I Upended Yet Another Campus Urban Legend

The crowd held their breath in the darkness. Some of them hadn’t figured out what kind of game it was, but the darkness combined with the strange voice of the woman in red and the unknown game made them all tense up.

Ou Ying lowered her head and whispered to Luo Yi who was sitting on her left, “The game is Anke.” 

Luo Yi asked coldly, “What?”

Ou Ying explained, “It’s a means of creating a story. The author lists multiple possibilities to determine the direction of the story. A direction is selected by rolling the die. The story then proceeded according to that direction.”

She also continued to analyze, “To turn Anke into a game that we can all participate in…We must listen careful to what she says, it is very likely…”

Before Ou Ying finished speaking, she was patted on the right shoulder. 

Luo Yi’s voice reached her right ear, “Ou Ying Jiejie, what are you mumbling about?”

Ou Ying’s fingers suddenly curled up, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Luo Yi asked, “Are you talking to Zhou Ge? I think Zhou Ge followed to sit with that little genius over there.”

Although Ou Ying has experienced a lot of different Rule Worlds, she was still a girl after all. After trying to understand the connection between the game and the two Luo Yi’s who appeared on her left and right, instinctive fear spread silently in her heart.

But she gave it her all and stopped herself from crying out. Ou Ying tried her best to keep her voice steady, “…It’s nothing.”

Lin Yi stared at the woman in red, feeling that “amongst you” couldn’t mean anything good. He silently counted the number of people sitting on the ground.

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten……

When he reached ‘ten’, Lin Yi grew momentarily silent. 

Ten people sitting on the ground plus him, Qin Zhou and Cheng Yang on the sofa, that’s all there should be. The number of people pulled into the 2-6 Rule World was 13 people.

But.

Eleven twelve……

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There were two more people sitting on the ground. 

Olc Tl aegcfv yjmx ab atf kbwjc lc gfv. Ktf kbwjc lc gfv rjlv atja atfgf kfgf atgff utbrar jwbcura atfw; rb 13 qfbqif + 3 utbrar = 16.

Ktf akfinf tfjvr bc atf ugbecv qier atf atgff bo atfw bc atf rboj wjxf j abaji bo oloaffc. Pa kjr ralii bcf rtbga.

Vb, ktfgf kjr atf atlgv utbra jwbcura atfw?

Lin Yi’s eyes searched the villa. The living room of the villa was relatively open, it didn’t seem off for the assembled people to whisper amongst each other. 

He first looked at the walkway on the second floor since the woman in red had been standing there watching them at first.

It wasn’t on the second floor walkway.

Lin Yi looked at another spot. He suddenly he saw something flashing past out of the corner of his eye. Lin Yi tried focusing on the passing figure.

But he missed it. 

The woman in red rolled the die again. “Then do these three ghosts have any malicious intentions towards you? Are they merely curious? Do they not intend to disturb you? Or do they want to kill you?”

clang’, ‘clang’——

The sound of the die tumbling on the wooden surface of the table began to sound creepy.

Among the 13 participants, except for Lin Yi and Cheng Yang who were freshmen, the rest were already old students, especially since this time, the student union accounted for more than half of them. 

They all knew about the existence of the Rules of Death and that they would be killed by the NPC come nighttime only if they violate the Rules of Death.

But now that the words ‘kill you’ fell from the mouth of the woman in red, it was easy to think that maybe a Rule of Death has appeared in a way that they had never imagined.

The ‘clang’-ing stopped, and the woman in red looked down at the die.

“Ah.” The woman in red was surprised but her expression was pleased. “It turns out that the three ghosts followed you because they wanted to kill you. But why? Why do they want to kill you?” 

Lin Yi gave up on looking for the figure that flew past his eyes. He looked up at the woman in red.

Like most of the group, Lin Yi also felt the emergence of the Rule of Death, or rather, the signal that the Rule of Death had come knocking on their door, much like the ‘open window’.

