Extra 18
Li Mu leaned against the cold tile wall, gasping for breath, his heart almost jumping out of his chest.
Safe for now?
No, this broken door won't last long.
Li Mu suddenly looked at the piece of paper in his hand again.
Twisted circles, slashes, sound waves, arrows, doors...
Ban a certain sound?
Point to a door with your voice?
Is the "door" that the arrow points to really a specific door?
Or... a symbol of "exit"?
Combining the previous experience... the "door" of the principal's office, the "door" of the dormitory area... and...
An extremely bold and almost crazy idea struck Li Mu's mind like lightning.
rule!
Is the contradiction in the rules itself its blind spot?
The dormitory rules say it’s safe, but there are all kinds of restrictions. The dormitory manager was just chasing them.
The study room rules say communication is allowed, but rumors are forbidden...
And Wang Ke, a real student, secretly helps these "foreign invaders".
Doesn’t this in itself violate “its” order?
"Wang Ke!"
Li Mu suddenly grabbed the limp Wang Ke's shoulders.
"Tell us! What's going on? How can we leave?
Are you helping us because you also want to fight against 'it'?!"
Wang Ke was shaken by him, and his scattered eyes focused a little. The huge fear still enveloped him. His lips trembled and his voice was as thin as a thread:
"…useless…'It' is everywhere…'The rules are 'It'…If you break the rules, 'It' will eat you…like them…"
"Then why haven't you been eaten yet?" Li Mu asked.
"You helped us, which in itself violates your rules as a student."
Wang Ke shuddered violently, extreme fear flashing in his eyes, as if his deepest secret had been revealed.
Just then—
“Crack!”
A big hole was cut in the bathroom door.
A pale, swollen hand with sharp black nails suddenly reached in and scratched around randomly.
The dormitory manager's twisted and greedy half face was stuck outside the hole, his dark eyes staring at the four people inside!
"We found you...foreign invaders...eliminate..." A strange and distorted voice came through the hole.
Gao Meng roared angrily, gathered his spiritual power again, and punched the ghost hand.
But this time, the ghost hand suddenly shrank back, avoiding the attack, and then grabbed again at a faster speed, aiming directly at Li Mu who was closest to the door.
The speed is too fast to dodge.
Li Mu's pupils suddenly shrank.
At this critical moment of life and death, an idea suddenly struck him, and he suddenly raised the crumpled piece of paper in his hand, not at the ghost hand, but at the dark eye outside the hole.
He attacked it with all his strength, and the huge sound almost overturned the entire dormitory building.
"laugh--!"
It was like the sound of red-hot iron being burned into ice water.
The twisted and crazy roar outside the door instantly turned into an extremely sharp and painful howl.
The ghost hand that reached out suddenly retracted as if it had been electrocuted.
Outside the hole, the dormitory manager's twisted face twitched and deformed violently, and countless chaotic lights seemed to explode and annihilate in his dark pupils.
Her whole body staggered backward as if it had lost support, making a strange and chaotic sound of whimpering in pain.
"...rules...conflict...cannot kill outsiders..."
She roared intermittently, holding her head, and seemed to be in a state of confusion.
efficient!
Li Mu's risky move will cause the "rule contradiction" to
Without further ado, Gao Meng kicked open the rickety bathroom door.
Outside the door, the dormitory manager was holding his head and spinning in place, his body twitching and twisting from time to time.
Without hesitation, the four rushed out of 1810 and ran madly towards the right end of the corridor.
Behind him, the dormitory manager's roar became increasingly angry and clear:
"Stop! Those who violate discipline... clear out..."
On both sides of the corridor, the doors of some dormitories opened quietly a crack, and behind them were countless pairs of numb or greedy eyes, watching the escape.
Sure enough, there was an inconspicuous, gray iron gate at the end. There was no sign on it, as if it had been forgotten for a long time.
"Together!" Li Mu roared.
The three of them mobilized all the remaining spiritual power in their bodies without reservation, turning it into a not dazzling but extremely concentrated energy impact, and slammed it hard into the iron door.
"boom!"
The iron door made a deafening noise and suddenly bounced inward.
Behind the door was not a room, but a narrow, cobweb-covered concrete staircase leading down.
A cold, earthy air rushed out.
It's a channel.
"Walk!"
Li Mu pushed Zhao Sha and Wang Ke and rushed in first.
Gao Meng followed closely behind.
Just as Li Mu was about to step into the passage, he subconsciously looked back.
At the other end of the corridor, the dormitory manager had restored some order and was crawling on all fours in an inhuman posture.
It was so fast that it left an afterimage and was chasing after us with a roar.
The distortion and greed on her face reached the extreme.
And further behind her, the lights in the corridor began to go out one by one silently, as if being swallowed by an invisible, greedy mouth.
In the extinguished darkness, something immense and indescribable was slowly awakening and approaching...
Li Mu's scalp tingled and he suddenly retreated into the passage.
Gao Meng immediately closed the heavy iron door from the inside and fastened the bolt.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
A terrifying crash immediately erupted from behind the door, shaking the entire stairwell and sending dust cascading down. The latch groaned, making my teeth ache, but it held off for now.
The four of them collapsed on the cold stairs, listening to the crazy banging and roaring outside the door, and the gaze of some huge existence from further away that seemed to be able to freeze the soul.
He was completely exhausted, with only the heavy gasping for breath left after surviving the disaster.
They temporarily fled the dormitory area.
But outside the door, the terrifying existence representing "it"'s anger is still lingering.
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