Chapter 16 I saw you... Well... The other party saw me...
"Li Ming... Li Ming wake up..."
A voice suddenly rang in his ears. Li Ming opened his eyes sleepily. He stared blankly at the paint-chipped ceiling. After a few seconds, he turned his head to look in the direction of the voice:
"Dormitory Head?"
Zhou Haoyu stared at him expressionlessly, then sighed helplessly, "I thought I only needed to call Xiao Wei, but how come now even you can't get out of bed?"
Li Ming blinked sleepily.
"Hurry up and get up. Xiao Wei got up earlier than you today." Zhou Haoyu turned around and waved his hand casually, saying, "Who knows what will happen later."
So Li Ming sat up with difficulty.
He felt his eyes were sore, but he couldn't remember what happened yesterday. He seemed to be very tired in the past few days...
Li Ming climbed down the ladder unsteadily.
"Sleepy, so sleepy..."
Wei Zhehan, who was getting dressed, murmured with his head drooped. From his tone, it was not difficult to guess that his consciousness was still wandering in his sleep.
Li Ming squinted his eyes and yawned.
He staggered into the bathroom and splashed cold water on his face several times, finally waking himself up from the cold. The moment he regained consciousness, Li Ming suddenly recalled what happened yesterday.
The world turned upside down yesterday.
Li Ming looked at himself in the mirror. His face was young and youthful, and his eyes had a clearness that was unique to college students. If nothing special happened, all college students were in this state now...
He walked out of the bathroom and changed his clothes in silence.
On the desk he passed by were piles of messy data cables, randomly placed books, and yesterday's leftover lunch boxes. Wei Zhehan, just like before, puffed up his face in anger and took his time to look for a book on the bookshelf.
Zhou Haoyu and Jiang Huai were communicating with each other at the door.
The serious conversation they had was just like players discussing tactics in an e-sports competition.
Li Ming stared at all this in a daze and suddenly lost his mind.
"Li Ming?"
Wei Zhehan suddenly noticed something was wrong with Li Ming. He shouted at Li Ming in a strange tone: "Why do you feel more sleepy than me today?"
"It's okay." Li Ming shook his head subconsciously.
He quietly put the textbooks he would use today into his backpack, but when he zipped it up, he couldn't help but look up and look around the familiar dormitory carefully.
'I had a dream in which everyone died.'
The words that could not be spoken echoed from his chest. Li Ming lowered his head in frustration and silence. Under the shadow of his bangs, a transparent arc of light flashed in the corners of his eyes:
'Afterwards I tried to comfort myself: it was just a dream.'
'But when I woke up, I found that the dream was actually reality.'
Li Ming couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After the Academy instance is over, everyone's future will be uncertain. They are college students now, and their cognition is still that of college students, but soon after the disaster -
All college students will be aware that:
There is no one in front of them to protect them from the wind and rain.
'High-sequence talents will only awaken in the younger generation.' In other words: all of these surviving college students will stand at the forefront of resisting disasters at some point in the future.
Death is inevitable.
Li Ming sighed softly, put on his shoulder bag, and when he looked up, he found that everyone in the dormitory was ready to go out.
Wei Zhehan was wearing a baggy coat, and neatly held a peeling textbook between his arms. He trotted towards Jiang Huai and the other man at the door, shouting excitedly:
"What are you talking about? Tell me now."
Li Ming raised his eyebrows after hearing this.
Xiao Wei still has a long way to go in the future...
"We are discussing what will happen today." Zhou Haoyu half closed his eyes and answered helplessly, "I should be able to meet other classmates today, and I don't know what will happen."
"I hope there are other people in the school who survived." Jiang Huai said calmly.
As soon as he said this, Wei Zhehan froze in place.
Jiang Huai now seems to be even less talkative than Xiao Wei... Li Ming listened to the conversation between the three people, walked towards them with a wry smile, and said speechlessly:
"Can't you just stop talking about death?"
