My organs are too abstract.

The vengeful infant lay on the stair railing, its bluish-black, shriveled body swaying slightly. Its pair of jet-black eyes, devoid of any white, held a childlike, bewildered curiosity as it quietly observed everyone.

"whee……"

A childish yet eerie laugh drifted lightly through the empty corridor.

The next second, its mouth suddenly split open with a tearing motion, stretching all the way to its ears, revealing an extremely terrifying grin. A chilling aura instantly swept over its entire body, and even the surrounding air seemed to freeze solid.

"Prepare for battle!"

Li Chuan let out a low shout, his expression extremely solemn. With a casual flick of his right hand, he conjured a bone club that gleamed with a cold, white light.

The bone club was about the length of an adult male's forearm, entirely white, smooth and warm to the touch. The top was slightly bulging with a natural curve, while the bottom tapered into a rounded handle, fitting perfectly in one hand. Its overall shape resembled a giant chicken leg bone, its edges worn smooth by time.

Without saying a word, he gripped the stick with both hands, slightly lowered his center of gravity, and stood in front of Pei Yan.

At the same time, Zhou Wenyu took a few steps forward, and dark purple lines quickly spread across his left cheek. The lines resembled plant roots, climbing from his jaw to the corner of his eye, flickering slightly with his breath.

The two instinctively stepped aside, shielding Pei Yan tightly behind them, their gazes fixed on the vengeful infant before them. Faced with this calamity, which was at least at the level of a terminal illness, both of them were tense, as if facing a formidable enemy.

In an instant, the vengeful infant moved.

"Eeya—!"

A sharp, piercing screech broke the silence. It pushed off the smooth stair railing with its limbs, and its dark blue-green figure suddenly sprang up, transforming into a blurry afterimage. Like an arrow released from a bow, it pounced towards the crowd and reached Li Chuan in the blink of an eye.

"So fast!"

Li Chuan's pupils suddenly contracted, and the hairs on his body stood on end. Without having time to think, he gripped the bone club tightly with both hands, and instinctively poured all his strength into it, then swung it forward with a mighty blow!

"Bang!"

A dull, heavy impact echoed through the empty corridor.

But the moment the bone club touched the vengeful infant, Li Chuan was suddenly stunned, his face filled with astonishment.

The vengeful infant, which had been so aggressive and intimidating just moments before, was now like a baseball that had been hit hard, flying backwards without any resistance and crashing heavily into the wall behind it with a thud.

"Are you alright, Brother Li?" Zhou Wenyu asked anxiously, his eyes fixed on the vengeful infant on the ground.

"It's nothing..." Li Chuan looked down at the bone club in his hand, then at the vengeful infant, his voice full of confusion. "The speed is impressive, but the power... it's so light and weak, completely harmless?"

"Light as a feather?" Zhou Wenyu was taken aback.

On the other side, the vengeful infant tumbled off the wall, rolled awkwardly, and staggered to its feet. Its dark eyes swept over the three of them, then it instantly changed direction, pushed off the ground with all four limbs, and charged at Zhou Wenyu again.

With only a rapidly approaching green shadow in front of him, Zhou Wenyu subconsciously raised his hand and struck straight forward.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, the vengeful infant was sent flying back by a palm strike, even faster than when it rushed in, and crashed heavily onto the floor, unable to get up for a long time.

Zhou Wenyu looked at his hands, then at the curled-up vengeful infant on the ground, utterly dumbfounded: "It really is! How can this power be so weak?"

"whee……"

The vengeful infant shakily got up, shook its drowsy head, and grinned at the three of them again, revealing a sinister smile.

"Is that all you've got..."

Coming to his senses, Zhou Wenyu revealed a smile even more ferocious than the demon's, cracking his knuckles and rubbing his hands together: "Is that all you've got? Trying to act like a bull demon?"

"Eeya... Eeya..."

The vengeful infant's expression changed drastically, and it let out a sharp cry that sounded like both crying and howling. A startling aura suddenly rose from its body.

"Watch out! It looks like it's about to get serious!" Li Chuan's expression changed, and he immediately gripped the bone club tightly, shouting a warning.

But what happened next was completely unexpected.

Just as the vengeful infant's aura reached its peak, it turned around without hesitation and, using all four limbs, rushed up the stairs like a frightened wild beast. In an instant, it disappeared around the corner of the stairwell without a trace.

At the top of the stairs, only Li Chuan and Zhou Wenyu, who were still in a fighting stance, and Pei Yan, who was also ready to unleash her abilities, remained frozen in place. The tense atmosphere instantly became strange and awkward.

