Chapter 16 (2/2)
He left only a tearful Alice and a befuddled Elsa.
Alice cried and sniffled, “Zhou Bai…knock us out too, I’m afraid I can’t control myself.”
Zhou Bai nodded. After knocking Alice out, he put her into the pile of corpses, then turned to look at Elsa, who looked very lost.
Elsa hugged her head and looked very distressed, “What the hell, did everyone starve to death?!”
The sound of a click.
Elsa was also knocked out on the floor. After Zhou Bai stuffed her into the corpses too, he found a place to lie on the ground.
Zhou Bai: “Christina, can this…fool the Mara?”
Christina: “It depends on what kind of Mara. You probably can’t fool the stronger kind.”
Zhou Bai no longer spoke. His ears twitched, hearing a dull thump from a distance. He knew the Mara had probably already slithered out of the vent duct.
‘The only one we can depend on is probably Professor Zhuang. Hopefully, I can buy enough time for him to come to save us.”
‘If I went out now to attract that Mara’s attention, maybe I could help everyone get a better chance of survival?’
‘But I’m scared…I’m so scared…I don’t want to die…’
Zhou Bai grit his teeth. He hated his current predicament. He wanted so much to live, but he had no power to do it. Bravery, wisdom, power– he didn’t have enough of any of those….
This feeling of helplessness was truly awful.
Boom boom!
The sound of tables and chairs being kicked around came from outside the door. Zhou Bai’s chest tightened, quickly controlling his own breathing, pretending to be dead…
Time passed second by second, but Zhou Bai was so nervous he could hardly feel the passage of time.
He heard the rummaging sounds continue for a while, followed by the sound of crashing and growling, which slowly faded into the distance.
Zhou Bai let out a sigh of relief, “Phew…it’s finally gone.”
Christina: “That scared me to death. All my fur was about to fall off. I thought I was going to die. It looks like this Mara isn’t very strong….”
Before Christina even finished her sentence, the door to the secret room was instantly broken through with a loud thump. The Mara that looked like a snake monster slithered in slowly, the black smoke on its body filling the entire secret room. The bloodlust and chill it gave off raised goosebumps all over Zhou Bai’s body.
The Mara chuckled, “What’s the point of hiding? You pigs’ heartbeats and body heat stand out like fire in the dark to my eyes.”
“Oh, no!” Zhou Bai’s heart jumped, rapidly adding all the Laziness he obtained from lying down onto Primordial Spirit Value.
In the few minutes that just passed, Zhou Bai had been lying down and increased his Laziness to the 200 point limit for today.
Right now, he used all of his Laziness, Primordial Spirit Value immediately began rising from 30 all the way to 50 points.
After abruptly raising 20 points of primordial spirit power, Zhou Bai couldn’t adapt at all. Blood spurt out of his nose, his head hurt as if it was being stabbed by needles.
At the same time, the black smoke that spread through the secret room rippled, turning into countless sharp, black blades that stabbed at everyone hiding among the corpses.
The sound of stabbing rang in the room, one after another child lost their lives in a stupor.
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Number of survivors: 12