MTL - What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?-Chapter 53
[Jinxiangshu Women's Noble Academy Student Dormitory Management Regulations]
【1. Students need to check in with the dormitory management committee, and after checking in, they must strictly abide by these regulations. 】
【2. Students must stay in the dormitory every night. Students are not allowed to enter the dormitory building during non-opening hours. In case of special circumstances, the situation must be explained to the head teacher, a corresponding certificate should be issued and handed over to the person in charge of the dormitory management. 】
【3. If the person in charge of the dormitory management disagrees, the certificate can be directly revoked. 】
[4. When there is a conflict between the person in charge of dormitory management and the teachers in other positions, within the scope of the dormitory building, the will of the person in charge of dormitory management shall prevail. 】
【5. Without the permission of the person in charge of dormitory management, anyone except the principal is prohibited from entering the dormitory building. 】
【6. Under the qualified circumstances, the person in charge of dormitory management has the right to issue direct instructions to the dormitory students. Students must obey this instruction. Failure to comply will be considered a serious violation of school rules. 】
【7. Under any circumstances, students are not allowed to attack the person in charge of the dormitory management committee or other members of the dormitory management committee. Once violated, it will be regarded as a serious violation of school regulations. 】
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【10. Please trust your dormitory teacher and follow her orders. As long as you are in the dormitory, she will do everything to protect you. 】
【11.... If the dormitory teacher is no longer trustworthy. Article 7 of this regulation will be invalidated automatically, and Articles 12, 13, and 14 will be automatically supplemented and come into effect. All students are requested to keep these three rules in mind. In times of crisis, it may save your life. 】
At this moment, at the gate of 205.
Xu Tuoran maintained the posture of opening the door, quietly looking at the auntie who was standing at the door.
...or in other words, the thing with the same face as "Auntie Suguan".
It was very tall, with its forehead almost touching the door frame, its body bent severely, its two hands hanging straight down, almost to the ground, holding a pen in one hand and a pamphlet in the other.
It looked down at Xu Tuoran, its eyes were empty, and an exaggerated semicircular arc was drawn from the corner of its grinning mouth.
"follow me."
Its voice sounded in Xu Tuoran's mind. She was sure, however, that the thing opposite hadn't actually opened its mouth—or rather, it wasn't making any physical sounds.
This is an order only for Xu Tuoran.
Xu Tuoran shook her head, and the familiar feeling of trance struck, she immediately slapped herself reflexively. When I looked down again, I found that my right foot was about to step out of the dormitory.
"Come with me." The "Auntie in charge" standing outside repeated without changing her expression, "Come with me, Dad."
Xu Tuoran: "..."
Cub, although you seem calm, the voice of "adding 40 to the death value" in my head has already betrayed you.
She took another look at the monster in front of her, and recalled in her mind the part about "Dormitory Regulations" in the school regulation booklet that she had read before, her eyes turned slightly, and she nodded.
"Okay, but wait for me, I haven't got the key. I have to get the key first."
"..." The dormitory aunt outside the door was obviously silent for a while, and then the hard voice sounded again, "One minute."
"I know." Xu Tuoran took a deep look at it, and turned back into the room, but he didn't rush to get his dormitory key, but first picked up the backpack on the chair, and then came to Fang Xing's desk.
"Fang Xing, I know you are awake." She said calmly, "I took the bottle of mineral water on your table away."
"..." Fang Xing, who was lying on the bed, could not speak, so he could only lightly tap on the bed board to show that he heard it.
Xu Tuoran thanked him, took the water in his hand, and shook it around in the dormitory again. After a minute of delay, he finally picked up the key on the table under the cold eyes of the monster at the door: "Okay, let's go."
"Superintendent Auntie" gave her a cold look, turned around and left without responding.
Xu Tuoran put the key in his pocket, carried the backpack in front of him, and followed silently.
Slow footsteps sounded in the corridor again. The difference was that there were two kinds of footsteps this time.
In the next room, countless people silently hid their heads in the pillows, with similar joy, fear and sadness in their chests.
—A similar voice, many of them have heard it more than once. And every time this kind of voice appears, it means that a student disappears forever.
Biting cold spread in the dormitory building. As the person involved, Xu Tuoran didn't feel anything. She only followed behind the monster slowly, put her hand into the backpack calmly, tore apart the silver paper wrapped inside, and then raised the mineral water bottle in her hand.
The monster ahead did not look back. Xu Tuoran unscrewed the bottle cap as lightly as possible, and quickly went through the dormitory regulations in his mind.
Although due to time constraints, she couldn't read all the rules, but she deliberately paid attention to the last few rules.
