Su Mu's eyes had also become like those of a ghost, with pupils devoid of whites filling her entire eye sockets. At this moment, her vision turned completely blood-red, as if shrouded in a hazy mist of blood.
At this moment, what those eyes saw was also what the red-dressed female ghost saw.
The blood-red vision moved rapidly through the hallway, the spirit body ignoring physical barriers, drifting through the building as if nothing existed.
In less than a minute, Dai Minghan noticed that blood was slowly seeping from Su Mu's pitch-black eye sockets!
Using the ghost's vision allowed for a swift search, but it placed a heavy burden on the controller. She could already feel the intense resentment of the other party, and the female ghost within the red jade bracelet seemed to show faint signs of the seal loosening.
At this point, sealing the female ghost back into the jade bracelet could prevent the curse from reviving, but... she couldn't do that. Only by finding the source of this incident could she completely end this task.
The blood-red vision passed through countless classrooms until suddenly, three characters appeared in the spreading red mist.
Staff Room!
It was the very staff room Jiang Rou had mentioned, where the staff card was kept.
However, since Jiang Rou hadn't unlocked the storyline, she only found the staff card. There should be another item hidden in this staff room that hadn't been discovered yet.
The female ghost's spirit body floated lightly through the door into the staff room, and the entire layout of the room immediately entered Su Mu's blood-red vision.
As soon as she entered the room, she felt a faint resonance!
Something in the room was indeed related to the team task of this mission.
Bang, bang, bang!
Under the influence of the spirit's will, all the bookshelves and drawers in the room opened by themselves, and a black, irregularly shaped box slid out from a cabinet.
"This is..."
From its outline, it was clearly a violin case!
Su Mu immediately opened the case. To her surprise, it was empty inside. But just then, a melodious tune suddenly echoed through the room.
An unnamed piece of music, cheerful and melodious, didn't feel out of place even in this eerie ghost school.
It wasn't just in the room; the unnamed, melodious melody swirled through every classroom and even hovered over the entire ghost school.
A white light suddenly appeared somewhere in the ghost school.
It was a small auditorium.
On the stage of the auditorium, a shy girl in a white dress, holding a violin, walked to the center. She nodded timidly to the audience, said nothing, sat down in front of the microphone at the center of the stage, and began to play.
An unnamed, melodious tune immediately drifted through the auditorium. The rows of empty seats in front suddenly filled with figures, and enthusiastic applause erupted.
The girl smiled shyly, her eyes searching the crowd. After receiving the approval she sought, she revealed a sweet smile.
In an instant, the stage curtain fell, the lights went out, and beneath the empty stage were only dusty seats. There was no shy girl on the stage, only a pale, twisted figure.
In the pale figure's hands was an old violin case.
The violin inside the case had long been shattered. On the night of her mother's divorce, she had personally smashed that item, and with it, Chen Jingyue's dream.
The shattered violin couldn't be repaired, but Chen Mingyuan had kept the case all along. At the bottom of the case lay a folded paper airplane.
Unfolding the paper airplane, crooked handwriting spelled out three words.
I'm sorry.
The old violin case, clearly preserved for many years, carried Chen Mingyuan's guilt and had been sealed away.
Amid the melodious music, the white scrolls falling like snowflakes from the sky suddenly stopped.
The iron chains broke, the iron cage collapsed, and the entire inner world, like peeling wall plaster, turned into black ashes, scattering and disappearing.
With a splash, Chen Mo stood up from the pool.
This pool was likely the one where Lin Tianheng had been spatially transferred, also the exit connected to the ghost's alternate space.
Just moments ago, Chen Jingyue's ghost had trapped him, but suddenly disappeared. Then, he was transported to this pool and left the ghost's space through this exit.
Su Mu must have found that thing—the one capable of dispelling the ghost's resentment!
Ignoring the discomfort of being soaking wet, Chen Mo immediately pushed open the iron door and heard the unnamed melody lingering over the campus.
Carrying Su Mu, who had her eyes tightly shut and a face as pale as a ghost, Dai Minghan and Lin Tianheng finally emerged from the woods. They spotted Chen Mo on the playground and their faces lit up with joy.
At the same time.
Somewhere in the school, a nondescript wall suddenly revealed a painting of a ghost head. Vivid and lifelike, the ghost head suddenly opened its mouth wide, and a figure jumped out from it.
A ghost painting, created with special pigments. The ghost's mouth could open an alternate space for participants to hide in and perform spatial transfers over a certain distance. It needed to be repainted after use.
Pan Long nervously looked around and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Using the alternate space in the ghost painting, he had escaped the female ghost's pursuit. But what was happening now?
At the same time, a slender figure appeared in the woods—it was Jiang Rou, who had been dragged underwater by the ghost.
Just moments ago, she had clearly been pulled underwater and killed by the ghost. Why was she now appearing in the woods?
And not a single drop of water on her?
Just then, a ding sounded, and system notifications rang in the minds of Pan Long and Jiang Rou simultaneously.
"Deep love, deep hope! Congratulations to all participants for uncovering the intertwined tragedy of the ghost school. The main storyline of this story is now complete!"
"This story is a team task. The seventh program group achieved a perfect ending, while the second and ninth program groups achieved ordinary endings. Rewards will be distributed after the story concludes."
"Surviving participants of this story: Seventh program group: Su Mu, Chen Mo, Dai Minghan, Lin Tianheng; Second program group: Pan Long; Ninth program group: Jiang Rou."
"Deceased participants in this massacre: Fourth program group: Zhong Qing, He Zhongtian, Zhang Haochen, Li Cuinian; Second program group: Zheng Zihao, Zhou Chuhan, Song Ze; Ninth program group: Tan Shuyue, Liu Yuan, Xing Yina."
"The seventh program group, having completed the story early, can be directly teleported out of the spirit world. The second and ninth program groups can be teleported out after the remaining time ends...!"