Dormitory Rules 7
It is known that the changes of the stairs are related to time, and "it"'s refuge is in the "non-existent stairs".
Moreover, from the current situation, during the time when people can move freely, there are always odd or even numbers of stairs.
"Therefore, I speculate that the so-called 'non-existent stairs' can only be seen after the lights are turned off." Ji Yunding stood at the stairs with an iron rod in his hand, looking at the other students with bloodshot eyes hesitating at the stairs, and discussed with Zheng Nuo nonchalantly.
Now the stairs are odd in number, so it doesn't matter if you don't care about these guys. But in fact, they don't seem to want to go up, as if there is something intimidating them on the sixth floor.
"But the rules say that we can't walk around freely after the lights are turned off. Isn't this a contradiction?" Zheng Nuo naturally raised the question, but she believed that Ji Yunding probably already had an idea.
——The lights in the dormitory will be turned off on time at 22:30. Do not walk around or check under the bed after the lights are turned off. You will take your own consequences.
"'Your own consequences'. Generally speaking, this is a warning slogan. However, first, I want to correct a cognitive misunderstanding." Ji Yunding said seriously: "What does 'Your own consequences' mean in the literal sense?"
Zheng Nuo heard Ji Yunding's roundabout nonsense, but he inexplicably understood something and had no intention of interrupting Ji Yunding for the time being.
"Most of the time, this sentence is used as a disclaimer. But from a more neutral perspective, I tend to think that this sentence means 'whether the result is good or bad, you are responsible for it alone'."
“So this sentence is…”
"That's correct nonsense. After all, will Ghost Talk take any responsibility for our actions? Aren't we responsible for the consequences of what we do?" Ji Yunding shrugged and stated his judgment.
The rules for the initial generation of environmental weirdness must be correct, but they are not necessarily non-misleading.
Ji Yunding guessed that the significance of the nonsense phrase "you will bear the consequences at your own risk" was probably to ensure that this rule was "correct" and to make the rules as a whole ensure that students would not be in real danger as long as they followed them.
"However, considering that Xiaowen's symptoms were indeed triggered by looking under the bed, it wouldn't hurt to take some extra precautions." Ji Yunding searched his pocket again, took out a white pill and handed it to Zheng Nuo, "Put it in your mouth when the time is almost up and swallow it on time."
"Yunding, how much did you get?"
"The investigators have plenty. Don't worry. I'll leave them for them."
Zheng Nuo smiled helplessly at Ji Yunding's irrelevant answer and guilty look. Sometimes, Zheng Nuo really felt that his roommate was like some kind of extraterrestrial creature, but sometimes he was very kind.
After they survived together, she should organize a dormitory dinner to get to know Ji Yunding.
"What about the dormitory supervisor? Didn't he say that he would not show mercy if he saw us outside the designated time?"
"What are you saying? Will it show mercy when it sees us within the specified time? It has chewed up the clothes drying pole in our dormitory."
“…”
I have to admit that sometimes Ji Yunding's words are quite choking.
"Don't worry about what it says. It looks like it wants something from me, that's enough." Ji Yunding still remembered what the dormitory manager said. Although she would probably not choose to really help, the key to breaking the deadlock was pointing to this side anyway.
Ji Yunding initially speculated that the consequence of meeting the dormitory manager would be being eaten, while meeting the other "it" would result in being spiritually corroded. It was difficult to say which one was more malicious at the moment.
'It' is on the sixth floor, so the dormitory manager won't come. Combined with the information he got from talking to the dormitory manager, Ji Yunding has sufficient reason to believe that there must be some kind of conflict of interest between the two 'it's.
If there is a dormitory vacant, 'it' will move in. By analogy, there will be no dormitory supervisor checking the dormitories on the sixth floor today.
"What if the dorm manager comes anyway?" Zheng Nuo was not arguing. On the contrary, she agreed with Ji Yunding's plan. However, it would not be bad to consider more emergencies.
"That depends on you." Ji Yunding spread his hands, "I'm not good at communicating with all kinds of people. I only choose to communicate with people who can communicate."
"I?"
"How about the people in the dormitory near the stairs?"
Ji Liuxing watched their actions and couldn't help but applaud their actions and analysis.
These two people are already the best in this session. If they can really reveal the truth, then dozens of research groups will be eagerly waiting for them to choose.
They are both rare core talents. When forming an investigation team, someone must be brave enough to come up with plans and ideas - this is not an easy task when everyone's lives are at stake.
However, there is one more thing about Ji Yunding that needs to be examined. The calmness she showed could also be said to be ruthless, and Ji Liuxing would not be deceived by her false guilt downstairs before.
Ji Liuxing knew too well what a person with a guilty conscience looked like. It was not a good experience to personally destroy someone who trusted him, but it was inevitable.
Only by being calm can one move forward, and only by carrying a sense of guilt can one not forget the importance of life and not become like...
Thinking of the performance of the investigators in the dormitory building where he was staying, the smile on Ji Yunding's face faded a little.
He used his identity as an investigator to drive and trick students into feeding them to the dormitory managers to obtain intelligence, and even promised to offer a certain number of students in exchange for his chance to escape.
It is forgivable to fail to help someone in need in order to protect oneself, but if one does whatever it takes, the nature of the matter is completely different.
Each research group has to accept a certain number of such people - after all, there is a severe shortage of people now, and it is impossible not to use them at all. Each survey group handles them differently, some may marginalize them, and some may even only assign them some basic survey work.
