The voice came from within the bck fog. Qin Nuo knew he couldn't escape, so he simply stood still, watg the spot where the sound inated.

  A shadow slowly emerged, revealing itself to be his homeroom teacher, Mr. Yan.

  His smile was as gentle as ever, but there were a few bck veins crawling eerily across his face, adding a touch of horror behind his smile.

  In his hand, he still held that bck bag, and iher, his so-called toy gun.

  The bck bag seemed heavier, and Qin Nuo could clearly see blood seeping from the bottom, dripping onto the floor. What it tained was obvious.

  Seeing Qin Nuo, Mr. Yan appeared unusually excited, his dark pupils gleaming. "Isn't this my good student, Xiaoming? Why are you here alone?"

  "Unlucky, aren't you? Caught by the teacher so soon. Acc to the game rules, you have to accept a little punishment."

  With that, he raised the toy gun in his hand.

  Qin Nuo instinctively took two steps back, extending a hand with a smile. "Teacher, I have dy."

  He opened his palm to reveal three bck dies.

  Seeing the dies, Mr. Yan's expression froze for a moment, and his smile faded signifitly. "Really? You're quite effit."

  "But three dies aren't much. The game is long, so keep it up."

  As he spoke, the dies disappeared from Qin Nuo's hand.

  When he looked up again, they were all in Mr. Yan's hand.

  He smiled and said, "ime you run into the teacher, you'll need more dies. I hope you'll have some."

  With that, Mr. Yan turned and vanished into the bck fog, leaving a bright trail of blood on the ground.

  "This Mr. Yao be targetiaking all my dies at once. Is that really the rule of the game?" Qin Nuo muttered as he walked away, uned about the dy t.

  As he moved through the bck fog, a chill ran down his spine, as if a pair of eyes were watg him from behind.

  This creepy feeling was all too familiar to Qin Nuo. He stopped and turo look into the bck fog.

  "e out."

  A thin figure slowly emerged. Li Qianqian still had her hair disheveled, looking sloppy. Under her dry hair, her eyes were incredibly murky.

  The difference was that her right hand was dripping with blood, though it was unclear how serious the injury was as it was obscured.

  "What happeo your hand?" Qin Nuo asked calmly.

  This seemingly casual question sounded like a g inquiry to Li Qianqian, making her murky eyes suddenly clear and bright.

  "A big guy caught me, and I fought it."

  "But don't worry, although I couldn't beat it, I mao escape." Li Qianqian added, fearing Qin Nuo would worry.

  Hearing about the monster, Qin Nuo inexplicably thought of the one he had seen in the corridor earlier.

  "Was it the teacher?"

  "I don't know. It seemed to have caught your st and was heading your way, so I stopped it for you," Li Qianqian said.

  After speaking, she seemed to remember something and tinued, "Also, there are a few guys looking for you with bad iions."

  "They're repeaters. I couldn't beat them, so just be careful," Li Qianqian said, looking a bit downcast, as if bming herself for being useless.

  "Why?" Qin Nuo, pying Li Xiaoming, had many enemies, but he had dealt with most of them retly. Why was there a new one?

  "Your brother sent them," Li Qianqian whispered, looking puzzled.

  Qin Nuo listened, feeling helpless. He had sewn Li Xiaodie's mouth shut, but Li Xiaodong wouldn't let it go.

  He hadn't expected his brother to have suflue school.

  "I uand. You don't o follow me. Find a pce to hide," Qin Nuo waved her off.

  Li Qianqian said nothing, clearly worried about Qin Nuo's situation and unwilling to leave.

  "Today is Children's Day. I want to enjoy myself without being disturbed."

  "I'll handle my family matters. o say more, right?" Qin Nuo said, staring at Li Qianqian with a deliberately cold tone.

  His cold demeanor was meant to make her leave for her own good.

  Li Qianqian was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Be careful. I'll go now."

  With that, she disappeared into the bck fog.

  "Li Xiaoming's charm with women makes me a bit envious. How someoh such a twisted personality have so many girls willing to be simps?"

  "Or is it that women love bad boys?" Qin Nuo shook his head, uo uand.

  tinuing through the bck fog, Qin Nuo hadn't obtained more dies but had a better uanding of how to get them.

  In this game, dies weren't found but obtained from the game NPCs distributing them.

  How to get them depended on how the teachers distributing dies set their challenges.

  Like the art teacher, who would give dies if you painted something she liked.

  It was a task—plete it for dies, fail and lose your life, with reat.

  The dense bck fog seemed to carry some magic, filling the long-abandoned s, as if giving them new life.

  To the naked eye, they were abandoned s, yet the sounds of students reg and teachers lecturing echoed, sending chills down one's spine.

  Having learned from experience, Qin Nuo dider recklessly again.

  Onside a , you couldn't leave without doing something.

  "This way of getting dies is too slow. After all that effort, only a few dies. If only there were a more effit way."

  As Qin Nuo walked, he muttered to himself.

  Just then, the game's annou sounded in his mind, rep the current pyer rankings in the game mode.

  Out of 50 pyers in the game mode, 15 had been eliminated in just half an hour!

  20 pyers had zero dies, clearly hiding like Lord Voldemort from the start.

  The remaining 15, including Qin Nuo, had obtained dies, but most only had one.

  Qin Nuo had three dies, pg him third.

  The sed-pce pyer only had one more dy than Qin Nuo.

  But the first-pce pyer had an astonishing 20 dies!

  It was a huge gap, leaving the sed and third far behind!

  With 20 dies, the first-pce pyer was almost guarao be the best in this game.

  Looking at the top pyer, Qin Nuo frowned, surprised.

  How did this perso 20 dies in 30 minutes?

  Acc to the normal rules, it seemed impossible. The only possibility was that they didn't follow the normal rules to get dies.

  Unventional methods?

  What unventional methods?

  Qin Nuo pondered, suddenly realizing something.

  Li Qianqian had mentiohat the ghost that attacked her wore a mask, unclear if it was a teacher or student, and carried a sack, capturing students for dies.

  It was clear that this so-called monster was the first-pce pyer!

  They likely used some ghostly trick to hide their identity.

  "Exploiting a loophole in the game rules to effitly grab dies, that's a clever guy."

  Though Qin Nuo said this, a smile crept onto his lips.

  He had thought of a brilliant pn.

  JOSOLUNA