Chapter 74: Surprise Hygiene Inspection
Bang bang bang!
The knock on the door, or more like a banging on the door, came unexpectedly, and the girls in the dormitory were suddenly frightened. Many of them reflexively used props, and the room suddenly became chaotic.
"Wait who is outside, why did they come in?"
"Didn't you hear, they’re here to check the hygiene!"
Everyone remembered that when they just woke up, they did hear someone rudely scolding them to clean up the dormitory quickly and prepare for the inspection. ...But no one expected that the inspection would come so quickly.
It took less than two minutes, leaving them no time to prepare at all!
In the tense atmosphere, even the girl with bun hair named A Nian held back her tears and followed Jiang Lan back to bed No. 2, trembling.
"Are you pretending to be dead inside? Open the door for us quickly! Otherwise, there would be no good consequences* for you guys!"
*original text 没有好果子吃: no good fruit to eat, a metaphor for having no good results.
The door shook violently twice, as if it was about to be broken in the next second. People who are closer to the dormitory door can see this more intuitively and clearly, and their ears are buzzing from the sound.
Unfortunately, Bed No. 2 is located right next to the dorm room’s door. The girl with bun-styled hair, who just sat down: "..."
Wuwuwu, she wanted to go back!
About ten seconds later, the knocking on the door stopped, and the male voice outside left a vicious threat: "Okay, if you are so brave, just wait for me!"
Seeing that the person outside the door seemed to have left, someone finally couldn't hold it in any longer and said in a panic, "Should we open the door?"
It was the girl in bed No. 12 who was speaking. Before she finished speaking, the girl in bed No. 11 on the upper bunk shook her head crazily: "You are stupid. If there is a ghost outside, we will all die if we let it in! Don't forget what the dorm door is for!"
Perhaps because there were too many people here, she stopped talking after.
"But who can be sure that you will die if you open the door? What if not opening the door is the condition for death?"
Opposite bed 11, a sneer came from the position of bed 3, "Of course, I didn't deliberately refute what you meant. Just raising a reasonable question."
..."I don't understand what you are talking about." In the chaos, the girl in bed 14 suddenly stood up excitedly: "You must be all students, right? [Dormitory Survival Game]?"
The room suddenly became silent.
This was the biggest question on everyone's mind, but no one is the first to say it out of caution.
Now, this topic had been highlighted by number 14.
In the four-person chat group in her mind, Zheng Wanqing exclaimed: "That's how it should be!"]
In fact, she wanted to yell several times just now, but was stopped by the other three.
Guo Guo completely disagreed: [Da xiaojie, please calm down. Look at who everyone in the room is looking at right now? ]
Zheng Wanqing didn’t know why: [What’s wrong? Isn’t it normal to look at whoever is talking?]
Guo Guo hated that iron cannot become steel*: [Now is a special situation! Let me ask you, do you know what is the most important first step in order to win and survive on the battlefield?]
*annoyed that someone isn’t up to expectation
Before Zheng Wanqing could figure out the answer, Tang Xinjue's voice suddenly appeared and answered Guo Guo's question for her:
[Distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.]
At the back of the dormitory, No. 14 stood alone outside the bed. She found that the eyes of the entire dormitory were on her, and quickly continued to state; "I am a student at Qinghe University of Finance and Economics, and my name is Ou Ruofei. To be honest, since entering the game, up to now, I haven’t seen anyone other than myself in countless days. You don’t know that when I just woke up, I was so happy!”
She couldn’t help wiping her tears as she spoke: “We are here! Although we don’t know each other, since we are taking the exam together, we are teammates on the same rope. After all, we are all human beings. If we don’t unite ourselves, who else can help us?"
After choking, Ou Ruofei raised her head expectantly, but there was not a single word of approval.
Everyone only cast silent glances, and the girls on the beds closest to her stepped back one after another, their expressions changing from vigilance to suspicion.
Ou Ruofei opened her mouth blankly, not knowing what she had done wrong.
Just when she was at a loss, No. 3, who had just criticized No. 11, said coldly again: "Human beings should help each other, but do you have confidence that we are all humans in this room?"
Ou Ruofei: "..."
She opened her eyes, in hindsight, she really didn't expect this.
"At the very least, how do you prove that you are a human being and not a ghost pretending to be someone else?"
Ou Ruofei quickly explained: "I can show you my phone! The information on the APP cannot be fake, right?"
No. 3 faintly answered: “I don’t know if the APP can be faked, but if you want to prove your innocence without getting close to others, you can only throw your phone to others. But can you be sure that the person you handed the phone to is a real person?"
“..."
Ou Ruofei was completely dumbfounded.
She thought it was a big team building instance, but in the eyes of others, it turned out to be a werewolf killing game?
Cold sweat broke out on her forehead, "I, I don't know..."
"Okay, Keke, just say a few words less."
Jiang Lan interrupted them.
