Chapter 33

After completing the enrollment process without any problems and going through a series of thrilling tasks such as dormitory allocation, Bai Ce finally moved into his own dormitory.

When I turned on the faucet, a mass of pitch-black hair came out mixed with blood and water.

Bai Ce sighed and tightened the faucet again. He already had a sense of calm madness. "It turns out that the water quality at Nightmare University is not good either."

Upon hearing this, the other three roommates in the four-person room hurried over. When they saw the clump of hair, their faces changed drastically. They immediately pulled Bai Ce back and said, "Get away from that clump of hair!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the hair in the yellow sink suddenly jumped up and flew towards Bai Ce's head like an arrow, exploding in the air with its fangs and claws bared.

If it weren't for the kind roommate who pulled Bai Ce, and if Bai Ce himself hadn't subconsciously shrank his head and narrowly avoided it, this thing would probably have stuck to Bai Ce's face like a facehugger and suffocated him to death.

The sneak attack failed. The hair on the ground was still wriggling, and it looked like it would explode again in the next second. Bai Ce's heart was still beating wildly. Seeing this, he quickly hid behind his three roommates: "Dad, save me!"

Silly Dog's remarks instantly broke the tense atmosphere. One of the roommates said unhappily, "Can you have some backbone?"

Another roommate also said: "Just burn it with a lighter, this thing is afraid of fire."

Sure enough, as soon as the flame of the lighter approached, the ball of hair began to shrink continuously, and soon it was completely ignited and turned into ashes.

Bai Ce finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked curiously, "We are all freshmen, how do you know so much about it?"

"Don't even mention it. It was all proven with human lives," a roommate sighed. "I'm in bed number 1. Beds 2 and 3 originally had other people, but they were both killed by their hair. I tried so many things before I finally found out this damn thing is afraid of fire."

"The current brothers No. 2 and No. 3 are here to fill in the gaps." Bed No. 1 said, "It looks like we'll be roommates from now on. I hope you can live longer."

Bai Ce wiped the sweat from his head and said with lingering fear: "I will try my best."

In dangerous environments, many people like to act in groups. For schools, it is even easier for students to form small groups based on dormitories.

Maybe they would go to dungeons together in the future, so it was necessary to understand the basic situation of their roommates. Soon, the four of them sat on their respective beds and started the self-introduction session like ordinary freshmen.

The older man in bed number 1 said with a droopy expression, "My name is Han Xinzhe. I'm an animation major at the Media College. In the real world, I'm a corporate slave who works from 8am to 9pm."

The thin young man in bed number 2 pushed up his glasses and whispered, "Wu Bai, College of Humanities, majoring in Folklore. In the real world, he's a research dog working in a laboratory."

The older brother in bed number 3 looked quite sturdy. He said in a gruff voice, "Liu Hao, from the Sports College, majoring in martial arts. In the real world, he's a fitness coach."

Among a group of office workers, Bai Ce, a college student, looked so full of energy: "Brother Liu, your major is very suitable for you. You all have jobs already. I'm a student majoring in Chemical Engineering at University A. I don't know what I was thinking, but when I chose the dungeon, I actually chose a university dungeon. Now, I was assigned to Pharmaceutical Engineering in the Medical School. I'm dying of laughter. Another terrible major, hahahaha."

""

Bai Ce smiled, and the whole dormitory fell silent.

With an awkward cough, Bai Ce raised a question: "But aren't students with the same major usually assigned to the same dormitory? Why are the four of us majoring in different subjects?"

Han Xinzhe pondered for a moment with a world-weary expression, his eyelids drooping. "I think it's to prevent roommates from sharing strategies. Every major has a different storyline. If students of the same major were assigned to the same dormitory and could share their experiences, wouldn't the difficulty of the missions be greatly reduced?"

Bai Ce praised: "Brother Han is wise!"

Wu Bai coughed and said, "Your major is okay, but mine is folklore, and it sounds very dangerous."

Liu Hao chuckled, "Do you think this Nightmare University would be so kind as to deliberately differentiate the difficulty levels of different majors? Of course, the story missions for each major are very dangerous."

As they talked, the four of them began to complain about the weird plot options in Nightmare University, and soon they became familiar with each other.

"You've all received your class schedules, right?" Bai Ce asked, "Are you all going to attend the morning class tomorrow?"

