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Chapter 202 Peeping at the Door (Part 3)

These two guys had just closed the door to the equipment room, sighed with relief, and were certain that the door was securely locked.

The "Spirit Exploration" mission was complete.

At this moment, the two immediately felt an uptick in their cool factor, smiling broadly as they turned their phones around to speak into the camera, wrapping up their video.

Thanking CTV, MTV, and their parents for giving birth to them and raising them to become outstanding amateur "Spirit Investigators."

Guo Jintao even took the opportunity to thank his ex-girlfriend for thinking little of him and suggesting they break up. At the time, he had unashamedly begged her to get back together, but now, looking back, he felt it was right not to. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to become the "Spirit Exploration" trendsetter he was today.

As he finished saying this, and was about to give his thanks to the tall, handsome guy who had cuckolded him, he suddenly realized that it had become very quiet around him.

That made no sense.

You have to understand that while he was thanking, Chen Kun had also been talking. Just a moment ago, Guo Jintao had heard the guy thanking the old hen at home, grateful for the egg it laid every day which allowed him to eat an egg daily, attributing his sharp mind to this—despite having slightly crossed and short sighted eyes, with a touch of astigmatism.

Turning his head around, he found Chen Kun staring blankly at the laboratory door, phone put aside, with only the flashlight in his hand pointing towards the door.

Puzzled, Guo Jintao turned around to look at the door, directing his flashlight there as well.

The door, which had been securely locked by himself just moments ago, leading out to the corridor, was now open. What's more, after opening inward, it revealed a crack about three fingers wide, directly facing the direction where they stood.

And at that moment, when the beam of the flashlight shone toward it, it failed to penetrate through the crack to illuminate the corridor outside.

The only reason it couldn't reach outside the hallway was that someone had approached it.

Soon, a familiar figure appeared at the door, standing outside the crack, leaning close with a head, and peering into the room through the gap with one eye.

It was an eyeball covered with a gray film.

Buzz!

Guo Jintao and Chen Kun's minds roared in unison, blank for a moment.

Guo Jintao even stumbled backward several steps, nearly sitting down on his backside.

He had never imagined that the door leading to the corridor, which was locked, could be opened. And why, after opening just a three-finger-wide crack, was it just like before? And then, the "Peephole Strange Creature" they had just trapped inside the room appeared in the corridor almost instantly afterward.

Yes, it was that "Peephole Strange Creature."

No sooner had they closed the door of the equipment room on this side than the ghost had appeared outside in the corridor, looking through the crack behind the laboratory door.

Chen Kun was a bit more composed than Guo Jintao. After regaining his senses, he stepped forward shakily, illuminating with his flashlight again, and found the "Peephole Strange Creature" still maintaining the same pose, motionless, peering through the crack at both him and Guo Jintao.

"That's not right, didn't you lock the door just now?" Seeing that the "Peephole Ghost" only maintained the pose without any other movement, Chen Kun boldly turned to Guo Jintao to ask.

Guo Jintao nodded, "I'm sure, I really locked the door, but now it's open, and I didn't hear the sound of the lock being turned."

"Close… close… close the door, we must close the door," Chen Kun pointed at the cracked door.

Guo Jintao immediately shook his head like a rattle drum, "I'm not going, you close it; I don't dare to go there."

"You coward!"

Chen Kun was fuming, as it was he who had closed the door of the equipment room just before, but he knew it was of no use talking to Guo Jintao now, as the guy had already chickened out.

Turning to look back at the door crack and the eye within it, Chen Kun shivered, but still bravely walked forward.

It seems that growing up eating eggs from the old hen at home truly made him braver than most, and unlike Zhang Wei, who though daring, was also prone to courting disaster.

Holding his phone, continuing to film with the camera, he slowly approached and said, "Just now, everyone saw that the 'Peephole Strange Creature' reappeared from the door behind us. Hmm, accurately speaking, from outside the door, because the corridor is out there, and this 'Peephole Ghost' is now standing outside in the corridor, peeping at me and my cowardly little buddy."

Pausing for a moment, Chen Kun continued, "Now… I'm going to close this door again, not allowing this guy to spy on us anymore because his presence is really making my skin crawl."

With that, he had reached the door.

With the experience of closing the door just before, Chen Kun did not hesitate this time. He grabbed the doorknob, his movements light and swift as he pulled the door closed, and a click signified the door was locked.

