Edited by Jules
After dealing with the big mosquito and the seal in the tower, Xiao Lan and Dai Bumao picked up the two unconscious players and found a safer place for them.
They didn’t know what they had been poisoned with, and they couldn’t get rid of the poison now, so they could only place them on the side.
Given the players’ constitution, being in this condition for a little while wouldn’t kill them. After clearing the game, they would naturally wake up. When the time came, they could figure out a way to deal with their physical issues themselves.
Xiao Lan looked at the time and said to Dai Bumao, “Let’s go ba, to the northern tower.”
He felt that the situation wasn’t right. According to reason, after sensing Xiao Lan break the seal here in the eastern tower, Luo should have directly destroyed the remaining seal to release Adeline.
But from the moment Xiao Lan destroyed the seal until the two of them set down the two unconscious players, there weren’t any more shakes in the school.
Could it be that the final seal didn’t create a quake?
Or did something unexpected suddenly appear and thwarted Luo’s movements?
Regardless, Xiao Lan felt that it was better to hurry to the northern tower as soon as possible.
He didn’t want to leave Luo to face the danger alone, even if Luo was very strong.
Xiao Lan and Dai Bumao ran at full speed under the red moon.
To keep up with Xiao Lan’s speed, Dai Bumao even used a set of side to side stretches to increase his own speed.
To tell the truth, the number of uses which Dai Bumao’s skill had made Xiao Lan, who could only break out his skill once a day, feel extremely envious.
As for the humiliation, perhaps it was nothing after getting used to it ba.
Look at Dai Bumao, how happy he was as he did the radio exercises ah.
At their high speed, they soon arrived at the northern tower.
Just as they reached the base of the tower, Xiao Lan realised something was wrong.
The door of the tower was wide open, without any intent to hide. There was a trail of blood on the ground as well.
The blood went all the way up into the tower. His line of sight obstructed by the building, Xiao Lan was unable to ascertain where the blood ended.
Dai Bumao also noticed this. “Who got hurt here?”
Xiao Lan: “Let’s go upstairs. The situation above might not be good.”
After entering the tower.
The dust-covered ground was filled with various footprints. Some were human, some were more like animal prints, and some couldn’t be recognised at all.
It was evident that many things had entered.
This couldn’t be considered good news, because right now, only Luo and Dai Bumao’s previous teammate were keeping watch upstairs. Dealing with these many things couldn’t be easy.
Xiao Lan frowned and quickened his steps upwards.
Before they reached the top floor, the sounds of fighting could already be heard.
A wolf-like cursed puppet tumbled down from above. Xiao Lan ducked to the side and evaded its enormous body.
This cursed puppet had several traces of corrosion on it which looked very flat and smooth, as if these places had disappeared out of nowhere.
Xiao Lan recognised that these were the traces that could only have been left from Luo’s power eroding it.
The wolf-shaped cursed puppet rolled over on its legs and tried to get up.
Xiao Lan flipped a hand and the puppet was knocked on the head with a rod. Xiao Lan’s move was quick, ruthless and so skillful, as if he had done it countless times. His was the attitude of someone who could swagger down the street without any opponents.
This strike directly shattered the complicated diagram core on top of the cursed puppet’s head, creating a crisp cracking sound.
The cursed puppet wolf which had still been struggling instantly stopped moving.
Truly a one-tap crack technique.
Dai Bumao touched his bare, soy egg head and felt that it truly wasn’t hard enough.
He privately resolved to never provoke this sort of person who looked elegant and fair, no matter what.
This simply was how you couldn’t judge a book by its cover.
Xiao Lan rushed to the room on the top floor in a few steps.
At the door were two pieces of skin which were dripping with blood and had been thrown haphazardly to the side. It looked like human blood; the trail of blood was probably from these.
But the original facial faces of the peeled human skins could no longer be made out, and one couldn’t figure out who they were.
Xiao Lan’s gaze shifted to the inside of the room.
At that moment, Luo was entangled with Lady Red Moon and unable to free himself for a while.
At the same time, he also had to split his focus and stay vigilant against the various cursed puppets circling around and waiting nearby. They were staring fixedly at Luo, and would launch an attack on him once they found an opening.
