Chapter 4: Strange Mask

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I don't know how long it had been.

Huaiyou slowly woke up from a clear stinging pain, rubbing his head, Huaiyou looked at his surroundings clearly, but strangely discovered that he was actually lying in the center of the first-floor living room.

His memory only stayed at the strange movement a little after he crawled into that coffin.

The surroundings appeared clean and tidy, with no existence of the paper money or coffin he had imagined.

Everything that happened was just like a dream.

"What exactly is going on."

After a good while, Huaiyou finally stood up completely, the blurriness in his mind slowly began to fade, and then he subconsciously looked at his leg and abdomen.

He discovered that there was still blood that hadn't completely dried on his abdomen; Huaiyou lifted his clothes to take a look and checked his leg again.

There was still a black handprint on his ankle, which looked much dimmer now.

But on his abdomen, there was still a ferocious wound, a wound that had been stabbed open by something; yes, it should have been caused by that "sister" last night.

Fortunately, a part of it had already begun to heal.

But his clothes were indeed completely soaked in blood.

And it was just then that Huaiyou suddenly discovered that the phone on the ground vibrated; after lowering his head and picking up the phone, a message quietly emerged.

【Congratulations to the audience for successfully passing the First Night's safety period.

She has already left...

Congratulations to the audience for obtaining the item: Mask Headgear (Quality Unknown), specific use unknown. (Audience to explore on their own)

(A strange way of escaping, representing a strange way of surviving, where did you bring it inadvertently? It seems, I have already forgotten.)

About to open the "Ju Yuan" movie.

Location: School.

Please audience, be prepared.】

Huaiyou gripped his phone tightly; looking at what was written on it, he should have successfully passed the First Night, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The price paid seemed to be a bit high; this was the first time he had received such an injury.

It seems that if he didn't handle these things well, he would die.

Recalling it now, he still had lingering fears.

"Strange way of escaping? It should refer to crawling into the coffin... I remember being carried by something, the movement outside was quite scary, but I don't remember the thing behind... could it be that I was really carried to some place?" Thinking for a while, Huaiyou couldn't figure it out at all.

After all, he was still at his home now, and hadn't left.

He also didn't see the coffin.

After thinking for a while.

He had no choice but to cast this thing to the back of his mind.

Actually, this was his advantage in dealing with things.

If he kept thinking about things he couldn't figure out, it would only increase his troubles.

"It looks like the other information should represent absolute truthfulness; since it said those things left, then it should be safe at home."

Huaiyou poked his head out to observe his surroundings and found that the position he was standing in now indeed didn't seem any different from usual, without the cold feeling from last night.

If he were to run into that "sister" now, Huaiyou felt that he might as well let her strangle him to death; with that kind of terrifying speed, he wouldn't be able to run in time.

"Mask headgear? What is that?" Huaiyou was suddenly attracted by another piece of information; he looked left and right, but didn't find any mask headgear around him.

Huaiyou thought again: "The things in the software shouldn't be wrong; since I obtained the item, then I must have obtained it, but it's not around... mask headgear, headgear... hmm? Could it be... I'm wearing it on my head..."

When Huaiyou's thought reached this point, he was startled himself, but he still reached out to touch his head and then pulled gently on the left and right sides of his face.

When he touched it with a target in mind, Huaiyou suddenly felt a strange sensation clearly.

A subtle rough texture; while touching it, although he could feel the tactile sensation of his own skin, he could clearly understand that outside his real skin and face, there was a thin layer of something covering it.

The thing felt like skin, a kind of dry skin that was slightly rough.

The headgear almost covered his entire head, leaving almost no gaps.

It was as if his entire head had been wrapped up by something.

Huaiyou touched his chin again and found that it seemed to be tightly wrapped there too.

"Damn... I really am wearing it on my head..."

Huaiyou took his phone, clicked on the built-in camera function, and opened the front-facing camera; in an instant, the phone imaged.

What appeared on the phone desktop was a strange one; Huaiyou knew it was indeed a headgear that had covered him, but the headgear looked truly scary.

It even gave him a strong feeling of goosebumps.

What was in front of his eyes was himself, but it felt like it had another unique life; the two eyes of the headgear seemed to be able to pierce through the terrifying space and stab into the soul, and clearly, those two eyes were indeed Huaiyou's own eyes.

The headgear presented a flesh color, mixed with a strange kind of paleness.

But looking at the outline outside, it actually seemed to be tailor-made, completely wrapping Huaiyou's entire face and head, an extremely perfect design, almost 100% fitting.

