Chapter 56 Crazy Wednesday (Friday)
The French window was pushed open, and the biting coldness in the mist hit them in the face, forcing everyone to take a step back.
Each of them held a protective amulet and clenched their teeth to get out. Zhang You was in the front, Wan Qing and Guo Guo were in the middle, and Tang Xin Jue was in the back. The four of them pressed against the balcony wall and moved forward as quickly as possible.
Sensing someone, the fog suddenly rolled up and seeped into the balcony at a significantly faster speed.
Even though they were very careful, their bodies were still touched by the white mist. With a slight sound, the protective amulets in the hands of the four people ignited without wind at the same time!
The moment of touch is the moment of attack.
Zhang You quickened his pace to the window of his dormitory. He pulled with one hand but found it didn't move. He immediately changed to pushing with both hands. His face turned pale and he said, "I can't push it!"
Is the window sealed again?
Guo Guo rushed over and pushed with her, using all her strength, and the window was barely pushed open a little. Before she could get a leg in, she shouted anxiously, "What should I do? The window seems to be shrinking again!"
Zheng Wanqing's hands were not convenient, so Tang Xinjue immediately changed his position and rushed forward. The rubber head of the plunger was pushed into the gap and barely stuck to the glass window. Then he used the corner of the wall as a fulcrum and used the toughness of the toilet plunger to push the window open little by little. Zhang You and Guo Guo worked hard on the side and finally pushed out a gap that could accommodate one person.
Tang Xin Jue changed his hands to fix the window: "You go in first."
The three of them quickly got in. Tang Xinjue had just put away the toilet plunger when he heard a shout from the direction of the next dormitory. It was Xu Wei's voice: "Wait a minute, catch this!"
The short-haired girl with gauze wrapped around her hands risked her life to show her head and threw a package into her arms: "Thank you for giving me the medicine..."
After catching the things, Tang Xin Jue bent down and . Before the fog completely came over and the window closed, he could still hear Xu Wei's shouting from the next door dormitory:
"Keep living! Live well!"
White fog shrouded the window, the outline of the balcony disappeared, and the world became chaotic and silent again.
Several people tried to call out to the dormitory next door, but received no response. It seemed that the brief connection with the outside world was cut off again, and the dormitory returned to its previous isolated state.
"Ding-dong-dong, dong-dong-ding—"
"Happy Wednesday, class time has come, test papers have been distributed, everyone get ready~"
"Dear students, did you study hard today?"
A familiar ringtone came in from outside the window. Tang Xinjue turned on his phone and saw that it was exactly eight o'clock in the morning.
It has been exactly two hours since the Crazy Wednesday Promotion started at six in the morning. It seems that this is also the time limit for the entire event. When eight o'clock arrives, the exam will still start normally.
The interaction with the neighboring dormitory was also limited to this short two hours. If we exclude the time they were busy with activities, the actual communication with Liang Jing and others was only half an hour.
Guo Guo slumped in his chair and sighed, "It's really too short. Half an hour longer would be fine."
Zheng Wanqing waved her only hand and encouraged loudly: "At least this meeting proves that we are not the only ones struggling in the game. There are many, many compatriots as well! Although we cannot meet, I believe this is only temporary. As long as we live long enough, everything is possible!"
Zhang You nodded. "Wanqing is right. I think since there is this event, it means that the game will not lock us in here forever. Maybe there will be more opportunities in the future."
Listening quietly to his roommate's conversation, Tang Xinjue lowered his eyes and looked at his palm. The protective amulet had already burned to ashes.
Just a little contact with the white mist consumed four protective charms. If they were directly placed in the white mist, all the protective items on the four people combined might not even last for five seconds.
The dormitory is both a prison and a protection for them now.
She gently poured the ashes into the trash basket and said, "The premise of everything is that we have to survive."
Just like Xiaohong said in the Ghost in the Mirror copy, they have to pass the level, become stronger, and grow faster than the speed at which danger comes, so that they can survive to the end.
"But before that," Tang Xin Jue smiled, "to celebrate today's break, shall we open a can?"
…
After approval from Logistics Minister Zhang You, the few of them finally opened a can of salted fish from the dormitory supplies and divided two cans of Wangzai milk into four parts as a rare celebratory meal.
"And this." Tang Xinjue took out the bag that Xu Wei threw over, which contained two bags of spicy chicken feet.
Guo Guo couldn't help but slurp: "My saliva has already started to secrete."
The food they originally stored had been eaten up long ago, and now their food reserves depended on the accumulation of lottery points in the mall. They were reluctant to spend a lot of points to buy food, so they could only eat biscuits and drink mineral water, with no choice.
A bag of snacks is already a rare delicacy for the four of them now.
