Zhu Yan didn’t give anyone a chance to stop him.
As soon as he finished speaking, he swiftly pulled open the door and slipped sideways into the hallway.
"Hey!" Qi Yinming called out, his face full of panic as he tried to intervene.
But with a click, the door locked.
Through the peephole, Zhu Yan’s footsteps were steady as he headed in the direction Tu Shan had gone.
Yang Zhanbai rubbed his temples.
"Forget it, let him go." He shook his head. "Trust his abilities."
Silence hung around them.
Qi Yinming stared at Yang Zhanbai in disbelief, while Yuan Chen and Qin Yang didn’t dare make a sound.
It was Xu Tongguang who finally broke the silence. "Should I go ask the guys in Room 106 across the hall to hit me a few times?"
Five seconds later.
The door to Room 303 opened again.
One by one, they filed out and crept toward Room 106.
...
The hallway felt like it had been dragged through a melting freezer.
The pale light from the emergency lamp revealed water stains on the pitch-black ceiling. A droplet of water gathered, forming, then splashed right by Zhu Yan’s foot.
There was no white mist here, but the cold was growing thicker.
After walking just a few dozen feet, Zhu Yan’s body went stiff, his knees soaked through with the chill.
He kept his guard up, pressed against the wall, listening closely for any movement ahead, and shook his whiskers.
Almost as soon as he left the dorm, he activated [Impersonate], turning into the mouse he’d seen back in the cafeteria area of [Xishan University].
According to the intel Tu Shan had given him, there were no horror creatures on the floor above.
But as it turned out, the creature on that floor knew exactly what was going on—it just hadn’t revealed itself.
In Zhu Yan’s view, that strange horror creature probably had the ability to turn invisible, just like the supermarket owner, or it could be lurking somewhere in the dark, watching.
Under these circumstances, it was better to move stealthily in rat form.
Better to follow along first and find out what that horror creature’s true intentions were.
"...I really don’t mean any harm, man, where are you taking me?"
Chen Zhaoxing’s panicked voice came from up ahead, trembling noticeably.
To Zhu Yan, it sounded like he was holding back laughter.
But to Tu Shan, who was leading the way, it clearly came across as pure terror.
He didn’t answer Chen Zhaoxing’s question; instead, he barked, "Shut up! Just keep walking forward and stop your damn yapping!"
Zhu Yan stayed close behind, watching Chen Zhaoxing’s shoulders shake.
"Why do you pick on someone weak like me instead of going after Zhu Zeyu?"
He huddled his neck to avoid the blade, fanning the flames as he went.
"Don’t you want to know how many people are on Zhu Zeyu’s team and what their abilities are?"
"What if I tell you their info, and you let me go? Deal?"
Zhu Yan was speechless.
Chen Zhaoxing really seemed to be enjoying this too much.
He was about to be sacrificed to a horror creature, and he wasn’t panicking at all—what was he playing at?
Zhu Yan crouched cautiously behind a wall, perking up his ears, keeping an eye on the scene ahead.
Sure enough, Tu Shan slowed down, a hint of interest creeping into his tone.
"Oh? Info on Zhu Zeyu?"
He did need that.
Sure, now he had [Hunter] backing him up, but knowing the enemy made victory certain.
Zhu Zeyu’s ability was incredibly strange—even with a level-eight military knife, Tu Shan wanted to play it safe.
"Go ahead and tell me." Thinking this, Tu Shan pressed the blade harder against Chen Zhaoxing’s neck, until a thin, shallow line of blood appeared.
Feeling the sting, Chen Zhaoxing immediately screeched like a parrot whose tail had been stepped on.
"Ow, ow, ow! Ahh! It hurts, it hurts—"
He twisted his neck, and catching Tu Shan’s murderous glare, quickly changed his tune.
"—Zhu Zeyu’s team has a huge flaw! If you exploit that, you can take the whole team down!"
That was enough to cool Tu Shan’s desire to kill Chen Zhaoxing right then.
He moved the blade away symbolically, asking ominously, "What flaw?"
Chen Zhaoxing winced and said, "There’s this player named Xu Tongguang—his ability is really weird."
Zhu Yan was dumbfounded.
Even though Xu Tongguang himself had a strange vibe that was hard to describe, having a teammate like Chen Zhaoxing was definitely a curse in his life.
Zhu Yan poked his mouse head out from behind the wall and watched as Tu Shan stopped. Up ahead, in the deep hallway, that unsettling thin mist began to rise again.
The grayish-white fog faded into the dark depths of the corridor.
Zhu Yan retreated cautiously.
Back when the fake [Hunter] in the cloak had appeared, the hallway had also filled with this kind of mist.
What exactly was the mist?
What did it represent?
Could that horror creature use the fog to watch or monitor?
If he even considered that possibility...
Zhu Yan backed up further, making sure to keep a distance from the blurry gray-white haze.
If that were the case, blindly following in and attacking Tu Shan with [Impersonate] while inside the fog wouldn’t be a smart move.
"What’s so special about his ability?" Tu Shan pressed impatiently.
"He lets other people take over his body, use it as a vessel," Chen Zhaoxing fabricated with a straight face. "Yeah, like a possession kind of thing."
"Some ability like that exists?"
"It does," Chen Zhaoxing said firmly. "And when someone takes over his body, they not only control his movements but can still use their own abilities. It’s like he’s a puppet shell!"
Zhu Yan caught the scent of osmanthus flowers.
He watched the gray mist churning softly, gently swallowing the figures of Tu Shan and Chen Zhaoxing, and felt a sudden wave of nausea.
After retreating several more steps, Zhu Yan heard Chen Zhaoxing’s next words.
"Zhu Zeyu’s motives toward you are anything but pure. He was originally planning to use Xu Tongguang as a vessel to meet you and lower your guard."
After rambling for a long time, Chen Zhaoxing finally dropped the bomb.
"So, I suggest you act polite first, then just swing your knife and chop at that blonde Xu Tongguang. Stab him too, that’ll work!"
Zhu Yan was dumbfounded.
Was this really Chen Zhaoxing’s purpose for coming out?
Luckily, Tu Shan wasn’t planning to let him off easy.
"Alright." From the sound of it, Tu Shan was sneering.
But the fog was getting thicker.
It seemed like a barrier had formed at the end of the hallway. The dense mist churned beyond some invisible line, completely swallowing the figures of Tu Shan and Chen Zhaoxing.
"Keep walking," Tu Shan ordered.
But then, Chen Zhaoxing let out another string of weird shrieks.
"Ohhh!! A cockroach! Look at this!"
The fog was too thick; Tu Shan could only see Chen Zhaoxing ahead.
"What—"
He opened his mouth to ask.
The next second, Chen Zhaoxing threw his hand backward, precisely stuffing two antennaed things into Tu Shan’s mouth, then sprinted at full speed out of the thick fog!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