And from the moment he grabbed the doorknob to the instant he closed the door, his attention remained fixed on the man behind it.

But just like before, the peeping man did not move an inch, allowing Chen Kun to shut the door, rendering him unseen.

At the same time, the door to the equipment room slowly opened inwards, silently.

However, at that moment Guo Jintao had taken a few steps back, which put him parallel to the direction of the equipment room door. The corner of his eye seemed to detect something amiss, and he shone his flashlight over while turning his head to look. He was so startled that he let out a loud "Ah!" and fell to the ground, scrambling towards Chen Kun.

Chen Kun, startled by the sudden scream, turned around sharply, only to see an eye pressed up to the gap in the door of the equipment room, about three fingers wide, staring straight at him with a membranous pupil.

"Damn it!" Chen Kun exclaimed, stepping back in fright and bumping into the recently closed door of the lab.

By this time, Guo Jintao had crawled over, trembling as he stood up and grabbed Chen Kun, stuttering, "Let's go... go, let's leave right now, forget about... that guy, don't bother closing... the door, just leave like this, quick!"

Chen Kun also realized that something was off and quickly turned to grab the door handle leading to the corridor outside, twisting it forcefully but it wouldn't budge.

Then he pulled and pushed, still without any reaction.

At this moment, the door of the lab seemed to be locked by some unseen force.

The Peephole Strange Creature inside the equipment room was still watching them, not making any other moves, just staring silently.

The two of them panicked, jumping around, but with no way to open the door.

"Out the window!" Chen Kun suddenly said.

They immediately ran to the window and pushed, only to find it immovable. Looking down, they realized that all the windows had been deliberately nailed shut.

Chen Kun turned and took a close look at the lab, cursing, "You wimp, look at the place you picked. All top-notch equipment not meant for ventilation, these lab windows can't be opened at all!"

"Ah, what do we do now?" Guo Jintao asked, shivering as he glanced back, noticing that the Peephole Strange Creature was still watching them. He quickly said, "Smash it, smash the glass, break the window and we can get out!"

"Smash your sister!" Chen Kun couldn't contain his anger, "Do you really want us to get penalized, delay graduation for a year or maybe not even graduate? You do the smashing then."

"Damn it, then what?" Guo Jintao became frantic.

Chen Kun looked toward the man behind the door who was not making any moves, just silently staring, and pondered, "This strangeness only makes my skin crawl, but it doesn't harm anyone. I'm going to close the door to the equipment room now, but at the same time you hold down the door leading to the corridor outside. Then, after I've closed that one, come and try to open it.

Otherwise, we can't get out at all."

"No... No problem," agreed Guo Jintao, immediately heading to the door of the lab and grabbing the doorknob.

Meanwhile, Chen Kun also immediately went toward the door of the equipment room, no longer bothered by the person peeping from behind it, telling Guo Jintao, "Hold it tight."

As soon as he finished speaking, he shut the equipment room door, isolating the Peephole Strange Creature behind it.

At the same time, Guo Jintao felt the door leading to the corridor outside moved slightly. A force beyond any resistance appeared, automatically pushing the door inward.

Guo Jintao was startled and immediately tried to resist the door desperately, but it was futile.

Shortly after, the door opened again to a gap three fingers wide and then stopped. A shadowy figure appeared outside the door, slowly approaching the gap.

Frightened, Guo Jintao quickly ran away, yelling, "Can't cover it, damn this coffin board, it cannot be covered."

Chen Kun became increasingly irritated and said sternly, "If we can't close it then open the door. Didn't they say that once we encounter this guy, we can both close and open the door? I'll do it!"

He walked over in a few strides.

Just as the shadowy figure and the eerie eye was about to peek through, Chen Kun reached the door and pulled it wide open.

The figure in black, which should have been fully visible upon opening the door, disappeared in an instant.

But when Chen Kun opened the door, he was stunned by what he saw.

Instead of the corridor, the opened door revealed the same setting and furnishings as the equipment room.

At the exact same moment, Yan Junze had just arrived outside the corridor, approaching the room, when the door as if pulled by someone swung open violently, startling him. He tilted his head to peer inside.

The door was open, but there was no one at the entrance, nor anyone in the lab.

It was empty.

Yan Junze paused at the doorway, puzzled. He did not rush in but instead carefully recalled the past moments.

There was no mistake, he had indeed heard voices from this lab, and the flash of flashlight light he saw was also from within this room.

How could there be no one?