Girls' Dormitory Escape - Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Classic Movie Appreciation (6)

Sorry this took a while! Got busy with new year and real life. Hope you enjoy!

    Back in the classroom, Tang Xinjue went straight to Li Xiaoyu's seat.

    In the room just now, she interrogated all the information from Sun Qian's mouth. She wanted to tie the two of them together again, but unfortunately the dungeon forced the movie to change scenes, so she had to come back alone.

    But at least so far, the relationship between the characters in the movie had finally become clear.

    About how the so-called Wang Peng sent the love letter, the one who reported him was actually Qian Zhi. Qian Zhi's purpose was not only to frame Wang Peng, but he pretended to be his "good brother" Zhao Mingtao when he report, dragging them into the water at one go.

    Sun Qian, who was good at collecting gossip, discovered this by accident, but she didn't tell the truth. Instead, she sat back and watched Wang Peng be punished by the head teacher, and took the opportunity to spread slanderous remarks about Feng Wan.

    Feng Wan only cared about her own happiness, and didn't think much of it at all, but she also messed up - thinking that Li Xiaoyu had a crush on Wang Peng, she ran to show off in front of Li Xiaoyu. That's why Li Xiaoyu carved dense curses on her makeup mirror.

    As for Wang Peng and Zhao Mingtao, there was a high probability that they were about to fight each other.

    This was just what happened in just two days.

    And even the characters who didn't have any intersection in these two days were not at peace with each other.

    All in all, among the six students, when selecting two of them at random, there would be disagreements. The buffs of the conflicts were stacked like a murder book*.

*most likely a gaming/internet slang from the game LoL, where there is a scroll weapon that's called "杀人书", literally "kill people book".

    Sun Qian and Feng Wan, plastic girlfriends and experts in bullying, turned against each other after becoming ghosts.

    Qian Zhi and Zhao Mingtao, plastic brothers; their mind was finer than a needle, the temper was stronger than the sky, and they had countless criminal records.

    Wang Peng, the class leader whom everyone hates.

    Li Xiaoyu, an antisocial fringe character who hates everyone.

    With this kind of class, it was not an exaggeration to say that all the members were villains. It made  people wonder if there was no concept of ideological and moral education in this movie world.

    Tang Xinjue settled down in front of Li Xiaoyu's seat, and pulled out the book locked with password buried in the deepest part of the desk.

    She didn't directly destroy the code-locked book last time because she was concerned about the possibility of triggering the death flag. But looking at it now, the otherworld in this movie of the dungeon was not enough to pose a huge threat to her.

    Even if the danger was threatening, the otherworld was a bridge for the four people in the dormitory to have brief contact.

    Using force with her hands, Tang Xinjue broke the combination lock on the book without hesitation.

    There was a soft sound of the plastic breaking, as if something was broken in the air, malicious and looming howls flashed past the ears, and the coolness quickly spread from the back of her neck!

    Tang Xinjue didn't look back. She took a step forward, swung her elbow back, and blocked the attack with the password book in her hand.

    The code-locked book sank as expected, as if it was caught by something, turned around with the strength of the opponent, Tang Xinjue tiptoed a chair and kicked it.

    The chair rolled to the ground without any impact on the figure in the air, as if it just passed through a piece of air.

    Li Xiaoyu stood in the air like this, with her neck stretched forward slightly, staring straight at Tang Xinjue, her facial features grinned strangely, as if she wanted to pull a smile.

    But as the muscles on her face moved, the scorched skin fell off layer by layer like wall paint, and there was a "sizzling" burning sound.

    Like other student ghosts, Li Xiaoyu didn't seem to feel the pain, or didn't seem to care about it—she still tore apart her muscles vigorously, didn't make any sound, just met Tang Xinjue's eyes, and laughed silently.

    Then her figure swayed in the air like an afterimage on the screen, and disappeared into the air again.

    The overhead light tubes flickered, the classroom had become mottled, old and empty, and the smell of blood and burning came from all directions.

    With the appearance of Li Xiaoyu's ghost, the otherworld was triggered again.

    Tang Xinjue opened the notebook. There was a black handprint where Li Xiaoyu held it, scorching the paper and handwriting.

