Chapter 82: Surprise Hygiene Inspection
With the dormitory door as the dividing line, 917 was divided into two parts by the light. One part was 16 beds crowded together under the incandescent light, and the other part was a bare wall with green spots of perennial dampness.
At the corner where the wall and the floor were bent, two girls in white clothes were curled up on the ground. To be precise, only Ou Ruofei, who was wearing a white T-shirt, was shivering, while No. 13, who was wearing a white dress, had her head lowered and her facial expression could not be seen clearly.
Ou Ruofei poured water into her mouth, but no matter how much she drank, the thirst in her throat did not ease at all.
The crying in her ears became clearer and clearer, no longer like the sobbing of one girl, but became two, three, or even a group...
Pa.
Ou Ruofei's hands were shaking so much that she couldn't hold the cup, and the paper cup fell to the ground, and the water splashed on No. 13's clothes.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it!"
Ou Ruofei apologized quickly, but found that No. 13 didn't react at all.
Through the black hair hanging on her cheeks, you can see the girl's white neck stretched out at a strange angle, even her head was against the wall, and her chest did not rise or fall at all.
Ou Ruofei couldn't help but curl up her fingers. She really didn't want a thought to rise from her mind, but she couldn't control her thoughts...
Was No. 13 in front of her really a normal person?
Perhaps because the crying was getting closer and closer, she also woke up a little from her confusion and realized the weirdness of the situation.
"Classmate, I'm going back to sleep first, that, I'll go first..."
She waved her hand incoherently and stepped back. She wanted to get up but was grabbed by the arm!
No. 13, who was tightly against the wall, turned her head at some point: "Don't you want to chat with me?"
The cold light hit the girl's face, passed through the dark eyeballs, and printed her back on the wall.
And this time, Ou Ruofei finally heard the direction of the crying.
It came from the shadow of No. 13's body.
In the bathroom, No. 5 yawned.
"We've finished checking here. My dear sister will be on shift soon. I'll go back and call her."
No. 7 also left, saying briefly before leaving: "If there's any accident, just shout. I'll come back when I hear you."
No. 5's joking voice came from the corridor: "What if you fall asleep?"
No. 7 answered her coldly: "I already haven't slept for a long time."
...
Tang Xinjue and Jiang Lan stood in front of the sink.
The newly cleaned bathroom still had a rotten smell from an unknown source. Zhang You couldn't get rid of it even with two large bottles of air freshener. She could only let the smell fill the space endlessly.
Jiang Lan spoke first: "Did you receive my note?"
After getting a positive answer, she looked slightly relieved: "I'm sorry to use this roundabout way, because I'm not sure if it's safe to talk directly during the day. The props have a time limit."
She spread out her hand, with a golden bell in her palm. With the crisp sound of shaking, a transparent corrugated protective cover appeared beside the two of them, isolating the sound from being transmitted.
Tang Xinjue also got straight to the point: "Who do you suspect?"
Jiang Lan clasped her hands and said in a deep voice: "A lot of people... I can only trust our two dormitories now."
Tang Xinjue had reminded her to be careful of others. In addition, Zhang, Zheng, and Guo, her three roommates, were strong and actively contributed, so it was impossible for them to be ghosts in disguise.
"Especially the dormitory of No. 13," Jiang Lan frowned and told her that she wanted to check the upper bunk before, but was stopped by No. 13 excitedly.
"A Nian's perception is very strong. If she saw blood, it would definitely not be ketchup by mistake."
But the blood on the two beds did turn into ketchup, leaving them no reason to investigate further.
Tang Xinjue: "Doesn't it look like the skeleton at the door?"
She clearly saw a smile, but it turned into a fake doll in the blink of an eye, confusing everyone's guesses and senses.
Behind every false alarm, it seems that someone deliberately erased the clues they got, making the clues chaotic and without progress after a day.
"That's right." Jiang Lan was reminded, her eyebrows knitted tighter, and she simply revealed another piece of evidence. She took out a golden ball, and with the switch on, the ball turned and a pair of wings popped out.
"I thought it was number 13 who had a problem at first, but..."
The wings fluttered, and a female voice floated out:
"...I hid the things you gave me very well, and no one saw them. When can I open them?"
This was the voice of number 13!
Then, another female voice sounded: "...Wait until tonight, and you will know what's inside."
Tang Xinjue heard that this was number 15.
Number 13 sounded a little scared, and kept seeking a positive answer in her words. And number 15 said softly: "Don't worry, we are roommates, would I lie to you?"
The recording stopped here, and the rest turned into a noise.
Tang Xinjue lowered her eyes slightly, not surprised by the content of the recording, "From this, it sounds like the person who really had a problem on the first day was number 15."
And the initial abnormality of number 13 was also related to number 15, but number 15 had been quietly staying in the crowd, and many people didn't notice her.
