Chapter 41: Torrential Rain

Lu Feng sat on the sofa, his gaze powerless and confused.

The night was already deep.

The quartz clock on the wall pointed to two o’clock in the morning, yet he felt no sleepiness at all.

Thinking about the desperate situation they were now in, Lu Feng could not help but let out a bitter laugh—

When the game had just begun, Wu Fan fell to his death.

Afterwards, the Evil Spirit killed Su Qi.

And just within this single day, after killing Yin Jia at dawn, the Evil Spirit possessed Bai Quye at night and killed thirteen people in one breath.

Grade 3 Class 2 originally had thirty-seven people.

Now only twenty-one remained…

According to the first rule of the game: 「An Evil Spirit will appear in the game scenario.

Every two days, the Evil Spirit will kill one surviving player.

Until the number of surviving players falls below half, the game will end with the Evil Spirit’s victory」

That meant the Evil Spirit only needed to kill three more people for this game to end, and the Evil Spirit Followers would win.

At that time, everyone except for the Evil Spirit Followers would be erased.

Then what about their own side, the completion of their victory conditions?

It was almost nothing.

Apart from learning the name of the Evil Spirit, none of the other victory conditions had been achieved.

As for the five Evil Spirit Followers, let alone finding them, they barely had any suspects at all.

And when today’s dawn passed and tomorrow came, the Evil Spirit would be able to kill again… By then, they would only have twenty people left.

They had already… reached a dead end.

In this game, the Evil Spirit Followers had almost already won.

No matter how he thought about it, Lu Feng could not find any hope of turning the situation around.

Closing his eyes in despair, Lu Feng only felt a kind of indescribable exhaustion.

He suddenly felt so tired.

If only all of this were just a dream…

When he woke up, he would find that everything he was experiencing now was nothing more than an overly vivid nightmare.

Yu Mo would still be downstairs as usual, holding the breakfast she had just bought, waiting to go to school with him…

That was right, the college entrance examination was just one month away.

With Lu Feng’s grades, it should not be difficult to get into his dream university, and Yu Mo would probably follow him into the same school, even the same major.

The two of them would spend four beautiful years of university life together…

Just the thought of it painted a scene that anyone would long for.

But all of that had ended on that day.

From the day Lu Feng came to the school, the normal world and life had completely departed from them…

Lin You and Zhang Tong sat silently nearby, their faces ashen—

They were not stupid, and they too understood just how bad the situation really was.

Because of that, they felt the same despair as Lu Feng.

After a long silence, Lu Feng finally spoke, his voice hoarse as he asked,

“Where are Yu Mo and Liuli…?”

Lin You shook his head.

“I don’t know.

We haven’t seen them since we separated yesterday.”

“I see…”

Lu Feng nodded.

That was probably for the best.

If he saw that kind of scene, he might never want to eat in the dining hall again.

“All right, all right… staying here won’t help. You two should go back and rest.”

Lu Feng slightly lifted his head and spoke to the two of them.

After a moment of silence, Lin You and Zhang Tong silently nodded, then stood up together and left the room.

Bang!

The door closed, and Lu Feng was left alone in the room.

He did not know how much time had passed before hoarse growls and the sound of glass shattering came from within.

…

The sky above the old mansion was forever shrouded in dark clouds.

At seven o’clock, the drizzle began outside.

Not long after, thunder rumbled.

The drizzle turned into a downpour.

Violent raindrops pounded against the walls of the old mansion, as though they wanted to smash the decaying residence to pieces.

Flashes of lightning lit up the sky from time to time, casting yet another layer of eerie gloom over the despair-filled mansion.

Inside a not-so-bright room, only the figure of one girl could be seen.

She sat gracefully on the sofa, legs crossed, leisurely savoring the hot tea in her cup.

Perhaps the tea tasted good, for she revealed a satisfied smile.

Just then, the door to her room was suddenly knocked on, and Zhang Yifeng’s voice came from outside,

“Ningning, are you inside?”

The uninvited guest at the door had clearly disturbed the girl’s peace, making her frown.

Dong Ningning stood up and put on her clothes, covering her delicate figure with fabric that was not all that thick, then walked toward the door with a face full of impatience.

When the door opened, Zhang Yifeng’s plump body came into her sight.

“What is it?”

She asked emotionlessly.

“N-no, nothing… I was just a little worried about you…”

There was gentleness in Zhang Yifeng’s eyes.

“About what happened in the dining hall last night, you…”

“Mm, I know.” Dong Ningning interrupted coldly.

“Oh, oh, that’s… that’s good then…”

Zhang Yifeng nodded repeatedly, then continued,

“Ningning, you know too, if this keeps up, the Evil Spirit Followers are going to win… If we don’t find those people soon, we’re all going to die!”

“…So what?”

“So…”

At that, Zhang Yifeng put on a secretive expression, lowering his voice as he leaned close to Dong Ningning’s ear and said,

“I already know who the Evil Spirit Followers are!”

Hearing this, Dong Ningning’s expression changed slightly, and she could not help but shift her gaze to him.

“The Evil Spirit Followers… who are they?”

“Lin You, Lu Feng, Zhang Tong, Yu Mo, and Luo Yuqi—the one who wasn’t killed by Bai Quye!”

Zhang Yifeng spoke with a vicious look.

“Lin You and Lu Feng have always been secretly doing something, but they never told anyone else!”

“My guess… is that they’re trying to be the first to find clues to completing the tasks, then deliberately destroy them so that no one else can possibly complete the two victory conditions!”

“Oh… is that so?”

Dong Ningning hid the uncontrollable smile tugging at her lips and continued asking calmly,

“Then… that girl who’s always with Lu Feng, Liuli, why don’t you suspect her?”

“Her…”

Asked like that, Zhang Yifeng scratched his head.

“I don’t think she fits… After all, it’d be way too obvious if all five Evil Spirit Followers gathered together.”

“Mm… that does make sense.

Then why do you suspect Luo Yuqi?”

“Because she wasn’t killed by the Evil Spirit!”

Zhang Yifeng revealed a confident smile.

“I thought of it yesterday—the Evil Spirit Followers probably won’t be attacked by the Evil Spirit!”

As he spoke, he explained his reasoning to Dong Ningning.

“…Why did everyone else in the dining hall die, yet she alone survived? That’s clearly abnormal!”

Zhang Yifeng’s gaze turned dark and sinister as he declared firmly,

“So, she must be an Evil Spirit Follower!”

Dong Ningning showed an expression of sudden realization and looked at Zhang Yifeng with admiring eyes.

“You’re amazing! You actually found all five Evil Spirit Followers at once!”

“Haha, no, no, it’s just normal reasoning, that’s all.”

Enjoying the admiration in her eyes, Zhang Yifeng could not help but float a little.

Just then, Dong Ningning spoke again,

“Then… do you have any way to prove that these people really are Evil Spirit Followers?”

“Hehe, I’ve already thought of a way.”

A cold smile appeared on Zhang Yifeng’s bloated face.

“Normal means definitely won’t make them admit it, so I plan to tell everyone else my suspicions and have them help me.”

“Help you? Help you with what?”

“Help me…”

He paused, then spoke viciously,

“With torture!”

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