Han Xinzhe: "I want to go."

Liu Hao: "Yes."

Bai Ce: "Go up."

Wu Bai: "Uh, I don't need it?"

He flipped through his schedule, a look of confusion on his face: "Why are my folklore classes only in the second period in the morning and the first period in the afternoon?"

Liu Hao's eyes rolled: "Isn't the reason obvious enough?"

Bai Ce asked curiously: "What's the reason?"

"Because something will happen sooner or later," Liu Hao said dimly, "so we can only have classes at noon."

Wu Bai: ""What a cold joke, so cold that it made his back chill.

Han Xinzhe, the world-weary brother, spoke up at this point: "Then the three of us who have to go to the morning class tomorrow should act together. Wu Bai, if you're afraid, just stay in the dorm. We haven't figured out the rules of Nightmare University yet, so who knows what dangers there are on campus."

Wu Bai nodded: "I understand."

The four of them chatted briefly for a few minutes, and then the lights above their heads suddenly went out. They looked at the time and found that it was already 23:00.

Bai Ce: "Why do the lights go out in universities in horror games?"

Liu Hao: "Forget it, go to sleep. You might wake up and find yourself dead."

"What a hell of a joke."

Fortunately, no bloody monster killings happened that night, and Bai Ce slept until dawn. The only bad thing was that the air conditioning in the Nightmare University dormitory was turned on too high, making his neck feel cold.

The next morning, when the three early morning group got up, Wu Bai, who didn't go to the early morning class, also got up.

Bai Ce asked curiously, "Brother Bo, aren't you going to the morning class?"

Wu Bo was silent for a moment: "I don't want to get up either, but aren't any of you feeling hungry?"

As Wu Bai finished speaking, it was as if some kind of switch was activated, and the symphony of hunger sounded in the stomachs of the other three people one after another.

Han Xinzhe touched his stomach thoughtfully. "As a social animal, I've always been able to endure hunger. It's not normal for me to be so hungry in just one night."

Liu Hao said casually: "It seems that we have to eat this meal."

Wu Bai stood up and sighed, "Let's go to the cafeteria together."

They walked out of the dormitory building carefully and met many players who were out looking for food. They looked at each other and knew that the other party was going to the cafeteria.

Obviously, there must be some dangerous plot killers hidden in this cafeteria that you must visit.

Bai Ce thought, I hope there won’t be a situation where people recite embarrassing lines loudly while eating. The scene is too beautiful, he dare not even think about it.

Just when Bai Ce was distracted, he suddenly heard an anxious voice from the side: "Hide quickly!"

Before he could figure out what was happening, Bai Ce's body reacted before his head and he tried to dodge, but this time he failed. Something hit him on the head with a "bang" and then rolled to the ground.

You are attacked by a garbage monster.

[Smell +1]

Bai Ce: “?” What did you say +1?

The Coke can on the ground was still rolling. Bai Ce looked up and saw that one of the five trash cans downstairs in the dormitory building suddenly closed its lid.

Bai Ce rubbed his forehead, speechless.

Okay, okay, there are monsters even in the trash cans at your Nightmare University, right? It’s okay to have monsters, but why did you only hit him!

Just as Bai Ce was thinking this, he saw the lids of the five trash cans suddenly open, and then all kinds of garbage gushed out of the cans like a fountain, indiscriminately sweeping all the innocent students passing by.

For a while, the sound of cursing was endless.

Bai Ce felt strangely happy.

But Bai Ce soon discovered that the garbage monster that was shooting indiscriminately was just one of the weird monsters in Nightmare University. When Bai Ce arrived at the cafeteria, a new weird monster appeared again!

That was the lady serving food at the fast food window. She had a kind face, but red tentacles below her head.

Bai Ce swallowed his saliva and pointed to the hot and sour potato shreds that were the easiest to make mistakes. The old lady slowly rolled up the rice spoon with one of her tentacles and scooped up a spoonful of potato shreds.

Then the tentacle began to tremble violently as if it was suddenly hammered by a fascia gun.

The potato shreds in the spoon fell down, and only the last potato shred was left. Bai Ce was stunned, watching the aunt flip the spoon and put the last potato shred into his plate in a dignified manner. She raised her chin and looked at him with disdain, with an evil expression that said "My hands are shaking, what can you do to me?"

