Deceitful Game

Chapter 51 The Fox's Lies

But no matter how unwilling Chen Bingwen was, as Mingpo turned her gaze to him, the green rhombus in front of him finally began to shine.

I recalled the unsettling and dangerous atmosphere that surrounded me when the "nameless" lady refused to answer.

Chen Bingwen knew he could no longer remain silent.

however……

He could neither lie nor tell the truth that he had been caught cheating and was identified as the "culprit".

He was forced to speak, and while thinking quickly, he slowly said:

"At that time... I arrived at an exam room. It was also a math exam, very similar to the first exam room we had, only much more normal than that bloody one."

"I woke up from my sleep and found that I had almost finished my exam paper."

"I wanted to look up to check the time, but the proctor's attitude was unusually agitated for some reason. I only looked up briefly, and before I could even see the time clearly, she asked me, 'Are you trying to cheat?'"

"Of course I said 'I didn't.' After all, I've already finished my paper, so there's no point in me looking at other people's papers... Besides, I have no idea whose papers I can look at."

The reason Chen Bingwen came up with was quite good; it could be said to be quite reasonable.

Even if you really have to cheat, you should copy from someone who has good grades. Otherwise, you might end up changing a correct answer to a wrong one.

If he doesn't know the other students—which he obviously doesn't—how can he be sure that the other students are doing better than him?

He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and swallowed hard.

Immediately afterwards, he unconsciously interlaced his fingers, like a wrung-out rag.

It looked as if squeezing out water would release it with just a little more force, or as if trying to break its own bones—

"And at that time..."

He seemed to be deep in thought, his eyes moving towards the upper left.

Chen Bingwen knew that there was a saying that when people recall something, their minds tend to move to the upper left; while if they move to the upper right, it means they are making up a story.

Regardless of whether this claim has any scientific basis... after all, he wasn't an expert in this field. But he knew how to use this technique to make his lies more believable.

"It seemed that due to tension or fear, I had some kind of hallucination: the other students became unusually tall, the classroom became very dark, and my breathing became unusually rapid."

Time seemed to stretch out, and it was at that moment that the teacher walked towards me and sternly questioned, "Are you trying to cheat?!"

"Of course I didn't cheat—I had just woken up, but I had already finished writing the answers on my test paper. But I was terrified and could only say, 'I didn't, I didn't.' But the proctor approached like a ghost, constantly roaring, 'Are you trying to cheat?' His voice grew louder and louder..."

"In the end, I just passed out."

After Chen Bingwen finished speaking, he pursed his lips, still feeling a lingering fear.

Then, he looked at "Nameless" and asked softly, "Bai... what about your intelligence?"

—It should be fine now.

Chen Bingwen breathed a silent sigh of relief and said to himself.

He managed to conceal the fact that "all his classmates were watching him" and the voice of the girl who accused him, even though he could only tell the truth. Now, in his account, he is portrayed as an innocent student trapped in a paranormal event or some kind of hallucination.

Wuming hesitated for only a moment before saying, "What I experienced... is completely different from what you went through."

Oh?

Upon hearing this, Mingpo also turned her gaze, which had been fixed on Chen Bingwen, to Wuming.

"Little White" began to recount his experience:

"Just like before I was chased by the security guard, I appeared in an empty classroom in the evening."

"But that classroom... was filled with filth and curses. Black and red smoke filled the classroom, congealed bloodstains remained on the desks, and black shadows uttered some vicious words."

"At that time, I was holding a jade ball that was emitting a white light in my left hand. When I threw it, it shattered the afterimages and flew back into my hand. After all the afterimages were dispersed, the jade ball hit the light bulb above my head, leaving a mark and then lit up."

"After each light was turned on, the classroom became clean. Then I went to the second classroom and repeated the same work."

"There are nine classrooms on the first floor. After purifying them, I went to the second floor."

"The classrooms on the second floor were fine, but the curse on Class 13 was particularly difficult to remove. Every desk was filthy, and it took me a long time to cleanse them all... But just then, a monster appeared outside."

"It was covered in what looked like melted black mud, and beneath the flowing silt were many glowing red eyes—it was terrifying! Just like the security guard who chased me before! Only it was exceptionally large, completely impossible to fight back against. I tried to pick up a stool and hit it, but it caught the stool in an instant. It caught everything I threw as well. Realizing I couldn't defeat it, all I could do was keep running."

"Fortunately, it runs slowly—much slower than that security guard. But getting out of the fight was difficult... I ran with it for a long time, but I couldn't shake it off."

"At that moment, a little girl suddenly led me to the top floor, where I was able to hold off the monster for a while."

"But that height is just too high; if I jumped, I'd most likely die. I don't have a parachute or anything that could be made into a parachute..."

"So I had a sudden inspiration, took off my shoes, put them next to the rooftop, and hid there myself."

"The monster followed the scent all the way here... When it started checking my shoes, I rushed out from the side, trying to push it off!"

—And what was the result?

Gao Fan listened intently, leaning forward.

However, after catching his breath, Xiaobai shook his head slightly: "Even though I attacked from behind, I still couldn't knock it down."

"You must have thought I was doomed, right? I had no shoes and I had been discovered."

"But that's not how it turned out... because after that, suddenly it went into a CG sequence."

Xiao Bai's expression was a bit strange: "It seems like a plot device. The jade ball in my hand suddenly flew up and crashed into that dark monster!"

It carried the monster and flew straight down—

"Then I looked down from above and saw that the monster quickly stopped moving."

Hearing this, Gao Fan breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Xiaobai's narration was not yet over:

"...But just then, I suddenly felt a pair of hands behind me gently push me."

I lost my balance...

"And then he fell down too."