Zongman, you don't follow the rules at all, right?

Then, except for Hui Shi, everyone else turned around and looked behind them in tacit understanding.

Although it was night, everyone could see through the darkness that countless ghostly figures were vaguely emerging from the windows of the teaching building.

Logically speaking, they should be scared after seeing so many ghosts in this weird copy.

They did feel scared, after all, those were real ghosts.

But now, rather than being afraid, they are more speechless.

They have not forgotten the series of events that just happened. In order to avoid being discovered by Huishi, this group of ghosts used every possible method. The most outrageous thing was to threaten them and use them as a cover to avoid Huishi's sight.

Everyone had thought about informing Huishi about the situation of these ghosts. Although they were not sure about Huishi's strength, they believed that Huishi could definitely take action to eliminate those ghosts before they could harm them.

The reason they didn't say anything was mainly because being threatened by ghosts was too rare an event, and their brains couldn't handle it, so they were just confused and surprised.

When they arrived at the new scene, they found that the ghosts in the previous teaching building seemed unable to get through. After they calmed down, they decided to tell what happened.

Toyokawa Shoko said, "Hey, we have something going on here..."

"Let's split up."

"Ah?"xN

But before Toyokawa Shoko could finish her words, Hui Shi interrupted her, and the content of her words caught everyone off guard.

Without waiting for anyone to react, Hui Shi continued, "I just don't believe it. There can't be only two or three ghosts in this weird game's quest instance. That would be too lame, wouldn't it?"

"Isn't there a saying? People are afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are afraid of people too. So it must be because we're all gathered together, with too many people and too much yang energy. This time, let's split up. I'll go to the left, and you all go to the right. Of course, if you're worried about something happening, find a safe place and stay there."

"It doesn't matter if something happens. Just shout for help and I'll be back immediately."

"Anyway, I have to run into ghosts today! Or a bunch of them!"

"Well, see you later!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Hui Shi's figure disappeared, leaving only a circle of slowly spreading smoke in its place.

Everyone: "..."

Seeing this situation, everyone was stunned.

Why did you just leave like that? The ghost isn't afraid of a group of people, it's afraid of you!

After a while, Yukinoshita Yukino came back to her senses, turned to look at Toyokawa Shoko, and asked, "Toyokawa-san, is Haitoki-san always so... decisive?"

Toyokawa Shoko rubbed her brow and said, "Yes, it has always been like this."

"Haotoki-san has left, what should we do?" asked Yumiko Miura worriedly.

Everyone was silent after hearing this.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't be silent. Those ghosts are afraid of Haitoki-san. If it weren't for Haitoki-san, those ghosts we met in the teaching building just now would definitely have eaten or killed us, right?" Miura Yumiko continued to ask with a grim expression.

"If nothing unexpected happens, yes." Hiratsuka Shizuka replied.

"It must be. There was a ghost looking at me with dangerous eyes before. If Haitoki-san hadn't come back in time and scared it so much that it turned around and ran away, I doubt whether it would have been able to resist and attack me directly." Yuigahama Yui said fearfully.

"That's right! I was also glared at fiercely by one of the ghosts!" Miura Yumiko nodded frantically, and then continued: "Although what happened just now made me want to complain, the threat of ghosts to us still exists. We don't have the ability to fight against them. Now that Haitoki-san has left again, what should we do?!"

"I want to say, 'Don't worry, I'm here to protect you,' but facing a being like a ghost, I can't make any guarantees. If it's those thugs, or Honkai beasts and dead soldiers, I can definitely protect you from harm." Kiana spread her hands and said helplessly.

"Although I don't know what those Honkai beasts and death soldiers you mentioned are, Kiana, I wouldn't be afraid if they were just hooligans. Unfortunately, we are not facing hooligans." Shizuka Hiratsuka said helplessly.

After this sentence was finished, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet and everyone looked at each other.

"Tick tock~"

Suddenly, the sound of dripping water came from somewhere, making everyone frightened. Yukinoshita Yukino exhaled and said, "Let's find a safe place to wait for Haitoki-san to come back."

Everyone nodded quickly.

However, they still underestimated the maliciousness of this game.

Just when they made the decision to find a safe place to wait for the time being, a dark figure slowly crawled out from the shadows not far away.

