With this force, it could pierce through her eyeball and reach her brain matter directly.
But at the moment he flicked his hand out.
The cabin door was pushed back in.
His hands, which had just emerged, were caught and severed at the sliding door’s opening.
The entire arm was brutally snapped.
She watched the severed corpse arm with an expressionless face, her emotions and demeanor as steady as ever, as if she were simply opening a drawer on an ordinary night to grab some toilet paper, then casually closing it again.
Oh, I didn’t take enough.
Open it again and grab another roll.
He: “!!!”
This terrifying bitch!
Opening it again, with two of his corpse arms broken, he was completely immobilized.
His legs couldn’t even kick him out of the cabin.
All he could do was watch Huo You look down at him.
As if she were looking at a dead man.
Wait, he was already dead.
She didn’t bother saying anything, just took the key, and even seemed disgusted, wiping it on his clothes.
Then she gently asked, “What temperature do you prefer?”
Without waiting for his answer, she muttered to herself,
“Alright, the lowest.”
He: “!”
Vicious woman!
Huo You directly adjusted the temperature on the nearby device to the lowest setting.
Then decisively pushed the cabin door shut and sealed it.
At this temperature, he’d probably freeze and disintegrate in no time.
Huo You, now in possession of the key, was quite satisfied.
After leaving, she didn’t close the door.
This way, everyone would know someone had been here.
They’d also know this was the morgue and that something was wrong with it.
Not that it mattered.
As long as the F34 Night Watcher wasn’t killed by the examinees, it would eventually realize its lair had been raided and react accordingly.
It wouldn’t chase after the examinees, giving those on the second floor some breathing room.
It was still too strong.
She smelled the thick scent of blood.
“Beep, eliminated Interference Creature No. 16, +9 points.”
The Interference Creature, killed by the extreme cold, quickly gave her points.
Without the observation period’s bonus multiplier, killing one was worth 9 points, which wasn’t low.
How many points could you get from ten questions?
After succeeding, Huo You immediately prepared to hide.
She planned to go to the first floor… but then a loud commotion came from the second floor.
The F34 Night Watcher had noticed and was roaring in anger.
Meanwhile, many examinees on the second floor were in chaos.
As she descended the passage, she heard a loud shout from the corridor above.
“Damn it, Liu Shen, Qi Dao, stop fighting! It’s gone berserk!”
“Let’s go!”
A calm male voice responded to the young man’s shout,
“Someone must have found its lair, which is why it’s so furious. Liu Shen, are you okay?”
A clear, composed female voice replied,
“I’m fine. Someone beat us to it. They might target the power system. Don’t take the elevator, use the stairs.”
The girl who spoke had already pushed open the door and was heading down the stairs, but she suddenly paused, her long legs stopping on a step as she quickly glanced down, gripping the stair railing.
“What’s wrong?”
“I thought I heard footsteps just now.”
“Someone came out before us?”
“Maybe it’s those who broke through the door during the fight earlier, escaping this way.”
The woman didn’t pay much attention, her gaze returning.
“This is a one-hour instance. We’ll all meet at the first-floor entrance eventually. Let’s wait there for the other examinees to group up… No need to waste time going up.”
“We’re already on the crucial second floor, but we can’t handle it or the morgue.”
The three of them discussed, with the girl Liu Shen and Qi Dao’s opinions dominating.
The young man completely followed their lead, and there were no disagreements.
They quickly headed down the stairs.
Meanwhile, Huo You had already reached the first floor ahead of them.
She had planned to tamper with the main door, but then…
Beep.
The broadcast system of the dormitory building, equipped on every floor, transmitted the voice of the Night Watcher, which Huo You had heard once before.
“Someone has stolen my main door key.”
“That cunning liar!”
“I bet she’s heading to the first floor to open the door. Tsk, I hope you can team up with this formidable examinee, or else you’ll die at her hands.”
“After all, she got the most crucial item in less than ten minutes. You rookies are no match for her! Prepare to be killed by her!”
“Hahaha!”
Vicious, so vicious, F34! Using such a low-level trick to sow discord!
What a sleazy system plot!
Is this how you treat someone who took the key?
And calling her a thief…
Scholarly matters can’t be called theft, right?
This simple instance has no self-awareness, no manners at all.
It’s just freaking out.
On the first floor, Huo You was genuinely angry, but she knew the 25 examinees in the dormitory would be driven to guard the main door.
If she went there, she’d be trapped.
Optimistically, they might cling to her for survival, but pessimistically…
The main issue was that once they discovered she was a Decayer, or that her parasite wasn’t an offensive type and her body wasn’t in great shape…
Her vision darkened again and again.
F36 was shameless and sleazy, but effective, essentially cornering her.
Huo You had to abandon her original plan.
Instead of going to the first floor, she headed straight to the basement.
But she wasn’t sure if those behind her would leave the first floor…
On the first floor, Liu Shen and the other two had arrived, but their expressions were off.
The young man, Wang Yang, was shocked.
“Is there someone this capable in our batch? They just took the key? Wait, the sudden commotion on the second floor earlier, and the corpse exploding and attacking us without any finesse-was it because of this?”