"I didn't~" Zhou Haoyu raised his hands in surrender, and added with a smile: "I obviously tried my best to ease the atmosphere, but who knew that these two people around me were useless."
"Who are you talking about? Zhou Haoyu!"
Wei Zhehan grumbled loudly in dissatisfaction, "I didn't say anything wrong!"
"Just telling the truth." Jiang Huai answered hesitantly.
How many years will it take for the two of you to realize the problem with this attitude... Li Ming patted Zhou Haoyu's shoulder with sympathy. He cleared his throat, curved his eyes amid the noise, and said helplessly:
"Okay, we should get going."
This sentence was like a switch, stopping the noise and objections around Li Ming. Li Ming looked at the three people in front of him and smiled at each other after hearing this sentence.
"Walk."
Zhou Haoyu was the first to open the dormitory door, followed closely by Jiang Huai. Wei Zhehan, who was in third place, put his hands behind his head and shouted excitedly, "Let's go!"
Li Ming blinked as he looked at all this. He inexplicably felt that the atmosphere of his dormitory trip was not like exploring the unknown world, but more like teaming up to challenge levels in an RPG game.
But isn’t this too frivolous?
Li Ming frowned subconsciously, but soon he refuted his own thoughts with a laugh: What are you thinking about? Wouldn't it be good to be more active in the early stages?
Today is a day for a new world.
From now on, their lives will be full of ups and downs and turbulence.
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"I feel so cold..."
Wei Zhehan's whisper suddenly rang in Li Ming's ears.
Li Ming turned his head to look at him dimly, only to see Wei Zhehan approaching him like a piece of gummy candy. He stuffed both of his hands under Li Ming's hat to keep warm, and couldn't help shivering and said:
"It's really cold today."
Li Ming complained expressionlessly: "Who told you to go out without enough clothes on?"
“But this is a classroom. We are in the classroom now!” Wei Zhehan was suddenly heartbroken. “How can it be colder inside than outside? Am I dreaming? Why am I the only one who feels cold?”
"Because you are the only one in our dormitory who cares more about style than warmth."
Li Ming responded with a smile.
Although he still didn't understand why the classroom was colder than outside, he knew very well why Wei Zhehan was the only one who felt cold.
"hateful!"
Wei Zhehan gritted his teeth unwillingly. He turned his head in dissatisfaction and snorted coldly to express his anger, but before his anger was understood by the person he wanted to understand, he gave up his plan in a second.
"No, I can't stand it!"
Wei Zhehan surrendered loudly and ran towards the air conditioner in the classroom.
Li Ming covered his face helplessly.
This is really not his problem.
He sighed deeply at this and looked at the current situation of the classroom out of the corner of his eye.
There are only people from their dormitory in the classroom now.
Just as Xiao Wei had said, he was shivering as he bent over the air conditioner and kept pressing buttons. Judging from his expression, he must have encountered some trouble.
trouble?
Li Ming rolled his eyes and immediately thought of the cause of the problem Wei Zhehan was facing:
Maybe the button is not working or there is no electricity...anything can happen in this situation...
Next to him, Zhou Haoyu was sitting in a window seat, staring at the square in front of the teaching building. The shortest route from their school dormitory to the teaching building required crossing the square.
At this time in the past, they could see many classmates walking across the square in groups of three or four, talking and laughing.
But now the square is empty.
"Why is there no one here..." Zhou Haoyu's face was filled with the above anxiety.
Could it be that the academy rules that I understood were wrong?
Li Ming couldn't help but feel anxious.
He looked at the clock on the classroom wall. The hands were getting closer to the class time, but no familiar figure appeared in the classroom.
Aren’t all of them professionals...
Li Ming's thoughts were inexplicably twisted into a bad premonition. He frowned and recalled his previous decisions: from the time he parted with his junior, to leaving a reminder about the school rules in the dormitory hall, these were the most important things to do at the time...