"patta~patta~"

The sound of hands or feet directly hitting the ground was heard, and everyone's attention was immediately drawn to it.

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his whole body tensed up, and he stared in the direction of the sound.

A few seconds later, a petite baby appeared in front of everyone.

Everyone was stunned, but instead of feeling relieved, they felt more fearful.

The baby's skin was torn and tattered, as if it had been burned by fire. The path it crawled on was covered with blood. There were no eyeballs in its eye sockets, but two black holes. Although there was a smile on its mouth, it was extremely weird.

"Patta, patta~" The sound of the baby crawling on all fours rang out again, and everyone stepped back in fear.

"Ba Pu?" Seeing everyone retreat, the baby tilted his head and made a puzzled sound.

When everyone saw this scene, instead of feeling the baby's cuteness, they only felt an ever-increasing fear.

This baby is definitely a ghost!

"What, what, what, what... What should we do? I, I, I, I... We're not going to die here, are we?" When had Miura Yumiko ever seen such a truly bizarre scene? She felt dizzy, her head swollen with fear, and her speech was stammering.

"Miura, calm down, we will be fine." Hayama, who was standing next to Miura Yumiko, hurriedly spoke to comfort her, although his hands and feet were trembling and there was fear in his words.

"Everyone calm down and don't act impulsively out of fear." After all, as a veteran who had experienced two missions, Shizuka Hiratsuka quickly came to her senses and reminded everyone in a deep voice.

"Teacher Hiratsuka is right. Everyone calm down and don't panic. Let's retreat little by little and don't disturb the ghost baby." Yukinoshita Yukino came back to her senses a little bit, but not for long. She followed up on Shizuka Hiratsuka's words and spoke to comfort everyone, then tried to lead everyone to avoid the ghost baby.

Chapter 14: It is just weak and powerless, not weak and vulnerable (Part )

"..."

"..."

Everyone remained silent and then slowly retreated.

At the same time, pay attention to the movements of the ghost baby in front of you.

Although this ghost baby looks ugly and scary, its movements and behaviors give people the impression that it is an ordinary baby who is very curious about everything in the outside world.

But no matter how much it behaves like a normal baby, no one will really treat it as an ordinary baby.

Everyone now just wants to get away from it.

But this ghost baby seemed to treat everyone as playmates, always keeping a distance from them that was neither too far nor too close. When everyone moved back, it followed, and when everyone stopped, it stopped.

After all this back and forth, the distance between the crowd and the ghost baby did not widen at all. Instead, the ghost baby was having a lot of fun, constantly making weird giggling sounds.

"Is this guy playing tricks on us?" Kiana raised her eyebrows and said.

"It's a bit troublesome. If we continue to be delayed here by this little brat, who knows if it will attract other ghosts." Shizuka Hiratsuka said with a frown.

"That won't do! I don't want to be chased by ghosts that I can't touch or hit anymore. This little brat looks like it has a physical body. How about I go up and kick it away? This guy is a ghost anyway. I won't feel guilty about kicking him, and he doesn't look very powerful either." Kiana suggested, rolling up her sleeves.

"No!"

But as soon as Kiana made this suggestion, it was immediately rejected by everyone.

Yuigahama Yui said to Kiana very seriously, "Kiana-san, in ghost stories, these baby-like ghosts are not simple. Don't underestimate them because they look harmless. These ghost babies are like untriggered traps. If they are not triggered, it's fine. But once they are triggered, they will become the most dangerous existence."

"Really?" Seeing Yuigahama Yui's extremely serious look, Kiana swallowed her saliva, took a step back, and asked with some disbelief.

"Of course it's true! This is the experience I've gained from listening to ghost stories for many years."

"Story?" Kiana looked skeptical when she heard that.

Yuigahama Yui also seemed to realize that stories are stories and reality is reality, and they can't be combined casually. She quickly made amends, "This is indeed not very rigorous, but when facing ghosts, it's always better to be careful and not touch them."

That's true. After all, no one can guarantee that driving the baby away will not trigger something, such as... summoning its parents?

Or maybe this ghost baby rapidly expanded and changed into a super-large ghost.

but……

If you don't drive it away, it will be a big deal if this ghost baby keeps following you.

