Chapter 93 Health Surprise Inspection (Twenty-two)
The moment the door was closed, the girl with the fastest reaction immediately rushed over to open the door, but the door seemed to be locked from the outside and could not be opened no matter how hard she pulled.
"Damn! If I had known I would have used something to hold it up!"
Zheng Wanqing slapped her head hard, feeling extremely regretful.
"It's not your fault." Zhang You protected Guo Guo and helped her retreat while comforting Zheng Wanqing, "If some mechanism was really triggered, or if something deliberately locked us here, the result would be the same even if we blocked the door."
Zhang You was a cautious person. He had already thought of the worst possible outcome the moment the accident happened, and immediately retreated away from the door to a corner that looked a little safer.
The No. 5 sisters were restless. Before anyone else could come up with a solution, the No. 5 sister had already pulled out a flamethrower: "What's the problem with the door being closed? We can just take it down!"
Tongues of flame spewed out, burning wherever they licked. The wooden door soon caught fire and collapsed downwards little by little.
No. 10, who has water-related abilities, is not afraid of fire. She raises her props and rushes over to kick the door open. However, after kicking with all her strength, the door only opens a small crack, and the fire spreads to her legs!
The burning pain made No. 10 a little panicked. She quickly began to use her special powers. A transparent water source appeared above her fingers and poured down on the flames on her legs.
The flames on his legs finally went out, and No. 10, dragging his limping legs, stood up again with the help of No. 5's sister, and reminded the others with a pale face: "This is wrong, don't go over, there's something wrong with the door!"
No. 5 immediately explained: "Our superpowers are immune to roommates. Logically, she can't be hurt by our fire. But now..."
Before she finished speaking, the movement at the door attracted everyone's attention again.
“The fire is getting bigger!”
The flame burning on the door panel did not decrease or disappear as No. 5 and No. 6 revoked their special powers. Instead, it grew larger and larger, and even began to spread towards the inside of the wall!
Number 5 exclaimed in disbelief: "This is impossible!"
They knew the flames of the supernatural power as well as their own bodies. If they wanted to control them in a certain area, they would never get out of control and spread. But now——
No. 10 had already started chanting to summon water, and this time she was serious. A curtain of water poured down from the ceiling, causing smoke to billow out at the door and making everyone cough.
"No, it's not enough..." No. 10's face became paler and paler. The water she summoned was obviously enough to put out such a fire. Even if it was a supernatural fire, it would not continue to burn. But now the flames only lightened a little, and there was no sign of being extinguished at all.
Tang Xin Jue's voice suddenly sounded, "No need, this is not the fire you just set."
She stared at the door with a serious look: "The fire came from outside."
At this moment, the male ghost finally stopped his frantic eating in the increasingly thick smoke. He sniffed doubtfully and raised his head. His eyes suddenly widened and he raised his arms tremblingly: "Fire...they set the fire...they are back! They want to burn me to death for revenge!"
The male ghost screamed, as if he had lost his mind due to the fire. He began to scratch his body frantically, shouting things like "Don't burn me" and "Get away from me".
You're so scared before the fire even reaches inside?
Tang Xinjue frowned, his heart sank when he saw the boy's crazy state, and a bad idea came to his mind.
"Jiang Lan, use the props to control it!"
Almost at the same time, the boy ghost suddenly opened his mouth wide, and the red threads he had just eaten seemed to have life and crawled out in groups. They rushed out of his esophagus, and because of the large number, they even broke the boy's jaw. The remaining red threads could not find an exit, so they poured out from his nostrils, ears, and even eyes...
Jiang Lan threw out a new golden ball, and the ball popped out in the air to form a spider web like the last time, covering the boy and firmly fixing the twitching boy. At the same time, it also happened to block part of the red line from climbing outwards.
“Uwaaaaaaa——”
The male ghost could only let out a few distorted screams, and his body swelled up like an inflated balloon, with countless balls of thread surging and stretching under his skin. In less than a few seconds, his entire body exploded at the apex of the expansion!
Everyone thought they would see a bloody scene with flesh and blood flying everywhere, but they didn't expect that only a layer of withered skin exploded, and under the skin there were only dense balls of red thread, which scattered to the ground as the boy's ghost exploded.
These red lines seemed to have sucked all the blood out of the boy's ghost body.
The moment this thought arose in their minds, the fire spread into the house again, engulfing half of the room in the blink of an eye, forcing them to retreat again.
"No, we will all be burned to death here!"
Jiang Lan gritted her teeth and frantically thought of a countermeasure. Beads of sweat dripped from her head and her eyes were burned bloodshot by the flames in front of her.
Combined with the crazy and endless fire, and the boy ghost's mumbling just before the explosion, a horrifying thought came to their minds.
“Could it be that the current fire is actually a replica of what happened in 916?”
As if to confirm everyone's thoughts, there seemed to be faint screams and wails coming from the burning flames, and the figure of a boy struggling and rolling inside could be vaguely seen - separated by a layer of jumping flames, the two missed time and space seemed to overlap again, right in front of them.
Looking at the miserable appearance of another group of candidates before their death, several of them clenched their teeth, unwilling to believe that this might be what would happen to them next.
"Look inside the flame."
Tang Xinjue suddenly spoke.
"We've seen it." There was a hint of despair in No. 10's voice.
"No, not those shadows." Jiang Lan instantly realized what Tang Xin Jue was talking about, and immediately helped add: "Look at the ground!"
Through the flames, they could vaguely see the gap in the ground and the red line above. However, at this moment, the red line was not burning in the flames... There was no fire even around the red line, so that there were even gaps in the field of vision.
