"…"
"It's Hoàng Lan..."
"Well, this world wasn't created by my mother; only Hoàng Lan wants to stay here."
From the school doctor's account, Hoàng Tuân understood everything.
He hadn’t actually been assimilated.
What he previously understood remained true.
It was just that after talking with the school doctor, Hoàng Lan hid in a dark corner and altered his memory.
This made him think that he had tacitly agreed to the school doctor’s group breeding these so-called ghosts...
In reality.
That day, Hoàng Lan had hypnotized him.
After subduing the two guards, he controlled the school doctor at this location.
This made their ghost breeding plan impossible.
In this way, Hoàng Lan's world could exist well, and she could continue living a happy and fulfilling life.
"But if I stopped the ghost breeding while hypnotized, then what caused the black clouds to appear?"
Hoàng Tuân had found a problem.
He also wanted to understand many things at once.
For example, how could such a big turmoil happen just from breeding these ghosts...
For example, when he met Dương Khánh Vĩ and went home that day, he saw Trần Thiên Nga squatting strangely in the bathroom corner, and Hoàng Lan entering right before he passed out...
The unfortunate thing was that Hoàng Tuân had thought that every time a ghost appeared, he would lose his memory afterward.
But now he realized.
Every time a ghost appeared at home, it was a real occurrence, but Hoàng Lan and his mother protected the three of them...
Recalling the first night he came to this world.
He heard noises in his wardrobe.
When he was about to deal with it, his mother was already waiting at the door...
To prevent him from being hurt and scared.
After his mother suppressed the ghost in the wardrobe.
Hoàng Lan erased his memory.
So that Hoàng Tuân could wake up peacefully the next day and continue living...
"Do you know who did this?"
Hoàng Tuân pointed to the black cloud overhead and asked the school doctor.
"I don’t know... I just woke up to find it like this. The ghosts we bred wouldn't result in this. Before breeding, we ensured it wouldn’t break the balance due to any errors."
The school doctor replied shakily.
Hoàng Tuân was also convinced.
These black clouds were caused by a third party.
A third party hoped that the rules of this world would be broken, opening up an escape route...
"Khánh Vĩ, do you know any other information about these black clouds?"
Hoàng Tuân stood up and asked aloud.
The school doctor didn't understand who Hoàng Tuân was talking to...
"I know a bit, but not much. I remembered this after hearing you ask him and him answering."
On the other side, Dương Khánh Vĩ weakly replied.
"Alright, tell me." Hoàng Tuân said.
"Do you remember the disc I lent you? That thing has a warning function, which means I can foresee the appearance of something ghostly."
"Before the black clouds appeared, I predicted a disaster, so I went straight to the city's emergency report center and contacted the leaders of this world... the ones I pointed out to you earlier."
"So right after the black clouds appeared, I requested he broadcast a warning to the entire city and then evacuate the people."
"When I heard what the person in front of you said just now, I also felt they hadn’t completed the ghost breeding."
"Anyway, when I became aware of this situation, that is, when the ghost first appeared, it had already formed on such a large scale."
"That makes sense... Ghost breeding should progress gradually from weak to strong, but I feel like the black clouds have always been like this, just released by someone now."
"You can think of it like the scenario of unsealing in TV dramas to understand..."
Hearing Dương Khánh Vĩ speak.
Hoàng Tuân took the disc out of his pocket and repeatedly rubbed it in his hand.
This disc had a warning function.
He had experienced it along the way...
But.
From Hoàng Tuân's impression, when the black clouds appeared and the alarm sounded, relying on this disc wouldn't be possible.
Making an alarm sound seemed easy.
But Hoàng Tuân knew, if Dương Khánh Vĩ wanted to do that, he had to do it in order, ensuring nothing unexpected happened.
It should have been prepared in advance...
"Can the early warning function of this disc reach that level?"
Hoàng Tuân didn't directly ask this question.
He knew Dương Khánh Vĩ wanted to hide some secrets.
Regarding the preparations for this.
Dương Khánh Vĩ might have other methods...
Since he didn’t want to talk about it.
Hoàng Tuân didn't ask further.
