Time ticked by, second after second, and I still hadn't found the remaining two people. With less than a minute left, I was frantic.

I never expected that Vice Director Yu and the chubby cameraman would be so difficult to find.

"Where on earth are those two hiding?"

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

Besides, it takes a long time to get from the second floor to the fifth floor. The ghosts are searching room by room, and five minutes is actually very short. They have a huge advantage. If I were them, I would definitely hide on the fifth floor.

With that thought, I ran to the fifth floor as fast as I could. But with less than 30 seconds left, I raced towards the gym on the fifth floor. To my surprise, Vice Director Yu and the chubby cameraman weren't in the gym at all.

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

Here, in this endless darkness, I would suffer eternal torment.

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

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

But Shen Wei was lost in thought: "Where did those two guys go? Not on the safe third floor, not on the safe fifth floor. Where else was safe before? And somewhere that's hard to think of… could it be…?"

Shen Wei's eyes lit up, and he had a very reliable guess in his mind.

"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 begins."

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 anomaly in search of my friends.

Here, I'm forced to play a game of hide-and-seek with a group of ghosts parasitized 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 and judging, Vice Director Yu and the chubby 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! Sure enough, I found Vice Director Yu here.

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

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

He just said that he was loyal and would not reveal the chubby cameraman's location no matter how I asked him.

But after I hit him a few times, he confessed everything. It turned out that the chubby cameraman was indeed hiding in the gym on the fifth floor. Vice Director Yu, the chubby cameraman, and Cui Jiani had agreed to hide in three different places to delay the time it took me to find them.

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

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

Whether I found two people or one person before, they will not be punished in any way.

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

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

Vice Director Yu, who had been beaten until he was vomiting blood, begged me bitterly and swore that he had seen the chubby cameraman enter the gym on the fifth floor with his own eyes.

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

Finally, in the last moment of time, I seemed to grasp a key point.

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

"I died, a terrible death, and suffered 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 at this time.

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

The Evil God's Right Hand asked in a very annoying 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? Think of a way to salvage the situation. It doesn't matter if you die, but I don't want to be imprisoned here forever, facing that soul lecturer and listening to his nonsense every day…"

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

Shen Wei ignored him and kept thinking about what kind of lifeline could solve the current predicament.

"I think what Vice Director Yu said should be true. The chubby cameraman should have entered the gym on the fifth floor, but someone didn't want me to find him. No, it should be said that 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 can never find him, and I can never get three people together in this game. I'm destined to fail. I have to say, these guys are really insidious…"

"But things are not without a turnaround. Maybe I can do this…"

"Maybe the rules that the girl ghost parasitized by black lines told me can be understood like this. She told me personally that in this game of hide-and-seek, I am the so-called ghost, and the people I find are out! The 'people' here may not specifically refer to Vice Director Yu, the chubby cameraman, and Cui Jiani, but all the characters involved in the game, whether human or ghost. Even those ghosts parasitized by black lines are just playing the role of 'people' in this game. I am the 'ghost'. They should fear me. So as long as I find three players, whether they are humans or ghosts, it counts…"

"Cui Jiani is on the third floor, I must find her first, and then I must go to the base camp of those guys, the classroom on the fourth floor where they are playing musical chairs. The walls are full of silhouettes drawn with black lines. Although I haven't seen the 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…"