I Upended Yet Another Campus Urban Legend

n as well.
Chen Jinnan and Zhou Gan and the other two of that group sat down too.
Only Qin Zhou stayed standing, looking at the strange situation in the dining room with a gloomy expression.

But although most of them had sat down, no one made a move to take any of the food. 

There were 13 of them yesterday, but now there was only 9 left.
On top fo that, one of these nine was completely frightened out of his wits.

This kind of panic spread endlessly and everyone waited silently for the woman in red to finish eating.

None of them though waited impatiently.
The woman in red mentioned that after breakfast, everyone would gather together to play a game again.

Finally, the woman in red finished her breakfast. 

After wiping her mouth with a silk napkin, she stood up.
“My friends, it’s time for the game.
I can’t wait.
You must all be excited as well.”

“Let’s enjoy the joy of the game together.” She said, “Please follow me.”

The woman in red brought everyone back to the same living room.
It was much like it was late yesterday afternoon, although it was not long after dawn, the light in the living room of the villa had been extinguished and the only beam of light left was on the table she used to throw the die.

“Everyone, sit down as you please.
The game will be starting immediately.” The woman in red stood at the table and directed the,. 

“Xue Jie, hold on to me.”

Lin Yi handed the corner of his shirt to Ou Ying.
He then patted Cheng Yang, signaling Cheng Yang to follow him.

In the murky darkness, he brought Cheng Yang and Ou Ying to sit with him on the sofa.

They were seated far away from the woman in red so their hushed conversation won’t be heard. 

When he sat on the sofa, Lin Yi glanced at Qin Zhou.
Qin Zhou hadn’t followed him.
He leaned against the wall, staring at the woman in red.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and Ou Ying whispered in his ear, “Lin Yi, did you find anything?”

“Yeah.” Lin Yi nodded.

While the woman in red was waiting for everyone to take their seats, Lin Yi said in a low voice, “Xue Jie, I went to the kitchen just now.” 

The murder weapon used to kill Luo Yi was a chopstick.
And so he went to the kitchen to see if the 2-6 Monster had left any traces in the kitchen.

Ou Ying asked, “What’s in the kitchen?”

 

Lin Yi thought that he would be met with scenes of blood and gore in the kitchen.
After all, the food they were being served was enough to get people’s imaginations running.
But he saw none of that.

Instead, I saw something even stranger. 

Lin Yi said: “There’s a lot of food coloring, mostly red.”

“There’s also lots of molds of all sorts of grotesque shapes.” Lin Yi said, “Like human organs, snakes, insects, rats and such.”

Cheng Yang listened with hand over his mouth, his brain had already crashed.
Ou Ying thought for a second, “It means that those things on the table were created through those molds.”

“Yes.” Lin Yi nodded, “It’s must be made with something like flour batter.
There was a lot of it in the kitchen.” 

The sound of the woman’s chewing also proved it.
Chewing meat would not have produced such a fine sound.

“The strangest thing is…” Lin Yi said, “There was only one pair of chopsticks in the whole kitchen.”

And the chopsticks had been cleaned and placed nearly to one side.
Lin Yi took a special look at the tips of that pair of chopsticks and saw that one had been sharpened.

Luo Yi must have been done in by that sharpened chopstick.
When the 7-7 Monster wanted to kill Lin Yi, it had also sharpened a chopstick stolen from the breakfast table. 

An idea flashed through Ou Ying’s mind.
She repeated the key words Lin Yi mentioned, trying to capture the swirling thoughts in her mind.
“A pair of chopsticks, grotesque molds and a lot of flour…”

“En, en.” Lin Yi said, “The chopsticks had been cleaned, which proves that they’re still use for it.”

Ou Ying’s heart skipped a beat.
“Is it going to use that chopstick to kill someone else tonight?”

Ou Ying’s thinking had been influenced by Luo Yi and Lin Yi patiently corrected her, “No, Xue Jie, this pair of chopsticks is originally something in the 2-6 Rule World.
The 2-6 Rule World came first and then us who were drawn into this Rule World.
It’s the 2-6 Monster who read Senior’s memories and is imitating the way the 7-7 Monster killed.
If Senior hadn’t been drawn in or if the 2-6 Monster hadn’t read Senio’s memories, then this pair of chopsticks wouldn’t have been used to kill people.” 

