My Cell Prison

Chapter 18: Increase of Pace

[Day 3]

Night.

After Han Dong met with [Sinister Chen Li] during dusk, he continued to return to his room without leaving.

The other members of the squad likewise returned to their rooms before eleven o'clock.

The power still cut out at exactly eleven o'clock at night... only the red lantern was still on.

This would be the last night during this event, and the two girls on the team would take all the candles out of their backpacks and light them around the room to dispel their fears through the light.

As for Edward, who was familiar with the 'hidden rules', he slept peacefully after inspecting the steam prosthesis.

Han Dong was likewise resting... even though he had already rested all day during the day.

......

The third night was different.

No longer awakened by the sound of footsteps wandering the aisles.

Han Dong had slept this sleep until he woke up naturally.

The first time he opened his eyes, Han Dong quickly turned his head to look at the wind-up device on his wrist.

There are still nine hours left before the 'event ends'.'

"Strange... is there a problem with the time or the environment?"

Outside the window, the full moon was in the sky, it was pitch black, and no matter how you looked at it, it was still night.

However, the standard time for Han Dong and the others to arrive at the mountain resort was six in the afternoon, so the end of the time limit should also be six in the afternoon three days later... With a nine hour callback, that current time should be nine in the morning.

And yet there was no sign of 'dawn' outside the window.

"Could it be... that Edward's so-called 'variable speed' has already begun."

Right at that moment.

Knock, knock, knock!

Han Dong's bedroom door was knocked on continuously .

Standing outside the door was a flustered looking Edward . Murray, and two women with deep black eyes.

At least it meant that no one had been killed last night.

"Friend Nicholas, it's good that you're fine... The [Shift] I told you about yesterday should have come by now."

Han Dong looked overwhelmed as he asked urgently, "Captain! What should we do?"

Edward suggested, "Meet up with the event characters first, we might be able to get help from them.

Rumor has it that once upon a time, that Black Rose Knight Leader was able to leave the Fate Space alive with a large portion of the squad's newcomers. One of the points was with the help of the Event Person."

"Okay."

The four of them traveled in companionship, with Edward leading the way.

Unfortunately, things had changed beyond Edward's estimation....

'Crunch' as he pushed open the wooden door of the first floor hall.

When the crowd's flashlights illuminated the hall scene, Monica, the blonde woman in the squad, was scared to death.

Even Captain Edward, always calm and collected, had a little sweat spilling out of his forehead.

Believer Arkaman, on the other hand, was on her knees, clutching a crucifix, chanting some odd scripture, and trying to dispel her inner fears.

The hall was indeed the same as in the old mornings, with the sister and brother 'duo' making breakfast and waiting for everyone to come and eat.

However, today the sister and brother had turned into paper men.

It was the same paper people used to perform the 'return ceremony' before - a man and a woman, roughly made.

But to the four of them, these were Chen Li and Daqing's siblings.

As for breakfast, it was six bowls of rice with long incense sticks placed on the table.

Even Han Dong was shocked by this bizarre scene and thought that something had really happened to the Chen Li siblings.

However, relying on the 'prison dimension' connection, he knew that Chen Li was still alive and not the paper man in front of her.

"Ah!!!"

Suddenly, a scream escaped Akaman's lips.

In the direction her flashlight was shining, a 'van' belonging to the granny and her husband was parked on the path outside the bungalow.

Although Han Dong knew that the granny and her husband had been killed...the rest of the squad didn't, including Edward, who thought that the return ceremony had been successful

The couple returned on their own.

Edward led the way, slowly leaning towards the somewhat crude 'van'.

On closer inspection, it was a large paper hearse.

The same 'Paper Man' couple, the Granny Wang and her husband, were sitting in the hearse, and the paper man's face, with a red sticker, had a kind of weird smile on it.

"Is there no way out? There's simply no such path as getting help from event characters..."

Just as Edward was in deep thought.

Swish!

The few red lanterns that were originally hung on the aisle were all turned off...the bungalow that could have been a 'light source' was plunged into complete darkness.

Everyone reflexively shined their flashlights towards the aisle on the second floor of the building.

Crunch!

The opening of such an old, rotten wooden door seemed so crisp in the stillness of the night.

Room #6.

It was precisely the room of [Sinister Chen Li] that slowly walked out a woman with black hair covering her face... She was standing so quietly in the corridor, staring at the team members next to the hearse through her black hair.

The two messages, 'Chen Li is the Evil Spirit' and 'Bungalow cannot be returned to' were deeply burned into Edward's mind.

Edward steadied his mind and took out the five hundred meter range map drawn by the newsboy the previous day and quickly formulated a plan to deal with it.

"It's worse than I thought! There's only a dead end in returning to the bungalow... The only way to survive now is to use the five hundred meter radius of the moveable area to avoid the Evil Spirit's pursuit.

The four of us walking together will all be destroyed once we run into the Evil Spirit.

I suggest we divide into two groups and split up!

This will increase the chances of some of them surviving... Sorry, I'm limited. I may not be able to take everyone with me to survive."

"I'll team up with you!!!"

Blonde Monica is bound to stick to this lifesaver.

In her eyes.

Nicholas, who was physically weak and squatted in his room daily to rest, and Akaman, a believer who only knew how to pray at every turn, couldn't and didn't deserve to live at all.

By now, the woman in red standing in the second floor passage had begun to move without much discussion at all on how to divide into groups.

"Then let's group them like this... I'll be on a team with Miss Akaman." Han Dong said with a bitter face.

Edward smiled a would-be smile and handed Han Dong a map, "Everyone split up and flee, you and Akaman flee to the mountains to the south...make sure you survive!!!"

Edward seemed concerned, but he pointed out the worst path for Han Dong to take.

Han Dong and Akaman's health was already bad, if they fled towards the high slope, their physical energy would be greatly depleted... Once they encountered the evil spirits, they wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

Only, Han Dong did not disagree.

"Let's escape... I hope we can meet again at the [Holy City]."

Splitting into two-person squads, they fled in the north and south directions... the direction Edward fled was downhill, while there was also an abandoned building at the bottom of the mountain to hide in.

After the members of the squad had each fled, Chen Li, who had jogged to the first floor of the bungalow, smiled wryly.

At this time, the younger brother Daqing who was holding the oil lamp came over from the direction of the cottage.

"Sister... do you really want to help that foreigner who speaks mandarin? We don't really need to risk it."

"I will help!"

The black-haired, disheveled Chen Li had entered a state of 'entering evil'.

A single word scared her younger brother Daqing's body...not daring to have any objections.

That's right.

Although the setting of the paper man had nothing to do with Han Dong, Chen Li's appearance had been arranged by Han Dong....