Chapter 44: Classic Movie Appreciation
When night fell quickly, the four people in dormitory 606 finally had the real feeling of being in a movie dungeon.
Everything seemed to be fast-forwarded on the horizontal axis - time passed at an incredible speed, and just after a few people had a brief discussion, and before they started preparing, the night had already enveloped the window.
Looking out of the window, the field of vision was blurred, and even the temperature inside the room seemed to drop a bit. Needless to say, they all prepared props tacitly.
As the plot progressed to the end, the dungeon finally revealed its murderous intent.
Guo Guo pinched the water drop pendant around her neck, stood in front of the balcony and stared at the outside. After a while, she backed away with a pale face, "It's so dark, it's not that dark at night, but, it's..."
"It seems that there are countless black phantoms covering the sky and covering the sky, causing the whole world to turn black." Tang Xinjue described it for her.
"Yes!" Guo Guo nodded vigorously and took a sip of water nervously, "These phantoms are a bit like the wandering spirits that can possess you in the previous [Four Seasons Protection Guide], but they have a little more black energy than wandering spirits."
No matter what this could be, it meant that the outside was extremely dangerous at this time.
"Oh, by the way," Guo Guo seemed to remember something, and immediately said to the three of them, "Today, when I was videoing Wei Xian's dog Master, I saw a person standing behind him!"
A person?
Tang Xinjue raised her eyebrows, she was sure that she only saw a fat man. That being the case, it could only be that Guo Guo had seen a ghost.
"Your yin and yang eyes are working?"
Guo Guo nodded quickly again, and gestured on her own neck, "That [person] looks like a young boy, about the same age as us, with a thick bloodstain on his neck, which is at the same location as the headless ghost in the movie, and Jin Wen's neck wound in this one."
Judging from this information, it was somewhat consistent with the four boys who died in the school a week ago.
When Master Wei Xian tried to lie, it was the ghost who stood behind and shook his head, and Guo Guo immediately pointed out that he was lying. It's a pity that her yin and yang eyes were still in its infancy, and because it was just a short video call, she couldn't get more useful information.
To be able to meet two relatively friendly NPCs in the same dungeon, everyone who was used to fall into traps dug by NPCs can't help feeling a little bit emotional.
"It's a pity……"
Just as Zhang You was about to speak, she suddenly saw Tang Xinjue make a silent gesture.
At the same time, outside the dormitory door, the sound of hurried footsteps came from the direction of the corridor stairs. One, two... It seems that there were many people running here in a panic at the same time.
With short and unfamiliar screams, it seemed that some girls were tripped. Then there were more chaotic footsteps and shrill shouts, heavy objects falling one after another, and soon all of those sounds disappeared.
Judging from the distance from the sound, none of them could reach the door of the dormitory.
Don't move, Tang Xinjue signaled the three of them.
Not long after, the sound of something rolling on the ground slowly entered their ears.
Gululu, Gululu.
Rolling from the stairwell to the inside of the corridor, the object stopped in front of a certain dorm door.
Bang, boom, boom.
There was a heavy knock on the door.
No, compared to knocking, "hit"* is more appropriate to describe it. The sound fell into the ears, almost like a person banging his head hard on the door.
*the original text use two words that can be translated to 'knock', but the one in the quotation marks, "磕", has the meaning of hitting something so hard. The word can also be used in knocking head to the floor (as in kowtow-ing).
A guess came to their mind at the same time, and the four people in the room looked at each other tacitly.
Then, the door seemed to be "knocked" open, and as expected, more violent screams sounded immediately.
When the corridor returned to silence again, new rolling sounds emerged from the ground again, changing from one to two, from two to three, and spreading deeper and deeper.
The room was so quiet that a needle drop could be heard. Guo Guo covered her mouth in order to prevent making a sound, and felt the rolling sound of that thing pressing on her scalp nerves, making her stomach wrinkle in discomfort.
"Boom!"
When the knocking sound finally appeared at the door, even though they were already prepared, they still couldn't avoid feeling shock.
The hazard detection props began to buzz, and the four of them had no intention of opening the door.
The sound outside the door did not give up. It changed from a single and slow knocking sound to more and more numerous and dense... Finally, it seemed as if there were countless "things" hitting the dormitory door at the same time, causing the whole door to tremble slightly.
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
Guo Guo covered her ears uncomfortably, and said softly, "Should we just wait, wait like this?"
The eerie aura rushed towards her face, making her head feel like it was going to explode.
Zhang You comforted: "We stand together, with the outermost group protective shield, don't worry."
As soon as the words were finished, the roommates suddenly saw Tang Xinjue turn around abruptly, throwing an icy and snowy talisman towards the balcony!
