Cen Yu was indeed bluffing him.

Just as He Yuxing grabbed his wrist, telling him not to open the door and that the rat was dead, he immediately stopped his movement to open the door.

The knocking on the door grew increasingly impatient, but Cen Yu only looked at He Yuxing, watching the changes in the other's expression.

—Perhaps worried that she would get angry, or perhaps she was thinking of an excuse, He Yuxing's expression was slightly unnatural.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but before he could speak, Cen Yu led him back to the bedside.

Cen Yu sat on the edge of the bed, and He Yuxing looked at him, still somewhat at a loss.

“Since he’s not our roommate,” Cen Yu said in a very low voice, glancing at the door that was being pounded on loudly, “Go to sleep.”

As he spoke, he lay back and collapsed onto his lower bunk.

He Yuxing stood on the edge of the bed...

He looked at Cen Yu, seemingly lost in thought.

He looked back at the rats outside the door, which had become frantic, and at the strange noises coming from the campus. Finally, he said to Cen Yu, "Goodnight."

...

All night long, strange noises kept coming from outside the door.

It wasn't until 6 a.m. that everything finally calmed down. Morning self-study started at 7 a.m., leaving them little time to wash up.

Cen Yu and He Yuxing were just like two ordinary high school students. After washing up, they prepared to leave the dormitory.

Before leaving the dormitory, Cen Yu looked back at the door of dormitory 302 one last time and found many scratch marks on the door, probably because those things from last night had not given up.

Wang Ke's dormitory was not far from theirs. After seeing Cen Yu and He Yuxing, he came over to say hello.

Then, in a mysterious tone, she asked Cen Yu, "...Have you seen the news?"

"News?" Cen Yu looked at Wang Ke, not understanding what he meant.

“It’s that news from the city.” Wang Ke said, glancing at He Yuxing as if worried he might hear, “I heard someone online saying that the end of the world is really coming.”

Cen Yu glanced at Wang Ke, "You secretly brought your phone."

"It wasn't me!" Wang Ke immediately exploded, then made a "shh" gesture, "It was brought by one of my roommates."

"Do you think what He Yuxing said is true?"

Wang Ke muttered to himself, "Could it be that the end of the world is really coming?"

"We're all going to die?"

Cen Yu suddenly realized that this might be the key to the copy.

"What year is it this year?" he asked a strange question.

Wang Ke looked at Cen Yu with a puzzled expression, and even reached out to touch his forehead. "You're not crazy, are you? You're not going crazy because of too much academic pressure, are you?"

"What year could it be?" Wang Ke said, stating a date. "Our exams are in a few months, have you forgotten?"

As Wang Ke spoke, his face began to change, and his eyes became vacant... He looked at Cen Yu as if he would immediately turn into a monster if Cen Yu's answer was wrong.

"I think you've gone mad." Cen Yu shook off Wang Ke's hand on his shoulder. "Ask me what year this is, and you still believe in this kind of doomsday nonsense."

Wang Ke's face returned to normal. He touched his nose and said, "Didn't I just find it too strange?"

"Didn't you see the news?"

"The city ground suddenly caved in, and cars and people fell in and disappeared without a trace."

“I heard from the school security guard that something seems to be wrong at school lately. A few days ago, the dean of students told us not to leave the dormitory at night.”

As Wang Ke spoke, he looked He Yuxing up and down again, "I also thought he was talking nonsense."

"But there's been too much going on lately..."

"What exactly did He Yuxing say that made you all so concerned?" Cen Yu asked.

He guessed that this was part of the storyline in the game, and that there was indeed such a classmate who was ostracized by others.

Cen Yu's words did not cause Wang Ke to "change his expression," perhaps because the other party felt that Cen Yu's actions were in line with his persona—that he was someone who did not care what others were doing—Wang Ke quickly said, "He Yuxing said he could see the future."

"He always said the end of the world was coming soon."

"We will all die."

Although his words sounded a bit mystical, they shouldn't have caused so many people to ostracize him. Cen Yu felt that Wang Ke still had something to say.

"Is there something else you haven't said?"

"You guys are so fragile, and just because the world's ending has been predicted, you're going to bully your classmates?"

"I didn't bully He Yuxing!" Wang Ke immediately waved his hand, but he didn't deny that someone was indeed bullying him... Cen Yu remembered that in the cafeteria, Wang Ke suddenly realized that Cen Yu had saved He Yuxing, and suspected that He Yuxing was playing a character who was often bullied in the game.

“But the teacher said before that He Yuxing likes to lie a bit,” Wang Ke said a little embarrassed. “In addition, he always says those kinds of things, so everyone else thinks he’s a liar.”

Cen Yu frowned. "The teacher said he was lying?"

"What teacher?"

Wang Ke quickly said a name, and seeing that Cen Yu didn't seem to know it, he immediately said it was the teacher who always wore green clothes.

As the two were talking, they had already left the dormitory building, and along the way they encountered many classmates.

Wang Ke seemed to be popular, constantly greeting people. Cen Yu glanced at He Yuxing, who was all alone behind him, and waved to him. He Yuxing immediately quickened his pace and walked to Cen Yu's side.

Wang Ke looked at He Yuxing, but in the end said nothing and made an excuse to slip away.

There was no time to eat at the cafeteria in the morning, so Cen Yu and the others could only buy some steamed buns or something to tide them over... The cafeteria staff were all smiles when they saw them. When Cen Yu was about to leave with the steamed buns, he noticed faint bloodstains on the chair leg.

The location was exactly where the group of people inside the tower sat yesterday.

Since returning to their dormitory last night, they haven't seen the group of people from the tower.

He Yuxing followed Cen Yu's gaze and also saw the bloodstains splattered on the chair leg... The students around them were rushing to the classroom and no one noticed their little actions.

Scarface hadn't left the dorm since returning yesterday. This morning, he knew he would have to leave. He and the bespectacled guy weren't in the same dorm, and he didn't know what was going on across the street, so he decided to try his luck at the cafeteria. But he never expected to see Cen Yu and He Yuxing, the ones who had led them into this dungeon.

He was instantly furious and was about to step forward, but then he suddenly remembered the strangeness of this instance and could only walk up to Cen Yu—

"We will cooperate."

Scarface spoke up, "Something's not right with this dungeon."

“Those people from the tower were all killed by the headmaster yesterday.”

So it was the blood of that group of people, Cen Yu thought. He didn't mention the cooperation, but just looked at Scarface and asked, "Besides you, who else is left?"

"Where are the butcher and the rat?" he asked, knowing the answer already.

Scarface cursed a few times, saying he suspected the two men were also dead. The cafeteria staff said the cleaners had disposed of rat carcasses in the corridor yesterday, "So they must have been rats."

"There isn't even a single bug in this dungeon, so where did this rat come from?!"