I Upended Yet Another Campus Urban Legend

Ou Ying followed Cheng Yang for a few steps, nervously squeezing the thermometer in her grasp. She looked down at it. 

Suddenly, Ou Ying thought of what Lin Yi had said — he already knew who the 2-6 Monster was. Lin Yi’s prerequisite to telling the answer was figuring out the Rules of Death in the 2-6 Rule World…

She then thought about what Qin Zhou had said about Lin Yi’s way of dealing with the 7-7 Monster — using the Rules of Death formulated by the 7-7 Monster to kill the 7-7 Monster.

Ou Ying suddenly came back to her senses.

She was still looking for traces of the 2-6 Monster while Lin Yi was already thinking of ways to deal with it. If she went looking for it rashly, wouldn’t it disrupt Lin Yi’s plan? 

Ou Ying stopped. She stared at Cheng Yang in front of her and called out, “Luo Yi.”

Cheng Yang stiffly turned to look back at her.

“There are no ghosts in this world.” Ou Ying exhaled and said, “Goodbye.”

Cheng Yang stared at Ou Ying. And then, his originally wooden expression slowly softened and he finally revealed a relieved smile.

All the ghosts around them looked at Ou Ying and their expressions too strangely gave way to the same relieved smile.

There was a ‘boom’.

Cheng Yang’s heels hit the ground. He himself, unprepared for this landing, suddenly fell on his back.

“Oh shit.” Cheng Yang said with a face full of pain, “My f-ing ass.” 

——

Lin Yi opened his eyes. He looked around but didn’t see Ou Ying or Cheng Yang in the room. He jumped up from the bed with a jerk. Just as he was about to go out to check the situation, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Ou Ying came back with a tired Cheng Yang. Seeing Lin Yi awake, Ou Ying said, “Lin Yi, you’re up?”

“En.” Lin Yi asked, “Xue Jie, how are you?” 

Ou Ying shook her head, and told Lin Yi what happened to the two of them last night.

Like she’d woken up from a dream, Ou Ying snapped out of it and stopped following Cheng Yang, whose body had been hijacked by Luo Yi to find the 2-6 Monster. After she answered Luo Yi’s question, she and Cheng Yang went to the first floor kitchen to find something that could help them pour the mercury into the dice.

They found a small saw-toothed knife specially used for de-veining shrimp. They planned to use this tool to cut out a small hole in the dice. They also found edible glue to seal the hole once they were done.

Then they went to the third floor. The room of the woman in red was locked but then Cheng Yang showed Ou Ying a trick. Cheng Yang said that his father often confiscated his keys and drove him out of the house. Accordingly, Cheng Yang evolved to learn how to open locks. 

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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Cheng Yang was suddenly experiencing a tightness in his chest and shortness of breath. Ou Ying saw his reaction and knew that he had inhaled the mercury that Lin Yi had thrown away on the first floor. He was having a minor reaction to the poison.

There was no other way, Ou Ying had to take Cheng Yang out of the room and they stayed the rest of the night in the bathroom. In the whole villa, only the bathrooms had an exhaust fan and they needed the exhaust fan to provide ventilation and relieve Cheng Yang’s discomfort.

The more Lin Yi listened, the more he felt that he was the one at fault for this mess. Feeling very guilty, he apologized to Cheng Yang, “It’s probably from the thermometer I dropped by accident…” He still couldn’t remember why he dropped the thermometer so he could only guess. “I’m sorry, Cheng Yang Xiong.” 

Cheng Yang waved it away. “It was my own weak body’s fault.”

Ou Ying comforted Lin Yi and said, “It’s alright. As long as we make it out of here alive, none of our injuries will be carried over into the real world.”

Lin Yi nodded.

He had also discovered this. He had been stabbed in the backside by the vase girl last time and it was all healed when he left the 7-7 Rule World. 

Regardless, the mercury still needed to be cleaned up; none of them could guarantee how long they would stay here. If it wasn’t cleaned up, it would be very harmful.

“Xue Jie, is it dawn?” Lin Yi asked.

He intended to clean up the mercury in the living room so that other people won’t inhale it and suffer from poisoning symptoms.

“It should be soon.” Ou Ying said, “While Cheng Yang and I were in the bathroom, we heard the woman in red go out.” 

The windows of the villa were sealed and the material used to seal it was opaque. Otherwise, whenever the woman played Anke, when she turned the lights off in the villa, it wouldn’t be so dark that they couldn’t even see their hands in front of their faces.

What Ou Ying meant was for them to wait for the woman in red to call them for breakfast so that they could be sure that it was daybreak.

