Chapter 4 The Game Begins
Crying and getting angry will only consume attention and accelerate the collapse of rationality, and cannot solve any problems. This is a truth that Tang Xinjue is well aware of.
But the reason why truth is just truth is that in extraordinary circumstances, people often find it difficult to control themselves, and this is also instinct.
Since the first debilitating strange disease accompanied by nightmares three years ago, Tang Xinjue has been forced to combine theory with practice and learn how to restrain her instincts and stay calm without going crazy.
"There is no unsolvable nightmare in the world, and there is no unsolvable reality."
She spoke softly, the scenes from her nightmares of the past few days coming to mind.
The nightmare that even the psychologist was helpless to cure had brought many negative impacts to her life, but this time, it seemed to foreshadow the arrival of an accident in advance. So by the same token, can other details in the dream also correspond to the current situation?
His thoughts were immersed in suppressed memories. The thick darkness in the dream and the grotesque monsters hidden in the darkness rushed towards him. But in addition to that, Tang Xinjue vaguely remembered that there was another rule in the dream...
After a moment, Tang Xinjue opened his eyes.
If this rule can also be applied to the "game" at this time, she should know how to solve the current situation.
From an outsider's perspective, Tang Xin Jue did not move. After a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "You can open the door."
roommate:"???"
Zheng Wanqing stopped shouting, Zhang You stopped talking, and even Guo Guo stopped crying. No one dared to believe that Tang Xinjue was so reckless: "Are you sure?"
In the darkness, the girl's voice was calm and decisive: "OK. Zhang You must come in, and the door must be opened."
Outside the door, Zhang You sniffed and tried to make his voice less shaky: "What about the thing on my back?"
She didn't dare to look back now, let alone think about what would happen after the door opened.
Tang Xin Jue answered considerately: "The thing behind you will jump out and attack me when I open the door, and then take the opportunity to sneak into the dormitory."
Guo Guo: "...How can you be so calm when talking about such a terrible thing!"
Where Guo Guo couldn't see, Tang Xinjue clenched the tool in his hand, pressing his fingertips on the packaging bag wrapped around the object. Judging from the past few hours, this thing is about 50 centimeters long, with a hard handle and a thick bowl-shaped tip. It's quite handy to think of it as a small hammer.
Signaling his two roommates to step back, Tang Xinjue stood in front of the door, staring at the crack, and slowly placed his left hand on the handle.
Guo Guo behind him swallowed his saliva: "Jueshen, are you sure there is a way to let Zhang You in? If we fail, we are all finished."
Tang Xin Jue shook his head: "No, if I fail, I will most likely be the only one who is finished, and you still have a chance. Do you remember what that childish voice said? Failure to protect the dormitory will lead to the elimination of roommates, but it didn't say that the entire dormitory will be eliminated together."
Before she finished her words, her palm sank and the dormitory door opened suddenly.
Zhang You’s slightly trembling figure appeared outside the door, and his roommate was breathing rapidly and looking at him for help.
At the same time, a sharp laugh burst out from the back of her neck. Zhang You was about to turn his head reflexively, but was quickly grabbed by Tang Xinjue.
"Don't turn around."
Unlike the dark night outside the balcony, the darkness in the corridor seemed to be covered by a layer of flowing and spreading fog, as if countless things were hidden in it.
With the faint light from the mobile phone screen, Tang Xinjue saw a pale, skinny hand reaching out from the back of Zhang You's neck, pulling out a larger, white object - the moment it pounced on her, she raised her hand without hesitation and smashed it down hard.
With an inhuman scream, the plastic rod and rubber tip hit a sticky mass and hit it!
A chill quickly ran up his arm. Tang Xin Jue didn't have the energy to care about it. He swung his arm harder to throw it down, and at the same time shouted to Zhang You who hadn't reacted yet: "Come in!"
