"You said you'd chat with me, how can you leave? I have something to give you..."

The voice of Number 13 reached his ears from behind, a strange, hoarse female voice that stung Orofi's neural network like a creepy crawly insect.

"I don't want it, I don't want to watch it, let me go back!"

Ou Ruofei wanted to run, but her legs felt like they were filled with lead. She could only move slowly on the ground, tears welling up in her eyes. She deeply regretted why she had just lost her mind and was so confused that she didn't notice anything.

It was not until the protective necklace around her neck suddenly broke into pieces and the sharp fragments cut her skin, and she felt the pain, that she suddenly woke up and finally remembered to escape.

His legs felt like they were stuck in the mud and he couldn't move. Ou Ruofei almost collapsed and shouted for help, hoping that the other people sleeping in the dormitory would wake up.

The dormitory was silent, as if no one had heard her cries for help. Oruofei struggled forward, finally reaching her bed. She remembered she had hidden the remaining protective necklace under her pillow. As long as she could get it...

A rustling sound echoed overhead, like the rustling of a curtain. She looked up and saw that the curtains on the upper bunk in front of her had been pulled apart at some point. Number 15's face was stuck in the gap, staring at her with a dead look.

Orofei screamed in despair, not because of No. 15's head, but because her wrist was grabbed. In an effort to break free, she turned around and bumped into a pair of dark eyeballs.

And a pale face that was so close that it filled her entire field of vision.

"ah!!!"

BANG!!

Tang Xinjue kicked the door open and the two of them broke into the dormitory one after another.

As far as the eye could see, the dormitory was extremely quiet. Everyone was sleeping peacefully in their own beds, and there was no sign of an accident scene.

Jiang Lan frowned: "Are you sure the cry for help you heard was in the dormitory?"

Tang Xinjue remained silent. The feeling of extreme fear still remained in her mental perception, but the source of fear seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth.

She walked towards Ou Ruofei's bed No. 14 without hesitation, opened the bed curtain, and saw the girl lying calmly on the bed, without any fear on her face.

Was her perception wrong? Or...

She contacted Guo Guo and the others in her mind. At the same time, Jiang Lan strode to her roommate's bed. The next moment, they both turned their heads and looked at each other: "This is not our dormitory!"

Guo Guo was woken up with sleepy eyes, and before he could wake up, a broom was handed to him.

Yes, a new day has arrived and she has to clean up.

After sweeping a few times, No. 13 suddenly stopped her and said, "The order has changed today. You go clean the bathroom."

Looking at the smile on No. 13's face, Guo Guo was stunned for a moment but didn't think too much about it. He quickly walked to the bathroom, yawning, and saw No. 15 cleaning the mirror. He greeted her, "Good morning."

No. 15 did not answer, but continued to wipe the mirror slowly, the rag making a harsh friction sound on the glass.

Guo Guo felt like something was wrong. She looked at the broom in her hand, but couldn't remember what it was. She just made small talk and said, "By the way, have you seen my roommates? Why don't I see them..."

Before she could finish her words, the broom hit a hard box and she paused.

No. 15 slowly said, "This is a gift from me to you. Pick it up and take a look."

Guo Guo: ...When you give someone a gift, you just throw it on the ground and wait for someone to pick it up?

She opened her eyes wide and stared at the box on the ground for a long time. Without bending down, she swallowed twice.

For some reason, she felt a little resistant. The dull pain between her eyebrows seemed to be telling her something.

No. 15 was still urging him, and Guo Guo subconsciously replied, "Why don't you pick it up yourself?"

Silence fell behind him.

In the silence, Guo Guo finally saw the source of her feeling that something was wrong - her Yin-Yang eyes gradually started to work amidst the stinging pain, and she witnessed with her own eyes a black gas emanating from the ground and enveloping the box.

Guo Guo: “…”

Number 15's light voice sounded from behind: "I want to help you pick it up, but my hand is grabbed, it hurts..."

Guo Guo turned his head stiffly and looked at the girl standing upright in front of the mirror. A mirror with blood all over it came into view.

It turned out that No. 15 was not wiping the mirror with a rag, but with her own hands - the girl's entire wrist was immersed in the mirror. Every time she moved, her skin was cut by the sharp mirror surface, and blood flowed out as she moved.

In her field of vision, the girl in the mirror rolled her eyes and gave her a weird smile.

This is not the face of No. 15 at all!

Guo Guo screamed loudly, frantically calling other roommates in his mind, and turned around to open the door and run away.

However, the bathroom door was locked tightly and could not be opened no matter how hard she knocked, and there was no response in her mind.

"Help! God of Jue! Miss! Sister You!" Guo Guo knocked on the door desperately, then suddenly remembered that he had an app, and hurriedly took out his phone -

A distorted girl's face was reflected on the screen. No. 13's mouth was wrapped in tape, forcing out a distorted smile.

