Horror Movie Set: This extra is too good at playing the tricks.

Chapter 36 Facing an Enemy on Two Sides

Before the aftershocks of the spatial tremor had subsided, the air on the second-floor balcony suddenly froze.

"Click—"

A series of crisp, synchronized cracking sounds from joints shattered the deathly silence. The students, who had been sprawled on their beds like corpses, opened their eyes at the same instant. Hundreds of smiles simultaneously turned upwards at a 45-degree angle.

"Catch the bad students..."

"Breaking the rules will be punished..."

Whispers coalesced into a tsunami as the puppet-like students surged onto the balcony, countless pale arms reaching out towards the few individuals in the center. They were like mutated white blood cells in Chengde High School, determined to eliminate all who were different.

"Damn it, force wake up!"

Lin Xiaoxiao cursed inwardly. Faced with such a large number of attackers, there was no point in resisting.

Standing at the forefront, Li Mu let out a mournful roar. His eyes reflected the faces that were once familiar—his classmates, his friends—who had now become puppets manipulated by the rules.

He couldn't do it.

Li Mu suddenly turned around, his muscles twitching wildly, and his other arm stretched out, exploding into hundreds of bright red tentacles.

The bright red tentacles dragged Lin Xiaoxiao into the fleshy ball of her left hand, wrapping her layer by layer, and quickly hardening her into a larger cocoon of flesh and blood.

"Sorry everyone, we need to take a shortcut."

Li Mu's voice came through thick layers of muscle, sounding deep and resolute. He glanced at the crowd of students that was about to engulf him, his muscles tensing to their limit.

"boom!"

The thick tempered glass railing of the second-floor balcony shattered with a crash. Li Mu, clutching the enormous cocoon of blood, leaped onto the ground floor like a falling meteorite, his back to the ground, without hesitation.

The feeling of weightlessness lasted only a few seconds.

"Bang!"

Dust flew everywhere, and the cement floor was riddled with spiderweb-like dents.

Li Mu used his back as the only cushion, blood splattering everywhere. But before he could even get up, he found two mountain-like shadows waiting in front of him.

On the left is the dormitory supervisor, his body split in two, wiping blood from his mouth with a handkerchief. On the right is the headmaster, impeccably dressed in a Zhongshan suit, every finger twitching slightly.

"Students these days not only don't sleep, they've also learned to jump off buildings."

The head of student affairs pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, the glare obscuring his eyes. A suffocating sense of oppression filled the air.

"Bad kids need to be reformed."

......

The other world, the balcony on the second floor of the dormitory building.

Lu Dan lay on the ground. The "human cannonball" attack had almost exhausted all his physical reserves. The effects of the regeneration candy had completely worn off, and his broken ribs reminded him of what it meant to suffer while alive.

He struggled to prop himself up, his gaze passing through the glass railing that was gradually turning grayish-white as he looked downstairs.

The skinless security guard in his dark blue uniform didn't rush up. He carried a pale white paper lantern, his eyeballs, devoid of eyelids, staring at Lu Dan from a distance of more than ten meters, his eyes filled with mockery.

The giant leech behind him writhed greedily, as if it could already smell the delicious aroma of Lu Dan's roommate in the shadows.

"When colleagues meet, they're bound to be extremely envious."

Lu Dan gave a self-deprecating twitch at the corner of his mouth. He knew very well that the person below him should be the original owner of this position.

Fight it head-on? With what? With your own severed left hand?

"Tap, tap, tap," came the sound of steady footsteps from downstairs.

The skinless security guard walked into the dormitory gate. He wasn't in a hurry because the building was a huge closed box, and Lu Dan was the only fresh meat inside.

Lu Dan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the burning sensation in his lungs, and stood up while leaning against the wall.

"Roommate, stop pretending to be dead, lend me some strength."

The shadow on his left ankle seemed to sense the deadly danger as well, and a chilling energy quickly coiled around Lu Dan's legs, making his steps much lighter.

Rushing out onto the second-floor balcony, Lu Dan didn't take the main staircase; it was too open and he'd be an easy target. Instead, he squeezed into the shadowy gap between the stair railing and the wall, moving upwards like a gecko clinging to the wall.

The feeling of being spied on increases with each floor you go up: the third floor... the fourth floor... the fifth floor...

As he passed the corner of the fifth floor, he heard the sound of chains being dragged in the stairwell below, and several human skins flew past him, almost getting him discovered.

