Girls' Dormitory Escape - Chapter 81

Chapter 81: Surprise Hygiene Inspection

    "I didn't see anything."

    Guo Guo stared until her eyes hurt, and she just shook her head: "In my eyes, these are just two ordinary wooden doors."

    There was no white hand that grabbed No. 13, and there was no ghost.

    Tang Xinjue put her hand against the door panel, and the cold touch penetrated into her palm, lingering with a lingering chill - but that was all. Her mental power could not penetrate behind the door panel, as if there was some kind of barrier blocking her detection.

    "So now there is no concrete evidence, and we can't confirm that there must be a ghost in the door. It may also be a prank by other forces, such as those [people] who pretended to be dormitory managers before."

    No. 7 stood at the other end of the corridor with her arms folded, her sharp eyes nailed to No. 13's back, and the latter shrank slightly unconsciously.

    After a few seconds, No. 7 looked away and added coldly: "Ghosts are born to treat us as prey, and they can do anything. If you are not strong enough to fight, then don't get close to any place where they may be hiding. We are all people who have experienced the exam, and if you still don't know, you are looking for death."

    No. 13's face was as pale as paper.

    Keke said, "I didn't expect that someone would say something more annoying than me. I thought I was already the most annoying person."

    A’Nian gently pulled her sleeve, "Don't be like that... don't say that, you're fine."

    The atmosphere was a little dead for a while. No. 13 hugged No. 15 and sobbed softly. The other two roommates were at a loss. Their props and abilities were useless in the current situation. They could only ask others for help.

    Guo Guo comforted them, "It's okay. At least I didn't see any ghosts on you. It's possible that the other party wanted to attack you but failed. This is lucky!"

    No. 13's gloomy expression eased a little. After thanking her, she was helped by her roommates and staggered back to the dormitory.

    The rest of the people couldn't find any clues and left one after another. Only Tang Xinjue’s group of four were left in the corridor.

    Zheng Wanqing scratched her head, "That... classmate No. 13, will she be okay? It seems that everyone is reluctant to say it."

    Although she couldn't read the implicit meaning of others' words, she also realized that no one showed a clear attitude towards this matter.

    However, it was this unclear atmosphere that made people more anxious.

    Tang Xinjue still held the door with one hand, lowering her eyes and thinking about something. After a while, she answered: "Some people think she is fine, while others think she is hopeless. Everyone has different answers, but for the person involved, these are meaningless. She can only judge from her own perspective."

    "And what we have to think about is the meaning of everything that has happened, such as..."

    Tang Xinjue, Zhang You, and Guo Guo looked at each other, and they saw the same question in each other's eyes.

    "Why, No. 13?"

    Until the night fell, everyone went to the corridor to check once every hour, or guarded different areas of the 9th floor in batches, but in the end they found nothing.

    Dinner was still the biscuits provided by Zhang You. It couldn't fill the stomach, but it was better than nothing, and it somewhat relieved the tension under hunger and fatigue.

    After dinner, No. 5 found a bag of milk candy that had been stuffed in her storage bag at some point, and excitedly gave one to everyone.

    "Now milk candies are rare. You have to pay a high price to buy them in the student mall. I thought I couldn't even get them, but I didn't expect to earn one this time."

    Zhang You made a joke, and everyone laughed.

    "Then it's a deal. When we meet for the next group exam, I'll bring two big bags of milk candies, one bag of Golden Monkey and one bag of White Rabbit. No one can pass unless they have cavities!"

    No. 5 patted her chest with a solemn promise, and accidentally hurt herself. She held her chest and grinned: "Sorry, I forgot I have breasts."

    Even No. 13 couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the laughter soon became one in the room.

    "By the way, classmate, this is for you."

    Ou Ruofei suddenly took out a necklace and handed it to No. 13. "The mall said it seems to be a protective necklace. I don't know if it is useful. Anyway, you should wear it first, just in case it is useful."

    No. 13 took the necklace blankly, and her eyes suddenly reddened: "Thank you... But we don't know each other, and I haven't helped you..."

    In the morning, when Ou Ruofei talked about love and peace and was ridiculed by the crowd, she had been watching coldly, but she didn't expect that in times of crisis, Ou Ruofei would be willing to give her own defensive props to a stranger.

    The girl couldn't help but wipe her tears: "... And what would you do if you gave it to me?"

