Huang Tuan didn’t understand.
Why did his mother come to see him at this moment?
The staircase was silent.
He could even hear his own heartbeat...
"Mom is also a monster, but the assimilation power belongs to Hoang Lan."
Huang Tuan did not forget this.
He didn't know if the woman standing opposite him had been activated or not.
A mother who shares the same world as Hoang Lan.
Maybe she wouldn't allow him to break the rules of this world...
When the rules are broken.
Although Huang Tuan and his group could leave this world and return to reality.
But as the leader of this world.
Mother or Hoang Lan?
Huang Tuan didn't know what would happen to them.
All in all.
It's not a good thing...
The kitchen knife in the woman's hand.
The dark red bloodstain on it hadn't completely coagulated.
Under the flashlight in Huang Tuan’s hand.
It looked eerily seductive.
"Huang Tuan, where have you been?"
Mother said.
Her voice was very hoarse and unpleasant.
Huang Tuan could clearly feel that the other party was trying to suppress the monster within her from rioting.
Her face.
Constantly shifting between decay and recovery...
"I..."
Huang Tuan was about to speak.
But his mother interrupted him.
"Alright, you have to grow up too, and I can't always be by your side forever."
As she spoke, the woman walked towards Huang Tuan.
His nerves were stretched to the limit.
He wondered if his mother would chop him with the kitchen knife in her hand once she got close.
"Remember, take good care of yourself when I'm not around. Wear more clothes when it's cold, learn to cook for yourself. Don't always eat outside. Those things are bad for your health and have a huge impact on your body."
"If you get bullied or mistreated by others, come home and don't endure it alone..."
Mother walked up to Huang Tuan.
She rummaged through her pocket for a moment, finally taking out a rusty key and handing it to Huang Tuan.
"Here, this is the house key. If I'm not home, you can open the door yourself."
Huang Tuan took the key.
For some reason.
He could actually feel the warmth his mother had left on it...
How could a monster have warmth?
This strange feeling.
Made him feel a bit unreal...
The woman lightly patted the dust off his clothes, then turned aside, leaving a path for him to pass through.
Huang Tuan glanced at the woman.
It was hard for him to imagine that his mother had come here just to see him off.
She knew everything.
She also knew that he was going to leave...
Even.
She might know that he wasn't really her son...
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
Huang Tuan and his mother looked at each other.
Inexplicably.
He seemed to feel the reluctance and attachment in the other party’s eyes.
He wanted to say something.
In the end, he didn't know what to say.
Huang Tuan stretched his legs and walked towards the building step by step...
When his figure disappeared around the corner.
He left a sentence
"Mom, I understand..."
…
"Who was that woman?"
“I don't know, but they said she seemed to be the boy’s mother?”
“Ah, then why did she come to such a dangerous place, she should have stayed here with us to be safe…”
"Wait! Look at that woman, something’s wrong!"
"Her face has changed!"
"She's charging at the boy with the kitchen knife!"
"Brother, there’s danger!"
People were discussing.
They only saw that after Huang Tuan turned his back and walked down the stairs, the woman's body began to change grotesquely as he reached the corner.
Two drops of blood flowed from her eye sockets.
Terrifying and disgusting.
She held the kitchen knife still stained with blood and ran straight towards the departing Huang Tuan!
The distance between them.
Was only a few steps...
"Huang Tuan, be careful!"
Yang Khanh Vi reminded Huang Tuan through the crystal ball.
“Swish!”
The sound of flesh and blood being cut rang out.
Huang Tuan turned around.
Behind him...
Holding the kitchen knife, the woman had sliced the body of the "monkey" emerging from the shadows in two.
"Don't worry, let mom handle it."
Mother said with an unchanged expression.
Huang Tuan nodded.
Then ran downstairs without hesitation!
"Thank you, mom..."
…
“What the hell was that woman?”
"A monster? But why did she help the boy stop another monster?"
"Could it be that the rules of the monsters affect each other?"
"What kind of person is he?"