Lin Yi was going to say that it would be too late to clean up the mercury once the woman in red calls them to breakfast. Moreover, the woman in red was human and the spot where the mercury thermometer broke was near the dining hall. If the woman in red died of mercury poisoning, he would be considered as having killed an NPC, which would be a violation of the rules here.

But before Lin Yi could say anything, there was a loud knock on the door. 

The three in the room paused. Ou Ying asked quietly, “Is it Zhou Ge?”

Lin Yi said before that Qin Zhou used to check in on him every morning to see if he was safe.

Lin Yi shook his head, “Probably not.”

Qin Zhou wanted to act alone and he still doubted himself. Even if he’d found any clues, he wouldn’t come to Lin Yi. 

Unless he had found evidence that wasn’t the 2-6 Monster.

Cheng Yang lay quietly down on the bed and Lin Yi went to open the door.

As soon as the door was opened, it revealed the face of the woman in red, completely twisted with anger.

“Is it you!?” 

The woman in red glared at Lin Yi.

Lin Yi was at a loss. “What?”

He was completely confused.

The woman in red saw the red marks on Lin Yi’s face from sleeping. She looked past him to Ou Ying and Cheng Yang. 

“Is it you two!”

Ou Ying looked up at the woman in red. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“The photo!” The woman yelled, “Which one of you stole my photo!?”

Ou Ying said, “Although I have no idea what happened, the three of us were in this room the entire night. We don’t know anything about any photos.” 

Ou Ying looked at the woman in red and spread her arms: “If you don’t believe me, you’re free to search me. You can also search our room. Anyway, this is your home, isn’t it?”

The woman in red stared at Ou Ying for a while, then at the weak Cheng Yang. She said viciously, “You better hope I don’t catch you!”

Saying so, she rushed off to another room. Lin Yi who was standing by the door saw the woman in red hammering at Chen Jinnan and Zhou Gan’s door.

When Chen Jinnan opened the door, the woman in red, as though she were following a script, shouted at Chen Jinnan, “Is it you!” 

Chen Jinnan had, with much difficulty, managed to survive until dawn. When he opened the door and saw the face of the woman in red, he was momentarily startled. When he realized who it was, “What the f*ck! What is it?”

“Did you steal my photo!” The woman in red was trembling with anger, her courtesy and hospitality of the past few days had completely disappeared. “Did you! Steal! My! Photo!”

Zhou Gan, who was sharing Chen Jinnan’s room, also walked to the door. “What kind of photo? We haven’t seen any photos.”

Lin Yi was still standing by the door. He saw the woman in red move to another door and ask again about her photo. Li Dang and Su Tianle also shook their heads, saying they hadn’t seen it. 

Then the woman in red hammered on Qin Zhou’s door.

“Is it you!” The woman in red was so angry that her hair seemed to be standing on end. It could be seen that the photo was very important to the woman in red.

Qin Zhou looked at Lin Yi before answering the woman. He frowned slightly. He probably had a suspicion that the missing photo had something to do with Lin Yi.

After glancing at Lin Yi, Qin Zhou’s eyes fell once again on the woman in red. “No.” 

The woman glared at Qin Zhou with a murderous look in her eyes. Her expression distorted and her voice was shrill, “You all better not let me catch you!”

“Lin Yi.”

Ou Ying called Lin Yi softly and Lin Yi turned his head to look at Ou Ying. “Xue Jie, did you call me?”

“Close the door.” Ou Ying said. 

Lin Yi closed the door.

Ou Ying took out the photo. “I took it.”

Cheng Yang, lying on the bed, was surprised, “How…how come I didn’t know?”

Lin Yi was not surprised. “I guessed as much.” 

Although Ou Ying and Cheng Yang had failed to tamper with the die last night, they had gone to the woman’s room.

“Take a look.” Ou Ying handed the photo to Lin Yi. “This was in a photo frame by her bedside.”

Lin Yi took the photo, and the size of the photo was 12 inches. It was inconvenient for Ou Ying to take the frame away directly, so it would be difficult for her to hide it, so she took the photo out of the frame and brought it out again.

Lin Yi looked at the photo in his hand, it was a group photo. There were 13 people in the photo. 

He pursed his lips.

Ou Ying had stolen the photo from the woman’s room, naturally proving that there was something special about this photo. While keeping that in mind, Lin Yi immediately found something wrong.

There were two people that Lin Yi recognized but couldn’t claim to know. He had seen them before.

In the Anke game on the first day, the two ghosts who’d been sitting amongst the crowd were in the picture. The third ghost had been lying on Lin Yi’s back, with loose hair covering her face but even so Lin Yi could guess the third ghost from this group photo. It was a very beautiful girl with straight long black hair.