Dormitory Rules 5
Something was forgotten.
Ji Yunding tilted his head and thought, but his thoughts were interrupted by Zheng Nuo.
"103 didn't open the door, so he's alive. 104 opened the door, but there's no news so far. 105 didn't seem to be prepared to respond to the dormitory manager, and now we've lost contact with her. 106..."
Zheng Nuo looked at his phone and quickly summarized everyone's comments. Ji Yunding was really curious about how Zheng Nuo could know which dormitory each ID belonged to in such a short time.
But now was not the time to ask questions, as the dormitory supervisor's speed in checking the dormitories was abnormally fast - if you count its slow eating speed.
Ji Yunding's dormitory number is 623. According to the sequence number, they live in the last dormitory.
"Nono, make the bed." Ji Yunding suddenly noticed a small problem, "When they find us, the lights should be turned off within a minute."
Theoretically, there is enough time to go to bed, but the most frightening thing is to make mistakes in a hurry.
"When I respond later, the first sentence I will say is to ask the person on the other side about his identity. After he answers that he is the dormitory manager, I will tell him that there are people in our dormitory and that all three of us are in the dormitory. Then he will leave and I will go to bed. Do you think this process is okay?"
Zheng Nuo summed up everything, propped himself up and walked to the door, then took a deep breath facing the door frame.
"It's still another ten minutes." Ji Yunding reminded.
"I know, I'm just a little..." Zheng Nuo hesitated for the first time, then sighed, "Well, actually I'm a little scared."
"Well, I can..." Li Xiaowen raised her hand tremblingly. Ji Yunding interrupted her and said directly: "Xiaowen, your eyes are red, just like the investigators who were corrupted."
Perhaps it was because of his excessive emotional fluctuations, even after taking medicine, Li Xiaowen's condition was not good.
To be on the safe side, Ji Yunding tied Li Xiaowen's wrists to the bed and reminded her to remember not to make any unnecessary movements when she felt a pulling sensation on her wrists.
There’s a knock on the door.
Zheng Nuo adjusted his expression, stood at the door and asked loudly, "Who is it?"
"I."
"……Who are you?"
Hearing something completely different from the previous intelligence, Zheng Nuo did not lose his composure but asked further questions.
"I am who I am. I live in this dormitory. Please open the door for me."
It wasn't the dorm manager, and there was no sticky dragging sound coming from outside the door. Zheng Nuo looked at his phone - other dormitories on the sixth floor said that it seemed that the dorm manager didn't come upstairs at all.
When Ji Yunding saw the smiley doll’s hair standing up, he quickly got out of bed and opened the door.
Unexpectedly, the person standing in front of Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo was a seemingly normal student.
"Why didn't you open the door for me just now..." Her tone was somewhat resentful and angry. The temperature around them dropped slightly, and a chill crept up Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo's spines.
Ji Yunding pointed to the dormitory roster posted at the door and said confidently, "You must have come to the wrong place. Everyone in our dormitory is here."
She was stunned for a moment, apologized and left. Ji Yunding squinted his eyes and observed carefully - under the dim corridor lights, there was no shadow under her feet.
Fifteen seconds left.
After Ji Yunding closed the door, he leaned on the railing at the head of the bed and quickly jumped up. Zheng Nuo was also not slow, and put his head on the pillow at the last second when the dormitory fell into darkness.
In the silence, Ji Yunding hugged the smiling doll, closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully.
The next morning, when the lights in the dormitory turned on automatically, Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo discovered that Li Xiaowen's bed curtains were actually drawn, so they hurried to her bed to check the situation.
There were some marks on Li Xiaowen's bound wrists. I wonder what she saw last night that tempted her to try to get out of bed.
Her eyes were bloodshot, and she urged Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo to let her go. Fortunately, she seemed to still have some consciousness and did not struggle too much.
"Which rule does this violate?" Ji Yunding scratched his head.
Zheng Nuo was more serious. While typing to inquire about the situation of the investigators, he said worriedly: "Maybe she didn't draw the bed curtain and accidentally saw under the bed... Hey, stop poking her."
At this point, Zheng Nuo has of course realized that Ji Yunding's thinking is a bit strange, but in this tense environment, Ji Yunding is actually quite reassuring.
What's more, Ji Yunding had saved her life, so what could she complain about?
Ji Yunding withdrew her hand. It was not because of Zheng Nuo's words, but because she found that Li Xiaowen had no reaction to her actions, but just mechanically repeated that Ji Yunding should untie her.
But, this should be considered as saving her.
Thinking of this, Ji Yunding squatted down, rummaged through Li Xiaowen's shopping bag, took out a bag of spicy peanuts as reward, chewed a few until he stuck out his tongue because of the spiciness, and then drank some water.
"The investigator has replied, asking us to go to 622..."
"It's spicy, you should try it too."
Ji Yunding stuffed a peanut into Zheng Nuo's mouth, but found that she looked unhurt and helpless.
All right.
"Then something must have happened to them. I see that the reply doesn't even tell you what happened specifically." Ji Yunding spoke somewhat awkwardly and changed the subject to business.
Judging from their actions, these two people were not willing to let the students take risks, but now they kept urging the two to go to 622, and their tone was very similar to Li Xiaowen's.
"I thought so too." Zheng Nuo nodded, frowning and worried. "If they wanted, they could have used the identity of an investigator to bring someone to their side. Now it's really troublesome..."
After hearing Zheng Nuo's words, Ji Yunding felt as if his brain was suddenly electrocuted, and he remembered what he had overlooked yesterday.
Bones, chewing sounds, cursing sounds, blood splattered on clothes...
