Chapter 040 Retrieving the Corpse

"Backtracking."

Gu Yi decided to try again.

(Backtracking begins!)

(You hid next to the dean's office.)

(You think carefully.)

(Perhaps the dean did not discover me because I moved the urn, but because I was discovered as soon as I entered the dean's office or the secret room?)

(This time, you decide to explore carefully so you don't miss some important details.)

(The dean leaves.)

(You arrive at the dean's office.)

(You stayed here for two minutes and found that the dean did not come back.)

(Obviously, you weren't discovered by walking into the office.)

(You open the door to the secret room and enter.)

(You waited for two minutes, but the dean still didn't come back early.)

(You terminated the game!)

Gu Yi touched his chin and let out a long sigh.

It seems that the dean was able to find himself not because he broke into the office and the secret room, but because he took away the ashes.

As long as he moved the ashes, the dean would rush back to his office as fast as he could.

The dean had untold help, and getting back to the office within two minutes was just a matter of moving a finger.

As long as I carry the ashes with me, the dean will find me immediately no matter where I hide.

This is an almost unsolvable situation!

A drop of cold sweat flowed down Gu Yi's forehead, and his chest felt a sharp pain. The degree of alienation deepened again.

Gu Yi looked up at the ceiling and saw blood dripping like rain. It took three minutes for the illusion to finally disappear.

"Huh... calm down."

Gu Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

The lower your mood, the lower the possibility of passing the level. You must stay calm to complete the task.

Think about it carefully, you must have missed some important information.

"Backtracking."

(Backtracking begins!)

(You hid next to the dean's office.)

(Your current situation is so bad that you cannot think calmly in reality.)

(You can only rely on your innate abilities to think of countermeasures.)

(As soon as the ashes left the office, the dean would appear immediately, and I would never have time to deliver them to my mother.)

(Did I set a trap for my mother? If I steal her ashes, I will die? )

(You think about it for a moment and decide that this is unlikely.)

(Currently, the progress of the copy has been completely stopped. The only clue is the mother. Only when the mother's line is opened up, the progress will continue.)

(If you try to use brute force to push the process forward, you will only drive yourself into a dead end.)

(You think carefully about every detail, fearing that you might miss a step.)

(You remember what your mother said.)

(She needs you to get her "body" back, not her "ashes.")

(“Ashes” are obviously different from “body”.)

(You discovered your blind spot.)

(You always wear the Elephant Man mask when entering the Dean's office.)

(If you wear a different mask, you might see something different.)

(You feel enlightened.)

(The dean left the office on time.)

(You enter the office.)

(Before opening the door to the Chamber of Secrets, you put on Toto's handmade mask.)

(You enter the chamber.)

(At this moment, the entire room turns blood red, and the floor is made of pieces of wriggling flesh.)

(You found your mother's body in the middle of this large piece of flesh and blood.)

(You hid your flesh in your kangaroo pants.)

(You left the dean's office and returned to your ward.)

(You waited silently for a while, but the dean did not show up.)

(You feel mentally exhausted and can't help wanting to sleep.)

(You terminate the game.)

"Finally found the correct way to pass the level."

Gu Yi waved his fist. This time, he only spent 20 points of mental power to successfully deduce the correct way to pass the level. Backtracking and deduction greatly improved his efficiency.

He followed the deduced route and successfully hid next to the dean's office.

When he really walked into the secret room in reality wearing Toto's mask, he was still shocked by the scene.

The walls of the secret room kept jumping, making creepy "bang bang" sounds, resonating with his own heart.

Gu Yi felt chest pain and suffocation. He endured the discomfort, took out his mother's body, and quickly left the office.

He hid back in the ward and closed his eyes tiredly.

…

The next morning, Xu Nian woke Gu Yi up.

When Gu Yi opened his eyes, he saw the doctor and the nurse looking at him angrily.

Gu Yi's heart trembled, and he subconsciously took out the red pill from his pants.

"What are you doing, Gu Yi?" Doctor Li asked, "Did you forget to take your medicine this morning again?"

"Oh, sorry."

Gu Yi reacted immediately and took his morning medicine obediently.

Doctor Li and the nurse briefly asked about Gu Yi's condition and then left the room.

Gu Yi sat in front of the hospital bed, gasping for breath, and even now his heart was still in his throat.

Xu Nian walked up to Gu Yi and patted his shoulder with concern.

"It's okay. I'm fine now."

Gu Yi grinned and hid in the bathroom.

He looked up at the mirror and found that he had turned into a monster with a face covered with black hair, with blood and flesh hanging from the corners of his mouth. He covered his mouth in horror to prevent himself from screaming.

After a while, the person in the mirror returned to his original appearance.

Repeated deductions and unspeakable mental erosion made Gu Yi's symptoms become more and more obvious. He immediately scratched his throat to spit out the pills, then picked up a razor and shaved off all the black hair on his chest.

"I was lucky this time. The doctor didn't do a full body examination during his rounds. Otherwise, I would have spent this morning in the operating room."

Gu Yi shook his head helplessly.

Human spirit has its limits. Under such high-intensity pressure, Gu Yi has begun to feel tired and even made mistakes.

However, this was also because he had suffered a great mental shock in the dean's office last night, causing him to accidentally oversleep.

Gu Yi ate as usual.

During free time, Gu Yi hid in the toilet and started to deduce.

(Deduction begins!)

(You put on Toto's handmade mask.)

(You came to the cafeteria kitchen without any obstruction and took the staff elevator to the third underground floor.)

(You have arrived at the office secret room on the third underground floor.)

(When the woman saw you, she immediately raised her head.)

(Woman: "Who are you? Why do you have my daughter's mask? What do you want to do?")

(You only met the woman in the last game, so she doesn't know you.)