In the dim and cold room, a half-crowned female ghost was struggling hard, with a ruthless toilet plunger pressed against its face, the handle of which was held in the hand of a slender girl.
[Toilet Plunger Soldier: There's a handy toilet plunger, and it's very satisfied with its owner. Using it will greatly improve your efficiency.]
At this moment, the effects of this ability were apparent. Tang Xinjue felt his strength and speed invisibly enhanced. The state of the toilet was transmitted to his mind in every detail, even clearer than direct physical contact.
"How dare you!! I'm going to kill you!!"
Xiaohong's shrill screams were like a knife scratching glass, like layers of spiritual pollution surging up, but Tang Xinjue remained indifferent, and the power infused in his hands steadily increased.
The more Xiaohong struggled and tore, the more her face became welded to the rubber head. She was so angry that she lost her mind, but she couldn't break free. When had she ever experienced such frustration?
At this moment, its lower body suddenly sank, as if someone had bumped into it head-on, almost knocking it back into the crack in the ground.
"Wanqing?"
Tang Xin Jue cried out.
It turned out that Zheng Wanqing had just woken up and saw Tang Xinjue in a stalemate with a white female ghost. She had no strength left, so she simply rolled off the bed and fell on Xiaohong, just in time to push its face into the toilet plunger.
"Hurry up, run." Zheng Wanqing only had time to utter a few words before she fainted again due to the great impact.
"..." Seeing that her lower body could not move, Xiaohong sneered, and suddenly stretched out her arms forward, stretching them like rubber bands, and raised her hands to grab Tang Xinjue!
Tang Xinjue was holding the toilet plunger and couldn't dodge, but he didn't panic. He said coldly: "You don't want this face anymore?"
Xiaohong's movements suddenly froze.
Only then did it realize that the intense struggle just now had caused the facial features to be dislocated. Let alone continuing to evolve into a complete appearance, it was probably no different from a ball of paste now.
"Without this face, can you really come in?"
After a while, Xiaohong giggled: "Do you think you can stop me like this?"
Tang Xin Jue also raised the corner of his lips: "Then why don't you move?"
Xiaohong: “…” If you have the guts, take this thing away and ask me this question again?
Tang Xinjue's guess was correct. If Xiaohong wanted to enter the dormitory during the day, she not only needed an "identity," but also a face that truly belonged here in order to be recognized by the rules.
There is only one real key point, and everything else is just bluffing to confuse their senses.
The timing of her action was perfect, just when the Goblin looked the most terrifying, but was also the most vulnerable. The Goblin was controlled, and indeed, he was caught in a dilemma. The situation reversed in the blink of an eye.
Xiaohong was silent for a few seconds, then she stopped making such a fuss. She squeezed out a voice from under the plunger: "You're very smart."
If it were an ordinary person, they would either be too scared to move or run away screaming and crying. They would not even have the courage to attack the ghost, let alone guess the truth and accurately find the weak spot within a few seconds.
The girl in front of him was obviously prepared, from picking up this strange thing to putting it on its face.
Tang Xin Jue remained calm and said, "People always unleash their potential when in danger."
Xiaohong: ...Your hands clearly weren't even shaking!
The initiative had been forced to shift, and it was also a flexible NPC. Its tone changed and coaxed: "Even if you destroy my face, as long as you don't put it on the desk before dark, it won't be considered a completed mission."
"Besides, what else can this cowardly roommate do besides hold you back? Without her, your future exams and competitions will go much more smoothly. Don't you want to finish the game and return to reality?"
"Give me her face, and I promise not to hurt you. I'll also give you a lot of props... This is a sure win deal."
To show her sincerity, Xiaohong even retracted her fingernails and shook the unconscious Zheng Wanqing to the ground. "I just want a face. You can complete the task just as well. Trust me, there's no NPC in the game that's easier to talk to than me."
It waited for Tang Xinjue's response with great anticipation.
In the darkness, only the girl's chuckle could be heard. "Since we're talking about a deal, I'm quite interested."
"Tell me, which is better for a relationship: canceling three dates in a row or going on a date with misaligned features?"
