Girls’ Dormitory Escape

 Chapter 37: Classic Movie Appreciation (11)

    "..."

    Comedy? Family? Patriotic? Anti-war?

    What are these options?

    Guo Guo stared blankly: "If I am guilty, the law should punish me instead of making me face this kind of problem."

    With this comparison, even the quiz of the last movie was not so outrageous.

    Zhang You also opened her mouth very simply: "I can't choose, how about you, Xinjue?" Her gaze focused on Tang Xinjue again.

    The girl stared at the question for two seconds, and then turned her head, "Wanqing, what do you think?"

    Zheng Wanqing: "Uh... wait, do you think it's appropriate to throw this kind of IQ logic problem on me?"

    "No." Tang Xinjue shook her head without thinking, "The multiple-choice questions that have reached this level are no longer logic, but luck."

     In the entire 606 dormitory, it was recognized that the European Emperor that had the luckiest luck——is Zheng Wanqing.

*Ouhuang in Chinese means European Emperor, synonymous to lucky person, as opposed to African Chief, an unlucky person.

    "Heaven will entrust Lord European Emperor with great responsibility, Wanqing, this question belongs to you."

    Zheng Wanqing: "..."

    I believe in your ghosts!*

*我信你个鬼; wo xin ni de gui=I believe you are a ghost, used to say that you do not believe what someone has told you. This slang comes from a short video.

    There was not much left in the countdown, so she bit the bullet and thought for a few seconds before brazenly making a choice: "Then A! From the beginning to the end, the headless ghost kept laughing. Who knows what it's laughing at*, maybe it thought it was funny."

*笑个P呀 - Xiào gè P ya: a bit guessing from years of MTL-ing that this P means fart. Google Translate actually says it means 'LOL'. Searching the web this seems like a popular slang. An internet forum said it actually means, and I copied directly, "what the f**k are you laughing at?"

    She didn't know if it's funny or not, but Zheng Wanqing was almost annoyed to death.

    She let out angrily: "Comedy! That's all."

    [Ding! Correct answer!]

    The reminder system played a burst of cheerful music, and stopped after about ten seconds: [Next, the on-site review will be written, please prepare paper, pen, and related tools, and get ready—]

    Everyone: "???!!! "

    That answer was right?!

    They looked at each other in blank dismay, and had no time to discuss the reason for the correct answer—it was estimated that there was no such opportunity—they could only hurriedly search for the pen and paper at hand amidst the sound of prompts.

    Tang Xinjue quickly reminded: "Don't forget your phone and props."

    As soon as the words fell, the surrounding environment changed immediately.

    The light became dim, and the reflection on the wall pattern was a bit dazzling, and the desk and bed turned into wine tables and sofas. As soon as Tang Xinjue concentrated her attention, a deafening scream came over her face, shaking people's spirits.

    Four well-dressed men and women huddled together, looking at the position behind Tang Xinjue in horror, and screams came from their mouths.

    This was a dining private room*, which is quite luxurious from the decoration point of view. The place where the four men and women huddled up was the door of the room directly opposite. There were dining chairs, dining carts, handbags and various belongings scattered beside them. They should have smashed the door violently but failed to open it.

*包厢=boxes. It's a bit weird to translate directly. From Baidu, "Boxes refer to special single-room seats in certain public places (such as theaters, teahouses, restaurants, KTV, etc.), and one room has multiple seats." So it's a private room, in the context of restaurant, an exclusive dining room for those with thick pockets. Probably something

like this.

    "Don't come here, don't come here, help!!"

    The screams became louder and louder, and fear filled the entire room.

    In the next moment, Guo Guo's scream also burst from the side, leading the others forward: "Ghost! It's right behind us!"

    Looking back suddenly, the headless body was crawling down against the wall. Tang Xinjue was only a few feet away, and even the broken cut on its neck was very clear.

    "Who cut off my head...who sealed me in the soil...and made me unable to escape..."

    A deep and hoarse voice sounded from the other side, and her gaze followed the sound. A bloody head was standing next to Tang Xinjue's leg, and the huge whites of its eyes turned upward to meet her gaze.

    The headless body swooped down, and she moved away sideways. The headless ghost did not continue to attack, but walked slowly towards the door of the box while hugging the head on the ground.

    Looking at the scene in front of her, Tang Xinjue reminded her roommate aloud: "Calm down, now is the time to write reviews, stay away from them, we should not be in too much danger."

