Chapter 257

Obscured by the light of the corpse-oil lamp, the girl crouching in the pile of clothes in the corner of the wall still had not vanished. Judging by the corpse-oil lamp placed by her feet, this petite, blonde girl should also be a player.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe approached her and crouched down in front of the girl.

Upon hearing the footsteps, the girl's shoulders trembled slightly, then she quickly returned to stillness. She hugged her knees with both hands, crouching in the corner without moving, making no sound, and not attempting to lift her head to look at him.

"Hmm..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe picked up the oil lamp by her feet, removed the lampshade, and took a look. The cotton wick soaked in the corpse oil was pure white, with no charred black marks from having been burned.

In other words, this lamp had never been lit.

This girl had likely been crouching at the 'spawn point' without moving an inch since she arrived here. She hadn't lit the corpse-oil lamp for illumination, nor had she attempted to explore the area to find a way out. She had just stayed crouched in the corner, motionless, covering herself with a few pieces of clothing to act as a background prop, quietly waiting for the game to end.

Such a familiar tactic...

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a moment, put the corpse-oil lamp back, and said softly in Chinese, "Is the hazelnut chocolate delicious?"

The girl's head, buried in her arms, jerked up. Her face, covered in faint freckles, was filled with an expression as if she had seen a ghost.

"It really is you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe chuckled. "I didn't expect to see you here again."

The blonde girl looked at him with a suspicious expression and did not speak.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe continued nonchalantly, "Hazelnuts and dark chocolate look quite similar once the packaging is off. Did you feel surprised when you ate it?"

"A little bit surprised." The girl nodded, and the suspicion in her eyes finally dissipated. "Are you Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe? Why are you here... Am I not dreaming?"

"What a coincidence, I'm dreaming too." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe crouched in front of Bai Zhi and said, "For some reason, I've also started having these strange, bizarre nightmares recently. I just didn't expect that the two of us would be having the same dream."

What is this, sharing a dream but not a bed?

"Eh? You too?" Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment. The corners of her mouth, which had been pursed, curled up imperceptibly, but she quickly reacted and hurriedly waved her hands. "No, no, that, I didn't mean to gloat. It's just... it's just that I used to have nightmares alone, and now that someone is with me, I'm a little bit happy."

"Really, just a little bit." After thinking about it, she added cautiously.

As she spoke, Bai Zhi stood up, took a set of clean clothes from the table, spread them out in the corner where she had been crouching, smoothed them out with her hands, and continued, "Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, you sit here. Let's hide together."

"The rule here is that we cannot be found by the ghost, it's a bit like hide-and-seek? So we just need to hide, hide in the corner and keep ourselves concealed, and wait until this dream ends..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe and Bai Zhi sat side-by-side against the wall, and he asked, "Cannot be found by the ghost, is that the only rule here?"

The precautions Bai Zhi felt were the same as those he felt when he first entered the dream, but the ability to mimic Taiyi was not the original version after all; he felt that Bai Zhi's own intuition might be more accurate.

"Hmm..." Bai Zhi thought for a moment, spent a few seconds organizing her words, and listed the precautions she knew one by one:

1. Cannot be found by 'it'.

2. Do not touch the dead.

3. Do not approach places that do not exist. 4. Do not eat food that does not exist.

5. Do not investigate knowledge that does not belong to this world.

"That's about it." Bai Zhi counted on her fingers. The things she felt she couldn't do could generally be summarized into these 5 precautions; there was nothing clearer than that.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded; as expected, the information from the person herself was more detailed.

The precautions Bai Zhi listed seemed numerous, but in reality, there was only one core—in this castle, there exist some people, events, objects, and even specific locations that shouldn't exist; it can be understood as a parallel world that does not exist.

Once people 'here' come into contact with things from 'over there', such as eating food from there, reading books from there, or being noticed by people from there, something terrible will happen.

And what makes these two parallel worlds intersect briefly is the light of the corpse-oil lamp.

"You might be a bit late in reminding me now." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smiled and said, "Not only did I take some things that shouldn't exist, but I also read a book that doesn't exist. Now I have been targeted by 'it', and this castle probably won't give up until it kills me."

That hand had already been grabbing his foot for a long time.

"Don't be discouraged, there will always be a way." Bai Zhi looked at him with a serious expression. "We are still fine now, aren't we? Nightmares always end, and you will definitely be fine too."

As she spoke, Bai Zhi pulled off the clothes covering her and covered Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe with them. According to her experience, as long as one hides obediently and stays still, 'it' won't be able to find them.

"Thank you for your kindness, but there's no need." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood up and placed the clothes back on Bai Zhi's shoulders. "I am more accustomed to taking the initiative to solve problems, rather than passively waiting for problems to resolve themselves."

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Bai Zhi sat on the ground, watching Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stand up and pick up the corpse-oil lamp, her expression complex.

"By the way, besides me, have you encountered any other 'players'?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked again.

"Hmm? Yes." Bai Zhi nodded, also mimicking his actions by picking up the corpse-oil lamp and standing up. She reached out and pointed to the end of the long laundry room, where there was a stone archway without a door panel.

This laundry room was a semi-open long pavilion. Walking outside the pavilion, one could directly see the rose garden surrounding the lecture room and the purification hall, and on the other side was a stone path leading deeper into the castle.

"About an hour ago? When I was crouching here, I heard footsteps walking into this laundry room from the direction of the garden."

Bai Zhi pondered and said, "But that person wasn't as careful as you; he didn't notice me hiding in the pile of clothes in the corner. He hurriedly passed through the laundry room and headed towards the clock tower. I secretly took a look at that person's back; it was a tall, thin boy with blonde hair, running very hurriedly. He was talking to himself while running, but I didn't hear clearly what he was saying."

Bai Zhi's English level was above average among freshmen at Yundu University, but grades are grades, and spoken language is spoken language; she really couldn't understand the highly colloquial English muttering of foreigners.

"The clock tower, huh..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked at the stone path of the laundry room. "Thank you for telling me this; it seems I need to hurry and catch up."

"I'll go with you." Bai Zhi followed with the oil lamp and said softly, "Although going deep into the castle is very dangerous, I can feel that the more things I come into contact with here, the more I will know. I... should be able to help you."

"Thank you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't say much more.

(End of chapter)