Chapter 73 Dormitory Rules 1
Taking advantage of the gap between the darkness and the sea breeze, Lin Yi seized the opportunity and used all his will to strengthen his understanding.
When the walls of the illusory dormitory building flashed and jumped repeatedly in front of his eyes like a slide, he suddenly reached out his hand... />
When he reached out his hand, images of the ocean and the wall flashed alternately, like looking at an alternating scene through the blades of an electric fan. One frame was the ocean, the other was the wall, and twenty-four frames per second flashed back and forth.
His hand finally passed through the electric fan and reached out to press on the stone wall of the cliff.
But just when he was about to touch the stone wall, he suddenly shook his hand——
Just like that, a black hole seemed to appear in the palm of his hand, and the whole world began to shrink from this palm...
The light and shadow in the endless space, the twisted and collapsed fragments, all turned into the purest and original lines, and then poured into this area like elongated light particles.
When he tightened his grip, everything in front of him turned into a blank world of nothingness... This time the change was extremely short-lived, just like an old-fashioned camera that emits white light when the shutter is pressed. After a flash...
In the corridor of the 14th floor of the dormitory building, Lin Yi's hand was tightly holding a door handle.
His body was a little stiff, and he had not yet adapted to this sudden change, but he still felt extremely relieved about this unexpected and reasonable result.
Don't care about the ups and downs of life. Before you return to the dormitory completely, all safety is false.
But he did not rush to use his student ID card to swipe the door lock. Instead, he raised his head first and checked the door number of the dormitory.
1412.
"Damn! It really is 1412..."
He took a deep breath, turned his head and looked not far away.
In the curved corridor, a house number not far away is clearly marked with the words "1414".
"Found it!"
He took a breath, locked eyes with Dormitory No. 1414, and then reached out and patted his left shoulder.
Feeling Wei Liang's somewhat warm hand that had been placed on his shoulder, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When he had visions and even lost his anchor point, he was anxious to find a reference object, but he did not dare to use Wei Liang's hand on his shoulder as a reference object.
He could actually feel the temperature of Wei Liang's palm, which was sometimes cold and sometimes warm. This feeling became clearer when he used his willpower to strengthen his cognition.
He could feel that his body and spirit were jumping repeatedly in two layers through the contact between Wei Liang's palm and himself.
One layer is the world where the black sun is located, and the other layer is the world where the dormitory building is located, which is the world where Wei Liang is located.
But Wei Liang's own condition is not good. He is not sure whether using Wei Liang as a reference will further worsen Wei Liang's condition. If the anchor is not stable enough, the final outcome will be that both of them will be destroyed, or even fall into some more unpredictable and dangerous situation.
But fortunately, despite the roller coaster-like ups and downs, everything turned out well.
He then walked towards dormitory 1414 step by step.
Just when his palm released the door handle of dormitory 1412, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the door, but he chose to ignore it at the moment, and then led Wei Liang to the front of dormitory 1414.
He stretched out his hand and held the door handle of dormitory 1414.
Until this moment, he felt a little calmer.
Immediately afterwards, he gently patted Wei Liang's hand with his other hand.
"Liangzi, we're at the dormitory!"
Wei Liang's numb and empty eyes gradually regained their vitality.
"Here we are..." He raised his head and saw the door number of dormitory 1414.
"Huh..." He breathed a long sigh of relief, and then lowered his voice and said, "Old Lin, don't say anything. You go first, and after entering, close the door first, and I will open it myself."
"How about you go first?" Lin Yi was a little worried about Wei Liang's state.
Wei Liang shook his head: "It'll be fine once we get here."
Lin Yi looked at him deeply, then lowered his eyes slightly and nodded lightly: "Okay... pay attention to safety."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Wei Liang responded.
Lin Yi then reached into his pocket.
"Wait a minute." Wei Liang suddenly said, "Do you still remember how to swipe your card in the cafeteria?"
Lin Yi was startled, and then said: "What do you mean...?"
"Don't expose yourself, the faster you swipe, the better." Wei Liang said solemnly.
Lin Yi looked stern, but still did as he was told.
He took out his student ID card, and the speed of light swiped across the sensing area on the door handle.
A series of mechanical sounds sounded inside the door. Through the subtle vibrations, Lin Yi seemed to see a picture of a series of bolts being pulled out of the lock one after another.
This dormitory door seems to be full of locks.
When the sound ended, Lin Yi felt that the resistance on the door handle disappeared.
He pressed lightly, and the door opened with a click.
The warm breath seeped out from inside the door, making people feel extremely comfortable.
Lin Yi did not hesitate, quickly entered the dormitory, and then closed the door behind his back.
「哐!」
After the dormitory door closed, the first thing Lin Yi did was to look at the time.
21:18.
…
In front of the 1414 dormitory door, the door handle was clearly within easy reach, but there was no sign of relief on Wei Liang's face. On the contrary, his expression was solemn as never before.
He looked at the door in front of him, but he still did not reach out to grasp the door handle.
He squinted his eyes, as if he was engaged in some kind of thought storm that would never occur to him.
In the end, his eyes changed from solemn to firm.
He took a deep breath, then stretched out his hand and grabbed the door handle of the dormitory door.
But during this process, illusory shadows began to appear one after another around his body, like countless souls lost in the abyss and shadows, or like cold corpses shrouded in forest-white mist...
They climbed on the steep and slippery rock wall like spiders, like zombies, desperately climbing towards the top of the cliff...
Wei Liang seemed to have noticed their existence early on, but he hid his tracks from their perception through self-deception, and it has continued until now - the moment when he put his hand into his trouser pocket and held his student ID card.
When his student ID card was in his hand, he seemed to be the brightest light in the night. As if they had suddenly captured the most exciting smell, these countless lost souls turned their direction and looked at his location...
