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**Chapter 162: Gouging Eyes, Expelling the Exam Hall**

The moment the nursery rhyme began, the scent of death instantly filled the air!

Spade 9 also looked at his own hands. In the dim light, faint corpse spots had surfaced on both his left and right hands.

Were both hands truly covered in corpse spots, or just one, or perhaps none at all?

The little girls in red and white dresses began circling the table. Spade 9's expression darkened as he reached into his pocket and pulled out something...

The nursery rhyme echoed through the room with a light yet eerie melody, blood spreading across half the table.

Spade 7 kept his eyes shut, clutching the Skull Coin tightly in his palm.

According to the true rules of the exam hall game, if one kept their eyes closed for three consecutive rounds, they would be eliminated. He had already closed his eyes twice, leaving him with only one chance.

With seven rounds total in the exam, he had to open his eyes and gamble once.

As for which round that would be, it all came down to luck!

As the nursery rhyme ended, like the tolling of a death knell, Spade 7 gritted his teeth and decisively opened his eyes.

In his line of sight, he saw that Spade 9 and Ji Yan had also opened their eyes.

There was no supernatural entity behind Spade 9.

Behind Ji Yan stood the little girl in the red dress.

That meant...

Cold sweat broke out on Spade 7. The moment he turned his head, he saw the little girl in the white dress holding Spade 4's bloody head, its unclosed eyes staring wide directly at him!

"Big brother is so amazing, guessing it was Er Er!"

"But unfortunately, no reward!"

The little girl in the red dress laughed, but her expression gradually turned sinister and mocking.

"Fuck! Am I really this unlucky?!"

As that tiny, death-threatening hand reached out, Spade 7's face turned pale. He cursed under his breath, squeezed the Skull Coin in his hand, and flicked it out at the last second...

The coin landed in the center of the table, and at the same time, Spade 7's head was struck by that small hand.

A crisp *crack* sounded,

Like a building block, Spade 7's head fell from his neck, rolling onto the table. His headless body, along with the chair, toppled to the floor.

A fountain of blood gushed uncontrollably...

Ji Yan raised an eyebrow slightly.

The Skull Coin spun at the center of the table before finally stopping, landing on the side of the "Angel Wings."

A strange glimmer flashed across the coin's surface...

Ji Yan furrowed his brow, a flicker of doubt crossing his mind. He could tell that this coin was a supernatural artifact.

But why had Spade 7 abandoned this artifact before his death?

"Big brother guessed that the one standing behind was Yi Yi—so impressive! Here's a candy as a reward!"

The little girl in the red dress smiled and handed over a candy.

Ji Yan took it and held it in his hand. Now he had two candies, and only two rounds remained in this exam game.

"Senior, why have you suddenly become so serious?"

"This exam hall is your home turf. Shouldn't I be the one who's nervous?"

Ji Yan pocketed the two candies and calmly looked at Spade 9. He knew Spade 9 must still have some hidden operation up his sleeve. Trying to take him down with just an "Eyes Deceive" trick would be difficult.

Spade 9's expression shifted between gloom and uncertainty. He let out a cold laugh. "I see now. That bastard Shi Kejian set me up."

"That damned bastard didn't even give me the crucial information that you obtained the [Spade 9] card—he wanted me to suffer alongside him tonight."

Shi Kejian?

Ji Yan's eyes flickered.

Hearing that these people were connected to him, he suddenly understood something.

"There's no way death or elimination can occur during Nighttime Tutoring. This room isn't the [A50] exam room at all."

"The door number belongs to a rule-governed exam room, and swapping door numbers is highly unlikely. From the looks of it, when I entered, that bastard Shi Kejian used his [Space Supernatural Entity] ability to seamlessly connect another exam room, tricking me into thinking I'd entered [A50]."

"Tch, I knew that guy would seek revenge, but I didn't expect it to be this fast!"

Ji Yan couldn't figure it out. The Spade faction and the Diamond faction were sworn enemies by the rules—what made them join forces? Was it just his brother's death and the temptation of the Blood Gu Supernatural Entity?

As Ji Yan pondered, the sixth round of "Close Your Eyes When Night Falls" was about to begin.

At this point, only two people remained in the exam room, and Spade 9 was undoubtedly under the most pressure.

In reality, he was wrong about one thing.

What truly made their eyes deceive them was the curse of the Tongue-Curse Supernatural, but when combined with the supernatural ability of the [Cursed Eye Supernatural Entity], it became nearly flawless.

From the moment he entered and sensed these people lying, he started playing along with their words.

First, he pretended to ask Spade 7 for gum, then used the excuse of clinging to a strong player to shake hands with Spade 9. These two touches allowed Ji Yan to trigger his talent [Omniscient Understanding] twice.

Then, the elaborate trap they had set up was like a person stripped completely naked—no secrets left...

When his eyes met Spade 9's, Ji Yan's [Tongue-Curse Supernatural] curse was silently applied to the other party.

Then, using the supernatural ability of the [Cursed Eye Supernatural Entity], the curse was "mutually transmitted" through their eye contact.

The whole process was like pink eye—by the time they realized their eyes were failing, it was already too late...

At that moment, just as the girl in the red and white dress was about to sing the creepy nursery rhyme, Spade 9 suddenly developed a large number of corpse spots, and a small knife appeared in his hand.

Ji Yan's expression froze.

He watched as Spade 9 gripped the knife in reverse and stabbed it fiercely into his own eyes!

Two pale white eyeballs, still connected to bloody nerves and plasma, were gouged out and fell onto the table...

??

Why the sudden self-mutilation?

Blood stained half his face red. Spade 9's eyes were a bloody mess, yet he was smiling: "Enjoying the game?"

"Spade 1, don't rush. Tonight's game has only just begun!"

Immediately after, the exam announcement echoed through the room:

"Urgent notice! Examinee 'Lin Yifan' has lost his eyeballs. The exam 'Close Your Eyes When Night Falls' can no longer proceed. He will be forcibly expelled from the exam room!"

Ji Yan suddenly understood.

So gouging out one's eyes was a way to forfeit and withdraw midway.

But was it really worth gouging out both eyes just to quit?

Lin Yifan wiped the blood from his face, seemingly unable to feel the pain, and instead laughed: "I'm quitting, but only so I can go find that bastard Shi Kejian and settle the score."

"But before I leave, I've left a gift for you."

"First, think about what you're going to do, huh?"

"Of course, you can follow my example and gouge out your eyes to leave the exam room!"

He stabbed the knife into the desk. Just as the exam hall's forced expulsion descended, Spade 9 shoved two fingers into his right ear. A white centipede, streaked with blood and plasma, was yanked out from inside his ear! Tossing it onto the desk, Spade 9 slowly stood up, turned his head, and smiled at Ji Yan. "Junior Brother, have fun playing now." "I'll wait for you outside. If you can still make it out alive, I'll keep playing with you!" As his voice faded, Spade 9 was instantly swept away from the exam hall by an overwhelming force. Inside the hall, aside from a few corpses lying scattered about, only Ji Yan remained alive. But Ji Yan could clearly sense something was off in the atmosphere. On the desk, the white centipede crawled and eventually burrowed into Spade 7's ear. The next second, the headless corpse suddenly picked up Spade 7's head, reattached it to the neck, and then a pair of eyes snapped open! Ji Yan's eyes widened slightly. Wait, how could he come back to life? The "revived" Spade 7 looked around as soon as his eyes opened, then cursed angrily: "Damn! That bastard Spade 9, he just ran off like that!"