In Ji Liuxing's subordinate group, they will be assigned to the same investigation team with people like themselves, adapt to another set of rules that they identify more with, and give full play to the value of their "abilities".
"Ji Yunding... Which side of the rules do you really agree with in your heart?"
Ji Liuxing's smile became even brighter. He clapped his hands, supported himself on his knees and stood up, and at the same time wiped the blood on his hands on Xie Yian's shoulder in a fair and open manner.
…………
After a day without food, the dormitory complex was clearly filled with an ominous atmosphere of discussion. Maybe it would explode tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow if we were lucky.
This also allowed Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo to easily exchange some fast food for the dormitory at the staircase entrance - in fact, they were quite happy about it, after all, the environment at the staircase entrance really didn't feel safe.
At 10:28, there was a knock on the door as expected. Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo looked at each other and suddenly opened the door, only to find a stranger standing at the door. He was wearing a simple white mask with a slightly weird smile.
"Good evening, both of you. I have good news for you."
The smile in his words seemed to be overflowing. Ji Yunding had an inexplicable intuition that this person did not seem to have any ill intentions.
However, what followed did not seem to be the case.
"Bring me a living sacrifice and I'll take you two away."
Zheng Nuo and Ji Yunding looked at each other, and before the stranger could react, Ji Yunding swept over with the iron rod.
No matter what Zheng Nuo thought, Ji Yunding thought it was not a good thing - considering that this person was so weird, like he was sick.
However, Ji Yunding felt a pain in his hand from the reaction force. The man grabbed the iron pipe with one hand and tilted his head in distress: "I'm not very good at chatting with people, but as a proof..."
He loosened his hand, turned sideways, and made an elegant "please" gesture to Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo towards the door.
Then Ji Yunding slammed the door - only a fool would follow his instructions.
"You are not from our dormitory, please leave."
Hearing the sound coming from inside the door, Ji Liuxing couldn't help laughing.
Of course, considering that they now believed that their lives were in danger, this was actually a wise choice.
Ji Liuxing tapped the door lightly with his fingertips and felt the stinging pain brought by the repulsive force of the rules.
This artificial environment rule actually does not have much binding force. It is indeed useful against students, but it is a bit lame to use it against the vanguard troops.
Ji Liuxing took a deep breath and pressed his right palm against the door, feeling the piercing pain, but after a while, the pain slowly dissipated.
He clenched his right hand and punched the wooden door of the dormitory with a fist. Behind the collapsed wooden door, he saw two people tying bed sheets together, apparently trying to escape from the balcony.
That won’t work. If you jump from here, you’ll fall onto the safety air cushion outside.
Investigators are faced with various moral choices all the time, and it is necessary to test the bottom line in crisis situations. Since this test is not enough to see Ji Yunding's true situation, it has to be a little more difficult.
Admittedly, asking people to remain even relatively kind at a critical moment of life and death is quite demanding, but this is the job requirement of an investigator - after all, it is a high-paying, high-risk profession, and if you can't do it, it's better to change careers.
The nature of the investigation team's work is special. If a capable person who knows how to disguise sneaks into the elite investigation team, the losses caused at a critical moment will be absolutely immeasurable.
For individuals, it is not a bad thing to recognize in time and leave a career that is not suitable for them.
One step, two steps, Ji Liuxing, who was dragging the body of the dormitory manager of the building, stopped - the steel wire was hidden in the darkness, and if someone rushed in, they might get their head cut and bleed.
Nice try.
It looked like it was taken out from a broadband cable. It must have been hard for the two of them to scrape off the insulation layer bit by bit.
Ji Yunding looked at the masked weirdo in front of him without saying a word. Ji Liuxing looked at her vigilant eyes and couldn't help but feel sincere admiration and expectation.
His style of doing things is calm and smart enough, his bottom line meets the basic requirements of an investigator, and most importantly, he is tenacious.
When investigators are carrying out dangerous missions, they are often under high pressure and face seemingly insurmountable disgusting and even terrifying weirdness. Many people lose confidence in their investigations and commit suicide.
Under the full moon, he saw Ji Yunding pursed her lips slightly, and the silver light flickered on her eyelashes as she blinked at a significantly lower frequency. There was something in her eyes that Ji Liuxing didn't understand...
Anger, fear, resentment, and resentment are all understandable, but Ji Liuxing felt that she did not seem to have these emotions.
She was like a warm dead person, just looking at him quietly, waiting for the right opportunity to move, but she made him feel a long-lost fear.
But before Ji Liuxing could think about it, Zheng Nuo took the lead. She threw sand at Ji Liuxing's face, and Ji Yunding immediately followed up with another stick, knocking Ji Liuxing off balance.
The staff member in charge of looking after the safety air cushion downstairs looked at a pot of green onions that fell from the 6th floor of Building 11 where Ji Yunding was in confusion, and diligently wrote a record report.
There was no sound, and neither of them thought the other was an idiot who needed to be reminded by shouting "run".
Ji Yunding rushed out of the dormitory door first, but was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.
There appeared an upward staircase in front of him, but it was on the wall. Only a slightly different and unusual light gave Ji Yunding a three-dimensional visual illusion.
But now that things have come to this, there is no turning back.
After Ji Liuxing stood firm, he saw that both of them had crashed into the wall. He rubbed his left arm that was hit by the iron rod, smiled and sighed, then slowly followed.
Although I am sorry for the deception, screening is the job of the day.
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