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Chapter 161: Corpse Spot Answer, Eyes Deceive

Spade 7 spat out the gum in his mouth and stared coldly at Ji Yan. "Since the mask is off, there's no need to keep up the act."

"We've prepared this exam carefully just to wait for you. We've got you cornered!"

Facing several blatant stares, Ji Yan calmly replied, "If I remember correctly, during 'Nighttime Tutoring,' hunting fellow students from the same faction is a serious violation of the rules."

"Aren't you afraid the Spade Supernatural Instructor will blacken?"

Spade 7 sneered coldly. "That forbidden rule does exist, but is it possible that we..."

"Fool, shut up!"

"Can't you see this kid is still playing dumb to fish for information?"

Spade 9 turned and coldly snapped at Spade 7.

Spade 7 shrugged nonchalantly. "Ninth Brother, what does it matter whether he knows or not? This kid isn't leaving this room alive tonight anyway!"

"He knows nothing about the rules of this exam room."

"The information gap is our biggest advantage."

"Besides, there are still some rules..."

Spade 7 didn't finish, because he noticed Spade 9's eyes were unusually terrifying, so he grudgingly shut his mouth.

For some reason, Spade 9 felt a sense of unease, especially when he saw Ji Yan's perpetually calm expression.

They had blocked all the rules of this exam room and even released fake rules to confuse Ji Yan.

On the surface, Ji Yan was standing on an open field surrounded by hidden landmines, in an extremely dangerous position.

But what unsettled Spade 9 was

They also knew nothing about this new player's information!

What puzzled him even more was that the four of them had agreed from the start that after the exam began, no matter whether the figure behind them wore a red dress or a white dress, they wouldn't open their eyes.

Why did Spade 5 open his eyes?

Why did he think there was no supernatural entity behind him?

He had clearly given everyone present the 'answer'; there was no way he'd be stupid enough to make such a low-level mistake!

Ji Yan sat there, his expression unreadable.

Behind the scenes, his mind was also racing.

From their words, there was more than just this one rule in this exam room...

At that moment,

The prompt sounded again in the room: "Fourth round begins. Night falls, please close your eyes!"

As the sound faded, all players in the room closed their eyes.

The red and white dress girls behind them once again sang the nursery rhyme as they joyfully hopped around the table.

The white dress girl held the blood-dripping head, her laughter exceptionally cheerful.

The nursery rhyme echoed in their ears, and Ji Yan's fingers continued tapping on the table.

"Little sister carries a doll,

Walks to the garden to see cherry blossoms.

Little sister cries and calls for mommy,

The little bird in the tree laughs haha.

Doll, oh doll, why are you crying? Is it because you remembered mommy's words?"

The nursery rhyme abruptly stopped again.

The five players around the table, after a moment of silence,

All opened their eyes, and this time, everyone opened their eyes!

The moment Spade 9 opened his eyes, he already noticed that Ji Yan had opened his long ago and was looking at him with a faint, knowing smile.

He spun his head sharply and saw the pale-faced little girl standing behind him, giggling eerily, her eyes terrifyingly fixed on him!

A false alarm—the Supernatural Girl was wearing a red dress!

"Congratulations to Player [Spade 9] Lin Yifan for answering a question correctly in the exam and receiving a reward—[Satan Candy]."

The little girl in the red dress smiled and handed over a piece of candy: "Big brother, you're amazing for finding Yi Yi. Here's a candy as a reward!"

But Spade 9's face showed no joy; his eyes quickly scanned around.

"Everyone has opened their eyes. Who is the little girl in the white dress standing behind?"

Spade 4 Player sat there, suddenly realizing everyone was looking at her, and in an instant, panic set in.

She stiffly turned her head and saw the girl in the white dress standing behind her, giving her a sweet smile.

"Fool, didn't we agree that if there's a supernatural entity behind you, no matter if it's a red or white dress, don't open your eyes?!" Spade 7 couldn't help but say.

