254: Chapter 52: May 15th Outer Dimension 254: Chapter 52: May 15th Outer Dimension Zhou Qing opened her eyes and saw lying beside her own pillow…
her own face, pale, stiff, like a corpse.
A scream of terror instantly pierced through the entire girls’ dormitory.
Wang Yunxiao stood by the windowsill, gazing at the murky sky outside.
It was light.
May 15, open door.
With Chen Yan’s illness fully recovered, Youtiao had also brought the other brothers back from the Special Service Bureau, or rather, it wouldn’t be wrong to say they were driven back.
Only Wormwood was still lying in bed, unable to get up.
Dumpling, on the other hand, was fine, but Wang Yunxiao did not allow him to join the brothers in entering the Outer Dimension.
But these kinds of things can’t just be prevented by saying they’re not allowed.
This time, the school was no longer plunged into darkness but was covered by a thick blanket of grey clouds.
Apart from their small team, the number of students who entered the Outer Dimension in a sleepwalking manner obviously increased.
Through the window, Wang Yunxiao saw Dumpling holding his grandmother’s hand and sitting by the flower bed with a foolish smile on his face.
For him, this must be a beautiful dream.
But not everyone experienced beautiful dreams.
Zhou Qing’s neck was caught in a noose, slowly being hoisted up, her struggles futile as she only felt her body gradually turning ice cold.
Just then, a loud clang sounded from behind, and the rope suddenly slipped, causing Zhou Qing to fall to the ground, clutching her neck as she desperately coughed.
“Run!”
A familiar voice rang in her ears, and a hand pulled her up from the ground, dragging her as they stumbled out of the dormitory.
“Yinyin?
What are you doing here?”
Zhou Qing widened her eyes at the girl firmly clutching her, momentarily unable to distinguish if she was awake or dreaming.
“I don’t know either, just run first!”
The ground beneath Jiang Yinyin cracked, and with a misstep, she fell through, the intense feeling of weightlessness causing both girls to scream involuntarily.
But the sensation of weightlessness didn’t last long before they landed back on solid ground.
Before them was the familiar school hallway and familiar people.
Chen Yan, fully armed, wearing a strange eyepiece and facemask.
“You two…
never mind, don’t run off, stay behind me.”
Chen Yan looked at the two panicked girls, wanting to say something but ultimately swallowed her words.
Perhaps they’d wake up and forget everything, making anything she said meaningless.
Her hand shimmered with the silvery light of Torchfire, steadily gathering students scattered in every classroom corner to her side.
Some were awake, others still dreaming.
Some half-asleep, half-awake, blurring the line between reality and dreams.
There shouldn’t be any more monsters coming into the school this time…
right?
“Sister…
there there there’s a ghost…
a ghost!”
Zhou Qing tremulously snitched in a crying voice, “The moment I woke up, I saw a female ghost.
She tried to strangle me with a rope…”
“A ghost?
Ghosts are normal.”
Chen Yan stoically glanced at the shadow looming behind her.
“Normal?”
Zhou Qing felt her worldview exploding; she couldn’t grasp the situation at all.
Hearing Chen Yan talk like that, and seeing the silvery Torchfire and strange equipment she wore, an inexplicable fear surged within her.
“Are you…
are you really senior Chen Yan?”
Isn’t it some kind of monster wearing human skin?
Otherwise, why would she say that seeing a ghost is normal?
What’s normal about that!
“I must be dreaming!”
She heard Jiang Yinyin muttering softly beside her.
“I haven’t been back to school for a long time, how did I suddenly end up here?”
But this dream was just a bit too real.
There seemed to be some noise outside the window, and Zhou Qing mustered up the courage to look out.
The school’s security seemed to have disappeared, and someone had smashed open the school gates and staggered in.
They were two giants covered in filth and blood, their clothes tattered, their expressions dazed.
They were hunchbacked in their towering height, looking utterly vile, yet chilling to the bone.
Zhou Qing’s eyes widened.
“Yinyin!
It’s your parents!”
Jiang Yinyin’s pupils constricted, almost stopping her heart and lungs.
“How is that possible…
How could they have come here?”
Upon clearly seeing the faces of the male and female giants, Jiang Yinyin felt as if the blood in her veins had frozen.
“Apparently, the news that Jiang Yinyin was sold by her own parents has been widely spread around the school recently.”
Chen Yan glanced at the two terrified girls huddled together and sighed inwardly.
It was more than just widespread; it had almost brewed into a campus legend, a topic of horror.
The first thing she encountered upon returning to school was this juicy piece of gossip.
“My fellow students, this place is not the real world.”
Chen Yan turned her head and said to the students following her, “The tide of thoughts that are born from your collective subconscious can transform into tangible monsters here.
The form they present now is your subconscious’s most feared nightmare.”
The two giants noticed the students on the playground looking at those who were screaming in terror and scattering in all directions.
They revealed a ferocious smile on their faces, pulled out iron chains from behind, and with a couple of swings, started to ensnare the fleeing students.
…
Wang Yunxiao arrived at the infirmary, skillfully picked the lock, and took out the weapons and ammunition stored by Nurse Liu.
The pistol and bullets he had brought back to the real world last time had disappeared, leaving only the Springfield Rifle.
Better than nothing.
“Big brother, everyone is here,”
Youtiao called out from outside the door.
“We’ve already checked the teaching building once, apart from Zhou Qing… and those two things outside, there are no other abnormalities.”
Wang Yunxiao walked out the door with the rifle and saw his brothers already suited up.
Chen Yan was still gathering students on the other side.
In addition to his own brothers, there was Captain Gao, the detective captain from the police station, and the small squad he led.
These people were obviously even more tense.
Even if they had mentally prepared in advance, entering the Outer Dimension for the first time was still hard to get used to.
While Wang Yunxiao and his group felt nothing unusual, the police officers under Captain Gao had already started to shiver uncontrollably.
Entering the Outer Dimension was like drawing a lottery; each encounter was different.
Wang Yunxiao had even advised them to prepare kerosene lamps, but this time they were completely unnecessary.
The Outer Dimension had no sun, and the flame inside the kerosene lamp couldn’t provide much warmth.
This was something you couldn’t dwell on; the more you thought about it, the colder it seemed.
They needed to shift their focus quickly.
“Captain Gao, let’s set off and take out those two monsters on the playground first,”
Wang Yunxiao suggested to Captain Gao.
Captain Gao’s complexion was awful; half from the cold, and the other half from being frightened by the sight of the monsters.
“What on earth are those things?”
“You might understand them as—campus folklore.”