The Park
Next to the snowy pavilion in the park.
Two figures stood silently on the frozen lake...
Their black hair was now dusted with white specks.
On their long eyelashes.
Were the droplets where the snowflakes had melted.
The distance between the two was not far, just two steps away if either of them wished to close the gap...
After a moment, she turned to look at the inky black sky.
Then glanced at the girl in front of her, who was half a head shorter.
"Tell me, should I call you Thiên Nga or Hoàng Lan?"
Hoàng Lan lowered her head slightly at the question.
She looked at the bracelet she had put on not long ago.
"Does the name matter?"
"After all, it's still me, isn't it?"
Then Hoàng Lan sighed.
She took a step back, maintaining the distance between her and Thanh Linh.
This action was naturally noticed.
She knew what the other was thinking...
No matter the time or the situation, all the other person had to do was continue to blockade this place.
To keep the warmth and harmony here...
People are hard to change.
Thanh Linh was well aware of this.
"Do you think I'm wrong?"
Taking a step back, Hoàng Lan raised her head and asked Thanh Linh, a faint smile playing on her lips, as if she was relieved.
"No."
There was a simple answer to this question.
"But why... why do I always have to be treated like this? Finally, I have my own world, a world where I can feel at peace."
"But now it's about to be shattered like this?"
"Do you want to drag me back to those dark and deadly days again?"
As Hoàng Lan spoke.
Thanh Linh listened quietly.
She did not make a sound to interrupt, nor did she show much expression on her face.
It seemed she was just listening to Hoàng Lan speak and thinking carefully.
"Do you know... today is my birthday."
"In fact, I knew this would trouble me, but I thought it would last a little longer, at least until the end of today..."
"After my brother and father brought the birthday cake from outside, our family happily sang the birthday song for me, had dinner together, watched TV together, and... as usual..."
"But it was too fast, much faster than I thought."
"When my brother and father left, I knew they wouldn't come back and wouldn't bring me a birthday cake."
"At that moment, I really wanted them not to leave..."
"But the abilities that Sister Trần Thiên Nga taught me had lost their effectiveness, I had no way to keep them."
Hoàng Lan stopped here.
Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes, rolling down like a wronged child.
Thanh Linh watched the tears well up in Hoàng Lan's eyes.
Trying to maintain her calm demeanor.
She knew.
This girl's mind was completely disturbed...
The world is always unequal.
From the moment of birth.
Everyone's script is like a frame nailed to spotted and old walls.
If you want to break free.
It will inevitably cause pain...
"You know better than anyone else that this world is artificial."
"I knew from the beginning, they were just puppets appearing from your memories, always facing the truth, sinking deeper into dreams will only cause more suffering."
She took slow steps forward.
Trying to close the distance between her and Hoàng Lan.
Compared to Hoàng Lan.
She could understand herself better than the other...
A stubborn, poor, but resilient girl.
In contrast to others.
For everyone, this was a dangerous world of ghosts where a careless life would be taken.
For Hoàng Lan, it was heaven.
This sounded too ironic...
"Do you know what my birthday wish is today?"
Hoàng Lan looked at Thanh Linh and asked gently.
She did not intend to wait for an answer.
After a moment of silence following the question, she mumbled the answer to herself.
"I hope that I can become an ordinary girl."
Becoming a normal person.
What a distant wish...
...
"Who's there?!"
Hearing the cough from the bed in the medical room, Hoàng Tuân immediately tensed up.
Regardless of whether the person here was human or not.
Coughing in such a quiet setting, the invisible monster searching for him outside would surely become aware of the noise coming from this room.
Thud, thud, thud...
Sure enough.
After the cough, Hoàng Tuân felt something outside approaching him.
The gourd had an invisibility effect.
But Dương Khánh Vĩ also told him that this gourd came from a very ordinary novel world, so its effectiveness would not be very strong. There was no guarantee that the gourd could allow one to pass by the monster unnoticed.
Therefore, after the thing appeared.
There was still a chance it could tear him apart...
