Chapter 104: Surprise Hygiene Inspection
Guo Guo felt like she had a long, long dream.
She couldn't recall the content of the dream anymore, she just woke up in a cold sweat.
“It's okay, I often have nightmares too, and I've even dreamt that I was killed in the dormitory building and turned into a stern ghost.”
Little Jiang tongxue from Guo Guo's upper bunk comforted her, and handed over a box of potato chips, “I secretly hid them, you want to eat them or not?”
Their school was a very strict phony university - Hongxin Academy. Although the school is not good, the dormitory management system was very strict, and every week they had to clean up for hygiene inspection, and they were not allowed to hide snacks. Every time they ate snacks, they had to sneak them into their book bags and “smuggle” them in.
“Eh eh, you know what? A few days ago, someone found out that the male dormitory is just across the corridor from our dormitory! Our dormitory building is actually a mixed-sex dormitory!”
For this news, the reaction of most people in the dormitory is not excitement and curiosity, but rather: the school has only one dormitory building, which is a mixed dormitory, how poor has it become?
Forget it, how poor the school they will not be surprised, anyway, the students have lost hope for this place, just want to hurry to graduate.
Guo Guo refused snacks, muddled get up, eat, class... until the evening back to the dormitory, she remembered a certain place that felt wrong.
“Doesn't our dorm room have a 9th floor, why is it sealed?”
As soon as this matter was mentioned, envy immediately appeared on Jiang tongxue's face, “The 9th floor was lucky, it was rated by the above as an outstanding performance, and directly graduated early, that's why it's been sealed. Alas, I also want to graduate ah!”
I don't know why, Guo Guo was not so enthusiastic about graduation, she always felt as if she had something to do. She was worried every day, but she could not always think of what to do.
During the course of her schooling, however, she did meet many interesting classmates and roommates. For example, Jiang tongxue, who loves sports and street health, Huang, who is grumpy, righteous and a bit of a klutz, Zhao tongxue, who is a long-haired softie who loves to take care of her hair, and Li tongxue, who loves to collect Hanfu, Lolita, and other clothes...
Despite the cramped and humble living environment, most of her roommates got along well with each other, and everyone treated Guo Guo very well, but Guo Guo was never that happy, and always felt that something was missing.
She sometimes dreamed that she should live in a four-person dormitory with three roommates of different personalities. Every morning when she woke up, she could see the school's famous school beauty memorizing her English words, and the most deeply hidden roommate would occasionally have faint dark circles under her eyes, but she always didn't say why. When she was freaking out because she couldn't find something, the third roommate would miraculously find the spares that could help from one of the pockets, and then push her black-rimmed glasses to deny her the tears that moved her.
When Guo Guo woke up again and saw the cold, monotonous wooden bedpan, Jiang tongxue showed a head from the top bunk, “Why did you cry just now?”
Guo Guo wiped her eyes, “In our dormitory building, is there a classmate surnamed Tang?”
She didn't end up finding the dormitory building list because the male dormitories at the back of the corridor were causing trouble. They clashed with the student council that usually swindled the residents and because they didn't have enough people, they were suppressed by the student council. That was why they secretly opened a small window in the corridor to get help from the female dormitory.
Guo Guo: “...Wait, how did you guys manage to open a window in the hallway?”
Her questions weren't answered, and when she came back from class, she found that her female dormitory roommates had already returned from their raging expedition, and according to them, they had beaten the crap out of the student council and wanted to disband and reorganize it.
She thought this was a good idea: "Anyway, you can't see the shadow of that school every day, so you can dismantle the student council and run it yourself."
“Forget it.” Jiang tongxue was a picture of no worldly desires at the end of her expedition, "I just want to graduate. When will it be my turn to have a sweet graduation?"
She added, “Alas, I see you have no desires, what do you want? A handsome man? Cosmetics? Snacks?”
Guo Guo thought for a long time, “Do you have... have spicy chicken claws mixed with yogurt?”
“Forget I said anything.”
......
The days flew by like running water, so fast that Guo Guo could hardly feel the passage of time.
Except for the occasional sighting of a grumpy old man at the corner of the building, muttering to himself and not knowing what he was repairing, nothing in life seemed to surprise her anymore.