The roommate woke up as if from a dream and rushed in. In the darkness, a white thing screamed and was about to pounce upwards. The packaging bag outside the long tool was torn apart. Amid the horrible sound, the rubber top was still firmly pressed on the white creature that was obviously not human, and it did not get overturned.
Even the white monster was stunned: it was a ghost, and it had never fought against a human girl before? ?
Tang Xinjue was also stunned for a moment: she was about to withdraw quickly after her successful attack, but as soon as she pulled, the "little hammer" in her hand didn't move at all. She subconsciously pulled hard again, but instead dragged the white monster out two centimeters.
White monster: “…”
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
She immediately decided to throw the tools into the darkness, but the enraged monster was faster and rushed up in an instant. Its skinny limbs and head stretched out from the white twisted flesh. There was no facial features on the head, only a mouth, like a big black hole, biting towards Tang Xinjue's head.
[Low-level ghosts wandering in the darkness cannot be approached or looked at directly, as they will be swallowed by the darkness.]
The rapidly approaching monster's head was reflected in his shrinking pupils. All around him was sweeping coldness and darkness. For a moment, Tang Xinjue felt as if he was still in a nightmare.
[——But once it comes into contact with it, the moment it is attacked, it can also attack the opponent.]
Just like in the dream, her body had reacted instinctively. Since she couldn't withdraw, she might as well go all out and threw it down hard in the direction of her head!
With his adrenaline surging rapidly, Tang Xinjue stared at the familiar monster, unable to tell whether this was reality or a dream, and acted entirely on the instincts he had gained from the nightmare.
[Afraid of light and loud noises, can tear it apart with great force and throw it back into darkness...]
The white head was thrown down briefly, and soon it climbed back onto Tang Xinjue's arm with the tools. The blood vessels on his wrist bulged due to excessive force.
"careful!"
The roommate's scream gave Tang Xinjue a sudden shock: this was not a dream she had alone, this was reality!
Something flashed through her mind, and she blurted out, "Scream! Scream louder! Quickly!"
Perhaps it was the life-and-death situation that would speed up people's reactions. In less than half a second, Guo Guo's scream, loud enough to blow the roof off the house, rose from the ground. Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You followed closely behind, and without saying a word, they began to scream at the top of their lungs.
Although they didn't understand why Tang Xinjue suddenly made the request, they didn't care about all that in an emergency and just howled.
The white monster is afraid of light and loud noises. There was no light at this time, but there were three female college students in their early 20s in the house who had been encountering ghosts for four hours.
If sound could be transformed into weapons, they created a loud noise in three seconds that was enough to flatten the entire dormitory area of A. Tang Xinjue clearly felt the change in the monster, and its power weakened!
With a full force of thrust, the monster's body was torn through. It seemed to begin to feel fear, and its limbs dropped to the ground, trying to retreat back into the darkness. However, just like Tang Xinjue before, it couldn't pull itself out no matter how hard it tried.
monster;"……"
Only then did Tang Xinjue discover that the rubber end of this "little hammer" seemed to be able to suck things. The harder she used, the tighter the end sucked. Because she had used too much force when she initially hit the monster, now neither side could pull it out.
Before his mind could automatically figure out what it was, the monster had already realized the problem and began to change its body structure to try to swallow the rubber on top in one gulp. How could Tang Xinjue let it succeed? He immediately poked downwards faster and harder. After an unknown number of consecutive poks, the sticky feeling suddenly disappeared and the top of the rubber hit the ground directly.
The monster was stabbed!
The cracked white monster immediately split into countless arm-like objects. Tang Xinjue loosened his grip and immediately shrank back into the door. The hand seemed to want to grab it, but the moment it reached out, it was blocked back to the outside world by the slamming door.
“Boom!”
The collision left a dull sound on the dormitory door.
Then came the second and third knocks. The familiar knock on the door sounded again. At the same time, Tang Xinjue's voice appeared outside the door:
"Open the door, it's so dark outside, I'm so scared."