The only thing he regrets is:
They didn't have time to contact the rest of their classmates in the dormitory building.
If they had been able to return to the dormitory earlier, could they have knocked on the doors of other dormitories one by one before the curfew began?
The dormitory building rules do not clearly state what will happen if you go out after curfew.
Li Ming's heart suddenly wavered.
The existences that he was aware of and not aware of turned into weights on both ends of the scale, and were placed one by one on the scale of the sea of consciousness by an invisible hand.
He couldn't decide whether his actions were good or bad.
But time never flows backwards.
He can only look forward and keep moving forward.
Jiang Huai was not in the classroom at this time. He took the initiative to ask to explore the teaching building. Although Li Ming asked to go together, Jiang Huai refused firmly.
"Except for me, no one else in the dormitory can resist the monsters now."
Li Ming recalled the reasons Jiang Huai gave and sighed silently.
To be honest, the only one in their dormitory who could meet this requirement was Xiao Wei, who had awakened his talent... Li Ming had some wild thoughts about this: after all, neither he nor the dormitory head had any offensive talents.
However, Xiao Wei...
Student Xiao Wei is fighting with the air conditioner.
Li Ming's mouth twitched, and he stared stiffly at the funny scene not far away. Perhaps he couldn't stand Wei Zhehan's unilateral violence, so Zhou Haoyu couldn't help but smile and walked towards Wei Zhehan quickly.
Very good, let the dormitory head handle it.
Li Ming continued to sit in the back seat in a daze, feeling at ease.
Time passes by every second.
His worries also changed from worrying about classmates in the same major to worrying about what he would encounter next.
Maybe it was safest to stay in the dormitory building, maybe they all took the school rules too seriously, maybe he had personally led his roommate into a trap...
Li Ming felt uneasy.
His thoughts were in unprecedented chaos. The sense of security that the comic forum could bring him was not even as high as that brought by Jiang Huai. Oh my god, how could someone read the forum and feel the same as if they hadn't read it at all?
Li Ming was speechless about the mechanism of the comic forum.
The forum could only allow him to roughly guess what he might encounter in the future, just as He could only allow Li Ming to roughly deduce the story that happened in the previous timeline.
It works, but it doesn’t work.
Li Ming finally realized his role as the "Golden Finger".
With 5 minutes left before class, there was a sudden sound of laughter and conversation from the corridor. Li Ming subconsciously looked out the window, but there was still no one in the square.
Could it be that all his classmates have the talent for space teleportation?
Li Ming opened the door with curiosity and secretly. He looked through the crack of the door and looked at the corridor quietly, but he happened to meet the eyes of many faceless classmates in the corridor.
All the pale, featureless faces suddenly looked at Li Ming.
The laughter and conversation he had just heard stopped abruptly the moment he opened the door, like music that had been casually paused, leaving only Li Ming's heart beating irregularly.
So he closed the door silently again.
The greedy and twisted sight from the monster was instantly blocked by the door.
Li Ming sighed helplessly.
"Wow, it really looks like a horror movie." Wei Zhehan who appeared nearby suddenly commented.
Li Ming was immediately frightened by Wei Zhehan's words. After he came to his senses, he immediately complained to the other party:
"Don't scare me suddenly!"
“I didn’t do anything…” Wei Zhehan spread his hands and muttered angrily, “It’s obviously you, Li Ming, who was too focused… It’s not my fault…”
His voice became weaker and weaker, and it was obvious that he realized his mistake.
Seeing this, Li Ming rolled his eyes at the other party.
He was about to speak, but unexpectedly Zhou Haoyu, who was standing by the window, suddenly called his name:
"Li Ming, come and take a look."
Zhou Haoyu, who had already leaned out half of his body, was silent for a moment, and then added again: "It seems like something is climbing up the wall... I can't see clearly what it is..."
"Well... the other party saw me..."
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