—[12. Residents must carry the dormitory key with them. If you do not have a dormitory key with you when you receive an order from the person in charge of the dormitory, you have the right to apply immediately to retrieve the key. Order execution will be automatically postponed. [Small print: In theory, the dormitory management cannot reject your application. However, the authority given to dormitory management was too high before, and this may not buy a lot of time. In any case, please take advantage of it. ]]
— [13. Unless the student has seriously violated the school regulations, the dormitory management strictly prohibits entering the student dormitory without authorization. [Small print: This rule is only for the person in charge of the dormitory management. It is not possible to restrain other members of the board of directors. Please keep an eye on the change of members of the dormitory management committee, and confirm the attributes of your floor leaders. ]]
— [14. The person in charge of the dormitory management cannot leave the dormitory management office for more than fifteen minutes. 】
...well, fifteen minutes.
Seeing that he and the monster had walked out of the dormitory corridor and started to descend the stairs. Xu Tuoran pursed his lips slightly, and completely unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle in his hand.
Counting the time before the other party knocked on the door, there should be about ten minutes left now... In other words, as long as I delay this time, the other party will definitely rush back to the dormitory management office...
- For myself, it shouldn't be a problem.
Xu Turan thought silently, flicked his wrist, and spilled a bottle of water forward.
the other side.
205 interior.
Fang Xing lay on the bed with his eyes wide open, his heart still beating non-stop, unable to calm down for a long time.
She didn't understand why Xu Tuoran opened the door so openly, and why he followed out—in fact, she didn't hear anything from the thing outside the door, only Xu Tueran seemed to be talking to himself After that, he took his things and left.
From the beginning to the end, her tone was very calm, as if what was outside the door was not something scary, but the parents who came to pick her up...
Uh, although in terms of title, she should be the one who is the head of the family.
It has to be said that Xu Tuoran's attitude really gave Fang Xing an inexplicable peace of mind. However, following her departure, Fang Xing still involuntarily fell into the familiar panic.
After all, not long ago, another roommate of hers disappeared forever like this.
Coupled with Xu Tuoran's identity... This made Fang Xing's mood even more complicated. She stared blankly at the ceiling in front of her, unable to fall asleep no matter what. After an unknown amount of time, the whole person almost jumped off the bed suddenly.
She heard footsteps again—down the corridor, slow, light, dragging. Go all the way to your room.
Then, the key was inserted into the lock. The lock turns. Someone pushed the door and entered.
Fang Xing's heart jumped into his throat instantly, and he wanted to get up subconsciously. The person who entered the door hurriedly said:
"Hey, no, no, don't move. I can do it myself. You sleep with you."
She said, closed the door, walked to the table in the dark, put down her things, and started to fumble in her bag again. Fang Xing could hardly restrain his excitement, and then frowned again.
She smelled a faint smell of blood.
She couldn't help but tried to get up again, but the person below seemed to see her thoughts, and said again: "Don't worry about me, just lie down, I just scratched a little skin, and I've already taken the medicine."
...Why do you need to take oral medicine when you scratch your skin? Anti-inflammatory?
Fang Xing had question marks in his heart, and before she could investigate further, the person below had already carefully climbed up the bed ladder.
"Okay, it's okay, go to sleep. Tomorrow is a new day." Xu Tuoran's voice sounded in the room again, Fang Xing looked at her, and found that she was standing on the bed ladder, her posture was as usual, her back was straight, It seems that there is really no problem.
tomorrow.
The words that frightened Fang Xing once upon a time suddenly seemed relaxed again at this moment. Looking at the figure lying on the opposite bed, she let out a deep breath, and finally forced herself to close her eyes.
Fang Xing hadn't slept so relaxedly in a long time.
Although she didn't get much sleep - her new roommate checked in at two or three o'clock in the morning, and the dormitory would set off an early bell at six thirty in the morning.
She got up from the bed immediately, cleaned up and washed skillfully, and woke up her new roommate who was still sleeping. As the head of the floor, he went out and knocked on the doors of the nearby dormitories. When he turned back, he saw Xu Tuoran still sitting on the bed, staring at the white shirt on his body in a daze.
"Get up soon, you're going to the cafeteria!" Fang Xing hurriedly urged, "What's wrong with your clothes?"
"It's because there's nothing wrong with it, that's why I'm surprised." Xu Tuoran said vaguely, "I'm telling you the truth. In fact, I accidentally got it dirty last night. I was thinking about doing something more today..."
