From a distance, the boarding school was shrouded in snow, standing alone on the white horizon, solemn and romantic.
The yellow light from the windows of the building reflected on the snow can easily create the illusion of warmth.
But the sleepwalkers in the car knew very well that this warm and romantic-looking building was probably their grave.
After entering the iron gate of the school, the speed of the bus slowed down to the parking space.
Chi Nan almost pressed his face to the window glass. This was the first time he saw falling snow since he regained his sight. His eyes wanted to remember every detail of the scene in front of him for a moment.
The school playground was quiet, and there were no traces on the thick snow except for the wheel marks of their bus.
It was as if the overwhelming snow had wiped out all signs of life.
The solemnity of all sounds, the only thing that makes people feel relieved and playful and interesting is that there is a row of crooked little snowmen standing downstairs in the classroom.
Looking through the car window, Chi Nan found that these snowmen were very distinctive. They were tall and short, male and female, fat and thin. Longan core made eyes, and a red scarf symbolizing school was neatly wrapped around his neck.
Chi Nan looked at the snowman, lowered his head and touched the scarf hanging around his neck, and finally glanced at everyone in the car, making sure that all sleepwalkers' scarves were the same.
After turning into the parking lot, the bus finally stopped, and the originally quiet car suddenly became noisy.
The silent driver stopped the car and stood up from the driver's seat, holding a huge cardboard box in his hand.
"Dear classmates, welcome to Dawn City... boarding school. In the days to come, I believe you will have an unforgettable study and life time."
The driver paused deliberately when he mentioned the name of the school, apparently because the program entered by the dream maker made him skip the school name.
"Excuse me, what is the name of our copy this time?"
The students in the front row who raised their hands to speak should be old sleepwalkers. They all noticed that the place where the name of the copy should have been displayed on the system interface was covered with a thick mosaic, and only the word "school" was displayed. The admission letter can be the same as the name of the school with Mosaic.
The driver smiled stiffly: "I'm sorry, I'm just a driver, I can't comment."
Everyone: "… "
Chi Nan has become accustomed to the weird tone unique to Nightmare World's NPCs, but this is the first time he has seen the situation where he has entered the dungeon but doesn't know the name of the dungeon.
The experienced sleepwalker in the car also noticed this, and several people who knew each other began to discuss in a low voice.
"Although the weather is bad tonight and there is no sign of the heavy snow to stop, don't worry, my classmates are lucky, I happen to have a box of umbrellas in my car, everyone will share a point, and you can walk through with an umbrella after getting off the bus. The playground, enter the dormitory area of the teaching building."
With that said, the driver distributed the long-handled red umbrella in the cardboard box to the sleepwalker in the car, "It's too cold at night here, you will catch a cold if you get drenched in snow, I hope I can help you, and I hope you can protect yourselves. "
In the front row, there was a gangster-looking boy with dyed green hair who was smoking in the car. He weighed the red umbrella in his hand, and chuckled in disgust, "Master, is there any other color? Our eldest man, this nasty thing. They can't use it either."
The green-haired boy's speech quickly attracted the attention of the entire car. Such high-profile words and deeds, if not a newcomer or a boss.
I saw the driver raised his lips stiffly: "Sorry, there is only one style of umbrella on the car."
Lumao threw the red umbrella on the ground in front of the NPC, and said rudely with Erlang's legs crossed: "Forget it, which old man covers the red umbrella in the snow, what a fucking shame."
The driver looked at him for a moment, then rolled his eyes, and turned to the other sleepwalkers while holding the suitcase.
The two sleepwalkers sitting in front of Chi Nan clearly knew each other, and one of them said, "I bet Lu Mao is a new cannon fodder."
His companion tutted: "No betting, whoever bet with you on something that knows the answer at a glance, the boss won't be so arrogant even if he has the ability, only the newcomers are so ignorant and impolite."
But because of Lumao's actions, several newcomers and boys in the car were suddenly at a loss with red umbrellas. Under the influence of words, their politeness and obedience became the existence of "mother" in the mouths of others.
Only Chi Nan held the red umbrella in his arms like a baby, because the fabric of this umbrella is very comfortable to the touch, soft, delicate and elastic. Let him have the urge to cry, just to keep him warm.
And he didn't quite understand, why are there always people who use unrelated things like colors and objects to label themselves and others as boring
Sitting next to Chi Nan, the student with the black long straight and gentle style held the umbrella very cherished. He stared at the delicate umbrella and said, "It's so beautiful."
You can hear his sincerity, and he truly appreciates the workmanship of this umbrella.
After distributing the red umbrella, the driver stood at the front of the car and bowed to everyone: "The specific admission rules and regulations will be explained by the teacher later. My work is over. I wish you good luck and good night, classmates."
After speaking, he opened the car door and held up an umbrella, and his figure disappeared into the vast snow.
Cold wind and snow flakes swept into the car through the open door, the temperature plummeted, and all the sleepwalkers were suddenly left in the car and felt a little dazed.
