Chapter 85 Old Campus "Why are you rushing to give this jerk of a host again..."
The right side of the dormitory manager's office is lined with metal cabinets that control the electricity for the entire dormitory building. The left side has a small single bed inside and a table connected to the window outside. There is no dormitory manager there.
As Xue Chao instructed, Fang Tailai carried the desk in. She didn't know if Xue Chao had closed the door, but when she turned around warily, it was already closed.
She put down her desk and made a slit along the edge, the slats flaking. She glanced at it nervously. There was no hair, no head, only the worn-out science fiction book. There seemed to be something written on the cover, but the slit was too narrow to see clearly. She only knew that there was probably the character "每" (every).
She thought she had looked too fast, so she mustered up her courage to look again, but there was still nothing there; no eye popped out to look at her through the gap.
But that's precisely what makes it even stranger... This table is no light thing.
It definitely exceeded the weight a "wooden table" should have, and when you lifted it, it felt light on one side and heavy on the other, as if something was tilting back and forth in the desk drawer with the force.
With this gap, the desk was easier to open than before, but Xue Chao had instructed her not to pry open the sealed desk before leaving the dormitory building.
The desks posed no threat, and there were no books to be taken out. Fang Tailai still remembered his task, and after sweating profusely, he studied the problem for a long time before finally turning on the power switch, illuminating the entire dormitory building.
Through the window, she could see the figure at the end of the corridor ahead. The familiar cleaver head turned, revealing Xue Chao's face.
Xue Chao was walking deep into the corridor, using his key to open the dormitory doors one by one. Upon seeing the figure at the end, he immediately turned around and ran towards the glass doors of the dormitory building. The two figures walked one after the other, passing through the dormitory doors behind the glass windows under the light. The man's angry roar came through the broken windows and reached the playground.
They chased each other at breakneck speed, but neither of them was moving at their true speed. Xue Chao was injured, and when he ran fast, it was like dancing on a knife's edge, making his limp particularly noticeable. Lao Deng was an underground bloodsucker who couldn't stand the light of day; when the lights came on, it was as if he had switched to slow-down mode.
Fang Tailai was terrified. She instinctively grabbed the window and tried to lean out to look out. Suddenly, something like silky satin wrapped around her from behind. She froze on the spot. Thick, black hair, past her shoulders, went up her arm and pressed against the window.
A female ghost appeared out of nowhere and hugged her from behind. Her cold body pressed tightly against hers, fitting her perfectly. Her beautiful arms were wrapped around her as if they were tied in a knot at her abdomen. She looked down and saw the stitches on her wrists.
A pair of lips approached his ear, and the first thing it spoke was a breath of cold air that seemed to have been harboring resentment for over a decade. It was a girl's voice, with a strange sweetness: "...It's not the right time yet."
Then she was pulled into layers of long hair, and the last thing she saw was the lights in the entire building suddenly going out, plunging back into darkness.
Xue Chao rushed out of the corridor and saw the female ghost behind the glass window. As soon as he met those familiar eyes, he instantly pounced to the side. Sure enough, the lights went out and the man behind him was refueled and violently attacked, but he fell into the hall first.
Because he had been drinking, the man's steps were unsteady and he was prone to falling, but he quickly got up and never hesitated to strike. Xue Chao barely dodged his knife and ran towards the door. The man sneered, grabbed Xue Chao's neck with his other hand, and slammed him against the glass door.
The cleaver head came crashing down on Xue Chao's head. Xue Chao turned his head, and the absolute force of the cleaver shattered the glass instantly. The two fell towards the door. As soon as the man's hand left the dormitory building, most of his strength was instantly drained. Xue Chao broke free and retreated outside the dormitory door.
The man stubbornly held on, using the strength of his lower body still in the dormitory building to strangely turn back. The reflection of the blade seemed to glance at Xue Chao, who grinned, a blatant provocation. The man's head angrily swung in the air, but he also knew that without "home," he was nothing, and he only dared to stay in place and go crazy.
"【Fang Tailai】is furious, isn't he? Hehe!"
"【Fang Tailai】There won't be any problems once he leaves the dormitory building, anyway, Lao Deng definitely won't come out."
"【Fang Tailai】I guess this female ghost was also called by my brother to help hide the players and send them out of the dormitory building after Lao Deng leaves."
"【Fang Tailai】But the female ghost who hanged herself demands that Old Deng be killed..."
"【Fang Tailai】Old Deng is invincible in the building. Killing him is exhausting. Why skip class to fight the boss? If the side quest isn't completed, it's not completed. The female ghost can't be defeated either, so she can't leave the building. Old Deng won't leave the building either. The couple is holding them back. Xue Chao doesn't need to worry about being retaliated against if he escapes the building, haha!"
But the man's impotent rage suddenly stopped. He turned his head and looked into the dormitory manager's room. The female ghost had disappeared through the window, leaving Fang Tailai standing there in terror. He immediately changed his target and decided to vent all his anger on his daughter.
Xue Chao silently watched his excited back, just then, a system notification sounded in his ear.
[The room's popularity has surpassed 60 points! Congratulations! (Fireworks)]
He immediately rushed back to the dormitory building and lunged at the man. At the moment of his action, Fang Tailai turned on all the lights in the building again.
Almost simultaneously with the system notification, Sheng Hong's camera sharing was turned off. The girl who had been sitting by the auditorium window participating in the cultural festival with an impatient look on her face disappeared from the host panel. In her place, a familiar red laser shattered the auditorium window, streaking across the dark playground like a shooting star, heading straight for the dormitory building gate across the street.
