Chapter 160
Lin Yi had seen this woman before.
This woman who looked to be in her forties.
He’d seen her in the mass gravesite!
The many female ghosts with identical faces who surrounded Lin Yi with every step he took.
Their faces were the face of Tang Fei’s mother.
Lin Yi lowered his head and wouldn’t look at her. His mind was buzzing right now. It was because he saw this face and his thoughts were thrown into disarray. It hadn’t been long after he came out of the 8-4 Rule World that he came here; before even getting enough good rest. Probably because he and Qin Zhou only had one day, his mood has actually been tense all this time. He was impatient to get out of here; for he and Qin Zhou to find their 21 schoolmates and return safely to school
So this face produced a psychological strike on Lin Yi. With the situation developing now, Lin Yi knew very well that escape route C was a dead end.
Unable to control his thoughts, Lin Yi could only lower his head and get the woman away from his sight. He needed to calm down lest ‘It’ appear at this inopportune time.
Qin Zhou reached out and grabbed him, pulling him behind him.
“Relax,” Qin Zhou said.
Lin Yi nodded.
Every participant had on an ugly expression. On the surface, the scene looked normal. A runaway child had been found by the police and was being handed over to their parent. However, the police’s words contained something very strange that made people ponder.
The policeman had said, ‘Your name is Tang Fei, isn’t that right? ’
He also said, ‘Your mother is here to pick you up. ’
Although the participants knew from the beginning that they were all playing the same role together, but after it being so clearly pointed out, a sense of weirdness penetrated into the marrow of everyone’s bones, like a water snake through their pores.
Tang Fei’s mother glanced at everyone. She didn’t seem excited to see her child. She was very calm. No trace of disappointment at Tang Fei was discernible from her eyes.
For situations like this, after the police lectures the child, they would often lecture the parent as well. Tang Fei’s mother listened silently.
When she heard the police say, “You have to be more patient with your child” she had no expression on her face. She just nodded and apologized, “My child is not sensible and has caused you trouble.”
After all, this was someone else’s family matter. No matter how much the police said, it was meaningless. They then simply asked Tang Fei’s mother to fill out their information and they had her take the participants away.
After Tang Fei’s mother filled out the information, her first words to ‘Tang Fei’ were: “Let’s go.”
The participants didn’t dare leave. They looked at Tang Fei’s mother in horror and then focused their attention on Qin Zhou, waiting for Qin Zhou to make a decision.
Qin Zhou stood up. He didn’t intend to tell the police what they experienced in Xiushen Academy; it would be useless. From what the villagers relayed to the police, it could be seen that when the Monster had set up this world, it made it so that the outside world would not help them.
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The reporter died; the villagers ignored them and police handed them over to Tang Fei’s mother.
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The police comforted, “We have already talked with your parent and she promised that she won’t beat you. Don’t worry about that. If she does beat you, you can come to us again. We’ll back you up!”
Xixi looked at the policeman in disbelief. She was sure that she mentioned the words “Xiushen Academy” but the policeman seemed not to have heard her at all…
Qin Zhou walked to the door and looked back. He could see that some of the participants wanted to stay in the police station.
It was actually useless, but Qin Zhou didn’t intend to push. The participants had pinned their hopes on the police station. Nothing he says would be of any use. Only when the participants are kicked out will they understand that the NPCs here won’t help them escape from Xiushen Academy.
He reached out and hooked the back of Lin Yi’s neck, gently rubbing a certain acupuncture point on Lin Yi’s back. “Are you feeling better?”
Lin Yi was about to speak when his eyes caught sight of Tang Fei’s mother at the door of the police station.
Tang Fei’s mother looked at them with complicated eyes.
Lin Yi recalled that the gazes of Tang Fei’s mothers had been different at the gravesite. No matter whether he was retreating or moving forward, he was always locked in the center of their sights, like hyenas staring at their prey.
As for Tang Fei’s mother in front of them, Lin Yi found hints of disgust and hatred in her eyes.
She was different from the women in the mass gravesite. In other words, she wasn’t one of them.
Qin Zhou followed Lin Yi’s gaze and looked into Tang Fei’s mother’s gaze.
Lin Yi had told everyone about his experience in the graveyard. Thinking of Lin Yi’s expression when he first saw Tang Fei’s mother, he asked in a low voice, “Is she the ghost you saw in the graveyard?”
Lin Yi shook his head and said, “They had her face though.”
Qin Zhou understood. “En.”
The police escorted out the participants who wanted to stay at the police station. Tang Fei’s mother said, “Let’s go.”
Tang Fei’s mother had spoken. Seeing Qin Zhou and Lin Yi following Tang Fei’s mother, those participants could only follow with their heads hung low. They didn’t even think about escaping. It was so strange here; even the police couldn’t help them. Where could they go to escape?
Tang Fei’s mother took them back home. She nothing at all to the participants on the way.
When she got home, she locked the door and went to her room.
The home had an area of about 140 square meters. Those participants in the living room watched Tang Fei’s mother close the door. They then all looked at Qin Zhou.
Hua Hua asked, “Now…are we just going to wait for those people to come?”
On the way back, they saw Tang Fei’s mother contacting Xiushen Academy.
Qin Zhou said, “En.”
Everyone looked at each other in dismay.
Xixi refused to give up. “Can we really not try to escape?”
“It’s useless.” Qin Zhou didn’t need to answer. Others already knew the answer. Ah Shan looked at Qin Zhou and said, “This isn’t the real world, is it? It’s like… like a dream. We are in the world of dreams.”
