Girls’ Dormitory Escape

 Chapter 39: Classic Movie Appreciation (13)

    Dormitory 606.

    Tang Xinjue laid out a few clipped news reports on the table, which they obtained from other students about the murder case in the school.

    "It shows that a week ago, in a boys' dormitory building in the southwest corner of the dormitory area, a boy jumped off the building, a boy committed suicide in the bathroom. Two boys were mentally disturbed and also self-harmed, and are still in the hospital for emergency treatment."

    At first, the school wanted to simply define it as a student committing suicide due to the pressure, but it was quickly rejected—the four people in the dormitory did well in their studies, had a good family background, good interpersonal relationships, and no tendency of depression, but suddenly meet at the same time and place to commit suicide, how small was this probability?

    "There are still some details that have not been publicly disclosed. According to private rumors, the death scene was very bloody. The students' cell phones and computers sent distress messages, but all relatives and friends did not receive them until the next day." As Tang Xinjue summed up, she picked up a pen and wrote below the clues: ——Suspected signal shielding.

    Zhang You added: "Because of this, the police suspected that it was a vicious homicide case of a fake suicide. The relevant monitoring has been removed, and all the relatives and friends of the boys are also being investigated intensively. The results have not yet been announced." Most of these were the information they found from outside by connecting to the campus network through the computers in the computer room.

    Although the news did not mention the specific dormitory numbers and student information, they still managed to find out the information: Dorm 612 of Building 19, the casualties were all members of this four-person dormitory.

    "612..." Guo Guo took a breath.

    Tang Xinjue: "That's right, the door we are facing right now - the dormitory of the movie protagonist Jin Wen and the others is also 612."

    Coincide? In a horror movie, the odds were obviously slim.

    —even though the system thought it's an outrageous comedy movie.

    Tang Xinjue pressed her eyebrows: "According to the information just revealed by other roommates in Jin Wen's dormitory, the night they performed the yellow paper transshipment technique was exactly a week ago."

    On the same night, four people in the male dormitory of 612 committed suicide, and four girls in another Dormitory 612 left their names and hair on the yellow paper without knowing that.

    The moment the deaths ended was also the moment a new cult began.

    Silently shivering, several people looked at the clues of the school case that had been sorted out, and found that it was still foggy and unclear.

    The most bizarre thing was that even though such a horrible case happened in the school, when they went to check it on the ground, people were still free to enter and leave the boys' dormitory building, and the students looked relaxed as usual.

    The four pretended to be journalists from the society and caught a few people for interviews. The boys didn't show any fear when they talked about it. They only asked three questions, as if nothing had happened.

    Even the vicinity of the accident site was so weird, no wonder there was no tension in the whole school. If they hadn't gone around the school gate, maybe they wouldn't have found out about it.

    "If I had known, I would have found a way to sneak into that dormitory building and look at the scene of the crime. Maybe I could find some clues."

    Zheng Wanqing frowned.

    Guo Guo couldn't believe it: "Are you crazy? The four of us next door are still alive, they all look like this. Those who are already dead must be more resentful. If we really go, maybe we will have to face four bosses!"

    It would be considered polite to be able to come out safe and sound by then.

    Putting aside the murder case for now, the four of them turned their attention back to the present——Tang Xinjue wrote another Dorm 612 (female) under the first Dorm 612 (male), with four names attached: Jin Wen, Wei Xian, Cao Rou, Zhou Xing.

    The film test asked who "died first" among the four. Since Jin Wen has been denied by the system, she can only find the answer from the remaining three girls.

    "Wei Xian is the initiator of the technique of borrowing luck on yellow paper. According to her, it was taught to her by her master. As long as you write your name and hair on it, you can improve luck, romance, and wealth. It's not impossible that she was first to die. But the other two roommates are cannon fodder with no opinions, it also makes sense for the cannon fodders to be stabbed first."

    Guo Guo, a supernatural lover, couldn't think of a reason, and could only hate iron for not becoming steel*. "I despise this kind of mentally retarded magic in novels, it’s obviously crooked!" Not to mention that there was a high probability that it was an ineffective deception. Even if it was really effective, it was likely to hurt others and yourself.

*a Chinese idiom, to feel resentful towards somebody for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement 

    Of course, horror movie protagonists never realize this in advance. Now the yellow paper package had been hanging at the door of 612 for a week. Except for Jin Wen, the other three roommates have begun to behave abnormally.

    Just now, not only did they rush in to try to promote things like doing MLM, but they also secretly left a lot of tools in the dormitory. Tang Xinjue figured out all of their location immediately, and Jin Wen brought those tools back as they were.