Until one day, Guo Guo returned to her dorm room as usual, only to see her classmates already packed their bags and standing next to their respective beds smiling and looking at her.
“What are you guys going to do?” Guo Guo had a vague premonition in her heart.
Jiang tongxue opened her hands and joyfully informed, “We're graduating!”
“Really? Awesome.” Guo Guo was also happy, and she didn't want to continue staying here, and was about to go get her own luggage when she saw that the other girls had already taken out her school bag and started putting things into it piece by piece.
“Even though we didn't get to be proper classmates for once, thank you for being willing to come over and walk with us.”
The usually soft-spoken Xiao Zhao tongxue mustered up the courage to take out a purse, “This is my homemade purse, you guys can take it and maybe use it in the future.”
“Us?” Before Guo Guo could react, she saw a second item being put into the bag, then a third, fourth-
“These are your usual favorite chips, I didn't even bother to eat them!”
Jiang tongxue stuffed in the last item, pulled the bag tightly shut for her, and pushed it over, “Alright. This is a gift from your schoolmates who have already graduated!”
Guo Guo took the schoolbag and realized something, “You guys graduated, I didn't?”
“Idiot, of course you didn't, the graduation that belongs to you isn't here.”
When Guo Guo looked up, her “roommates” had already walked to the door at some point and waved at her.
Perhaps it was because her friends who had been together for a long time suddenly had to part, or perhaps it was because she was the only one left, the corners of her eyes were sore and a little confused.
“Of course, we have one last gift.”
Jiang tongxue suddenly stopped in his tracks, his expression turning from relaxed to serious.
“You can accept or not accept this gift, we respect your thoughts.”
“This gift is...” the girl held out her hand, ”Leave with us.”
Guo Guo repeated, “Leave with you, together?”
“Right.” Jiang tongxue showed a mouthful of white teeth, “If you want, from now on you're one of the graduates, and can be released early from this path, never having to suffer untold dangers and pain ever again. We can do that, but there is and will only be this one chance.”
“If you wish to continue, then there is no doubt that the rest of the journey is difficult. But if you succeed, there will be a bright ending and a bright future-at least much brighter than ours.”
“So, your choice is?”
Guo Guo felt as if she didn't understand what the other party was saying, but another voice in her head seemed to tell her that she did.
She followed the voice's reply and shook her head, “Thank you, but I still want to walk on my own path.”
At least she had company waiting for her, and all the perils and dangers were shared.
“Alright! I wish you the best of luck then, see you soon! See you again sometime!”
The girls waved vigorously and gradually disappeared out the door.
Guo Guo couldn't help but follow them out, but the corridor was already empty, all the figures from the dormitories were nowhere to be seen. But in the silent air, it was as if someone was calling her name.
“Guo Guo! Guo Guo--”
She followed the voice to the first floor and saw two familiar figures at the entrance of the dormitory building.
Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You were standing at the doorway with their arms wrapped around each other, waiting for her with a smile, “You finally came out, let's go, we should go back to 606.”
Guo Guo hadn't fully come to her senses yet, and although she couldn't name them, she subconsciously revealed a smile of relief.
1, 2, 3, ah, sure enough the three people are the ones she remembers... and so on?
Guo Guo opened her eyes wide and counted again, “1, 2, 3, how can it be 3 people?”
Memory broke through the cage in great shock and blurted out, “Where's Jue Shen?”
Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You exchanged a glance, “Xinjue, she still has a few things to take care of, she should be over at the male dormitory right now, so I guess she will come out later. But it doesn't matter, in this kind of dungeon where we had passed, there shouldn't be any more moths appearing.”
As the words fell, the door to the dormitory building began to automatically and slowly close.
The three people: “......”
Male dormitory, 8th floor.
Tang Xinjue pushed open the last door.
She had searched correctly, the other party was indeed here.
On the chair in the center of the dormitory, Shi An slowly raised his head and straightened his waist, revealing his hands intertwined on his thighs, sticky blood slowly flowing down.
At his feet, the male dormitory “ghosts” in various forms of death in peace.
Graduation day has become a funeral day here.
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