One could put it that way. Qin Zhou said again: “En.”
After getting Qin Zhou’s answer, Ah Shan looked at Qin Zhou and then at Lin Yi beside Qin Zhou. “You guys… this isn’t your first time.”
Lin Yi looked at Qin Zhou. He found that Qin Zhou had suddenly frowned after being asked this question, as if he’d suddenly thought of something.
Ah Shan said quickly, “I’m just asking. It’s fine if it’s not convenient for you to answer.”
Qin Zhou was silent for a while and then said, “It’s not the first time. We’ve been through this many times.”
He said, “Have you ever heard of the Unnatural Engineering University?”
Lin Yi’s heart suddenly tightened.
He realized what Qin Zhou was doing.
Students of the Unnatural Engineering University get to the school after being selected, after which outsiders will no longer remember them. It’s like being bound and having to stay in school almost all your life.
Even if they leave school during the holidays and go to the outside world to take a breather, no one would think of asking for help.
The Student Union made no stipulation that students cannot mention the Unnatural Engineering University to the outside world. It was unnecessary, because no one would believe that there was such a place in the world. No one would believe the existence of Monsters unless they personal experience it.
But most importantly, it was because after witnessing so many deaths in the Unnatural Engineering University, they have come to realize the fact that people have no way to compete with the unknown power of the school so it was useless even if they ask for help.
All they could do was to come up with countermeasures for each of the Rules in the campus rulebook to increase their survival rate.
Qin Zhou now admitted and mentioned the ‘Unnatural Engineering University’. He wasn’t asking for help from people outside the university. He was trying to ask the 0-1 Monster for help.
Their hypothesis regarding Rule 0-1 was that the entire school was one massive Rule and the Rules in the campus rulebook were subsidiary to Rule 0-1, they were Monsters kept by Rule 0-1.
The Monsters hidden in these small Rules didn’t appear out of thin air. There was evidence of their existence in the real world.
So could they hypothesize that every Monster actually started as a wild Monster, only that they had been conquered by the 0-1 Monster?
Now this high-level Monster was loose in the real world. Unlike the Monsters in the campus rulebook, it hasn’t been tamed by the 0-1 Monster so it wasn’t bound by any rules and relied entirely on its own ideas to kill.
So Qin Zhou was trying something. He told these participants about the existence of the Unnatural Engineering University. If the Rule 0-1 hypothesis is true, the 0-1 Monster will most likely be angered by his actions.
It was obvious that the 0-1 Monster didn’t want more people knowing the existence of the Unnatural Engineering University, otherwise it wouldn’t erase the outside world’s memories of them. It also wouldn’t make the Unnatural Engineering University invisible.
No one has mentioned the Unnatural Engineering University to the outside world so no one knows what would happen if it were mentioned.
Qin Zhou was now the first person; just to see if the enraged 0-1 Monster would come here.
If it comes, even at the cost of having the Rule 0-1 hypothesis be established, Qin Zhou believed that the 0-1 Monster, fond as it was of raising other Monsters, wouldn’t let this high-level Monster go.
“No…no?”
“Is this a university?”
Unsurprisingly, the other participants hadn’t heard of the University of Unnatural Engineering.
While the people from Xiushen Academy had yet to arrive, Qin Zhou laid bare the background of the Unnatural Engineering University. “A university full of Monsters…”
Everyone listened carefully, with fear on their faces. They had personally experienced the strangeness of their situation. Of course, they accepted everything Qin Zhou said. They believed every word Qin Zhou said.
And they sighed in their hearts, ‘no wonder Qin Zhou and Lin Yi are so calm. It turns out that they have experienced this kind of thing more than once’.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Lin Yi tried his best to act natural. He couldn’t help feeling awkward, unable to remain calm at all.
He was afraid that Qin Zhou would really provoke the 0-1 Monster into coming here. Firstly, he was worried about Qin Zhou’s safety and secondly, he was afraid that the 0-1 Monster would emerge from his body.
He began to regret why he didn’t explain it clearly to Qin Zhou on the way here…
Lin Yi couldn’t sit still and stood up quickly.
Everyone was startled by his move.
“I…I’m going to look if there are any clues here.” When Qin Zhou also looked over, Lin Yi scratched his nose.
Qin Zhou said, “Be careful.”
Lin Yi nodded.
He turned around and looked around the house.
After leaving the group, Lin Yi snuck a peek at Qin Zhou from out the corner of his eye. Qin Zhou was saying, “There are 16 pages of campus rules and there are 8 Monsters on each page.”
Someone did the math, “16 times 8, doesn’t that mean 128 Monsters?!”
Qin Zhou added, “And with the 0-1 Monster, 129 Monsters.”
Lin Yi stood in the corner, staring up at Qin Zhou’s back.
Qin Zhou brought up the 0-1 Monster at every instance. It was obvious that he was trying to provoke the 0-1 Monster.
As he looked, he suddenly felt very angry.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
The sudden anger!!!!!
So ‘It’ really is the 0-1 monster?!!!!
Ayyyyy! I got first comment! ☺️
But seriously, I didn’t expect it to be confirmed like this!
My question is, is the anger from ‘it?’ Or is the anger from Lin Yi being angry at Qin Zhou putting himself in danger so much? The intensity of “suddenly very angry” makes me feel like it’s coming from ‘it’ but I’m not positive.
Thank you for the chapters 😍 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Oooooh a double update! We are truly blessed! Thank you for the hard work!
nooo lin yi my boy you need to hold it back a little longer 🥺