Chapter 1096: Chapter 514: Prospect (Part 2)

“I am Jin Jiuyao, my student number is X0230510006, I am on the cobblestone path in the campus area, ahead of me is the lamppost…”

He kept shouting, using identity anchors to continuously stabilize himself, but gradually, he heard more and more voices, those voices chanting along with him.

[I am Jin Jiuyao, my student number is X0230510006, I am on the cobblestone path in the campus area, ahead of me is the lamppost…]

[I am Jin Jiuyao, my student number is X0230510006, I am on the cobblestone path in the campus area…]

[I am Jin Jiuyao… hahaha… I am Jin Jiuyao…]

Upon hearing these eerie laughs one after another, Jin Jiuyao’s eyes instantly showed a look of fear: “Oh no… oh no! They’re interfering with me! Damn it, damn it… I am Jin Jiuyao, I am Jin Jiuyao!”

[I am Jin Jiuyao… I am Jin Jiuyao… I am Jin Jiuyao…]

The mist floated with eerie faces, each one sinister and terrifying, but each bore slight resemblance to Jin Jiuyao’s face…

Suddenly, Jin Jiuyao realized that the humanoid tombstones in the Graveyard of the Deceased began to break through the mist and surrounded them just before they reached “Lamppost-023”.

[I am Jin Jiuyao, my student number is…]

They kept chanting, the syllables constantly changing as if they were trying to sing this sentence into a melody.

Seeing that Lu Zhao and the others showed no reaction, Jin Jiuyao screamed in terror: “Old Lu! Old Lu! Chen Bing, Chen Xue, wake the hell up! Wake up!”

When calling proved fruitless, he bit down hard and rushed forward, tackling Lu Zhao from behind.

“Thud!!”

Lu Zhao was unexpectedly tackled, staggered and fell on the cobblestone path, splashing mud everywhere, and his glasses flew out.

He suddenly woke up and, without bothering to look for his glasses, reflexively kicked Jin Jiuyao away, finally pulling out the arm that had been hidden in the backpack.

In his hand, he held a jet-black firefighting axe—the same axe stored in the backpack!

The axe looked very strange, the handle had a high-tech style, but the axe head looked very ancient, like it was a piece of mountain rock.

On the axe head were carved secret marks between cuneiform and strange runes, seemingly not sculpted with technology, but like the maker directly chiseled a stone with secret marks, polished it into the axe head shape, and assembled it into this firefighting axe.

Once the firefighting axe was grasped, the secret marks on the axe head immediately flowed with a faint blue light, and Lu Zhao’s mind became much clearer.

However, when his mind cleared, the first thing he did was to swing the firefighting axe at Jin Jiuyao: “Sneering Angel! Die!!”

“Damn!” Jin Jiuyao was startled, even though he dodged in time, he was still slashed on the arm by Lu Zhao, blood gushed out and dripped into the rainy night.

“Old Lu! You’re crazy! Wake up!” Jin Jiuyao shouted in fear, hurriedly shaking Chen Bing and Chen Xue, “Old Lu’s gone crazy! Old Lu’s gone crazy!!”

Chen Bing and Chen Xue remained unmoved, their heads tilted, slowly looking at him with sinister smiles:[ I am Jin Jiuyao… my student number is X0230510006, I am on the cobblestone path in the campus area… ahead of me is the lamppost…]

[I am Jin Jiuyao…]

“No… no no no… no!” Jin Jiuyao’s heart burst, retreating and falling to the ground.

Lu Zhao gripped the firefighter axe with both hands and swung it down violently at his head…

“Splash—”

Jin Jiuyao’s blood spurted out, blending into the rainy night, flowing like a stream.

He fell to the ground, pupils slowly dilating…

In his last moments, he vaguely saw a pseudo-human student bending down towards him…

But gradually, the blurred face of the student cleared up in front of him, surprisingly it was…

“Chen… Chen… no… you’re not Chen Xue, you’re not…” Jin Jiuyao shut his eyes heavily…

…

X023 Year, May 10th, 20:26, school building area, outside the light coverage of “Teaching Building-024” lamppost, stormy night.

Lu Zhao firmly pinned Jin Jiuyao down, but unlike Jin Jiuyao’s own perspective, no injuries appeared on him at this moment.

Looking at the unconscious Jin Jiuyao, Lu Zhao leaned weakly on his knee, suppressing the urge to fall to the ground, and continued observing the surroundings.

Helping him restrain Jin Jiuyao were Chen Bing and Chen Xue…

Beside them, there was also a pseudo-human student nailed to the ground by the firefighting axe.

The secret marks on the firefighter axe glowed slightly, the faint blue brilliance flowed down like lava, eroding the body of the pseudo-human student, slowly turning it into a withered sculpture.

Its mouth continued to wiggle, vaguely mumbling “I am Jin Jiuyao, my student number is…”

Around them, the Graveyard of the Deceased had indeed emerged from the mist, slowly closing in like two rows of human walls.

Lu Zhao, panting heavily, walked over to the firefighter axe, grasped the handle, and stepping on the chest of the already petrified pseudo-human student, pulled it out.

“Let’s go! Under the light first!!” Lu Zhao shook his head, eyes flashing with madness but he quickly suppressed it, muttering quietly, “We must get back to the dormitory… must…”

“But now… must go under the lamppost…”

“Must…”

“Huff, huff, huff…”

…

Several minutes later, breaking through another lamppost distance from “Teaching Building-024” and arriving in the light coverage of “Teaching Building-023” lamppost, the three of them finally leaned exhaustedly under the light.

Lu Zhao held the firefighter axe, with Chen Bing and Chen Xue sisters back-to-back, tightly clinging to the lamppost, and at their feet, Jin Jiuyao remained unconscious.

“Old Lu… looks like we’re done here…” Chen Xue said with a hard tone.

“Death isn’t scary… huff, huff…” Lu Zhao gritted his teeth, “What’s scary is that I’m not ready for death… I have many things to do… I can’t just die like this…”

“Huff, huff…”

Lu Zhao, breathing heavily, said: “In physical terms, the Graveyard of the Deceased has weak attack power, just like earlier, I can smash them with the secret pattern axe… your domain can effectively stop them too…”

“But… we can’t get away…”

“The hope for survival is bleak, but it’s not nonexistent…”

“Three of us, back to the light, without their mental influence, should be able to last till dawn…”

“Of course, another premise is that the Sneering Angel doesn’t appear…”

“Huff, huff…”

“In other words… if we maintain the current situation, we can survive… we don’t even need to return to the dormitory…”

“Thinking like this, isn’t it quite optimistic?”

Lu Zhao laughed self-deprecatingly.

No need to say more, Chen Bing and Chen Xue sisters also knew, Lu Zhao marked their only way out…

But the Graveyard of the Deceased wouldn’t let them go, chanting eerie songs while slowly approaching, swaying in the wind and rain like patches of seaweed.

But somehow, the long unconscious Jin Jiuyao suddenly started twitching, not waking up yet, muttering some incomprehensible syllables from his mouth…

[lyset…]

[…lyset…]