WTNL Chapter 17

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Decai Middle School
Chapter 17

Kong Shixing had a grim face as he stepped downstairs.

After realizing he had been played, he immediately reacted—the other party was likely a streamer.

An out-and-out scammer.

Kong Shixing had never thought that one day he would actually be screwed over so badly.

And played from beginning to end.

Not only did he not gain a single advantage, but even the things he already had in his hands were scammed completely clean. Even the blood bag he had been raising disappeared for unknown reasons.

Although he didn’t know exactly what had happened, Kong Shixing still pinned all the blame squarely on that damn scammer’s head.

Regardless, he couldn’t absolve himself of responsibility.

—Not to mention making a huge fool of himself in his own live broadcast room.

Thinking of his foolishly excited appearance just now, Kong Shixing’s face couldn’t help but look three shades uglier. The fingers gripping the flashlight subconsciously tightened, his knuckles letting out a cracking sound.

The next time he saw that reckless streamer courting death, he would definitely use every method at his disposal to make him kneel at his feet crying bitterly, regretting his actions today.

While walking down from the fourth floor, Kong Shixing repeatedly imagined the scene of his future revenge in his mind, his face twisting with illusory pleasure.

Just then, a figure abruptly turned the corner, fiercely crashing into him!

Kong Shixing was startled. The flashlight in his hand jolted slightly, and the swaying beam swept past, illuminating an exceptionally familiar face—

Handsome features, amber eyes, and a panicked and pale face.

After a brief moment of being stunned, Kong Shixing’s eyes abruptly shone with a vicious light.

It was exactly that scammer who had played him for a fool!

The other party also clearly realized who he had bumped into. His eyes widened slightly, revealing a terrified expression.

Seeing this, Kong Shixing couldn’t help but give a sinister smile. He hadn’t been this excited in a long time.

He thought he would have to go through a few more instances before he could see this scammer again, but he didn’t expect to run into him as soon as he came downstairs. Truly, he had searched everywhere for him only to find him effortlessly!

The young man with a pale face slowly took a few steps back. His lips trembled slightly twice, seemingly not having recovered from the shock yet.

The next second, heavy footsteps sounded from deep within the corridor, and a bizarre humming echoed in the pitch-black darkness, sounding exceptionally eerie.

The young man drew a sharp breath of cold air, his face, already pale from blood loss, turning a few shades grayer.

He turned around, violently running in another direction!

Seeing this, Kong Shixing immediately understood the current situation.

Although the other party’s mouth was full of lies before, he shouldn’t have lied about the old witch’s aggro.

Now, being reduced to this state, it was hard not to say he deserved it.

Kong Shixing hooked his lips into a hideous smile.

This was truly a good opportunity for revenge.

In matters like this, he had never been stingy with his points.

With a clatter, the sound of metal chains colliding rang out in the pitch-black, narrow corridor. The young man’s back, running into the distance, was bound by some invisible force, unable to move another step.

Behind him, the old witch’s voice grew closer and closer. The ground vibrated, and the squelching sound she made while wriggling gradually became louder.

The space felt cramped, the air tense, as a sort of imminent terror settled in the darkness.

The young man struggled desperately but was completely unable to escape.

He turned his head to look at Kong Shixing, speaking in a weak and trembling tone: “I beg you… I was wrong. I, I’ll return your things to you. I beg you, let me go…”

“Hahaha…”

Kong Shixing couldn’t hold back his laughter, his expression slightly twisted from excitement and pleasure: “When you were playing me, you should have thought of this moment. Let you go? Impossible!”

The young man’s face paled further.

He mumbled, speaking in an extremely low voice: “P-please, let me go, this is good for both of us…”

“Hehehe…”

The smile on Kong Shixing’s face deepened.

“I want to watch with my own eyes as you are tortured to death bit by bit, enjoying your wails and struggles, watching you scream on the edge of death. But, you can keep begging me; maybe I’ll really let you off the hook.”

Although he said so, deep down he was actually not prepared to let the person go at all. Kong Shixing simply enjoyed the sight of the other party groveling at his feet, pleading miserably for his life.

The old witch was already very close.

The blurry and bizarre humming circled, and the massive figure gradually entered the light.

Compared to the last time he saw her, the old witch’s appearance now was even more twisted and mutated.

On that deformed face, two mangled eye sockets were faintly visible. Countless livid-black flesh tumors swelled on her body, squeezing out from the torn seams of her clothes. Her skin split open, revealing countless pitch-black, eerie eyeballs that darted around wildly.

The smile on Kong Shixing’s mouth couldn’t help but widen and widen and widen even further.

Good, very good.

Scream, wail, beg for mercy. I want to see you die in despair and breathe your last in regret—

“…Sigh.”

The young man sighed softly.

Like a thin layer of snow under the winter sun, the previous terrified and despairing expression instantly melted and faded away. His face was left with only a faint sense of regret and pity:

“I told you.”

