Chapter 82 Health Surprise Inspection (XI)
With the dormitory door as the dividing line, 917 is divided into two parts by the light. One part is 16 beds crowded together under the incandescent light, and the other part is a bare wall with blue spots of perennial dampness.
At the corner where the wall and the floor met, two girls in white clothes were huddled on the ground. To be precise, only Orofei in a white T-shirt was shivering, while No. 13 in a white dress had her head lowered, and it was impossible to see the expression on her face.
Ou Ruofei poured water into his mouth, but no matter how much he drank, the dryness in his throat did not ease at all.
The crying sound beside my ears became clearer and clearer. It no longer sounded like the sobbing of one girl, but two, three, or even a group of girls...
Pop.
Ou Ruofei's hands were shaking so much that she couldn't hold the cup. The paper cup fell to the ground and the water splashed onto No. 13's clothes.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!"
Ou Ruofei quickly apologized, but found that No. 13 didn't react at all.
Through the black hair hanging on her cheeks, you can see the girl's white neck stretched out at a strange angle, with her head even touching the wall, and her chest not moving at all.
Orofei couldn't help but curl her fingers. She really didn't want to let a thought arise in her mind, but she couldn't stop her thoughts from running wild...
Is No. 13 in front of me really a normal person?
Perhaps because the crying sounds were getting closer, she woke up a little from her daze and realized the strangeness of the situation.
"Classmate, I'm going back to sleep first. Um , I'm leaving first..."
She waved her hands incoherently and backed away. She tried to get up but someone grabbed her arm!
Number 13, who was leaning against the wall, turned his head and said, "Don't you want to chat with me anymore?"
The cold light hit the girl's face, passed through her dark eyeballs, and printed her back on the wall.
This time, Orofei finally heard the direction of the crying sound.
It comes from the shadow of body number 13.
In the bathroom, No. 5 yawned.
"I've finished checking everything here. My dear sister's turn will come soon. I'll go back and call her."
Number 7 also left, and before leaving he said briefly: "If there is any accident, shout, and I will come back as soon as I hear it."
Number 5's joking voice came from the corridor: "What if you fall asleep?"
Number 7 answered her coldly: "I haven't slept for a long time."
…
Tang Xinjue and Jiang Lan stood in front of the sink.
The newly cleaned bathroom still had a foul smell of unknown origin, which Zhang Youdong couldn't get rid of even with two large bottles of air freshener. He could only let it fill the space.
Jiang Lan spoke first: "Did you receive my note?"
After getting a positive answer, she looked slightly relieved: "I'm sorry to use this roundabout way, because I'm not sure if it's safe to talk directly during the day. The props have a time limit."
She spread out her hands, with a golden bell in her palm. As it was shaken, a transparent corrugated protective shield appeared beside the two of them, blocking the sound from being transmitted outside.
Tang Xin Jue also got straight to the point: "Who do you suspect?"
Jiang Lan clasped her hands together, her voice deep: "There are a lot of people... the only people I can trust right now are the two of us in the dormitory."
Tang Xinjue had reminded her to be careful of other people. Besides, her three roommates, Zhang, Zheng and Guo, were all very strong and actively working, so it was impossible that they were ghosts in disguise.
"Especially No. 13's dormitory," Jiang Lan frowned tightly and told him that she had wanted to go to the upper bunk to check, but was stopped by No. 13 excitedly.
"A Nian has a strong sense of perception. If she saw blood, it definitely couldn't have been ketchup by mistake."
But the blood on the two beds had indeed turned into ketchup, leaving them no reason to investigate further.
Tang Xin Jue: "Doesn't it look like the skeleton at the door?"
Although a smile was clearly seen, it turned into a fake doll in the blink of an eye, confusing everyone's speculation and senses.
Behind every false alarm, it seemed like someone deliberately erased the clues they had received, leaving the clues confusing and with no progress at the end of the day.
"That's right." Jiang Lan frowned even more after being reminded, and simply revealed another piece of evidence. She took out a golden ball, and when the switch was triggered, the ball rotated by itself and a pair of wings popped out.
"I thought at first there was something wrong with number 13, but..."
The wings fluttered, and a girl's voice floated out from inside:
"…I hid the things you gave me very well. No one saw them. When can I open them?"
This is the voice of number 13!
Then, another female voice sounded: "...Wait until tonight, and you will know what is inside."
Tang Xinjue heard that this was number 15.
No. 13 sounded a little scared, and kept seeking a positive answer in his words. No. 15 said softly: "Don't worry, we are roommates, would I lie to you?"
The recording stops abruptly here, and the rest turns into a cacophony of noise.
Tang Xinjue lowered his eyes slightly. He was not surprised by the content of the recording. "From this, it seems that the person who had a problem on the first day was No. 15."
The initial abnormality of No. 13 was also related to No. 15, but No. 15 had been staying quietly in the crowd, and many people did not notice her.
