「The Horror of the Haunted School」A Matter of Life and Death

Soon, Leo found an interesting person from one of the files.

——Chen Qiong.

This person was a top student in their Class 8, Grade 1 and had consistently ranked first in the grade for many years. Even in the weekly exam before he was expelled, he was still the first in the grade. The reason for his expulsion was puppy love.

"An outstanding student who was supposed to bring great honor to the school in the future was expelled from school because of puppy love," Leo said in a meaningful tone.

Linda beside him leaned over and took a look, wearing a strange expression on her face. "Does the school have a rule to expel students for puppy love?"

Leo replied, "I've roughly gone through all the backup files of students who have received disciplinary actions here. He's the only one who was expelled for puppy love."

"For such an excellent student, it's impossible for him to be expelled just because of puppy love under normal circumstances, unless..." Leo paused, as if he had thought of something.

"Unless what?" Linda asked curiously.

"Unless, during the process of puppy love, he offended someone he simply couldn't afford to provoke. Maybe it was his puppy love partner, or maybe it was his competitor. But personally, I tend to think it's the latter. After all, a person with such excellent grades must have a strong sense of self-esteem. If he was directly rejected by his puppy love partner, he probably wouldn't keep pestering. Moreover, puppy love involves two people. Look at these files — whenever students are punished for it, it's always both of them who get punished at the same time, not just one person. Only Chen Qiong in our class is an exception. This indicates that his competitor has a very powerful background. Not only did he pressure the school to expel Chen Qiong, but he also managed to protect the girl he liked. We need to look into things about Chen Qiong. Maybe we'll find some good clues."

Leo found what he was looking for, neatly put the file away, and placed it back in its original position.

"Where should we look for the clues?"

"Our phones were issued by the school and can't connect to the internet. They can only be used to set alarms. If we really need to access the internet, the only place we can go is the computer room," Leo replied.

"That's right. We're going to the computer room," Leo said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Linda's eyes widened, and she stared intently at the back of Leo. A murderous aura filled the air, seeping directly into Leo's bones through his skin!

Leo had his back to the door. In an instant, he understood what was happening from the look of sheer horror on Linda's face! The principal... had come back early!

In an instant, the wall plaster of the entire room began to peel off, revealing a scarlet color beneath, just like flesh and blood! Countless black beetles crawled out from the wall plaster and swarmed towards the door, completely blocking the door with their bodies! In a short time, the two of them had become trapped like turtles in a jar!

"You... all... deserve to die..."

"All... deserve to die!"

"Deserve to die!"

The venomous voice came out of the principal's mouth, but it wasn't the voice of a middle-aged person. Instead, it was... the voice of a teenager.

Almost without thinking, Leo took out an Old Man Jack's House Property Certificate from his inventory, turned around, and stared at the principal's black shadow. He shouted, "Are you Chen Qiong?"

"We're here to investigate the truth!"

"What exactly happened between you and your mother back then?"

At the mention of the word "truth", the black shadow suddenly covered its head and let out a howl! The ear-piercing and terrifying sound made the two of them dizzy, and their eardrums even started to bleed!

At this moment, Linda's mental value began to drop rapidly. Although Leo's mental value remained as stable as a rock, he clearly felt his life force draining away!

"I... I am... I am... I'm not..."

"Chen Qiong... Mother... Zhang Ya... Pang Xiao..."

"Ah!!!"

Finally, the black shadow let out a long howl towards the sky, and its head exploded directly. Many spiky tentacles stretched out from inside! They twisted wildly like eels, making people's sanity drop sharply!

Linda, who had already taken out a shotgun from her inventory, saw this scene and plopped down on the ground, unable to hold the gun steadily. "What the hell is this monster?"

The principal's black shadow walked towards the two of them step by step, forcing them back into a corner. Linda opened her mouth wide, and her legs were shaking violently.

"Leo, run! I'll hold it off!"

She raised the gun to shoot, but Leo kicked her hard in the chest. She slid several meters away like a chicken slipping on the ground!

At the same time, Leo dodged in the other direction! The next moment, several sharp spikes shot into the position where the two of them had just been! Black pus seeped out from the spikes, hissing and emitting thick smoke. Obviously, they were highly corrosive!

Whoosh! Almost at the same time, a thick tentacle with spikes whipped towards Leo at an extremely fast speed, creating a sonic boom! If this hit him, Leo would die on the spot! With Leo's current reaction ability, there was no way he could dodge this attack!

At the critical moment, there was a gunshot. The principal let out a howl, was forced to stop the attack, and took two steps back!

It was Linda! Her hands were shaking violently, she bit her lips tightly, and she didn't let go of the shotgun! An ordinary gun basically couldn't cause effective damage to a ghost, but the impact force of the bullet helped Leo defuse this fatal attack!

"Go quickly!"

"I'll cover you!" Linda shrieked like a crazy woman and fired two more shots at the principal, stunning it!

Leo looked at the slightly stunned principal. A scarlet light flashed deep in his eyes, and he actually rolled towards the principal, greatly closing the distance between them!

This crazy move left Linda stunned. "Is he out of his mind? I'm risking my life to create an opportunity for him, but instead of running away, he's going to his death! Isn't he just giving himself up for nothing?!"

Leo got close to the principal. As quickly as possible, he took out an Old Man Jack's House Property Certificate and aimed it at the principal! At the same time, the tentacle that whipped down again reached above Leo's head! The tentacle was only one centimeter away from his forehead! If it was one centimeter closer, Leo's head would be smashed like a rotten watermelon!

But at this moment, the principal was as motionless as a wooden man, frozen in place!

...

[Item: Old Man Jack's House Property Certificate (Unsealed)]

[Quality: Green]

[Description: The lifelong effort of an old worker.]

[Effect: Forcefully seal a monster within five meters for ten seconds. Cooldown time: 1 day]

...

The moment the principal's black shadow stopped moving, Leo turned around and grabbed Linda, and the two of them fled outside like crazy!

They only had ten seconds. Every second determined their life and death!

Still immersed in surprise, Linda looked back at the completely motionless principal. When Leo passed by the door, he even didn't forget to stab the monster!

The tip of the knife stabbed into the principal's black shadow's heart. But it couldn't kill this powerful monster! Of course, Leo didn't expect to kill it with one stab. He just took a little revenge on the side!

When they reached the door, Linda raised the shotgun, aimed at the door lock wrapped in black insects, and pulled the trigger twice! The door opened.

The two of them fled into the darkness of the corridor without looking back...