Just replace it when it gets dirty? How dirty you must be... Fang Xing thought absently, and explained casually: "Don't worry about the clothes. It will be refreshed every morning. You just need to remember to bring your badge."
Xu Tuoran answered vaguely, and finally turned over and got out of bed. Fang Xing seized the time to run to the other end of the corridor and knock on the doors of the bedrooms over there. As she approached the stairwell, a dull red color caught her attention.
The red was smeared on the wall, leaving a long mark. Eventually it disappeared through the bathroom door next to it. It looked like it had been rubbed with blood. Fang Xing paused, hesitated for a moment, carefully leaned over, looked with his head, and suddenly lost his voice.
On the stairs from the second floor to the first floor, there was a long bloodstain stretching along the way. At the head of the stairs on the first floor, a large area was even more dyed.
"..."
Fang Xing was silent for a moment, then retracted his head silently, went to the bathroom next to him and took a wet mop for a while, trying his best to make the whole scene less scary. As if nothing had happened, Xuan knocked on the nearby bedroom doors one by one, and returned to Room 205.
In the room, Xu Tuoran had just taken care of himself and was packing his backpack at the desk. Fang Xing stared at her profile, hesitated for a moment, and said carefully, "That, Xiao Xu."
Xu Tuoran: "?"
"You said you scratched your skin last night." Fang Xing said carefully, "Where did you rub it?"
"Arm." Xu Turan didn't raise his head, "Don't worry, it's fine."
Fang Xing: "...Are you sure, is it not serious?"
Xu Tuoran paused for a moment, thought for a while, turned his head, and said sincerely, "To be honest, it's actually a bit serious."
Fang Xing: "..."
"But I'm really fine now." Xu Tuoran emphasized again, "Besides, I can tell you responsibly that although I was a little overturned last night, the person who suffered the most is definitely not me."
Fang Xing: "...?"
"Ah?" Her mind turned for a long time, but she didn't follow Xu Tuoran's words, "Is this... important?"
"Of course it's important." Xu Tuoran vowed, "If it is necessary to suffer losses, then letting the opponent suffer more losses is a kind of victory."
Fang Xing: "..."
No, wait, what opponent? Who is your opponent? You're not talking about the thing that knocked on the door last night, are you? No way no way?
She opened her mouth slightly, and after a while, she closed it silently.
Forget it, as long as you make sure that the roommate in front of you is in normal condition. As for other things, I'm a mortal, so don't ask too much.
But having said that—is her roommate sure to be normal?
Maybe... All practitioners in the mysterious industry are like this?
When Fang Xing walked to the door, he couldn't help but look back at Xu Tuoran again. After thinking for a moment, he nodded with confidence and turned to leave.
And it wasn't until five minutes later, when Fang Xing and Xu Tuoran left the dormitory together, that she vaguely understood what Xu Tuoran meant when he said "the one who suffers more is not me".
When students leave the dormitory building, they must report to the person in charge of the dormitory management. Auntie, who has always been mechanically rigid, is obviously different from usual today——
Her complexion was obviously more ugly, her eyes looked a little dull, and there was a large piece of gauze on her cheek, with a faint red inside.
For some reason, she was wet. When Fang Xing went to the window to report, he noticed that there was even a little bit of ice scum on her hair.
All in all, her whole person gave off a kind of listless feeling. However, after seeing Xu Tu who was standing behind Fang Xing, the auntie in charge immediately straightened her body, and slapped the table heavily with one hand—an astonishing aura erupted from her, and her protruding eyes stared at her. The biggest, as if she owed her 8 million and didn't pay it back.
…Honestly, it was scary to watch. However, after hearing her gritted her teeth and called "Dad", Fang Xing suddenly felt that the scene was too harmonious to look directly at.
Xu Turan, who was the person involved, just responded lightly, filled out the form in his hand and handed it over: "Thank you, teacher."
Auntie in charge: "...!"
She was still furious, visibly furious. It is in stark contrast to Xu Tuoran's calm and breezy. Fang Xing always had the illusion that she would jump out of the window, but the fact was that after staring at Xu Tuoran for a long time, she silently took the form in her hand.
The completed form needs to be stamped. She tapped down on the seal so hard that it was like stabbing a knife.
Zhu Tang and Lin Ge, who were in line behind Xu Tu, naturally did not miss her frightening change, and quickly caught up after completing the report.
"What's the situation, how did you offend her?" Zhu Tang whispered.
"It's okay. Didn't she check the bed last night, so I tried to touch her." Xu Turan glanced back and said casually, "She...maybe I can't afford to lose."
"Losing?" Zhu Tang stared wide-eyed, "What did you do?"