On the other side was the player called Zhang Qi who had previously teamed up with Dai Bumao to break the seal.
He was holding a large bow the height of a person and attacking the cursed puppets that targeted him, constantly changing positions and dodging attacks.
They both appeared to be in pretty good shape and didn’t have any injuries.
But they were unable to approach the seal because of the hindrance of numerous cursed puppets.
Xiao Lan said right away, “I’ll deal with Lady Red Moon, you help Zhang Qi.”
After that, he lifted his rod and rushed towards Luo.
“Okay,” Dai Bumao replied very firmly.
Those who weren’t blind knew that it was clearly more dangerous on Lady Red Moon’s side. Since Xiao Lan had already taken the initiative to take the riskier side, there was no need to act all pretentious.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Qtfc atf akb qfbqif pblcfv atf yjaaif, atf lclalji vfjvibmx lcrajcais rajgafv ab mtjcuf.
Wljb Ojc gertfv lcab atf yjaaif mlgmif jcv rkecu atf gbv jgbecv tlw, atgbklcu vbkc j ijguf ragfamt bo megrfv qeqqfar agslcu ab ifjq ja tlw.
Vflhlcu atlr yglfo lcafgnji, tf rkecu tlr gbv ja Ojvs Efv Zbbc jujlc.
Lady Red Moon had just avoided a black blade from Luo when she sensed a strong gust of wind behind her head.
She turned around again to evade Xiao Lan’s attack.
But at her movement, her black veil was lifted slightly, and the edge caught on Xiao Lan’s rod.
With his momentum, Xiao Lan tilted the rod up to hook Lady Red Moon’s black veil.
Then, forcefully swinging upward, he lifted the entire black veil off the other’s head.
If one ignored the current situation, it was genuinely somewhat similar to a groom lifting the bride’s veil on their wedding night.
Lady Red Moon’s true identity was finally about to be revealed.
However, after the black muslin was lifted, what was exposed was —
A completely unfamiliar face.
Although it was a feminine and beautiful face, it bore no resemblance at all to the headmistress Madam Wilder or little Adeline in the photograph.
Xiao Lan was a little stupefied. “Pretty lady, who are you?”
This feeling was like choosing between A or B in an exam, but in the end, the answer told you, ‘oops, my bad, the answer is actually C’.
Unfortunately, Lady Red Moon had no interest in chatting with him.
Killing intent flashed in her upraised and charming eyes, and she brandished the cutting folding fan in her hands. An ice-cold arc flew towards Xiao Lan’s throat.
Lady Red Moon was extremely quick, and he probably didn’t have enough time to dodge.
Since Xiao Lan couldn’t dodge, he simply raised 【Dalit’s Bone】 to block it.
Clang — a crisp sound rang out and the solid bone rod fended off the attack.
Xiao Lan took advantage of the moment to break away from Lady Red Moon.
Lady Red Moon tried to chase after him.
But a black blade cut across her face again; knowing that this attack was hard to handle, Lady Red Moon had no choice but to evade it.
Luo stepped forward again, stopping Lady Red Moon’s attempt to draw closer to Xiao Lan. “Apologies, madam, I cannot allow you to approach my family’s sir so easily.”
The two began battling once more.
At the same time, with Dai Bumao’s participation, he and Zhang Qi dealt with the cursed puppets more quickly. The cursed puppets that were interfering with the battle continued to dwindle in number.
Xiao Lan, who was some distance from Lady Red Moon for the moment, observed her.
She was certainly quick, and she could avoid most attacks just as they were about to land. Those she couldn’t avoid would heal swiftly.
It was simply as troublesome as a boss with no death conditions.
Xiao Lan’s Dalit’s Flame and Luo’s swallowing ability could injure Lady Red Moon. She could recover quickly, but in a drawn-out battle, it was definitely Xiao Lan’s side that had the advantage.
But now, the issue now was that they had to swiftly end the fight.
Adeline’s task had to be completed on the night of the red moon. Once they missed tonight, they would have to wait for another month. The waste of time aside, the players would then have to undertake the dangers of the night of the red moon again. How many people would be able to safely get through it again?
