Tang Xin used to be a very timid villain. It was rare that she mustered up courage for love once, but she died unexpectedly. After she died, she came to such a dangerous place. Now, she entered such a hard examination room, and she didn’t even have anywhere to cry.
Chai Yong took her points and brought her down the mountain. It was originally a transactional relationship, but now he lost his temper with her, making it clear that she was easy to bully. Tang Xin was unwilling, but she didn’t know how to resist.
She went back to her room blankly. When she turned on the light, she was scared out of her wits: In the center of the wall hung a picture that was eerie to the extreme. The woman in red had long hair hanging down to the ground, but her palm-sized face had no features.
Although the heating was turned on in the room, at that moment, she felt that the temperature had dropped by ten degrees. It took her a long time to gather up her nerves. She moved a chair tremblingly, then stood up and took off the painting. She rolled it up and put it in the cabinet.
After hiking down the mountains for five or six hours, she was exhausted and lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and soon fell asleep. After a while, Tang Xin felt a cool breeze next to her head. Her eyelashes fluttered, her eyes opened, and she suddenly screamed in fright.
The painting that she put in the cabinet was hanging in its original place. The woman in red still had no facial features, but Tang Xinfelt that the woman’s face was slowly twisting. She was so frightened that she jerked up, grabbing the sheet with one hand and moving back, but when she touched the head of the bed, she felt something wet dripping on her hand.
When she stretched out her hand, scarlet blood stained her palm.
Tang Xin froze in fright.
She felt a cold, innocent little hand slowly stretch out from behind her and touch her cheek. Her teeth chattered.
She turned her head.
It turned out to be a face with five mouths, five bloody mouths, with blood-red pupils reflecting her weak and helpless appearance. Tang Xin was completely terrified and couldn’t get off the bed. She watched the five-mouthed face slowly approach her and bite her hair. With a ripping noise, the five-mouthed monster bit off half of her hair, then giggled.
At this moment, someone suddenly knocked rapidly and violently, accompanied by a nice voice calling, “Open the door.”
Tang Xin recognized Lin Xinghe’s voice. At the same time, the monster beside her shrank back and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
She took a closer look—the painting on the wall had returned to its original state, and the face of the woman was no longer distorted. Tang Xin felt spared and crawled on the ground to open the door. As soon as she saw Lin Xinghe, she immediately jumped up, uncaring of anything but having someone to save her.
“There are… there are ghosts…”
Lin Xinghe said, “I’ll go in and have a look.” Tang Xin didn’t dare to go in again, but looking at the empty corridor, she was once again dominated by fear. She tightly grasped Lin Xinghe’s arm and went in together with her.
Lin Xinghe was about the same height as Tang Xinwas, but at this moment, she felt that Lin Xinghe was taller than ever before. When Lin Xinghe saw the painting on the wall, she was unmoved. Looking around, she rolled her eyes and finally asked her calmly, “What ghost did you meet?”
Listening to her tone, it seemed that she had also encountered something similar.
Tang Xinzhi started babbling uncontrollably about everything. After speaking, she saw Lin Xinghe looking thoughtfully at her head and murmured, “It’s exactly as I guessed…”
Lin Xinghe stepped out of the room. Tang Xin quickly asked, “You… where are you going?”
Lin Xinghe tilted her head to look at her.
Tang Xin said, “Let me follow you, I… I can give you ten points, don’t leave me alone.”
Lin Xinghe was a little surprised, inquiring, “Can you even trade points with candidates?”
Tang Xin responded, “Chai Yong asked me for five points as a deposit and promised to take me down the mountain. He swept my wristband, and our transaction was successful.” Tang Xin hurriedly raised her arm and added, “You can do it now. Scan my bracelet.”
Lin Xinghe was a little moved, but after thinking about it, she frowned slightly and said, “No, if points can be traded in the test room, the big bosses of the other departments would have graduated with full marks long ago. Why would they stay in school? The role of the proctor is generally to supervise the discipline of the examination room and prevent cheating… When you come in, the rules of the examination room are not mentioned, so maybe it is a trick.”
【This freshman student is so smart—many freshmen have suffered this loss when they entered the examination room for the first time.】
【Chai Yong is screwed lol. He took Tang Xin’s points, so he will be punished when he comes out.】
Gu Taoyao didn’t tell Lin Xinghe about the rules of the examination room. This was one of the principal’s sneaky tricks. Most of the old students who had suffered losses would not take the initiative to tell the new students. They hoped that the new students would suffer the same losses as them, so that they felt better about themselves. Unexpectedly, she figured out this rule by making inferences.
After Lin Xinghe analyzed it, Tang Xin also felt it made sense, and stammered, “I…I can do other things, I…I can do anything, let me follow you…”
Lin Xinghe asked, “You can do anything?”
Tang Xin just wanted to live. Besides, Lin Xinghe was also a little girl, so what kind of threat could she be? She nodded frantically, “Yes, yes, anything is fine.”
“Okay, then you can follow me.”
Tang Xin followed Lin Xinghe back to her room.
As soon as she entered, she saw the weird painting, which was hung in the same position. But… the blank-faced woman was painted with quite… cute facial features.
Lin Xinghe said, “Oh, I drew it, is it cute?”
Originally, the artistic concept of the painting was to invoke horror, but after adding the kaomoji expression, it was like a monster crawling out of the abyss with cute emoji features. Originally, the painting looked like an eldritch horror that would chase you and scream bloody murder, but with the doodles, it turned into a monster beastie that chased after you, exhausting all its strength and letting out a milky “meow.”
Tang Xin had to sincerely reply, “It’s lovely.” She had been shivering with fright before, but now she felt completely recovered.
Lin Xinghe asked her, “Do you know where Xiao Xue Ji went?”
Tang Xin was confused. “Xiao Xue Ji?”
“Yes, that’s the name I gave the little girl with five mouths, but she’s not human. I’m not sure if she is the Snow Maiden, and even if she isn’t, she must have something to do with her.”
Tang Xin said, “No… I don’t know, you… After you knocked on the door, it disappeared, and I didn’t notice where it went…”
Lin Xinghe said, “Come, do me a favor.”
“What favor?”
“Come with me to the archives, you be on the lookout and tell me when someone comes.”
“Go to the archives?”
“Yes, the captain of the rescue team said that 16 people were missing before. These 16 people must have called for help, and there must be file records. I need to know who is missing.”
Tang Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Okay, no problem.”
The two easily found the archives, but the room was locked.
Tang Xin asked, “Then… what should we do?”
Lin Xinghe said, “There is always a way.” She touched the lock, and the lock unexpectedly opened. She was not surprised at all.
“God always helps me…”
Tang Xin: … What kind of luck was this, a 100% wish-fulfilling skill?
Before Lin Xinghe went in, she instructed again: “If someone comes, call out to me.”
“No problem.”
“If Xiao Xue Ji comes, try to capture her.”
Tang Xin trembled: “This…”
Lin Xinghe said: “Don’t be afraid of her, I’ve investigated her abilities. She feeds on fear, so as long as you feel fear, she can attack you or even kill you. But if you are not afraid of her and ignore her illusions, you can render her powerless. Therefore, this is one of the reasons she cannot be the Snow Maiden. Generally, such monsters are low-level monsters, and their weaknesses are too obvious. In short, don’t be afraid, just treat her like a three-year-old girl.”
Tang Xin: …The three-year-old girl just bit off half of her hair!
After Lin Xinghe finished explaining, she entered the archives.
She was probably lucky. It didn’t take her long to find the files of the sixteen people missing on the mountains. She flipped through them one by one and found another clue—the sixteen people were all men and all foreigners.