"What's this? Let's just stay in the car and wait?" Lu Mao and his tablemate were obviously very impatient, "This car makes my waist and legs hurt, why don't I go to the snow to exercise? walk around."
Seeing them dying, the experienced sleepwalker couldn't help but remind: "Don't go out yet, the driver just said that there will be a teacher coming, be patient and wait."
Lu Mao sneered: "Unfortunately, what I lack most is patience."
With that said, Lumao and the bluemao beside him put on their coats and pretended to get out of the car for a snowball fight.
Someone whispered: "It's ridiculous that someone should come to the winter camp."
Hei Chang raised his neck beside Chi Nan and said, "Wait a minute, at least bring an umbrella? The driver said he hoped we could protect ourselves. Maybe it's a reminder?"
Lan Mao suddenly burst into laughter, and he patted Green Mao's head: "Then the perverted little girl wants to see you red and green, right?"
Lu Mao spit out the cigarette butt in his mouth and rolled his eyes at Hei Changzhi, who was talking: "Go away, who is as timid as you, you pervert."
Hei Changzhi, who was kindly reminded but was scolded as a pervert, turned pale, bit his lip and stopped talking. At this moment, Lumao and Lanmao got out of the car in a hurry, and they really spread wild in the snow.
"This kind of rude and rude fellow, let them fend for themselves. The mud can't support the wall." The girl in the front row with a double ball head leaned back with her arms in her arms, comforting the two impolite classmates who had just been slandered by them. The black and long straight, although she is biting a lollipop, it gives people a sense of sight with the head of a big smoker.
Hei Changzhi bit his lip again, just now his pale face turned a little bloody from the humiliation, and for a moment his voice was like a gnat: "Those two are my classmates in the real world..."
"I know them, the two bastards who secretly took pictures of girls and posted them on the school forum."
"Well...and cutting the hair of the female classmates."
Marukotou tutted in disdain and looked at Hei Changzhi: "I also remember you, the third class next door often runs to the men's bathroom."
Hei Changzhi was obviously stunned for a moment, then lowered his head to hide the expression on his face: "Well, it's me..."
He subconsciously scratched the corner of his clothes, not knowing whether it was because of embarrassment or some other emotion, even his ears were red.
But the ball head didn't laugh at him, and said truthfully: "I think, soon you will be able to say goodbye to these two annoying classmates forever."
As soon as she finished speaking, there was an extra red umbrella in the white snow on the playground. As the umbrella got closer and closer, the sleepwalkers in the car were lying on the window glass, and it was clear that a woman was walking towards them. teacher.
Chi Nan also paid special attention to it, and didn't look away until he was sure that 229 had no bad taste and pretended to be a female teacher.
"My classmates, please bring your belongings and umbrellas to the playground to gather. It's getting late, so let's allocate a room for tonight." She got into the car and ignored the green hair and blue hair scattered on the snow. dropped, as if they were already dead rather than incoming students.
Hearing this, everyone packed up their belongings and got out of the car one after another. Chi Nan closed the collar of his school uniform. He was not in good health and was always colder than the average person. At this moment, his fingers were frozen.
Soon, a row of students with red umbrellas stood in the snow-covered late-night playground.
Chi Nan used to seldom observe his teammates because he was not interested, but this time he was more careful.
His eyes swept across the crowd from left to right, and he put the faces in school uniforms into his eyes moment by moment. It took less than half a minute to determine that 229 was not like Ye Chang, who was wearing a vest among the sleepwalkers.
To be precise, everyone present could not make him feel familiar with the "Dusk Cruise" at that time.
Chi Nan lowered his eyes, and the corners of his lips were slightly pulled down.
Everyone shivered to keep out the cold, and a few girls whispered, "Why don't you allocate dormitories in the house, it's too cold."
"Yeah, I'm so cold that I can't wake up." As they said, they were still clucking because of the cold teeth.
The female teacher waited until they were completely quiet before speaking.
"A total of 19 students came to our boarding college today. Because the dormitory is a double room, one of the students wants to live by himself tonight."
Saying that, the female teacher with red lips looked at the nineteen sleepwalkers who were shivering from the cold from left to right, "We happen to have nine girls and ten boys, and it seems that the one who wants to live alone is a girl. classmate."
The girls with red umbrellas had different expressions, and they suddenly became the object of everyone's observation.
In the nightmare copy, living alone, especially the solitary plot that seems to have been designed by the dream maker, often represents unknown danger.
On a very cold snowy night, the atmosphere on the playground suddenly dropped to freezing point, and the gentle black Changzhi who was sitting next to Chi Nan just now raised his hand carefully.
"That, my situation is a bit special...that..." His voice was still very small, and he had to be very careful to hear it clearly on the open playground.
The female teacher glanced at him: "Does this female student have anything to say?"
Hei Changzhi's face was flushed red from the cold, and before he could make a sound when his lips moved, he was interrupted by Lumao's mocking laughter: "Teacher, this guy is a female disguise, with a handle, if you don't believe me, take him off. Just look at the pants and you'll know, the chicken is not too small hahaha."