He shook his hand reflexively, and the phone fell to the ground, sliding along the ground to the door of the cubicle. Two figures tearing each other apart were reflected on the screen.

Guo Guo's mind shuddered, and he immediately ran up and kicked open the door of the compartment. With a slight tearing sound, Anian's struggling and panicked figure appeared in front of him.

Ou Ruofei, with a stiff expression, was grabbing her wrist and trying to put a pitch-black bracelet on it: "This is a gift from me to you..."

Before he could put it on completely, Ou Ruofei was suddenly grabbed by the back of the neck and slid out with Guo Guo's strong pull.

"Gift, gift..." Ou Ruofei raised his hands and was still trying to make some movements, but Guo Guo elbowed him out of the compartment and then slammed the door shut.

The two living people hid in the toilet cubicle, gasping for breath and staring at each other. Finally, Guo Guo took out the water-drop jade pendant and confirmed that "Anian" in front of him was not in danger.

"What's going on? What's going on with them? What are the gifts? Where are the others?"

He asked all his questions in one breath, but all he got was Anian shaking his head in confusion, saying he knew nothing about anything.

Guo Guo felt his head pounding. He grabbed his cell phone and called the dormitory, but as expected, the call could not be connected.

No, something is wrong. How could things suddenly turn out like this? I always feel like something is wrong...

But before she could figure it out, the cubicle door made a strange click and she fell backwards.

No. 15 with bleeding hands, No. 13 with half of his face sealed with tape, and the pale and stiff Ou Ruofei, were crowded together at the door, staring at them expressionlessly.

…

…

One, two, three, after trying all 14 of the unconscious "classmates", Tang Xinjue's face was as gloomy as water: "I'm not sure what they are, but they are definitely not people we know."

Rather than saying that all 14 people were replaced in the few seconds they rushed back, it would be more accurate to say that the entire space was replaced. The two tried every possible method but found that they could not contact their roommates.

The dormitory, corridor and bathroom were all shrouded in extreme silence, like a silent cage, with no way out to return to reality.

They are trapped here.

"What's that?" Jiang Lan gave a wry smile, leaning against the bed rail. She nearly went berserk after discovering she'd lost contact with her roommate. Her agitation caused her to cough violently for a while, and her already hoarse throat bled, leaving her speech only in a whisper.

Tang Xinjue twisted his fingers one by one, his gentle expression turned into indifference and silence, without a trace of unnecessary expression.

This is what she really looks like.

After taking half a minute to organize her thoughts, she suddenly said, "It was a dream."

"What?"

"This is a dream." Tang Xin Jue raised his eyelids, his pupils reflecting the outline of the space. "It's so lifelike because it's based on our memories, so it has no exit. It's our consciousness that's trapped here."

While in the bathroom, she was still in mental contact with Guo Guo and the other two, but after receiving Ou Ruofei's fear signal, she forgot to check on her roommates in the dormitory first, and rushed back without thinking.

She and Jiang Lan must have been experiencing some degree of perceptual disturbance since then. Just like when people dream, they often become partially confused and unable to think fully.

Jiang Lan: "Isn't it possible that this is an alternate dimension or an illusion?"

Tang Xin Jue: "It's possible, but unlikely. If this is an alternate dimension, then it's unsolvable proactively. It's like being thrown into a temporary replica, where we can only passively wait for it to ask questions. Emotionally, I personally don't want to accept this possibility."

Seeing her speak so bluntly, Jiang Lan was startled: "Why?"

Tang Xin Jue: "We can wait, what about the others?"

It is highly likely that more than just the two of them entered the dream passively. Considering Ou Rufei's sudden emotions, it could even be everyone.

She continued, "I'm not afraid of ghosts that appear in my dreams. If they show up, I have my own ways to deal with them. You should be able to do the same, right?"

Jiang Lan closed her eyes and understood what Tang Xin Jue meant.

"I can, Keke can too...but Anian can't."

Once everyone is dispersed, the weaker roommates will definitely face the greatest danger, and they are out of reach.

The copy does not need to bother attacking strong people, just need to trap them, just like now -

She stood up suddenly: "Is there any way for us to get out?"

Tang Xin Jue: "If it's a dream or hallucination, it will be there, but you might have to pay a price."

The other side had already prepared themselves mentally with a serious expression, but then they heard Tang Xin Jue say, "Suppress your ears."

Jiang Lan:?

In a flash, a light flashed in Tang Xinjue's palm, and a genuine... toilet plunger appeared.

Jiang Lan: ? ?

Just as he blocked his ears, the rubber head of the toilet plunger suddenly began to twitch, and the next second, a torrent of ghostly screams erupted from it, sweeping across the entire space!

Sizzle——

Like a mirror shattered, a crack quietly appeared, and then a second one... spider-web-like cracks densely packed across the air.

Then it shattered with a loud bang.