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“My heart is crying, but you can’t see it.” Gao Ming handed Yan Xizhi’s letter to You Liang. He observed every action of the scary big ghost before him. The big ghost that was feared by everyone only had warmth in his eyes.

Yan Xizhi’s letter carried her concern. She hoped her children would not lose themselves. There were many definitions of a good life in the world. In Gao Ming’s eyes, You Liang had achieved that.

Sitting in the middle of the room, You Liang was the main character of this social experiment. Gao Ming still had no idea what You Liang’s power was. He knew that You Liang could easily drag him and Zhou Sisi out of the nightmare and shed the big dog’s disguise to reveal his true self.

“You Liang’s power has to do with the essence of humanity…”

Someone suddenly grabbed Gao Ming’s hand. He turned around and saw that it was Zhou Sisi. Her conditions were better, but she was still very scared. As someone who shared You Liang’s personality to a certain degree, she suffered everything. She perfectly showcased the helplessness of a normal person when consumed by the negativity of the world.

Gao Ming took out a paper napkin and wiped away the chilli oil on the corner of her lips. Because some time had passed, the oil dried on her skin. He dabbed it a few times, but the stain wouldn’t move.

“Thank you.” Zhou Sisi took the napkin and opened her watery eyes. She didn’t think much of it and used the napkin to wipe away her tears. However, the chilli oil stung her eyes and made her cry harder.

“The three of us used three different methods to experience the social experiment, but this experiment is not yet over. In fact, the experiment is just beginning.” Perhaps You Liang saw how hard Zhou Sisi was crying, or perhaps Zhou Sisi made many similar choices as he did, he reached out to help Zhou Sisi adjust the red badge. After You Liang touched it, the red student council badge stopped hurting Zhou Sisi. It seemed to become a part of her.

“Senior, what is hidden under this lab building? The two forces who fight to take the school away from Headmistress Yan seem to value this place a lot.” Based on their date of birth, You Liang was indeed much older than Gao Ming.

You Liang stared at Gao Ming. Instead of answering him, he tossed out a question. “Do you want to live in pain or die with joy?”

“I want to be with people I like and live happily,” Gao Ming gave the third answer.

You Liang walked towards the red room down the distance. “If you wish to live in pain, then keep moving on. If you wish to die with joy, turn back now. On behalf of Teacher Yan, I’ll give you extra time to give this serious consideration. Come back when you’re really ready. I won’t stop the three of you next time.” You Liang disappeared into the social experiment, and the rooms around them returned to normal.

“Gao Ming, do we need to continue forward?” Zhou Sisi held the corner of Gao Ming’s shirt. She looked haggard.

“You Liang has already given us the answer.” Gao Ming revealed a smile. “The next time we return here, we can bring the enemies with us. We will successfully reach the second-floor basement while our enemies will be trapped in the nightmare. This means that we have another trump card. Having the school’s scariest big ghost working for us is a great feeling.”

“I don’t think he has gone far.” Zhou Sisi didn’t get it. She kept looking at Gao Ming’s face. “Did we experience the same social experiment? How come it feels like you’re having fun?”

“I look like I’m smiling, but all the tears are in my heart. I’ve experienced so much recently.” Gao Ming answered her perfunctorily and turned to hug the big dog’s neck. “Let’s go. We’ll go back to find Headmistress Yan. My brother is finally opening up his heart. I can’t let him revert to his previous state of pain and despair.” Gao Ming looked like he didn’t care about anything, but as a psychiatrist, he cared about the ‘people’ around him more than anyone would have thought.

Zhou Sisi hadn’t noticed the big dog’s strange reaction, but Gao Ming already did. This was why he chose to leave. He didn’t want the big dog to fall back into the clutches of pain. Gao Ming stood on his tip-toe and ruffled the dog’s head. He leaned his body into the big dog. “The nightmare will pass.”

The trio went up to the surface. When they passed by the art room on the second floor, they noticed the corridor was filled with gory doodles. If any student dared to do this, not only would their parents be summoned, but they would probably also be expelled.

Gao Ming opened the storage room door. He had just entered when Ding Yuan and his people surrounded him. “Why did it take you so long? Didn’t you say you were going to take a quick look?”

Hearing the worry in his voice, Gao Ming glanced at the time. He then realised they had stayed for several hours inside the nightmare.