Spade 4's voice trembled, "I only opened my eyes because I got the information that there was no supernatural entity behind me!"

"Why is the white-dressed supernatural entity standing behind me?"

"Spade 9, why is the information wrong?!"

Spade 4 stared at Spade 9 in resentment and despair.

At the same time, the sweet voice of the girl in the white dress rang in her ears, but it sounded like the death sentence of a demon.

She twisted her head, and a pale, slightly chubby little hand reached up, landing on her cheek, giggling: "Sister, play spinning game with Yi Yi!"

With that, the little hand flicked.

Spade 4's head spun on her neck like a puppet's head detached from its central axis.

The flesh of her neck twisted like a tightened sugarcane, skin tearing, blood splattering, staining her collar red, and even the stark white throat bone could be clearly seen in the flesh...

Finally, Spade 4 fell face-down on the table, her head facing her back.

The scene was extremely impactful!

But the players present could still handle this level of gore.

"Something's wrong. Spade 4 and Spade 5 both opened their eyes because they thought there was no supernatural entity behind them!"

"Didn't you say that following your plan would definitely be fine?"

Spade 7 turned to look at Spade 9. With two dead in a row, he too grew nervous.

Spade 9 had cleared this exam room many times before and was practically familiar with it. He knew almost all the rule pitfalls, including hidden loopholes, Easter eggs, and so on.

Therefore, before the exam started, Spade 9 had already told everyone the absolutely safe way to pass.

The actual method to tell whether the little girl in the white dress or the red dress was standing behind you, or if there was no one at all, was simple.

It wasn't about finding clues from the supernatural entity, but from yourself.

Before the creepy nursery rhyme began, if a player found corpse spots on their hands, it meant that in the next round, a supernatural entity would inevitably be standing behind them.

If no corpse spots were found, it meant there was no supernatural entity.

Corpse spots on one hand meant a red dress.

Corpse spots on both hands meant a white dress.

Therefore, before each round started, the players' eyes were first on their hands. Due to insufficient light, whether corpse spots appeared on their hands required careful observation and could easily be overlooked.

With the answers provided in the exam, why were they still eliminated?!

"My hints are definitely not the problem."

"It's your own perception that's been tampered with, leading to a misjudgment!"

Spade 9's face darkened as he turned to look at Ji Yan's hand resting on the table. The eerie tattoo on the back of his hand carried a certain allure.

Under his gaze, the next second, the tattoo opened a Cursed Eye!

"This eye... [Spade 9]?!"

Spade 9's expression shifted.

He had also participated in the basketball court exam. Though he passed, he nearly lost both eyes to the Cursed Eye Supernatural Entity's ability and was left in a miserable state, making the memory unforgettable.

Now, looking at the tattoo, he immediately recognized it!

Spade 7 gritted his teeth: "I knew there was something off about him tapping the table all along!"

They were all too familiar with the Cursed Eye Supernatural Entity's ability. Once triggered, everything they saw could be falsified.

It was this ability that gave them a fatal misjudgment—trusting their own eyes!

What Spade 9 couldn't understand was why Ji Yan knew to target their eyes.

He couldn't have been to this exam before, let alone know the loopholes in the rules!

They had planned to exploit the information gap in the exam to hunt Ji Yan and plunder [Spade 1].

But now, lacking any information about Ji Yan, they were instead being quietly cornered by him.

Watching Ji Yan's half-smiling expression, Spade 9's face flickered with uncertainty.

At that moment, the prompt "Night falls, please close your eyes" echoed again in the venue.

Round 5 was about to begin!

"What do we do? Think of something fast!" Spade 7 nervously looked at Spade 9, pulling the Skull Coin from his pocket and clutching it tightly in his palm.

He saw Corpse Spots on his own hand.

But were there really Corpse Spots?

His own eyes could deceive him!

Unable to judge, it became a game of staking their lives.

Just then, the eerie Nursery Rhyme began to play again slowly, like the Grim Reaper's scythe hanging over the heads of every player present...