Bai Ce: ""

Holy crap! The lady serving food at Nightmare University actually has shaking hands! And she shook them so hard that only a single shredded potato remained in the spoon. Is this even fair?

From childhood to adulthood, he had seen even the cafeteria aunt with the trembling hands dare not shake like this, but how could this tentacle aunt dare!

As if sensing Bai Ce's overflowing resentment, the pop-up window appeared in front of Bai Ce again.

[Faced with the cafeteria aunt's deliberate deductions, you, enraged, made one of the following decisions:]

[A: If you can't beat me, hug my thigh. Kneel down and say to the cafeteria auntie, "Auntie, I heard you don't have any children. If you don't mind, I would like to take you as my adoptive mother! I will always be filial to you. Adoptive mother! Please love me!"

B: Eat the potato shreds silently, then find a rope and hang yourself at the door of the principal's office.

C: Explodes in silence, beats up the cafeteria lady, then steps on her tentacles and proudly says, "This time, I will take back everything that belongs to me!"

D: Do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, get the food and run away, making the cafeteria aunt regret it.

E: Burn ourselves to death, spit in the food, don't let me eat enough, I will make you unemployed too!

F: Begging in public, kneeling down and saying to the cafeteria auntie: "Please, auntie, I really need this meal, please give me a bite."

G: He did nothing, just took the plate and left.

Bai Ce: ""

Damn, except for the last option, why are all the options so crazy?

The safest option is undoubtedly option G, which is to do nothing. But the problem is that Bai Ce simply cannot swallow this!

This spoonful of shredded potatoes cost him 0.5 credits. Credits are so hard to earn. He should have been given a spoonful of shredded potatoes, why was he only given one!

Do you think he is easy to bully?

Bai Ce was also furious. This time, he chose C and exploded in silence! He beat up the cafeteria lady.

The moment he pressed this option, Bai Ce felt a flash before his eyes. When he came to his senses, a pop-up window appeared in front of him.

[A round of PK ends, and you are defeated by the tentacles of the cafeteria aunt]

The cafeteria auntie admires your courage, so she gives you an extra spoonful of Houttuynia cordata mixed with cilantro.

Huh?? Why did he lose?

Bai Ce watched helplessly as the cafeteria auntie smiled sinisterly and poured a full spoonful of watercress mixed with cilantro onto the plate, and his eyes were bloodshot for a moment.

You are a bad guy, you are planning something bad!

Bai Ce was so angry that his teeth were itching, but he couldn't do anything about the cafeteria aunt. He couldn't help but wonder, doesn't this dungeon have a leveling mechanism? If he could reach the maximum level, wouldn't beating the cafeteria aunt be like playing?

The upgrade mechanism that Bai Ce wanted soon appeared.

The pharmaceutical engineering program that Bai Ce studied had a pharmacy program. During the first class, the pharmacy professor told them that the daily class content was to teach them how to prepare medicines.

If you hand in the potion, that's great, you'll get +10 credits, +10 professional experience points, and +1 college reputation.

If they fail to submit the potion, they will fail the course and lose their status as students of Nightmare University.

What surprised Bai Ce was that the poison they made in class could be used freely in the school. Doesn't this mean that he can use poison to poison the cafeteria lady?!

Bai Ce majored in chemical engineering in the real world, so preparing medicines was not difficult for him. The difficult part was that the professor would not help them prepare the medicine materials, and they had to collect many materials themselves in school.

In order to successfully make the poison, Bai Ce began to carefully study the information given on the list of materials.

After a day, Bai Ce gradually figured out the rhythm and fun of the "Nightmare University" dungeon.

Attending classes every day is equivalent to daily tasks, which can help you gain experience. Students of different majors can acquire different initial skills.

To upgrade your skills, you need to complete various ring-running tasks. Only by upgrading can you defeat the monsters that bully you and escape from the monsters' hunting.

Back in the dormitory that night, the other three roommates also made great gains. Hearing that Bai Ce was going to the Art College to look for "bloodstone," a necessary ingredient for making potions, Han Xinzhe stood up and said, "I'll go with you. I have a mission called 'Hide and Seek,' and the mission location is also the Art College."