A cool breeze swept through the corridor, dispelling some of the tension.

The dark lines on Zhou Wenyu's cheeks faded away quickly, like a receding tide. He blinked and looked at Li Chuan blankly: "Brother Li, it... just ran away like that?"

Li Chuan slowly lowered the bone club in his hand, staring at the direction where the vengeful infant had disappeared, his brows furrowed tightly. He had prepared many contingency plans and anticipated countless fierce battles, but in the end… he was driven away with just one blow?

"Should we give chase?" Zhou Wenyu asked.

"Don't rush," Li Chuan shook his head. "It's too fast; it'll be difficult to catch up if we chase it rashly."

He lowered his head, lost in thought, his doubts deepening: "Something's really wrong. Its speed is definitely far beyond the 'Minor Ailment' level, but why is its strength so weak? It doesn't match its speed at all. What went wrong?"

As he reflected on his journey, he felt something was amiss.

Zhou Wenyu, however, remained optimistic: "No matter what, its weakness is a good thing for us; at least for now, it poses far less of a threat to us."

"That makes sense. Let's go, keep searching upwards, and deal with it first."

Li Chuan nodded and led the two back to the third floor. Because the pressure in their hearts had decreased significantly, the three of them searched much faster than before, and soon finished searching the third floor. After confirming that the vengeful infant was not there, they went straight to the fourth floor.

As they walked, Zhou Wenyu suddenly heard a slight twitch in his ears, stopped, and pointed to a closed classroom beside him: "There's some noise inside."

The classroom door was locked, and the room was pitch black, without a single ray of light.

The three exchanged a glance and approached slowly in unison. Zhou Wenyu stepped forward, then suddenly kicked open the door, causing a burst of terrified screams to erupt from inside.

"The time isn't up yet, why is that monster back again!"

"Waaah, please don't eat me..."

"Help! Someone, please help us!"

"Damn it, what are we afraid of? Let's fight it!"

Zhou Wenyu casually flipped on the light switch by the wall, and the glaring light came on. A group of young men and women were huddled in the corner of the classroom, their faces pale and their eyes filled with terror. They stared at the door and shouted desperately.

"They must be students who sneaked in," Zhou Wenyu said in a low voice after glancing at them.

Li Chuan stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "Calm down, we are not monsters, we are ordinary people."

"...Not a monster?"

A young man wearing black-rimmed glasses stood up cautiously, his tone still carrying a hint of doubt.

"You...you're Senior Pei Yan?"

At that moment, a girl with light-colored hair suddenly lit up with surprise in her eyes and exclaimed.

Pei Yan looked in the direction of the voice, raising an eyebrow slightly in surprise: "Xiao Yu?"

"It's me! It's me!" Xiao Yu stood up excitedly, her voice trembling with relief, "It really is you, senior!"

"You two know each other?" Zhou Wenyu asked, turning his head to the side.

"She's a junior in college. I've seen her a few times at school events before," Pei Yan explained softly.

"Keep your voices down! Do you want to attract the monster and kill everyone?" A burly boy suddenly shouted sternly, his eyes full of impatience.

Zhou Wenyu glanced at him and understood. This man had been cowering in the corner, not daring to breathe, but now that he saw someone had come, he started to act tough.

"It's alright, Jiahao. It's only been half an hour since the monster appeared. It won't come back," the bespectacled boy quickly reassured him.

Shen Jiahao spat in dissatisfaction, his tone sarcastic: "That's just your wild guess. If you really attract a monster, are you going to fill its belly?"

There were six students in the classroom. Li Chuan calmly observed them, and when he heard the boy with glasses speak, he immediately asked, "Do you know its feeding patterns?"

"Eating pattern?" The bespectacled boy paused for a moment, then nodded quickly. "I noticed that it only occurs once every hour, so that's why I made that guess."

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Shen Jiahao curled his lip in resentment, his tone full of accusation. "If it weren't for you, this damn club president, bringing us in, would so many of us have died?"

Xiao Yu, with her brightly colored hair, immediately stood up to retort: ​​"This event by the Ghost Hunting Club was unanimously agreed upon by everyone. You were the one who cheered the most at the time. Now that something has gone wrong, why are you pushing all the responsibility onto the club president?"

Li Chuan paid no attention to their argument, his gaze fixed on the bespectacled boy, and asked in a deep voice, "You're saying it's only been half an hour since it last appeared?"

"That's right." The bespectacled boy took out his phone and glanced at the time. "To be precise, it should be 27 minutes."

Zhou Wenyu instantly sensed something was wrong, his brows furrowing: "Something's not right. If it only ate less than half an hour ago, why did it wake up so quickly?"

