Why did I suddenly end up in the school hallway? Karl's expression was flat, but his mind had already become a mess.

I'm daydreaming, right? Although Carl often collects some books about the Cthulhu Mythos in the forums, and every time he sees the protagonist facing the evil god who is depicted as an invisible existence, he is almost too scared to go to the bathroom at night, and at the same time marvels at the author's imagination, but in his cognition, those are the products of horror entertainment, and they do not exist at all.

But what's going on? Why am I standing in the hallway outside the classroom? Am I not sleeping at the table? This fact was far beyond his knowledge, and he had no way of imagining why he had dozed off and came to the school hallway.

Why? If it was a dream, it would have been too real, and he kept repeating the question in his mind.

He clearly understands what the oldest human emotions are, and his fear comes from not knowing why he is here, everything is in a state of unknown and dazed.

"Hello, there's... Anyone! He asked tentatively.

"Nick, Chris, Monica, where are you?" Carl stood in the hallway and shouted, it was his friend and the girl he liked.

His voice quickly melted into the space and vanished, and he was the only one standing alone in the entire hallway.

According to common sense, this time should be the most lively, because everyone will go to the cafeteria for lunch at this time, but when he walked through the rooms on this floor, he didn't find anyone at all, except for the cold desks and empty seats.

What about people? He racked his brains and couldn't think of a reason.

"I must be dreaming......" he touched his face in disbelief, his eyes hollow, his head shaking all the time.

"Teacher Hannah......"

"Mr. Mike......"

"It's not good to punish students in this way, and it's not funny at all. So please come out, okay? He said in a trembling voice.

He shouted loudly, and even when he was hoarse, there was no sound in response, making him feel like a self-talking psycho.

Carl returned to the classroom blank and sat down in his seat, his head bowed. At this time, the midday sun was very hot, and the sunlight outside the window shone in, as if to give a close-up of Carl's declining face of the "loser".

Is it a prank? Or is it something else? Either way, you've all succeeded.

"Hey! Come out, don't be scary in broad daylight! It's not April Fool's Day. Carl barely managed to squeeze out a smile, but his trembling hands betrayed him.

"Hurry up! Where the hell are you? He asked angrily into the air.

Carl's sanity could not contain the anger in his heart and overturned the classroom. Dozens of tables and chairs were overturned by him, computers were smashed to pieces, and even those posters were torn off and crumpled into paper balls.

"Come on! It's all out! I'm destroying public property! He expects to use such violent tactics to get everyone's attention. But it backfired, and nothing happened.

"Come on...... Ha...... Hah......" Karl cried, and at last laughed like a demented child. The sudden psychological blow made his worldview almost shattered, and finally he fainted in anger.

……

For a long time, Karl opened his red and swollen eyes in a daze, and turned his head to look at the clock.

【13:00pm】

"It's been an hour." He muttered haggardly.

An hour was not much, but he at least understood that it was impossible for the teacher and his classmates to go to such great lengths to tease him, and that the school could not agree to stop class in order to tease a student, let alone that there were many students worse than him, and it would not be his turn to tease him.

The most important thing is that the school board cannot let a student smash the teaching resources.

Thinking of these points, he was unnatural, and a trace of cold wind outside the window penetrated through the crack in the window, which made him even more excited.

"Could it be? The people in this school have really disappeared. Carl shuddered and had a terrible thought. He suddenly felt that the world was not as calm as we say, and that there were all kinds of darkness hidden under the calm surface.

The classroom was dark, and the lights that had been on during class were turned off. Carl tried to press the switch repeatedly, but there was no response, and what made him even more aware was that the walls of the classroom were like ghost towns that no one had lived in for more than ten years, and the wall skin on it had almost lost its stickiness and was in a half-peeling state.

The eye was cast out of the hallway, where the light could barely reach because of the baffle. The darkness at the end of the corridor seemed to be full of hazy malice. And he was shouting in ignorance just now.

"Good thing it didn't attract any stuff." Carl said with some trepidation, regretting his reckless actions.

Because his actions just now were enough to make him die dozens of times, he suddenly thought of something, and his face sank even more.

"Hopefully it's just my crankiness......"

"No! I can't sit still, as soon as I find a living person I'll know what's going on. Karl slammed to his feet and glanced around.

"Before I can do that, I have to prepare something." He took out some pen and paper from his backpack and wrote down the first thing. In the face of the unknown, he can only prevent it through some trivial preparations.

1。 flashlight

2。 water

3。 food

At this point, he stopped writing and muttered to himself, "This should be changed, and the food should be something that can be eaten immediately." ”

So, he used his pen to make a few crosses in the third item, and after correcting it, it became -3. Food (Note: Ready-to-eat preferred.) ）

4。 Knife, role: to protect yourself.

It took an hour, or about 14:00, for Carl to write down everything he needed on the piece of paper, roll it up, and put it in his pocket.

But the strange thing is that even if he prepares so much, he doesn't feel much security. However, he couldn't analyze the reason for this, and it was as if there was a wall between the answer and him, a wall that could not be crossed.

"It's like going back to the first time I went to school, facing that kind of dazed and hesitant emotion." With a heavy face, Carl grabbed a flashlight from the teacher's desk and pushed the door open nervously.

The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear; And the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown. He suddenly remembered this sentence.

Squeak......

The door to the classroom was pushed open by a small crack, and the movement was very abrupt in the quiet hallway, but despite this, he mustered up his courage and walked out.

"It's too dark in here." He glanced to the left and right, and apprehensively pulled out his flashlight.

Crackling......

There was a glimmer of light in the darkness, giving him a slight sense of security, and Carl didn't dare to walk, his thin clothes made him feel like he was going to be killed at any moment. He moved cautiously against the wall, and looked back and forth in the hallway suspiciously like a persecuted paranoid patient.

"It's so weird, what the hell is going on in the school?" Karl looked at the intact lockers in a cold sweat, and there were no signs of destruction on them.

Obviously, the reason why everyone in the school disappeared together was not that they were kidnapped by bandits, so many people disappeared together, it was difficult not to alarm passers-by, not to mention that the school hired a few recently retired "Delta" special forces in order to prevent campus shootings.

In any case, Carl didn't want the truth of the matter to have anything to do with the unknown.

"I just hope it's a prank." Karl smiled bitterly, even he didn't believe it.

At the end of the corridor, there was no light to shine on, like the depths of the sea. The place was dark all year round because the lights were not turned on, and without the flashlight, he would have to rely on the feeling in his memory, but luckily, his luck was not too bad.