    Ou Ruofei: "It doesn't matter, I have a lot of them."

    After saying that, she unbuttoned her collar, revealing six or seven identical protective necklaces inside.

    No. 13: "..."

    Everyone: "..."

    Their first thought was: "Where did you find the wholesale channel?"

    Ou Ruofei explained: "Oh, I didn't buy it, but I picked it up at the balcony door during the Crazy Wednesday event."

    It turned out that she was so scared that she didn't dare to get out of bed to look that morning. Only when the time was almost up did she find several gift boxes smashed on the balcony window, with a bunch of protective necklaces inside.

    "..."

    It's true that comparing people will make you die, comparing goods will make you throw them away*. They were all pulled into the game on the same day. Some people were even more miserable than taking exams and could not afford to go shopping in the mall, while some people could get props from the sky just by lying down. The difference was really complicated.

    *a proverb, meaning if people insist on comparing themselves with each other, they will not be able to survive; if goods insist on comparing themselves with each other, they will have to be thrown away. There are always better people than you, no need to compare

    After getting the protective necklace and repeatedly confirming with Guo Guo that she was not "abnormal" now, No. 13 carefully went to bed and lay down, intending to escape today by sleeping.

    Everyone could understand her approach, after all, they were busy all day and everyone was very tired. But not everyone could sleep at the same time - after the final allocation, it was decided that people with bed numbers 1 to 8 would take turns to keep watch at night in groups of 4.

    "Then I want to ask, why are only the students with the first eight bed numbers responsible for keeping watch at night?" Ou Ruofei was a little confused: "Wouldn't this be a bit unfair to you?"

    She felt guilty when she thought that others were taking turns to keep watch at night, but she was sleeping soundly and didn't have to do anything.

    Keke snorted and laughed: "Honey, haven't you figured out the pattern of the bed numbers?"

    Ou Ruofei's pupils trembled: "Ah? The bed numbers are actually regular???"

    But she had never heard anyone say this before. Did she have a fake day?

    "Okay, Keke, stop teasing classmate Ou." Jiang Lan rescued the girl from her confusion and said in a hoarse voice: "The bed number of each of us is probably our strength ranking in the dormitory."

    The stronger the strength, the higher the number, and the weaker the strength, the lower the number.

    This can be seen from the one-day interaction, especially the memory retelling process. Although Tang Xinjue did not show her superpowers, her strength has been assumed to be the strongest in the dormitory. Then Jiang Lan, Keke and others followed.

    Ou Ruofei, A’Nian and others who have no superpowers at all are at the bottom.

    Ou Ruofei suddenly realized and took out her protective necklace: "Then each of you will have one... If it's not enough, I have more in my pocket!"

    Everyone: "..."

    What's the matter with this inexplicable feeling of being supported by a rich woman?

    It's a pity that Ou Ruofei couldn't give it away. Tang Xinjue's dormitory was not short of protective amulets, and Keke rejected her without hesitation.

    "No, I'm not going to give back to you. If I accept your things, I can't complain about you anymore."

    Ou Ruofei: "qwq Then can't you stop complaining about me?"

    Keke smiled: "No, I can't live without complaining."

    Ou Ruofei: "..."

    Tang Xinjue turned her head slightly, her eyes swept across Keke's face with sunglasses, her eyes did not change: "Then it's settled, I'll go to find a place to keep watch."

    Jiang Lan nodded: "I'll go with you."

    After that, she stepped forward and held Tang Xinjue's hand.

    Tang Xinjue lowered her eyes and felt a touch of coolness at the intersection of her palms. It was a note.

    The note was still shrinking in her palms, and her mental power had already "seen" the content inside:

    [Someone among us is not right.]

    At night.

    After a day of fear and fatigue, most people fell asleep as soon as they touched the bed. Even if the lights in the dormitory were turned on as bright as day, it didn't affect their sleepiness.

    Ou Ruofei opened her eyes in a burst of thirst.

    She fumbled to get up and saw four empty beds opposite: 1, 3, 5, and 7. This was the first round of night watch.

    It was... 1 a.m.

    She rubbed her eyes and walked to the long table to pour herself a glass of water.

    On the table were a thermos cup, a biscuit bag, and a danger sensor that Zhang You had taken out from her pocket, whose capacity she could never guess.

    Ou Ruofei opened the lid of the thermos cup and heard a sound of water when it was shaken. She poured it into the paper cup, but no water flowed out.

