Girls' Dormitory Escape - Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Classic Movie Appreciation (7)

Zhang You, dead?

This fact was in front of their eyes, but it was difficult for those standing in front of the mirror to accept it.

Guo Guo was stunned for two long seconds, then her tears burst out, "Who killed you?! We are going to avenge you!"

Tang Xinjue grabbed her two agitated roommates, told them to calm down, then carefully listened to Zhang You's words.

Zhang You shook her head and mouthed her cause of death: "Zhao Mingtao."

After gesturing and mouthing, all of them understood the reason: Zhang You was stabbed several times by Zhao Mingtao after she became the head teacher and prevented Zhao Mingtao and Wang Peng from fighting to death.

In fact, with Zhang You's strengthened physical fitness, she might be able to defeat the berserk Zhao Mingtao, but she didn't expect that this opponent would suddenly attack from behind without giving her any time to resist.

Zhang You was also very depressed about this, but overall she was still calm. She pointeed to herself, then to the mirror, and then to Tang Xinjue.

Tang Xinjue understood. "You are the one who created the knocking sound and lead me here."

Zhang You nodded.

It turned out that being killed by other students in the "reality" realm of the movie wouldn't kill someone completely, but they would continue to exist in the "ghost" state, and also able to travel to the otherworld.

It was just she (Zhang You) now had no physical body, and she couldn't communicate with Tang Xinjue and the others normally. She could only attract attention by making knocking sounds, and could only appear through mirrors as her medium.

Zhang You pointed to the notebook outside and then to Li Xiaoyu again, and they pieced together her meaning: she knew more about the plot.

Tang Xinjue's eyes moved slightly. "From a ghost's perspective, can you see more characters' trajectory without being restricted by any perspective?"

Zhang You vigorously nodded.

It was too difficult to describe the plot with Zhang You's current state. Tang Xinjue directly dipped her fingers in the water mixed with blood, wrote six names on the sink's mirror, and asked Zhang You, "Can you draw the order of their deaths?"

Zhang You raised her hand, erased Sun Qian and Feng Wan first, then shook her head. She didn't know the plot of their deaths, but she agreed with their guesses.

Then, her fingers formed a line on the mirror and crossed out Qian Zhi and Wang Peng at the same time.

The two killed each other in a brawl.

In the end, there were only two names left on the mirror: Li Xiaoyu and Zhao Mingtao.

Zhang You drew an arc leads from the latter to the former, with traces of the chase.

Zhao Mingtao was the one who killed the head teacher, Zhang You. Judging from what Zhang You meant, after he killed someone, he found Li Xiaoyu who was peeping nearby, so he chased after her with a knife and intended to kill Li Xiaoyu, too.

Tang Xinjue asked, "and then?"

Zhang You opened her mouth, then closed it again like she didn't know how to describe it. She suddenly turned her head to look outside the door, frowned anxiously, and knocked hard on the mirror. Outside the mirror, the blood stains were also quickly fading away.

The otherworld was going to disappear!

Seeing that time was running out, Tang Xinjue could only seize what little time left to ask the last question: "Do you know who dreamed in the movie?"

Zhang You shook her head.

She used her last few seconds to utter a word silently:

Be careful of Li Xiaoyu.

The otherworld disappeared again, accompanied by a momentary sense of weightlessness and detachment. Tang Xinjue calmed down, and found that she was standing in the restroom this time, holding the opened notebook in her hand.

The moment she turned around to walk out, she suddenly froze.

...wrong.

It was obviously not the otherworld anymore, but the "reality" beyond the dream of the movie, but the burning smell in the air had not disappeared. Instead, it had become more and more intense.

Pausing for two seconds, Tang Xinjue's flickering eyes froze... She suddenly understood.

She understood the meaning of the killing curse words in Li Xiaoyu's notebook, understood why Class 3-1 was wiped out, and understood why Li Xiaoyu's ghost looked like that.

--it was burning.

In the next moment, she stepped forward without hesitation, and ran at full speed in the direction of Class 3-1!

If her guess is correct, Li Xiaoyu and Zhao Mingtao should have died in the same way - in a fire.

The distance to Class Three was getting closer, and the pungent burning smell became stronger and stronger. Tang Xinjue stopped suddenly at the door of the classroom with the sign of "Class 3-1".

Only black ashes remained in the classroom.

All the tables and chairs were burned, dozens of charred bodies fell in the room in painful and strange postures, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

Li Xiaoyu's silent smiling face seemed to appear in front of her eyes, and there were faint wailing and moaning in her ears, overlapping and pressing down from all directions.