Li Chuan also fell into deep thought. He had thought that his group was just unlucky to have encountered the vengeful infant, and that it just happened to be awakened.

Perhaps the vengeful infant has undergone a mutation and no longer follows its original activity patterns, but the students' statement directly refutes this conjecture—the vengeful infant is still following its fixed patterns.

But if that's the case, why did it suddenly break this pattern before the time was up?

The bespectacled boy was stunned, looking at Zhou Wenyu with a bewildered expression: "You... have already encountered it?"

Xiao Yu looked at Pei Yan with concern: "Senior, are you alright?"

"It's nothing," Pei Yan shook her head.

Shen Jiahao looked the three of them up and down, his face full of suspicion: "You encountered that monster, and none of you died?"

Pei Yan glanced at him coldly, her tone distant: "They're all alive and well."

"What?!"

The other students immediately erupted in disbelief, their eyes wide: "You guys encountered it and you're all alright?"

A tall, thin boy, as if realizing something, asked hopefully, "You...you've come to rescue us?"

He reacted quickly. If what the other party said was true, it meant that the three of them had the means to deal with that monster and could very likely lead them away from this hellish school building.

Pei Yan didn't rush to answer, but turned to look at Li Chuan. Li Chuan stepped forward and said in a calm and firm tone, "Don't worry, we are specialists from the relevant department and will do our best to ensure your safety."

"Really? We're saved!"

"Great! Finally, someone has come to rescue us!"

The students' tense nerves instantly relaxed, and they couldn't help but burst into tears of joy, as their suppressed despair dissipated.

As if remembering something, Li Chuan suddenly asked, "Have you encountered anything strange in this building?"

"Something unusual? What exactly do you mean?" the bespectacled boy asked, puzzled.

"Is there anything about this building that's different from what you usually see?"

"Speaking of which, there is something that is indeed a bit strange." The bespectacled man pondered for a moment before slowly speaking, "I always feel that some parts of the corridors in this building have inexplicably become longer."

"The corridor is getting longer? What does that mean?" Li Chuan's expression changed, and he quickly asked.

"For example, a corridor that you should turn right at the end will inexplicably have an extra section. What used to be a walk of eight or nine steps now requires two or three more steps to reach the end."

Shen Jiahao, standing to the side, couldn't help but mutter, "He's talking nonsense again. How come we didn't know?"

"Don't interrupt," Li Chuan interrupted him coldly, gesturing for the bespectacled boy to continue.

"It's normal that you didn't notice it; I only noticed it by chance," the bespectacled boy explained. "When I was taking classes in this building before, I suddenly had a thought and wanted to see how many steps it would take to walk a certain distance, and I just happened to write down this data. But I felt that it was unimportant, so I didn't tell you."

At this moment, another boy who had been silent for a long time hesitated before speaking up: "I've also noticed something strange, I don't know if it counts."

Li Chuan nodded and said, "It's alright, tell me about it."

"I used to play on the steps in this building with my friends, and I clearly remember that each floor had sixteen steps. But when I came up from the third floor, I subconsciously counted them and they became fifteen steps; I counted them again and they became seventeen steps; I counted them again and they became sixteen steps again."

Shen Jiahao couldn't help but interject, "Why didn't you say something like this sooner?"

"I thought I was just too nervous and miscounted, and I was afraid that telling everyone would scare them..." the boy explained in a low voice.

"I told you not to talk." Shen Jiahao wanted to say something more, but Li Chuan interrupted him coldly again and then fell into deep thought.

"..."

Shen Jiahao reluctantly shut his mouth, not daring to say anything more. He retreated to a corner of the classroom, filled with resentment, and muttered under his breath, "Pretending to be something they're not, talking so loudly, sooner or later they'll attract that monster, and then it'll suddenly jump out and scare you to death!"

"Shen Jiahao, stop talking!" At this moment, a short-haired girl standing next to him couldn't help but whisper, "Stop saying these things, I'm getting goosebumps!"

Her voice was trembling with tears, clearly indicating that she was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Shen Jiahao was taken aback by her reaction. Just as he was about to retort, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, as if a pair of eyes were silently staring at him.

He abruptly looked up, and the next second, he let out a heart-wrenching scream of terror:

"Holy crap! It's on top!"

Li Chuan and the other two suddenly looked up.

The vengeful infant that should have fled in panic was now hanging upside down like a gecko, its limbs gripping the ceiling, its little head drooping.

Those dark, eerie eyes, devoid of any light, were fixed on the crowd, coldly watching them without moving.