Chapter 108: Surprise Hygiene Inspection
If one were to engage in a real sense of renovation, refurbishing the dormitory would require at least a construction team. The materials and tools in the hands of the four of them alone would definitely not be enough. Not to mention the fact that they had almost no knowledge related to renovation - but Zhang You had a way.
After spending fifteen minutes sorting all the materials into categories, Zhang You picked up the tools and started disassembling them, and after spending another fifteen minutes disassembling everything into its smallest parts, she started reassembling them.
The lock with a metal chain becomes the second security lock for the dorm room door. Extra sheets wrapped around scrap metal tubes glued and baked, blow-dried and paired with upper and lower pulleys, they became two simple sliding doors. Even if the bedroom door or window is broken, it can play a second layer of buffer.
Bed curtains were the last line of defense that had to be upgraded. Jiang tongxue probably a person that cared very much for her good reputation. The gift of bed curtains and bed netting were basically new and with a complete style, which meant that there were not enough of them to cover four beds.
Under Zhang You's on-site instruction, everyone cut the bed curtains according to the proportions and filled them with old curtains to make them bigger. Although the final visual effect was a bit non-mainstream, it preserved the protective power to the greatest extent.
Zhang You also had the ingenuity to remove several bell ornaments, pull out four hidden thin lines along the four sides of the bed, and then hang the bells in the corners. Each bell is connected to her danger alarm. In this way, once a ghost approaches, the bell will alert the person lying on the bed to prevent them from being attacked in their sleep.
After the defense part was done the group was already tired and sweating, but Zhang You turned her head and picked up the hammer and wrench, stepped on the chair and climbed onto the two cabinets at the door.
Guo Guo couldn't believe it: “You still want to continue to demolish?”
Zhang You hammered, “Continue to demolish!”
The original function of the two cabinets was only storage, and since the dungeon of the Four Seasons Protection Guide passed, it had a new function: hiding people.
The four of them had squeezed inside once, so they clearly understood the inconveniences: small space, airlessness, poor defense, no soundproofing, inconvenient to observe the outside world, and so on.
To turn them into the last “fortress”, they would have to be remodeled from top to bottom.
“You guys look at the washing area first, and leave the cabinet side to me and Zhang You.” Tang Xinjue sent the two people who didn't know how to start to the other side, and Zhang You buried her head and whispered for a long time, and after finalizing the plan, she started to tear down the house - the real thing.
The not-so-sturdy wooden cabinet was soon turned into several parts of different sizes under the thumping and buzzing cuts, and the noise of the renovation was so loud that even the footsteps patrolling in the corridor hovered in the doorway for half a day, not knowing whether or not they were suspecting that the students inside the house had gone crazy.
When the brand new cabinet was assembled and the two pulled open the door to test it, Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing, who ran over to watch, simultaneously sucked in a breath.
Only to see that the cabinet door originally opened outward, the interior not only added a lockable barrier, but also used the old curtains to make a thick soundproof cover. The plywood inside, which was originally used to store clothes, had been opened up and reshaped to form a design that allows people to climb to the top and then jump down from the "skylight" on the top of the cabinet.
Zhang You regretted: “It's a pity that the space and materials are limited, so we can't make them bigger. It's also impossible to add a pulley device for movement.”
Guo Guo swallowed her saliva and sighed from the bottom of her heart, “You jie, the next time you tell me that you want to convert them into a caravan, I'll believe it.”
She would believe it even if she said it was going to be converted into nuclear submarines and rockets!
Zheng Wanqing got excited, “Is it possible? I want to learn too!!!”
Unlike Guo Guo who was too tired to lift her fingers, Zheng Wanqing was so enthusiastic and energetic about the renovation that she quickly squeezed to the front of the room to raise her hand at almost every project she saw - and was mercilessly rejected by Zhang You and Tang Xinjue.
“No, Wanqing, you're too strong to hold back, it's easy for you to break the tools.” Zhang You shook her head, “Fine work doesn't suit you.”
Zheng Wanqing flattened her mouth, “Then what do I do.”
Guo Guo weakly probed: “That, da xiaojie, if you still have the strength, can you help me lift the chair?”
Due to the lack of painting tools and brick-laying tools, the final step of this simple renovation turned out to be floor paving protection.
Given the dungeon of Classic Movie Appreciation, the bloody hands and bloody handprints sticking out from the walls and floors left a not-so-shallow impression on a few people. They laid an extra layer of "carpet" on the ground where the main activity area, including the four beds, was located, and then spent 10 points to buy a bottle of "holy water" in the mall.
Guo Guo put the pendant into the holy water and stirred it, waiting for the holy water to turn red before carefully taking it out: “I didn't expect the exorcism skills I learned to be useful for the first time to be here.”
In the last dungeon, she never had the time to perform the tedious exorcism moves, and she was alone in her regret, but that emotion was now all transformed into nervousness.
Sacred water was evenly sprinkled on the carpet, and Guo Guo crouched on the ground to closely follow the drawing of the exorcism symbols. In the place where only her yin and yang eyes could see, one by one, the symbols flickered with a faint light, and Guo Guo finally let out a huge sigh of relief: “It worked!”