Whether it was the disc's function or not didn’t matter.
What mattered was what Dương Khánh Vĩ just mentioned.
The appearance of the black clouds didn’t look like the process of ghost breeding...
Instead, it looked like something suddenly unsealed and released outside.
"Who is the third party hiding?"
Hoàng Lan was impossible.
She wanted to stay and maintain this world.
She couldn’t do such a thing to undermine herself, and if she really wanted to break the rules of this place, she only needed to break the assimilation.
No need to try to release another ghost...
"The person who can release the black clouds covering the entire city won’t be a simple character."
Hoàng Tuân couldn’t think of who the third party was.
After thinking for a while, he could only give up.
Anyway.
The black clouds spread from "Trần Hưng Đạo High School."
Even if the school group didn’t complete the ghost breeding, the original source of the curse might still be in this school.
Time was running out.
He had to resolve this quickly...
"Are you sober now? Run out, head towards Nam Hoa Tower, the farther away from here, the better."
Hoàng Tuân turned to the school doctor and said.
To let the other leave.
To avoid him unexpectedly causing trouble when he went further, creating stupid plot twists that would worsen everything.
Hoàng Tuân showed him the way.
"Huh, can I... really leave?"
The school doctor heard this.
He couldn’t believe it.
He stared at Hoàng Tuân and asked again to make sure he heard right.
It seemed Hoàng Tuân scared him more than the eerie black clouds overhead...
"Yeah."
Hoàng Tuân nodded.
Receiving this response, the school doctor immediately stood up from the ground, ignoring the glass scratches on his body, with a smile on his face.
Limping away from this place...
The school doctor had left.
Whether he could reach Nam Hoa Tower safely or not.
It wasn’t Hoàng Tuân's concern.
After dealing with the immediate problem.
Hoàng Tuân turned and walked towards the teaching building.
As of now.
The probability of the original source of the curse hiding in the medical room was almost nonexistent...
Since Hoàng Lan was the one who delivered food to the school doctor every day.
The original source of the curse restraining Hoàng Lan would definitely be far from this place and harder to find.
Looking at the entire "Trần Hưng Đạo High School."
The farthest place from the medical room.
Would surely be the rooftop...
Usually, to prevent accidents when students go up there, the rooftop is locked, and students are not allowed to go up.
Although the principal's office also forbids students from entering.
But as the original source of the curse released by the third party.
It shouldn’t be in the principal's office...
The sound of shoes lightly stepping on the snow echoed in his ears.
The cold wind pierced through Hoàng Tuân’s pants, making him shiver.
Blowing across the dark school.
With only the flashlight in his hand, he had barely a faint light...
Following his memory.
Hoàng Tuân went to the corner of the teaching building’s staircase...
…
After escaping from Hoàng Tuân, the school doctor was nearly exhausted, running quickly away from this place.
Regarding Nam Hoa Tower, which Hoàng Tuân had mentioned.
He wouldn’t go.
Just thinking about being imprisoned and living a life worse than death, he felt extreme fear.
He feared that after reaching Nam Hoa Tower.
It would be a trap set by Hoàng Tuân.
The other would tie him up again, or directly kill him...
To prevent such things from happening.
So he chose another path.
A path opposite to Nam Hoa Tower...
"When I leave this world, I won’t let you off easily!"
The school doctor gritted his teeth.
Thinking to himself.
And as he was about to run to the school gate, he saw a slender figure standing at the gate.
The figure stood in the cold wind.
Letting the snowflakes fall on her head...
Her beautiful face had some wrinkles from weathering, making her look even colder in this environment.
It was a woman.
A woman he had never met, with no memory of.
"Who is it? Why are you here?"
Facing this strange scene.
The school doctor gradually slowed down.
He had a bad feeling, always thinking that if he passed by, something bad would happen.
"The surrounding atmosphere is not right, this woman is also not right, who would stand here in this freezing night?"
He stopped.
Looking at the woman, he hesitated whether to continue or not.
While he was thinking.
The woman also looked at him.
Her eyes were emotionless, like a deep stagnant pool, unable to create any ripples.