Xue Chao, who had already embraced the man, instantly moved behind him. His thick hair immediately enveloped the man, and with a sudden pull, he narrowly avoided the red laser that pierced the man's chest.
The man was pierced through on the spot and fell straight down. Xue Chao, who was dragged to the dormitory room by the hair, did not let his guard down. He gently patted the hair that was wrapped around the man, and the hair went out again, throwing the man who was not quite dead out of the dormitory building.
The man's body rolled down the stairs, his limbs, which had been gathering strength to get up again, completely stopped moving. He was the most powerful and invincible person in the dormitory building, but once he left the dormitory, he was just an ordinary person. This injury should have killed him.
"[Sheng Hong] Weren't you looking all relaxed and unhurried, sis? You suddenly jumped out from behind the scenes and gave me a real scare!"
"Why is Sheng Hong now eagerly becoming a tool for that jerk of a host again..."
"【Sheng Hong】Don't look, Sister Rose, it's a bad review."
"【Fang Tailai】I understand. Red Rose pretended to be focused on the plot, but she knew she was being watched by Xue Chao. She wanted to lull him into a false sense of security, and then turn off camera sharing and activate her superpowers at 60 o'clock to give Xue Chao a 'good start'. However, Xue Chao guessed that she would do this, so he kept delaying the time, just waiting for the 60 o'clock blast."
"【Fang Tailai】So breaking the window and turning on the lights twice were actually ways of showing Sheng Hong his predicament and inducing her to take action?"
"【Fang Tailai】Indeed, Xue Chao leaving the dormitory building clearly meant he was safe. The female ghost's side quest was too inefficient; who would have thought he would actually try to kill Lao Deng..."
"【Fang Tailai】I'm serious, Xue Chao is the real master of this weapon, he uses it so skillfully..."
"【Sheng Hong】Ah, isn't it a divine weapon? Although this kind of attack power definitely has a cooldown, why not just burn your life and add another blow right now? Use the advantage of a divine weapon! It's a complete surprise! I thought the rebellious and cowardly image I created before was for this moment, but it turns out you're really a coward, sis??"
"【Fangtailai】Wuhu, the traffic restriction has been lifted, and it's back in the top of the recommendation page!"
In the dormitory manager's office, Fang Tailai watched Xue Chao enter cautiously. The female ghost followed her in. Only then did she realize that she was not the female ghost that Xue Chao had asked for help via text message beforehand and who had held off Dog Dad on the second floor, but the ghost that had been hiding under their table when they summoned the spirit.
An eye suddenly appeared from beneath her cascading black hair, staring intently at her. Startled, Fang Tailai inexplicably sensed a more complex mix of emotions, a mixture of pity and hatred, making it difficult to discern the true nature of the feeling. She cautiously asked, "...Did you help her too?"
Xue Chao didn't know how to define it either: "You could say that."
Fang Tai saw that he was unusually speechless, and asked strangely, "What's your relationship?"
"...A relationship of patching and mending?" Xue Chao simply skipped over his complicated experiences with the female ghost. "It's not important. I think you're the bigger reason—do you know her? Her name is Minmin."
The female ghost's eyes instantly shifted to Xue Chao, but Xue Chao didn't even turn his head: "I sewed your eyes myself." How could he not tell?
She just couldn't figure out the connection between her and Fang Tailai, and she didn't give him a chance to "recognize" each other.
However, Fang Tailai was stuck in the dormitory, and Minmin didn't stay to do anything to this prey who failed to escape. Instead, she chased after the other NPCs and left. In addition, Xue Chao also saw the book in the table and guessed that their relationship was probably not a life-or-death one.
It's more like a regret that I don't know whether to resent or be grateful for, a regret that I can't quite figure out myself... I just want to see it one more time.
Just as Fang Tailai was about to shake his head, a thought suddenly struck him, and he pointed to the desk drawer: "Did you borrow that book? Your name is on the cover."
Minmin's gaze slowly shifted back, and her hair snaked closer to her, the stitched body hidden within it. The next second, it appeared before Fang Tailai's eyes. Fang Tailai closed his eyes in fright, feeling the terror of being swallowed by the hair again.
It wasn't the suffocating feeling of being tightly wrapped in cling film, but rather a black sheath, a finger's width apart, as if this were a world, and she was the only person in that world. For some reason, she was moved and remembered the countless nights she had willingly confined herself to that small wasteland inside her headphones, half of which was a moment of anxious relief, and half of a greedy and absurd loneliness.
At this moment, she detached herself from the game and wondered if the female ghost named "Minmin," in her long hair representing death, had similar thoughts when she "saw" the world that had become the other side through a patch of darkness.
So when the ghost's cold body approached, she suddenly had a brain fart and hugged her back.
Both the human and the ghost were frozen in place.
A moment later, Fang Tailai seemed to hear a sigh, and hair brushed against her skin like a gentle caress. When she opened her eyes again, the female ghost was gone, leaving only Xue Chao leaning against the door, looking at her with a half-smile.
She roughly guessed that "Fang Tailai" and "Minmin" were very close friends who were now separated by death. With a sense of loss, she asked absentmindedly, "I thought you were gone."
After all, when the female ghosts surrounded him, Xue Chao showed no intention of helping.
Xue Chao smiled: "I need your help."
"You're really direct," Fang Tailai muttered under his breath, then said somewhat warily, "You've helped me so much, it's not really a question... but it has to be within my capabilities."
“If it’s you, no problem.”
Side quest completed
[Rewards are being distributed...]
Please go to room 624 in the dormitory and take the red pen used to summon the Ouija board. The Ouija board has given it as a thank you gift.
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