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The knocking continued, and Chen Xi took out his pocket watch and looked at it.

Time passed by minute by minute. It was now 4:56, and there were 4 minutes left before class started.

Chapter 45 The Second World (8)

The theology classroom is not far from the student dormitory. It only takes two or three minutes to run there.

That's why Chen Xi acted so leisurely before.

The knocking continued, and Chen Xi hesitated whether to open the door. The orphanage's wooden door had no peephole, and he was unsure who was outside.

However, the risks are the same whether the door is open or not. After 5 o'clock, a giant centipede will crawl out of the hole in the wall and attack all living things left in the dormitory.

In this orphanage, the dormitory has never been a safe place.

After figuring this out, Chen Xi opened the door.

Lily, holding a teddy bear, and the little coal ball with a pale face appeared before his eyes.

Little Coal Ball was so anxious that she burst into tears. "The door was locked from the outside. Lily and I shouted at the door for a long time, but no one came to open it. What should I do, Chenxi?"

Chen Xi thought for a moment, "I remember that every time before class, there would be nuns walking around the dormitory building, as if they were checking something. They would not leave until the bell rang, and the nuns would not lock the door."

"We heard the nun's footsteps through the door, but when I called for help, she told me to wait and die."

"Bear Warrior said that the nun knows everything."

Chen Xi's face suddenly turned ugly.

With three minutes left before class, he was the first to run out of the dormitory, followed by a group of little kids crying in panic.

The dormitory building has two floors, and there is only one exit on the first floor.

Every room has windows, but they are installed very high, nearly two meters away from the ground.

These children were chronically malnourished and much shorter than their peers. Even if they were stacked like a human, it would be difficult for them to climb out of the window.

Chen Xi ran to the door and pushed it hard despite giving up, but the heavy wooden door didn't respond at all.

When all the children's attention was on the gate, Yu Tong poked his head out of the villain's pocket and carefully observed the surrounding environment.

This was his first time visiting the corridor of the dormitory building.

Above the two-meter-high wooden door hangs a goat's head. From a certain angle, you can see a strange red light flashing in its eyes.

On the wall to the right of the wooden door hung a duty roster, which showed that after lunch at 7 p.m. today, only two nuns would be on night duty in the entire orphanage.

The other nuns were either on rotation or on sick leave. They were probably all planning to skip work to watch the pet beauty pageant.

Yu Tong was staring up in a daze, when his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a black rat hole hidden behind the flower bed on the left side of the wooden door.

The size and shape are exactly the same as the hole behind the metal cabinet in the dormitory.

Yu Tong thought for a moment.

Oh... he understood.

Chen Xi didn't push open the door. He pulled the little coal ball and the little mushroom and tried to climb out through the window.

Even if the three children tried their best, they could only barely touch the edge.

Seeing that there was only one minute left, Chen Xi quickly looked around, trying to find a safe place to hide, but he had no idea where to hide.

He jumped to the ground, walked up to Lily and whispered, "What else did your little bear warrior say?"

Lily hugged the little bear tightly in her arms. "It said that the person who closed the door is among us. You should stay away from that person, or he will eat you."

Chen Xi tilted his head to think about her words, and glanced at the two boys beside him. "Since the person who closed the door is among us, it is better for us to act separately to avoid being ambushed by the hidden person. If you feel scared, you can also team up in pairs."

After Chen Xi finished speaking, he turned to look at the little mushroom beside him and said, "Together, brother."

The boy lowered his head and didn't look at him, and walked to stand next to the little coal ball.

Little Coal Ball sobbed and wiped away tears, "I'm scared. Why do we have to separate? I want to go with you."

Lily was whispering to the teddy bear in her arms.

The teddy bear didn't react much. Lily was the only one speaking and nodding the whole time, but it looked like they were asking and answering questions.

She was acting so strangely that both boys shrank back.

Seeing Lily put down the bear, Chen Xi asked calmly: "What did the little bear warrior say again?"

"It gave me a team-forming suggestion. I'll go with Little Coal Ball. You go with Little Mushroom. When this is over, we'll meet in front of the door to the first-floor lobby."

"What's going on?"

"The little bear warrior wouldn't let me tell you. He said you would know. If you don't know, then you might as well die here."

Chen Xi raised his eyebrows, grabbed Little Mushroom's wrist, and led him deeper into the corridor.

Little Coal Ball wanted to follow, but was stopped by Lily who was holding the big bear.

Seeing that Chen Xi had no intention of waiting for him, he reluctantly followed Lily in another direction.

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There were also children from other dormitories trapped in the building.

They ran back and forth in the building anxiously, sobbing in fear from time to time.

"Dong—dong—"

As the melodious bell rang, the noisy dormitory building suddenly became quiet.

In order to survive, the trapped children each found a place to hide.

Chen Xi pulled Little Mushroom back to his dormitory.

He accepted the chicken's suggestion and, together with the mushroom, pushed all the metal cabinets in the house inward to block the hole in the wall.

Then use locks to seal all the metal cabinets to ensure that even if the monster breaks through the cabinet, it will not be able to get out for a while.

Chen Xi climbed onto the upper bunk and squatted on the metal cabinet closest to the door.

Little Mushroom wanted to kill Chenxi and keep the chick for himself. He thought Chenxi must think the same.

Fearing a surprise attack, he declined Chen Xi's invitation and followed his example, squatting on the metal cabinet opposite.