    What was going on? There was clearly water in it?

    Ou Ruofei rubbed her eyes a few more times and woke up completely. She continued to pour, but still not a drop. It was as if there was an invisible membrane that sealed the water in the cup and prevented her from drinking it.

    She put down the cup in a daze, and sleepiness surged into her brain again. She could only hold back her thirst and prepare to go back to sleep.

    The room was silent, the dormitory door was open, and the dim light from the corridor shone through. She didn't know where the people outside were keeping watch. Ou Ruofei took a quick look and then shrank her neck, not thinking of going out to take a look.

    The cool air against her neck made her start to feel a little scared, and she quickly turned around and walked towards the bed, wanting to return to the quilt that made her feel safe.

    Hiss...

    A subtle friction sound suddenly and subtly broke into her ears.

    Ou Ruofei, who had already walked to the side of the bed, subconsciously raised her head to find the direction of the sound.

    Her eyes looked around and finally fell on the sleeping Ah Nian in bed No. 16 opposite her.

    No, A’Nian was still sleeping. It was not her who made the sound, but...

    her eyes slowly moved up and fell on A’Nian's upper bunk.

    There was a tightly closed bed curtain on bed No. 15, and she could not see the appearance of No. 15, and there was no friction sound. It seemed that the sound just now was just tinnitus. But she had an inexplicable premonition that it was there.

    Ou Ruofei couldn't help squinting her eyes. Through the thin bed curtain, she seemed to see a figure inside, a silhouette that was close to the bed curtain...

    Ou Ruofei's breathing stopped.

    Her eyes slowly widened, but her pupils quickly shrank as she stared at the bed curtains.

    If she was not mistaken, the person in the bed curtains was standing.

    ...

    The figure of a girl stood on the bed, silently pressed against the bed curtains, and her face seemed to be facing downwards.

    "Are you asleep, classmate No. 15?"

    Ou Ruofei said softly.

    As soon as she said this, she wanted to swallow it in her mouth: Who would sleep standing on the bed?

    Before the scream broke out, a hand patted Ou Ruofei's shoulder and covered her mouth.

    "Mmmmm!!!"

    Ou Ruofei struggled frantically, and fear seemed to grasp every nerve in her brain, making her ears buzz.

    "It's me! Classmate Ou, classmate Ou?"

    The familiar voice made Ou Ruofei regain some sanity. She turned around tremblingly and saw the anxious face of No. 13.

    "What's wrong with you?"

    "No. 15, she's standing on the bed!" Ou Ruofei spoke with difficulty.

    With the lights half-lit, No. 13 raised her head, then lowered it again: "She's lying down now. She might have been sleepwalking just now. She's my roommate, nothing will happen to her, don't worry."

    The girl held Ou Ruofei's shoulders: "Don't be too nervous, you will wake everyone up, and everyone will be very angry."

    Listening to the other person's voice, Ou Ruofei took a few deep breaths and nodded.

    That's right, she couldn't shout. If she woke everyone up and caused a false alarm, she would definitely leave a worse impression in others' minds.

    She had finally met many companions, she had to be strong and smart...

    No. 13 put her arm around her shoulders: "Do you want some water? We can go to the corner and drink it. Come talk to me for a while."

    Taking small sips of the water in the paper cup, Ou Ruofei leaned her head against the wall, looking at No. 13's pale face. Thinking of what happened to her today, she couldn't help feeling guilty: "I'm sorry, did I wake you up? You encountered a ghost during the day, and I shouldn't have woken you up."

    No. 13 hugged her knees, and the expression on her face could not be seen clearly. Only a soft voice came out: "It's okay, I feel much better now."

    "Lying in bed makes me painful. Only when I sit here, I will feel a little more comfortable. It makes people feel very safe here."

    Ou Ruofei nodded in a daze. She felt that something was wrong with what the other person said, but she couldn't remember what was wrong. She could only drink water.

    Until a girl's sobbing sound floated up from the ground.

    Ou Ruofei's palms tightened, "Classmate, can you hear the crying?"

    "No." No. 13 half buried her body in the shadows and didn't move: "I didn't hear anything."

    "But I clearly--" Ou Ruofei almost bit her tongue.

    Because she heard that the crying sound was getting clearer and louder, just like the source of the sound... was climbing up!

    

    

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