"It wouldn't be fair to all the girls if he counted him as a girl, right?" Lan Mao whistled frivolously.
The npc female teacher didn't seem to understand the female disguise they were talking about, so she looked straight at Hei Chang in confusion, and the other party lowered his head, as if his voice was trembling because of shame: "That... I'm not a pervert... I'm just transgender. ...Accommodation may not be very convenient ... It stands to reason that men's dormitories should be arranged ..."
"Teacher, even if he is transgender, his biological sex is male, right? In this way, we are eight girls and eleven boys, and it's boys who live alone!"
"Yes, we have an even number of girls, and the four dormitories are just right."
The girl on the snow had already started looking for roommates in private, and Hei Changzhi consciously moved to the side, trying not to cause trouble to others.
Marukotou glanced at him, hesitated, and finally gave up the idea of being roommates with Hei Changzhi at the invitation of the ponytail girl beside him.
She doesn't mind the other person's biological gender and sympathizes with his situation, but if she chooses him as her roommate, there will be a girl who will be unlucky because of her choice.
But after knowing that Hei Changzhi is transgender, the boys are not happy: "It's not fair, if a transgender person thinks he is a girl, right? It's inconvenient for us boys to live with him..."
"Yes, as far as I know, transgender people should be counted according to their psychological gender, not their biological sex..."
The playground suddenly became lively, and the female teacher didn't speak. She held an umbrella like a sculpture and waited for the students to quarrel with the results.
"Well, I'm causing trouble for everyone, myself..." Hei Changzhi raised his hand weakly, but because everyone was arguing too fiercely and his voice was too low, no one noticed his actions at all.
The tips of Chi Nan's fingers holding the umbrella handle turned red, and his face was so frozen that he almost lost consciousness, but he still politely asked the female teacher, "Can I apply for my own accommodation?"
As soon as he said the words, the noisy crowd immediately quieted down, looked at him in disbelief, and carefully looked at the boy who had been quiet all the time.
Those who dare to stand out at this juncture are either idiots or unfathomable bosses, but they can't speculate any possibility from Chi Nan.
Chi Nan was not as complicated as they thought, he was just used to living alone, so it was convenient to cry.
Not everyone can accept his tears for granted like Ye Chang.
Maybe he has only Ye Chang as his roommate in this life...
The female teacher looked at Chi Nan and said, "Of course, we will save a lot of time allocating rooms. You can rest early to prepare for tomorrow's class."
Chi Nan nodded: "Then it's hard for you to arrange it."
After solving the problem of the extra students, the remaining 18 sleepwalkers were quickly allocated their own rooms, and the group could finally leave the frozen snowy night playground and walk towards the school lobby.
Hei Changzhi apologized apologetically beside Chi Nan: "I'm really sorry, it's all because of me..."
Chi Nan didn't quite understand his apology and didn't know where he was wrong, so he just said, "I'm not used to living with strangers."
The heavy door isolates the wind, snow and snow, the fireplace in the lobby is burning vigorously, and the room is warm as spring.
The group breathed a sigh of relief when they entered the room, their originally stiff limbs instantly warmed up, and everyone consciously put away their umbrellas and changed their shoes.
Chi Nan raised his eyes and took a quick look. The house they were in was not so much a school lobby as it was a large villa with stylish decoration, which was a family-style student dormitory apartment.
The floor was also covered with a soft-looking, expensive carpet.
"All students can put their umbrellas on the umbrella stand by the corridor. The cleaning aunt has just cleaned the school building. Try not to increase her workload." The female teacher reminded.
But as soon as she finished speaking, a girl's scream exploded in the crowd: "Blood, a lot of blood on the ground... Who, who's blood... Is anyone injured?"
Her voice was getting lower and lower, trembling to the point that she could barely make a sentence.
Hearing this, everyone subconsciously tensed their nerves, and following the girl's line of sight, several dripping blushing blood stains broke into their line of sight.
The white fluffy carpet on the ground has excellent water absorption, and strings of blood beads instantly seep into the fibers, like falling plums in the snow field on the spotless white carpet.
The exclamations sounded one after another, shattering the warm tranquility of the school building.
The female teacher lowered her chin slightly and pressed her index finger to her lips: "Shh, don't make any noise in the school building, please keep quiet."
A few newcomers were so frightened that they knew the rules from their predecessors. They could not easily disobey the rules and orders issued by the npc.
Chi Nan lowered his eyes and found that the blood stains stretched all the way from the gate to his feet, and the red umbrella he was holding in his hand, because the temperature in the room increased, the snow on the umbrella began to melt, and the snow water was seeping down drop by drop. Only the carpet swallowed the sound of dripping water.
And as long as you take a closer look, you will find that the snow flowing from the umbrella is red.
"Blood drips from the umbrella."
One of the boys touched the wet umbrella surface and frowned at the scarlet on his fingertips. He put his hand to his nose and sniffed, and there was a pungent smell, "It's real blood, I don't know what it is. biological."