That day, when we arrived at the experience hall, the guide suggested that we team up with another group of players because there were too few of us.

Since the other group hadn't arrived yet, we went to the props room to prepare our respective name tags.

Zhang Lu seemed preoccupied and said that the guide's gaze made her very uncomfortable.

"He looks like a wild dog that hasn't eaten for many days, finally seeing a piece of fresh meat. Even though he's extremely hungry, he won't pounce immediately to tear it apart. Instead, he stands some distance away, staring intently until he's sure no one will take the meat away. Only then does he take action."

"He rushes forward eagerly, making hissing sounds, with teeth sharp as blades because they've never been ground down, and in one bite, he pierces through the thick meat. Blood continuously drips down from his drooling mouth, but he pricks up his ears, enjoying the meal while listening to his surroundings..."

"I feel that, to him, we are all pieces of meat."

These were her exact words, and they made our skin crawl.

The other two, who were timid, immediately started clamoring to leave.

To calm them down, I patted Zhang Lu's shoulder and told her to stop overthinking.

But none of us expected that the broadcast in the upper right corner of the room would suddenly come on at that moment:

"Li Mengyan, out!"

A name we didn't want to mention pierced through each of our eardrums like a thunderclap.

"Ah! Why is she here? Isn't she already dead? Why does she still haunt us!"

Zhang Lu was the first to scream.

She seemed to have gone mad, completely shocked, and pushed me away to run outside.

The other two were also terrified and followed her.

However, when we ran to the entrance of the experience hall, we found that the door had been locked from the inside with a brass lock, and we couldn't open it at all.

This experience hall was located in the suburbs and looked like an abandoned factory. When we arrived, we had instinctively disliked it.

But the game guide said it was to provide players with an immersive experience.

At that moment, we indeed had a very genuine experience because we couldn't even send out a distress signal.

I suspected that the game guide was deliberately trying to scare us, so I suggested we go to the main control room to find him and clarify the situation.

Unexpectedly, as we were preparing to go upstairs, another terrifying scream came from the loudspeaker above the factory, and it was the game guide's voice!

We were completely frightened, screamed, and ran into the control room to check the situation. But inside, apart from a pool of blood, there was no sign of the guide.

However, on the control panel, I was stunned to see Li Mengyan's name tag!

I didn't know who had prepared this name tag, but thinking about a series of events, I gradually realized that the person behind all this was targeting us.

My suspicion frightened the other three roommates, and they felt it was utterly inexplicable because Li Mengyan had jumped to her death. At most, we had only indirectly benefited from the opportunity to secure postgraduate spots. There was no reason for anyone to target us.

But in this world, not everything is reasonable, just like how we could step on Li Mengyan's dead body to secure our postgraduate spots and still come out to celebrate without any guilt.

"People like us deserve to be struck by lightning."

At that moment, my conscience was strongly condemning me.

Fighting back her fear, Zhang Lu sarcastically said, "Stop pretending, Xia Qianqian. If you really felt guilty, why didn't you donate some money to treat Li Mengyan's father after getting the postgraduate spot!"

Her words were quite hurtful because I had actually considered ways to help Li Mengyan raise money back then.

But what about Zhang Lu? What had she done?

She just watched with cold eyes and even gloated over the misfortune.

I couldn't bear it any longer and had a fierce argument with her in the dark and dirty factory.

At that moment, a voice came out from the loudspeaker above—a chilling, mechanical voice.

That voice said Li Mengyan didn't jump because of the pressure of postgraduate exams but was driven to a dead end, and the culprit was among the four of us. If we could identify and kill this person, the rest of us could live; otherwise, everyone would have to die with Li Mengyan.

Of course, to help us find the real culprit, the person had thoughtfully prepared clues in the experience hall.

Following the hints, we quickly found the first clue on the control panel—information about the account that posted on the campus forum back then.

After verification, Zhang Lu's name appeared on the computer screen.