"Zheng Nuo, did someone else die yesterday?"
The curly hair in Zheng Yan’s dormitory... But how could I forget it so easily?
Ji Yunding suddenly felt his mind was in a mess, but only one clear thought flashed through his mind.
Go to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and check what you look like.
Yes, I need to confirm my current status.
No, that's not right. Why do you need to look in the mirror? Because you want to check your eyes. Do you have to look in the mirror to see?
Mobile phone, yes, mobile phone.
"Zheng Nuo, don't go to the bathroom, you can check yourself with your phone."
Ji Yunding first grabbed Zheng Nuo's wrist, then bit his left hand hard, and only came to his senses after biting it until it bled.
Zheng Nuo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted.
“…Zheng Yan!”
Zheng Nuo shook off Ji Yunding's hand, ran to the door, took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, turned around and walked back, squatting silently beside Ji Yunding.
It was too late. Regardless of whether Zheng Yan was in trouble or not, it was meaningless to look for her at this point. It would only increase the risk and would also hinder Ji Yunding who had tried to save her several times.
After a long silence, Zheng Nuo spoke first, his tone was heavy and complicated, not as resounding as before: "You can tell that she and I are sisters."
It was just nonsense, but Ji Yunding was not going to end the conversation with such an offensive comment. After all, this way of speaking was also one of the rules of human society.
"Our parents are divorced. I live with my mom and she lives with my dad. Zheng Yan... has been very attached to me since she was a child. She skipped two grades to be in the same grade with me. Don't look at her now. She is just young and not good at dealing with people."
After Zheng Nuo finished speaking, he covered his face and sighed, then took out his cell phone.
"I'll send her another message, if there's no reply..."
At this moment, the wooden door of the dormitory was suddenly knocked. Ji Yunding patted Zheng Nuo on the shoulder, then stood up and walked to the door to ask the identity of the visitor.
"I'm Zheng Yan. Is Zheng Nuo here? The investigator said she doesn't reply to messages. Why? Why? Why?"
The voice was correct, but it lacked that domineering and rhythmic tone. It was inexplicably similar to Zheng Nuo, but the content of the questions was creepy.
Zheng Nuo shook her head at Ji Yunding - according to Zheng Yan's own personality, she would definitely open the door of the dormitory directly.
"You are not from this dormitory, please leave." Ji Yunding had just finished speaking when the knocking on the door stopped abruptly, but there was no sound of footsteps leaving.
When Ji Yunding bent down and tried to observe the situation outside the door, he was met with a pair of bloodshot eyes through the gap at the bottom of the door.
"What's wrong?" Zheng Nuo asked nervously. Ji Yunding shook his head and briefly explained their current situation of being trapped in the house.
Worse still, the two of them were now unable to confirm each other's or even their own status - judging by how they had overlooked something so obvious, they were definitely not in a completely normal state.
But knowing that Zheng Yan was still alive, Zheng Nuo's mentality was slightly better. When the rescuers came, there would always be a way.
"This is troublesome. We don't have that kind of medicine..."
Zheng Nuo had just muttered something about his headache when he saw Ji Yunding rummaging through his pocket and holding out his hand with an innocent look on his face. In his palm were several pills.
Since she saved them, it would be okay for her to take some compensation.
While Zheng Nuo was struggling with Li Xiaowen to get her to swallow the pills, Ji Yunding covered the bottoms of the three beds with sheets. After thinking about it, he felt that it was not safe, so he tried to lift the bed legs a little bit and stuff the sheets in.
Ji Yunding had done a lot of hard work and had worked a lot of jobs. He was physically fit and strong, but some people were just born with greater strength.
For example, Li Xiaowen, who is 1.58 meters tall.
When he saw Li Xiaowen, who had just recovered, helping to support the weight of the bed, Ji Yunding clapped his hands after stuffing the sheets.
"Wow, your strength is as great as that of a mountain and your spirit is as powerful as that of the world."
For some reason, the other two looked at Ji Yunding intently. After hesitating for a while, Zheng Nuo finally asked,
"Yunding, you...are not afraid at all?"
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the two of them seem fine on the surface. On the one hand, they are just trying to be brave, and on the other hand, the atmosphere seems to be less serious because of Ji Yunding’s relaxed demeanor.
Zheng Nuo and Li Xiaowen couldn't even imagine how much more psychological pressure they would have if Ji Yunding hadn't been saying those nonsense words over there.
Ji Yunding scratched his head, feeling a little distressed: "How should I put it...I'm used to it?"
After all, for Ji Yunding, this society is a large and unknown world, full of complicated weird stories of various rules and unspoken rules, and she is a disguised alien.
An alien who has lost some of his sensory abilities can easily appear cruel and ruthless without empathy. Ji Yunding knows how important "labels" are in human society, so she will abide by the rules, keep this matter secret, and continue to be a reliable and slightly off-line person - of course, maybe with a few friends.
However, before Ji Yunding was sure whether the two people in front of her could really be considered "friends", she no longer planned to explain more.
"Let's not talk about this for now. Xiaowen, what did you see under the bed?" Ji Yunding changed the subject, but seeing Li Xiaowen's confused expression, he probably knew that there was no useful information.
This is not surprising. Generally, investigators are equipped with sufficient medicines and instruments, but they are just three college students with good physical fitness. At most, they took down the guardrails of the bed and used iron pipes as weapons. It is better to say that it is very good that all three of them can live intact and normally until now.
Zheng Nuo clapped his hands and sighed.
"Okay, now it's time to make a decision. Should the three of us stay where we are and wait for rescue, or actively save ourselves?"
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