Chapter 15: Four Seasons Protection Guide (II)
Tang Xinjue's gaze stayed on the girl's face for half a second, then he turned around expressionlessly and continued walking forward.
"Heart Sutra, Heart Sutra!" Zhou Xiao grabbed her legs and begged: "I only want to eat one bun, or you can give me some water, just a little bit will do, please save me, I'm only 20 years old, I don't want to die..."
The girl cried and complained.
Tang Xin Jue couldn't pull his legs away, and he didn't want to flush the toilet in front of a familiar face, so he lowered his head and said to the crying girl:
"Your tongue fell out."
The girl was stunned for a moment, then immediately looked down to look for it. When she found nothing, she was about to look up, but then she heard Tang Xin Jue say, "It really fell, right under your neck, and it was immediately crushed."
It was startled, and instantly arched its body to look carefully, and its hand subconsciously loosened. Tang Xinjue immediately seized the opportunity and walked away, quickly leaving "Zhou Xiao" behind.
Less than two seconds later, a sharp scream was heard behind him, but Tang Xinjue acted as if he didn't hear it.
The monster's disguise had no effect on her, let alone the monster that had appeared in her dream. With just one glance, she knew it was an "old acquaintance".
In nightmares, there is a monster called the glutton ghost, which will transform into the appearance of a familiar person and ask for food. Once the food in the hand is given away, it will be marked at the same time. After nightfall, the glutton ghost will follow the mark and devour the person.
There is such a big pit in a level that is less than fifteen seconds' walk away, so Tang Xinjue dare not take it lightly.
604, 605…here we are.
Tang Xinjue stopped at the door number 606. The door was ajar and could be pushed open directly. She was so cold that her teeth couldn't stop chattering, but she didn't rush to push the door.
Something is wrong.
She had lived in the dormitory for three years. Walking to the door and pressing the doorknob should have been a smooth and natural body memory. But before she reached out her hand, she felt a fleeting sense of disharmony.
A familiar voice from my roommate rang out from inside the door: "Xin Jue, are you back?"
"The door is open, come in quickly, it's too cold, who has a thick down jacket?"
"I have, I have..."
The random sounds of conversation diluted the uncomfortable feeling at the door. Tang Xinjue frowned but still did not open the door.
After a two-second pause, she took the key out of her pocket and placed it outside the keyhole of the half-open door, about 5 mm away.
Even with her upper body apart, she could still clearly tell that the shapes of the key and the keyhole did not match.
This is not dormitory 606!
Taking a step back, Tang Xinjue found the reason for his discomfort: his sense of direction was wrong.
Turning around, Tang Xinjue inserted the key to dormitory 606 into the closed door of dormitory 616 on the opposite side.
The moment she opened the door, the conversation of her "roommate" behind her stopped abruptly. The next moment, a gloomy aura rushed towards her back, but in the end, it couldn't catch up with the speed at which she entered , and disappeared outside the door in disappointment.
"Heart Sutra! You are finally back!"
In the dormitory, Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing wrapped themselves up like two penguins, staring at her with their round eyes.
When Tang Xinjue first saw the two fat balls in front of him, he thought he had entered the wrong place. After he realized what was happening, he couldn't help laughing, but his lips couldn't move - they were frozen.
Her roommate quickly took out a down jacket and a cotton coat and put them on her. Tang Xinjue changed her denim jacket into a thick sweater, and then quickly put on her thickest down jacket, gloves, a hat and a scarf. Only then did she feel like she could breathe again.
The first thing she asked was a hoarse voice: "What's the temperature inside?"
The roommate held up a clock and said, "It's below zero now. It's 27 degrees below zero."
It's colder inside than outside!
This is the environmental measuring meter that Guo Guo bought from the student mall at a huge cost of 10 points. It can instantly detect temperatures within minus 100 degrees and can also provide simple danger warnings.
"When you weren't in just now, this watch kept ringing the door alarm, which scared us both half to death."
Guo Guo sighed and exhaled a white mist into the air.
Tang Xin Jue understood: "It's not because of me, but because of the monster behind me. But now they have been stopped outside the door... Wait, where is Zhang You?"
There are only three people in the dormitory now, but Zhang You is nowhere to be seen.
Guo and Zheng shook their heads together, "We haven't seen Zhang You since we started the exam."
