Time ticked by, second by second, but I couldn't find the remaining two people. With less than a minute left, I was frantic.

I never imagined that Assistant Director Yu and Fatty the cameraman would be so difficult to deal with.

"Where the hell are these two hiding?"

Suddenly, I thought of the fifth floor. Those two were definitely cunning, and they must have been to this haunted school before, familiar with the layout. Plus, we had spent a long time in the gym on the fifth floor before; it was safe.

Moreover, it would take a long time to get from the second floor to the fifth floor. The ghosts were searching room by room, and five minutes was actually very short. They had a huge advantage. If it were me, I would definitely hide on the fifth floor.

Thinking this, I ran to the fifth floor as fast as I could. But with only about 30 seconds left, I sprinted toward the gym. To my surprise, Assistant Director Yu and Fatty weren't there.

Just as I was racking my brains, the five minutes were up. The ghosts possessed by black lines killed me and dragged me into the wall.

Here was endless darkness, where I would suffer eternal torment.

"I died, a terrible death. Simulation complete, collecting lifespan."

The Evil God's Right Hand earned two years of Shen Wei's life, and its mood immediately improved.

But Shen Wei was lost in thought. "Where did these two hide? Not on the safe third floor, not on the safe fifth floor… where else was safe before? And somewhere hard to guess… could it be…?"

Shen Wei's eyes lit up, and he had a reliable guess.

"Yuzu, I want to run another simulation..."

"Okay, two years of lifespan per simulation. Please look at the red eye pattern in my palm. Simulation commencing."

My name is Shen Wei. By the time you hear my name, I may already be dead, because I've fallen into a death set-like anomaly while searching for my friends.

Here, I'm forced to play a game of hide-and-seek with a group of ghosts possessed by black lines. And I have to find three people to win.

I found Cui Jiani in the classroom on the third floor. After thinking it over, I decided that Assistant Director Yu and Fatty the cameraman must be on the rooftop, where we first appeared. It had always been very safe before.

I rushed to the rooftop as fast as I could and opened the closed iron door! I found Assistant Director Yu there as expected.

But I didn't see Fatty the cameraman anywhere. Anxious, I saw that there were less than two minutes left. Forced to, I subjected Assistant Director Yu to severe torture.

To be honest, this guy looks tough on the outside, but he's actually a coward.

He had just said that he was loyal and wouldn't reveal Fatty the cameraman's location no matter how I asked.

But after only a few hits, he confessed everything. It turned out that Fatty the cameraman was indeed hiding in the gym on the fifth floor. Assistant Director Yu, Fatty the cameraman, and Cui Jiani had discussed it and hid in three different places to delay the time it took me to find them.

Because the rules of this hide-and-seek game are that I must find three people within five minutes to win.

Conversely, if I don't find three people, then I fail the mission and die. And the human side will win.

Whether I found two people or one person before, they wouldn't be punished in any way.

But it was really strange. I searched every part of the gym on the fifth floor, but I couldn't find Fatty the cameraman until the time ran out.

I frantically beat Assistant Director Yu, wanting him to reveal Fatty the cameraman's location.

Assistant Director Yu, already beaten to the point of vomiting blood, begged me bitterly and swore that he had personally seen Fatty the cameraman enter the gym on the fifth floor.

Since Fatty the cameraman entered the gym on the fifth floor, why did he disappear?

Finally, in the last moment of time, I seemed to grasp something important.

But it was too late. The ghosts possessed by black lines tore me into pieces, then possessed my ghost and took me into the wall space.

"I died, a terrible death, and will suffer eternal imprisonment."

"Simulation complete, collecting lifespan."

The Evil God's Right Hand took another two years of Shen Wei's life, but Shen Wei frowned tightly.

"Kid, what's wrong with you? Why so gloomy?"

The Evil God's Right Hand asked in a very irritating tone.

"If you knew you only had less than three minutes to live, would you be happy enough to fly?"

Shen Wei retorted speechlessly.

"Is there really no room for maneuver? Hurry up and think of a way to save it. It doesn't matter if you die, but I don't want to be trapped here forever, listening to that soul lecturer blather on all day..."

The Evil God's Right Hand kept urging Shen Wei.

Shen Wei ignored it and kept thinking about what kind of life-saving clues could solve the current predicament.

"I think Assistant Director Yu was telling the truth. Fatty the cameraman should have entered the gym on the fifth floor, but someone didn't want me to find him. No, I should say a ghost didn't want me to find him. So those things killed him and dragged him into the wall space I saw before, so I'll never be able to find him, and I'll never be able to get three people together for this game. I'm destined to fail. I have to say, these guys are really insidious..."

"But things aren't without a turning point. Maybe I can do this..."

"Maybe the rules that the girl ghost possessed by black lines told me can be understood this way. She told me in person that in this hide-and-seek game, I am the so-called ghost, and the people I find are out! The 'people' here may not specifically refer to Assistant Director Yu, Fatty the cameraman, Cui Jiani, and the other three, but all the characters participating in the game. Whether they are humans or ghosts, even those ghosts possessed by black lines are just playing the role of 'people' in this game. I am the 'ghost.' They should be afraid of me. So as long as I find three players, whether they are human or ghost, they count..."

"Cui Jiani is on the third floor, I have to find her first. Then I have to raid the headquarters of those guys, the classroom on the fourth floor where they play pass-the-flower. The walls are covered with black lines depicting human figures. Although I haven't seen those ghosts who played hide-and-seek with me before, they are very likely to be among them. As long as I enter that classroom, I will definitely wipe them all out in one fell swoop..."

"If my deduction is correct, the winner must be me..."