Chapter 232 Dormitory Upgrade Package (VI)
The last time they went crazy on Wednesday, they were in a female dormitory at Taipei Normal University. Names like Liang Jing and Xu Wei, along with those two bags of spicy chicken feet, are still fresh in 606's memory.
The "neighbors" who appeared this time were obviously not the same group as last time.
The white mist outside the window had already dispersed to the railings, and before the four girls could run back to the next door dormitory, they were caught red-handed by 606. In an instant, a mud wall rose from the middle of the balcony, blocking their way back to the dormitory.
Tang Xinjue said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, we are also candidates and we won't hurt you."
Four girls: ...Why don't you remove your blocking skills?
Zhang You took back the skill card: "Sorry, it was a knee-jerk reaction. This skill is not offensive, just step back."
The four people on the balcony looked at each other for two seconds, then hesitated and took one step back. When the barrier of dirt dissipated, they were forced to turn around and face 606, who was so close behind them.
Tang Xinjue, who was at the front, extended his hand politely. "Hello, we are students from Shanhe A University. My last name is Tang."
There was a moment of silence on the other side, and then a girl with a bun-like hair stepped forward: "...Hello, we...are from Ocean University."
It took the girl over ten seconds to articulate just a few words. Even though her face was stiff and expressionless, her nervousness was palpable.
Guo Guo: [Do we look scary?]
This sentence was said in the dormitory chat group in my mind, but in reality there was still silence.
Zhang You: [Judging from their current level of alertness and fear, it's no longer just a matter of scaring people.]
From what the naked eye could see, the other side had at least a dozen weapons and props ready to be deployed at any moment. And even after Tang Xinjue introduced himself, the other side's tension only grew—did they think they were some kind of monster?
Tang Xin Jue smiled and said nothing, but gestured for the girls with bun hair to make way: "The countdown is almost over, everyone, don't delay the next challenge."
Deep in the vast white fog, the bright red countdown has only 20 seconds left, indicating that last week's "gift box rain" will soon come again.
The people in the neighboring dormitory immediately hid back in their own dormitory as if they had been pardoned. They even seemed to have no intention of participating in this activity, as long as they could stay away from Room 606.
Guo Guo: [I think this is a bit strange, what do you think?]
Zheng Wanqing: [I think so too... Pay attention, something is falling from the sky!]
Putting aside the problem of the dormitory next door, the four of them came to the balcony in the blink of an eye and took out the prepared tools - washbasin
Each washbasin of different colors represents their determination to win the promotion!
The white ball thrown into the sink behind him: "Chirp!"
The first gift box arrived in a flash. The moment the foul smell burst out from the basin, Zheng Wanqing reacted extremely quickly and poured it out of the railing, allowing the black liquid inside to be directly rendered harmless by the white mist.
After the previous training, they were already prepared for the mall's operation of mixing a few real gift boxes among countless waste products. Coupled with the improvement of their physical fitness and supernatural powers, the degree of panic was greatly reduced, and they could even predict the value of the gift boxes in advance.
Tang Xin Jue: [Two golden gift boxes fall from the upper left corner of Wanqing. The first one contains black gas, and the second one contains a real object. Catch the second one!]
Zheng Wanqing raised her arm in response and knocked the falling gift box away with a punch. Then, when the foul-smelling black gas exploded from outside the balcony, she used a washbasin to catch another golden gift box steadily.
“Chirp chirp!!!”
An extremely urgent cry came from behind the four of them again. Turning back, they found that the white ball had fallen from the sink to the ground without them noticing—and was still trying to move toward the window.
It turns out it can move on its own?
Zheng Wanqing looked at the gift box in her hand: "Do you want this?"
She opened the box directly and found a palm-sized wooden bird inside. The label said the original price was 20 points.
It wasn't very valuable, so she threw it directly to the little elf that was chirping non-stop. However, the white ball ignored it and walked around it, its black little eyes still staring at Zheng Wanqing.
Zheng Wanqing :?
She couldn't understand, and on the other side, the rain of gift boxes continued. A large box emitting an ominous smell fell straight down on her head. She could almost foresee what the scene would be like if it exploded on the balcony.