Xiaohong: “…”
She said sinisterly, "Are you threatening me?"
"If that option doesn't seem very appealing, then what about the second option: your phone gets flushed down the drain, or your head gets sucked down the drain. Which would you choose?"
Xiao Hong screamed: "You dare to stick my head into the sewer?!!"
"Or the third option..."
The female ghost almost jumped up: "You still have???"
"If I send a text message to all the contacts in your phone at the same time," Tang Xinjue said slowly, "guess what I would send?"
"..." Xiao Hong calmed down and sneered, "I almost got tricked by you. You are a living person, how could you possibly use my phone?"
Do you really think she has no intelligence?
Tang Xin Jue raised his eyebrows in surprise, "I don't know this rule." Because...
She raised her hand, and the old flip phone screen displayed the number she was dialing: "I can indeed use it."
The call was connected, and the gruff voice of a middle-aged man rang out from the other end: "Sunshine Supermarket, no daytime delivery, manicures haven't arrived yet...Xiaohong? Damn it, I was just looking for you, you little bastard! What's the meaning of your text message?"
Inside the supermarket, the shelves were scattered all over the floor. Zhang You dragged his almost unconscious body and hid under the counter. Outside the counter, he could hear the heavy footsteps of a fat man.
"If I hadn't been unable to move during the day, I would have caught you long ago. There's no point in hiding. Come out now and I can give you food. You must be very hungry now, right?"
Speaking of food, the supermarket owner swallowed his saliva instead. Greed appeared in his eyes, and he swung the axe in his hand hard to the side, hitting the counter.
Zhang You covered his mouth tightly, preventing himself from making any sound.
"Fear, pain, hunger... When I catch you, the snacks I make from you will be very popular."
The supermarket owner muttered to himself maliciously, and just as he was about to step over the counter, he suddenly stopped.
The supermarket owner turned his head with a creaking sound and smiled from ear to ear: "Let me see, what did I find?"
The fat palm fell, and the counter trembled as if it was about to be overturned. Zhang You gathered up his last bit of strength, ready to run out of the supermarket regardless of everything, even if night was about to fall.
"Ding-ling-ling, ding-ling-ling~"
The sudden ringing of the cell phone diverted the fat man's attention. He was stunned and took out his cell phone while cursing:
"Sunshine Supermarket, no daytime delivery, manicures haven't arrived yet—wait, what's that number, Xiaohong? Damn, I was looking for you, you little bastard! What's the meaning of your text message?"
"This is impossible—Tang Xin Jue!!!"
After a brief silence, a violent scream that reached the sky erupted from the other end, shaking the supermarket owner's hand so much that his phone fell with a click and landed right under the counter.
Zhang You held his breath and looked at the phone that fell to his feet. The screen still showed "Calling". The screaming was not over yet, but was interrupted by a familiar girl's voice:
"Hearing is believing. Do you still think I'm lying to you?"
The voice she heard was clearly the voice of her roommate, Tang Xinjue!
On the other end of the call, in the dormitory.
"What do you want?"
Xiaohong tried her best to suppress her anger. After all, the angrier she got, the more her head twisted under the suction of the damn thing on her face. If it twisted any further, she would be twisted into a gourd.
The face is not her own face, but the head is her own head!
Tang Xin Jue: "First, we have to clear the customs."
"The head is in my hands. Even if you succeed in finding the lost property, you will be able to successfully pass the level by eight o'clock." Xiaohong answered impatiently.
She had indeed been lying before.
"Let my roommate Zhang You come back safely."
Xiaohong scoffed, "That's not something I can control. But with a roommate as capable as you around, she shouldn't have any problems."
"Where's Guo Guo?"
"She'll be fine after the test. Stop talking nonsense and let me go!"
Tang Xinjue nodded: "That prop..."
"Don't go too far!" Xiaohong was furious. Her dignity had been so lost, and this perverted human still wanted to plunder her to the end?
She was about to curse when her face suddenly felt a pain - light poured in, Tang Xinjue pulled out the toilet plunger and threw the phone at her at the same time.