The next time any ghost tries to come up from the ground, she pulls off their heads and plants them on the ground as a night light!
Eleven o'clock at night.
The four of them, who had been busy all night, finished the “renovation”, and when they finally took a good breath to look around, they found that the dormitory had quietly changed its appearance.
The soft light from the ceiling, the fabric sliding door on the night light in the wall reflecting a starry halo. Newly inducted bed curtains of different shapes, all kinds of clothes and props hanging on the four beds connected to the “bridge”, as if all the beds are connected together, no longer worrying about situations of getting scattered and trapped.
Maybe it wasn't too pretty, but it filled their chests with a sense of accomplishment.
“Eh-eh-eh, did da xiaojie see that, I drew that beauty on your bed curtains!”
Guo Guo poked Zheng Wanqing while nibbling on a cookie.
Zheng Wanqing blinked blankly, “Isn't that a pig?”
Guo Guo: “...If you don't want to go to bed at night, sleep on the table down there.”
Zheng Wanqing: “Sleeping on the table is not good for the lumbar vertebrae, are you back to your old habit of staying up all night again?”
Guo Guo: “...don't talk to me, I'm tired.”
This point she said was true, they were indeed tired.
After washing up and eating and drinking, the time was already approaching zero o'clock, and sleepiness rushed to the brain. They all couldn't even discuss issues such as purchasing reinforcements and lottery draws from the mall anymore before they successively dipped into their beds and went to sleep.
Anyway, tomorrow was the weekend, so let's leave the rest for tomorrow.
A sound of music that seemed to be far away and near drifted leisurely into the candidate's soundly sleeping ears.
“Monday I picked up my backpack and came to school happy.”
“On Tuesday, I raised my pen and paper and took the test seriously.”
“On Wednesday, I got my grades, and my teacher praised me for being a good child.”
“On Thursday, I worked hard to further my education. I was happy to be promoted to a higher grade.”
“On Friday, I called my friends, and they all came here.”
“It's a beautiful weekend, what should I do?”
“Wake up, dear student, what are you going to do on your weekend?”
The moment she woke up from her dream, Zheng Wanqing thought that she had left the TV on last night and was woken up by some strange and noisy program.
But when she lifted her head, she realized that the TV screen was calmly flashing snowflakes, and the room was silent.
Then the song just now... was she dreaming?
Zheng Wanqing turned her head in confusion, and her gaze followed: at some point Tang Xinjue had already sat up from her bed and was consulting her cell phone.
Seeing her roommate looking over, Tang Xinjue shook her phone to signal her to look at the content on the APP.
Only to see the exam interface, the original exam information had turned blank, with only one line remaining:
[Dear students, happy weekend! During this wonderful day of rest, you received an invitation to the Dormitory Friendship League, do you accept the invitation to the competition?"]
[Yes/No]
The beds resounded with creaking sounds, and Zhang You and Guo Guo woke up and got up one after another, seeing the message.
...Friendship League?
“We guessed correctly.”
Tang Xinjue rolled over and walked down to the balcony window, “I'm afraid that the sudden appearance of the group exams on Friday was for us to adapt to this mode in advance.”
There was cooperation between dormitories, and naturally there were also competitions... or confrontations.
The screen that flashed with snowflakes suddenly vibrated, and the face of the long tongued and noseless ghost flashed out in an electric buzz sound. It wore a red hat with extra solemnity this time, and laughed shrilly and loudly as it pressed the work bell:
“Welcome to a special weekend edition of the Daily News! It's the start of a beautiful University City game day!”
After ten long seconds of raucous laughter, the Noseless Ghost finally coughs and dunks itself in a mouthful of water, clearing its throat, “Ahem, so let's see, what are the dormitories that have made it into the tournament so far?”
“First up is the Dorm Room Smackdown, the most popular in the college town! Only 3 credits are required to participate, and the number of dorm rooms that have entered is currently… 0!”
Noseless Ghost's voice lurched, “Never mind, let's take a look at the second exam, and also the Dormitory Friendship League which also holds the residents' expectations, only 2 credits are needed to sign up for this game, and the number of dormitories that have been admitted is… 0?”
The nose-less ghost wiped the sweat from its head, “It's okay, it's okay, we still have the third exam, The Freshman Challenge, which only requires 1 credit, that's right, just 1 credit... Oh! Two dorm rooms have already joined!”
The anchor immediately smiled with joy: “I think everyone knows, as long as the number of dormitory participation in the same teaching area reaches 10, the competition will begin on time. The prizes for participation are very generous, and there is a super surprise prize for winning, so if you haven't participated yet, hurry up and don't miss it! Countdown to the start of the competition--”
Tang Xinjue looked at her phone at the time of the announcement, and the needle came to 7:30 exactly.
The TV broadcasted on time, “There's still a countdown - 30 minutes!”
With a few rustles behind them, everyone had already packed up as fast as they could, and the four of them converged to look at each other.
Zhang You held the frames of her glasses and asked the most important question, “How about it, are we in?”
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(T/N) We're finally starting a new arc! Happy new year everyone :)
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