"The main thing is invisibility!"
Hoàng Tuân did not stay at the door too long, feeling his way around, moving to the corner where the door handle was.
This way.
If the monster opened the door, he could hide behind it.
After the thing entered, he would sneak out through the door.
This was normal for anyone who had ever played hide and seek.
He just hoped the thing didn't have too high an IQ...
"Ahem!"
The person lying on the hospital bed began to cough again.
Hoàng Tuân stared at his novel panel, paying attention to the movements outside, while also keeping an eye on the bed hidden by the white curtain.
Whether the coughing thing over there was human.
He did not know.
He could only tense his nerves to the maximum, dealing with the various accidents that might happen next.
Creak...
The door was opened.
Hoàng Tuân's attention was completely focused on everything around him.
"The door... it moved!"
"Did something come in? I can't see anything!"
"The monster must be invisible. By the way, there's coughing on the bed, if not handled correctly, he could be attacked from both sides."
"Don't be noisy! The person on the hospital bed must be human, otherwise, he would have acted when he entered the room..."
"Some strange rules are not activated immediately, but there is a process..."
"Could he die here?"
"..."
Those witnessing the scene.
And indeed sweating for Hoàng Tuân.
How many people could experience being sought by a monster that could kill, just a few steps away?
Furthermore, it was invisible.
Not knowing whether one's head might suddenly fall off at any moment...
...
"Who's there?"
At this time.
The man lying on the hospital bed seemed to unconsciously ask because he heard the door move.
Listening to the state of the sound.
The body must be very weak...
Hearing this sound, Hoàng Tuân suddenly felt familiar, recalling the doctor who had talked to him in this very medical room.
"It's him?"
"Why is he still here?"
"If he was involved in breeding monsters, he should have known about it before anyone else, so he should have left early."
While Hoàng Tuân was puzzled.
The monster that opened the door also walked in.
Just by the sound, it seemed not to have discovered him, with footsteps heading straight towards the hospital bed.
Swipe!
The white curtain was suddenly pulled back as if someone was doing magic.
Hoàng Tuân knew it had reached the hospital bed, perhaps even staring at the man lying there.
Because the environment was too dark.
He couldn't see what the man looked like.
But.
Since the monster wasn't paying attention to him at the moment, he couldn't stay here any longer.
If he waited for the gourd's effect to wear off.
Then he would become the target...
Behind him was an invisible monster that could kill him at any moment; there was no need to think to know this was very unpleasant.
Thinking.
Hoàng Tuân moved his body.
Slowly leaving the medical room, trying not to make a sound, then headed to the other end of the hallway.
"The door there was closed by it, maybe it won't open either, leading to a dead end."
Hoàng Tuân made his way to the computer room based on his memory.
When the door didn't open, he remembered that the window in the computer room could be broken with the axe.
Going out from there.
There would be fewer problems...
Having been in the dark environment for a long time.
Hoàng Tuân's eyes gradually adjusted to this feeling.
Though it was still hard to see clearly, he could mostly make out some vague outlines, not needing the flashlight to find the computer room.
"No, I'm not here to play Battle Royale, I'm here to find the source of the curse..."
Just as Hoàng Tuân was about to leave, he suddenly thought of this.
When he was in danger, the idea of escape caused by his brain made him forget his main task.
"That school doctor should know something, I must go back and save him!"
Hoàng Tuân felt very frustrated.
He really hated puzzle-solving and object-finding games like this.
In contrast.
Having a dozen ghosts chasing him in a Battle Royale, he would be somewhat more willing...
Hoàng Tuân didn't hesitate much.
Because he knew his time was running out.
The monster might have picked up something sharp and was about to hack at the doctor lying on the hospital bed.
If he delayed a bit longer.
He feared he would only see a corpse when he returned...
Opening the novel panel.
Hoàng Tuân quickly found the strange lines of text, spending a word to modify it.
[He couldn't see...]
[Hahaha!]
[Of course, he couldn't see it!]
​[Temporarily not auto-editing]
​[Manually editing]
​[Remaining words for editing: 2]
[He could see...]
