If you accidentally exceed the limit and find something unusual in your bedroom, and you are unable to escape, you can consider hiding in the closet and asking the dormitory supervisor for help. Do not make any noise until the supervisor finds you.
17. The refrigerators in the student dormitories will be unusable. Do not consume any food or drinks that are in the refrigerators.
If you find food or drinks growing in your dorm refrigerator, please throw them in the trash can. The dorm supervisor will clean them up.
18. If you notice your roommate acting strangely, you can stay overnight in another empty dorm room after 8 PM.
“Nothing has changed, but the rules have increased.” Alice rubbed her temples with her index finger. “If it weren’t for the help of artificial intelligence, I really wouldn’t be able to remember so many rules.”
Cheng Zhu nodded in agreement.
The difficulty of this dungeon is both difficult and easy... it's definitely not easy either.
For the chosen ones of Future Star, this is a world with customs completely different from their homeland, and the number of rules has increased significantly compared to the previous instance. However, the good news is that the chosen ones have a number of resurrections, and they also have an AI that can appear with them without needing to be carried, helping to record the rules.
After weighing the two factors, the increased difficulty is not so terrible.
"I hope the rules won't be increased again." Mary held a bottle of drink she had brought from home, and sipped it while sighing, "No more than twelve hours in the bedroom, it's obviously not allowed to sleep in, isn't this just the school secretly pushing this policy?"
“No, it’s probably… the effect of pollution.” Alice pulled up the curtain again to take a look. “Otherwise, they wouldn’t have made us hide in the closet and wait for the dorm supervisor to come and rescue us.”
Her tone also sounded somewhat uncertain.
Cheng Zhu read through these rules again and again, and suddenly a question arose in his mind: "If the virus is infiltrating the smart city system, shouldn't we shut it down to avoid the virus?"
As he spoke, Cheng Zhu pointed to his smart chip.
She noticed that after she finished speaking, Mary was clearly persuaded and fell into deep thought, while Alice's expression didn't change much, only her smile deepened: "No, because once the [Intelligent Mental Purification Chip] is turned off, you'll be more susceptible to contamination over time."
"Mental purification chip?" Not only Cheng Zhu, but Mary was also hearing the term "chip" for the first time.
"In fact, this thing was originally just used to make people's lives more convenient and to replace an ancient item called a mobile phone. It was only later, with the emergence of pollution, that this thing was updated to its current state."
Alice didn’t mind telling them about human history.
Since someone with inside information said it couldn't be removed, Cheng Zhu decided to abandon this conjecture, since Alice's statement was similar to the earlier statement about the existence of higher dimensions.
Smart chips exist to protect humans and are designed to reduce complexity.
Seeing that Cheng Zhu didn't press the matter, Alice shifted her attention to the new rule, specifically rule number eighteen: "[18. When you notice your roommate acting strangely, you can stay overnight in another empty dormitory after 8 PM.] What constitutes 'strange' behavior from your roommate?"
She looked at Chengzhu and Mary with suspicion, scrutinizing them from head to toe: "Honestly, even if my roommate had an angel or demon accessory on him, I wouldn't think there was anything strange about it."
Indeed... thinking of his guardian with angel wings, Cheng Zhu suddenly felt that Alice's statement made a lot of sense.
However, if he had to say something, Cheng Zhu did think of an abnormal situation: "What if it turns into a fleshy monster? It would be a monster made up of a bunch of fleshy chunks, with many hands and eyes."
Cheng Zhu's words instantly reminded Mary of what she had just seen.
“Yes, we saw it just now too. There was a research institute outside that had been destroyed by something, and a monstrous tumor, but when you turned around, it and the research institute disappeared instantly.” Mary decided to tell her about it anyway.
After all, they all lived under the same roof, and Mary was genuinely worried that Alice was too reckless and might do something reckless before it was time to die.
"Oh, is that so?"
Alice maintained her smiling expression, calmly watching the two. However, the next second, one after another, chunks of flesh rushed to tear through her clothes, and one after another, skeletal hands supported the enormous body. The eyes on the flesh chunks stared neatly at Mary and Cheng Zhu, and the extra arms began to reach towards the two.
The bizarre scene startled Cheng Zhu, who took a step back abruptly, prompting Ya, who had been silently idling nearby, to turn his head in confusion.
"ah!"
Mary also took a step back abruptly, only to see the horrific scene dissipate into the air.
Alice covered her mouth, trying to suppress her laughter, and quickly explained before her roommates scolded her: "The essence of the smart chip is to stimulate the owner to see the censored scene. To put it bluntly, it uses technology to artificially create a kind of mental illusion. So I just had my AI Banbu create a monster phantom and shared it with you, who have become my friends, through sight and hearing."
Mary suddenly realized that, more than the anger of being mocked, she was now filled with shock at having a better understanding of the chip she had carried since childhood: "Did you do the same thing in the previous lab?"
"That's not it, but the principle should be the same."
Alice showed them the sixth rule.
6. If you see anything in the dormitory's common areas that doesn't belong there, please pretend you didn't see it. If a strange creature appears in that scene and tries to attack you, please believe that it poses no threat to you and minimize your fear; this might save your life.
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