Xiao Lan estimated that Lady Red Moon’s speed wasn’t much different from his eight-fold acceleration after activating his skill.
That meant that even if he activated his acceleration ability, he would be unable to beat her in a short period of time either.
Then… what should he do?
A skill that was even quicker than acceleration…
Suddenly, a word flashed through his mind —
Teleportation.
If he didn’t choose acceleration and simply teleported instead, his attacks were equivalent to acceleration.
Making a decision, Xiao Lan activated his skill:
【Name: Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】
【Ability: Teleportation】
【Time remaining: 00:04:59】
After switching 【Dalit’s Bone】 to its sharpest blade form, Xiao Lan’s figure instantly disappeared.
The next second, the sharp bone blade appeared out of nowhere to directly stab Lady Red Moon in the back.
Pretty good intuition; Lady Red Moon swiftly dodged to the side.
But it was too late.
The blade sank into her shoulder, and the purple flames appeared.
Immediately, the untouchables’ rage from a millennium of suppression began spreading from the wound. Strangely, however, there wasn’t a single drop of blood from the wound, as if the one injured wasn’t human at all.
“Hoo —” Lady Red Moon made a sound for the first time.
Her voice was hoarse and unpleasant; it was hard to tell whether it was made by a man or woman, and was nothing like her beautiful appearance at all.
She lifted a hand and tore off the burning skin. Although she was unable to stop Dalit’s flame, it still slowed the spread by quite a bit, and the flames were unable to affect her fighting ability in the short term.
Immediately after that, Xiao Lan’s figure disappeared once more.
Another stab came from an angle that couldn’t be anticipated, aimed at Lady Red Moon’s neck.
Xiao Lan didn’t have any tender feelings for the fairer sex at all. He knew very well that what he was facing wasn’t some lady who needed care. At the slightest inattention, they might all be finished here.
Ding — the attack this time was blocked by Lady Red Moon’s fan and had no effect.
But don’t forget Luo’s existence.
Almost at the same time, a sharp black blade streaked towards Lady Red Moon.
The blade was extremely swift and the angle was also very tricky. The instant she raised her hand to block Xiao Lan’s attack, the blade reached her.
It promptly pierced her chest.
Xiao Lan could clearly see through her chest wound to the other side.
But Lady Red Moon with her perforated chest didn’t react to being heavily injured at all. Her movements paused slightly because of the head-on attack, but she soon recovered.
It was as if it was just a small cut.
Dai Bumao saw this on the side. “What the fuck, what is she?!”
Zhang Qi was also astonished. “This isn’t human at all ba!”
Xiao Lan frowned. “How troublesome ah…”
Not dying even with heavy injuries and her swift healing were very similar to Adeline. Lady Red Moon was probably a cursed puppet as well.
But through her ragged clothing, he couldn’t find any signs of the mysterious script on Lady Red Moon’s body.
Adeline’s weak point had been visible, but none could be found at all on Lady Red Moon.
Winning with a critical one-hit attack would be very hard.
Did they have to tear apart her entire body?
But with such fierce combat strength, Lady Red Moon clearly wouldn’t just obediently wait for the players to tear her apart.
On the contrary, the possibility that they themselves were torn apart was higher.
Seeing the remaining time count down, Xiao Lan decided to switch tactics for the time being.
He gestured at Luo again and prepared to use the method they had employed with Adeline.
Luo nodded in agreement.
After exchanging a few blows, Luo seized the instant that Lady Red Moon’s back was facing Xiao Lan, and a pitch-black shadow instantly seized control of her shadow, forcing her to pause for a moment.
Lady Red Moon was clearly much stronger than Adeline, and she was still shifting slowly under this restraint.
Luo’s brow furrowed slightly and he increased the strength of his control.
But this speed was already no hindrance to Xiao Lan.
He instantly appeared behind Lady Red Moon and buried his blade in her back.
But Xiao Lan wasn’t done yet. After a successful attack, he used the momentum of his attack to increase his strength and make Lady Red Moon fall right down.
The sharp bone blade pierced Lady Red Moon’s body and sank straight down, nailing her firmly to the ground.