    "Fortunately, those things were not left behind. I just felt that the dormitory was overflowing with yin qi*, and it's much better once they left."

*You'd probably know it already, as yin yang is a pretty well-known concept. In case you don't, I believe in this context yin qi refers to yin (negative) spiritual energy that's mostly left by ghosts and the likes, as opposed to yang qi that's associated with the sun, light, etc.

    Guo Guo breathed a sigh of relief.

    It's not just her, Tang Xinjue also used the [Appraisal] skills immediately, "The appraisal results show that the four of them are all living people now, and they are not possessed. They should be purely mentally affected."

    From this point, it could be seen that they were somewhat similar to the crazy state of the 612 male dormitory.

    "So, as long as we observe the four of them from now on, will we be able to find out who died first?"

    Zhang You's proposal was undoubtedly feasible, but there was a more realistic question: how can we observe them while ensure our own safety?

    Guo Guo regretted endlessly: "If I knew it earlier, I would save the points to buy ghost charms."

    There were no high-level runes, so she could only fixed up the test form she bought before and stick it on the door to act as an alarm.

    "Dididididi--"

    Almost the moment it was pasted, the alarm sounded crazily, as if... the dormitory door was being attacked!

    Several people in the room were taken aback, and Guo Guo was even covered in goosebumps, "It's over, isn't there something wrong on the other side?"

    Tang Xinjue frowned and stepped forward: "Let me take a look."

    She put her hands on the on the door and closed her eyes.

    The place where it started was icy cold, not the normal coolness, but the aggressive coldness unique to darkness. It was spreading along the tentacles of induction, revealing the malice hidden behind the coldness... In the end, under the gathering of perception, all the malice points to the same source.

    She opened her eyes again: "It's the yellow paper bag hanging on the door next door. It's continuously sending out some kind of negative influence, not only to dormitory 612, but also to our place."

    "F*ck!" Guo Guo scratched her hair angrily: "Should we take that thing off? Otherwise, we will be affected too, and we will be in big trouble."

*I was sure Guo Guo here was cursing, but the word used is 日 which means day, sun, can also refers to Japan (日本).  But it's apparently used as a curse word in mainland, like "我日" or "日妈bi" for profanities. I didn't delve deeper to the origin or anything, so I don't know where it comes from, I just find it interesting and want to share.

    Zhang You disagreed: "What if taking off the yellow paper bag will also trigger the death condition?"

    It was now certain that the so-called yellow paper transfer technique was definitely some kind of evil method, and it might even be inextricably linked to the headless ghost and the 612 male dorm's murder case, but they didn't know how to solve it now.

    Tang Xinjue thought for a while, and asked the other three to wait in the room first.

    Then she opened the door and walked over, knocking on the door of the dormitory opposite.

    Not long after, the door creaked open, revealing half of Wei Xian's fair face. Her eyes fell on Tang Xinjue, and the corners of her mouth parted: "You guys are finally thinking about it. Are you here to get the yellow paper?"

    "No." Tang Xin Jue shook her head, frowned and said, "The air conditioner in our dormitory is broken. Jin Wen said she could fix it, but she hasn't come here yet. Can you let her come out?"

    "..."

    Wei Xian looked at her in suspicion. She stared at Tang Xinjue for a few seconds, then refused in a hoarse voice: "Jin Wen is not in the dormitory now."

    The door was about to be closed, but Tang Xinjue quickly resisted it, and said gently: "Can I take up some of your time? Actually..." She lowered her voice, "We have a secret that we've always wanted to tell you. Your roommate used to bring back many boyfriends without telling you, and there are many other secrets. It's just that you are always here, so we couldn't really open our mouth. Now that you come to our dormitory, we will quietly tell you about these big melons* while they are away."

*eating melons is a slang meaning to consume gossips - these big gossip news

    Wei Xian's indifferent eyes gradually regained a gleam of light, and she opened her mouth, as if to express shock and doubt, but couldn't find the motive for Tang Xinjue to lie.

    In the end, Wei Xian was still shaken in front of "secret", so she got out of 612 dorm. Cao Rou and Zhou Xing's questioning sounded from inside the room, but Wei Xian was impatient and prevaricated some reason. She couldn't wait to come over with Tang Xinjue.

    She had just stepped into Dorm 606 for a second, when Tang Xinjue closed the door behind her.

    Wei Xian's figure and movements at this time were obviously stiffer than normal people's, but it didn't stop her from urging her repeatedly: "Now I'm alone, so tell me quickly."

    The door lock was locked, and the smile on Tang Xinjue's face remained unchanged: "Yeah, now you are alone, we can talk about it."

    The author has something to say: Wei Xian: Even if I want to be a ghost, I will use my last sanity to eat melons