“Hey, Luo Yu. If you don’t get up now, you’ll be late.”
Luo Yu’s head felt like it was splitting apart. In her haze, she heard someone calling her name.
“Suit yourself then. I already warned you.”
The person muttered again. After a clatter of noise and retreating footsteps, the room fell silent.
Luo Yu rolled over on the bed. So sleepy, I’ll sleep a little longer.
Just a little longer…
The rising sun cast orange-red light through the window, landing squarely on Luo Yu’s eyelids.
A sharp sting followed. Luo Yu jolted awake and sat up in bed.
Right! She remembered now.
She was inside an escape game.
The sunlight on her face was scorching hot, abruptly reminding her of the pair of crimson eyes she had seen in the sky the night before. Only then did she fully register where she was.
But…
Her memories of yesterday stopped abruptly at those red eyes.
How she left the classroom after evening self-study, how she returned to the dormitory, washed up, and went to sleep—her mind was completely blank.
Something had definitely happened.
But morning class was about to begin, and being late was strictly forbidden by school rules. Luo Yu had no time to think further.
She hurriedly got up, washed up briefly, and rushed toward the teaching building.
Passing by the dormitory entrance, Luo Yu happened to run into the dorm supervisor auntie.
She wanted to ask how she had returned to the dormitory last night. Unexpectedly, the wrinkled, intimidating-looking supervisor glanced at her in fear and deliberately avoided her.
As if Luo Yu were some kind of monster.
What was that about?
If anything, the dorm supervisor auntie seemed more likely to be the monster.
Unable to make sense of it, Luo Yu obediently went to morning class.
Qinggang High School had only one morning class, lasting an hour, mainly for students to independently recite Chinese or English material.
After morning class came breakfast time in the cafeteria.
During class, Luo Yu flipped through the school rules and student handbook several more times. As soon as the bell rang, she headed straight to the cafeteria to meet up with the other players.
During this time, she also tried to recover her missing memories.
Unfortunately, those memories were like something forcefully erased with a rubber eraser. No matter how hard she tried, she could not find even a trace.
The cafeteria was still packed with people.
Fewer windows were open in the morning compared to other times, so the lines at each counter were even longer.
Luo Yu hesitated for a moment, then lined up at the steamed bun counter again.
The handsome guy she had seen yesterday should be working today too, right?
Despite the crowd, the line was unusually quiet.
Almost everyone held a book. The cafeteria felt like an extension of morning class. There was no normal chatter between students, only scattered sounds of fervent reading.
Luo Yu frowned at the scene.
She vaguely felt that compared to yesterday, the students seemed even more fanatical today.
The line was long, but it moved quickly. After three or four minutes, Luo Yu reached the counter.
She finally saw the handsome guy she had been thinking about.
He glanced at her indifferently and said without much expression, “Student, what do you need?”
Luo Yu ordered two meat buns as usual.
When handing them over, the handsome guy leaned forward slightly. For some reason, Luo Yu caught a whiff of dampness from him.
It was like the scent of dew gathered in a forest at dawn.
Luo Yu froze. A sudden sense of familiarity rose in her heart. For no clear reason, she felt closer to the man in front of her.
Because of this unexpected closeness, when she took the buns, Luo Yu boldly and quickly brushed her fingers across the back of his hand.
…
So soft.
The well-defined hand stiffened, then withdrew as if shocked by electricity.
The yandere evil god gave Luo Yu a strange look, his mood complicated.
His mind flashed back to the final scene in the swamp the night before.
That slender, innocent, beautiful girl had looked at Him with longing. Even though half her body had already sunk into the swamp, there was still a captivating smile on her face.
She had reached out, wanting to touch Him.
Then, as if afraid of defiling something, she hesitated and withdrew her hand.
She had said—
Because I really like you. No one could lie before a god.
So even though He could not understand where such devotion came from, He had still gained a devout believer.
After that, the girl had fainted in tears. The god caught her, erased her memories, and sent her back to the dormitory.
The old monster in the dormitory building had originally wanted to make trouble.
But the moment it saw Him, it immediately trembled and hid under the desk, shaking in fear.
With that single intimidation, Luo Yu was temporarily safe in the dormitory.
The yandere evil god had only intended to intervene this once.
He did not want to be entangled by troublesome humans, and erasing Luo Yu’s memories had been for that reason.
But what He never expected was—
That reckless little human girl not only failed to restrain herself, but became even more audacious in provoking Him.
The sensation of her soft fingertips still lingered on the back of His hand.
She had touched Him on purpose just now, hadn’t she?
The yandere evil god glared darkly at her.
The girl across from Him seemed stunned by His glare, holding her buns and staring blankly at Him. Then, she unexpectedly gave Him a shy smile.
Her brain must be broken.
…
Having taken advantage of her “beloved,” Luo Yu felt as if all her exhaustion had been washed away, leaving her heart brimming with happiness.
This world really couldn’t exist without good-looking people.
After breakfast, most of the other students left the cafeteria.
The players gathered together and began to discuss.
Sun Heng counted heads. “No one’s missing. Looks like everyone got through last night safely. But starting today, we need to be careful.”
“Everyone talks about what you experienced last night.”
Yang Tian spoke first. “Sun Heng and I are in the same class. Nothing special happened during evening self-study, and afterward we returned to the dormitory without any trouble.”
“Same here,” another player chimed in. “I’m in a four-person room. The others are all NPCs. I wanted to ask them for information, but they completely ignored me.”
“I… I might have run into some trouble.” The next speaker was a thin woman with a pale face and freckles.
“I wasn’t feeling well during evening self-study, so I dozed off for a bit. I was caught. Even though I was only scolded, I… I just feel like…”
“In this school, not studying seriously seems to get you ostracized,” Luo Yu interjected. “That might be related to the secret we’re supposed to uncover.”
She comforted the freckled woman a few words, then talked about her own experience of being targeted by the female teacher.
She was cautious enough not to mention the red eyes or her memory loss.
After more discussion, the players basically concluded that Qinggang High School’s secret was related to the oppressive atmosphere on campus. They agreed to explore together during the lunch break.
Before dispersing, Sun Heng praised Luo Yu a few times, while Yang Tian shot her several irritated looks.
What caught Luo Yu’s attention, however, was the chubby man in the group.
Yesterday, he had been timid and cowardly.
Today, somehow, his demeanor had completely changed. He spoke confidently, analyzed clues fluently, and seemed fearless.
It was almost as if—
He had become a different person.