The woman in red asked once more, ‘Why do they want to kill you?’. However, she didn’t roll the die again; she didn’t list any reasons and let the points of the die choose one of them.

She said briskly, “My friends, today’s game is over, we will continue tomorrow. It’s getting late, I need to prepare dinner for you. I hope you will all enjoy dinner.” 

After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked towards the kitchen.

Following her departure, the beam of light in the living room also turned off. The entire living room was completely plunged into darkness. Relying on that beam of light before, they could roughly see some outlines in the living room but now, they couldn’t even see their fingers.

Lin Yi watched the woman in red leave and when he looked back, he found that same as when the die-throwing table appeared, it also disappeared without a sound.

As soon as the woman in red left, the stretched nerves of the students slowly relaxed. 

“She left?”

“The game… is it… over?”

“Could it be that this is…all a trick?”

Lin Yi analyzed the words of the woman in red. She was going to prepare dinner, which meant that they it was still daytime but they were running out of daylight. Once the woman in red is ready for dinner, it means that nighttime, when NPC can kill, has descended. 

Lin Yi wasn’t afraid of nightfall. He turned his head and asked Qin Zhou, “Senior, does she mean that we can move around freely?”

This was why Lin Yi had been analyzing the woman’s words. In the 7-7 Rule World, the old dorm manager had to ask them to sign a contract. Only after signing the contract could the old dorm manager’s set of Rules of Death be triggered.

But the woman in red did not disallow them from walking around in the villa at will nor did she did she make them sign any sort of contract.

Although Lin Yi was fairly certain of his analysis, in the 7-7 Rule World, he had become used to letting Qin Zhou concur with his inferences. Now in the 2-6 Rule World, he also subconsciously turned to ask him. 

Qin Zhou said, “Yes.”

After getting Qin Zhou’s answer, Lin Yi wanted to go looking for clues.

“I’m going to turn on the lights.” Lin Yi said.

Among the 13 involved, Lin Yi was the only one who could see things clearly in the dark, but there was not enough daylight left and he needed more people to join him in looking for clues. 

Lin Yi stood up from the sofa, Qin Zhou said, “Little genius.”

Lin Yi stopped: “Huh?”

Qin Zhou said, “Be careful.”

Lin Yi glanced at Qin Zhou, “Oh, I see.” 

Then Lin Yi turned his head and said to Cheng Yang, “Cheng Yang Xiong, don’t panic. I’ll be back immediately.”

Cheng Yang nodded fearfully.

Lin Yi actually didn’t know where the light switch in the villa was so he could only go about it slowly. Before he went to find the light switch, he even took a look at the crowd sitting on the ground. After counting the number of people, the two ghosts were still among them.

The remaining one was still missing. 

However, locating the light switch to give people light to find clues was more useful than finding the remaining ghost, so Lin Yi threw the matter of this missing ghost out of his mind.

He walked along the walls of the living room. Generally speaking, the light switches are embedded in the wall.

Because the villa was built a long time ago, the entire wall was mottled and he had no idea how damaged the light switch might be.

Lin Yi searched very carefully and slowly, he wasn’t anxious and impatient. The gathered people began to talk. Chen Jinnan, Zhou Gan and the others worked with them to analyze the meaning of the game. 

Lin Yi slowly walked along the wall. There were nail marks on the wall. A TV had been mounted here. It’s just that the TV was gone and only these marks on the wall remained.

The TV should have a power line. Lin Yi had already searched around but couldn’t find the light switch so he wanted to try his luck here.

He crouched down, avoiding what appeared to be a few fragments of the TV screen.

Before looking for the power line, Lin Yi glanced at the debris and then paused for a moment. 

After thinking for a long time, Lin Yi reached out and picked up a larger fragment of the screen. He then took a deep breath and lifted the fragment.

In the reflection of the shard—

The ghost that he hadn’t found was lying on his back.