The other three people shuddered. Tang Xinjue had clearly returned to the room, but a voice exactly the same as hers was knocking on the door outside at the same time. It was so strange and indescribable.
Tang Xin Jue paused for a few seconds, took a step forward, raised his hand, and knocked on the door three times clearly. Even after the violent movement, the sound was still gentle and soft:
"Your father is inside, please step back."
“……”The terrifying atmosphere was largely dispelled.
“Wooooooooooooo!!!”
Guo Guo was the first to move. She pounced and hugged Tang Xinjue's slender body, crying and sobbing: "Sister Jue, Father Jue, God Jue, from now on you are my half-father and half-mother's biological father!"
Zhang You pulled her up helplessly: "I'm the one who was rescued by Xin Jue, let me cry first, okay?"
Zheng Wanqing couldn't get in, and was so anxious that she turned around and around: "Don't be too hard, Tang Xinjue is not in good health, you are hurting her!"
Guo Guo's eyes were blurred with tears: "Miss, open your titanium double eyelids and take a look. My father just tore a ghost apart with his bare hands! He tore it into pieces with his own hands!"
If this can be called weakness, then are they considered severely disabled?
Tang Xinjue broke away from his roommate who was trying to identify him as a relative, feeling a bit amused and helpless: "Wanqing is right, don't hug me, my hands hurt."
She had just been in a stalemate for too long, exerting all her strength. Now her arms were sore and cold, and her whole body felt a little weak. She needed to have a good rest.
Zhang You was very sensitive and went to help her find a medical kit. The remaining two people leaned against her and asked the questions in their hearts after they recovered from their shock:
"How do you know how to deal with that monster out there?"
Tang Xin Jue did not give a detailed answer, but simply said: "I only know that for many low-level ghosts, the moment they touch us is the moment we can attack them. In addition, we have the protection of the dormitory door, so we only need to seize the opportunity to hold it back for two seconds."
But she had never expected that the weapon in her hand almost pulled her into the water.
Thinking of this, Tang Xinjue couldn't help but raise the "little hammer" in his hand, wanting to use the light of his mobile phone to see what kind of treasure this was, but the numbers on the mobile phone screen came into view faster.
10, 9, 8, 7...
At midnight, the four-hour countdown returned to zero and the screen fell into darkness.
"Ding ding ding, clang clang clang~"
The melodious children's voice surrounds everyone's ears.
“Put on your backpack and go to the dormitory. Your happy college life starts here.”
"Unity and friendship, mutual help, every student must abide by the dormitory rules"
"Play hard, take exams diligently, and excellent grades will help you survive longer"
"Credit system, clear rewards and punishments, educators are waiting for you in the best universities"
At the end of the song, the child’s voice became increasingly distant, as if rising to the sky, and the sound became hazy and melodious:
“Time is precious, cherish the present moment, [Dormitory Survival Game] begins!”
The sound disappeared completely, the phone screen turned white, the interface was still unfamiliar, and Tang Xinjue saw his name on it.
Name: Tang Xin Jue
Dormitory: Dormitory 606
School: Three universities
Credits: 0
Below the basic information column, there are several small information boxes, namely [Dormitory Situation], [Exam/Competition Record], [Super Power Props], and [Physical Information].
Just as Tang Xinjue was about to take a closer look, he saw the column of [Supernatural Props] suddenly flash.
"Congratulations, you have received a reward for your good performance before the game starts! The thing in your hand right now will become your innate ability~"
The thing in your hand?
Tang Xinjue looked down, and at that moment, the lights in the dormitory suddenly lit up, and he could see her "natural power" clearly in the light as bright as day.
The hard plastic rod, the orange rubber bowl-shaped end, and the brand new tool, about 50 centimeters long, presented a face that was not often seen, but was known to everyone, young and old.
A genuine toilet plunger.
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
If she reloads the game now, is it too late?
The author has something to say:
Monster: I'm cracked!
Tang Xin Jue: I am also broken