They seemed to have noticed Wei Liang's existence, so they swarmed around Wei Liang like scarabs.
The forest-white mist enveloped their bodies, but the cold golden eyes that seemed to hide the abyss of hell unabashedly revealed greed and desire.
They uttered obscure and low syllables, communicating primitive signals with pronunciations that were completely out of this world, and then swarmed towards Wei Liang——
Wei Liang held the door handle with one hand, and swiped his card at the speed of light with the other hand as if he were drawing a sword.
At the moment when he was about to be submerged, all the bolts of the dormitory door were retracted, and then he pressed the door handle with a "click!"
The moment the dormitory door was opened, the steep mountain walls, distorted light and shadow, and strange creatures like swarms of insects all disappeared like clouds of smoke.
His surroundings were so clean that there was no air left.
Wei Liang exhaled three breaths in a row, feeling more relieved each time. In the end, there was even a look of joy on his face, as if he had survived the disaster.
But he did not enter the dormitory immediately.
He seemed to realize something, holding on to the half-open door with one hand, and putting his student ID card back in his trouser pocket with the other.
Then, he hid his face behind the door, and used the hand freed after putting away his student ID card to rub the hard muscles on his face, completely crushing the expression that was almost frozen on his face.
Soon, his face regained its earlier playful look.
Then he entered the 1414 dormitory.
The door of the dormitory was closed tightly.
A door separates the two worlds.
…
The black sun hangs high in the black sky, and the black tide laps at the black rocks.
The figure of a security guard, holding an ancient green lantern in his hand, stood silently on the edge of the cliff.
He looked down at the steep mountain wall that was almost vertical to the ground, and his red-gold eyes finally landed somewhere on the mountain wall.
The damp mountain wall was covered with moss, and at that location, there was a footprint that was neither deep nor shallow.
……
He fell into silence facing the footprints, and the red-gold light in his eyes wavered slightly.
His throat moved slightly, and the low syllables were like a giant wheel breaking through an iceberg, but the whining wind blew over the cliff, completely drowning his voice.
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X May 7, 2023, 21:18.
Lin Yi, who entered the dormitory, clearly felt that the lingering discomfort had dissipated a lot. Although he still felt vaguely uncomfortable somewhere, at least he had a sense of down-to-earth reality.
He observed the dormitory in front of him.
This dormitory is a six-person room with three beds placed in front of the walls on the left and right sides of the door.
The bed is composed of a bed board on the upper bunk and a desk and locker on the lower bunk. It is a very common style in universities.
The distance between the beds on the two walls is about 1.5 meters. A glass window is facing the door of the dormitory. The dim moonlight outside the window shines through the glass into the corridor of the dormitory, giving people a peaceful and quiet feeling.
There is a washstand near the window, and the bathroom is opposite the washstand.
The whole dormitory is very normal, so normal that it’s a little abnormal.
Lin Yi, who was observing the environment, suddenly found a pendulum clock hanging on the door of his dormitory. The time on the pendulum clock was consistent with the time on his watch.
And behind the door of the dormitory, there was a notice board posted. The four words on the notice board made Lin Yi's heartbeat seem to skip a beat.
“Dorm Rules.”
He said that for some reason, he always felt something was missing as soon as he entered the dormitory. Now that he saw the dormitory rules, he did not feel panic. Instead, he jumped out and said: The taste is right.
"It turns out there are no dormitory rules!"
"No wonder it feels wrong!"
Just when he was about to read the dormitory rules, the door of the dormitory opened. After a pause, Wei Liang jumped in like a monkey, and then immediately closed the door.
Immediately afterwards, Wei Liang looked up at the time very skillfully, then carefully read the dormitory rules, then walked to a bed, put down his schoolbag, opened the locker with ease, and took out a change of clothes, slippers, bath towels and other standard daily necessities.
"Old Lin, let me take a hot shower first!"
Wei Liang picked them up one by one and walked to the bathroom. After a while, the sound of rushing water came from it.
Lin Yi didn't even have time to say a word to Wei Liang.
But he had no objection to this. Wei Liang had long said that he needed to take a hot bath, so a hot bath must be able to combat and relieve his pollution. In this case, Lin Yi naturally couldn't drag him and prevent him from taking a bath.
Lin Yi first found a bed and put down his schoolbag, then walked to the dormitory door and read the dormitory rules.
【dormitory rules 1】：
"The dormitory is the safest area on campus (no one). In order to maintain this "safety", please abide by the following rules:
1. The power supply system of the dormitory is different from that of the dormitory building. The time for turning off the lights and stopping the water supply is 0:00 every day, not 22:20.
Your change of clothes and daily necessities are in the locker. Please arrange time to shower and wash appropriately. 》
2. The dormitory power outage period is: 0:00~18:00.
Please leave the dormitory building within the specified time. 》
"5. Never extend an invitation to anyone who knocks on the door. Only those with student ID cards can return to the dormitory, and they will open the door themselves."
"6. Never get out of bed after the lights are turned off in the dormitory, and try to fall asleep." No bed checks."
"If someone claiming to be the dormitory knocks on the door and orders you to open the door, follow rule 5 and ignore it."
The above are 7. The dormitory rules seemed to be "mundane", but Lin Yi discovered that the dormitory rules were different from other rules. After writing 7 items, it did not continue to write the 8th item, but directly posted another dormitory rules...
To be precise, it should be - the "emergency version" of the dormitory rules.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched hard after just one glance at the emergency rules.
And with some small conditions?!
"If your mental state is abnormal and you still cannot fall asleep after turning off the lights, please keep the following rules in mind to prevent you from staying in a "safe" state..."
(End of this chapter)