Read Novel Full Chapter 662.2
Chapter 662.2
Xia Chi’s face turned red, and he opened his mouth, about to say something.
Suddenly, a loud thud came from outside.
Xia Chi was startled and broke free from Tan Yue’s grasp, rushing to the door in a few quick steps. “What happened?”
The sound came from the end of the corridor. It seemed like something heavy had fallen to the ground.
“Let’s go check it out!” Xia Chi shouted, striding quickly toward the source of the noise.
Tan Yue pursed his lips and followed, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
What a pity, he was just about to find out what Xia Chi wanted to say.
Who could be so blind to cause trouble at this moment?
The two quickly walked to the end of the corridor, where they saw a door wide open.
Inside was a mess, with chairs and tables toppled over, as if there had been a fight.
It was a small, ordinary classroom, with a blackboard on the wall and about thirty desks below it.
The desks and chairs were askew on the floor, and a dark figure suddenly dashed out from the room, moving at incredible speed.
Even though it passed right in front of Xia Chi, he only caught a glimpse of the person’s dark, hollow eyes.
‘Li Mi?’
The figure was running in the opposite direction down the corridor and, in the blink of an eye, had darted into the stairwell. The lights came on and he saw the figure running downstairs.
“Whoosh!”
The curtains in the classroom suddenly flapped violently.
The overturned desks and chairs trembled on the ground, making a strange, rattling sound.
It felt like an earthquake or as if some unseen creature was raging with thunderous fury.
Xia Chi held his breath, watching this bizarre scene.
Suddenly, a sharp wind grazed his cheek, and it felt as if a blade had cut across his face, leaving a stinging pain.
It seemed like something invisible had rushed out of the classroom.
Bang!
Crash!
The windows in the corridor shattered in succession, starting from this classroom and breaking one by one all the way to the stairwell.
Something invisible was chasing after that dark figure.
Realizing this, Xia Chi immediately grabbed Tan Yue and also sprinted toward the stairwell.
By the time they reached the stairwell, the dark figure had already disappeared, and the windows at the corner of the corridor had shattered into pieces.
Xia Chi descended the stairs, and after three floors, the trail of broken glass disappeared.
In its place, the windows on this floor’s corridor were shattered, stopping at the fifth window.
It seemed they were here.
Xia Chi slowed his steps, cautiously approaching the fifth window.
The fifth window faced a room with its lights on, casting a glow from inside.
He moved closer and peeked in.
It was still an ordinary small classroom.
Inside, there were over thirty chairs, a podium, and a blackboard.
Xia Chi’s pupils narrowed.
He saw ugly Li Mi lying on the desk, his body twisted in an unnatural position.
His arms were bent backward, and he let out painful groans, as if in great agony.
Li Mi didn’t seem to be lying on the desk voluntarily but rather as if he was being forcibly pressed down.
Xia Chi’s eyes widened.
He saw Li Mi’s shirt slowly rising, defying gravity, revealing a pale, scarred waist.
Li Mi’s belt seemed to come alive. It unbuckled itself, and his jeans slid down slowly, revealing half of his scarred, red-marked buttocks.
On his buttocks which were crisscrossed with red welts and scars, a bright red character “豕” (pig) was branded on, clearly visible to Xia Chi.
“豕”—another word for pig.
Li Mi looked like a fish trapped on a cutting board, helplessly banging his head against the desk, making a dull “bang, bang, bang” sound.
He kept wailing mournfully, and instead of clear tears, large drops of blood flowed from his hollow eyes.
The blood dripped down his face and onto the desk, dripping all the way to the floor.
Once the blood reached the ground, it mysteriously stopped in a certain spot.
Gradually, two outlines appeared on the floor.
They were the outlines of feet.
Someone invisible was standing behind Li Mi, ready to commit more atrocities.
Xia Chi took a deep breath and suddenly pushed open the door, charging directly at where the feet were.
Maybe it was because of his sudden appearance, or maybe the assailant was too engrossed in their actions to react in time.
Xia Chi wasn’t fast enough to catch them, but he still managed to grab onto something.
He pinned the invisible figure to the ground, using his knowledge of the human body to land punch after punch.
Each hit produced a dull thud, and he faintly heard a muffled grunt.
Snow-like static flashed in his vision, and in a daze, he saw a fleeting face beneath his fist.
The face wore a shocked expression. He had long hair parted in the middle, normal eyes, and a small black mole at the corner of one eye.
But in an instant, the face disappeared.
Xia Chi suddenly felt his hand go empty as the weight he had been pressing to the ground vanished.
Li Mi pulled up his pants in a panic and shrank into the corner, bewildered as he stared at Xia Chi and Tan Yue who suddenly appeared.
He only had a pair of hollow black eye sockets, but Xia Chi could feel the wariness from those eyes.
Li Mi wiped away the bloody tears, glanced at the desk, and then refocused on Xia Chi and Tan Yue. He carefully straightened his clothes, the twisted, pale face showing a hint of shame: “Thank you.”
“Who was that guy just now?” Xia Chi’s mind was still on the humiliating “pig” character he saw on Li Mi’s butt. “Why are you here? Does he often do this to you? What’s with that word on you? Who put it there? If you didn’t want it, why didn’t you fight back?”
The barrage of questions came one after another, and with each one, Li Mi’s pale face grew even paler.
Seeing that Li Mi was about to cry again, Xia Chi suddenly felt irritated and shouted in a cold voice, “Don’t cry!”
The transparent tears that had reappeared were immediately trapped in the black eye sockets, not daring to fall.