    Putting together the rest of the handwriting, some information can still be seen.

    [On the morning of September 5, the forged love letter was discovered. After half a month of follow-up, my handwriting was exactly the same as that of Wang Peng. But no one figured it out. Qian Zhi gave it to the class teacher...he should die (crossed out) and Zhao Mingtao should die]

    [But I don't want to deal with the body of the class teacher, that would make the office rotten.]

    [Missed the refilling time of the class water dispenser. There are a lot of pills left, temporarily put in the bottle.]

    [24 hours... 24 hours left...]

    [The powder on the love letter seemed to be sucked into me a little, and my skin started to blister and turn black.]

    [Death, everyone must die!]

    The last few words did not seem to be written with a pen, but rather like blood seeping out of the paper automatically, forming a line of bright red handwriting.

    Tang Xinjue carefully read the information above, and was about to put down the notebook when two lines of words appeared on it:

    [See what I see, think what I think... Do you want to know the whole truth?]

    [Save me from misery, free me from hatred... Wonder how to save us from hell?]

    Tang Xinjue: "No, thank you."

    Notebook: "..."

    "This is your own life." Tang Xinjue said softly and expressionlessly, "I have no interest in saving sentient beings."

    Her mission is to clear the level and survive, that's all.

    The ghosts with countless blood stains on their hands were still hunting and killing students in the first paragraph, and they wanted to be rescued by people in the next paragraph. If they want to play people around, it depends on whether the candidates were worthy (of being saved) or not.

    The notebook still didn't give up: "Don't you want to become stronger? Don't you want to get extra rewards? Don't you want to get in touch with...more secrets of this world?"

    Tang Xinjue decided to look at it for two seconds and smiled: "If there are extra rewards, is it from this movie, or from you? Li Xiaoyu?"

    Before she could respond again, she snapped the notebook shut, took two of Li Xiaoyu's pens, and left the class.

    Judging from the encounter with Zheng Wanqing, in theory, as long as two people trigger the inner world at the same time, they can see each other. Then if Zhang You or Guo Guo enters the other world at this time, they can meet each other.

    "Pa, pa..."

    As soon as she walked out of the door, Tang Xinjue suddenly raised her eyes and turned her head - it seemed that someone was knocking on the glass window of the class, but there was nothing outside the window.

    After searching the entire corridor, there were none of her roommates, only a few ghosts attacking unconsciously, so Tang Xinjue decided to go upstairs. As soon as she reached the corner of the stairs, she heard the knocking on the window again.

    "Pa, pa..."

    There was only a vast white mist outside the window in the stairwell, and it was unlikely that something was knocking on the window outside. That can only be the knocking sound from the inside.

    This time, Tang Xinjue stopped and stepped forward to check.

    There was no trace by the window, and the sound of knocking appeared and disappeared almost out of thin air.

    Thinking of this, she didn't go any further, but waited where she was.

    If the voice was meant to remind her of something, it would surely reappear.

    Sure enough, it didn't take long before the crackling sound appeared above, not only from the upper stairway, but from the room at the stairway.

    Without hesitation, Tang Xinjue followed the voice and found that the door was locked from the inside.

    On the small windshield at the top of the door, something invisible seemed to tap lightly twice.

    Tang Xinjue frowned, who was reminding her? What did this voice want her to do?

    There was no time to think so much now. There was a slight sound and a familiar atmosphere in the room. Tang Xinjue had a guess in her mind, and knocked on the door: "I am Tang Xinjue."

    There was no sound from the door. After waiting for two seconds, Tang Xinjue spoke again: "Guo Guo's favorite book to read is "After Inheriting the Enchanted Psychic Master, I Have Seven Big Brothers", "After I Came Out, I Was Hounded by the Demon King", " Ghost and Ghost King Have to Say..."..." 

    There was a rustling sound of unlocking, and then the door was forcefully opened, and two faces with unfamiliar features but familiar expressions appeared in front of them.

    Guo Guo whimpered: "Jue Shen! It's really you!"

    Zheng Wanqing was also there. She had a lot of blood on her body. She didn't know if it was her own blood or the ghost's blood, but she was full of energy: "You don't know, just now there was a dean ghost who was able to imitate other people's voices, and almost fooled us!"