"Roar..."

To make matters worse, what everyone was worried about happened. A low roar was heard, indicating that other ghosts were approaching.

"Ba!" The ghost baby heard the movement of other ghosts and showed a happy expression. He turned around and waved his little hands behind him, as if saying "Here, here, come here."

"Whoo~"

Then a gust of cold wind blew, and various figures emerged from the shadows, including male and female students in school uniforms, as well as the school's teachers, hygienists, security guards, etc.

Although these figures are different, there is one thing that is absolutely the same, that is, they are all ghosts!

These ghosts still retained their appearance before death. There were drowned ghosts with their bodies soaking wet, hanged ghosts with their tongues pulled very long, and ghosts with bloody heads, who obviously died by jumping off a building.

Everyone was surrounded by ghosts.

At this moment, they once again experienced the horror of the game "Ghost Paradise".

"Hehe~"

"Come~play~"

As these ghosts gradually got closer, the ghost baby in the middle let out a strange laugh and slowly spoke.

At this moment, everyone was horrified.

"Come play~"

The ghost baby spoke again, and this time, its words were much more fluent. Then it no longer kept a distance from the crowd and began to slowly crawl towards them.

This made everyone retreat quickly.

But soon, Yukinoshita and the others hit the wall behind them and had nowhere to retreat.

The ghost baby's smile was even more strange at this time, and the cracks at the corners of its mouth had reached its ears. Its crawling movements suddenly slowed down at this time, as if it had been hit by the slowdown skill in the game, but the next moment, it suddenly accelerated and crawled to the feet of everyone in an instant.

“Come play, come play, come play…!”

“Come play!!!”

In an instant, a strong chilling wind blew, and the other ghosts nearby began to laugh and growl strangely, repeating in unison: "Come and play, come and play, come and play..."

Seeing the ghost baby getting closer and closer, although everyone felt extremely terrified, they did not give up. Shizuka Hiratsuka took a step forward, took out an origami paper man from her arms, and shouted sternly.

“式神召来／

As soon as she finished speaking, Shizuka Hiratsuka threw the paper figure in her hand out.

The next moment, the paper man instantly grew larger, but... his appearance did not change. He just turned into a paper man the size of a normal adult.

Such a scene shocked the ghosts that were slowly approaching. They all looked at the paper man that suddenly appeared with some confusion and caution.

"Go!" Yukinoshita Yukino was the first to react and shouted briefly.

"I'll lead the way!" Kiana came to her senses immediately, raised the baseball bat, and used the baseball bat version of the Turtle Boxing Technique, swinging the bat towards the direction with the least ghosts.

Kiana swung the bat with great vigor, and her fearless posture seemed to really scare the ghosts around her. They immediately retreated, and at this moment, a way to survive appeared.

Everyone did not miss this opportunity and immediately rushed out of the encirclement of ghosts.

At this moment, everyone was highly focused and no one complained about not being able to run.

"Roar--!"

"Uh!"

In the blink of an eye, an angry roar was heard, and at the same time, Shizuka Hiratsuka also let out a cry of pain.

"Hiratsuka-sensei!"

Everyone murmured in worry, but Hiratsuka Shizuka immediately waved her hands and said, "I'm fine. The paper figurine I just threw out got shredded, and the feedback from it gave me a slight headache. It's not a big deal, I can handle it. The important thing now is to run."

"That's good, let's..."

"Everyone, run over there!" Toyokawa Shoko interrupted Yukinoshita, pointed to the corner ahead, and quickly explained, "We're not gray, so it's unlikely we'll outrun the monsters with our bare legs. We might as well hide it from the world."

"When I was searching the building with Hui Shi before, I memorized the general layout of these teaching buildings. There's a special classroom just around the corner. Once you enter it, close the door immediately and walk quietly. As long as you pass through that classroom, you can quickly reach the other side of the teaching building and reunite with Hui Shi."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other and immediately adopted Toyokawa Shoko's suggestion.

"To be on the safe side, I'll put out another bait." Shizuka Hiratsuka said as she took out another origami figure from her arms.

She pinched the origami figurine and whispered, "Summon the Shikigami."

As soon as he finished speaking, the origami man grew rapidly and was soon the same size as Hiratsuka Shizuka.