Everyone was confused.
They only saw Huang Tuan running down.
Whether it was the shadows emerging from the murals in the corridor, the tentacles protruding from a dark corner, or the strange butterflies flying in the air...
All of them were stopped by that strange woman.
The woman whom Huang Tuan called mom.
Holding a kitchen knife.
Blocking everything...
In fact, Huang Tuan had noticed when the "monkey" appeared, but just as he was about to deal with it.
He saw his mother’s actions after looking at the novel chart.
His mother never had any ill thoughts towards him from the beginning to the end.
At all times.
She wanted to protect him...
Even though Huang Tuan was not her real son.
But anyway.
A woman had once been his mother...
In a moment.
Huang Tuan reached the familiar pond.
The dark pond with still water seemed bottomless.
Only a few small goldfish swam in the pond...
When he reached the pond.
He also felt the temperature of the plate rising wildly.
Huang Tuan knew.
Besides these little fish.
In front of him was an even more terrifying big fish...
The edge of the pond.
In fact, the big fish was opening its mouth, containing the small fish within.
"Yang Khanh Vi, maybe I've found the source, what should I do now?"
Huang Tuan asked Yang Khanh Vi on the other end.
"Found it? Where is it?"
"In front of me is the pond, a big fish. You can see the small goldfish inside, they only live in its mouth. Simply put, the edge of the pond beside it is the lip of the big fish." Huang Tuan explained.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I’ve been to the post-novel world of Tran Hung Dao High School, so I know."
"What’s the rule of this big fish?"
"If I'm not mistaken, it will be triggered when approached, and it will swallow the creatures around it."
"Alright, you throw the two cursed sources I gave you as close to the big fish as possible, preferably directly into its mouth, but of course, be careful."
"Alright?"
"Yes, as long as after you trigger its rule, use the cursed sources from another world to counteract it, the interaction between the two will temporarily neutralize the rule, and we can leave this world during the interaction until it ends."
"Of course, the rule of this thing is too influential, I guess it will take the cooperation of the two cursed sources to be effective."
"Let me try..."
Huang Tuan didn’t expect the process to be so simple.
He just needed to throw the cursed source into the big fish’s mouth, to trigger the rule and let both influence each other.
Huang Tuan tilted his head.
He saw his mother standing in the hallway on the second floor of the teaching building.
Looking at him affectionately...
Memories of living together during this time flooded his mind immediately.
Waking up to delicious scallion fried noodles every morning.
The student uniforms on the balcony railings not yet dry...
Always being nagged.
A messy bedroom like a pigsty.
In the cold winter, clothes had to be worn in multiple layers.
Forced to be wrapped up like a chubby child...
When he returned home in the evening, there was always a figure busy in the kitchen, cutting vegetables on the chopping board and cooking delicious rib soup on the stove.
So far on Huang Tuan’s neck.
He still wore the scarf that his mother had tied when he went out…
He looked at his mother.
His mother was also looking at him.
Huang Tuan bowed to that figure, expressing his heartfelt gratitude for the care he had received during this time.
"Goodbye, mom."
He whispered.
Then.
Huang Tuan straightened up.
The vision over the pond felt full of eeriness.
He took out both the gourd and the plate and stepped forward a bit.
Held them tight and threw!
There were only two splashes, the two cursed sources were accurately thrown into the pond...
In the next moment.
The surface of the pond bubbled like boiling water.
“Blub blub blub!”
Continuously bubbling.
Huang Tuan felt the ground beneath his feet shaking, he frowned and stepped back a bit.
After a moment.
An extremely unpleasant roar seemed to come from all directions, stimulating his eardrums.
The rocks on the ground trembled.
The surroundings of the pond began to close in, and a giant fish of terrifying size jumped out of the pond!
Its mouth was black like an abyss.
Huang Tuan seemed to see countless innocent souls crying for help inside.
"How many people has this fish eaten..."
He couldn't help but sigh.
"Huang Tuan, run!"