The Night Owl skill, which was redeemed earlier, proved invaluable at this moment.

His figure became blurred in the shadows, his breathing was barely audible, and his presence was compressed to the extreme.

Lu Dan slipped into an abandoned storage room on the sixth floor. Through the crack in the door, he saw a pale green light slowly sweep across the stairwell.

The light lingered at the door of the storage room for a full three seconds. Lu Dan's heart almost stopped. He covered his mouth and nose tightly, his body blending perfectly into the darkness.

The lights moved away, and the footsteps continued forward.

He made the right bet. This guy was too confident, thinking his prey would just panic and run around aimlessly.

Once the footsteps faded into the distance, Lu Dan quietly slipped out and headed straight for the seventh-floor rooftop.

Pushing open the iron gate, a cold wind rushed into my collar. The rooftop was empty and desolate, littered with rubble and discarded building materials.

Lu Dan slammed the iron gate shut and bolted it. He then dragged over several discarded oil drums filled with cement blocks and used them to barricade the gate. This would only buy them some time; it wouldn't hold off the monster for long.

He looked around, his gaze settling on the right side of the rooftop. There was a row of clotheslines there, filled with colorful clothes and blankets.

"The benefits of merging the real and the unreal worlds?"

Lu Dan's eyes lit up.

It must have been the spatial tremor that just now that replaced some things on the rooftop of the surface world.

He rushed over and roughly ripped off the bed sheets, school uniform, and even several pairs of thermal underwear. Without time to tie a delicate sailor's knot, he used the simplest and most brutal method to join the pieces of fabric end to end and tie a knot that couldn't be tied back.

A rope of clothes from hundreds of families, more than ten meters long, was quickly formed.

Lu Dan reached the edge of the rooftop and gazed down. This was the back of the dormitory building, with dark flowerbeds below. The floor-to-ceiling space between the sixth and seventh floors had become very narrow due to building settlement.

If the monster breaks down the door and finds no one on the rooftop, it will definitely assume that Lu Dan is hiding in the water tank.

That was the perfect opportunity for Lu Dan to use the rope to rappel down, flank, and steal the enemy's base.

"Come on, let's see who's the one who gets eliminated."

Lu Dan tied one end of the rope to the railing, his eyes cold.

......

In the ruins of the first-floor lobby of the outer world, the cocoon of flesh and blood slowly cracked open. Li Mu, panting heavily, released everyone. Most of his muscles were torn off, and he was covered in blood, looking like he was about to collapse.

"Go, run to the playground, don't look back." Li Mu shoved Bao Ping, who was closest to him, his voice hoarse.

"I'm not leaving! There are so many of us, let's fight them!" Zhang Kai, his eyes red, picked up a brick and charged forward.

"Fight my ass, that's suicide!" Lin Xiaoxiao grabbed Zhang Kai by the back of his collar, ignoring how pathetic the situation was, and dragged him backward.

Bao Ping also realized what was happening and grabbed Zhang Kai's other arm. The two of them dragged and pulled, swaying the stubborn mule towards the playground.

Just then, Su Ke, who had been silent all along, suddenly moved. Instead of running away with the others, she turned around and faced the indifferent dean of students and the old dormitory supervisor with his gaping teeth.

"Su Ke, come back!" Zhang Kai roared from behind.

Su Ke paused, her body trembling violently. Her left hand gripped her right wrist tightly, as if trying to stop herself from moving forward. Her face was contorted with pain and struggle, and tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Run...run fast..." A weak voice squeezed out of her throat.

But the next second, the human skin that had just been put on tightened abruptly. Su Ke's expression instantly froze, and an invisible force forcibly pulled her lips up, causing a smile to reappear, covering all the pain and tears.

She stopped struggling and walked with measured steps, like a model student, toward the two monsters.

She stopped two or three meters away from the head of the teaching department, put her legs together, pressed her hands tightly against the seams of her trousers, and bowed at a 90-degree angle.

"Hello, Director. Hello, Dormitory Supervisor." A sweet and clear voice echoed through the ruins. "I am Su Ke from Class 2 of Senior Three. I'm here to be tempered."

The dean of students narrowed his eyes behind his glasses, a satisfied smile playing on his lips. He stretched out a large hand and slowly stroked Su Ke's head.

"Good boy, this is the pride of the school."