Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

"Don't worry. This is a real gun. If you think it's a toy, you can bet your life on it."

"Or, bet that there are no bullets in my gun."

When Ekri saw the gun on his forehead, his body suddenly went limp. This was a normal reaction to a gun from an ordinary person.

He couldn't feel the coldness of the gun barrel pressed against his forehead. The fear came from the human subconscious.

As long as Li Mo slightly pulled the trigger, his brains would splatter out with his blood.

"You, you're killing someone! That's illegal!"

"I'm a normal person! Would a ghost have this reaction!?"

Ekri's voice trembled. He completely didn't understand why this boy in front of him suddenly pulled out a gun. He could only explain repeatedly, hoping that Li Mo would spare his life.

Li Mo sighed and slowly said, "Perhaps, you might still be a person now, but a ghost is on you."

"To let you die with a better understanding, look at this."

Li Mo used his other hand to take out an employee ID card, which recorded the position and name—

Name: Ekri Shaw.

Position: Cleaner.

Gender: Female.

The employee ID also had a photo, and the person in the photo was Ekri, or at least his face looked exactly the same.

But what was different from the current Ekri was that although the Ekri in the photo had a neutral face and even looked more masculine, his body was definitely that of a voluptuous woman.

And the current Ekri's body was male. He was flat as a board, comparable to Fu Hua.

"Do you know where I found this?"

"Next to a headless female corpse outside the women's restroom."

Li Mo deliberately emphasized the words "headless," "female," and "corpse."

"How do you explain the huge change in your body? Don't tell me the information on the employee ID is wrong."

Ekri's eyes flickered like swaying candle flames.

He saw himself in the photo, as well as the information on the employee ID.

The gender and position didn't match his memories…

Was he a woman? Was he a hired cleaner?

No, but, that's wrong…

Clearly...

"No, it's impossible. I..." Ekri panicked. His memories and reality conflicted, and his thoughts began to get confused.

Li Mo placed his finger on the trigger, ready to fire at any moment.

"Actually, there is another way to prove what I'm saying, which is to go to the monitoring room and pull out the recordings from ten days ago. But that's not necessary. I don't have the time or patience for that."

"It's summer now. Everyone is wearing light clothing, but you're wearing a high-necked suit. If I'm not mistaken, you can't feel hot or cold. If you unbutton it and show your neck, there will most likely be a clear crack on it. That's right, your head and body belong to two different people."

Upon hearing Li Mo's absurd, almost joking reasoning, the students' eyes widened as they looked at Ekri in disbelief.

"I, I'll try..." Ekri tremblingly reached out his hand and clumsily unbuttoned the buttons, making many mistakes along the way.

He was afraid. He was really afraid.

After unbuttoning, removing his collar, Ekri controlled his trembling hand and repeatedly touched his neck, trying to prove that he wasn't dead.

But he felt it.

A crack that went around his entire neck...

"...It's real."

"So, I'm the ghost who killed so many people..."

Ekri completely lost the desire to refute. He knelt on the ground and looked at Li Mo helplessly and desperately, saying, "Kill me, I'm sorry..."

Li Mo didn't fire the gun. Instead, he put it back at his waist.

"It's not the time yet. I need you to help me with something. Consider it the price for telling you the truth."

"I generally don't attack living people. Although a ghost is on you, you're at least still… barely considered a 'human.'"

Li Mo turned his head away guiltily.

Human?

Even Li Mo himself didn't believe those words. When Ekri picked up the coin, he was destined to no longer be a human.

Saying that he could barely be considered a human was just to get him to help him a little.

He was a ghost. It was just that Ekri's consciousness as the host hadn't faded away yet.

Based on experience, corpses would rot within a week after death. They would become pale and stiff, with coldness, rigor mortis, and livor mortis. Discoloration would appear around the skin of the abdomen. Due to the production of gases, the abdomen would begin to swell. The abdomen would be noticeably swollen, and blisters would appear on the skin.

A week later, the stench of the corpse would increase, and the body would also start to change color.

Once the body was completely decayed internally, even the active brain of a normal person would be unable to retain consciousness. At that point, a true vengeful spirit would revive from within the body.

Ekri weakly said, "What do you need me to do?"

"{Open the door,}" Li Mo replied. "Ghosts won't die by opening the door, but we will be killed immediately if we open it and walk out."

"I see." Ekri smiled bitterly. "Can I know the truth? How did I die, and how did I become like this?"

Judging by his interaction just now, the boy in front of him was definitely not an ordinary person. He had analyzed so much truth in a short time and was still able to calmly interact with him and guide him to the truth after learning he was a ghost.

Ekri looked behind him. The students were all hiding behind sofas or coffee tables in fear.

Was he not afraid of ghosts?

An absurd idea appeared in Ekri's mind.

Li Mo didn't refuse. After calming down, everything was easy to deduce.

