Chapter 5: The Death Rules That Only I Can Crack!

“Everyone, don’t forget the introduction~”

【Cannot find the ghost’s head hitting the ground】!

At this reminder, everyone’s expression changed drastically as they recalled a certain sentence from the instance introduction.

Could the ghost really be among them?

“Although the instance task is indeed to find the death rules, it never said how to escape once you find them.” Wu Wang’s voice wasn’t loud, but it seemed to possess some kind of magic, making everyone else hold their breath and listen intently.

The young man standing on the podium curled the corners of his mouth slightly, looking like a carefree, sunny college student, and continued: “The instance is called 【Hide and Seek】, after all!”

“What we ultimately need to do is—catch the ghost!”

With that, the entire classroom fell into a deathly silence.

It was so quiet that you could clearly hear a pin drop.

*Gulp—*

Someone swallowed involuntarily.

He’s crazy! This guy is absolutely insane!

The ghost can kill so many people in the classroom without a sound; they barely have time to hide, and he wants to go catch it?

Most people inwardly mocked the boy’s madness, while a small number frowned in deep thought.

“This boy seems able to ignore the death rules. What if he really can catch the ghost?”

However, while they were struggling with this thought, they didn’t know—

Wu Wang couldn’t ignore the death rules at all!

His manic behavior in the dark was just to confirm one thing.

Whether his bizarre 【Undying】 trait was effective within the instance.

The bad news was that it was effective.

He hadn’t managed to die as he wished.

The death rule was just something he happened to discover during the process.

That rhythmic tap-dancing was actually caused by Wu Wang being killed by the ghost over and over, with the intervals of his resurrection making his footsteps sound intermittent.

What surprised him was that when he walked onto the podium and stood before the microphone while singing and dying, the death rule stopped!

Afterward, no matter how he danced, played with hand shadows, or sang on the podium, he didn’t die again.

In other words, as long as one stood in front of the microphone, they could speak freely even in the darkness.

Therefore, Wu Wang concluded that this microphone must have another function, allowing it to protect whoever stood there while they did something in a living state.

For example—catching the ghost!

“You… what nonsense are you spouting! Don’t think that just because you know a little more, you can treat everyone else like fools! Do you think you’re qualified to lead us all by the nose?”

The woman in the long dress, who had been pointed out, was somewhat flustered and spoke up, breaking everyone’s train of thought.

In such a tense moment, if she were truly identified as the ghost, she would only face one choice.

The others would isolate and monitor her; any abnormal behavior would arouse their suspicion or even lead them to attack.

But it was more likely they would force her to do something that triggered the death rules to prove her innocence.

No matter the approach, the outcome would likely be the same.

A dead end.

She couldn’t let Wu Wang continue his rambling!

“Is that so? Then why are you still alive? Could it be that the ghost is a feminist who only punches men?” Wu Wang squinted and smiled.

“!?”

The woman only then realized she had spoken!

If the death rule Wu Wang mentioned earlier was true, then speaking in the dark was no different from suicide!

Fear began to shroud the woman; the surrounding darkness felt like a tide about to drown her, and an inexplicable sense of suffocation welled up in her heart.

That was the scent of death.

All she could do was stare helplessly into the ink-black environment, terrified that something would spring out and eat her.

But the ghost attack she imagined didn’t happen.

Instead, a much more bizarre situation occurred!

“Ah! My feet!”

As the woman was on high alert, she suddenly lost her balance and fell to the ground.

When she looked down, she discovered that the parts below her knees were gone!

And the vanishing cross-section was moving upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In an instant, her legs completely disappeared.

Although there was no pain in the process, the feeling of watching oneself inexplicably march toward death was even more terrifying than being sliced to pieces!

From legs to waist, from chest to head.

The woman in the long dress was erased as if by an eraser.

Until the very last moment when her head vanished, her incessant insults still echoed in the classroom—

“Bastard! I won’t let you go even in death! You %*#, I’m going to…”

The profanities went in one of Wu Wang’s ears and out the other.