Yang Khanh Vi's anxious voice shouted in his ear.
Huang Tuan also realized that this was not the time to sigh.
He tightened the big bag behind him.
Without hesitation, he turned and ran towards the school gate!
The dark clouds in the sky were very unstable.
As if the dark night clouds were about to be broken by dawn.
Two dim black rays were lighter in color.
Blending into each other...
Huang Tuan guessed correctly, the cursed source was indeed inside the school pond.
It was the big fish in the pond.
The lie of the deceitful school.
It was the school itself...
"Tran Hung Dao High School" was never a place for people to study, after those monsters began to recover.
Huang Tuan understood.
This place.
Was originally used as a sacrificial site...
Raising monsters.
If they were raised, then how to feed those monsters?
Looking around the school, only the big fish in the pond could stand out as “food”...
At this moment, Huang Tuan reached the corridor of the principal’s office on the second floor.
He remembered the last time he was in the principal’s office.
The diary he had read——
"December 14, clear."
"I don't know how to solve this. Next week is the summer vacation return. The old man's idea has no effect at all. What should I do..."
"December 20, gloomy."
"There’s no other way, this is the last time, it has been released, listen to it..."
"December 23, gloomy."
"Haha, I knew there would be no problem with this! That old man even forbade me to do this, haha, let him die! Luckily, I didn’t give him half."
"January 5, cold wind."
"No, damn it! Those things appeared again! I shouldn't have let it out of here! Is this place only supposed to be like this? No, definitely not! I just need to find it. Find it..."
"February 15, rain."
"Only one more, just one more! Don’t lie, please succeed..."
…
On December 14, an old man named Khọt was mentioned in the diary, which might mean that all of this was caused by his ideas.
During the time Huang Tuan studied here.
He also knew.
The principal of "Tran Hung Dao High School" was named Khọt, that was the fat man in a white shirt that he and Le Na saw last time.
After listening to what the school doctor said.
It seemed that all the plans were executed solely by them, with no one else involved.
So was this diary content just the principal cursing himself?
That’s a bit too contradictory.
No need to speculate about the messy process, it undeniably proves that someone was using students to raise monsters.
That was on December 23.
The content basically meant the principal had changed his mind, which was also the fuse that started everything.
But Huang Tuan was at that time.
Didn’t find anything unusual.
This content was just written by the author to create confusion...
Then came January 5.
There was a series of strange things.
If this content wasn’t fabricated, it mentioned a third party still hiding.
Finally, February 15.
This was the most contradictory part.
If the principal's plan was to use students to raise monsters, the time mentioned above must be wrong.
In that case.
In mid-February, when students returned home for the New Year holiday, where would the students go for him to sacrifice?
Moreover, Huang Tuan, as a student of "Tran Hung Dao High School," could certainly confirm that there would be no one in the school during this time.
Only one last thing remained.
It clearly didn’t only refer to students...
Except for those who were dragged in and assimilated.
In this world.
There were also natives...
And the monsters that originally existed in this world.
The monsters that existed before mother and Hoang Lan appeared...
…
In the dark and gloomy garden.
A few strange shadows slowly approached...
A fat man in a white shirt, two "monkeys" in security uniforms, and a headless school doctor.
They walked towards Huang Tuan.
Step by step...
The big fish in the pond opened its mouth fiercely and swung wildly.
Creating what felt like an earthquake.
It shook the entire school.
Huang Tuan stopped his running body.
What he least wanted to happen.
Still happened...
"Huang Tuan, change direction quickly, ahead of you are the monsters that appeared because of the black clouds, they’re approaching you!"
Yang Khanh Vi reminded on the other end.
However, Huang Tuan had no intention of changing direction.
He knew wherever he went.
These were the natives of this world, they could know his location and come immediately...
"I can't escape."
"Now you can only pray for me, whether I can survive being attacked by these things, survive until the rules are affected."
Huang Tuan drew his axe and said with a complicated expression.
Monsters couldn't be killed.
He could only.
Keep himself temporarily alive...