"It tripped her up a bit and made her miss the time to go back to the office in time." Xu Wuran said concisely, "It seems that she must have suffered because of this."
Once the rules are formed, the binding force on the monsters within the range is absolute. Xu Tueran had heard this point in the training class, and had seen it many times with the pen of the immortal pen—that pen is still in a state of restraint, unable to resist the rules on his body. If you insist on violating it, it will be so painful that you can vomit for a long time just by spitting ink.
...This is also the reason why it is particularly afraid that Xu Tuoran will force high math problems for it. I can't figure it out, and I have to answer it. Isn't this a scam?
So last night, from the very beginning, her idea was to drag the dormitory manager to death, and make sure to let him stay outside until the time limit—what's the point of running away. Since there is a fight, it must make the other party pay the greatest price.
As for the means of delay, it is nothing more than those. First, he releases his own psychic items to deepen the chaos, and then repeatedly exerts active control with "unlucky rabbit legs" and "confusing". From time to time, pour some water on the person and freeze it to restrict its movement...
The good news is that her active effect of "Complicated and Confused" is effective for Dorm. That is to say, the highest level of the opponent does not exceed Yan, which is within her sphere of influence; and the bad news is that this guy is a little bit more capable than she thought.
There were no problems before, but when she was about to succeed in procrastinating, the other party seemed to sense that the time limit for returning to the office was about to pass, so he suddenly jumped up, broke free from the ice on his body, and rushed to the office desperately. Xu Turan continued to stop him without giving up, but was injured instead...
So she simply kept on doing nothing, borrowing from the last time she dealt with Haunted House No. 71, she directly used blood to freeze the opponent's feet on the ground, and refused to let it go until the confirmed time limit passed. In the end, he kicked it vigorously, took the opportunity to go upstairs, hid in the bathroom, and took a pill from Yang Buqi to stop the bleeding.
She wasn't sure if anyone else heard it. She did, however, hear an annoyed and distressed scream from downstairs as she hid in the bathroom.
At the same time, there was a reminder of "Congratulations on getting 500 death points". At that time, Xu Turan knew that the dormitory manager was probably going to fight with him.
...but so what.
Xu Wuran thought indifferently, anyway, I am not the one who violated the rules, and I am not the one who suffers the most. Rounding up, I am the one who earns.
In fact, Xu Tuoran gained more than that last night.
She waited in the bathroom for a while, and returned to the dormitory after confirming that the wound had healed. I just wanted to have a good rest, but after falling into a dream, I was dazed and entered the "natural disaster cemetery".
The last time she was only one step away from touching the next ball of light. Now I happen to have 3,000 steps on my body, so I just use it up on the spot. So when I woke up, not only did I touch it, but I even passed the door leading to the next area.
After touching the light ball, her natural disaster level was directly raised to the light level. Two skills are also improved-
In terms of "Ice No. 7", the description given is that her control over the crystals has been strengthened again, she can control the scope of crystallization, and can control the crystallization and melting of liquids at will, but Xu Turan has not tried the specific effect; For "Ice Eighteen", the trigger probability has increased to 68%.
...It's so stupid, it seems to directly mention that 70% will die.
Of course, none of this can be said to the girls next to me. Xu Tuoran was half-truthful and half-truthful, and finally said that he used his ability to trick the auntie in charge into the bathroom and lock her up for a while, thereby delaying her time limit for returning to the office.
The most indispensable thing in the bathroom is water, and her natural disaster ability has a lot of room to play. Zhu Tang and the others thought that her quality was that of Snow White, and that she had a halo of weirdness and love. Although it was not easy to trick someone into the bathroom, it was not impossible.
"A word of caution. That guy is very little affected by my ability. Visually, he is at least at the top level." Xu Tuoran added after thinking about it, lest the two girls would be too tempted to go to the housekeeper to "touch".
Zhu Tang nodded ponderingly, then frowned: "Then this must be a companion creature, right? The housekeepers are all companion creatures, what about the other teachers?"
Xu Tuoran shook his head slowly: "What I'm more concerned about is, what about other capable people?"
"That's right." Lin Ge said, "Since this is a 'box', there must be people with abilities stationed here. We have to find them as soon as possible to understand the situation."
The three of them exchanged glances with each other, and looked around again—at this time, there were crowds of people around, and girls in the same clothes were pouring out of the dormitory building like a tide, heading towards the cafeteria.
Just like what Fang Xing said, some of these girls are obviously weird. Pale skin, empty expression, and malicious eyes, the four words "I am not human" are almost written on the face.