Xiao Lan suppressed Lady Red Moon with all his strength and hollered, “Now, go break the seal!”
They saw that Xiao Lan and Luo were unable to break away for the time being.
Dai Bumao and Zhang Qi exchanged a look. Zhang Qi’s bow released a bright light which headed towards the seal.
The cursed puppets in its way all bounced back from this light arrow, and a path was forcibly opened.
But it met more and more cursed puppets on the sides, and the arrow’s light grew fainter.
“Haa —” Dai Bumao shouted with great grandeur and rushed down the path opened by Zhang Qi.
He paid no attention to the cursed zombies on both sides as he brandished his glowing red fists and brutally punched the stone inscription seal.
With a rumble, the stone inscription shattered.
Finally, the last seal was also broken.
The entire Kriv Institute shook once more. This time, the scale of the quake was greater than ever.
Following the vibrations, there was rumbling from below the tower, as if something was emerging from within.
At that moment, the institute was set ablaze, and they could even hear the students’ flustered shouts. Fortunately, the fire was sparked in the four towers, which didn’t have any teachers or students staying in them.
Lady Red Moon struggled even harder. Even with Xiao Lan and Luo suppressing her together, they strained to do so.
Just as Xiao Lan felt that she was about to struggle free, a small girl’s voice rang out in the doorway.
“Mommy.”
The Adeline who had already turned into the snake woman appeared. Luckily, the door of this room was large enough for her to enter.
She didn’t blink as she stared intently at Lady Red Moon.
Under everyone’s gazes, Lady Red Moon’s expression transformed at this voice.
It was no longer cruel and cold, but turned animated and gentle.
She acted as if she had just woken up from a dream, and blankly surveyed her surroundings as if confused as to why her new students and new colleague were here.
After that, her gaze shifted to Adeline.
A panicked expression appeared on her face. “Adeline! Adeline, you cannot come out!!!”
She nervously looked at the nearby players. “You can’t hurt these children!!”
She turned her head to Adeline with pleading eyes. “Mommy is begging you, don’t be like this, okay… Mommy will find another way to save you, so don’t hurt them anymore, okay…”
For a time, the players’ feelings were a little complicated. They were familiar with this voice; it was the voice of the headmistress which they had heard in the last few days.
As the headmistress, Madam Wilder genuinely cared for her students. She had always struggled between her obsession to revive her daughter and guilt towards the students.
Perhaps this sort of dialogue had already occurred many times between her and the Adeline who had lost her humanity and only knew to slaughter. Unfortunately, she had never received a response before.
All the players understood Madam Wilder’s obsession with her daughter, yet she chose to protect the students at this moment.
However, she had no idea that the source of the students’ nightmares were in fact, not Adeline.
Instead —
It was her.
Adeline approached slowly. She pointed a jade-like finger at her mother. “Mommy, look around you. Do you still remember what you did?
“Look at yourself, at your appearance…”
Hearing this, Madam Wilder surveyed her surroundings again.
It was only now that she realised that her beloved students were more wary of her than they were of the monster-like Adeline. Their eyes were filled with restrained fear, and they had injuries from a battle.
And surrounding them were scattered fragments of cursed puppet.
She was very familiar with these puppets; they were her work.
In the reflection of the shattered glass on the ground, she saw her own face.
It was a completely unfamiliar, beautiful and alluring female face.
Madam Wilder was stunned. She touched her face in disbelief.
Seeing that she would no longer attack, Xiao Lan put away his blade as well.
He stood on the side quietly, waiting for the curtain to fall on the mother and daughter.
Madam Wilder stood up straight and stared in amazement at the empty hole that had appeared in her chest. It was healing at a visible rate, but there was no blood and no internal organs to be seen.
She looked at her shoulder. The dark purple flames from the previous battle were still there and the fire was spreading again. At the same time, there were traces of the skin she had torn off.
There was no flesh under the skin.
After that, she reached out to her clear and fair arm.
A layer of skin was torn off.
Two layers of skin were torn off.
She ripped off layer after layer of skin, and finally revealed bone.
The chunk of exposed bone was covered in the mysterious script Xiao Lan had seen.
