Chapter 46: Welcome to the Horror World (15)

Hearing the movement, Bai Li’s eyelashes trembled slightly. The next second, he opened his eyes, but they had lost all their luster, completely unable to focus.

He looked dazed and instinctively tried to push himself up, but the moment he moved, he sucked in a sharp breath. "Hiss—"

Fan Sijin hurriedly pressed him back down. "You're injured. Don't move around just yet."

She quickly stripped off the class supervisor uniform Bai Li was wearing, tore open his jacket, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the wound firsthand.

At first glance, the wound looked severe, but in reality, it was just a glass scratch. The surface area was small, and it wasn't deep. Although there was no immediate danger to his life, it still needed to be treated as soon as possible. In their current situation, losing too much blood would also be dangerous.

Fan Sijin slowly helped Bai Li to his feet and then looked back at the school.

Nanning No. 1 High School seemed to have been blasted into oblivion along with the explosion; the entire school had vanished.

Then what about the previous Principal Boss...

Fan Sijin had the system run a check, but the system couldn't detect anything at all. "Host, according to the plot, we should have entered the next random scenario. NPCs from different scenarios generally don't cross instances, so you don't need to worry too much."

Fan Sijin frowned. "Really?"

The system was practically ready to thump its chest and vouch for it. "Trust me!"

Hearing the system's words, Fan Sijin looked thoughtfully at the spot where the school had disappeared and suddenly asked, "Little fatty, check if there's any progress on the hidden quest."

Only then did the system remember that there were two quests in this world this time. With a flurry of lightning-fast operations, it checked, but the displayed data was very strange. "Host, the hidden quest seems to have made progress, but... it's very strange."

"What's strange about it?"

"Its completion progress is slowly increasing! It has gone from 0 percent to 1 percent! Although the rate of increase is very, very slow, it is indeed increasing!"

Fan Sijin frowned. "Keep an eye on it for now. Let me know if the progress stops increasing later."

After communicating with the system, she finally withdrew her gaze. But right at that moment, Bai Li beside her was blindly and strangely groping around, managing to grab the hem of her shirt.

"Big sister, are you still here... It's so dark around me... I can't see anything..."

Fan Sijin was startled and quickly squatted down to check.

No wonder his eyes had looked strange earlier; clearly uninjured, yet they seemed completely unable to focus.

The system hurriedly explained, "Host, you don't need to panic. Bai Li was just hit by the shockwave of the explosion and struck his head, which caused temporary blindness. The blood stasis in his brain will gradually recover, nothing major."

Only then did Fan Sijin let out a sigh of relief. She helped him up and comforted him, "I'm here. It's probably just from hitting your head in the explosion earlier. Don't worry too much, you'll definitely recover."

Bai Li obediently clutched the hem of her shirt and nodded. "Mm, I believe what big sister says."

Fan Sijin took off her previous uniform, tore a strip of white cloth from her shirt, and used it to cover Bai Li's eyes. "Keep your eyes closed for now. Don't be afraid, I'll take care of you."

Bai Li obediently closed his eyes, but his trembling hands betrayed his inner tension as he gropingly caught hold of her hand...

Fan Sijin glanced down, said nothing, and let him hold it.

At this point, the others had also recovered.

Luo Ke cried as she threw herself into Gao Yi's arms, her face wet with tears like pear blossoms in the rain. "Senior, senior, it's good that you're fine... I couldn't find you just now, and I was scared to death. You can't be hurt, you can't be hurt..."

Previously, the two of them had originally rushed out of the school together, but there were simply too many monsters pouncing from all directions, and the two had been separated by the horde.

In order to escape, Gao Yi's arms had been scratched by monsters in several places, and blood was seeping through his clothes.

He looked down at Luo Ke, who had buried herself in his arms and was crying tearfully, while an image involuntarily surfaced in his mind: the time when he had pounded on the door and windows of Class 9, begging her to save him.

Back then, Luo Ke had squatted down and hugged her head, turning a deaf ear to his cries for help. If Fan Sijin hadn't somehow gotten her hands on an axe and slaughtered quite a few monsters, he probably wouldn't have survived.

Pausing for a moment, he still couldn't hold it back and asked, "Keke, when you were in the classroom earlier, did you hear me calling you?"

Luo Ke's expression stiffened for a single second, but she recovered quickly. She raised her head, her face a mask of incomprehension and bewilderment. "You called me? When was that? Senior, you're so good to me. I just knew you would worry about me and wouldn't leave me behind..."

Gao Yi immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps the classroom had been sealed and soundproofed, which was why she couldn't hear his commotion outside.

At that moment, Luo Ke ran over and forcefully helped Xiao Ruirui up...

Xiao Ruirui was currently the most miserable among the players. She was missing the lower half of one foot, whereas the injuries sustained by the others didn't render them immobile...

Xiao Ruirui also knew her own plight. Supported by Luo Ke, her eyes were filled with ash and despair.

As for the veteran players on Ren Guowei's side, they were clearly in much better shape overall; only Wei Wei was missing an ear.

At that moment, a mechanical, current-like voice rang out: "Welcome players for clearing the Nanning Middle School scenario. Now randomly deploying to the next scenario..."

The mechanical voice had just vanished when a grayish mist suddenly appeared ahead, with a faint light filtering through the fog.

Judging by the outline formed by the light, it appeared to be a multi-storied hotel building.

"The Nanning Hotel scenario." Based on clues from players who had cleared previous runs, Ren Guowei had already roughly guessed the second trial.

The group walked toward the thick fog. Passing through it, they saw four characters inscribed on the opulent, gilded doors: Nanning Hotel.

There was a lawn in front of the hotel entrance, and musical fountains were spraying water on the grass. However... apart from the sound of music, the entire hotel was dead quiet. At a single glance, not a single human figure was visible.

Daring not to wander blindly, everyone basically stuck close behind Ren Guowei.

Fan Sijin also held Bai Li's hand as she followed behind, reminding him from time to time to watch his step.

Bai Li obediently let her hold his hand the entire way, but as he walked, as if sensing something, he lowered his head slightly.

Black scales were spreading across his arms and legs. He raised his head, glanced toward Fan Sijin with his cloth-covered eyes, and then quietly slid his hands behind his back...

Right at that moment, the surrounding thick fog began to close in on them, and something seemed to be roaring within the mist.

Ren Guowei's expression changed abruptly. "Not good! Move fast! Find the main entrance of the hotel and get inside!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone behind him panicked.

Gao Yi hurriedly pulled Luo Ke forward to run, but Luo Ke stopped, turned back, and said, "What about Ruirui?"

Then Gao Yi saw Luo Ke run back to forcefully support Xiao Ruirui, who was already on the verge of falling behind.

The pain turned Xiao Ruirui's face ashen white, but she still gritted her teeth and limped along with the crowd as they fled forward.

Seeing this scene, the tiny lingering estrangement in Gao Yi's heart instantly vanished.