Chapter 247: Online Dating Scam (10)
Footsteps came from the doorway, step by step, to the bedside.
Everyone had their eyes closed and seemed to be still sleeping soundly.
From the spiritual perspective shared by Tang Xin Jue, they could see a tall and thin figure standing at the head of the bed.
Against the backlight, the shadow's face and body couldn't be discerned. Its height wasn't as exaggerated as Xiaohong's in the "Dormitory Civility Rules" copy, but its head was just above the upper bunk. The two people lying on the upper bunk could almost feel its gaze surveying them.
What does it want to do?
Zheng Wanqing asked in the mental connection.
[Judging from the time and the fearful expressions of the other students, it probably wasn't there to check whether we were sleeping on time.]
In order to prevent being noticed by "it", Zhang You's voice seemed particularly soft even in his mind.
They were now unable to move anything except their eyelids, effectively stripping away most of their abilities. Their only remaining defenses were passive defensive items—plus Tang Xin Jue's mental abilities.
[Look at it from a bright side, at least I'm still here.]
Tang Xin Jue jokingly comforted Guo Guo: "If you were in danger in the next second, although I can't break the control rules, I can at least block your senses in advance, so that you can die peacefully. Isn't it much better to think this way?"
Guo Guo: […Look at how I look now. Do I look comforted?]
This cold joke might work on the other two people, but for Guo Guo, it was a situation that could actually happen in the next moment.
She could even hear the sound of the other person's clothes scraping against the edge of the bed, the leather of the shoes pausing briefly on the ground, and then a hand rustled in from outside the bed curtains and pulled open the thin transparent mosquito net.
There has never been a moment when Guo Guo missed the double-layer luxury integrated attack and defense bed in 606 so much.
But to her surprise, the attack didn't come immediately. The figure only looked at her for a few seconds before slowly rising and poking his head through the curtains of Zhang You's upper bunk.
The pressure was transferred for a few seconds, and the figure moved again, walking from the outside of the dormitory to the inside and standing at the head of Zheng Wanqing and Tang Xinjue's bed.
[Will it do it or not?]
During the long silence, Zheng Wanqing became a little irritable.
[It looks like it's making a selection based on some conditions... Wanqing, be careful!]
As soon as Zhang You's voice rang in their minds, the four of them felt dizzy at the same time and lost consciousness again.
"Classmate, wake up, wake up!"
Guo Guo was awakened by a burst of noise, and saw the anxious faces of the girls in other dormitories.
"What happened?" she asked subconsciously.
The person who woke her up said hurriedly: "Someone jumped from the building last night!"
Jump off a building?
As his mind raced, memories of last night returned. Guo Guo jumped out of bed and said, "Wanqing! Wanqing and Zhang You, are you all okay?"
I saw that Zhang You had woken up and was squatting beside Zheng Wanqing's lower bunk, feeding her medicine.
When he saw Zheng Wanqing again, Guo Guo's heart skipped a beat, knowing that something bad had happened.
Overnight, Zheng Wanqing's appearance had changed to the point that she was almost unrecognizable: almost half of her originally smooth black hair had fallen out, and the thin, dry hair covered her sunken cheeks, with blood still faintly visible around her mouth.
On the familiar face, only the eyes remained sharp and bright, and he even smiled at Guo Guo: "Why are you upset? This is much better than I expected. At least I'm still alive."
Zhang You said coldly: "That's because your health bar is much thicker than that of normal candidates."
From the beginning, Zheng Wanqing's upgrade direction was to damage and tank, and there was no turning back. Coupled with her already strong physical fitness, if Zhang You or Guo Guoli had been attacked last night, they would have been 100% destroyed today.
Guo Guo took a deep breath and opened the dormitory survival app on his phone. Under the dormitory member information column, he saw that Zheng Wanqing's health value had now fallen to the bottom of the red line, with only a thin layer of blood remaining.
[Life is in danger: Extreme danger warning! Your vitality has been severely damaged by some mysterious and irreversible damage. Please stop all activities immediately and seek treatment!]
Tang Xin Jue crossed his arms and asked, "Are the medicines we have now effective?"
Zhang You: "Most of them are useless, and the rest have little effect."
