Chapter 6: The Most Insane Accusation!

"Where was that woman taken? How did you control the lights?"

Doubts arose from the crowd.

The strangeness in this classroom was indeed baffling and chilling; most people panicked when facing the unknown existence of a 【Ghost】.

Yet, among the murderers, a small minority remained calm and observant.

They were now the brains of this group.

Wu Wang could not possibly ignore these people's questions; otherwise, a collective attack was only a matter of time.

Right now, what he lacked most was time.

"She probably went to find the warden to play a rematch. I was just joking earlier; she isn't a vengeful ghost. I was just conducting an experiment, and I didn't expect such an accident to happen," Wu Wang replied with the same smile.

He then pointed to the spotlight above his head and continued, "The lights aren't under my control either. I deduce this is the classroom responding to the 【Accusation】."

With these words spoken.

The breathing around them became noticeably more rapid.

Experiment. Accident.

These two words were so cold that they made them reveal their murderous intent toward Wu Wang without any disguise.

No one wanted to be a Bai Shu, especially at a time when life and death hung in the balance.

"Then what did you experiment on? Is it convenient to say?"

A man with simple clothing, a slightly thin build, appearing refined and scholarly, wearing glasses and full of bookishness, stepped forward to ask.

The previous question had also been his voice.

The look in his eyes toward Wu Wang was filled with calmness, standing out starkly against the surrounding murderers who looked like hungry wolves with fierce glints in their eyes.

It wasn't that he wasn't angry about being treated as a Bai Shu; he just knew that killing Wu Wang now would be meaningless.

Moreover, he also sensed that this seemingly mad youth was actually very smart.

Smart enough to realize that if he didn't say something to provide information and win over the crowd, the hungry wolves around him wouldn't easily let go.

"Of course! My friend!" Wu Wang grinned even more brightly and said, "As an apology, I will share two clues with you."

Wu Wang liked dealing with smart people.

Because crushing their self-righteous intelligence was a very fun thing to do.

"One, the medium the ghost uses to kill is—shadows."

Having said that, he pointed to where the woman had disappeared and explained, "The reason I used her for the experiment is that when the first victim appeared, her shadow produced abnormal shaking."

"Under stable light sources, her shadow trembled at a high frequency for a full three seconds. Excluding the possibility of Purple Mood leaking electricity, this trembling was very abnormal."

No one cared about the yellow joke in Wu Wang's language.

They were all thinking about the credibility of the information.

The trembling of the shadow...

Indeed, no one noticed such details; after all, there were fifty people in the classroom at the start, and under the light, everyone's shadows were everywhere, complex and intertwined.

They were too busy being wary of attacks from others to have any time to look at the shadows under their feet!

"So your previous game of stepping on shadows was also..." The man with glasses immediately realized what the other's childish behavior had been for.

Snap—

Wu Wang snapped his fingers.

He responded with satisfaction, "That's right. Their shadows also started trembling. Before this, these people had all coincidentally come into contact with that woman's shadow."

"The ghost is hiding inside her shadow!"

With words spoken to this point, the death rule was very clear.

【Prohibit contact with moving shadows】

Seeing everyone's faces change somewhat, but there were still some hesitant glances.

Wu Wang didn't say much more.

He simply walked silently to a corpse, bent down, and with a swish, tore off the other person's shoes.

Immediately, a sour stench of smelly feet filled the air.

But everyone's attention wasn't on the smell.

Because they discovered that the soles of the corpse's feet were covered in fresh blood, the skin twisted and torn to a nauseating degree, with exposed flesh and blood flapping, where the toe bones could even be vaguely seen.

"Except for the first person who was severely injured and killed by the ghost stepping on the face of their shadow, the injuries of every subsequent victim were on the soles of their feet. The feet connect to the shadow; the ghost enters the body through the shadow to kill them, even hiding inside the target's body."

"This method is extremely covert, and it also reveals one piece of information—"

"The ghost is becoming smarter and smarter."

When he finished saying this, Wu Wang even felt phantom pain starting in the soles of his own feet.

Because he had previously been killed by the ghost constantly drilling into his feet through shadows.

Only then could he confirm that the victims' injuries were under their feet.

Wu Wang's words were like a huge stone thrown into a calm lake, suddenly raising a thousand layers of waves.

Even those who remained calm began to breathe heavily.

The ghost can actually become smarter?!

How are we supposed to survive this?

In an instant, everyone frantically adjusted their positions to avoid their shadows touching the corpses lying haphazardly on the ground.

After all, quite a few people had already died before.

Fortunately, the classroom was large enough; even with thirty or so people dead, there was still extra space for them to dodge and move.

Some with bold courage carefully used tools in their hands to pry open the shoes of those corpses, discovering that indeed, just as Wu Wang said, the soles of every corpse's feet were destroyed until they were a bloody mess.

The commotion and inspection lasted about twenty minutes.

Watching the expressions of fear appear on the faces of these murderers who had been arrogant and overconfident at the start.

Wu Wang nodded, enjoying it immensely.