Qi Dao: “Maybe. But this person is indeed troublesome. They’re ahead of us and using us as pawns. It’s hard to say what they’ll do next.”
Wang Yang: “Regardless, they’ve got the key. What do we do now? We can’t go to the main door, or they’ll think it was us.”
Liu Shen had been stunned by the broadcast and was now deep in thought.
Qi Dao turned to observe the subtle emotions on her calm face.
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m thinking about the footsteps I heard earlier. Could they have been that person’s? You know, my parasite is good at hearing.”
Her demeanor was elegant, with a strong scholarly air, and she always spoke calmly.
At her words, Wang Yang’s eyes widened, and he immediately looked at Qi Dao, then at the closed stairwell door.
“If she’s ahead of us, did she leave, or…”
He looked down at the floor below.
The basement.
After descending to the basement, Huo You found the guardroom in the garage and settled in to rest.
‘I am so tired.’
Having a weak body is such a disadvantage.
All this running up and down stairs is exhausting.
She gasped for breath, wiping the cold sweat from her forehead, and pondered her current situation.
“The corpse” had three minutes of use left, but a bunch of examinees were looking for her.
The most troublesome were those three.
That Liu Shen seemed to have sharp hearing and insight… and a quick mind.
She might guess that Huo You hadn’t left the first floor and would come to the basement.
Huo You’s gaze swept around…
Her eyes paused on the supply box in the guardroom.
Liu Shen activated her parasite’s hearing ability, but since they had already assumed Huo You was an extremely formidable opponent, they remained cautious, slowly approaching the source of the sound.
Ahead, the guardroom.
Liu Shen still heard noises…
She gestured, and Wang Yang and the other, whose parasites were offensive types,
immediately prepared for action…
They slowly pushed open the door.
Empty, except for a large supply cabinet.
But there was blood on the floor, emitting a faint metallic scent.
The blood had already dried, as if it belonged to a dead person.
Liu Shen heard breathing and pointed in that direction.
Qi Dao quickly stepped forward, his left hand releasing his parasite’s port, his right hand gripping a dagger.
He used the dagger’s tip to pry open the cabinet…
Creak, the cabinet door opened.
Clatter.
A pile of things unexpectedly tumbled out, scattering across the floor.
The three of them: “?”
What the hell?
It’s heavy and a bit uncomfortable underfoot.
But at a glance, it was a pile of… keys.
Hundreds of them, spilling out from the cabinet’s open door, rolling across the floor.
Liu Shen frowned, her gaze quickly falling on the other items scattered among the keys: a tape recorder.
It was still playing.
A weak, faint human voice, with soft gasps…
A woman.
Liu Shen was certain, and she vaguely felt that this female examinee was not only capable, intelligent, and highly efficient, but her voice must also be pleasant.
The gasping was… hard to describe.
Weird.
No, the fact that she left a recording here was already the most bizarre thing-they’d been set up.
Her brow twitched. “Get out of here, quick!”
Wang Yang also sensed something was off, but his first reaction was to look at the keys.
“What about these keys…”
At that moment, the tape recorder played its final lines.
Four sentences.
“I’m leaving the keys to you. I can’t hold on any longer. I’m going to die, so I’ll have to withdraw from the exam.”
“Liu Shen, Qi Dao, Wang Yang, remember, we’ll always be the best siblings. You must live well for me, do well in the college entrance exam, get into a top university, and rise to the top of life.”
“I love you.”
“Three thousand times.”
Sincere, hoarse, filled with deep emotion and tenderness, with a convincing steadiness.
The voice was loud, very loud, echoing throughout the basement.
And they weren’t blind-the guardroom’s upper left corner also had a broadcast speaker.
It was turned on.
So, the entire building heard it through the broadcast.
Soon, they heard noises from the stairwell-the examinees from the five floors above, those who had broken out of their dorms, the sharp ones, they would eventually find their way here.
Especially after hearing that.
They surrounded the place… and saw the floor covered in keys.
Liu Shen once again confirmed her earlier judgment: this person’s voice was indeed pleasant, gentle and magnetic, so convincingly fake that it was almost more sincere and loyal than a dog’s.
She herself almost believed there was such a good sister, who had sacrificed herself so heroically.
What kind of person is this?
She chose the simple instance to avoid those high-born, difficult examinees, but now…
She’d rather face them.
At least their methods weren’t this dirty…
Outside, a group had already arrived first, peering through the window at a tall, imposing figure.
A high school senior, well-nourished and towering over most Decayers of the fourth race (Huo You was an anomaly, not part of the fourth race), this person already had a mature demeanor and spoke with authority.
“Liu Shen? The beauty from Qingya High on Zhongyue Star? Seems the system knows how to assign people. I’ve seen quite a few from Zhongyue Star.”
“Probably grouped nearby planets in the star stream Zhongyue, Heluo, Yabis, Cocobill, and Brook, those trash planets, are easily lumped together.”
“But it’s really surprising. The top student would choose the simple instance?”
“I wondered who was so capable, getting the key so quickly at the start…”
“Come out, hand over the key, and we’ll cooperate.”
The three of them at that moment… were practically suffocating.
They’d been played.
By this “I love you three thousand times” bastard!