"No, I can’t go there, this woman has issues..."
The school doctor seemed to realize something.
He immediately gave up the school gate more than 20 meters away, turned around, and directly escaped through the school’s back gate.
But.
Just as he turned back.
He found that the woman had somehow reached him first.
Staring at him!
He could even smell the detergent on the woman's clothes...
The school doctor's heart suddenly tightened.
"Right, the original source of the curse, my cursed item..."
The school doctor frantically searched his pockets, as if looking for something.
However, at this moment, he discovered with difficulty.
The original source of his curse had long been taken away by Hoàng Lan, who delivered meals...
Besides the clothes he was wearing.
He had nothing...
"What to do now?"
He swallowed.
His steps retreated a few paces, wanting to quickly leave this place before the woman attacked, staying out of her sight.
"Excuse me, have you seen my son?"
The woman spoke.
Her voice was as cold as her expression, devoid of any emotion.
"My son is a student at your school, his name is Hoàng Tuân."
"No... I didn't see him, I’m just passing by, there are people over there, you can go ask."
Hearing Hoàng Tuân’s name.
His heart grew even more alarmed.
He replied in denial, pointing in a random direction, trying to mislead the woman.
"Really?"
The woman took a step forward.
Narrowing the distance between them.
This made the school doctor’s heart leap to his throat...
"Yes, really!"
He continued.
The next second.
The school doctor only saw the woman's face suddenly become ferocious, and at the same time, she somehow pulled out a kitchen knife and slashed at him!
He wanted to dodge.
The woman's movements weren’t fast.
He felt that escaping wouldn’t be a problem!
But at this moment.
The school doctor felt his body was restrained by some force, unable to even move a finger.
"What is this..."
He still wanted to say something.
But the woman's kitchen knife was already at his neck.
Then she chopped his head off like cutting tofu...
White snow.
Sprinkled with red spots.
Like spilled paint.
Dyeing the woman’s feet bright red...
She lowered her head, looking at the school doctor, regretfully saying, "Why did you lie?"
...
…
Hoàng Tuân reached the second floor.
He felt something strange, the disc he was carrying seemed off, its temperature spiked at an incredible rate.
But only for a few seconds.
It became slightly hot.
To the left of the backpack...
He looked down the second-floor corridor, noticing the mural hanging on the wall seemed to be reviving, a shadow slowly crawling out of the painting.
At the end of the corridor was a creature resembling a gibbon or monkey.
Staring at him intently...
"Are those things starting to appear?"
Hoàng Tuân knew his time was running out.
If he took much longer.
He feared the strange beings that had appeared in the "Trần Hưng Đạo High School" script last time would gradually reappear.
He didn’t hesitate.
Directly started running...
At this moment, the distance from the rooftop was only two floors, less than a minute away.
After passing two flights of stairs.
The door locked with an iron chain appeared before Hoàng Tuân...
The chain lock on the door looked very new, it should have been replaced not long ago.
"Using an axe to split it would be somewhat unrealistic."
Hoàng Tuân put the axe back.
Now the target was in front of him.
If he took too long to break it, he would fail.
The gains wouldn’t outweigh the losses...
So, he went forward.
Grabbing the chain with both hands, hoping Dương Khánh Vĩ wouldn’t broadcast a close-up of his hands at this moment.
Several small eerie blades.
Emerged from his skin.
Facing the lock, they gnawed frantically...
"Click!"
The lock opened.
Hoàng Tuân pushed open the rooftop door.
In front of him was nothing...
The disc's temperature didn’t continue to rise, only maintaining its previous state.
"Not on the rooftop?"
"Why isn’t the original source of the curse on the rooftop?"
Hoàng Tuân suddenly thought of something.
He looked towards the garden below the teaching building...
"If it’s not on the rooftop, then could the big fish in the pond be the original source?"
Thinking about it.
Hoàng Tuân frustratingly turned around.
Failing this judgment.
Meant he had to go back down again, in the face of the possibly fully restored ghosts.
But when he reached the stairs.
A familiar figure stood not far away, blocking his path...
"Mother?"