Excessive ferocity due to caution

The two ran wildly, with a twisted ghostly figure hopping and leaping after them. However, because the ghostly figure moved in uncoordinated ways, the two quickly shook off the principal under Zhao Yi's guidance.

"If you had something this powerful, why didn't you use it sooner?"

Yang Linlin asked, panting as she covered the bear with one hand.

Zhao Yi:

"Because the cooldown time is very long."

"And what are you doing, clutching your chest?"

Yang Linlin glared at him.

What do you think?

Just now, Zhao Yi kicked her Winnie the Pooh teddy bear to save her. Although the kick wasn't particularly hard, Zhao Yi definitely used all his strength in that life-or-death situation, and it hurt Yang Linlin quite a bit!

"Excuse me, this is a special situation, so I'll handle it specially... Would you like me to massage it for you?"

"roll!"

Zhao Yi rolled his eyes.

Women are strange creatures.

I tried to kindly rub her wound, but she told me to get lost.

The computer lab was in another building. There were still three hours before the morning reading session the next day, so Zhao Yi and Yang Linlin decided to try their luck at the computer lab again.

What if it can be found out?

"By the way, where did you get your hunting rifle?"

"In the last instance, I was doing wilderness survival, and I was worried I'd encounter similar situations again, so I bought a lot of guns, knives, tents, firewood, ropes, fishing line, sunscreen, waterproof blankets..."

Looking at the huge pile of items in Yang Linlin's inventory, Zhao Yi praised:

"I didn't expect you to be so prepared. It's a good thing you brought a gun this time, otherwise we would have had to go through the window, and we might have even had to leave one of us behind."

Hearing Zhao Yi praise her, Yang Linlin became happy, raised her delicate chin, and hummed:

"That's right!"

"I, Yang Linlin, am no newbie!"

After a pause, she took a hunting rifle out of her inventory and handed it to Zhao Yi.

"Here, I'll give you a hunting rifle. The Domain System will be unlocked later, and using this rifle will increase your proficiency in the firearms domain!"

Zhao Yi accepted the hunting rifle from Yang Linlin and thanked her.

This hunting rifle isn't an ordinary one from the outside world; it's an item redeemed in the game's shop. Although it's not very effective against ghosts, it can stun them, and its silencer is quite good. For a newbie, it's a very valuable item.

Live stream chat:

The "Crusher" item costs 2000 points in the shop, and my goddess just gave it away like that?

Damn it! Yang Linlin wouldn't have fallen for Zhao Yi, that lunatic, would she?! I'm unfollowing her!

Zhao Yi saved her twice, so putting aside personal likes and dislikes, it's only right to give him a small gift in return.

Waaaaah, my goddess... my goddess... but it's okay, I'll still love you!

The person upstairs is so licking!

...

Having found the server room, Zhao Yi pulled out his gun and fired a shot at the door lock.

The door opened.

Computer labs in universities are generally not used frequently, and students often use them for play rather than study. However, in most universities applying for special projects, computer labs are almost essential public facilities.

You may not use it, but you must have it.

Yang Linlin acted as a lookout for Zhao Yi, who then used the school's network to search for information about Chen Qiong online.

"How is it?"

Seeing Zhao Yi's fingers frantically typing on the keyboard, Yang Linlin couldn't help but ask a question.

Zhao replied without blinking:

"The other party has a powerful background; all those messages online have been blocked and deleted!"

"But it's okay, I can access the 'Black Sea' to check."

Yang Linlin was stunned.

"The Black Sea, what's that?"

"The dumping ground of the Internet."

Zhao Yi explained:

"Generally speaking, messages on the Internet are not completely deleted. When all the data that has ever appeared is cleaned up, the code is dumped into the Black Sea."

"But getting into the Black Sea is complicated; it requires compiling, testing, modifying, and then logging in."

His explanation only made things worse; once he did, Yang Linlin was completely dumbfounded.

"Were you a hacker before? How do you know so much?"

Zhao Yi looked serious.

"No, I'm a psychologist."

"I once had a patient who was a hacker suffering from extremely severe paranoia. Every day he would tell me that he could channel his mind into the internet and swim in the boundless ocean of code..."

Yang Linlin rolled her eyes.

"You believe what they say about mental illness?"

Zhao Yi continued:

"At first, he was just wandering around in the virtual world by himself, but after a period of treatment, we were finally able to go in and play together."

Yang Linlin: "???"

Live stream chat:

LOL, so it's you who got "treated"!

I always thought this person had some mental issues. Could it be that he'd been around mentally ill people for too long and gotten infected?

Didn't you look at his information? Zhao Yi must be joking. He's treated thousands of patients with severe mental illnesses!

I was also a medical student back then. Although I wasn't a psychology major, the name "Angel of Oblivion" is really famous in the field of mental medicine!

……

"And then?"

"Later, I was the only one left inside."

Why?

"Because I cured his delusions."

Yang Linlin rolled her eyes.

"So you're saying you also have delusions?"

Zhao Yi successfully landed in the Black Sea and snapped his fingers!

"Paranoia?"

"No, this is not delusional."

"My mind can truly communicate with the data."

Yang Linlin chuckled upon hearing this, assuming Zhao Yi was just teasing her and didn't think much of it.

But if Yang Linlin walked up to the front of the computer, she would be horrified to find that... Zhao Yi's computer didn't have any programs open at all!

The keyboard cable wasn't even plugged into the computer.

"Found it."

Zhao Yi squinted, staring intently at the computer screen.

The light and shadow fell on his face, leaving some shadows.

"Chen Qiong's mother had an accident due to a dispute with the homeroom teacher of Class 8, Grade 1 at Shishan School. She fell from the third-floor corridor and died on August 13, 3032, despite all efforts to save her."

Cause of death: Severe brain damage.

"A week later, Chen Qiong sneaked into the school, armed with a kitchen knife, and cleaved his homeroom teacher Liang Ming's head in two with a single blow, before escaping from the school."

"After that, Chen Qiong completely vanished without a trace... and the teachers and students of Shishan High School also began to mysteriously disappear one after another within a month, without exception..."

"During this period, City A dispatched a large number of police officers to search Ishiyama High School, but to no avail..."

Zhao Yi's narration left Yang Linlin in a daze.

「3032年8月13日……一周后是8月20日，再过一个月是……3032年9月20日！」

"Isn't that... the day our main quest ends?"

Yang Linlin suddenly woke up, as if she had discovered some important clue!

During the day, she saw an electronic calendar under the large wall clock in the classroom.

The date marked above is 3032!

In other words...

They traveled back to... the past timeline!

We've gone back to the last seven days of the curse!

"No wonder...no wonder the seating arrangement on that roster...only goes up to September 19th!"

"Zhao Yi, your guess was correct!"

"On September 20th, everyone... will die!"