No wonder they hadn’t been able to find Lady Red Moon’s weakness no matter what; it turned out that the script was all etched onto her bones.
“I…” Madam Wilder covered her face.
Her shoulders trembled, fully illustrating the pain in her heart right now.
The next second, she violently tore off her own face!
After tearing off a layer of skin, what was revealed was her original face.
Seeing her reflection, Madam Wilder’s face was blank, but tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes.
“What have I done…”
She remembered.
Remembered her own madness and cruelty under the red moon, remembered her spouse who had fallen in a pool of blood, remembered the students fleeing in terror.
It turned out…
The source of all the tragedies was her ah…
The fire in the institute was still spreading, even brightening up the sky.
The temperature in the tower was also rising, as if everyone was about to be engulfed in a large blaze.
Even with the players’ physical constitutions, they couldn’t stay here for long.
Who knew what material Adeline and Madam Wilder’s skins were made of, but they slowly began to melt in the high temperature around them.
Suddenly, a fair and slender hand stretched out towards Madam Wilder.
She looked up the arm; it was Adeline.
Madam Wilder’s voice trembled. “Adeline…”
Adeline stretched out both arms to hug her mother very tenderly. “Mommy, let’s leave ba…”
Madam Wilder didn’t resist, and allowed this daughter who seemed to have grown up in one night to hold her.
Adeline embraced Madam Wilder and slowly moved forward.
As she moved, drops of liquid from the melted skin dripped down to pave her way.
Up ahead was the raging fire.
Adeline didn’t stop at all. She hugged her mother and walked into the raging fire.
A young girl’s voice rang out from a distance. “We… should all… go to hell…
“Don’t be scared… Adeline will accompany mommy…”
Baobao Notes
While translating this, APP (translated by the great rainbowturtle) just completed translations. I absolutely love that novel, though using my brains on each arc to figure out the plot was super exhausting lmao. I’m really interested in these sort of mystery/puzzle UFs compared to the slightly more comedic ones. Maybe I could translate one like this in the future.
it’s scary and sad in the same time
thanks for the chapter~
🥺🥺😢
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
Oh, if it’s not too much can I ask what kind of novel APP is?
Thank you for the chapter!
It’s similar to this novel. It’s a horror game survival, where you enter an app that can make your deepest wish come true if you survive. The MC is schizophrenic and he enters the game to make his wish come true, which is to give his second personality a body
And the personality is the ML lol
Thank you, it sounds interesting, I’ll definitely check it out!
SO, if you like this novel, you’ll most likely like APP too since rainbowturtle actually recommended this novel for me to translate! APP is UF too, and is about a guy who enters his UF version to achieve his wish, which is to give his boyfriend, who is his alt personality but its complicated, a body! so they can date, obviously!
It’s a liiiittle comedic, but there’s also a whole lot of brain usage required (not because the arcs are complicated, but because the arc has twists and turns and a lot of really hidden ways you could die, and the protagonist figuring out the hidden pits at just the right time to not die. it’s the kind that makes you go, holy shit, that’s so fucking smart, what the hell.) and also a lot of imo, really likeable and unlikeable characters! go read it. NOW. also in case you didn’t know, app is in cg as well, probably the first novel when you’re in the UF category.
Gushing over \o>
Thank you very much for the recommendation, I loved the story!
Do you have link for that translated novel?
A novel where the MC is so narcissistic that he loves himself. Lol. 😂😂😂
Thanks for the chapter! ^^)❤
What does APP stand for?
Supernatural Movie Actor App. App for short.
Thx for the chappy
Ahh, the arc’s finally ending! Thanks so much for translating!(I think you forgot to erase this line: 简直跟不死系的boss差不多难缠。 and also 【剩余时间：00:04:59】 😀 )
Can they finally leave this place? :3
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
Oh… APP…. that novel killed my few remaining brain cells ;___; But it was good xDD
The ending tho. . . Chills!
I remember reading app, it was so cute and sweet, I basically just turned off my brain and let mc solve everything 😂
thanks for the chapter! <3
💜💜💜
It’s so sad :c
I-I’m not crying