「The Horror of the Haunted School」The Horrifying Black Shadow, A Matter of Life and Death

Leo strode towards the black shadow. As expected, when the figure saw Leo approaching, it immediately scurried into the teaching building! Since the distance was too far, Leo couldn't activate his special ability and couldn't see the black shadow clearly. However, judging from the other party's behavior, it probably wasn't a highly dangerous ghost.

Leo chased after it all the way into the pitch-black teaching building, and Linda followed closely behind. To be honest, she definitely didn't have the courage to enter such a place on her own. Moreover, knowing that there were ghosts inside, she was even more afraid to take an extra step! Fortunately, she had someone by her side now, otherwise her mental power would have dropped rapidly due to fear.

"Are you always this brave?" Linda complained.

Leo thought for a moment. "No, I'm always very cautious."

"Cautious? You disrupted the exam discipline right in front of the female ghost invigilator today!"

Leo walked along the corridor without looking back. "That's because I was 100% sure that the female ghost wouldn't do anything to me. Even though it's a hell-level difficulty, the overall level of the dungeon isn't that high, and the ghosts are severely restricted. Didn't you pay close attention during the exam this afternoon? Several ghosts... several students were cheating right under the invigilator's nose. When the invigilator noticed, she just gave a reminder. This shows that disrupting the exam discipline and violating the exam rules won't trigger the death prohibition!"

Upon hearing this, Linda thought for a while, scratched her head, and said sheepishly, "I really didn't notice that!"

Bang! While she was speaking, she suddenly bumped into Leo's back!

"Hey! Why did you stop suddenly without giving a warning..." Linda rubbed her aching head and complained in distress, but before she could finish her sentence, she instinctively fell silent!

In the darkness, it was almost impossible to see clearly. The two of them carefully came to the back door of a classroom and peeked inside through the window. These classrooms were exactly the ones by the window downstairs from their classroom. During the day, the four of them had plotted outside the window, and Leo had even observed each of them one by one.

The starlight seeped in, and the faint glow was bright enough in the darkness to illuminate everything in the classroom! The two of them saw that the dilapidated classroom, which should have been empty, was actually filled with densely packed black shadows!

Linda was terrified! Her body trembled involuntarily. If Leo hadn't been by her side, she would probably have run away already! What the hell were these black shadows?

Leo took a glance and continued walking towards the next classroom. Neither of them spoke. They checked eight classrooms on the first floor in a row. Without exception, they were all filled with densely packed black shadows sitting in different positions and reading books attentively. There were also black shadows on the podium.

"What are these black shadows?" Linda asked cautiously, trying to keep her voice as low as possible.

"Not sure." A glint flashed in Leo's eyes. His reply was "not sure" rather than "I don't know."

"Come on, let's go to the third floor."

"Huh? Why are we going to the third floor?"

Leo didn't answer her question. Instead, he walked up the stairs at the end of the corridor all the way to the third floor and came to the back door of their classroom. There were only a few black shadows inside.

Leo stared at the black shadows inside and thought carefully for a moment.

"Leo..." Linda suddenly spoke, her voice trembling.

Leo frowned. "What's wrong?"

Linda stretched out her hand, pointed at the podium in the classroom through the glass of the back door, and was too nervous to speak!

Leo looked over and found that the black shadow on the podium had actually noticed them! It was staring at Leo and Linda with its eerie green eyes!

In an instant, a chill rose from the soles of their feet and shot straight to the top of their heads!

"Run!" Without any hesitation, Leo grabbed Linda and ran downstairs!

"Jie jie jie!" However, a terrifying eerie laugh came from below the stairs! It was a black shadow!

[Chong: Low-level Danger]

[Note: A deceased student of Shishan High School.]

At the sight of the ghost shadow not far in front of them, Linda's mental value immediately dropped significantly! This was too scary!

However, Leo wasn't afraid at all! This guy, who was only level 2, actually pulled her and charged straight at the black shadow not far away. When they were about ten steps away, a faint stream of light suddenly flew out from Leo's other hand!

Pu chi! The sound of a sharp object piercing into flesh came. The terrifying eerie laugh in their ears also stopped abruptly.

The black shadow lay on the ground, with Leo's blood-stained Blood-Stained Scalpel stuck in its forehead!

[You have killed the unlucky ghost 'Chong' who came out to use the restroom]

[Your soul weapon has received a slight enhancement]

Glancing at the ghost on the ground, Leo pulled out the Blood-Stained Scalpel from its forehead and immediately led Linda to run out of the teaching building!

"Hurry up!"

"It can't leave the teaching building!" Leo looked at Linda, who was a bit weak from fear, and gave her a reassuring word.

Upon hearing Leo's words, Linda's eyes lit up. Ignoring the terrifying footsteps behind her, she rushed out of the teaching building like crazy with Leo!

Ten steps... five steps... Leo had already rushed out of the teaching building, and she was almost there! Almost there! Just one last step!

Linda's eyes revealed a wild joy of having survived. Her heart was almost leaping out of her chest!

But the next moment, a pair of terrifying black hands suddenly grabbed her neck from behind! The smile on her face froze, and the joy in her eyes immediately turned into horror and despair! The coldness spread throughout her body in an instant! It was all over!

Just as the black hands were about to drag her into the darkness behind, a sharp Blood-Stained Scalpel flashed past her ear, directly cutting off her ear! And it accurately hit the black shadow behind her!

"Ow!" A shrill scream sounded, and the pair of black ghost hands loosened. Linda's adrenaline soared to the extreme at this moment. She scrambled out of the classroom!

She suddenly pounced in front of Leo, and a stream of warmth rushed down her legs. The smell of urine filled the air, but she didn't care about being embarrassed. She screamed and pulled Leo to run towards the distance!

"Okay, okay!"

"It's gone now!" Leo comforted her a few words, and Linda gradually came to her senses and sat on the ground wiping her tears.

Then she felt something warm in her ear. She touched it with her hand. Oh no! Her left ear was gone!

"My... my ear..." She said with a sob in her voice, and the pain slowly spread.

Leo rolled his eyes. "Come on, it's not a big deal to lose an ear. It will grow back after the dungeon ends anyway."

Linda pursed her lips, her eyes welling up with tears. "Thank you." She still said softly.

Although Leo had cut off her left ear, he had saved her life. If Leo hadn't acted in time just now, she would have had to start over in the game!