Ou Ying frowned, thinking about the use of these chopsticks.

Cheng Yang next to him finally couldn’t hold back.
He spoke, he spoke, this is the only thing he spoke!

Cheng Yang said, “For eating.”

Listening to Cheng Yang’s voice, Ou Ying was stunned. 

Isn’t the function of chopsticks for eating? And since there was only one pair…

Ou Ying said, “Does the red-clothed NPC use it to eat?”

 

“Yes.” Lin Yi nodded.

Chopsticks weren’t used to eat those things served on the dining table.
The woman in red didn’t use them either; instead, donning gloves and picking them up directly. 

“She must use those chopsticks when she eats other things in private.” Lin Yi glanced at the woman in red and said, “She’s human and the light above her head is also proof.
Once the lights are off, just like us, she can’t see clearly.”

Just like the old dorm manager, she’s an NPC and a human being.

“If she’s human, she can’t possibly eat raw organs and animal carcasses either.
She used the molds to make those kinds of food.” Ou Ying said, “Why would she do something like that…”

Lin Yi said, “She’s trying to scare us on purpose.” 

Ou Ying was stunned.
“Scare us?”

Lin Yi said, “Wearing red clothes makes people think of ghosts.
Having the mirror face the bed, also a well-known feng shui taboo and this Anke game she plays is ultimately done to scare us.”

Ou Ying thought for a while: “…”

Lin Yi said, “Xue Jie, your thoughts?” 

Ou Ying: “Her Anke game is real.”

“Her Anke game is the signal of the coming of the rules of death.
Rather, she is summoning the rules of death to appear.
Yesterday, her cast in the Anke game, produced three ghosts.
It’s like having having windows open simultaneously in three room in the 7-7 Rule World.
There’s only one rule of death in the beginning, but it doesn’t mean this rule of death will only target one individual.” Lin Yi said, “Senior told me that the more people a Monster eats, the more powerful it will be.
The 2 -6 Monster has existed for so many years, using one rule of death to kill multiple people in one night should be an advanced ability.”

In the Anke game, she rolled a three and three ghosts made their way among them.

The lost three people last night. 

This all confirmed Lin Yi’s speculation.

“During the day, her scaring us is to make us think that there are ghosts here.” Lin Yi said: “At night, the thermometer in the room drops suddenly to give us a hint that a ghost is coming.
It’s a generally held belief that only the arrival of ghosts would cause the temperature to suddenly drop.
The wrongly-situated full-length mirror is also placed so that we can see the ghosts lying on our backs.”

“Seeing and feeling ghosts…” Ou Ying said, “So the rule of death is…”

Lin Yi said, “Believing that there are ghosts in the world.” 

Cheng Yang shivered.

Ou Ying wanted to say something more, but——

 

‘clang’ ‘clang’

The sound of a falling die resounded in the living room.
The woman in red said, “It turns out that the three ghosts followed you because they wanted to kill you.
Two of them succeeded.
Let’s see what will happen to the ghost that didn’t succeed.” What will it do? Give up? Continue? Or call in more ghosts.” 

Cheng Yang, once again failed to keep to his mute character.
“It’s…going to fucking call in reinforcements? Ghost reinforcements?”

The woman in red looked down at the die and her expression darkened, “It’s given up.”

Cheng Yang wept with joy.
“Bodhisattva bless us.
Amitabha bless us.
It is hard to persevere, but it is easy to give up.
All ghosts, please follow this path.”

Lin Yi and Ou Ying were not as optimistic as Cheng Yang.
Since the Anke game is a means for the woman in red to summon the rules of death, but because of the uncertainly produced by the roll of the die, under situations like these, the woman in red will most certainly have other means. 

Sure enough, the woman in red said, voice somber, “What is its reason for giving up? Is it because it simply wishes to rest for a day? Or is it because the people who’ve passed have become ghosts as well? Or could there be a more terrifying vicious ghost in the villa?”

‘clang’

‘clang’