The tears accumulated more and more, until the eye sockets looked like two saltwater lakes, making Li Mi appear even more pitiful.
Clearly, Li Mi was the more terrifying one, but somehow he had become the bad guy.
Xia Chi rubbed his forehead. “Just cry it out.”
“Waa! Wuuu!” Li Mi burst into loud sobs, and tears poured from his eye sockets like two waterfalls. “It’s so scary, it’s so scary here. I want to get out of here.”
Thinking of Li Mi’s inhuman experience, Xia Chi’s untimely sympathy welled up again.
“Wuuuuu,” Xia Chi also began crying uncontrollably. “Could you stop crying?”
“Wuuu, I don’t want to cry either,” Li Mi said, aggrieved. “But I can’t control it. Why are you crying?”
Xia Chi: “Because you’re crying, damn it! Wuuuu.”
Li Mi: “Stop crying already.”
Xia Chi: “Then you stop crying first!”
Tan Yue leaned against the desk, watching these two crying little cuties, finding it both funny and absurd.
Still sobbing, Xia Chi threatened, “If you keep crying, I’ll sew your mouth shut.”
Li Mi: “Wuuu, but the tears are coming from my eyes. Sewing my mouth shut won’t help, wuuu.”
Xia Chi gritted his teeth. “Then I’ll sew your eyes shut!”
Li Mi: “Wuuu, you’re scary.”
Xia Chi: “…”
Tan Yue: “…”
Watching these two rookies peck at each other was quite amusing.
After two hours of crying, Li Mi finally stopped.
Xia Chi was also saved from the brink of passing out from crying. He gasped for breath, feeling like he had survived a near-death experience.
No wonder people say you can “cry to death”. Turns out crying too much really can kill you.
Xia Chi felt more exhausted than if he’d run a marathon. He propped his tired body up on the nearest chair and stared at strange Li Mi in confusion. “Li Mi, what exactly is going on with you?”
Sniffling, Li Mi replied, “I don’t know what’s happening either. Everything around me feels strange, like this world is not normal.”
Xia Chi: “…”
‘Could Li Mi have realized this is the “book world”?’
Xia Chi: “Was the painting in the studio on the first floor drawn by you?”
Li Mi thought for a moment and then nodded. “Yes, it was me.”
Xia Chi: “Who is the person in the painting?”
Li Mi shuddered. “I don’t know, but I often dream about him. He always looks at me with a terrifying gaze, making me feel completely uncomfortable.”
“Then he came out of my dreams and appeared in my life. My life started changing. The three aloof classmates began to find me, and the more I struggled and begged, the more excited they became. It was as if tormenting me was a source of pleasure for them, but for me, it was only shame and humiliation.”
“No matter what I did, the result was always the same.”
“My graduation project was destroyed, causing me to repeat a year twice. I thought I’d drop out of school, but I didn’t, and time reset to the beginning of the semester, repeating the nightmare over and over. I tried to take a leave of absence and leave campus, but the moment I stepped out of the school gate, I found myself back in the classroom.”
“It feels like there’s some invisible force stopping me from escaping. I’m trapped here.”
“Everyone is weird. The three aloof classmates are weird. The other students are weird. The classroom is weird, the dorm is weird, and I feel weird too.”
Xia Chi: “…”
He really seemed like a character who had awakened his consciousness.
No matter how much he struggled, in the end, he still had to follow the author’s plot.
From Li Mi’s description, it seemed that the root of this whole situation started with that long-haired man.
Could that man be the key to freeing Li Mi?
[Ding! Congratulations, player. You have a new task progress. Please check promptly.]
Xia Chi heard Xiao Le’s voice in his mind. He opened the task panel and saw that ]Li Mi’s Troubles 1] had progressed.
[Side Task – Li Mi’s Troubles 1]
[Progress: 80% complete. You’ve gained the following clues:]
[1. Poor Li Mi cries a lot. He suffers from lacrimal incontinence.]
[2. Poor Li Mi is hated and isolated by his classmates.]
[3. Poor Li Mi has a passive skill—”Empathy”. When the player feels sympathy for Li Mi, the player will be affected by his emotions.]
[4. A strange sound.]
[5. Li Mi was punished. He seems to be very afraid of the three classmates and their punishments, but everyone seems to enjoy it.]
[6. Li Mi’s body heals at an extremely fast rate.]
[7. A mysterious man has appeared.]
[8. Li Mi has noticed the oddities around him, and he wants to escape.]
‘Just 20% more to complete the side task [Li Mi’s Troubles 1.] I wonder what the reward will be.’
Xia Chi’s eyes shifted back to Li Mi. “Why were you here so late?”
Li Mi: “The teacher asked me to come. He said I hadn’t finished my assignment, and if I didn’t submit it by tomorrow morning, I’d fail the course.”
Xia Chi: “Which teacher?”
Li Mi: “The art teacher.”
[Ding! Congratulations, player. You have new task progress.]
Xia Chi opened the task panel. The progress for [Li Mi’s Troubles 1] had advanced again.
[9. Li Mi’s art assignment seems incomplete, and he’s very troubled by it.]
[10. What is Li Mi’s art assignment?]
[Congratulations, player. You have completed side task [Li Mi’s Troubles 1.]]
[Now issuing task rewards:
1. An unused eraser.
2. A paintbrush with an unknown purpose.
3. Key plot progression.
4. 50 points as a reward.]
The fluffy Xiao Le appeared in Xia Chi’s field of vision. It wagged its tail, lifted its furry little paws and danced: [Dear player, congratulations on completing the side task. Li Mi is so pitiful, let me tell you about it…]