Volume 2. Game Update in Progress
The moment I saw those three characters, I almost instinctively took half a step back.
However… it was exactly this half step backward that suddenly caused the entire classroom to emit a neat and uniform footstep sound!
Hearing the sound… I couldn't help but lift my head and look at the classmates in the classroom.
Everyone was staring at me expressionlessly, their cold gazes filled with malice, and they… almost uniformly took a step forward, with only one hand still placed on the desk.
Even Teacher Zhang stood up.
Every single classmate, every pair of eyes, stared at me intently, and what they were staring at… was my foot.
What… what were they looking at? My foot?
Although I thought my foot was as pale as jade, delicate and boneless, and could even be considered a piece of art to gentlemen with certain peculiar tastes, it still shouldn't attract so many people to stare at it together, right?
Besides, I was wearing shoes!
Staring blankly at everything happening in the classroom, I lowered my head and looked at my watch again… those three scarlet words made me feel as if I had fallen into an abyss.
Interdimensional Space… the Surface World and Interdimensional Space had already switched.
Why… why weren't they attacking me?
Looking at everyone, my mind was a mess.
I lowered my head to look at my feet, then looked at all the classmates and Teacher Zhang who had stood up.
Suddenly, a flash of insight crossed my mind.
Could it be that they… were all foot fetishists!?
But… but that didn't make sense!
Even if I gave them my feet, what could they do?
With my mind full of confusion, another possibility suddenly occurred to me.
I looked at all the people standing still, then looked at Teacher Zhang who had gotten up from the podium.
I slowly stretched out my hand… and grasped a rope hanging from my neck that I hadn't noticed before.
This rope was for the Disposable Substitute Doll given for free during each mission.
Looking at the whole class of people, I took a deep breath.
One hand gripped the Substitute Doll, ready to pull it down at any time.
The other hand gently supported the door frame.
Lightly… I lifted my left foot from the ground.
At that instant, everyone's gaze was fixated on my foot.
Damn it!
A bunch of pervs!
I wasn't even sixteen yet!
Even if it was feet, it still wasn’t allowed!!
Cursing viciously in my heart, I slowly moved the raised foot half a step forward, but did not land it on the ground, ready to turn and run at any moment!
However… when my foot lifted and moved forward, the entire class once again produced that neat and uniform sound.
Dozens of feet suddenly retracted under the desks.
Even the originally expressionless ‘Teacher Zhang’ who had stood up, slowly sat back down.
But strangely… Teacher Zhang's butt did not touch the chair.
Instead, she maintained a very awkward posture, hovering mid-air.
Looking at her posture made me feel exhausted just by watching, but Teacher Zhang still stared at me… her head almost twisted a perfect ninety-degree angle, her eyes unblinking.
From those eyes, I saw an extreme longing and a malicious intent that seemed about to devour my will.
Ever since the Evil Spirit Form first appeared, I had become extremely sensitive to malicious gazes, probably due to the ability of the Evil Spirit Form.
Feeling this intense malice, I almost wanted to run away.
However, I forcibly controlled my legs, preventing myself from escaping.
Instead, I pinned myself to the spot and slowly… tapped the tip of my left foot onto the ground.
At that moment, my posture returned to how it was when I first opened the door.
At the same time, everyone in the classroom simultaneously sat back in their seats.
Even Teacher Zhang, who had been half-squatting, truly sat down on her chair this time, instead of maintaining that super exhausting horse stance.
Everyone… moved in perfect unison as if they were a single being!
Seeing this scene, a wave of unknown fear instantly raised goosebumps all over my body.
I even suspected that if this continued, I would eventually become a "goosebump person."
These people… no, these things, were trying to get me to walk into the classroom?
I hesitated slightly, took a deep breath, and gripped the Substitute Doll hanging from my neck tightly.
Then I lifted my left foot again, slightly raising it backward.
The moment my foot lifted, all the students again ‘whoosh’—stood up simultaneously.
This was the Interdimensional Space.
According to my deductions, in the Interdimensional Space, these strange beings would be greatly enhanced.
So… why hadn't they attacked me the moment the Surface World and Interdimensional Space switched, the moment I opened the door?
Why were they showing such a bizarre state instead?
Just now, my phone vibrated once.
It should be the emergency task rules being issued.
In this situation, the APP hadn't released any pre-task rules in advance.
From this point, it was clear that this was an emergency mission.
However, could I afford to check it right now??
The classroom… was so quiet, so quiet that I noticed something both bizarre and normal.