Crucially, they had no idea what specific attack had struck Zheng Wanqing—she suffered no physical wounds, and her mental state remained calm. It was as if the shadow from last night had drained her life force, causing a living being to decline so rapidly.
"Hey, what are you guys still hesitating about? Someone died in our building!"
The girls who broke into Room 404 turned a blind eye to Zheng Wanqing's injury and impatiently urged the four of them to go to the scene.
"Then Guo Guo and I will go over and take a look first. Zhang You, you stay here and take care of Wanqing first."
Tang Xinjue proposed a compromise, and it seemed that this was the only way. Pushed by the girls, the two were quickly taken to the next dormitory.
There was only one girl in the dormitory, squatting in front of the French window, staring blankly. She didn't react . The other girls simply ignored her, pushed Tang Xinjue and Guo Guo to the window, and pointed at the balcony:
"Xiao Huan jumped off this balcony!"
Guo Guo took a closer look and found that this was exactly the place where the NPC girl who climbed onto the balcony last night tried to return.
She immediately found the corresponding complaint form and discovered that the girl who everyone was talking about as "jumping off the building to commit suicide" was the same person who climbed onto the balcony last night.
"Xiao Huan didn't jump by herself, she was pushed down."
The girl squatting beside him with her legs crossed in a daze suddenly said this, but was quickly refuted by others:
"No one is allowed to leave the dormitory after curfew tonight, and our building is on lockdown. Who could have pushed her down? Could it be you, her only roommate now?"
"It's not me." The roommate shook her head slightly, then suddenly looked up, staring at Guo Guo with large, lifeless eyes: "It's a boy."
Guo Guo suppressed the goose bumps on his arms: "A boy?"
"Yes, a very tall, thin boy with long hair, wearing a black denim jacket. He pushed Xiao Huan down at 7 o'clock. Xiao Huan was very pitiful. It was so cold outside, she had to crawl out by herself. She could have crawled back, but the boy wrapped a red string around her finger, and she couldn't come back."
The girl's voice was dull, as if she was lost in memories. "She could only crawl to another dormitory, hoping someone could jump down for her so her red string could be untied...but she failed. At 12 o'clock, Xiao Huan disappeared."
"That's nonsense."
The crowd in the room parted, and Sun Miao walked in, sternly accusing his female roommate, "Were you so shocked by Xiao Huan's suicide that you're hallucinating? We don't have any black-clothed, long-haired boys here, and we don't have any ghosts or monsters. I think this matter should be reported to the school. If you keep talking nonsense, you'll be sent to the mental health center."
The girl shrank back, buried her head and stopped talking.
On the other side, Guo Guo opened his eyes even wider: "Sun Miao??"
She didn't know how "Xiao Huan" jumped off the building, but she remembered clearly how Sun Miao jumped off the balcony of Room 404 yesterday.
However, at this moment, not only Sun Miao, but also another girl who accompanied Tang Xinjue back yesterday appeared here. She stood in the crowd in good health, and there was no sign of her madness yesterday.
So, those who “die” during the day are not dead, but those who “die” at night are really dead?
Thinking about other things that happened last night, Guo Guo blurted out: "Who else got into trouble last night?"
The chattering in the room suddenly quieted down, and the girls looked at each other. At some point, they all seemed to be smiling:
"As expected of us being classmates, we're so in tune with each other. Of course, there's more than just this one... there are many more!"
This time, they refused to reveal the information in advance. Their eyes fell on Guo Guo, as if waiting for her to ask further questions.
Guo Guo already had a rough answer in mind, but when the words came to his lips, a bolder idea suddenly popped up:
"Okay, then I think I know who it is."
Everyone was stunned: "You know?"
Tang Xin Jue: "Guo Guo?"
Seeing everyone's disbelief, Guo Guo struck while the iron was hot: "Why, if you don't tell us, you think we can't guess it? How about a bet? If I get everything right, you get to take home a prize."
"prize?"
The others were stunned, seemingly unprepared for Guo Guo's sudden request. But there was no anger on their faces; instead, their interest quickly piqued. "Great! What if you didn't guess correctly?"
The girls whispered to each other, giggling, "If you guess wrong, you'll be punished!"