Guo Guo woke up in the bathroom ten minutes ago, and the voiceover told her to break open the frozen bathroom door. Zheng Wanqing's task was to unclog the frozen faucet.
Tang Xinjue immediately took out his cell phone to make a call. As soon as he turned it on, Zhang You called.
After the call was connected, my roommate's voice of collapse rang in my ears:
"I've been left out again!"
"Wait, why did I say this word again?"
The three of them could understand Zhang You's breakdown very well. If they were thrown into the snowy outdoors with only two pieces of clothing on, their mentality would only be worse.
Tang Xin Jue asked her: "What is your mission?"
Zhang You: "The mission requires me to find the way back to the dormitory, but it's all foggy outside and I can't see the road at all! I'm now very worried that I'll run into the supermarket owner from last time. I'm walking in fear. Wait a minute, someone's coming...%￥#...&*..."
The call ended with a string of meaningless garbled electrical codes and then was disconnected.
"Zhang You is really unlucky..." the roommate muttered to himself. It was like everyone was at the fountain, but Zhang You was always thrown into the jungle. His bad luck was beyond words.
The dormitory door could not be opened from the inside, so they could not go out to look for people and could only wait for phone support at any time. At the same time, the temperature meter also issued a slight alarm, and the value displayed on it was minus 30 degrees.
The indoor temperature is still dropping!
Tang Xin Jue: "Air conditioners, hair dryers, desk lamps, hot water bottles, hot water card systems, water dispenser heating... everything related to electricity cannot be used. We can only heat manually."
All they could find was a box of birthday candles and matches, which provided very limited warmth.
"In fact, minus 30 degrees Celsius is not the lowest temperature outdoors in the Northeast. The temperature in Mohe, the northernmost part of the country, can reach minus 50 degrees Celsius or below. Especially indoors, there are no factors like wind, rain or snow, so it is easier to endure than outdoors."
Tang Xinjue folded her cotton and down jackets inside her bed to slow down the freezing. She concluded: "The real scary thing is that we don't know how low the indoor temperature will drop, nor when it will stop."
When you first enter the door, the indoor temperature drops rapidly at a rate of 1 degree per minute. After reaching minus 30 degrees, it begins to slow down to 1 degree per minute every 5 minutes.
"If it continues like this, the temperature in the house will be forty degrees in an hour." Guo Guo grew up in a city where it is spring all year round. He has never experienced such severe cold. He felt as if even his brain was frozen.
If the temperature really drops below 60 degrees, none of them can stand it.
"When necessary, I will directly use the Three-Feet Freezing Talisman." Tang Xin Jue said.
Roommate: "??? We are already so cold, do we need to lower the temperature?"
She explained: "Not only will the temperature drop instantly, but it will also have a freezing effect. The ice cubes produced by it are zero degrees."
This is why some people in cold areas build igloos to live in. The temperature of ice is actually much higher than the ambient temperature, and it can also prevent heat loss.
Guo Guo cried: "...I never thought that one day, I would feel that ice is warm."
One hour later, at 10 a.m., the temperature inside was minus 42 degrees Celsius.
In order to resist the cold, the three of them began to do warm-up exercises frantically, using the heat created by their bodies to offset the freezing feeling. Before long, the roommates gave up one after another and were dragged up by Tang Xinjue to continue dancing.
"You must persevere. Eat to replenish calories when you feel tired." Tang Xinjue was very cold.
Two hours later, at 11:00 a.m., the indoor temperature was minus 48 degrees Celsius.
Guo Guo's exposed skin had already been frostbitten, so he had to crawl into bed and curl up into a ball. A wailing sound came from inside the bed: "My health value has dropped!"
"Mine too." Zheng Wanqing's eyebrows were covered with frost.
[Mild frostbite: Your body temperature begins to slowly drop and can no longer sustain your activities. Health value per hour -2]
Tang Xinjue frowned and stared at the APP screen, but Zhang You on the other end did not call again.
She felt as if she had missed some information.
If he could only rely on the supplies in the dormitory to get through this exam, then wouldn't it be a death situation for Zhang You, who was assigned to an outside position from the beginning?
A balanced game system will not have a dead end. In addition to resisting head-on, there are probably other ways to survive this extreme environment, which means that there must be some clues around them that have not been triggered yet.
After a moment, Tang Xinjue suddenly stood up and started from the door, conducting a carpet search of the entire dormitory.