Zheng Wanqing mercilessly expanded the steel shadow in her right hand to the size of an iron gate and slammed it directly onto her head, causing the black gift box to be blown away before it even fell, turning into a distant parabola.
"Chiu——"
The elf cried out, and the whole ball froze in place, even Hei Douzi's eyes seemed to grow bigger.
Guo Guo, whose attention was drawn in the midst of his busy schedule:?
[Did I hear correctly? Why does it feel like there's a hint of sadness in the prodigal's cry?]
[You heard it right.]
Tang Xin Jue also turned to look over: [It is indeed very sad now.]
After a few more seconds of confusion, Zheng Wanqing finally reacted: "It doesn't want a proper gift box? It wants... that thing?"
Following the direction of her finger, a tattered gift box landed on the window of the next dormitory with a thud. Green liquid splashed out, and a pungent stench immediately hit the face.
The elf came back to life, and the whole ball chirped and changed direction, moving towards the next dormitory at a speed of one meter per hour.
“…”
"Could it be that it wants to eat?"
This outrageous guess was confirmed. When Tang Xinjue directly carried it to the next window, the restless white ball finally calmed down.
Then, from under the thin and round white skin, a crack suddenly opened up, and the upper part stretched to almost the same height as the balcony, and it swallowed it in one gulp!
The floor-to-ceiling windows on the balcony of the dormitory next door disappeared.
In an unfamiliar dormitory, four girls stood behind the bare window frame, looking at 606 with horror on their faces.
606 Four: ...How do you explain this wasn't a deliberate attack? Waiting online, this is urgent.
Fortunately, the culprit elf only chewed it twice before spitting out that part of the balcony. The window returned to its original position, but the stink bomb gift box was gone.
White dumpling: "Burp."
After witnessing this scene , the four people on the balcony looked at each other with complicated emotions.
Guo Guo tried to convince himself, "Well, even though it looks white now, it's actually the monster in the Friendship League that can mutate infinitely. So it's normal for it to have a different taste."
At the same time, Zhang You had already turned his attention back to the rain of falling gift boxes:
"It usually eats 28 points per bottle of nutrient solution, which is half full. Now, a box like this can make it completely full. If we convert it this way..."
At least when it comes to the elves' diet, one discarded gift box is equivalent to 56 points!
From an outsider's perspective, there seems to be something wrong with 606.
They actually started to take the boxes that were obviously scrap and even tried to pack them up?
This further strengthened the resolve of those in Room 605 next door to stay put. The girl with the bun-haired head vowed, "There must be some insane trap out there. Look, even that Tang...even they've fallen for it. If we go out, can we really escape?"
Another girl was worried: "What should we do then?"
The ball-headed man was very determined: "Let's stick to the same strategy as last time. I won't leave the house even if I'm beaten to death!"
After saying that, they quickly added several layers of tape to the edge of the balcony window to prevent another terrifying white dumpling from coming and eating up this layer of protection in one bite.
Outside on the balcony, the rain of gift boxes stopped as the countdown to the next event began.
Guo Guo rubbed his temples dizzily, "All the stench I've smelled in the first twenty years of my life combined doesn't seem to be as abundant as today."
The mall was still as awful as ever, with few valuable gift boxes and a ton of junk stink bombs thrown away. The elf was so full that he couldn't eat anymore and stubbornly collapsed inside, guarding the food.
"The good news is that we can save a lot of money on keeping it. But the bad news is, where are we going to store it?"
Calming down from the state of "grabbing red envelopes", Zhang You pushed his glasses and returned to the reality of the problem.
Tang Xin Jue: "It's okay. Open the store now, and the homepage should show discounted deodorizing masks."
As soon as he finished speaking, Guo Guo read out the mall message that popped up on his phone: "Odor-blocking and deodorizing dust cover, 20% off for a limited time, buy now and get a cashback red envelope..."
Okay.
After cleaning up the mess on the balcony, they noticed that the white fog outside had turned into a hazy gray, obscuring the countdown inside.