With a sound of swishing, the two floor-to-ceiling windows were covered with a thick layer of frost, and several circular shadows were ejected and rolled down to the balcony floor.
Through the unclear light, the black shadows rolling on the ground were the heads of girls, rolling one after another. One could even see the protruding eyeballs rolling on them, and blood dripping from the corners of their mouths.
——These "things" responsible for knocking on the door turned out to rush over through the balcony shared by the two dorms after entering the next-door dorm!
The balcony window was not as strong as the dormitory door. While they were just focusing on the door, these heads have already squeezed a gap through the glass window. If they found out later, these heads might have successfully broken in.
They hurried over to close the windows again, Tang Xinjue directly used [Ghost Scream], which caused several heads to roll off the balcony.
"If you want to blame, just blame that you have ears on your heads." Tang Xinjue retracted the toilet plunger and started to use it.
The heads: "..."
Guo Guo looked at this scene and just wanted to laugh, but at the last moment, the head suddenly turned into a skeletal face and rushed towards the window. She was so frightened that she backed up two steps with a cry of surprise. She hit the corner of the wall hard and her eyes were blacked out in pain.
No... After the pain subsided, the darkness in front of her still persisted. Guo Guo's heart skipped a beat.
She immediately turned on the flashlight of her mobile phone, and the moment the light illuminated the outlines around her, goosebumps all over her body suddenly appeared:
This was clearly a corridor!
She was suddenly dragged outside the dormitory?!
At this moment, the familiar sound of skull rolling came from the stairs.
"F*ck!"
Feeling panic rushed to his head, Guo Guo didn't care about anything. She quickly took out the key to open the door, and raced against time to return to the dormitory before the head rolled closer.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
The door of the dormitory was knocked heavily from the inside, and Guo Guo was so frightened that she took two steps back before she came back to her senses and realized:
The rapid knocking inside did not come from the impact of the head, but the sound of slapping hands at the same position.
But in the dormitory, why would someone knock on the door like that?
The knocking on the door continued, as if warning something... Don't come near?
The moment this thought arose, Guo Guo was shocked, as if waking up from a dream.
——Compared to being suddenly pulled into the corridor, this place should be more an illusion!
In such a trance-like moment, the shrill screams of the ghosts rang out from her ears. Guo Guo suddenly opened her eyes and looked up, and the surrounding scene came into view—she was still standing in the dormitory.
And her hand was covering the door of the dormitory, just one step away from pressing the doorknob.
Tang Xinjue also just broke through the illusion and woke up, her eyes were still full of coldness. Following her gaze, she saw Zhang You and Zheng Wanqing were standing by the balcony window, also looking frightened.
Once again, they were pulled into hallucinations at the same time and almost fell for it.
If there was no warning from the knock on the door in the hallucination, even if Tang Xinjue woke up and used [Ghost Scream], it might not be in time... Guo Guo suppressed the tears of fear, and asked: "What should we do now?"
"Wait."
Tang Xinjue held her roommates' hand and spoke concisely.
The last murderous night of a horror movie was always extraordinarily long.
Countless heads hit the doors on both sides as if they were never stopping. The four of them moved all the objects to resist them, and then sealed them with freezing talismans. They stood in the center with their backs leaning against each other and tensed up.
After an unknown period of time, the banging stopped.
From the top of the snow-white wall, a black or red liquid seeped, slowly flowing down the wall.
"My neck hurts..."
"My head fell off!"
"Where is my body?"
"It hurts……"
Blood-red palm prints ooze from the wall, some seem to be scratched, some seem to be slapped, countless hand prints slowly extend down all the way, approaching the position of the four people.
Tang Xinjue said: "Be careful with the biggest one!"
They concentrated their attention on it, and saw that among all the slender palm prints, one was obviously a circle larger than the others, and judging from the outline of the fingers, it was obviously the palm print of an adult fat man.
In the next moment, Zheng Wanqing yelled loudly, and [Sandbag-Sized Fist] struck out heavily, clutching a protective talisman and slamming it heavily on the palm print that just landed nearby.
The protective talisman ignited spontaneously without fire, and the male's low and miserable howl disappeared in a flash.
The moment it shifted direction and reappeared, it was directly caught by the toilet plunger again.
Tang Xinjue evoked a sneer: "Why, you also feel that you are shameless, you can only fish in troubled waters* in the palm prints of a group of girls, right?"
*The original meaning of fishing in troubled water is to first muddy the water in the pond so that the fish will be choked in the turbid water, and then take the opportunity to catch the fish without much effort; in modern Chinese, it means to first create chaos within the enemy or opponent, and then take advantage of the chaos to attack.
And just after it was caught, the other small palm prints that continued to spread upward obviously slowed down, and seemed to agree silently.
The man's palm print: "..."
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