"It's so dark outside, I'm so scared. Open the door quickly and let me in."
The voice outside the door was still ringing, the soft voice that should have belonged to the girl, but in the ears of the people in the dormitory at this moment, it was a bit inexplicably sticky and cold.
Who dares to open the door
There was silence in the room, Tang Xinjue thought for a while, and said softly: "The door of the bedroom seems to be broken, we can't open it. When Wan Qing came back just now, the door opened automatically. You stand at the door and try it to see if it will work." Will it open by itself?"
Since people are required to participate in this so-called game, there is no reason not to open the door for the students returning to the dormitory. It can be seen from the automatic opening and closing of the door when Zheng Wanqing returns.
Now that there is no response from the dormitory door, it can only mean that "Zhang You" outside the door is not of the same kind as them.
There was silence outside the door for two seconds, and the knocking sound suddenly became more rapid, hitting the door one after another, causing the entire door frame to vibrate slightly.
"Don't you want to open the door for me?"
This time, the voice of "Zhang You" became very gloomy, much louder than before.
Tang Xinjue, who was standing in front of the door, could hear it clearly, the gloomy voice almost came in along the resonance of the door panel... It was as if the owner of the voice was lying on the door tightly, with his whole head buried in the crack of the door Same.
She could even feel something sticky flowing from the crack of the door. Fortunately, the dormitory was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. Otherwise, her roommate Guo Guo would have passed over on the spot if she saw it.
Tang Xinjue pretended not to feel anything, returned to the two roommates, and signaled them to keep quiet.
Zheng Wanqing has always listened to her, and Guo Guo has no objection to being scared out of her body, and the three of them started to pretend to be dead.
Seeing that no matter how you shouted, there was no response from inside, and the thing outside the door finally gave up its disguise, sneering and sneering accompanied by the sound of scratching the door, again and again, which was particularly ear-piercing in the silence and darkness.
The people in the room tensed their nerves, for fear that the door would be scratched open in the next second.
The time became extremely long in the passing of minutes and seconds. After an unknown amount of time, the sound of scratching the door finally disappeared. The three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Tang Xinjue touched his back, only to find that it was drenched in sweat.
She can only take a gamble, bet on guessing the "rules of the game", bet that the dormitory is both restraint and protection, and bet that things outside can't get in.
Fortunately, the bet paid off.
At this moment, in the corridor outside the door, a hoarse "squeak" sounded suddenly—it was the sound of opening the door!
Looking up suddenly, Tang Xinjue realized that it was the door opening to the opposite bedroom.
Sure enough, a cautious voice sounded: "Is that you, Tao Xin? It's great that you're finally back..."
The sound stopped abruptly as if seeing something extremely frightening, and then it never sounded again. All I could hear was the door to the next bedroom being slowly pushed open—and then slammed shut amidst the terrified screams of the other roommates.
All was silent.
Guo Guo let out a whimper from behind, and his body slid down uncontrollably. No one dared to speak out to discuss, nor did they dare to guess what was happening in the dormitory opposite the door at this time.
I don't know how long it has passed, and when the clear and crisp child's voice sounded unexpectedly, the three of them were shocked:
"Ding ding ding, ding ding ding, did the students go back to the dormitory obediently~ Hey, there are a lot of people missing-oh, I seem to have forgotten to tell the students that the outside of the dormitory is very dangerous, don't open the door easily."
Tong Yin sounded very sorry, but Tang Xinjue sensed a trace of schadenfreude and malice that couldn't be concealed:
"In any case, failing to protect one's dormitory and causing roommates to be eliminated early, this is not the kind of student educators like."
"Educators believe that roommates in a dormitory must help each other, so that you can achieve better results in daily assessments and competitions, and help your school become a key university. When he finds that there are not enough people in the dormitory, he will be angry and lower your grades. Rating, cancel your rewards..."
"Ding, the second rule has been unlocked: please protect your roommate!"
At the same time as this voice sounded, Tang Xinjue looked at the phone, and the time was just rounded up to 9 o'clock.
It was exactly half an hour since the last appearance of the child's voice. And the last time it sounded for the first time at 8 o'clock, it was another half an hour.
Could this voice appear every half an hour, announcing a rule each time
Then the game will officially start at 0:00, and this voice will appear again...
