Chapter 363 - School
This is a hallucination; this is a hallucination; this is a hallucination! Li Huowang trembled and repeated to himself, seemingly trying to assert his own beliefs as he knelt on the muddy ground of the dark cave with his head covered in blood.
This scene frightened Huanhuan. The steamed buns in her hands fell to the ground as Huanhuan turned around and rushed out of the face.
Li Huowang knelt for a long time as the cave alternated between dim and bright. After three cycles of dim and bright, Li Huowang approached the nearby riverbank to wash the scabs off of his face.
Then, Li Huowang turned around and stepped out. He looked up and saw the cold light piercing between his fingers.
Meanwhile, one of the two names on the ground had been covered completely in blood, and only the words "Sun Xiaoqin" were legible.
Li Huowang could still remember where Yang Na’s school was located. She had described to him the delicious street food she had eaten at the time, and they even promised to explore the streets together once Li Huowang got better.
Li Huowang's memories of Yang Na were vivid, including her mentions of events she had described only once to him.
Li Huowang cut off his own hair that had clotted together with his blood, revealing his head covered in scab. Li Huowang then took off his filthy old clothes and put on clean clothes that he had dried in the sun.
Li Huowang could finally walk among other people without anyone pointing fingers at him, as he looked like a completely ordinary individual. Li Huowang took advantage of the night and sneaked into the train station. He disguised himself as someone seeing a relative off with luggage.
The dazed Li Huowang ended up falling asleep on the train. When he woke up once again, he found himself in the city where Yang Na lived.
Li Huowang glanced at the sign hanging above the bus stop and walked slowly in the direction of the university. Li Huowang walked at a snail's pace as if he were walking on an endless road.
However, Li Huowang knew that he would one day arrive at his destination.
Li Huowang found himself sitting on a plastic stool in a barbecue shop, staring blankly at the campus gate in the distance. His unusual behavior attracted quite a few curious glances.
What are you waiting for? This is just a hallucination! Yang Na is fake! Get up and take action! I can't give up on reality to live in a hallucination! Do you really want Miaomiao to become one of them?! I’ve transmigrated long ago, so Yang Na is going to be fine; she’s living a great life in that world! A lunatic can't obstruct her from achieving happiness!
What are you waiting for? Go on! You're the reason behind Miaomiao's plight. I thought you wanted to save her?
Li Huowang struggled against his inner turmoil. He truly wished that someone would help him overcome his dilemma so that he would no longer be so indecisive.
"Hey, student. Are you okay?" the chubby female boss asked. She had approached Li Huowang at some point. “You look rather pale.”
Li Huowang remained indifferent, completely immersed in his own world.
The chubby lady boss shrugged and wiped the table in front of Li Huowang clean with a cloth. She turned around and was about to attend to her own business when a scream burst out from the distant campus.
The chubby lady boss turned and found students running out of the campus in a panic.
“Huh? What’s going on?” asked the chubby lady boss.
However, the students ignored the chubby lady boss, prompting her to stand in the way of a male student, who was a frequent customer of her barbeque shop.
“What's going on, Fatty?” the chubby lady boss asked.
“Call the police, Sister Liu! Have you heard of the gang that recently robbed a bank? They're on our campus right now, and they barged into the female dorms! One of them even has a gun!”
Li Huowang turned slowly to the student and smiled. It can't get any faker than this. I guess this is really a hallucination. An incident like this is just a bit too rare. Li Huowang finally set aside his misgivings and stood up, walking toward the gate.
Li Huowang walked along the main road, sweeping his gaze across the fleeing female students in hopes of seeing a familiar face among them.
The tremors running through Li Huowang got even stronger the closer he got to the university. Li Huowang stopped and decided to attempt to address the trembling by turning to the blooming magnolia tree on his left, saying, “Miaomiao, I'll definitely attain the necessary extreme mental suffering.
"If I somehow became paralyzed from the mental suffering, then please help me inflict on me extreme physical pain. It's not going to be difficult. Do you still remember that person who dug his throat out? Just follow what he did and do it on me.”
Li Huowang still felt a little worried, so he turned to the fallen bicycle next to him and said, “Li Sui, you better not stop Miaomiao if she has to do what I said, right? She’s not going to hurt me. She just has to do it to help us escape from that damned place.”
“No matter what appears, remember to keep following me. I’ll save whoever I can from the Surveillance Bureau. If I can’t save those who can still be saved, then forget it.”
The university was huge, and Li Huowang was struggling to find Yang Na. When he reached the female dormitory, the university was already filled with police sirens.
Li Huowang looked up at the tall building before him and heard roars from inside the building. It seemed that hundreds of female students had been trapped in the upper floors of the building.
This is a hallucination—this is all a hallucination! Li Huowang exclaimed to himself as he stepped past the iron gates. The first and second floors were empty, as all the female students living on those floors had already escaped. Li Huowang walked up the stairs until he stumbled upon two men carrying a young woman downstairs.
Li Huowang nodded at them and stepped aside to make space for them to walk past him. Li Huowang was planning to go upstairs, so there was no need for him to stop here.
“Stop! I told you to stop! Don’t come over here! Do you really think that I have no idea what you're up to? You're an undercover, aren't you? I could tell from a mile away!” one of the two men screamed. He was a bald man, and he pointed the dagger in his hand at the young woman's neck.
Despite the bravado, however, the bald man seemed extremely nervous. Li Huowang could tell from the bald man's irregular breathing.
“We want three SUVs with full tanks! And five million—No, ten million! Police officers and anyone related to them are not allowed to approach this building.
"You have one hour to prepare everything we need, and you better hurry up because we're going to kill one person every thirty minutes!”
Li Huowang ignored the bald man and turned to the disheveled young woman in the bald man's arms, asking, “Are you familiar with Yang Na? Which floor does she live on?”
The young woman was so scared of everything that was happening to her that she couldn't speak at all amidst her anguished and terrified sobbing.
Li Huowang didn’t mind it and was about to continue his journey upstairs.
“Damn it, stay there!” someone screamed and pointed a rusty pistol from the bottom nose of the stairs directly above the landing. The rusty pistol was aimed at Li Huowang's head.
Li Huowang looked up and saw a tall, gloomy-looking man walking downstairs while pointing the same rusty pistol at Li Huowang.
“Can you not see what’s in my hands? It’s a gun!”
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