    "Imitating a living person is a must-have skill for many ghosts. In our school system, this is a compulsory course for them." Tang Xinjue was still in the mood to make a joke, while she took out her notebook, "This records Li Xiaoyu's perspective. Plus the two of you, it's already half complete."

    If Zhang You were here, plus another person's perspective, it would be almost complete.

    Speaking of Zhang You, Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo shook their heads at the same time. Since they entered the inner world, they have been running away while searching, and they haven't found Zhang You yet.

    "Maybe Zhang You was too cautious, so she didn't trigger the other world." Guo Guo guessed.

    Tang Xinjue frowned and said nothing. For some reason, she always had a bad feeling in her heart. But now time was running out, and they didn't have time to discuss too much, so they immediately start comparing and summarizing the plot.

    "It turns out that the love letter was copied by Li Xiaoyu?"

    Both Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo were shocked. Zheng Wanqing suddenly realized, "No wonder Wang Peng was so angry when he came to me, as if he wanted revenge."

    Guo Guo said with a mournful face: "It turned out that Li Xiaoyu did it! I was almost hacked to death by Qian Zhi because of this incident. Ah no, it was Sun Qian who was almost hacked to death by Qian Zhi."

    Tang Xinjue reminded: "According to the normal development in the movie world, it is very likely that Sun Qian was indeed hacked to death by Qian Zhi."

    After they become characters, they can rely on enhanced physical fitness and ability props can escape, but the original characters couldn't.

    Zheng Wanqing nodded with a serious expression: "That's right, I don't think Feng Wan can escape."

    She stretched out her arm, which was entangled in layers of toilet paper, and blood oozing could be faintly seen, "When I was in the normal world of the movie, this was hacked by the crazy Wang Peng."

    Wang Peng seemed to have fought with Zhao Mingtao, but he was still angry when he came back, thinking that Feng Wan and Zhao Mingtao set up a scheme to frame him, so he came to find "Feng Wan" to settle the score. During the fight, Zheng Wanqing accidentally kicked over Li Xiaoyu's seat, which led to entering the inner world again.

    Tang Xinjue wrote down six names on the paper, then crossed the names of Sun Qian and Feng Wan.

    "When the plot reaches this point, two people have died for the time being."

    Guo Guo shivered: "The style of this class is too bloody, I don't know how many people died in total..."

    Tang Xinjue said without hesitation, "I tend to think that everyone is dead."

    Guo Guo: "!!!"

    Only Tang Xinjue continued: "In the last scene of the movie, everyone in the class turned into bloody ghosts. Even if it is a dream, it should not appeared for no reason."

    Combined with Li Xiaoyu's notebook, the murderous sentence [Everyone is going to die], it was not surprising that the entire class was wiped out.

    "If that's the case," Zheng Wanqing asked after thinking hard, "wouldn't it be that everyone is going to die, they just die in different order. Who created the dream in the movie?"

    Could it be a ghost dreaming?

    Tang Xinjue and the trembling Guo Guo looked at each other, "It depends on who dies last."

    At this moment, a light knocking sound sounded at the door again, which was different from the vicious and strange sound of ghosts. That was to say, it seems to be leading people to the past.

    ——The reunion of the three was also attracted by this voice.

    They all exchanged glances with each other, and Tang Xinjue decided, "Let's follow this voice to see."

    Carefully avoiding the ghosts and NPCs in the corridor, they walked all the way into the restroom, and the (knocking) voice stopped on the sink.

    "Crack"

    The mirror above the sink was knocked, which attracted their eyes, and then suddenly saw a familiar figure showed in the mirror—

    "Zhang You!" Guo Guo blurted out.

    ——To be precise, it was Zhang You, whose stomach was covered in blood and her face was pale.

    The three rushed to the mirror. Zheng Wanqing hurriedly asked, "Zhang You, why are you in the mirror? There is still so much blood on you, what happened?"

    Zhang You smiled helplessly at the three of them in the mirror, pointed to the wound on her abdomen, and gestured with her mouth:

    "I'm already dead." 

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