After finishing the first modification.
The text lines talking about not seeing turned into seeing for Hoàng Tuân and automatically displayed.
Not much different from Hoàng Tuân's previous inference.
The novel's ability to change the plot is not frustrated by this world or any external reason.
Just like this repair.
The outline of the novel was not touched, so the revision was successful.
There was nothing unexpected like last time...
…
"Hey hey, didn't he run out? Why did he run back?"
"Is there something outside?"
"No, even if there's something outside, you can't run back. It's obvious that a monster has just entered!"
"Look, he's raised his ax!"
"What is the man doing?"
"Are you crazy? Is he slashing the air!"
"..."
…
That monster's appearance is actually quite cute.
How does this say.
Hoang Tuan thought it looked like a pig-headed dog and could stand on two legs.
When he rushed in.
The pig-headed dog opened its mouth wide, intending to bite the man in the hospital bed.
Under urgent circumstances.
He directly pulled out his ax and slashed it down furiously!
Bring the pig-headed dog down to the ground...
"What are you doing? Why are you running back?"
Duong Khanh Vi's voice rang in Hoang Tuan's ears.
He didn't understand why Hoang Tuan ran back and slashed into the air. He wondered if Hoang Tuan's mind was being influenced by evil spirits.
There's a bit of chaos in my mind...
A monster cannot be killed.
Hoang Tuan knows this.
When he saw the pig-headed dog in front of him stand up again as if nothing had happened and turned its target towards him again, his heart suddenly sank.
Since the ax couldn't cause any significant damage to it, he wouldn't continue chopping like an idiot.
Take advantage of the space before the pig-headed dog completely unleashes its attack.
Hoang Tuan quickly carried the man in the hospital bed on his shoulders and rushed out!
Thanks to the physical enhancement that the ax gave him.
His movements were almost smooth and quick.
It's like running in and taking away a baby chicken...
When going out the door.
Hoang Tuan slammed the door!
Lock the pig-headed dog in the medical room.
"I wonder if this door can be delayed for a while..."
It's just that Hoang Tuan just had this thought and a few seconds later, there was a loud explosion from the door behind him!
The pig-headed dog directly smashed the door and looked fiercely at Hoang Tuan who had left.
"His speed is almost half as slow as mine. As long as there are no more problems, I can carry this guy and escape safely."
Hoang Tuan carried the school doctor to the computer room.
Then he rushed straight to the window, carrying the school doctor with his left hand, and using his right hand to slash at the window with an ax!
The sound of the metal ax blade hitting the glass was deafening.
The school doctor was carried on Hoang Tuan's shoulders.
Not long after waking up, combined with the bumps on the road and the uncomfortable feeling of his stomach being upset, he was startled by this sound.
He could barely contain the feeling of dizziness and wanting to vomit...
After a few knocks on the door.
The window shattered!
Hoang Tuan jumped out the window with the school doctor on his shoulders.
Meanwhile, the doctor's body was inevitably scratched by a piece of glass, causing him to groan in pain...
...
"So handsome!"
"It turns out that returning to save people is truly a man."
"His observation skills are really good, just now I couldn't see anything in that dark space, I could only hear someone coughing, still wondering if that cough was a child. human or not..."
"He directly discovered that it was the victim, and even risked his life to rescue him!"
"Actually, it's lucky I didn't say anything before. If I were allowed to go, I guess something would have happened while I was on that bridge..."
"Brother, come on!"
"We have to be careful, everyone pay attention to each other, don't let unexpected things happen again!"
"..."
Duong Khanh Vi sat on the ground.
Seeing this scene through the crystal ball with a pale face.
His focus of observation is different from others.
Must know.
He had broken into Tran Hung Dao High School to investigate before, and he was not impressed with the people working there.
While lamenting Hoang Tuan's neat movements.
He also looked at the face of the school doctor being held by Hoang Tuan...
"According to what Hoang Tuan said, isn't this person a member of that group of breeders? Why is he still in school?"