Besides me, there were no breathing sounds from anyone in the classroom!
Yes, not a single breathing sound!
They… had no breathing, yet their movements were as lifelike as real people.
What on earth was going on?
No, no, no… I couldn't start analyzing the nature of these beings.
No matter what reason they existed for, analyzing it was useless for survival!
What I needed to think about now was why they didn't attack me immediately!?
Instead, they moved according to my actions…
I slowly moved my suspended left leg half a step backward and landed it on the ground.
Just like before, all the students again simultaneously extended one foot out from under the desk.
However… this time, I didn't retract my left foot.
Instead, I raised my right foot backward again.
And just as I suspected, all the ‘classmates’ including ‘Teacher Zhang’ all walked out from behind the desks.
But… from start to finish, they kept one hand pressed on the desks.
It seemed that if my right foot landed completely on the ground, judging by their movements, the next step would be to remove both hands from the desks.
I didn't know why… but at this moment, an extremely intense fear suddenly gripped me.
That fear made me focus all my attention entirely on my right foot!!
A large group of people staring at my size 33 shoes really made me feel flattered in a strange way.
However, judging from the current situation, I more or less understood the action rules of these ‘classmates’.
It seemed… that this sudden task forbade me from leaving the classroom, otherwise, these ‘classmates’ and ‘teacher’ would break free from their positions.
I didn't know what would happen once ‘they’ broke free, but the intense sense of crisis and fear in my heart made me not want to find out!
I couldn't… let them leave their positions!
However… I also didn't want to walk into such a classroom full of ‘classmates and teacher’.
I immediately hesitated.
The right foot I had lifted naturally returned to its original place.
The classmates and teacher, following my foot's movement, also placed half their bodies and one foot back under the desks, leaving only one foot outside.
Emmm...
I suddenly thought of something interesting.
No matter what, judging by the current situation, there was no way for me to leave this classroom before the game ended.
And once I walked into this classroom, facing dozens of anomalies, my survival chances would be extremely slim.
But if I tried to leave, I had a strong feeling that ‘they’ would definitely leave their desks and chase after me.
In short, moving forward was almost certain death, retreating was also almost certain death.
In other words, no matter what I did, I had a high chance of dying here.
Then now… what should I do?
Go in… or leave?
No!
Whether I went in or left, it was death.
Then why not...
Thinking of this, I lifted my left foot and took half a step forward.
Immediately, everyone inside the classroom simultaneously retreated back into their desks.
Then, I lowered my left foot, and everyone in the classroom simultaneously sat back down in their seats.
“Hehehehehe…”
Facing such a group of anomalies, I actually felt a sort of reckless pleasure at this moment…
Then, I began swinging my left foot back and forth.
If there had been a camera in the classroom at that time, it would definitely have captured this scene.
In the silent classroom where even a falling needle could be heard, a girl stood at the classroom door, swinging her left foot back and forth.
Her hands were supporting the door frame, and a faintly satisfied smile of revenge appeared on her face.
Meanwhile, inside the classroom, a group of strange, breathless students and a teacher followed the girl's foot movements.
They repeatedly sat down, stood up, sat down again, moving so fast that afterimages appeared.
It was like… a video playing at double speed.
All the classmates mechanically repeated the action of standing up and sitting down in unison, over and over again.
While the girl standing at the door continued swinging her foot…
‘Clatter, clatter, clatter, clatter!’
After swinging for nearly three minutes, until my foot was almost numb, I finally slowly stopped the movement and put my left foot down.
At the same time, all the classmates once again sat back in their seats following the movement of my foot.
After a brief silence, I glanced around at all the classmates in the classroom.
The faces of these people existed in Liu Yunyan’s memories.
However… back then they were all living people.
But now… what exactly were they?
I still had no way of knowing.
Still, it seemed that I could run a little test now.
Thinking it over, I decided to test it out.
Earlier, I had exchanged some points for items, just in case a situation like this happened.
Hanging from my phone was a delicate cloth doll keychain.
It was a Disposable Substitute Doll I had exchanged with points.
Adding the Substitute Doll given by the current mission plus the World Watch, I had five escape opportunities in total.
So, I would use one chance to see what would happen if I tried to leave!
Thinking of this, I took a deep breath…
Then I clenched my teeth fiercely!
I grabbed the Substitute Doll hanging from my neck in one hand and leaped backward!
At that very instant, I felt a slight vibration from the World Watch.
My heart lifted with a hint of joy.
I instinctively glanced at it, only to see a… chilling, horrifying result.