Chapter 249: Strange Arrival 16
However, Teacher Lu had encountered such situations before. In one game involving insects, he turned traitor at the last moment, almost killing himself.
The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt.
“What’s wrong, Little Chu?”
Lu Qingyuan’s voice sounded then, and Chu Yian snapped back to reality. She feigned composure, “It’s nothing, I’m fine now.”
During this breakfast, Chu Yian felt as if she was chewing wax.
Looking at Lu Qingyuan standing in the kitchen, she prepared herself for a long time, then, clutching the amulet, she suddenly bumped into him. In a flash, she brushed the amulet against him.
Lu Qingyuan turned and caught her, “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine, I just slipped.”
Chu Yian replied.
“You even trip while walking.”
Lu Qingyuan pinched her face upon hearing this, “Go play in the living room.”
Chu Yian was pushed out of the kitchen by him, her heart pounding. Actually, she didn’t even need to take out the talisman; she probably already knew the result. The moment she touched Lu Qingyuan, a slightly warm sensation transmitted from the amulet to her palm. When she secretly took out the talisman to check, the burned part of the amulet had indeed grown larger.
Teacher Lu is a malevolent entity!
She had actually lived with a malevolent entity for so long, even considering him her protector. When she realized this, Chu Yian felt as if the truth was a heavy punch to her head.
Her experiences of the past few days seemed to mock her intelligence.
But none of that mattered; what mattered was what to do now?
Run away, or feign ignorance?
Lu Qingyuan should be an extremely powerful malevolent entity; otherwise, how could he protect a prey targeted by a malevolent entity? Chu Yian suspected he might be at least a mini-boss level malevolent entity, similar to the insect game.
So, if she pretended not to know anything, maybe she could survive a bit longer?
The morning passed.
Chu Yian stayed obediently in the living room.
All TV programs became bland at this time, and she had never felt the clock on the wall tick so slowly.
“Little Chu.”
Lu Qingyuan’s voice came from the study, making her tense up, “Could you bring me the documents on the desk, the folder in the bedroom?”
“Oh, okay.”
Chu Yian pretended to be normal and ran into the room, finding a folder in the drawer. Out of curiosity about malevolent entities, she impulsively opened it and secretly glanced inside, discovering several pages of names.
She quickly stuffed the documents back in and ran to Lu Qingyuan’s study to hand them to him.
To avoid suspicion, she even prepared a topic to chat about, “By the way, Teacher Lu, what do you usually do for work?”
“I do software management and websites.”
Lu Qingyuan looked at the folder she handed him and casually said, “Some clients are due to pay their final balance today.”
This sounded perfectly normal.
One moment Chu Yian thought Teacher Lu was so diligent that he even worked as a malevolent entity, but the next moment, her heart pounded because of something she accidentally saw—
“Mutual Help Group for a World Full of Malevolent Entities – 331”
Isn’t this a chat group used by players?
Chu Yian only glimpsed it, and the next second it changed to another page. But she was certain she hadn’t been mistaken!
Combining it with Lu Qingyuan’s words just now:
“I do websites and software management.”
“Some clients are due to pay their final balance today.”
Are the clients referring to those players in the group?
As long as people join this group, it means they know or are about to know about the existence of malevolent entities in the world. By using the group chat to gather all these people who know about malevolent entities, he creates the conditions to kill them, and then acts today!
How many people are in such group chats?
Just the group she was in already had over a thousand people, and the group chat number she saw earlier was 331… Chu Yian trembled at the thought of the numbers behind it.
Teacher Lu is not a good malevolent entity; he doesn’t kill her and others simply because he hasn’t started harvesting yet. Chu Yian opened her phone and checked the messages in the group. These people were still foolishly discussing their plans before the game ended, unaware that death had already targeted them.
She quickly found Zhu Shen’s chat box.
“Quickly leave that mutual help group.”
“What’s wrong, Big Chu?”
“No time to explain to you, stay in the rental apartment and don’t go out. If I come back, I’ll use the key; don’t open the door for anyone.”
Chu Yian sent the message to Zhu Shen and then took out the treasure box.
She still had one last chance to draw today. She nervously rubbed her hands and took something out of it—a thermos cup.
Without wishing, her luck didn’t seem to be on her side.
Chu Yian had no time to complain. She glanced at the half-open study door, opened the front door, and slipped out.
Back to the rental apartment.
She was so foolish; the rental apartment with the Bagua mirror was the safest place.
Didn’t Lu Qingyuan previously stand at the door of the rental apartment, unable to enter because of the Bagua mirror? She was so stupid, scared by a tiny malevolent shadow outside the window, and foolishly followed an even more dangerous malevolent entity.
She suddenly had an epiphany, understanding most of the events of the past few days.
Without leaving any words, she rushed straight to the elevator.
Ding—
She didn’t even press it; the elevator door opened by itself. Chu Yian looked at the empty elevator and slammed on the brakes, turning to run towards the stairs.
At the same time, Lu Qingyuan in the study stopped his work.
The door slowly opened under his gaze, and he quietly watched Chu Yian’s fleeting back as she fled…
For malevolent entities, both elevators and stairs are good places for them to operate.
Even if Chu Yian avoided the elevator, she couldn’t avoid the stairs.
Soon she found herself caught in a loop again; no matter how far down she ran, the number always stayed on the “14th” floor.
Sizzle, crackle—
The sound of electricity rang out, and the lights in the elevator went out.
The green light of the emergency escape lights made the staircase appear even more eerie, and terrifyingly, the familiar sound of paper shoes scraping the ground echoed again, appearing on the stairs below.
Her greatest fear.
Chu Yian’s legs instantly turned to jelly.
There was a tiger above and a wolf below. But the fear of the paper shoe malevolent entity in her heart was clearly greater than that of Lu Qingyuan. She turned and ran upstairs, only to find that no matter whether she went up or down, she was still on the 14th floor.
Fear, terror.
Chu Yian pressed tightly against the wall, her eyes closed, her body trembling like a sieve.
Someone save her, anyone!
However, after thinking it over, there was only one person who could truly save her.
“Teacher Lu.”
“Teacher Lu, help!”
Just when she thought she was done for, the paper shoe malevolent entity suddenly disappeared from the stairwell. The lights in the stairwell returned to normal, and the path leading upstairs appeared so bright.
But the path leading downstairs was equally bright, and she was now on the second floor!