After dying once, his observational skills and thinking abilities had greatly improved, and even his emotions had faded quite a bit.

Even if the person in front of him was kneeling and begging for mercy or showing a pitiful appearance, Li Mo wouldn't feel much regret or pity.

"The stench of a corpse intensifies over three weeks after death. Judging by the smell you were emitting just now,"

"I estimate that the real you died ten days ago. The cause of death was opening the door and walking out of the restroom."

"After you opened the door, your head fell off, and your body collapsed at the restroom door. At that moment, the ghost just happened to be beside you. It picked up your head, entered your dead consciousness, and then manipulated your head to move onto another dead man's body."

"Your memory confusion was also influenced by the ghost. After you resurrected, you led the surviving students to the broadcasting room. Because you are a ghost, you won't die by opening the door."

"Under your influence, the students' memories and perceptions have also become distorted."

Li Mo looked intently at Ekri and asked, "Why not take a gamble? There are so many of you. You could have escaped St. Freya Academy in batches. Why did you all gather in the broadcasting room?"

Ekri truthfully spoke his thoughts, "To call more survivors to the broadcasting room and then wait for rescue."

But as soon as he spoke, Ekri himself was stunned. Why did he want to find more survivors? It would be enough for the survivors to survive. Why did he want to gather all the survivors in the broadcasting room?

The food and water were already barely enough to support their survival. Wouldn't it be even more scarce if more people were brought in?

Li Mo shook his head and calmly said, "It seems you have realized it. The ghost's logic is influencing you."

"The living people who enter the broadcasting room cannot escape because the person who opens the door is a human. They will die as soon as they go out, no matter how many of them there are."

"Although I don't know why it wants to control everyone in a room where they can't escape instead of just killing them, it's definitely not a good thing. The ghost must have ulterior motives."

"As for why it chose the broadcasting room, it's probably because there are no windows, and there is only one door as an exit. And it can also use the intercom to attract more survivors. I don't think I'm wrong."

Li Mo looked at Ekri, waiting for his answer.

Ekri was silent for a while, then nodded, "Yes. Several students were also called by me using the intercom. The broadcasting room has a monitor of the school gate. If I saw someone, I would shout through the intercom... If they responded, I would tell them my specific location."

"So that's the truth... ha, haha..."

Ekri laughed self-deprecatingly, his expression lonely.

At this moment, he probably had many thoughts, but Li Mo didn't care.

Ekri walked to the door, pushed open the broadcasting room door, and then stepped to the side to make way.

"You guys go."

"Mm."

Li Mo was the first to walk out of the broadcasting room.

After seeing that Li Mo had walked out of the broadcasting room safely, the students also gradually escaped the enclosed room.

After everyone had left the broadcasting room, Ekri showed a relieved expression and said to Li Mo, "I'm going to die here. Before my consciousness disappears, the ghost in my body and I won't leave this room."

"I'll destroy the broadcasting equipment. Even if I die, the ghost won't be able to attract survivors through the intercom."

"Take care of these kids. I know you can do it. This is my only request, even if… my identity is fake."

Li Mo nodded. "I will."

As if making a will, Ekri stated his plans in detail, then closed and locked the door.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before he died here completely, with no one to collect his corpse.

And before he died, he had to stay in a confined, dim, and small room for a long time, dying alone.

In the silent broadcasting room, Ekri sat on the ground with his back against the door. His unfocused pupils were like the chandelier on the ceiling, flickering irregularly.

Sometimes bright, sometimes dim.

"She" might not have been the students' head of discipline, but she had indeed fulfilled her duties during this time, and it was the last thing "she" needed to do.

"She" was already dead.

The last gift of the dead was to not cause trouble for the living.

And the living would give new meaning to the death of the deceased.

"Choosing self-destruction, huh..." Li Mo murmured as he looked at the closed door.

Ekri's actions did bring a lot of convenience to Li Mo. Otherwise, after killing Ekri, he would have had to escape immediately, and he wouldn't have been able to bring people with him.

Because he didn't know which person the ghost would enter after Ekri died. Taking everyone with him to escape would mean taking a potential time bomb with him.

But now that Ekri was restraining the ghost inside his body, waiting for destruction, he could take all the students out of this room where death was certain and even leave the bizarre St. Freya Academy.

"Hmm?"

Li Mo came back to his senses and found a petite girl tightly clutching his clothes. She looked up at him like a stray kitten, with tears in her eyes, revealing a pitiful appearance.

And behind her were sixteen other girls of the same age.

They were supposed to become Valkyries who resisted the Honkai, but now their will had been crushed by the ghost. Seeing Li Mo was like grabbing a life-saving straw.

It wasn't difficult to understand. Honkai beasts could still be defeated by force, but ghosts couldn't be killed.

It might be near you at this moment.

Beside you, behind the door, beside the bed…

They were everywhere…