[Ding Dong, the "Gifts from Heaven" segment has concluded successfully. There are five minutes left until the next segment, "Discounts at Your Doorstep." Please be prepared!]
"I wonder how the salesman will appear this time. Will he get stuck in a table leg again?"
While opening the few normal gift boxes, Guo Guo was excitedly rummaging through the drawers in the dormitory to make preparations.
After all, after two renovations and expansions, the current dormitory is completely different from the original shabby dormitory. If a little kid gets lost in the corners, it will be really difficult to find it.
Zhang You carried the reluctant elf back to the washbasin, but apart from that, her other half of attention was outside the balcony: there was still no movement in the dormitory next door.
Logically speaking, the elf they raised almost ate the other person's window and scared them to death, so they should apologize.
But the panic attitude displayed over there seemed to indicate that not getting close was the best option to avoid a second shock.
But why are they so afraid of them?
It would be understandable if they were new to the game, but now it's the second week. For the entire dormitory to survive safely until now, both strength and IQ are indispensable.
Zhang You frowned and expressed his doubt: The tension and fear shown by the other party now are so obvious that it is a bit abnormal.
——It was the same when they met strangers. Even Liang Jing and others last week didn’t do this, right?
"As a veteran who has been around for over a week, I'm naturally not going to be overly nervous when I meet a new candidate." Tang Xinjue raised his eyebrows, "That's exactly why."
"It's precisely because it's not unfamiliar that I have this kind of reaction."
The three of them stopped what they were doing.
Zhang You: "Have we met them before?"
It turns out that this group is also an old acquaintance?
But after searching through my memory, I quickly recalled everyone with a name or face, even the NPCs in the university town, but I still couldn't find the person.
Tang Xin Jue: "We can indeed be considered acquaintances, but if you count carefully, this is the first time we've actually met. Do you remember that during the dormitory friendship league, there was a dormitory next to ours that never showed up?"
With these words, the memory valve opened again. Guo Guo's eyes widened: "You mean..."
The pace of the dungeon was too intense at that time. If she hadn't brought up the past now, she would have almost forgotten that there was a dormitory next door.
Although it was almost the same as not having it - because in her memory, from the beginning to the end of that league, the people from the neighboring dormitory who shared the same balcony with them never showed up. They were as steadfast and unmovable as a mountain, and they managed to win without any effort while having zero sense of presence.
"Because of the barrier behind the dormitory window, I really didn't know who was inside at the time," Tang Xin Jue said, "but when they appeared in front of me again, I knew."
Zhang You realized something: "They didn't dare come out, they were afraid of us... They were not only candidates, but also informants!"
A dormitory of informers who lived nearby and were neighbors, yet they hid from beginning to end.
This explains why the other party has such an attitude towards them.
Guo Guo suddenly realized: "If I were them, I would probably think I had seen a ghost."
Tang Xinjue smiled and wanted to say something, but suddenly his expression froze and he turned to look out the window:
"Wait, don't go out yet!"
Zhang You, who was about to clean the balcony, asked: "What's wrong?"
From her perspective, there was nothing unusual outside the window, only the bright red countdown continued.
Could it be that the people in the next dormitory are causing trouble?
Tang Xin Jue slowly shook his head: "I don't feel right."
It was an indescribable, sudden strange feeling that spread outward from the depths of his sea of consciousness and intensified with every passing minute.
"It's like...something is coming."
She closed her eyes for a moment, then suddenly raised her eyes:
"Close the window!"
——Don’t let anything in.
Guo Guo felt a slight sting in his helmet and quickly used his divine eye to dispel it. "What's wrong? Besides the salesman, who else is coming in?"
Tang Xin Jue remained silent for a moment, then chuckled in anger. "You're right, only the [Salesman] can come in openly... I didn't expect it to linger, and this time it even extended its hand to Crazy Wednesday. Wanqing, please help draw the curtains, and Zhang You, check the props. We need to open all the protective shields."
Tang Xinjue looked out the window, as if looking at the ghost marks floating and rotating in his sea of consciousness.
"The one who's about to arrive isn't a salesman, but a more familiar old friend. In the university town, his name should be... Chaos God."
