Chapter 101: Surprise Hygiene Inspection
The candidates could be certain that they had never seen the red door before as they wheeled around the nine floors.
It was as if it had appeared out of nowhere, both eerily abrupt and strangely blended into the corridor.
Tang Xinjue said, “We followed the ghosts' footsteps this time, and naturally what we saw were the things they found.”
It was pretty much the same as her previous general guess, the living probably wouldn't be able to find this place even if they turned the dormitory building upside down - only ghosts could find ghosts.
Zheng Wanqing's eyes burned, “Open the door? The girls’ dormitory ghosts have all gone in!”
The fellow ghosts had already taken the lead, so they naturally couldn't be left behind.
Zhang You, however, did not suggest venturing in, “What if the faculty office has set another ambush for us here?”
It was now at the most critical time, and they didn't have much left, they couldn't afford to support any more Waterloos* and sudden changes like the red thread cuts.
*滑铁卢, literally Waterloo, it is a Chinese internet slang that comes from the Battle of Waterloo, in which the anti-French coalition won a decisive victory and Napoleon was defeated. In short, the word metaphorically represents a critical failure.
Zheng Wanqing: “Then what are we doing, just waiting here?”
The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, and at this moment when they finally found the Academic Affairs Office, there was a hint of not knowing what to do.
Tang Xinjue voiced a reminder, “Look at our wounds.”
Only then did they remember the red thread cuts that had already been neglected for half a day. They unwrapped the gauze to take a look, only to see that they all appeared to varying degrees of continued mutation. In addition to No. 5’s group of three, the most serious were Keke and Guo Guo. They could even see the red thread inside them.
Guo Guo's face turned white: “Am I going to die?”
“We won't die for now, if we can get through before it kicks in.” Tang Xinjue gave an answer.
Jiang Lan sighed, “If we wait here, the speed of the passage will only depend on the progress of the girl ghosts, or it will be left to fate.”
Keke snorted coldly, “I still choose to struggle in the last period of my life, at least I want to know what the BOSS who killed me looks like rather than dying here for no reason.”
No. 7: “I'm going in too, I don't like waiting.”
She paused and said to Ou Ruofei, who was still hesitating, “Don't go in, it won't serve any purpose and adds danger in vain.”
Ou Ruofei: “...”
Although what she said was the truth, it still hurts QWQ
It was not expected that the next second, No. 7 actually threw her knife over, “It can do damage to the ghosts, and can also play a certain protective role when necessary. You take it and wait in the doorway, you can reduce a lot of dangers... At least it should be safer than going inside the door.”
Ou Ruofei froze, she held the knife in a daze, completely not expecting No.7 to give her such an important weapon.
Obviously when she first entered the dungeon, No. 7's attitude towards her and Keke could be tied for the worst, and for a while she had thought that it was because she was too much of a loser that she was hated by No. 7, never thinking that she could get the other party's unfailing help when it mattered.
No. 7 wrapped up the gauze and drew out a few more ordinary daggers and stuck them in her waist. She didn't turn her head to look at Ou Ruofei's expression, she only said stiffly, “In my dormitory, there were originally six people.
“I don't like them much. They're like you, stupid and dull. They can't think of the bad side of people, they can't even see through the lies of ghosts and monsters, and they always like to be a saintly mother to block the knife for others.
“Two exams and they're gone.”
No. 7 gritted her teeth and continued in a muffled voice, “I don't like them, but I don't dare to dream every day, I don't want to dream about them leaving one by one in my dreams. I wish every day that time could start over, that I could become stronger to keep living until I find a way to bring them back.”
Ou Ruofei sniffled, “I can understand you, every day I sleep alone in my dorm room, I remember the moment before my roommates disappeared, and it gets scary and hard ...”
“So just live your life. Learn to protect yourself so you can protect others. And remember, staying alive is what changes everything.”
No. 7 walked to the front of the group in full gear, never looking back from the beginning to the end.
The final result was quickly settled. Those who chose not to enter the door were the four people from No. 11’s dormitory and Ou Ruofei, while the rest decided to enter the door and fight with their backs against the wall for what might happen inside.
Tang Xinjue gripped the door handle, “So, ready?”