Liu Hao rubbed the goose bumps on his arms: "Who are you playing hide-and-seek with at this time of night? A ghost?"

Han Xinzhe shrugged: "They said that the child from the cartoon had escaped, and they asked us to catch the child back."

Liu Hao: “”

Wu Bai raised his hand silently: "I'll go too. Today our professor taught us how to draw talismans. The task is not only to find yellow talisman paper, but also to find human blood."

Bai Ce couldn't help but interrupt: "Why do you need to look for human blood? You can use your own blood instead."

Wu Bai: "I can't just give my own blood every day. Besides, I always feel that if I use my own blood, something bad might happen."

Liu Hao: "I won't go to the Art Academy. My mission is to find the 'Detailed Explanation of the 16 Movements of Military Boxing', so I have to go to the library."

So Han, Wu and Bai went to the Art Academy together.

The lights in the art academy were dim in the evening. Between the two dangerous options of taking the elevator and taking the stairs, the three people finally chose to take the elevator.

The reason was simple, because there were two other students waiting at the elevator door.

Bai Ce stepped forward and asked softly, like a spy meeting someone, "Are you also going to the Art Academy for a mission?"

The two students didn't turn around immediately. The student on the left replied, "Yes, we are going to the plaster room on the third floor. Where are you going?"

"I don't know, just take a walk first." Bai Ce felt that something seemed amiss, but still asked, "By the way, what are you looking for in the plaster room?"

"Looking for our head." The student on the right asked faintly, "Do you want to go with us to the plaster room to look for the head?"

Bai Ce's mouth twitched: "I suddenly remembered that we still have some..."

Before he could finish, the two students with their backs to them suddenly turned 180 degrees, revealing two identical faces with strange smiles on their faces. "Your heads look good. Can you give them to us?"

The trio turned and ran without saying a word.

The gate of the Art Academy was locked at some point, so they could only run towards the stairs. Before they reached the stairs, they heard a "dong dong" sound behind them, as if some spherical object was bouncing on the ground.

With a "bang", something hit Bai Ce's back. Bai Ce turned his head and was horrified to see a head with a bloody mouth opened wide, and sharp teeth were about to bite his face.

He subconsciously reached out to block it, and at that moment, time suddenly stopped.

"Stop, stop, stop!" The art professor stepped out of the shadows with a frown, pointing at the two heads on the ground and cursing, "I've told you so many times that you have to chase them up the stairs before you attack. Why do you always attack beforehand?"

The two heads huddled together, almost burying their faces in the ground under the professor's accusations, and said aggrievedly, "They ran too slowly."

"Why don't you just play slower?" the professor said coldly. "Remember, this part of your mission is just to increase the level of terror. All you have to do is chase them fiercely and frighteningly. The mortality rate must be kept below 10%."

"Do it again! If you keep jumping around, I'll replace you!"

Time went back to when the trio just started to escape. This time, the two heads finally mastered the correct rhythm of pursuit and successfully scared the people climbing up the stairs into screaming.

In order to ensure the death rate of players in each level, strengthen the cooperation and tacit understanding between the monsters, and make the copy present the best effect, this evening, in several corners of Nightmare University, time reversals like this occurred countless times.

Although the trial run lasted only three days, it was enough time to test out many problems.

Based on the results of the trial run, the top management of Nightmare University held several rounds of meetings and made adjustments and improvements to many details, and all the monsters in the school were busy.

As the principal, Cen Xun is also too busy to have time to rest.

Finally, on the last day before the opening day, the trial run ended.

Cen Xun stood in front of the French window of the principal's office on the top floor, looking down at the campus below.

Tong Ming placed a stack of documents on the table and looked at Cen Xun's back: "Should we put the players back now?"

Cen Xun said "hmm" lightly.

"The results of the trial run are quite good," Tong Ming was quite optimistic. He blinked and said, "Wait until the first batch of players come in tomorrow, and then you can start counting your points."

Cen Xun looked down, then suddenly raised the corner of his lips and asked a question without a beginning or an end: "Do you think he will come tomorrow?"

Both of them knew who "he" was.

Tong Ming sneered: "Haha, I bet an eye that the dog will definitely come."

Cen Xun smiled slightly, took out the black and white bird feather, and gently brushed it across his palm.

"It's better to have it delivered to your door."