Grinning and restoring his smile, he said: "Of course, everyone, don't lose heart just because you hear one piece of bad news..."

Just as everyone thought he was about to say something encouraging and good, Wu Wang's tone shifted and he mocked:

"Because I have another, even worse piece of news here; you can despair after you hear it."

The others: "?"

Before Wu Wang could continue speaking.

The familiar loud boom appeared again.

Boom—

The classroom was as black as ink.

The spotlight went out again!

Fortunately, with previous experience, everyone remained silent immediately.

Tap tap tap—

The familiar scene brought the familiar tap dance.

Everyone wore expressions of helplessness.

No need to say, everyone knew who was moving now.

Only that guy would dare to so recklessly "ignore" the death rules.

"Moxi Moxi, it's time for my stand-up comedy again; do you, the audience, miss me?" A cheeky voice came from before the microphone.

As expected, Wu Wang's figure appeared on the podium again.

In his eyes lay a trace of madness and mockery that others could not fathom.

"Let's continue; the other bad news is that the 【Designated Time】 in the mission is running low." Wu Wang squinted, looking down at the darkness below.

Designated Time?

A question mark floated in everyone's minds.

To be honest, they had completely failed to find anything like a clock in this classroom.

How exactly is this 【Designated Time】 judged?

Only that well-mannered man with glasses quietly walked up to the podium and calmly countered: "The day is getting longer, and the night is getting shorter?"

It seemed this guy also noticed that one could speak normally on the podium.

Wu Wang did not stop the other from coming up.

Instead, he nodded with satisfaction and smiled:

"Ah, not bad, I admire you more and more; the first night lasted 10 minutes, the second only 7 minutes, this time I estimate at most 4 minutes." He pinched his fingers and listed the timeline as if reciting family treasures: "In contrast, the day, starting from 10 minutes at the beginning, has already extended to 20 minutes."

The others were suddenly stunned.

They didn't expect this madman's observation skills to be so terrifying; noticing something strange with the shadows earlier was one thing, but he actually remembered the duration of the first day?

That is to say, Wu Wang had been silently counting time in his heart since he first woke up!

It must be that he had formed some kind of habit to be like this.

Damn! What exactly does he do in the real world! A professional killer?

The man with glasses frowned: "Is that not good?"

The others had the same thought.

Right, being able to see everything during the day is surely better than fumbling in the dark and guessing blindly, isn't it?

Wu Wang only shook his head and sighed, poking the microphone to produce a harsh buzzing sound and said: "But 【Accusation】 can only be made during the night, because only then can the 【Ghost】's position be confirmed."

"What!?"

Hearing this, their faces turned deathly pale.

If this kid is telling the truth, then according to the frequency changes in time he described, won't the next night last at most one minute or even less?

Until finally the night never appears again, meaning 【Accusation】 becomes completely impossible.

Isn't this a situation of certain death!?

When everyone had already shown expressions of despair, only the man with glasses retained a shred of sanity.

He lunged forward, almost face-to-face with Wu Wang, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins staring fiercely at the other's dead-fish eyes that showed no will to live, and he asked through gritted teeth, word by word: "Then exactly how long do you intend to play this game!"

"Play? How do you figure that?" Wu Wang retorted mockingly, his gaze constantly shifting downwards.

"You already know where the 【Ghost】 is, right! Stop beating around the bush; once time is up, you will perish too! Do you really want to die!?" the man with glasses confirmed.

But what he heard was Wu Wang's disappointed sigh.

"I do want to die, but unfortunately I have already tried; this classroom cannot help me fulfill my dream."

"?"

Before the man with glasses could figure out what this sentence meant, he was suddenly pushed off the podium by Wu Wang raising a hand and pressing on his shoulder, followed by a strange force shoving him down.

Stumbling to steady his footing in the darkness, the man with glasses tried his best to calm his emotions to avoid impulsively making a sound, his bloodshot eyes still staring fiercely at the youth on the stage.

He did not believe this guy would really use the price of death just to watch them panic!

Time passed second by second.

When the four-minute limit had only thirty seconds left, Wu Wang finally spoke.

"I accuse..."

A trace of a smile rose on the man with glasses' lips.

As expected, he had won the gamble.

This bastard just wanted to tease them; he was not actually wanting to die.

But immediately, his smile was wiped away by the other's finger movement.

"The 【Ghost】 is hiding right here!"

The boy pointed at the ground of the podium directly below.

To be precise, it was Wu Wang's own shadow.

"Bastard! What the hell are you trying to do! You madman! Do you want everyone to die with you?" The man with glasses finally couldn't hold back and erupted in curses.

The man with glasses had naturally observed that the person accused of being the 【Ghost】 would vanish and die on the spot.

But he never expected that at this moment, Wu Wang would actually accuse himself!

Could this guy really be a suicidal lunatic?!

"Shh... be quiet."

"Let me tell everyone a secret."

Wu Wang's voice was low and magnetic.

After accusing his own shadow, he continued speaking into the microphone, uttering words that made everyone's little brains wither—

"Regarding the hidden fourth rule of death."

"!??"