K City, the famous Zhen University, a renowned science academy.

　　Ziye had been teaching physics in this class for a year.

　　After graduating from Teachers College and obtaining a master's degree, she gave up the opportunity to study abroad and instead stayed at this university where her parents had taught, continuing their legacy.

　　This was largely due to Ziye's stunning beauty, which could be described as breathtaking.

　　She had always been incredibly beautiful since she was young, with a delicate, oval face, long, flowing, shoulder-length hair, captivating eyes, and features that were like a work of art.

　　Coupled with her usual proud and cold demeanor, and the nobility that radiated from her every move, both boys and girls were deeply attracted to her.

　　Ziye's beauty wasn't the kind that would arouse primal desires, but a kind of beauty that would make people of all genders genuinely feel a natural and effortless charisma.

　　In the year she taught, many students had become very close to her.

　　After this class, Ziye organized her teaching materials and cleared her throat.

　　With a calm expression, she said to the students in the audience:

　　"Finally... I need to tell you all something. Today is my last day teaching at Zhen University. I have submitted my resignation to the principal. And I have already finished the handover process with the new physics teacher."

　　The audience was immediately in an uproar.

　　The students, who had become like family to Ziye in the past year, all started talking excitedly.

　　Many asked loudly: "Teacher… why are you resigning?"

　　"Yeah, there's no reason..."

　　Ziye continued speaking.

　　"This university is my parents' alma mater, where they were professors, so I have a lot of affection for Zhen University. But… due to personal reasons, I can't continue teaching here. I'm really sorry… maybe I'll come back occasionally, after all, the teaching facilities and laboratories at Zhen University are quite good."

　　"Personal reasons?" Everyone discussed among themselves, maybe the teacher was going to study abroad?

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　　Or maybe she was getting married and resigning?

　　Although they were reluctant to let her go, since Ziye had made up her mind, they couldn't say anything else.

　　" You must come back to visit sometime…"

　　"Yeah，we've had a wonderful time together in the past year…"

　　Although Ziye was usually reserved and taciturn, she was very attentive and her words and expressions conveyed her meaning.

　　Many people felt very warm and comfortable around her.

　　Leaving the gate of Zhen University, Ziye took one last look at the school where she had lived for a year, then slowly turned her head and walked away.

　　……

　　Li opened his eyes. Beside him were Yuan and Tang.

　　"You're awake, Li!" Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, saying: "You've been unconscious for two weeks."

　　"Two weeks…" Li felt his mind was a jumble.

　　After recalling carefully… he remembered that he and Ye had escaped from You Shui Village and returned to the apartment, and then Ye was eaten by that eerie female ghost at the entrance of the apartment… and he…

　　"It was Axiu who saved me."

　　Li finally recalled everything.

　　No matter what, he was lucky to survive the fourth blood letter instruction.

　　But Ye, after all, couldn't escape this ordeal…

　　"Ye, Luo, and Qin are all dead, right?"

　　Yuan sighed and said:

　　"There's no way… every time we carry out the blood letter instructions, someone has to sacrifice themselves. Li, you being able to survive is already quite good. The fifth blood letter instruction should appear after a long time, right? You can't slack off either, you need to prepare well during this time. The fifth blood letter instruction can be considered a watershed..."

　　"Watershed?" Li was stunned, then Yuan said: "Considering you hadn't passed the fourth blood letter instruction at that time, I didn't want to put too much pressure on you, so I didn't tell you. The fifth blood letter instruction is a transition, and after this transition… from the sixth blood letter instruction onwards, the danger and horror will naturally jump to a new level!"

　　"But, don't worry too much," Yuan comforted him: "Starting from the sixth blood letter instruction, the apartment will provide relatively generous conditions for avoiding ghosts."

　　"Generous conditions?"

　　"Yes… unlike now, where you have to fight tooth and nail to run back to the apartment. Starting from the sixth blood letter instruction, as long as the time limit is up… no matter where you are, as long as you want to return to the apartment, you can open a passage to enter the apartment anywhere!"

　　Is there such a good thing?

　　"You mean… even if we're on the other side of the earth, we can come back to the apartment instantly?"

　　"Yes. Don't even mention the other side of the earth, even if you're on Mars, you can come back immediately."

　　In other words, starting from the sixth blood letter instruction… as long as you endure until the blood letter instruction deadline is up, you can escape!

　　"One more thing… starting with the sixth blood letter instruction, the time limit generally won't be too long, like this time, a whole month, is almost impossible. At most, it will be a week. And the closer you get to the end, the shorter the deadline. It is said that for the tenth blood letter instruction, the deadline is less than a day."

　　Less than a day?

　　"Yes…" Yuan continued: "The closer you get to the end, the more generous the conditions for survival become, but conversely… the death rate also increases."

　　Yuan himself was actually quite scared.

　　Could they survive until the last blood letter instruction?