Tang Xinjue's thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door, and a familiar voice came from outside the door: "Open the door, I'm Zhang You, let me in."
again
Without thinking, she said, "Zhang You, look at the top of the door frame. We have agreed to put the spare key. Do you still have a spare key?"
Outside the door: "Okay... You are lying, you don't have a key, come and open the door."
Tang Xinjue's face was expressionless, but his gentle voice was very indifferent at the moment: "You forgot, we never keep spare keys in our dormitory."
This is not Zhang You either!
The next thing was exactly the same as before, no matter how begging or threatening outside, and how scary the voice was, the three of Tang Xinjue resolutely pretended to be dead and never took a step closer to the door.
After a long 30 minutes, the sound outside the door disappeared again.
Then came, "Ding ding ding, ding ding ding, have you returned to the dormitory obediently?"
"Ah!!" Zheng Wanqing finally couldn't take it anymore, she ran to the balcony window and shouted angrily: "Enough! Let us out! I don't want to play your game!"
The child's voice was still giggling maliciously, as if the student's protest was very insignificant to it, not even worth paying attention to.
Amidst the laughter, another roommate, Guo Guo, had already started crying and reciting the Great Compassion Mantra. Facing the messy environment, Tang Xinjue patted his head that was starting to ache again, sighed, picked up the long strip tool on the side, and slapped it hard on the table:
"Quiet!!"
The furious drinking accompanied by the deafening impact made the dormitory instantly quiet. Not only that, the two roommates even felt that their ears were buzzing.
Guo Guo was not surprised, but Zheng Wanqing was stunned, wondering how Tang Xinjue, who was always sickly, could burst out with such great strength.
"Listen to what it says, listen carefully."
Tang Xinjue raised his head and stared at the darkness outside the window.
The weird childish voice laughed for a while, and without any pretense, simply announced the third rule:
"From the beginning of the game, the dormitory has been completely blocked, and the living can no longer leave the dormitory!"
This is already known.
Guo Guo shivered: "What do you mean [can't leave anymore]? It didn't say when the game will end?"
— It doesn't even say if the game will end or not. This thought flashed through Tang Xinjue's mind, but he didn't say it.
At this time, there was another mechanical knock on the door...
As time passed, the three of them finally gradually adapted to the rule of "weird child's voice-announcing the rules-ghost knocking on the door".
Fortunately, the IQs of the outsiders are not high, and they don't know how to change the exact same clichés, and they are incompetent and rage scratching the door after revealing their secrets. Until the next refresh, as if there is no memory of the previous failure, knock on the door again.
Repeatedly, several people are no longer so afraid of "ghost knocking on the door". After all, practice has proved that as long as they don't take the initiative to open the door, things outside can't get in.
Tang Xinjue recorded the rules brought by the child's voice one by one in his heart:
Rule 4: When the zero point is reached, only two or more people in one dormitory can successfully enter the game, otherwise it will be regarded as a failure and all players will be eliminated.
Rule 5: Good students will get rewards, bad students will not.
Article 6: Only the students who happened to be in the dormitory when the game first came, are good students who meet the requirements of [educators].
Tang Xinjue frowned: Split one rule that can be finished into two, so that they will get less information. This weird childish voice is quite a thief.
From this point of view, this unidentified child voice seems to have natural malice towards them. On the surface, the rules are repeatedly reminded, but in fact it is intermittent like squeezing toothpaste, and each time it happens to be one step late. If it weren't for Tang Xinjue being here, Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo would probably be the first to open the door and suffer disaster.
At this time, the countdown on the mobile phone had only 60 minutes left, and the hour hand reached 11 o'clock.
The numb people didn't seem to hear the knock on the door, and even after getting used to the darkness, they began to research ways to communicate with the outside world. But whether it was knocking on the wall or yelling, there was no response from the dormitories on the two sides next door.
The three of them inexplicably felt that they were on an isolated island even though they were looking at a familiar campus outside the window. There is only boundless and empty sea water on all sides, and no one can come to rescue them.
This sense of helplessness reaches its climax when the last rule is declared:
"Students who haven't stayed on campus before the zero-point game starts and haven't returned to the dormitory will be obliterated..." Tong Yin seemed to have accidentally slipped his mouth, and changed the word with a smile: "We will be eliminated, Disqualified from the game."