This should also be the reason why Huaiyou felt the strangeness of his head at the beginning, only being able to understand the existence of the thing through the touch of his hands.

The headgear was truly on his head, it was too suitable.

Especially the openings for the two eyes, which seemed to have a magical power, giving Huaiyou a strange illusion of looking at another person through the lens.

And while realizing the existence of the headgear, Huaiyou clearly felt that his brain was clearer than ever, his whole body seemed to have endless strength, and he even felt that he could see the darkness in the corners clearly.

But at the same time, there was also a kind of glass-like feeling of inner emotion, and the fear from the depths of his heart slowly emerged...

"Damn, this thing is so strange, it seems to have an influence on my emotions... what kind of thing is this..."

Very quickly, Huaiyou quickly felt around through a series of touches and found that there were a few knotted ropes behind the headgear, and then Huaiyou actually slowly untied the two or three ropes behind the headgear; those should have been for fixing it.

After dismantling it, the headgear was gently taken off by Huaiyou.

Huaiyou looked at the thing he was holding in his hand with lingering fears; the headgear felt very strange to the touch, like some kind of animal's, but he couldn't say; even now that he was holding it in his hand, Huaiyou felt that the thing was watching him.

It was as if it had life, and when it was taken off by Huaiyou, that kind of life would fade along with it...

It also seemed like the thing Huaiyou was looking at now was just like looking at his own face.

Huaiyou observed it for a while and quickly put the thing aside; actually, he still had a certain degree of resistance to it, so he didn't want to touch it at all.

Anyone who had their head covered by such a thing, and was holding it now, would probably not want to touch such a thing.

Huaiyou even inadvertently discovered that it seemed to be able to be folded into a very small size, and when touched, it would sometimes produce a feeling of warmth; once he looked at it for a long time, he would always feel a strange strangeness in his heart.

In short, this thing was a very strange "tool."

But he didn't know its specific use for now.

And just then...

He looked at the time, it was already past 6 AM, and he would have to go to class in a while.

Huaiyou could only go to school miserably.

After checking carefully and finding that there were indeed no strange things at home, Huaiyou went to school.

It is worth mentioning that the anti-theft door of the third-floor bathroom was indeed in a state, looking a bit tattered, which was clearly the consequence of being forcibly broken through by that thing.

Seeing these things, Huaiyou could only sigh helplessly.

"When Mom and Dad come back in a few days, they'll probably scold me again when they see the state of things..."

Subsequently, after packing his things, Huaiyou rode his repaired electric scooter and rushed to school.

Of course, he actually didn't notice.

Not long after he left, on the fourth floor, a child slowly poked his head out.

The child looked to be only 10 years old, looking far away at Huaiyou's departing back...

Inside the door, Huaiyou looked quietly and inexplicably at the strange mask he had placed on the living room table.

"Since it's a tool, although I don't know how to use it... I'll take it with me, maybe I can use it sometime. Just the first night had some things happen, then if it's at school, it might only be more, not less, and even more dangerous."

After a period of weighing, he picked up the mask and stuffed it into his bag...

And on the way to school, Huaiyou quickly adjusted his mindset as much as possible.

He tried his best to keep his inner feelings from showing.

……

Very quickly, Huaiyou arrived at his classroom; fortunately, the classroom floor was on the first floor, so the moment he walked into the school gate, when the class bell rang, he only ran for a while and quickly arrived at the classroom, not being late.

As soon as Huaiyou entered, he noticed Song Liang.

Song Liang was a thin boy, wearing glasses, sitting in the row in front of Huaiyou, currently looking like he hadn't slept well, yawning, his whole spirit looking a bit listless, and even vaguely, Huaiyou even saw the legendary panda eyes.

And when passing by his side, Huaiyou inexplicably felt a strange sense of decadence emanating from him.

Huaiyou raised his head to look around and suddenly discovered with surprise that almost everyone in the class was in this state; he had just entered quickly and hadn't noticed, only now did he discover it.

After sitting in his seat, during a morning reading session, after the teacher checked and left, Huaiyou patted Song Liang's shoulder in front and asked: "What's going on? How come everyone looks like they haven't slept well?"

Song Liang's heavy eyelids finally lifted: "It's all because of last night's disappearance incident..."

Beep.

The phone vibrated.

【Main task opened, movie "Ju Yuan" released into reality.

Good luck.】

…… ===== CHAPTER 5 =====