Horror Movie Set: This extra is too good at playing the tricks.

Chapter 38 Half a Face

Su Ke maintained her 90-degree bow, like a primary school student waiting for the teacher to correct her homework, humble to the point of being in the dust.

The head of student affairs pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, and hundreds of arms simultaneously stopped twitching. He was very satisfied with this obedience; this was how Chengde Middle School should be—no troublemakers, no resistance, only obedience.

"Very good." His voice was tinged with pleasure. "As a reward, you can deal with this trash yourself."

He pointed to Li Mu at his feet, who had only one arm left and was covered in blood.

Li Mu lay prone in a pool of blood, his eyes fixed on Su Ke. He wanted to yell, to tell her to run, but he couldn't bring himself to speak.

Su Ke straightened up and walked gracefully towards Li Mu. Then, she squatted down, reached out, and gently stroked Li Mu's face, which was now devoid of skin and composed entirely of muscle.

"It's really ugly," Su Ke said softly, her tone very gentle.

The next second, something unexpected happened.

Su Ke exerted sudden force with her left hand, actually digging her own skin into the edge of her face. Without the slightest hesitation, she tore off her perfect left side of her face like a torn face mask.

Blood gushed out instantly.

But that wasn't the end of it. The half-skin that had been torn off hardened instantly in Su Ke's hand, turning into a pale white whip that, carrying the resentment and madness Su Ke had accumulated over the past three years, lashed fiercely at the unsuspecting headmaster.

"Snapped!"

The strike was as fast as lightning, and half a human skin struck the headmaster's eye with pinpoint accuracy.

He let out a piercing scream, his gold-rimmed glasses shattered into dust, and hundreds of arms went haywire as they frantically covered their faces.

"run!"

Su Ke let out a roar, grabbed Li Mu from the ground, and disregarded her own half-bruised and bloodied body, forcefully smashing her way out of the encirclement of the two monsters.

The cold wind howled, and tears and blood mingled together, smearing Su Ke's face.

"Waaaaah... Waaaaah..."

She ran while crying.

"Li Mu, what happened to you? Why are you so ugly? Waaaaah..."

Sadness washed over Su Ke's chest like a flood. She saw Li Mu's severed right arm, the muscles torn from protecting them, and the boy who once loved cleanliness so much, who had turned himself into this grotesque state for them.

"I'll take you away, I'll take you to Zhang Kai, and we'll go home."

A deafening roar, like the earth trembling, came from behind. The enraged headmaster and the old dormitory supervisor followed closely behind.

"You ungrateful wretch! You filthy things! You're all filthy things! I'll grind you into powder and stuff you into the cracks in the walls!"

……

At the end of the playground, Lin Xiaoxiao was pulling Zhang Kai, trying to climb over the wall.

"Let me go!"

Zhang Kai suddenly flung his hand away, nearly knocking Lin Xiaoxiao over. He stood there, his chest heaving violently, his eyes bloodshot.

"Zhang Kai, are you crazy?"

Lin Xiaoxiao was furious. "Our top priority is to run!"

"Screw running!"

Zhang Kai roared back, spitting all over Lin Xiaoxiao's face.

He pointed into the distance, "This is my childhood friend, the person I've been searching for for three years. Three years ago, I hid in the security room like a coward, letting them die for me. This time..."

"This time, I'm not fucking a coward!"

After saying that, he turned and ran back without the slightest hesitation, just like the famous Don Quixote.

"Sigh, young people these days really don't listen to advice."

Bao Ping, standing nearby, sighed, touched his still slightly itchy cheek, and glanced at the adjustable wrench in his hand.

"Master Bao?"

Lin Xiaoxiao was stunned.

Bao Ping gave a wry smile, a hint of helplessness on his face.

"Teacher Lin, you're a sensible person. You need to keep in touch, but if this kid doesn't have an adult watching him, he might not even make it halfway there before he's gone."

Bao Ping patted Lin Xiaoxiao on the shoulder and instructed her, "Hide it well."