"It doesn't matter whether it's a human or a ghost. We have to resolve the current matter first. The people outside the door will probably come back soon. Can we open the door this time?"
Everyone then noticed that Jiang Lan spoke in a lower voice. Once she speaks normally, her voice was obviously much hoarse than the average girl... as if her throat had been injured.
Many eyes shuttled through the air, confirming each other's glances.
It can be seen now that Jiang Lan, the hoarse voice from bed No. 2, Keke, the poisonous tongue from bed No. 3, and A Nian, the bun-haired girl from bed No. 16, were familiar with each other.
If they were all normal human students, they should be roommates in the same dormitory.
Guo Guo whispered in her mind: [I double-confirmed with the yin and yang eyes and the pendant. None of the three should be ghosts.]
As for the others, they just don’t seem to have much abnormality and cannot be completely confirmed yet.
Now that Jiang Lan and her party had gotten out of bed first, the others also left their beds in twos and threes, and were quickly divided into six distinct small circles.
Zheng Wanqing, who was trying to remember people, was suddenly dumbfounded: [It's over, they all left their places, I can't tell which number is which!]
Guo Guo: [You don’t forget, Xinjue would definitely remember it clearly. Come here quickly!]
The three of them quickly got out of bed to look for Tang Xinjue. However, when they arrived at the bedside, they realized that bed No. 1 where Tang Xinjue was lying was the upper bunk.
The three of them could not climb to the upper bunk, so they could only stand next to the lower bunk, as if they were surrounding bed No. 2 with eager eyes.
Being surrounded in the middle, feeling threatened, the bun-haired girl, who had left her home* and was surrounded by danger, said: ...qwq
*背井离乡: an idiom in Chinese, has the meaning of leaving one’s hometown to wander to other places
Tang Xinjue broke the awkward atmosphere. She jumped out of bed with a hand and walked leisurely to the door of the dormitory. Her white fingers touched the old and mottled wooden door.
The atmosphere in the dormitory was suffocating. Many people thought she was going to open the door and were so frightened that they stood up and shouted.
The next moment, Tang Xinjue stopped her hand and stepped back, grinding the dust off her hands. "The door looks old, but it is actually solid and tight with no signs of damage. There is no need to worry about being broken in for the time being."
"Why do we not need to worry?" Someone blurted out. .
Jiang Lan agreed: "There was such a big movement just now, the door was smashed inward, and it could be restored to its original shape immediately. It shows that it is indeed a protective shield. As long as we don't take the initiative to open the door, there is no danger for the time being."
It made sense. Everyone in the dormitory breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there was no killing at the beginning.
Venomous Tongue from Bed No. 3 questioned: "Just because the door was not pushed open last time, it does not mean that it cannot be pushed open next time. According to the characteristics of monsters pushing towers, the attacks should be more frequent..."
Before she finished speaking, the door suddenly trembled violently. Two times, the sound of hammering exploded from the door panel!
"...more violent than before." Bed No. 3 shrugged.
Everyone: ...why are you leaping to be the prophet* at this time!
*the word is a reference to the game Werewolf, the role ‘Prophet’
"Open the door! Open the door!"
The shouting outside the door was very loud, as if many people were shouting at the same time, mixed with vague threats.
Tang Xinjue listened attentively for a long time, ignoring the crumbling wooden door of the dormitory, and instead walked towards the door.
Everyone gasped.
Judging from the size of her body, they had no doubt that if the door was slightly opened, this pale girl, who was as thin as a piece of paper, would be ejected directly.
In this dangerous situation, the three people who looked like the girl's roommates actually stood motionless by the side, showing no intention of stepping forward to stop her!
——Either a ghost in disguise, or a plastic dormitory with serious indifference problem.
Others quickly extrapolated.
The girl herself was obviously unaware of the danger. Even after walking to the door, she held down the shaking door with one hand and asked outside the door: "Who are you?"
The person outside the door suddenly became even more excited: "It turns out you are still alive... Hurry up and open the door, we are here to check the hygiene!"
Tang Xinjue said indifferently: "You must also be responsible for checking the hygiene. Are you a staff member of the student union, the dormitory, the school's academic affairs office, or other positions?"
The person outside the door seemed not to expect such a question. They rustled for two seconds and then replied: "We are the dormitory managers. We have already informed you that we will check the hygiene today. If you don't open the door, points will be deducted."
"Yes, I will deduct all the points from your dormitory. Let's see how you cry then, hehe..."
There was a wretched laugh outside the door.
Tang Xinjue lowered her eyes and sneered, then turned to look inside the dormitory.
All 15 girls stared at the door, most of them nervous and confused, but a few were thoughtful, Jiang Lan was one of them.
When Jiang Lan met Tang Xinjue's eyes, she was slightly startled, then nodded, and said with determination in a hoarse voice: "These people outside the door are not really here to check the hygiene."
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