Jiang Lan looked like she had a headache: "But the tricky thing is that we can't be sure whether they are human or ghosts now, and what is their purpose in sneaking into our group."
Most importantly, she didn't have enough evidence to confirm, and she didn't dare to act rashly.
Once suspicion grew, it would be difficult to control - if the identity of No. 15 was not credible, then No. 13, who was closely related to her, was also suspicious, and even No. 11 and No. 12 who share the same dormitory with them, No. 14 and No. 7 who are alone...
In the worst case, half of the people in the dormitory may be disguised "exam candidates"!
Tang Xinjue's clear voice stopped Jiang Lan's suspicion: "They should not be disguised ghosts."
"I am more inclined to believe that they didn't have problems from the beginning, but were influenced by some existence during the exam."
Jiang Lan's eyes moved: "You mean... possessed by ghosts?"
According to Tang Xinjue, this was the closest guess within her cognitive range.
"No," Tang Xinjue shook her head, "Whether it's a ghost in disguise or possessed, as long as the ghost appears in person, my roommate will find it."
Guo Guo's Yin-Yang eyes have never failed, but this time they found nothing.
So there was no ghost? Was everything normal, but their intuition and judgment are wrong? Jiang Lan felt a bigger headache.
They did rely on their intuition to make guesses, and there was no substantial evidence. If there was a mistake, it is not impossible... Jiang Lan was about to speak, but heard Tang Xinjue say: "I am more inclined to believe that the ghost did not appear directly in the dormitory, but intervened in another way. And this kind of intervention has a process and rules."
After speaking, she dipped her fingertips in water and wrote down the bed numbers of the accidents on the first day on the mirror.
Bed No. 16 where A’Nian was, Bed No. 14 where Ou Ruofei was, Bed No. 15 on the upper bunk of Bed No. 16, Bed No. 13 on the upper bunk of Bed No. 14...
Jiang Lan stared at the numbers in silence and soon realized: "The order is from back to front--"
Her voice stopped abruptly, and she realized another problem: If the ghost chooses the target from back to front, then the first one to have an accident should be A’Nian.
Tang Xinjue looked at her, "I think you know better than me whether A’Nian is okay."
The person next to her pursed her lips and finally answered confidently: "A’Nian is absolutely fine. She has the peace bracelet I bought from the mall at a high price. It connects the five-dimensional attributes of the three of us together. Once she is affected by any external factors, Keke and I will know it immediately."
"So after the ghost failed with her, the target was postponed to the next one."
Tang Xinjue drew a circle on the mirror: "Number 15."
Guo Guo: [Damn! It turned out to be number 15! I guessed wrong again.]
Zheng Wanqing: [You didn't listen carefully. You can tell from the recording that it's No. 15. How can you pass the level and get a high score with this attitude...]
The roommates who were connected in real time in their minds seemed to be watching a live broadcast. They quickly changed from posting bullet comments to arguing with each other, and finally ended with Guo Guo shouting "Da xiaojie, stop reading."
Tang Xinjue: "...In short, when I noticed that there was something wrong with No. 15, I didn't judge it immediately because the changes in her body were extremely slight and I couldn't confirm it until now."
In the state of mind connection, she can not only have a spiritual conversation with her roommates, but also see other people's spiritual power from another perspective.
Everyone's spiritual power was originally a ball of light orange flame, with similar size and brightness. But after the door-smashing farce, she keenly discovered that someone's flame had dimmed.
Although it was not obvious, the dimmed flame no longer jumped, as if it had wilted. At first glance, it seemed that it was just frightened and not noticeable.
But after a whole day, the only flame that remained abnormal was enough to make people sure.
Tang Xinjue did not elaborate on the information of the spiritual flame, but simply talked about her spiritual power, so Jiang Lan naturally understood the cause and effect.
"I didn't expect that someone could really awaken spiritual power." Jiang Lan was a little shocked. "Psychic power is one of the most expensive power categories in the mall, and the upgrade is even more expensive. Self-awakening is equivalent to earning a lot of points for free. You are really lucky."
"... Yeah."
Tang Xinjue acquiesced to this statement, without explaining that the first power she awakened was actually a toilet plunger.
Back to the topic, with the prerequisites, the two quickly sorted out the basic situation of the dormitory based on the information in their hands.
"For the time being, consider No. 15 as being controlled by ghosts, so their next targets should be No. 14 and No. 13."
"No. 13 was suddenly grabbed by a ghost during the day. Is it a sign of this? Then how should we deal with it..."
Jiang Lan was explaining her thoughts when she suddenly saw Tang Xinjue stop moving and turned her head sharply to look at the dormitory behind her.
"What's wrong?"
Tang Xinjue's expression was more serious than ever since she started the exam: "I felt a fear coming from someone, it's very strong... It's Ou Ruofei!"
She was calling for help!
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