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CHAPTER 23: H-how—

Author: Lady Sheldon
last update publish date: 2025-11-06 22:32:46
“Fuck!” I hissed out.

The heat coming from under was getting unbearable by the minute.

It hit me first like someone had opened an oven right under my face. The air shimmered, thick and wet, and my skin immediately started to prickle like it was being slow-roasted. I had no idea acid could be Hot. I thought it just… melted stuff. But the closer I hung over it, the more it felt like my body was cooking from the bottom up.

My hands were slick with sweat making my grip slide against the metal
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  • All Of Us Are Dead   Author Note

    I’m truly sorry for not updating the book as promised (╥﹏╥)I know how disappointing it can be to wait for new content, especially when you’ve been so patient and supportive. Life got overwhelming in ways I didn’t anticipate, and I take full responsibility for the delay. I feel genuinely bad about letting you down and appreciate your understanding more than I can say.The update begins from Chapter 44 and will continue onward with the new material I’ve been working on. I’ll do my best to make it worth the wait. Thank you again for sticking with me.

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  • All Of Us Are Dead   CHAPTER 42: Me?

    She suddenly twisted and grabbed my wrist. “Shit,” I cursed under my breath. Not giving me a moment to think, she yanked me and I flew forward, slamming onto my knees, the stone floor tearing my skin open. I gasped. She held my wrist like a vice. If she dragged me one more inch— No. No. NO. I dug my nails into her hand, kicked backward, anything, everything. She didn’t even flinch. “I’m ending this,” she snarled and hauled me up. I saw the chalk line right there next to my foot. One shove. One breath. One heartbeat. I curled my knee, pulled my leg back, and kicked—hard—into the side of her knee. Something popped and she shouted, her grip loosening as pain shot up her leg. I used the opportunity to wrenched free, stumbled upright, and shoved her back with both hands. She stumbled and slid… One foot landing outside the circle. The alarms screamed. It was… over. I just stood there staring, chest rising and falling so fast I thought I’d pass out on the s

  • All Of Us Are Dead   CHAPTER 41: Shit

    When the screen finally flashed my number, I thought I would panic. I thought my stomach would drop, or my legs would freeze, or that I would choke on my own breath the way I did every time a teacher called my name in school. Or when I was called to HR back when I was still alive.But none of that happened.Instead… I felt nothing.Like someone had reached inside my chest and pulled the cord connecting me to reality. Every emotion—fear, dread, disgust, the instinct to run—just fell quiet inside me.I was hollow.Maybe that was acceptance. Maybe I had already died before stepping into the circle.Numbers echoed across the room in the Game Master’s booming voice, and the spotlight rotated until it landed on me and the person and 0269. Fate really had a sick sense of humor.Someone nudged me gently from behind and only then did I realize I hadn’t moved. My feet were glued to the floor. I forced one step forward, then another. I wasn’t walking into a circle—I was walking into my own fune

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    They marched us into another hall that was bigger than the last, echoing with that hollow emptiness that made me feel like my bones were hollow too. The floor was smooth stone and polished, almost reflective. In the very center of the hall was a huge white circle, drawn thick like the kind of chalk line cops draw around bodies at crime scenes.Olympic death games, perhaps.The Game Master walked ahead, tapping the cane he carried against the ground, almost bouncing with excitement.Some people were already whispering, trying to guess the challenge.He turned toward us, eyes shining with playfulness.“Welcome!” he announced. “To the next round. The rules are simple.”He tapped his cane once in the middle of the circle.“One on one. Each team enter… only one stays in the ring. Push your opponent out, and you win. If you leave the circle, you lose.”He spun, clapping his hands together once.“Last teammate standing survives. The losing member…”He let the sentence trail into silence, li

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  • All Of Us Are Dead   CHAPTER 14: Beautiful And Monstrous

    But before it could fire, a hand shot out and yanked me backward hard enough to make me stumble. The laser missed. The beam scorched the floor right where my leg had been. I looked up in shock to see Hoodie Guy right beside me, his chest heaving, his expression half grin, half grimace. “You owe

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  • All Of Us Are Dead   CHAPTER 5: He Looked Insane

    °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・ I don’t know how long I sat there staring at that damn screen after it went dark. Maybe a minute, maybe ten. My brain just… couldn’t process it.Dead.The word looped through my head over and over, echoing like a broken record.Dead? How could I be dead? I could feel my heartbeat. I cou

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  • All Of Us Are Dead   CHAPTER 37: Maybe

    God.She was impossible.But I didn’t look away this time. Even with my throat throbbing, even with my heart still stumbling over the fear 0521 left behind, I held her gaze.Maybe I was jealous.Would I be blamed? Who wouldn’t be. Of course I appreciated her help but maybe I wished I could hit like

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  • All Of Us Are Dead   CHAPTER 35: I Saw Daniel

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