Xiao Hong hurriedly caught it, but after tapping it twice, her already pale face turned even paler.
"You, how dare you?!"
Tang Xinjue spoke slowly, "Thanks to you for taking care of our dorm these past two days, so, in accordance with the dormitory's code of conduct, which requires unity, friendship, and mutual assistance—as the best roommate in the world, I decided to help my roommate, who was addicted to love, focus on her studies, so I specifically deleted all her contacts. Am I doing the right thing?"
The light of righteousness shines on the earth.
The female ghost was so angry that she was shaking all over. She raised her hand to tear up the agreement and pounce, but she caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye. She was stunned: "Wait, what you used to hold my face just now, is this...?"
Lifting the toilet plunger, Tang Xinjue said softly, "That's right."
"……ah!!!"
An unprecedented shrill cry erupted from the crumbling ghost's mouth, and white smoke rose from its body, and its entire head began to melt in the white smoke. It was like smoke coming out of all seven orifices.
At the same time, the clock finally struck eight, and the light suddenly dimmed. A bell, like the end of an exam, rang out from the air:
"Congratulations, you've successfully found the item Xiaohong needs, and Xiaohong has got it. She will be grateful to you!"
Xiaohong: “…”
Does it look like gratitude?
The testable rules don't care what it thinks. Everything is suspended at this moment, only the melodious sound continues:
[All dormitories receive buff: Xiaohong's Gratitude]
A beam of light fell from the sky and landed on Xiaohong, whose body was twisted, as if trying to extract something.
Xiaohong finally panicked. She tried her best to adjust her facial expression, but no matter how she did it, it was covered with a thick layer of resentment and hatred, and she couldn't show any expression of "gratitude".
Finished!
The beam flashed, making a crackling sound like an electrical fault. Xiaohong immediately cried out in pain, and the white spots on her body became more intense. In an instant, it completely melted away, leaving only a pool of black water and a blurred human head.
[Ding, a glitch has occurred in the score calculation... The glitch has been resolved. A random compensation reward will be issued, and the calculation will continue.]
[Completion of basic test tasks: 100%]
[Dorm members' survival rate: 100%]
[Dormitory completeness: 70%]
[Test completion time: 2 days (less than the maximum completion time of 6 days)]
[Basic score: 67 points]
The soft white beam faded and disappeared, and a new golden beam was cast down:
[Additional points detected, calculation in progress]
[The dormitory is full at the start of the game: +10 points]
[Dealing a devastating blow to a ghost-type NPC: +10 points]
[Introduction and connection to the topic, in compliance with dormitory etiquette rules: +10 points]
"Your total score on this [Dormitory Civility Test] is 97 out of 100, and the rating is: Perfect!"
As pleasant celebratory music sounded, the cold and gloomy atmosphere in the room was swept away, and a huge option popped up in front of Tang Xinjue:
"We are about to start evaluating the individual performance of the dormitory members. We have detected that the dormitory members are incomplete. Do you want to start the evaluation?"
"whether"
Tang Xin Jue shouted without thinking, "Zhang You hasn't come back yet! Can you let her come back?"
The option flashed, and the subtitles actually changed:
"You can use up one random reward opportunity to teleport all roommates back to their dormitories at the same time and restore them to full health. Do you want to use it?"
"whether"
He clicked "Yes" without hesitation, and the dormitory door suddenly opened automatically. Within two seconds, Zhang You appeared outside the door, running desperately, followed by a fat man holding an axe.
A flash of light appeared, and Zhang You teleported to the door. The obese man had no choice but to stop. His unwilling and greedy eyes swept around the dormitory, and he was caught off guard when he saw the head on the ground.
Xiaohong, with only her head left, glared at him: What are you looking at!
Supermarket owner: “…”
He looked up and saw a frail young woman clutching a toilet plunger. Dazzling high-score buffs were layered upon her like they were free. Bathed in golden light, the girl gave him a friendly, gentle smile.
“…”
The fat on his face twitched twice, and he took a step back, decisively hiding back in the darkness.
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