The blood membrane still existed. Chen Ge couldn't use any of the ghosts on him right now, and his backpack had been left under the lab bench when he changed clothes earlier, so there was no way to grab the skull-crushing hammer in time.
Dressed in a lab coat and wearing a thick mask, Chen Ge blended in with several student corpses. He stopped all movement, becoming as still as the dead around him.
Teacher Liu circled Chen Ge and the student corpses once. Blood vessels coiled around his legs, and his eyes were threaded through with red.
Reeking of blood, the controlled Teacher Liu had lost his mind. He couldn't make any decisions — it seemed that the moment he tried to think, his head felt as though it would burst apart, the pain unbearable.
With both hands tearing at his own hair, Teacher Liu beat his body desperately. The bulging organs on the walls contracted and pulsed in response to his shifting emotions.
Heavy, labored breathing echoed through the passage once more as the creature with the hollowed-out face slowly drew near.
It was tall and imposing, its skin nearly transparent, with blood vessels branching across its entire body.
The passage swayed gently. Teacher Liu gradually calmed down, glanced outside, and without further hesitation, grabbed one of the students and dragged them out.
Blood flowed silently. Through the window on the door, Chen Ge watched as the creature with the hollowed-out face split open a wide gash in its stomach and stuffed the student's body inside.
The creature was savoring the process. Moments later, its body grew even larger.
After the student vanished, the creature didn't leave. Its hollowed-out face was fixed on the window, as though it wasn't satisfied yet and wanted to devour more.
The classroom door was shut by Teacher Liu. Not once had he stepped outside.
After disposing of that student, he returned to the lab bench, lifted a corpse from the dissection table, dressed it in a lab coat, and then placed a student corpse that had been near Chen Ge onto the table.
Everyone's positions were the same as when Chen Ge had first entered this classroom, except now he had taken the place of one of the students.
The blood vessels entangled around Teacher Liu's legs slowly unwound, and the redness in his eyes began to fade.
When the organs on the walls stopped pulsing, the last thread of red in Teacher Liu's eyes vanished completely.
He clutched his chest and collapsed to the ground, gasping in great heaving breaths, like a drowning victim just pulled from the river.
Chen Ge hurried over and helped Teacher Liu up.
His face was pale, and his body seemed slightly more transparent than before.
"Are you alright?"
"Same old problem..." Liu Zhengyi stood up as though he had forgotten everything that had just happened, treating Chen Ge as his student. "Alright, let's continue the lesson."
He began repeating what he had just covered — passionately teaching in a room full of corpses with Chen Ge as his only student.
Chen Ge tried asking Teacher Liu again whether he needed any help.
Teacher Liu's answer was the same as before, but this time, when Chen Ge dissected the corpse as instructed, the blood membrane on his body didn't thin.
This blood-colored world was peculiar — like a massive, deformed living organism with its own consciousness, seemingly capable of actively patching any loopholes.
"If I stay here too long, they'll probably notice me."