Jiang Lan looked like she had a headache: "But the tricky thing is, we can't be sure whether they are human or ghosts, and what their purpose is in sneaking into our group."
Most importantly, she didn't have enough evidence to confirm it, and she didn't dare to act rashly.
Once suspicion grows, it will be difficult to control - if No. 15's identity is not credible, then No. 13, who is closely related to her, is also suspicious, as are No. 11 and No. 12 who share the same dormitory with her, and No. 14 and No. 7 who are all alone...
In the worst case scenario, half of the people in the dormitory may be disguised "candidates"!
Tang Xinjue's clear voice stopped Jiang Lan's suspicion: "They shouldn't be ghosts in disguise."
"I am more inclined to believe that they did not have problems from the beginning, but were influenced by certain entities during the examination process."
Jiang Lan's eyes moved: "You mean... possessed by a ghost?"
According to Tang Xinjue, this was the closest guess within her knowledge.
"No," Tang Xin Jue shook his head, "Whether it's a ghost in disguise or possessed , as long as the ghost shows up in person, my roommate will find it."
Guo Guo's Yin-Yang eyes had never failed to work, but this time he found nothing.
So there are no ghosts? Is everything normal, but their intuition and judgment are wrong? Jiang Lan felt a headache getting worse.
They were indeed relying on intuition to make guesses, and there was no substantial evidence, so it was not impossible that they were wrong... Jiang Lan was about to speak, but heard Tang Xin Jue say: "I am more inclined to believe that the ghost did not appear directly in the dormitory, but intervened in another way. And this intervention has a process and rules."
After saying that, she dipped her fingertips in water and wrote down the bed numbers of the beds where accidents occurred on the first day on the mirror.
Ah Nian was in bed No. 16, Ou Ruofei was in bed No. 14, bed No. 15 was on the upper bunk of bed No. 16, bed No. 13 was on the upper bunk of bed No. 14...
Jiang Lan stared at the numbers in silence, and soon realized: "The order is from the back to the front -"
Her voice stopped abruptly as she realized another problem: if the ghost chooses its targets from the back to the front, then the first person to encounter an accident should be Anian.
Tang Xinjue looked at her, "I think you know better than me whether Ah Nian has any problem or not."
The person next to him pursed his lips and finally answered confidently: "A Nian is absolutely fine. She has the safety bracelet I bought from the mall at a high price. It connects the five-dimensional attributes of the three of us together. If she is affected by any external factors, Ke Ke and I will know it immediately."
"So after the goblin failed to kill her, it moved on to the next person."
Tang Xin Jue drew a circle on the mirror: "Number 15."
Guo Guo: [Shit! It turned out to be number 15! I guessed wrong again.]
Zheng Wanqing: [You didn’t listen carefully. You can tell from the recording that it’s number 15. How can you pass the test with this attitude and get a high score…]
The roommates who were connected in real time in their minds seemed to be watching a live broadcast, and soon turned from scrolling through the comments to arguing with each other. In the end, Guo Guo shouted, "Miss, stop reading."
Tang Xin Jue: "...In short, when I noticed that there was something wrong with No. 15, I didn't make a judgment immediately because the changes in her body were extremely slight. I couldn't confirm it until now."
In a state of mind connection, she can not only have mental conversations with her roommates, but also see other people's mental powers from another perspective.
Everyone's spiritual power was originally a ball of light orange flame, with similar size and brightness. But after the door-smashing farce, she keenly discovered that some people's flames had dimmed.
Although it was not obvious, the darkened flame no longer flickered, as if it had wilted. At first glance, it seemed to be just frightened and not eye-catching.
But throughout the whole day, the only flame that remained strange was enough to make people sure.
Tang Xinjue did not explain the information about the spiritual flame in detail, but simply talked about her spiritual abilities. Jiang Lan naturally understood the cause and effect.
"I didn't expect that someone could actually awaken psychic abilities." Jiang Lan was somewhat shocked. "Psychic abilities are one of the most expensive abilities in the mall, and the upgrades are even more expensive. Self-awakening is equivalent to earning a large amount of points for free. You are really lucky."
"……Um."
Tang Xinjue tacitly agreed with this statement, without explaining that the first superpower she awakened was actually a toilet plunger.
Back to the topic, after having the prerequisites, the two of them quickly sorted out the basic situation of the dormitory based on the information they had.
"Let's assume that No. 15 is controlled by the ghosts. Their next targets should be No. 14 and No. 13."
"No. 13 was suddenly grabbed by a ghost during the day. Is this a sign of this? Then how should we deal with it..."
Jiang Lan was explaining her thoughts when she suddenly saw Tang Xinjue stop and turn his head sharply to look at the dormitory behind him.
"What's wrong?"
Tang Xin Jue's expression was more serious than ever since he entered the exam: "I feel a strong fear coming from someone else... It's Ou Ruofei!"
She is calling for help!