    The headless ghost seemed to be unable to see the four people in the dormitory, and just went about the horror plot at the end of the movie by itself.

    [Ding, please write your review about the movie within 60 minutes. The number of words should not be less than 800, the countdown begins!]

    "..."

    After calming down, she opened the pen and paper, and several people dragged the weak-legged Guo Guo to sit down in a corner away from the haunted scene, and began to write amidst the screams of the characters.

    If there was a "replay" of the last movie and a relatively complete understanding of the plot, then in this movie, they could be said to be completely confused. Even the theme of the movie was answered by Zheng Wanqing by luck.

    Soon, Zheng Wanqing, who was thinking aimlessly, found that her roommates' eyes were all on her.

    She: "...I was completely fooled!"

    She was a financial dog (student), and she had never touched such things as movie reviews since she finished two humanities elective courses in her freshman year. She was completely helpless about it.

    "By the way," she suddenly remembered, "Guo Guo, you have transferred to journalism in your sophomore year. You should be able to write this kind of on-site summary, right?"

    Guo Guo just recovered from the shock of being stunned by the headless ghost, her face was livid: "Journalism does not include the haunted murder scene, I don't know how to write it!"

    Zhang You vetoed herself in advance: "I transferred to a foreign language major, and there is no applicability for this movie... But after watching it, we should mainly use our imagination. Let's write a paragraph each, and then cooperate with the theme written by Xin Jue. It's better to finish it as soon as possible." At this point, they looked at the one that had already started writing.

    Tang Xinjue, a third-year student majoring in Chinese, had already written several lines with her slender fingers:

    [On the Universal Applicability and Irony of Headless Ghosts in Comedy Movies]

    They were silent for a while.

    Guo Guo was amazed: "Jue Shen, how did you come up with these arguments?"

    Tang Xinjue said without hesitation, "Give up your brain and logical thinking."

    ...It makes sense, but they can't say anything.

    At the door of the room, among the four men and women, one of them had already passed out due to excessive panic. From the remaining three, two chose to run inside for their lives, while one of them raised a chair to fight with the headless ghost. With a light pinch from the headless ghost, the chair shattered and exploded.

    The fighter fell two steps and hit the door, collapsed on the ground and yelled: "It's been so many years, why are you still pestering us! We can fulfill any wishes you had during your lifetime, and we can save you! Don't kill us... woo..."

    Fear made the man who yelled burst into tears.

    The headless ghost actually stopped in its tracks, the eyes of the human head in its arms stopped moving, it looked at the man, and its lips moved slightly: "My wish is..."

    A layer of white mist suddenly rose in the room, covering all the movies characters, and their voices were hidden behind.

    The dormitory members watching them: ...How can you stop them from watching the plot like this?

    Tang Xinjue analyzed while writing: "This paragraph may involve spoilers for the second part, so it's blocked. Let's try to observe the information we can see." After a while, the white mist cleared, and the people in the room were silent.

    The head ghost disappeared, and only the four men and women stood there in a daze.

    They got up stiffly, and slowly turned to the four people who were writing their review, then tilted, and the four heads rolled down from their necks.

    The heads fell to the ground, and the corners of their mouths opened, screaming in horror.

    Guo Guo: "Ugh—"

    She retched instinctively again, clutching the notebook tightly, trying not to close her yin and yang eyes.

    Zhang You couldn't bear to watch from the side: "If you feel uncomfortable, just close your eyes and endure it. Now we shouldn't be attacked."

    Guo Guo shook her head: "No, I saw something behind them, ugh—"

    Fortunately, the new headless ghosts were only attacking their mental state. Their (ghost) legs were spinning around in place, and they didn't pounce. After a while, Tang Xinjue put down her pen and said, "I wrote five hundred words."

    Zhang You tore off her note paper and said, "I just wrote three hundred."

    After giving up her reason, her writing was much smoother.

    [Ding dong, the review has been submitted and is under evaluation...]

    [The candidate's review will be scored by the protagonists of the film!]

    The four heads screaming on the ground: "It hurts so much, I can't see anything..."

    "Zero, zero!"

    [The scoring is over, and the final score of your review is: zero points!]

    "..."

    Zheng Wanqing clenched her fists: "If I hit them now, will the rules allow it? The hostility of ghosts to us is unreasonable."

    In a completely unfamiliar field, the other party was the host and they were the guests, and with one fail, it was easy to step into a pit.