Guo Guo rubbed her head and whispered, “If we pass, can I buy myself a bottle of hair growth water at the mall?”
Her roommates replied, “Everything.”
“Good, then I'm ready too!”
Guo Guo clenched her teeth and gripped the pendant on her chest, facing the red door that was pulled open.
The red door opened, and inside was another black door, with a gap in the center just big enough to accommodate a few of them.
Not sensing any other danger, Tang Xinjue once again walked to the black door and pressed the handle.
Guo Guo fiercely bit her lower lip. She had already prepared herself for the worst, but she still froze for a moment when she saw the scene inside the door.
Inside the door was a square room, there were no ghosts or ghouls, no eerie corpses - only a wooden table in the center of the room, and a dry, thin woman sitting behind it.
The woman looked up at them, seemingly half-surprised, and just reached out and waved her hand, signaling them to walk in quickly, “Come over and sign.”
“Sign?” Tang Xinjue repeated those two words.
“Right.” The woman looked up impatiently again, sizing them up, “That's right, it's you guys. Quickly come over and sign here, then collect your luggage and you can enroll in school.”
Enrollment?
The group didn't move, wondering what this normal looking woman was and what drug was in her gourd.
Guo Guo froze as she observed this woman, and suddenly remembered something with a jolt, and busily said to Tang Xinjue in her head, “Jue Shen! Do you see what she looks like, does she look like the one in the memory clip...”
Tang Xinjue followed her words, “The woman who stood at the entrance of 917 before she was swallowed by the black fog, the dean of this school.”
Guo Guo took a breath and gasped, “That's right!”
The Dean of Academic Affairs only appeared for a very few short moments in the memory clip, the dry and thin woman dressed in all black vocally criticizing and barking orders at the new students. Even if it wasn't a memory that belonged to them, they could feel the fear rooted in the students' hearts through the scene, which left an extremely deep impression on Guo Guo.
Of course, the students who had already died here would probably not be afraid anymore when they found her again.
There was no doubt that this woman was one of the culprits for the deaths of countless students, the prime target of revenge for the student ghost. Now that she was sitting here seemingly unharmed, while the female ghosts that had just clearly flooded through the red door were nowhere to be found, it couldn't help but make the crowd's hearts skip a beat.
It wasn't an option to keep standing at the door, so Tang Xinjue took the lead and walked in. She looked around for a few moments and saw a banner hanging on the wall facing the doorway, which read “Welcome to New Student 2021”.
She realized in her heart, “Is this the admissions office, or the registration office?”
The Dean of Academic Affairs stared at her, a dry smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, “You're smart, kid, this is the Admissions Office. Everyone who enrolls in school needs to register here, and so do you.”
Keke sneered as she held her arms behind her, “What is this, role-playing? Do you want us to play house with you?”
The teacher's face changed drastically and cut her severely, “Don't talk to the teacher with this kind of attitude, not a bit of student behavior!”
Keke didn't cooperate at all, “If I had met a stupid teacher like you when I went to college, I would have torn up my acceptance letter and repeated my senior year. Let's see, this is where you fool freshmen into enrolling? If the gang of scammers had a consumer association, you guys would be on the level of 315 for counterfeiting, and this is it? Who gave you the confidence to call yourself a teacher here? When you split the loot, don't you have any money to spare to buy some zinc gluconate to replenish your brains?”
The speed of the girl's speech was like a speeding bullet, poking each other's lungs with every sentence, the dry, thin woman's face darkened and darkened and darkened, and finally she rose up in a rage: “You're the worst class of students I've ever seen!”
Keke: “Really? I don't believe it, unless you call out the previous classes of students for me to see.”
Academic Dean: “...”
She couldn't beat Keke’s words, so she vented her anger on the others, with the closest Tang Xinjue bearing the brunt, “You, come here and take all these forms away! Today you're going to copy 30 copies of the application form, and you won't be allowed to eat in the cafeteria until you've done so!”
Tang Xinjue glanced at the papers on the desktop with excellent eyesight, and smiled as well, “Application forms, guarantee letters, disclaimers, school discipline letters... Oh, and a poorly written disorientation technique. Do you guys really think that something that isn't even basic fantasy and mind manipulation can control us?