*Plop—*

He sat down on the floor, squinting as he observed the spot where the woman had disappeared.

“No… she wasn’t killed by the ghost.”

Wu Wang’s brain processed the situation at lightning speed.

As a special existence who tested ghosts with his own body, he knew exactly what it was like to be killed by a ghost.

This vanishing on the spot was clearly not right.

“The key is, why did I start disappearing too?”

The murderers in the classroom were still too shocked by what had just happened to make a sound.

No one noticed Wu Wang glancing at his pant legs.

They were empty.

His legs had disappeared too!

That was why he had sat down on the floor—to avoid others noticing his abnormality.

It was fortunate he wasn’t a cross-dresser who liked wearing skirts that exposed his legs.

Otherwise, the problem would have been exposed immediately.

Moreover, this disappearance continued to spread upward; in just a few seconds, Wu Wang couldn’t feel anything below his navel, including little Wu Wang.

*Thump—*

In a flash, with no time to mourn for his manhood, Wu Wang suddenly lunged forward and fell to the ground.

In full view of everyone, he rolled off the podium and fell heavily into the pitch-black darkness.

From then on, there was no movement.

Now, no one dared to act rashly.

“That lunatic… is he dead?”

Such thoughts echoed in everyone’s minds.

Those near the podium didn’t really want to check whether Wu Wang was dead or alive in the darkness.

After all, better him than me.

The deathly silence lasted for a full three minutes.

That heart-trembling sound finally appeared.

“Dong!”

The spotlights turned on, and the classroom returned to brightness.

Everyone let out a long sigh of relief.

After all, this darkness was much better than the previous one; only two people had died.

At this rate, they should be able to find all the death rules soon, right?

As for the “catching the ghost” that Wu Wang mentioned, no one wanted to, nor dared to, do such a thing.

“Who’s going to… check on him?”

Now that it was bright and they could speak, someone finally suggested checking Wu Wang’s corpse.

However, before anyone could respond to the suggestion, the corpse spoke.

“You have to pay for a ticket to visit the zoo, so it’s not too much to ask for ten bucks each to see my corpse, right? First come, first served. Men aren’t allowed to touch the private parts, ladies please feel free.”

With that, the corpse that everyone thought should be dead stretched and slowly stood up.

“Fuck! This guy was lying on the ground playing dead to scare us?”

The others couldn’t help but twitch their eyelids, clenching their fists tightly.

But given all his previous behavior, they were almost getting used to him lying on the ground playing dead to scare people.

Habit is truly a terrifying thing.

Twisting his neck, Wu Wang brushed the dust off his body as if no one else was there.

【Undying】!

With the cover of darkness, he had been silently erased once while lying on the ground.

No one discovered his resurrection.

And no one knew what important information Wu Wang had learned from this death.

He curled his lips slightly, as if the previous embarrassment hadn’t happened, walked back to the podium, and said: “Everyone, you are truly lucky to have met me.”

“?”

Hearing this, a giant question mark appeared in the minds of the murderers below.

Meeting you is the greatest misfortune!

To this, Wu Wang smiled and said nothing.

Of course they were lucky.

Because he had already discovered the most difficult part of catching the ghost.

The difficulty wasn’t in finding out which person or thing the ghost was.

It was that when using the microphone to point it out, both the 【Ghost】 and the 【Accuser】 would be erased!

This was one of the death rules—

【The ghost catcher will die on the podium】

In other words, to truly catch the ghost, someone had to be willing to sacrifice themselves to point it out.

The irony was that this classroom was filled only with murderers who viewed human life as worthless.

None of them would be willing to sacrifice themselves.

Except for Wu Wang, the monster with more than one life.

“By the way, are you really not considering giving me money? The saddest thing is to die with money left over! Let me help you spend some.”

In his eyes, all the murderers in this classroom were already corpses.

No one paid attention to Wu Wang’s crazy ramblings.

And no one noticed the mockery in his eyes.

They were equally unfortunate.

If his subsequent deduction was correct, regardless of whether the ghost was caught or not, this instance never intended for anyone to leave alive…

(End of chapter)