Kong Shixing froze, unable to react for a moment.

He didn’t quite understand why someone clearly pushed into a desperate situation would suddenly become so calm.

A careless, shallow curve graced Wen Jianyan’s lips. He lightly raised his eyes, smiled, and said casually, “Letting me go is good for both of us.”

Alarm bells instantly blared in Kong Shixing’s heart.

Before he could make any reaction, the old witch was already right in front of him. Her massive body wriggled, the countless eyes on her body darting madly, and then—

Locked onto Kong Shixing’s figure.

The humming stopped.

The old witch inched towards him, step by step.

Wh-what’s going on?

Kong Shixing’s face turned deadly pale. He couldn’t help but take a step back, his heart instantly thrown into chaos.

This shouldn’t be.

The person locked by the NPC’s aggro was right in front of her. Why would the old witch turn a blind eye to him and instead walk towards him?

The young man’s calm, smiling voice sounded:

“If I were you, I would check your left pocket.”

Kong Shixing reached into his pocket. His fingers touched something hard, and he pulled it out—

Something fell down along with his movement, but Kong Shixing didn’t notice it at all. He stared fixedly at the crudely made small wooden puppet in his hand, his pupils instantly constricting.

He recognized this item.

Substitute Puppet. Creates a puppet carrying your aura, rendering it ineffective for one minute.

The image of colliding with the other party just now suddenly flashed before his eyes, and Kong Shixing’s heart skipped a beat.

It’s over.

It must have been at that exact moment when the other party stuffed the puppet in while he wasn’t paying attention.

He had been tricked again!!!

Not far away, the eyeballs on the old witch’s body rolled, their gaze slowly landing on the floor—

That piece of paper brought out of Kong Shixing’s pocket was a yellowed photograph.

It landed face up on the floor. Under the half-bright, half-dim light, two figures, one large and one small, snuggled together were faintly visible. The smiles of the two appeared blurry and distant.

“…Ugh ahhhhhhhhhh!”

A mournful, hateful scream rang out. The old witch stared dead at Kong Shixing. Her originally massive and clumsy body suddenly moved, surprisingly fast:

“Thief thief thief thief—”

Her voice was frantic and hateful, pouncing towards the person in front of her with a chest full of rage!

Not good!

Kong Shixing was shocked.

After all, he was a veteran streamer. The moment the other party pounced, he reflexively activated the life-saving item on his body, wretchedly blocking the other party’s strike. During a pause in dodging, he cast a glance towards Wen Jianyan’s direction.

The binding item had already expired.

At the end of the corridor, the young man stood with one hand in his pocket, showing him an effortless smile:

“Bye.”

After speaking, he turned around and walked into the distance without looking back.

Looking at the other party’s back, Kong Shixing’s eyes were practically splitting from rage, wishing he could eat his flesh and sleep on his skin.

He ground his teeth together, his eyes burning red with hatred.

If he could survive this time, he would definitely dig three feet into the ground to find this scammer and use every method possible to make him pay the price!

In the live broadcast room 789326qwk:

[Fuck, doing it twice.]

[Got scammed again hahahahahahahahaha! Capital M for Miserable!]

[It’s over, it’s over; this grudge is definitely set now. Hahahahahahahaha dog scammer enemy +1]

[Speaking of which, where did that photo come from? I have no impression of it.]

[It was quite a long time ago. There weren’t many people in the streamer’s live broadcast room then. I remember it was in that special route; after combing Xiao Jie’s hair, the streamer took it from a hidden compartment, right? Didn’t expect he’d actually still be carrying it on him now.]

[But I still have to say, the streamer actually gave a lot of face this time. He did stuff the puppet into the opposing side’s pocket, but he never activated it. If Kong Shixing had really let him off the hook back then, it probably really would have fulfilled what the streamer said: it would be good for both of them.]

[Just based on this, I have to tip. Tipped 100 points]

[I won’t hide it from everyone; I actually came from Kong Shixing’s stream next door. I originally wanted to see what kind of dog this was, but I didn’t expect to turn from a hater to a fan. Let’s go! Tipped 500 points]

[Saying this secretly… when the streamer said ‘I beg you’ just now, I really, completely got turned on ahhhhh!]

[Weird kink added (peaceful)]

Taking advantage of the time when the old witch was drawn away by Kong Shixing, Su Cheng popped out from his original hiding place: “Did it work?”

Wen Jianyan lazily curled the corners of his lips:

“Look who you’re talking to.”

Su Cheng silently stared at the other party, a somewhat complicated expression appearing on his face.

Having been played for a fool for so long, he indeed harbored resentment in his heart.

It was just that, within that mission, the two of them were grasshoppers tied to the same string and had to present a united front. He had to suppress his emotions and continue acting alongside the other party.

Su Cheng truly hadn’t expected…

When caught in a pincer attack with almost no hope of survival, the other party would unhesitatingly tell him to hide, facing the pursuing old witch and the grudge-bearing veteran streamer all alone.

