Chapter 39

On the first day of the variety show, Lu Ning had just finished his evening self-study and walked into the dormitory. The sounds of talking and laughing in the dormitory suddenly stopped.

The atmosphere became cold and awkward. Lu Ning returned to his bed and sat silently. He lived on the lower bunk and there was no table in the eight-person room, so he could only sit on the bed.

As Lu Ning sat down, the bed shook a bit, and Li Bo, who was on the upper bunk, said according to his role: "Stupid, you disturbed me."

Everyone has just returned from evening self-study and hasn't washed up or gone to bed yet. If you're making noise now, you're just looking for trouble.

Lu Ning remained silent and ignored him. He stood up and took his books and put them into his cabinet. However, he found that his cabinet had been pried open again. Not knowing what was in the cabinet this time, he opened it carefully and breathed a sigh of relief. However, the ink bottle had overturned and spilled all over the cabinet.

He knocked on the iron cabinet door and asked, "Who did it?"

No one paid any attention to him. He just washed up and Cheng Yang covered his mouth and laughed secretly.

Lu Ning frowned and said, "Let me ask again, who did it?"

Li Bo said: "What are you arguing about so late at night? Are you the only one who has so much to do?"

Lu Ning opened the door and went out to find the dormitory manager, and explained the situation. The manager came in and looked at his locker, and said with embarrassment: "No valuables were lost, only a bottle of ink was knocked over. I don't know which classmate pried open the locker, it's really hard to deal with it..."

Auntie asked her roommates, "Did anyone see it? Can you come out and tell me?"

No one in the dormitory answered, but this was indeed what they did before Lu Ning came in. Xu Li's eyes flickered. This atmosphere was repeated in this variety show, making him feel a little uncomfortable.

Lu Ning smiled bitterly and said, "Auntie, I understand..."

The aunt could only lecture the whole dormitory and said, "Students should get along harmoniously with each other and stop playing these pranks. If I catch you next time, I will let the school punish you..."

After the aunt left, Li Bo mocked, "You're such a snitch."

Wang Hai echoed: "Lu Ning, you only know how to complain. The atmosphere in our dormitory is ruined by people like you."

Lu Ning had no evidence and no other options, so he could only clean the cabinet with a rag. It was already late when he finished cleaning, so he quickly picked up the basin and went to the bathroom to wash up.

As soon as Lu Ning left, Cheng Yang immediately rolled over from the bed, locked the door, clapped his hands and said, "If he knocks on the door later, no one will pay attention to him. It's time to go to bed."

Lu Ning quickly finished washing up and came back to try to turn the door of the dormitory, but found that it could not be turned. The dormitory door can be opened directly, and a key is only needed to lock it, which is usually locked by the last person who comes in.

Lu Ning knocked on the door gently, but there was no response. He continued knocking, and finally someone said, "Who told you not to bring your key? You deserve it. No one opened the door for you."

Lu Ning stopped knocking on the door and went to the dormitory manager to get the spare key. He kept saying to her, "Thank you for your help."

Auntie accompanied Lu Ning to open the door for him, muttering, "What's wrong with you guys opening the door for him? It's just a matter of two steps."

"Thank you, Auntie." Lu Ning thanked the auntie again and closed the door.

Li Bo continued to mock: "Are you going to complain to your aunt again? What else can you do besides complaining?"

Wang Hai said: "Yes, I don't bring my keys."

Someone agreed: "Lu Ning, you are still awake so late and disturbing me. Can you please stop being so nosy?"

Lu Ning had no way to argue with everyone in the dormitory about their twisted logic, so he silently began to pull back the quilt and go to sleep. But when he put his feet in, he found that his quilt was wet.

The lights were turned off. He felt very tired after a day of study and the tossing and turning at night. He no longer wanted to get up and ask anything, so he just went to sleep.

The simulated time lasted for a day in one or two hours. After sleeping in the wet quilt, Lu Ning continued his dormitory life the next day.

After lunch, he returned to the dormitory and prepared to wash his hair. In front of the public sink, he took the hot water to wet his hair and was applying shampoo with his head down.

Cheng Yang and Xu Li walked into the washroom. Cheng Yang made a hushing gesture to Xu Li, then walked behind Lu Ning and suddenly pushed Lu Ning into the water. Lu Ning struggled. Of course, for the sake of safety simulation, there was no water in the basin.

Cheng Yang looked at Xu Li grinning, and after more than ten seconds, he mouthed, "One, two, three, run."

Then he and Xu Li ran out of the bathroom quickly. Lu Ning couldn't open his eyes for a moment and couldn't see who it was.

The simulation time continued until after the evening self-study class and back to the dormitory. This time, Lu Ning brought the dormitory key with him, but he continued to suffer from cockroaches in the quilt, his books got wet, and other bad situations...

Lu Ning's two-day simulation experience lasted four hours. Because the director wanted to maintain a realistic state, he didn't say "NG" when everyone laughed.

Li Bo quickly came over to apologize to Lu Ning: "Teacher Lu, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scold you just now..."

Lu Ning smiled normally and said, "We were just acting just now, what's the big deal?"

Cheng Yang, on the other hand, became excited and thought this role-playing experience was quite interesting. He even said to the director, "Director Lin, I don't think this is school violence. No physical violence was involved."