“A trick that even people with a little bit more willpower can be immune to is even taken out as a method of attack. It seems that the Academic Affairs Office is truly at the end of its rope and running out of tricks.”
With that said she waved her hand, and her spiritual power rushed straight in, directly tearing apart the spells covering the paper.
The Dean of Academic Affairs who was humiliated by a beating and then mocked in the face: “...”
Her drawn face began to twitch more than once, her chest rising and falling so dramatically that she could barely maintain her expression. It took half a day of slowing down before a sentence burst out from between her teeth, “No matter what, you are all students of our school now, and you always have to follow the rules of the school ...”
The Dean of Academic Affairs took out a bunch of letters from underneath the table and fiercely threw them onto the desktop.
The group stared, only to see that this time, the letters clearly read “Exchange Student Guarantee Letter”, and at the end of the contract, each person's real name was signed.
Tang Xinjue raised an eyebrow, “So this is your ultimate defense.”
The identity of exchange students experiencing a new school was the identity set for them by the exams.
Under normal circumstances, background identities generally didn't play a crucial role for candidates, and both negative and positive influences were very limited.
But this time, the NPCs of the Academic Affairs Office were obviously very cowardly. She didn't know what method they used, but they actually managed to get a decent batch of guarantee letters. They just didn't know what restrictions these letters would play on them specifically.
The Dean of Academic Affairs looked at everyone's expressions. An arrogant sneer reappeared on her face, and she grabbed a letter of guarantee: ''See? There are your names on it, as well as the official seals of our school and your school respectively. From the first day you came here, you are already students of our school!”
“Still don't get it?” A twisted smile spread across the Academic Affairs Dean’s face as she tore off the expression she had just disguised, revealing an uncontrollably sinister look in her eyes, “No matter what you guys do, you won't be able to escape from our grasp. As long as we don't allow it, you won't be able to leave here-”
“Don't do anything useless, you'll never be able to get out!”
The Dean of Academic Affairs admired the varying expressions of the crowd, grinning thoroughly. But before she could laugh, she saw Tang Xinjue suddenly take a step forward, “Teacher, I can see that there's a bit of a problem with your official seal.”
The next instant before the words fell, the hammer landed heavily on the desk, smashing the entire thing into pieces, along with the guarantee letters falling piecemeal to the ground.
The Dean of Academic Affairs was hit by the impact and flew into the wall behind her, covering her chest and coughing, a touch of the bottom of her nose touched the blood from the impact, and her face was suddenly twisted like a long deformed loofah.
Tang Xinjue lifted the hammer, but saw that the guarantee letters on the ground was intact. The paper seemed to be undamaged, and even the words on it were not scratched at all.
Seeing this scene, the Dean also cackled and shouted at the top of her voice, “You guys will never be able to leave! Even if you tear this place down, you'll be buried with us... cough cough!”
Her entire body was gripped up by the suddenly approaching Tang Xinjue, and was lightly thrown to the corner again, sliding down like a rag bag. Tang Xinjue hooked up a cold smile, “Looks like my guess was right. You guys don't have much power at all in yourselves, the traps you set up outside are already the full extent of your abilities, and your bodies here are as fragile as ordinary people. Any random person can beat you to death.”
The Dean of Academic Affairs coughed up a mouthful of blood and grimaced, “Even if you kill me, you won't be able to find a way out. When you guys are completely turned into sustenance, we can be resurrected all the same, ho ho ho...”
“Is that so?” Tang Xinjue crouched down to look at her, “So all that's needed to let us out is a word of consent from the Academic Affairs Office, and you guys got that authority.”
“Ho ho, that's right, but with this ability of yours, even if you kill me here, I won't sign the letter of consent. This is your fate, don't struggle.” The Dean of Academic Affairs was hit with a face full of blood, but still laughed perversely, “There were people who broke in here before you, and they ended up the same way, and you'll be able to see them soon enough. One from the male dormitory and one from the female dormitory, they just happen to be the new students of our school, hahaha, everything is perfectly in time!"
The woman wasn't able to finish the sentence as a heavy thump came from the wall behind her, as if someone was fighting to hit this wall from the inside.
Catching the slight change in the Academic Dean's face, Tang Xinjue narrowed her eyes, “I'll be able to see them soon, won't I?”
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