All their activities are within the dormitory. If there is a clue, it must be inside the dormitory.
There are five minutes left until 12 o'clock and the temperature inside is minus 50 degrees Celsius.
Zheng Wanqing began to squat with a quilt wrapped around her, like a giant penguin that kept shrinking and expanding. She suddenly stopped, went to Guo Guo's bed and shook her: "Wake up! You can't sleep!"
Guo Guo opened his heavy eyes: "My brain is automatically hibernating..."
Swish—a loud noise interrupted their conversation, making both of them clear their minds at the same time.
After being busy for a whole hour, Tang Xinjue actually moved Zhang You's entire bed and the desk two inches outwards, and moved the water dispenser next to it, leaving most of the corner exposed.
"Found it." A smile finally appeared in her eyes.
Hidden in the corner was a palm-sized black radio, of old style, which was obviously not originally owned by the dormitory members.
"What is this?" The roommate poked his head to look.
Tang Xin Jue dug out the radio, "This should be a test prop."
I turned on the radio and tuned in. After about two minutes, a voice sounded:
"... Hello, students. This is the student union radio station. I'm reporter Xiao Ming. I believe you have already discovered that this Monday is destined to be an unusual day. Our school has experienced a sudden drop in temperature. It is expected to drop to minus 70 degrees Celsius at 8 o'clock tonight. Students, please take precautions against the cold and stay in the dormitory as required. Those who have frozen to death must be cleared outside the door, and the school sanitation department will come to collect them..."
Minus 70 degrees?
At this moment, the temperature in the hearts of the three people was colder than outside.
The voice on the radio continued to introduce some situations, the general idea of which was to encourage students to resist the severe cold with perseverance and determination. After talking nonsense for a long time, the topic changed:
"Of course, many students may ask why the school did not take any heating measures to resist the cold this winter?"
"Please don't worry. This is the problem that the Student Union will lead everyone to try to solve today. First, we will randomly interview several students who violated the travel rules and ask them about their feelings about the winter temperature drop."
After a few seconds of noise, a girl spoke up: "Hello everyone, I'm Lily, a reporter from the Student Union. The student next to me did not stay in the dormitory as required during the cooling period, which is a serious violation. Let's interview him: Why did you choose to stay outside?"
After a while, the interviewee replied faintly: "...I came out to buy breakfast and got lost."
In the dormitory, the three people were startled. This was Zhang You's voice!
"Ah, you're really lucky then." Lily giggled twice. "After all, according to the rules, all students who violate the rules will be dealt with collectively. But now, you have a chance to avoid being punished, as long as you cooperate with the interview and answer the questions, and help us find the cause of the heating failure."
"Our student union also worked very hard to get this interview opportunity. It would be a pity if you fail to answer--"
Without giving her any time to react, Lily asked quickly, "Do you know why the heating failed this time?"
"I'm not sure," Zhang You gritted his teeth and replied, and then quickly added: "...but my roommates might know. I can call them and ask."
"Seeking help outside the venue? That's a good idea, but because the weather is too cold, the students' phones have automatically turned off, and it seems you can't contact them."
Lily raised her voice and said, "Unless your roommate takes the initiative to call the radio station's hotline during the broadcast time, the interview can continue normally."
"But - the interview time is limited, we will only wait 30 seconds."
Zhang You hurriedly asked: "But the radio station may not be heard by everyone. Do you want to confirm it again? Or I can find a telephone booth nearby..."
"There are only 20 seconds left." Lily interrupted her with a smile, "We haven't received any calls~"
Zhang You: "But, you didn't tell me the radio station number!"
"There are 15 seconds left." Lily's sweet voice revealed a hypocrisy and coldness that was not in line . "We don't need to be reminded. All the students in the school know how to contact us. This is the most normal thing, isn't it?"
Looking at the smiling faces of the "Student Union", Zhang You felt a chill in his heart.
Only she could see that these students had a second face on the back of their heads, just like the supermarket owner in the previous copy.
They are not human at all!
And now, the other party is obviously certain that no one will call this number.
Time passes by second by second.
"...7, 6, 5. Tsk, tsk, that's a pity. Let's pass the microphone to the next student..."
A pleasant ringtone suddenly sounded, and Lily's laughter stopped abruptly.
"Ding Dong. Radio station hotline incoming call, connected—"
"Hello. I'm Zhang You's roommate."
A gentle and clear voice sounded.