“It’s hard to explain.” Gao Ming had the big dog lay down beside Yan Xizhi. When the dog was showered in the light from the table lamp, he felt better. He buried his head in his black fur and appeared to go down for a nap.

“What is underneath the lab building?” Ding Yuan and his people couldn’t wait to find out the truth.

“Anyone who gets close to it will enter the nightmare. It took a lot of effort for us to escape. Look at Zhou Sisi and the big dog, and you’ll know how dangerous it was.” Gao Ming put away Yan Xizhi’s letters. “Captain Ding, I’ll have to trouble you to look after the two of them. I have something else to do.”

Headmistress Yan’s letters were for the student council members, the students whom she acknowledged. The big ghost in the girl’s toilet on the fourth floor of the math building should be her former student too.

“You Liang’s location is too crucial, and he can’t be so easily persuaded. Yan Xizhi’s letter only softened his attitude. I need to find the next student.” Gao Ming was worried that they couldn’t find 51 students before the class tomorrow. Therefore, he wanted to go and personally select the ‘students’ he could rely on.

Gao Ming said goodbye to Ding Yuan. When he passed by the second-floor art room, Xia Yang’s death portrait suddenly fell to the ground. Gao Ming bent over to pick it up when he realised a man was standing before him.

“Why didn’t you kill all of them?”

“Xia Yang?” Gao Ming lifted his head. There was a painting of a student council member who had a horrible death. Gao Ming was certain that the painting wasn’t there earlier.

“I merely voiced out your inner thoughts. I did everything that you already wanted to do.” Xia Yang’s voice came from the student’s mouth.

“Then can you fully disappear if I want you to?” Gao Ming picked up the death portrait.

“You could have shredded that portrait any time you wanted, but you didn’t.” The student narrowed his eyes and grinned. “You want to pin all of your sins on me.”

“Do you think you can carry the burden of my sins?” Gao Ming could hear the strange sounds coming from the art room. Xia Yang wished for him to go there. “Furthermore, what’s so good about being me? When you really take over my life, you’ll realise that you’ve jumped into the abyss for my sake.”

Gao Ming ambled down to Room 2104, the art room. The classroom wall was painted with the horrible deaths of the student council.

“It’s already past the time of light’s out. The student council failed to kill you.”

“They almost succeeded. Alas, they all escaped when the lights were about to go out.” Xia Yang’s voice came from another student. He seemed to be living in all the paintings. “They left in such a hurry. Light’s out appears to be a very special symbol for them.”

The brush rustled against the canvas. Through the window, Gao Ming saw the art teacher sitting in the middle of the room. Her clothes and skin were painted with her self-portraits. However, every portrait emitted Xia Yang’s voice.

“You are crazy.”

“But… I took the inspiration from you.”

The art teacher’s resentment room had been wiped away by Xia Yang. The teacher held her brush and tried to draw Xia Yang.

“I’ve found a new student for you. This art teacher definitely has the qualification to leave on the bus. Who will you sacrifice for her to take their spot? Zuo Jun? Song Xue? Or some other students?”

“How come I never realised how helpful you were in the past?” Gao Ming left the art room in a hurry. After he left the lab building, he checked the timetable. The next art class was two days later. However, the thing that concerned Gao Ming more was there was a social application class in the afternoon tomorrow.

“This class won’t get us to find You Liang, right?”

The normal-sounding classes never looked so scary to Gao Ming before. Health class and moral class all felt like traps.

“I need to figure out a way to escape.” Gao Ming suddenly noticed the school was different from before. “There’s a smell of blood in the air!”

There should be some time until dawn. However, the school was much brighter than it was yesterday night.

“That is…”

He turned to the light. Three buses had entered Han De Private School. One of the buses was empty. The bus looked rusted and belonged to a junkyard. The second bus was slathered with blood and viscera. The lights in the bus flickered. The third bus looked the most normal. The bus was seated with investigators in uniform.

“Has the headquarters sent in the reinforcement?”

Gao Ming rapidly approached the bus. He noticed that both Qin Tian and Bai Xiao were on the bus. They looked highly nervous and alert.

Other than that, Gao Ming also noticed something strange. The two investigators who sat at the front and back of the bus had on uniforms that were different from the others. Their wrist bands were not black like normal but bloodred in colour.

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