"..."
Guo Zhi exclaimed in a low voice: "Look, the phone screen has changed again!"
Below the scarlet countdown, there are four more round frames, three of which are shining with white light spots, and one of which is not glowing, and is still in a dim state.
Tang Xinjue quickly realized: these light spots symbolize the four roommates in the dormitory, and the light spots will not light up for those who are not in the dormitory. There are currently three people in the dormitory, so only three light spots are lit.
At the same time as the thought sounded, there was already a numb knock on the door: "Let me in!"
Guo Guo gave up on himself and shouted: "Knock, knock, no one will open the door if you knock your throat~"
There was a moment of silence outside the door, and then he yelled furiously: "Guo Guo, you XX! I will chop you up after I go in! Open the door for me!"
"..."
Tang Xinjue looked up instantly, and Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing were also taken aback.
"Mist grass! Why does this monster have a new line?" Guo Guo jumped up and hid behind Tang Xinjue, raising his voice to imitate Tang Xinjue's method to test: "Ahem, Zhang You, aren't you going to see your boyfriend?" Why? Why did you come back so early?"
Tang Xinjue pushed her away: "Have you ever thought about a possibility, perhaps, this time it's not a monster?"
Perhaps in response to her words, the voice from outside came in again:
"See you! When did I have a boyfriend after twenty years of being single? The ghost has met several, and chased me all the way!"
It was very irritable outside, and the voice was accompanied by a bit of crying: "I beg you to move quickly, there is a black fog outside now, if they catch up, I will die!"
"... This is Zhang You, it's Zhang You, right!"
Guo Guo was excited and apprehensive, and Zheng Wanqing was even more impulsive and wanted to open the door directly, but Tang Xinjue blocked it with the long tool in his hand, and blocked her back.
Zheng Wanqing was in a hurry this time, and spoke loudly to Tang Xinjue for the first time: "You also said that Zhang You was outside, why didn't you let the door open? What if it's too late?"
Tang Xinjue deliberately ignored the throbbing pain in his temple, and spoke very fast: "You forgot what the rule was just now? There will be a ghost knocking on the door every half an hour, never an exception. It means that it is always at our door."
"So, if the one standing outside the door this time is the real Zhang You, where is the original [ghost]?"
Tang Xinjue didn't lower his voice, it could be heard inside and outside the dormitory, the air was instantly filled with silence, even the knocking on the door stopped.
After a while, Zhang You's voice trembled: "Damn, don't scare me, people will die if they are scared—"
As if he had discovered something, the sound stopped abruptly.
After a few seconds, Zhang You said with difficulty: "I feel it, as if something... is lying on my back."
Guo Guo suddenly gasped and softened silently. Zheng Wanqing pinched the man's collar to prevent the end, and looked at Tang Xinjue hesitantly: "Then shall we still open the door?"
Guo Guo was about to collapse: "What do you think?"
Now that they open the door, Zhang You is not the only one who comes in!
"Can we wait until the next time the rules are announced?" She suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "You said in the heart formula, every time that scary child's voice sounds, the ghost outside the door will be refreshed once."
Taking advantage of the ghost's absence, they opened the door for Zhang You, wouldn't it be safe
Tang Xinjue denied it without hesitation: "The next time the child's voice appears, it will be exactly 12 o'clock."
At 12 o'clock, the game starts, and all those who have not returned to the dormitory will be obliterated. Who can guarantee that at that moment, it was faster for them to open the door, or for Zhang You to be wiped out faster
The atmosphere returned to the anxious starting point, and several people remained silent. Guo Guo couldn't help but began to wipe away tears: "Is there no other way... Woo..."
Zheng Wanqing shouted at her: "Don't cry! What's the use of crying under the current situation!"
Zhang You knocked on the door even more irritablely: "Zheng Wanqing, don't scold Guo Guo, I'm dying, what's the use of shouting!!"
Guo Guo cried and broke the jar: "Open the door, I want to fight that ghost to the death! Everyone die together!"
…
After screaming and screaming, Tang Xinjue's unusually calm voice was especially waking in the air.
"Who said you were going to die?"