——It’s like the flames deliberately avoided these red lines!
Everyone reacted quickly. They took out the red threads they had collected earlier, tried to hold them in their hands, and then moved closer to the flame.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the flames really avoided the fist holding the red string, and even the entire arm... Just when the flames were about to engulf the shoulder, Tang Xin Jue quickly pulled himself out and said in a clear voice: "Tie the red string outside the body, we can get out this way !"
Everyone acted immediately as if they had found a life-saving straw.
The red line could cover an area about the size of an arm's length to avoid fire, so they wrapped the red line around their legs and hands, put the rest in their pockets, and then plucked up the courage to walk into the flames. They actually created a gap in the fire that was large enough for people to pass through.
The shadowy struggles and wails seemed to be right beside them, and the ghosts that had been buried in the flames were screaming in their ears. Once a person with an unstable mind was accidentally affected, the flames would follow.
Fortunately, Tang Xinjue and Jiang Lan, who had stronger willpower, were scattered in the front, back, and middle of a team. When they saw someone next to them starting to become dazed, they pulled them forward. The diameter of a dormitory was quickly covered, and Tang Xinjue pulled out the toilet plunger and slammed it against the door!
The door panel fell down, and fresh air rushed into his lungs. Before Tang Xinjue, who ran out of 920, had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard screams from behind.
That was Fang Guoguo's last cry.
Jiang Lankeke and others had already run out after him, but Tang Xinjue went back into the house and saw that several ferocious ghosts had captured Guo Guo and No. 10 next to her, while Zheng Wanqing, No. 5 and others were trying to snatch people from the flames.
With the help of Tang Xinjue and Zhang You who came back later, Guo Guo and others were quickly rescued. Amid the terrible creaking sounds in the room, they managed to run out of the door, and the door frame collapsed behind them.
The collapse of the room did not stop the ghosts from moving, and they floated out of the dormitory door one after another. Some looked like they were burned to death, some looked like they were torn to death, and some seemed to have many bodies spliced together, with many heads turning slowly, and their empty eyes staring at everyone.
"run!"
The group that had just escaped from the flames ran away, and the ghosts followed closely behind. Fortunately, for some reason, they moved very slowly, and by the time they reached the end of the corridor, the girls had already disappeared from their "sight".
Without a target in sight, the ghosts moved even more slowly. They wandered around rooms 916 and 918, and after finding no trace of the examinee in either room, they found that led to the outside.
Hiss…hiss…
One after another, twisted and hideous shadows floated out from the cracks. The dark corridor did not affect their movements. They turned their heads left and right, and when they made sure that there was no one nearby, they floated to the other end of the corridor one after another.
…
Listening to the sound of the ghost rubbing against the wall getting farther and farther away, separated by a wooden door, the girls breathed softly and cautiously.
They had just run to the other end of the corridor and wanted to return to the girls' dormitory along the original route, but they found that the crack they came from was gone and they couldn't break the wall open. Seeing that time was running out and the ghost might chase them out at any time, they had to go back to the men's dormitory and break open the other door facing the men's dormitory.
Fortunately, the male ghost once mentioned that there were two doors at the end of the corridor. One door led to the male dormitory, and the other door was filled with second-hand waste electrical appliances. It seemed that the room was occupied by an old man who collected garbage when he was alive.
After tearing off the wall, they found another wooden door. They broke it open and hid in the room inside, then used props to disguise the outside.
It would be best if they could stop the ghost temporarily, but if that doesn't work... they will have no choice but to fight to the death.
Fortunately, the ghosts really didn't seem to notice that there was a door here, and soon they all floated to the other side of the corridor, leaving them with a brief chance to catch their breath.
Zhang You said softly: "How long can we hide here? What if they find us?"
Tang Xin Jue held the toilet plunger, and his mental power spread to the outside of the door to "watch" the situation in the corridor: "...wait until they disappear."
There is a 60 percent certainty that these ghost images will not exist forever.
Just as she ran out, she observed that the ghosts were not completely virtual, and there were traces of red lines on their bodies.
These monsters that were just born from the flames seemed to have a close relationship with the red line.
"…And that male ghost said that it will be strengthened after swallowing the red thread, but the time will only last for a while. After a period of time, the effect will disappear."
Tang Xin Jue's voice was almost inaudible in this space , but it was clearly heard by everyone.
"If what the boy ghost said is true, then the effect of the red thread is likely to be the same for these ghosts."
Although the effect is powerful, it is short-lived.
When the effect of the red line disappears, the ghost will most likely disappear with it, and then they can go out and find a way back to the girls' dormitory.
"I still think that these things are all caused by the Academic Affairs Office."
Jiang Lan whispered her guess.
"Everything was normal before we came. But since we left the girls' dormitory and entered here, accidents have occurred one after another..."
Jiang Lan's voice suddenly paused. She turned on the flashlight and shone it on her wrist, which was already covered with blood.
The red thread cut into her skin and began to absorb the blood inside!
Everyone suddenly remembered the danger of the red line and hurried to untie it. The light of the flashlight swayed in the room, and suddenly there was a crisp clicking sound.
Then the second sound, the third sound...
Everyone stopped and shone their light towards the source of the sound, which was a radio.
“Sizzle—sizzle—”
The radio began to make sounds, and the hoarse voice fell into everyone's ears.
"Repair, repair, repair second-hand electrical appliances, second-hand furniture, second-hand refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines——"
Bang. The lights in the room suddenly brightened.
