"I told you long ago, don't come, don't come, don't come!"
The flaxen-haired young man hissed in a low voice, "Why didn't you listen, ah! Why didn't you listen!"
"Even if it was Elder Brown's order, we could have refused, there was absolutely no need to take the risk!... We're going to be killed, definitely going to be killed."
"No, rather than die here, I'd rather kill myself. That's right, I don't want to become something inhuman, no no no, that won't do, absolutely not..."
"Enough, Charlie!"
The speaker was a slightly older Abraham member, but like the frantic Charlie, his face was also covered in fine beads of cold sweat.
But he still maintained the necessary composure, sternly stopping Charlie's self-destructive remarks: "Now is absolutely not the time to end it all. As long as we're alive, there will definitely be a solution."
"Even if we can't leave, Elder Holloway will be back soon. When that time comes, even if we're still trapped here, out of kinship, Elder Holloway will save us."
"If that Master of Marionettes still wants to cooperate with us, then it's impossible for him to let us die here."
Undoubtedly, he was being rational.
But the premise for them to survive was that they could still be alive before Elder Holloway returned, and that Elder Holloway truly cared about them.
The cold wind howled, making the dormitory windows rattle. Outside the windows was a bizarre world.
Countless buildings were shrouded in black. It was clearly daytime, but a huge black sphere floated in the sky, like a sun that had gone out, emitting a turbid and decadent light.
But it couldn't illuminate anything.
Miskatonic University, Crimson Campus.
The layout here was similar to the surface and inner campuses they had been in the past few days, but it was more like it had been eroded by hundreds or thousands of years. Everything was dilapidated. The friendly students of the past were gone, as if they had entered a冥界 where no one survived. Various bizarre things constantly appeared.
Outside the buildings was a large expanse of wilderness.
Only by standing at the highest point of the teaching building, crossing the highest wall at the edge of the school, could one see the distant scene under the dark and sunless radiance of the black sun.
Fields of gray straw, white paper figures carrying coffins on small roads, an upside-down mausoleum, a group of sheep with filthy wool... indistinctly, those things surrounded the entire school.
Snowflake-like things constantly drifted down from the sky. The pitch-black 'snowflakes' fell on the ground, already accumulating a thick layer. If anyone left the buildings, perhaps every step would sink deeply into these snowflakes, leaving deep and shallow pits.
If someone approached at this time, they could smell a faint burnt odor from these 'snowflakes.'
Like the embers of the sun.
When the sun aged, when the sun died, it had lost the power to emit light and heat.
A hollow shell that had lost all its energy, it became the black sun, leading to depravity and death.
There was no sign of life here. Apart from them, it seemed there were no other living things.
"Everything was fine these past few days. Who knows why that guy suddenly attacked us?" Another female Abraham member untied her hair rope and took out a key pendant hidden in her hair.
She was also calm, but there was the same terror in her eyes.
This was a Sealed Artifact of the Abraham family, a Sequence Four Sealed Artifact formed by the Extraordinary characteristics of a Secret Sorcerer.
This was one of their relies, but this demigod-level Sealed Artifact couldn't take them into the spirit world or traverse the spirit world at all.
They weren't fools. By now, they knew that they had probably exposed something.
That guy, without saying a word, threw all the Abraham members who had just been smiling at them into this place. Although it was called a 'tour,' what kind of tour forced people to their deaths?
Although they didn't know the situation of the others, the three of them who had received Elder Brown's secret order to deliver a message had gathered together. How could this be a coincidence?
"Hehehe—"
"Heeheehee—"
"It's coming, it's coming again." Even though he was a Sequence Six Recorder, Charlie's mind seemed to be on the verge of collapse. This was even more intense than the influence of the unknown whispers.
In just half an hour, two Travelers and one Recorder had nearly had their minds break down here.
Outside the empty dormitory corridor, a slender black figure appeared from the stairwell.
It was extremely tall, but its body was like a bamboo pole, without an ounce of flesh. Its limbs were also strangely long and thin, almost reaching the ground.
This monster had started knocking on the door after they appeared in room "104" on the first floor. When it found the dormitory they were in, this monster would break in, and even using the illegal abilities of a Sun Priest couldn't completely kill this thing!
What exactly was this...
Soon, it knocked on the first door on the same floor again.
"Is anyone there?"
There was no response from inside the room.
After waiting for a few seconds, seemingly because it didn't hear any movement, it walked to the second door and continued knocking.
"Is anyone there?"
Then the third door.
"Is anyone there?"
"Is anyone there?"
"Is anyone there?"
Like the sound of demanding a life, each whisper was infused with some terrifying spiritual pollution, causing the several Abrahams present to involuntarily see images of themselves being killed by the monster.
Until the knocking sound rang outside Charlie and the others' door.
"Thump—"
"Thump—"
"Thump—"
"Is anyone there?"
The low, hoarse voice was like fingernails scraping against iron sheets, rough and unbearable, causing their brains to shut down.
Charlie and the others subconsciously held their breaths, trying to pretend that no one was inside the room again in their mentally ravaged state.
They had tried this pattern in rooms "204" and "304," but unfortunately, the time they were given was too short, really too short.
But they all knew what was going to happen next.
A few more knocks.
The monster outside the door didn't leave.
"If no one's here, then I'm coming in..."
Creak—
The locked door slowly opened from the outside.
The fingers were pale, and a bony hand capable of grabbing a person opened the dormitory door.
Then, a bald head with only two eye sockets occupying a quarter of its size quietly squeezed in from the crack under the door.
It was like a piece of paper, and the hand opening the door was just a feint.
"Now!"
In the next moment, pure radiance like raindrops suddenly erupted from the dormitory. The slender ghostly figure subconsciously covered its eyes with its other hand, letting out a sharp scream.
The three Abraham members abruptly rushed out of the dormitory past the slender ghostly figure and ran towards the end of the corridor.
Every time they passed the doorway of another dormitory, the door would open a crack.
Inside, there might be nothing but hair, or hanged dummies, or gushing stinky liquid, or humanoid creatures writhing their bodies.
Every room was unsafe, only the room they were in was temporarily safe!
Run up? Or run down?
This was the fourth floor. Running down would probably encounter the woman in the wedding dress. She was too dangerous, really too dangerous, definitely at the demigod level. They must not encounter her!
"Run! Run upstairs!"
(End of this chapter)