    In fact, the four new headless ghosts who were screaming and screeching for a long time were obviously very dissatisfied with the fact that they successfully finished writing the review, staring at them fiercely with pale eyes.

    Tang Xinjue didn't care about scoring. She seemed to be attracted by the heads turning around on the ground, squatting down and asking them, "What did the headless ghost say to you just now?" The eyes of the four heads rolled around: "You come closer, we'll tell you when we come over."

    Tang Xinjue pulled out the toilet plunger, "Really?"

    Heads: "..."

    For some reason, this toilet plunger made them feel a sense of fear. The cold feeling attached to the rubber head made their scalps explode, as if something very unfriendly to ghosts had happened on it.

    The four heads shook again in unison: "Go farther, you go farther!"

    Tang Xinjue did not move, emphasized and repeated: "Did that headless ghost make you like this? It said what?"

    "It said..." The head finally stopped screaming, and said slowly and reluctantly: "Only by fulfilling their request can we end our curse... Otherwise, headless slaves, endless life..."

    "Who are they? End what curse?"

    Tang Xinjue was about to ask another question when the reminder that [the exam was over] sounded, and the four of them were sent back to the dormitory again.

    The spirit returned, and the incomparable exhaustion immediately covered them. After watching two movies, everyone seemed to have run two marathons, so tired that they didn't even have the strength to lift their fingers.

    [Excessive exhaustion: Your mental and physical strength have been greatly consumed, and continuing to overdraw will reduce a lot of health points]

    "Is this game on teen mode? It pays attention to healthy work and rest." Zheng Wanqing casually complained, propping up her shaking body to wash.

    "Ah, wait!" Guo Guo forcefully opened her eyelids, and her first reaction was to use her strength to draw on the paper.

    This was what she saw on the four "victims" with yin and yang eyes in the "review scene".

    Tang Xinjue looked and saw that Guo Guo had drawn four headless stick figures, and on each stick figure, steam-like lines rose slowly.

    "This is the black air emanating from the red marks on their necks. The position of the red marks is where the necks are broken. At the back, the black air rises from the necks." Guo Guo was a little worried: "But there is something else, I don't know how to draw it..."

    She simply threw the pen and gestured to Tang Xinjue with her hand: "That's, there is a red pattern in the black air, which seems to be a ghost symbol, but I can't see it clearly..."

    According to her description, Tang Xinjue drew a rune pattern with her own pen: "Is that so?"

    Guo Guo nodded: "Yes, yes, almost the same. At the beginning, the headless ghost also had this pattern on its neck, but it was deeper, it’s very uncomfortable to look at.”

    After explaining everything, Guo Guo finally breathed a sigh of relief, collapsed from exhaustion, and fell asleep on the table not long after.

    "Everyone is too tired."

    Zhang You sighed after checking the supplies every day, and stopped Tang Xinjue, "Actually, I have an idea.

    "Since we entered the game, we have been too tense." Zhang You said earnestly: "Every day when we open our eyes, we start to worry about the danger of our life. Apart from the necessary physical recovery, there is almost no rest time.

    "Especially Guo Guo, who has a relatively low "immunity" to horrible things, almost all of the time she is panicked and stimulated. Even if her body is fine, she will be mentally overwhelmed." Zhang You discussed with her: "If possible, can we set aside a day for review and rest?"

    Tang Xinjue was silent for a moment, and then said: "You are right, I really overlooked this point."

    ... Years of nightmares have made her used to this kind of mental pressure, but this is the first time she has come into contact with her roommates.

    Strings that are stretched all the time are more likely to break. Maybe after this exam, it's time to take a break.

    For the time being, they pressed the [discuss] button, and after a brief shower, the dormitory soon fell into a deep sleep.

    "Dinglingling~"

    As the alarm clock sounded, Jin Wen rubbed her eyes and sat up.

    But then she froze, and everything in her mind resurfaced:

    Yellow paper and runes, her roommates' head that fell, screaming in terror...

    Was it a dream?

    "Jin Wen, get up, we're going to be late, let's go first."

    Her roommates shouted from below, and then the dormitory door was opened and closed.

    Jin Wen came back to her senses, answered vaguely, and thought while dressing quickly. When the memory came back completely, she quickly realized that it was a week ago that the yellow paper was done, and now the paper bag was still hanging on the dormitory door.

    It seemed that it was really just a nightmare. Jin Wen felt relieved and showed a happy smile.

    Then she put on a turtleneck to hide the red marks on her neck.

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