High School’s secrets.
During breakfast, exhausted, Luo Yu refueled her energy at the breakfast window.
Having a handsome guy around certainly helped.
All the anxiety from the survival game, the stress of wolves lurking nearby, the frustration with annoying teammates, just seeing that great face made it all vanish.
Luo Yu shamelessly tried to flirt with the young man again.
His gaze on her became stranger, but she didn’t care.
After all, he was an NPC unrelated to the plot. Flirting was harmless, he couldn’t suddenly become a monster and eat her, could he?
And she didn’t need to feel guilty. She wouldn’t be responsible for him—once she left this game world, he couldn’t follow her.
Hehe.
Luo Yu was satisfied. The evil god, sensing the lingering warmth in her palm, felt a strange, indescribable emotion rise inside.
After breakfast, the players gathered.
Luo Yu quietly counted the number of players in the team. Only the few who had left yesterday were missing.
That meant all the players remaining in Sun Heng’s team had survived. No one had been harmed overnight.
But was the game really that easy?
Sun Heng, an experienced player, didn’t look too pleased. Based on the game’s timeline, there should have been victims today.
Yet all the players stood there, unharmed.
He spent the morning investigating the players who had left yesterday’s team, expecting a few of them to be dead.
Instead, he saw them walking safely around the school, looking even more energetic than before, showing no sign of having been attacked.
Too strange, why didn’t this game world follow the rules?
If things continued like this, more players would choose to leave the team and survive the seven days by hiding.
But Sun Heng knew the survival game would never let players pass easily.
If this continued, either the team would be wiped out in the final days, or…
Damn, where exactly was the problem?
Sun Heng furrowed his brows, silent. Yang Tian had her own motives, unwilling to reveal her information so early.
Luo Yu glanced at the fat player in the team. After hesitating, she finally stepped forward.
“Everyone, listen. Last night, I encountered something. I think it may be related to the secrets of Qinggang High School.”