Tang Xinjue did not turn off her perception, but let her mind think wildly. She knew it was too late. According to the habit of this movie-viewing dungeon, it should be approaching now...

"Ding! The movie viewing progress has reached 100%, and the replay is over. Starting the movie viewing quiz!"

Sure enough.

She didn't forget that during the "replay" time of the movie, all the dangers in the real world and the other world just made it more difficult for them to "watch the movie". The key to the final pass or not still lies in this test question.

If the answer is still wrong this time, the best possibility is that they will enter the replay of the movie again.

But the worst possibility...

Thinking of Zhang You who already became a ghost, Tang Xinjue's expression became more and more icy.

[Question, whose dream is this movie about? ]

[A, Zhao Mingtao]

[B, Qian Zhi]

[C, Sun Qian]

[D, Li Xiaoyu]

The question emerged in the air, with 60 seconds countdown.

There was no one around. Tang Xinjue wondered if her roommate was also facing this multiple-choice question at this time. She said quickly:

"If someone chooses the wrong one and someone chooses the right one, how will the result be judged?"

The rules also quickly gave the answer: [The question-and-answer test is based on the dormitory, and the right to choose an individual is chosen by the dormitory members.]

[Member selection influence] means that in front of this movie quiz, the other roommates gave Tang Xinjue the right to answer.

Her choice was the final result of this movie quiz.

The girl looked slightly relaxed, and the countdown numbers were falling rapidly in her eyes, showing the urgency of the options.

 "I choose A."

Tang Xinjue finally said.

[Are you sure about your choice? ]

"Sure." Tang Xinjue repeated again, with a clear and firm voice, "This is Zhao Mingtao's dream."

There is a high probability that the dreamer needs to meet two conditions at the same time: 1. Do not die prematurely in the plot, otherwise the whole class will not be able to know the truth. 2. Subconsciously thinks that Wang Peng likes Feng Wan, and doesn't know the truth about the love letter.

The only person who can satisfy these two points at the same time was Zhao Mingtao.

There was one last point that makes Zhao Mingtao suitable as a dreamer: he also had a crush on Feng Wan. This was not only used by Qian Zhi to frame, but also reflected in the movie. The boy who was obviously in a relationship with Feng Wan is named "Wang Peng", but Zhao Mingtao's face is shown.

"At the end of reality, Zhao Mingtao chased and killed Li Xiaoyu, and chased him all the way back to the class."

Tang Xinjue said calmly, completing her speculation as if making a statement.

"But after returning to the class, Zhao Mingtao saw Feng Wan who was killed by Wang Peng in the class. At this time, it happened to be the class time, and all the students flocked back to the classroom, not knowing what happened.

"Only Li Xiaoyu, close the door of the classroom at this moment, ignite the prepared combustibles, and set a fire in the classroom, burning everyone to death.

"Before being burned to death by the flames, Zhao Mingtao had this dream in a daze , and then disappeared together with the dream." After finishing the last sentence, Tang Xinjue raised her eyes: "This is the real content of the movie."

[The answer has been submitted and is being tested...]

[Congratulations, the answer is correct!]

[Candidates can now proceed to the next link: Live Appreciation. Candidates are asked to write their impressions of the film within 60 minutes, with no less than 800 words]

When the prompt fell, three figures appeared beside Tang Xinjue.

Guo Guo, Zheng Wanqing, and even the "dead" Zhang You appeared here intact.

The four roommates looked at each other in blank dismay, and before they could show surprise, the front and rear doors of the classroom suddenly closed, and clusters of flames ignited in front of the four of them!

[Countdown for after-viewing on-site: 60 minutes]

The four of them: "...F*ck."

It turns out that Live Appreciation is literally "on-site".*

*a play on Chinese words. "Live" has similar hanzi as "on-site".

They had to write a review at the scene of the fire and murder!

Blood seeped in from the classroom door, and a pale girl crawled down from the ceiling. It was Feng Wan in ghost form. Immediately behind her, Qian Zhi, Sun Qian, Wang Peng, and Zhao Mingtao appeared in turn, giggling and surrounding the audience.

 "..."

What the hell could off-site appreciation be??

After recovering from the brief blank mind, Guo Guo and the others suddenly discovered that Tang Xinjue had quickly opened Li Xiaoyu's notebook and began to write on it.

To be able to write the review without changing her face under this situation, they had nothing else to express except awe.

"Jue Shen!"

Guo Guo cried out feeling quite moved, and ran to Tang Xinjue's side to read the content of the review written by her, propping up her legs that were almost frightened.

She saw a line of title on the paper:

On the Importance of Keeping Fire Extinguishing Equipment and Escape Equipment in the Classroom——Thinking about "Death Record of Class 3-1"

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