Although the four people felt that they had done some things in this script, they would not associate Chi Xia with Huanyu. They probably thought that these might be the norm of dormitory life.

For two consecutive days, three other professional actors also experienced school violence.

The atmosphere in the simulated dormitory seemed to become strange. Li Bo even clearly realized that after living here for two days and playing this negative role all the time, his emotions seemed to be out of control. He was indulged in this emotion of inflicting violence on others, and this dormitory seemed to become somewhat real.

As time went on, he became more and more familiar with doing these things, and even felt that it was no big deal for the other party to go through these things, and he no longer laughed.

Fu Cheng twirled a pen behind the monitor and said, "Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment."

"Zimbardo recruited 24 college student volunteers and divided them into a prisoner group and a guard group to simulate a prison environment. After the experiment began, the guards quickly got into their roles, starting with a small punishment of the prisoners, and then became more and more crazy and brutal. The experiment was forced to stop on the sixth day."

“Don’t underestimate the influence of atmosphere.”

These were all researched by Fu Cheng. He even had dark circles under his eyes because of this variety show.

"Of course, we have professional psychologists on standby at all times, and the guests also underwent professional psychological tests before participating."

Li Bo has been the perpetrator four times, and now it is his turn to be the victim of school violence.

The script is not fixed, and the production team also prepared some props so that everyone can improvise. However, no one realized that their methods and verbal violence seemed to be getting more and more excessive.

Li Bo returned to the dormitory in silence. He was in a very bad mood because of two consecutive days of acting. The strange and quiet atmosphere after he entered made him even more irritable.

He sat down on his lower bunk bed. At this time, Wang Hai said, "Stupid, you disturbed me."

Li Bo has always been conceited. When he was called an idiot, he couldn't stand it and said subconsciously: "You are the idiot. You want to sleep just after returning to the dormitory?"

Someone said sarcastically: "Who told you that your butt is too big? It makes such a noise when you sit down."

Cheng Yang laughed wildly: "Bang! Hahahaha, I am dying of laughter."

Laughter broke out in the dormitory. Li Bo felt awkward and uncomfortable and said, "A bunch of lunatics."

He opened his locker and took out a cup to wash up. When he opened the lid, he found that there were several cockroaches in his cup. The cockroaches crawled out of the cup and even crawled over his hands.

Li Bo screamed and threw the cup away, shaking his hands continuously. He felt so nauseous that he wanted to vomit. How could he drink water and brush his teeth like this?

"Are you crazy? What are you yelling about?"

"Li Bo, are you so timid? You have a high score but low intelligence, and you don't even dare to catch a cockroach?"

Li Bo said: "Who doesn't feel disgusted by cockroaches? You are going too far!" There was no part in the script about putting cockroaches in his cup. Who did it?

Li Bo put the cup back and quickly went to wash his hands. He suddenly remembered that Chi Xia was also afraid of cockroaches. At that time, a group of people laughed at him for being afraid of this, but they always used cockroaches to scare him.

After washing his hands, Li Bo didn't know how to continue the act for a moment, because he had no cup and was feeling disgusted. He couldn't think of how to proceed with the washing step.

He returned to bed and went straight to sleep.

Then someone immediately mocked, "Someone went to bed without washing up, so sloppy. I'm afraid he'll have bad breath at night. Also, can you move that stinky shoe away so as not to disturb your roommates?"

Li Bo subconsciously retorted: "I just don't know which bitch put a cockroach in my cup. If you have the guts, use that cup to wash yourself."

"Don't make excuses for being sloppy."

Li Bo was furious at this kind of ridiculous logic. He usually picked on others, but it was never his turn to be picked on. But it was a waste of time to argue with a room full of people who were targeting him.

Li Bo held his breath, lifted the quilt and went to bed. He knew that the bed was poured with water, as he had done before when he played the role of the abuser, but he did not expect that it would be so uncomfortable to sleep on it.

The simulation time for one day was two hours, and he had just gone to bed without doing basically anything, which meant he would need to lie in bed for another hour and forty minutes before it was over.

According to the rules, he must sleep with a quilt covering him. In winter, this kind of quilt is cold and wet. Now in summer, this kind of quilt is wet and stuffy.

But the other seven roommates were still sneering at him: “Oh, you idiot fell asleep.”

"How can anyone sleep when he tosses and turns like this? He disturbs me."

"Li Bo, are you sick? Is that bed so hot that you can't stand it?"

"Can you cover yourself up? Don't stick one foot out. You have athlete's foot."

Li Bo heard Wang Hai's voice among those voices, and he was a little angry. Although it was a role-playing experience, could Wang Hai not say those things? These words were too disgusting.

These words are really divine logic. Isn't it that if they want to find fault with you, they can find anything? But one person can't make sense with seven people. Li Bo just feels like he is going crazy.

Li Bo blocked his ears and tried to think of something else to divert his attention and get through the hour or so. However, the bed was really hot and humid, so he stretched his legs out to get some fresh air. The group of people continued to talk.

Li Bo suddenly remembered that his roommates also poured water on Chi Xia's bed. It was still winter then, and Chi Xia tossed and turned. He seemed to be mocking him in the same way, but Chi Xia actually slept like this for a whole night. How could he be so patient?