My organs are too abstract.

Chapter 73 Shocking Change

"What happened?" Zhou Wenyu asked.

Li Chuan explained, "The students' collective fear forced the vengeful infant to break through the abnormal level and escape the shackles of the dream, entering reality. This caused most of its power to be drawn and transferred to the vengeful infant, leaving its own power dormant, with only a small portion operating instinctively. So, from beginning to end, it was the vengeful infant that was killing, while it did nothing."

Zhou Wenyu thought for a moment and agreed, "That makes sense. Perhaps it's precisely because the students' attention was completely drawn to the vengeful infant that they were less likely to have wild thoughts and develop new fears. And the vengeful infant absorbed too much of its power, causing it to fall into dormancy; otherwise, they might have been consumed by their own fears long ago."

"So, as long as we overcome our fear, we don't need to be afraid of the vengeful infant at all?" Zhou Wenyu's eyes lit up. "Why don't we take advantage of the fact that the power of this calamity is being restrained by the vengeful infant and kill the source of this calamity first?"

"But we've been here for so long, and we've checked every place carefully, but we haven't found anything else. We might not be able to find it." Pei Yan looked worried.

"It is indeed a problem. We need to determine its location first, but there must be a source." Li Chuan pondered for a moment, then turned to the students. "Listen carefully, everyone. Stay calm and don't be afraid. As long as you remain calm, everyone can leave safely, understand?"

Hearing this, the students felt a surge of hope and nodded emphatically, "Understood!"

Li Chuan then asked, "By the way, there are warning signs at the entrance of this building. Why did you run in?"

"We've always been particularly curious about campus ghost stories. We heard that strange phenomena often occur here, so we couldn't resist coming to explore," Xiao Yu said, a little embarrassed.

"Who told you that?"

"It was a student from the school who sent me this thing, saying that if I played a game with it in the building, I would definitely see what I wanted to see."

As Xiao Yu spoke, she took out a worn-out coin from her pocket.

Zhou Wenyu took it and examined it for a moment, his expression becoming more serious: "It has an aura of calamity."

A vague sense of unease rose in Li Chuan's heart: "What does that student look like?"

"We've never met in person; we've always chatted online. After we finished chatting, he sent this over."

Li Chuan frowned. Could it be that this incident was not an accident, but a deliberate arrangement by someone?

The whole thing seems to be getting more and more complicated.

"What game are you playing?"

"The Four Corners Game"

"A four-corner game?" Li Chuan raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Yes, not long after the game ended, the whole building suddenly lost power, which startled us all."

"The Four Corners Game —" Li Chuan was no stranger to this urban legend.

The four people stand in the four corners of the room. The first person walks along the wall to the second person and taps them on the shoulder. The second person then walks to the third person, and so on.

Logically speaking, there will always be a corner that is empty, and the game cannot continue in a closed loop. However, if the game continues indefinitely, it means that there is an extra "person" in the room who does not belong to the human world.

The game itself is just a folk tale, but since it has been mixed with calamity, and someone is secretly stirring things up, perhaps this game has indeed attracted something.

Li Chuan pondered, "Could it be that the thing that was attracted is the source of all this calamity, drawn by the Four Corners Game? And following your fears, it has transformed into some non-existent person, wandering around this building?"

Zhou Wenyu's eyes lit up: "If we find and eliminate it, we can leave this place?"

Shen Jiahao, who had been silent all along, seemed to remember something; his lips moved slightly, but he hesitated to speak.

Just then, a sudden sound of footsteps came slowly from downstairs.

The steps were slow but powerful, clearly not those of a vengeful infant.

Everyone's heart tightened instantly, and their whole bodies tensed up.

"Remember, don't be afraid," Li Chuan immediately reminded him. "We can handle it."

The footsteps grew clearer as they approached.

To ease the tension, Zhou Wenyu turned to Xiao Yu and asked, "So you're the one who brought everyone in to play the game?"

"It wasn't her, it was Haoran who suggested it," the chubby boy who had previously expressed his admiration for Zhou Wenyu suddenly said.

"Haoran?" Zhou Wenyu was slightly taken aback.

"It's the president of the company," Xiao Yu explained.

A chill instantly ran down Zhou Wenyu's spine, but he suppressed his emotions and looked at the bespectacled boy: "What's his full name?"

"Luo Haoran."

boom-

It felt like a thunderclap exploded in Zhou Wenyu's mind.

He remembered that the name printed on the campus card in the pocket of the corpse on the first floor was Luo Haoran!

If that corpse is the real Luo Haoran, then who is this person in front of us?

Despite the turmoil raging within him, he suppressed his emotions and remained silent, fearing that a momentary outburst would trigger intense fear among the students and cause the situation to spiral out of control, which would be troublesome.

"Strange, if this person is the source, then who is making those footsteps downstairs?"

Zhou Wenyu pondered silently, subtly moving closer to Li Chuan, intending to quietly remind him to join forces and take the opportunity to suppress "Luo Haoran".

They aim for a decisive, one-hit kill.

But he didn't notice at all that Shen Jiahao had been watching his expression the whole time.

The next second, Shen Jiahao suddenly let out a terrified scream: "No! Luo Haoran is the monster!"

All eyes immediately turned to him.

Xiao Yu frowned, her face full of displeasure: "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Oh no!" Zhou Wenyu's expression changed, and he quickly stopped him, "Don't speak!"

But Shen Jiahao was already overwhelmed by extreme fear and lost all reason. Ignoring all attempts to stop him, he shouted in a hoarse voice, "Have you all forgotten?"

When we played the Four Corners game, I said that having a stranger in the game wasn't the worst thing; the scariest thing was that the familiar person next to you had already been replaced and was silently following you all along!

"You were all quite frightened when you heard that, how come you've forgotten it so quickly?"

"Don't you understand yet? Luo Haoran is the one who was replaced! He's the monster lured here by our game, the true source of this bizarre event!"

Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat, and she instantly recalled the scene from that time.

At the time, Shen Jiahao scoffed at the Four Corners Game, saying that what did it matter if there was one more "person"? He said it was terrifying if this "person" replaced the person next to him and perfectly imitated their every word and action.

Xiao Yu felt a chill run through her body. She stiffly and slowly turned her head to look at Luo Haoran beside her.

She noticed that he had turned around at some point and was quietly looking at her, a wooden, stiff, and eerie smile on his face, like that of a corpse.