While hiding in the room just now, he pressed his ear against the door panel, nervously listening to the commotion outside.

Su Cheng recalled many details from earlier.

Although this scammer had been lying from start to finish, not once did he push him out to act as a shield, and he had even saved his life more than once.

Now, Su Cheng realized that, unwittingly, he had become completely incapable of feeling malice towards Wen Jianyan.

Realizing this, he couldn’t help but feel a bit stifled.

…This dog scammer.

Wen Jianyan looked over: “Shall we go?”

Su Cheng averted his gaze, gave a muffled “Mm,” and nodded:

“Okay.”

The two left the dormitory building at top speed.

Under the night sky, the entire campus was shrouded in an impenetrable, chilling darkness. Eerie ghostly aura floated in the air, making one’s hair stand on end just by being in it.

In the distance, varying shades of figures could be faintly seen approaching.

Unable to see their faces or their shapes clearly, one could only feel the intense malice radiating from those shadows.

“Run.”

Wen Jianyan lowered his voice.

Su Cheng nodded.

The two ran wildly in the darkness.

Fortunately, they came out of the dormitory building relatively in time, and the outside space hadn’t been completely occupied by the black shadows. After dodging a few dangerous areas with some near misses, the two finally arrived by the artificial lake.

The temperature here was exceptionally cold.

The lake surface was extremely calm, reflecting the dark sky, like a pool of bottomless black water, giving one the dizzying feeling of being swallowed whole.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, took the mirror shard out of his pocket, and slowly walked forward.

Su Cheng stood not far away to keep watch for him, monitoring the movements of those black shadows.

Tossing the shard into the lake was too risky.

In case his initial guess was wrong, there would be no chance for a do-over.

Wen Jianyan leaned down, carefully placing the shard in the shallowest part of the water.

The pitch-black water submerged his palm. The freezing temperature of the lake water made him subconsciously shiver.

The mirror shard sank beneath the water, and a bizarre faint light reflected off it.

[Ding! The ultimate mission of the hidden storyline in the Decai Middle School instance has been completed!]

[Calculating points!]

Hearing the mechanical system voice ring in his ears, Wen Jianyan breathed a sigh of relief. He straightened up, just about to turn around and report this good news to Su Cheng, but the next second, an abrupt change occurred!

A deadly pale arm reached out from the lake water without warning, its icy fingers tightly gripping Wen Jianyan’s wrist!

Wen Jianyan widened his eyes in horror: “!”

This!

More arms emerged from the lake water, grabbing his body, arms, calves, waist, and then violently dragging him in all at once!

Before Wen Jianyan even had time to struggle, his entire person fell below the pitch-black water surface with a splash.

The freezing, fishy lake water rushed into his mouth and nasal cavity, squeezing the air out of his lungs. He could only hear the gurgling sound of water in his ears, and an irresistible dragging force came from his legs, pulling him down towards the bottom of the lake.

…No, I can’t.

Wen Jianyan struggled, reaching out a hand towards the surface of the lake, but could only watch as the light got further and further away from him…

Except for—

A faint light approaching.

Wen Jianyan clearly saw the source of the light.

It was that mirror shard.

It fell towards the bottom of the lake along with Wen Jianyan, but the surface of the mirror was still emitting a faint yet steady glow.

The mirror shard tumbled in the water waves.

Through the cold, dark lake water, Wen Jianyan gazed deep into the mirror—

Within the dimly glowing mirror shard, a phantom was faintly visible.

Unable to see the face clearly, the man, covered head to toe in bizarre patterns, lay quietly deep within the mirror, dangerous yet peaceful, silent and ominous.

Every cell in his body was screaming to flee.

Danger, run!

Accompanied by suffocation and weightlessness, Wen Jianyan felt his head growing heavier and heavier. His thoughts turned more and more sluggish, as if he would fall into eternal slumber in the next second.

He gritted his teeth and, amidst the pulling of countless deadly pale arms from below, forcefully reached his hand towards the mirror shard!

The distance between his fingers and the mirror surface closed little by little, closer and closer…

Finally, the cold and smooth mirror surface touched the young man’s fingertips.

Mournful screams transmitted through the lake water to his numb brain.

It took Wen Jianyan two seconds to realize that the sound came from the arms entangled on his body.

The arms on his body disappeared.

As if encountering something terrifying, they scrambled to escape, leaving only the young man bobbing deep within the pitch-black lake water.

The next second, Wen Jianyan felt an irresistible, powerful attraction pull from the mirror surface, dragging him deep into the mirror!

He watched helplessly as the phantom grew closer and closer, closer and closer.

“…”

Before losing consciousness, a bolded, capitalized word slowly surfaced in Wen Jianyan’s mind:

FUCK.

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Author’s Note:

Gong (once again): Wife, let’s cuddle.

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