The Pseudo-Human Academy: Starting with a Bricklayer Personality

Everyone was taken aback and fell into deep thought.

Ye Ningyun stared at the key, her mind racing as she recalled every detail of the hotel.

Suddenly, his pupils contracted, and he slapped his forehead:

"Emergency exit!"

"I remember now, the back door to the fire emergency exit has a mechanical lock! That place is usually locked, maybe... the key clue is hidden there!"

Zhao Fei and Zhao Daniu returned from the stairwell looking dejected.

As expected, the two men found nothing, empty-handed.

Everyone grabbed the yellow key and rushed toward the emergency exit.

However, after inserting the key and turning it for a long time, the door lock remained completely still.

Ye Ningyun gripped the key, her brow furrowed, somewhat bewildered: "Wait... this key isn't for this door. Then which door is it for?"

"Stop worrying about the key."

Xu Feng coughed lightly twice, his tone calm yet exuding a subtle composure and elegance:

"More importantly, we need to figure out how to get into the room. For example... ventilation ducts? I remember there are ventilation openings like that in the room."

He raised his hand and pointed to the ventilation grille above his head.

Ye Ningyun followed his finger and looked at the ventilation vent above her head with a wise look, then looked at Xu Feng.

Then he slapped his thigh hard:

"Oh yeah! How could I have forgotten about that!"

Xu Feng rolled his eyes. He was a dual-core processor, far superior to Ye Ningyun's single-core processor.

Just do it.

The group moved tables and chairs together, and Lin Shouyi took a crowbar and pried open the cover of the ventilation vent in a few moments.

He was the first to stick his head out and try it, but his stomach got stuck as soon as it touched the ground.

"No! We can't get in!" Lin Shouyi said, struggling to retreat. "The ventilation shaft is too narrow; only girls and skinny people can squeeze in!"

Before he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Zhao Fei, the college student who was as thin as a bamboo pole, and the remaining three girls.

Zhao Fei, leaning on the table, waved his hand breathlessly, "Let me rest for a bit...catch my breath before we go in."

The obedient Liu Yu shrank her neck, her voice trembling:

"I...I'm afraid of the dark, I don't dare to go through...but I will try my best to overcome it."

Dressed in her finest attire, Liu Qianqian covered her nose, looking at the dusty pipes with disgust.

"This is too dirty! I'm not going to crawl in!"

"What time is it and you're still complaining about it being dirty?" Ye Ningyun was speechless.

"Stop dawdling! Give me the crowbar!"

Landmine Girl snatched the crowbar away swiftly and decisively.

Standing on a stool, with Lin Shouyi's support, she darted into the dark pipe like a nimble fish.

The pipe was deathly silent.

After a while, everyone heard a dull thud coming from the direction of room 112.

Immediately afterwards, the door to room 112 was pulled open from the inside by Landmine Girl.

Ye Ningyun peeked inside and immediately came back out, making a quick decision:

"The layout of this room is the same as outside. We'll look for clues later. Landmine Girl, you lead the way, let's open all the rooms on the first floor!"

He quickly assigned tasks:

"Liu Yu, you're in charge of the second floor; Liu Qianqian, you're in charge of the third floor; Zhao Fei, you're in charge of the fourth floor."

"The rest of you are downstairs providing support. Let's open all the room doors first, then conduct a thorough search!"

"I'm not going!" Liu Qianqian crossed her arms, looking utterly resistant. "Climbing the pipes is too dirty; it'll get my clothes dirty!"

Landmine Girl's eyes turned cold, and she retorted with a displeased look:

"Everyone's working, why are you being treated differently? There's a bathroom in your room, why don't you go wash up when it's dirty? So delicate, are you just waiting to die?"

Feeling uneasy under the unfriendly gazes of the crowd, and recalling the terrifying scene in the hall, Liu Qianqian seemed to remember something and reluctantly muttered:

"Alright, alright, I'll go!"

Once the tasks were assigned, each group quickly took their positions.

Xu Feng and Liu Yu are partners.

Looking at Liu Yu's timid and hesitant demeanor, as if she were very afraid of him.

Although Xu Feng was puzzled, he wasn't that scared!

Why is this girl so frightened?

But the little girl looks so delicate and tender, she looks really delicious.

With that in mind, Xu Feng tried his best to put on a kind expression, supporting her feet as he helped her into the ventilation duct.

However, from Liu Yu's perspective, Xu Feng was almost scaring her to tears.

As each room door was opened, Liu Yu's psychological defenses crumbled little by little.

As she crawled toward the ventilation shaft of room 204, a maze of roads came into view.

Liu Yu, who is afraid of the dark, would frantically raise her phone to take pictures of everything around her at every intersection, fearing that something might suddenly emerge from the darkness.

Finally, she shakily used her phone to illuminate the dark path ahead.

When the beam of light swept across the dark branch pipe to the left of 204, Liu Yu seemed to be frozen in place, her pupils dilating instantly.

"ah--!!!"

A piercing scream, so intense it became distorted, shattered the silence.

Immediately afterwards, there was complete silence in the ventilation duct, as if the person inside had vanished into thin air.

"Liu Yu? What's on it?"

Upon hearing the scream, Xu Feng frowned slightly and immediately looked up and shouted.

However, he was met with only deathly silence.

"Could she have fainted from fright?"

Upon hearing the commotion, Ye Ningyun rushed up to the second floor. As soon as she arrived, she stared intently at Xu Feng with a suspicious look, as if she were examining a criminal, and thought to herself.

Could it be that this deranged killer couldn't resist the urge to strike in broad daylight?

"What happened?" Ye Ningyun asked in a cold voice.

Xu Feng shrugged helplessly, looking completely innocent.

"Why are you looking at me like that? There seems to be something in the pipe. Judging from the noise, she must have fainted from fright."

"Did you faint from fright?"

Ye Ningyun's heart tightened, realizing that there might be a secret hidden in the ventilation ducts as well.

He immediately waved and called over the landmine girl.

Landmine Girl was incredibly strong. In no time, she dragged the unconscious Liu Yu out of the pipe, put him on the ground, and pinched his philtrum.

After a long while, Liu Yu slowly woke up.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she began to tremble violently, as if she were seeing the most terrifying scene of her life.

Ye Ningyun eagerly pressed on with her question:

"What exactly did you see in the ventilation duct?"

Liu Yu had just woken up, her face still showing a look of confusion, when she heard Ye Ningyun ask this question.

As if recalling something terrifying, her face contorted with fear, her lips trembled, her eyes glazed over, and she uttered a few words in a hoarse voice:

"I...I saw a severed arm in the ventilation duct to the left of room 204..."