However, more girls looked very ordinary—their faces were either numb, alert, or worried. Although the expressions could be different, they were all quite vivid. The skin color is normal, and the movement is completely free of stiffness.
Judging from the proportion, the normal part is obviously superfluous and abnormal. However, Xu Turan always felt something was wrong.
There are too many people.
This is a domain that is constantly attended to and controlled. She originally thought there were more than a dozen students here, who would have thought that there were so many—assuming that there are currently people living in the dormitories in the building, there are six dormitories on the first floor, and each room has two people, except for the uninhabited one. There are more than 60 students in one building.
Where did this school get so many students? What about those capable people? Is this situation still under their control?
Xu Tuoran frowned puzzled, thought for a moment, then turned to look aside Fang Xing.
Fang Xing had been informed a long time ago that "Zhu Yan haggard" and "Lin Lailai" were Xu Tuoran's companions, and they consciously distanced themselves from each other the first time they came together to talk. Now meeting Xu Tuoran's eyes, he leaned over silently: "What's the matter?"
"I want to ask you." Xu Tuoran asked, "From the moment you entered school to the present, has anyone 'led the way' for you?"
Fang Xing: "Huh?"
"Just to tell you what to do and what not to do. How to save your life and how to get out..." Xu Tuoran described in detail.
"Yes." Fang Xing nodded, "My ex-roommate. But she never told me how to get out, she only said to follow the rules to keep safe..."
Xu Turan felt something was wrong: "She came before you? Then why did she get into trouble because of answering the door?"
Fang Xing said last night that her roommate disappeared just because she responded to the wrong knock on the door. But according to Fang Xing's temperament, if she finds out that her roommate is wrong, she will definitely remind her... Unless her roommate doesn't understand this rule, otherwise this matter cannot be justified.
"I don't know. She was in a daze at the time and ignored me at all." Fang Xing lowered his eyes.
Xu Tuoran guessed that the girl must be unconscious, sighed secretly, and continued, "Except for her?"
"Also..." Fang Xing frowned, "I'm not sure. I feel like I heard various people stressing that we must abide by the school rules as soon as I entered the class. There are class committee members and ordinary students..."
"No teacher?" Zhu Tang interjected curiously.
"Teacher...Teacher only asks to be obedient." Fang Xing said truthfully.
The other three looked at each other, apparently feeling that such information was not enough.
"Then do you know how many people are there in this school now? I mean students." Xu Tuoran asked again, "How often do new students enter?"
"For Si Xuelou, there are two classes. Each class has 30 students. They share a set of teachers." Fang Xing recalled earnestly, "The frequency of enrollment... I really don't know. I just came in after me. Here in the Si Xue Building, I only know you three."
"Wait a minute." Xu Tuoran finally noticed the problem, "You've been talking about the Si Xue Building, the Si Xue Building, haven't you been to the Zhi Xue Building?"
Fang Xing shook his head: "I have only been to the library next to it. I took the passage at the back. There is still a distance between the library and the Zhixue Building...but I have never been there."
The whole school is divided by a pond, with the Sixue building on one side and the Zhixue building on the other side. On the side of the Sixue building, in addition to supporting dormitory buildings, there are laboratory buildings and an indoor stadium. On the other side of the Zhixue Building, there is a library and another teaching building called "Qixue Building".
"The two campuses share the open-air playground and the canteen. Only these two facilities have entrances on both sides. However, the use of the playground is staggered, and the door to the other area is always locked. The canteen is also, we are in On the first floor, they are on the second floor, each enters through different entrances, and they can't see each other."
While talking, they had already walked past the location of the forest last night, and saw that the land was empty, and there was no forest there.
Xu Turan frowned slightly, but Fang Xing was not surprised.
"The woods only appear at night." She whispered, "During the day, you can cross the bridge. But the school rules clearly say, it's best not to go."
Xu Tuoran hadn't read this part yet, so he subconsciously asked why. Fang Xing shook his head in a daze, but Zhu Tang next to him said, "By the way, before we came, Xiaoli also said that the Zhixue Building is dangerous, and the Sixue Building is safe..."
"The problem is that it doesn't look very safe here." Xu Tuoran said bluntly, "But the opposite side—"
As she spoke, she unconsciously raised her eyes and looked towards the opposite side, her eyes suddenly froze.
Since there were no trees during the day, her eyes were unhindered and fell straight on the building across the bridge.
However, the building, which should have been square and regular, now showed a strange undulating outline—as if some huge sticky object was clinging to its outer wall, trying to stretch its body, Trying to wrap it all up.
...It was the monster that Xu Tuoran saw last night in the Sixue building.
