49 Taboo 10 || Hidden Time
"How many times have you tried?" Lin Haichen pinched his eyebrows and sighed deeply. Looking at Hongmao's current performance, he knew that the correct password had not been tried out.
The red-haired man spun around twice and slammed his fist on his uniform. "Eighteen times, damn it! If the box hadn't been locked, I would have gotten out."
Liu Hui punched him hard in the face, grabbed his collar and yelled, "What should we do with the contents of the locked box? Now that it's locked, we can't see it. What if there's an important line inside? How are we going to get out?"
Red Hair's eyes were bloodshot, and his emotions were clearly out of control. He wrestled with Liu Hui, and the sound of fighting could be heard from the classroom. "At this rate, how long will it take you to find out?"
"Alright!" Lin Haichen pulled the two apart. "How long do you want to lock them up?"
Red Hair wiped the blood from his nose with the back of his hand, glared at Liu Hui fiercely, and returned to his seat, saying unhappily, "Go see for yourself."
Yan Shuang was a little annoyed. After Hongmao's random attempt, she didn't know whether Zhang Bin would move the safe.
There is only one exam left today. I will go up and take a look later.
The sky outside gradually darkened, and the danger was approaching.
When the last exam was over, Yan Shuang went up to take a look. However, this time she couldn't get in because the lights in the room were on.
"Let's go back first. It seems we can't get in today." Jing Ning said.
Yan Shuang nodded, and the few of them ate something and returned to the dormitory. When they arrived at the dormitory door, Lin Yue refused to go upstairs.
"If you don't go up, you will definitely die." Jing Ning said.
"Can I survive if I go up there? But I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Wuuuuuu..." Lin Yueya cried in a hoarse voice.
Jing Ning showed no mercy, "Maybe I'll die more slowly."
Lin Yue cried very loudly, "But what should I do tonight...it's in the girls' dormitory..."
Yan Shuang had no way to deal with this, he couldn't help them make a choice.
Tian Yiyi said, "Let's take a gamble, it's only 50-50 anyway."
Although the others weren't as excited as Lin Yue, they were still nervous. No one could predict what would happen, but having a choice was better than waiting to die.
So the group returned to their rooms to rest. Time passed slowly, and the corridor gradually became quiet, waiting for the night that would decide life and death.
Yan Shuang was lying in bed when she suddenly thought of asking Jing Ning, "Have games before had this kind of time limit that wasn't clearly defined?"
"Yes, but they're relatively rare. Those without a clear timeframe are more troublesome." Jing Ning said, lying on the bed playing with his phone, "You have to rely on some clues and deduce them yourself."
Yan Shuang pondered, "Wu Huimin mentioned the exam many times. Could the timing also be related to the exam?"
"I think Shuang'er makes sense." Ye Jing'an nodded.
"Do we really have to meet the score requirements?" Yan Shuang said, "No, that's not right. How long would we have to stay in the game then?"
Jing Ning paused, frowning slightly, "It's summer now, the weather is quite hot. Is the college entrance examination usually held in June?"
"That's right!" Yan Shuang said, "Gao Yan is a senior high school student. She will graduate after the college entrance examination, and then our clues will be gone."
"So once they take the college entrance examination, that will be our last time in the game?" Ye Jing'an also reacted.
"That's the theory," Jing Ning said.
Red Hair lay on the bed listening to the conversation between the three people, his eyes moving around in the darkness.
After chatting about this, they began to rest. Jing Ning on the upper bunk turned over, and Yan Shuang felt the bed shake slightly, and then she fell asleep in a daze.
It was a dreamless night, and the night was unusually quiet.
Just after seven in the morning, several people were awakened by a loud knock on the door.
Yan Shuang was closest to the door. He stood up and opened it. He saw Lin Haichen standing outside with a gloomy face. It looked like he hadn't had time to wash up yet. His hair was messy and there was a small stubble on his chin. "Liu Hui is dead."
"What's going on?" Yan Shuang asked, "How could Liu Hui die? Did a ghost come to the men's dormitory?"
Lin Haichen's face was very ugly. "I didn't hear any sound last night. When I woke up this morning, I found that he was dead."
Yan Shuang and Jing Ning exchanged a tacit glance. The most dangerous person last night, besides the girls' dormitory, was Red Hair, but it was Liu Hui who died...
Jing Ning put on his clothes and said, "Let's go take a look first."
In the next dormitory, Liu Hui, who slept on the innermost upper bunk, now lay in bed a bloody corpse, his right arm missing.
His eyes were wide open, filled with shock and fear, and his mouth was slightly open, as if he wanted to scream, but he was killed by a single blow. His life ended before he could even make a sound.
The lower bed was a mess with a pool of blood, which dripped down the bed board to the lower bunk, making a small dripping sound.
Ye Jing'an came in last. He hadn't reacted to Tian Yiyi's verbal description yesterday, but today he saw it with his own eyes. His visual senses were strongly impacted. He covered his mouth and took a few steps back, almost screaming.
Yan Shuang was used to it. She stood by and watched silently, saying to Ye Jingan, "If you want to vomit, go outside."
Red Hair didn't come in. He stood outside the door, looked inside curiously, and then left.
Lin Haichen and Jing Ning gave the body a rough inspection and found nothing unusual except that the right arm was missing. They just didn't know how the ghost got in this time.
After coming out of the dormitory, several people from the girls' dormitory were already waiting downstairs.
Wu Huimin led them to the exam just like yesterday, and didn't care that there were fewer people missing.
"Which room did you stay in yesterday?" Yan Shuang asked Tian Yiyi in the classroom.
Tian Yiyi said, "It's still 402. Lin Yue lives alone in 401. She's afraid of the ghosts in our room and refuses to come over."
"At night, I tried not to sleep too deeply, so that if there really was a ghost in our dormitory, we could escape. But nothing happened that night."
Yan Shuang thought for a moment and asked Lin Yue, "Did you see anything last night?"
Lin Yue had been terrified and hadn't slept all night. Now, lying on the table, feeling sleepy, she said weakly, "Nothing happened."
"Is there a ghost in our men's dormitory too?" Ye Jing'an said with a pale face.
"What do you think?" Yan Shuang asked Jing Ning.
"I think the death has something to do with school rules," Jing Ning said. "Zheng Yuxuan died in the girls' dormitory, which certainly violated school rules. The same goes for Wu Siyao, as the inviter."
"I have a question, why is Lin Yue okay?" Lin Haichen said.
Jing Ning went on to explain, "It's easy to understand. First, she persuaded Zheng Yuxuan, and second, she just happened to faint. It was around 11 pm at night, and according to dormitory rules, it was bedtime."
"So the ghost thought she was asleep, so she didn't break the rules." Yan Shuang took over. "Based on that, we also broke the rules when we went to the archives room yesterday. Why did only Liu Hui get into trouble?"
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