Then the somewhat greasy middle-aged man, carrying a wrench, followed the silly boy's figure back with clumsy steps.

They're all lunatics.

Lin Xiaoxiao bit her lip, tears welling up in her eyes.

She didn't follow, because reason told her that someone had to be alive to record all of this. She turned and crawled into the shadows of the adjacent equipment room, gripping her pen tightly.

……

Lu Dan's middle finger was still raised in mid-air, and he hadn't had time to retract the sneer on his face.

But the next second, a terrifying face with no skin appeared almost right next to Lu Dan's nose, less than a few centimeters away. He could even smell a musty, sour odor emanating from the other person.

"You're very funny."

The skinless security guard's voice was mocking and cruel: "But you know nothing about speed."

A hand casually grabbed Lu Dan's neck—fast, too fast!

Lu Dan was lifted up, his feet off the ground.

"roommate"

Lu Dan roared wildly in his mind.

This was the first time he had proactively requested the host inside his body to take full control of it.

The shadow on Lu Dan's left ankle exploded instantly, and black hair gushed out from Lu Dan's shadow like a waterfall, instantly wrapping around the skinless security guard's arm. Countless resentful energies turned into sharp spikes, stabbing fiercely at the other's eyes.

"snort!"

The skinless security guard didn't even try to dodge. The huge leech behind him, like a black lightning bolt, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and bit down on the black hair.

The shadow ghost let out a painful scream.

Her black hair was forcibly sucked into the leech's belly, and then a huge force forced it back to Lu Dan's ankle, causing Lu Dan's whole body to convulse violently.

"You little devil, you taste pretty good." The skinless security guard grinned, revealing his sallow teeth. "I'll digest you slowly after I've finished eating you."

His fingers tightened, and Lu Dan's bones cracked under the strain. His vision went black, and his consciousness was rapidly slipping away.

Is that all?

……

The two streams of people finally merged.

"Su Ke! Li Mu!"

Zhang Kai threw away the brick in his hand and caught the two men who rushed at him.

Su Ke could no longer run. Half of her body, which was missing skin, was oozing a large amount of blood, staining half of the playground red.

"Zhang Kai..." Su Ke's voice was weak, like a candle flickering in the wind. She gripped Zhang Kai's hand tightly, "Quickly run to find Teacher Lin and tell her..."

"I won't run away, I'll take you with me!" Zhang Kai cried out, reaching out to carry Li Mu on his back.

"Listen to me!" Su Ke suddenly raised her voice, "It's all because of that security guard. This school died three years ago, but that mysterious security guard won't let go. He wants to create perfect order and perfect good students."

"In the three years since I came back, I was initially in a daze. I went to find Li Mu, only to discover that he had become a monster who could only laugh. I wanted to save him, but I was assimilated by the rules of this school time and time again, until one day..."

Su Ke's eyes widened in fear: "In my dream, I saw a security guard, a security guard without skin who carried a huge worm on his back."

Li Mu, who was standing next to him, suddenly looked up, his face filled with shock: "You dreamed about it too? He contacted you too?"

Su Ke gave a bitter laugh: "The security guard gave me a mirror and said that as long as I looked in the mirror, I could turn back into my original form. I believed him. And then I was swallowed up."

"It felt like I was split in two. One half of me was trapped in my body in pain, while the other half became a human skin, possessing independent consciousness and becoming a 'good student'."

Li Mu coughed violently: "Me too. That security guard gave me a painting in my dream, and ever since then, I've been able to dream about certain things, but I can't control my body. My original personality is suppressed deep inside, watching another version of myself live like a puppet."

"That's a trap." Su Ke grabbed Zhang Kai's clothes. "This skinless security guard must be the real origin; he travels between two worlds."

"Boom!"

A loud bang came from behind, and dust flew up.

The head of the teaching department's massive frame resembled a mountain, casting a shadow over the four of them.

"A touching reunion."