After preparing the food, several people sat together and started to have breakfast, while turning on the new TV with curiosity.
Snowflakes flashed twice on the black screen, and then a big smiley face popped up:
[When choosing home appliances, choose Wang Jiji and you will be in a good mood every day!]
The next second the screen switched, and a pale, noseless face filled the entire screen. Two streams of blood flowed from the corners of the eyes, and the bulging eyeballs were pressed against the screen fiercely, as if glaring at someone outside the screen.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Guo Guo gulped down the contents of his mouth and started coughing violently.
Thank you, my good mood is gone.
Several people jumped up almost reflexively , and then they saw the pale ghost face on the screen move slightly, and the two purple-black lips touched up and down, and human words came out:
"Next, please listen to today's report..."
Everyone: “…”
They watched as the noseless ghost face wiped the blood and tears from his face indifferently and began to report the news in a serious manner:
"The day before yesterday, a teacher from a third-tier university publicly stated that his required course, "Four Seasons Protection Guide," had received a malicious report. This has seriously affected his application plan for promotion to a second-tier university teacher. He has now filed a complaint with the Education Center and declared that he must find the lawless reporter and make him be punished by law."
After reading this, Noseless Ghost paused, and said with a hint of confusion: "But as far as I know, our university town has never enacted any laws. How can people be punished by law..."
There was a "ding" sound on the screen, as if warning it. The Noseless Ghost really shut up and read the next line obediently:
"The second university has been repaired the day before yesterday. Students are welcome to apply to visit."
"The renovation team of the first-tier university claimed that the second-tier university copied their design elements, including but not limited to the Hell, Mengpo Bridge, Nightmare Abyss and other attractions, and lodged a strong protest to the education center."
"Additional report: The two renovation teams met at the entrance of Sanben University an hour ago and a fight broke out."
"The report adds: Both parties have been detained."
"The report added: Three universities have filed for compensation, claiming that their school gates were damaged, and the only heater was also affected when he passed by, and is currently being rescued."
"I received a notice that the heating workers failed to rescue the system, and the four seasons of the three universities are out of order again. It is expected that many courses will be affected..."
…
The Noseless Ghost's report ended with the tragic loss of Sanben University. Then he went to the next section:
"Today's livelihood sector: None."
"Today's student education section: None."
After reading it, the Noseless Ghost breathed a sigh of relief, and two lines of blood flowed down again:
"Everyone is welcome to contribute to this channel. Today's University City News broadcast ends here and will begin replay soon."
The hoarse and unpleasant ending music sounded, and the screen jumped when the noseless ghost stretched out eight hands to collect the manuscripts, and then returned to the original state of the ghost face facing the screen.
After watching a news program unexpectedly, the dormitory fell into silence.
Zhang You opened his mouth, as if he had a thousand words to say, but he didn't know what to say specifically, so he could only turn around and look at Tang Xinjue.
Tang Xinjue had torn off a piece of paper and written down all the news content, including the final channel hotline.
Seeing her pick up the phone, everyone asked in shock: "You want to submit to this show?"
Tang Xin Jue shook his head: "Test the rules."
After the call was connected, a hoarse voice came from the other end: "Hello, this is the University Town News submission hotline. We only accept education-related submissions, livelihood-related submissions, and student-related submissions. We do not accept any complaints."
Tang Xin Jue thought for a moment and asked, "Are there any requirements for submission?"
"Are you a student? You need to pay 50 points to submit your article, and the phone charges are extra."
"Thank you, sorry for bothering me."
After decisively hanging up the phone, the four of them looked at each other.
It was obvious that in the past five minutes, they had been exposed to a new world beyond their current cognition.
It’s said to be strange, but it also seems to be closely related to their experiences in the game.
Guo Guo whispered, "The report on the Four Seasons Protection Guide? This seems to be... something we did, right?"
It seems that they have offended a teacher-level NPC without being noticed?
Tang Xin Jue nodded: "That's right. It also talks about first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier universities. This is the same rule as the one shown in the APP. It's just..."
Judging from the reaction of the noseless ghost, these universities are not a kind of "conceptual" existence, but real buildings?
——If we go by the level they are at, then could the true face of the “third-tier university” be hidden in the vast white fog outside the window at this moment?
Too many questions came up along with the information, and several people watched the replay again. They found that it was replay after replay, and it seemed that this channel only had this one program, and it had a tendency to repeat itself for an infinite number of days.
So they tuned to the next channel.
Black screen.
Next channel.
Still black screen.
Further down, the screen jumped back to the first news program, with the noseless ghost reporting indifferently while bleeding.
“…”
Is this the "high-definition, large-screen, multi-channel" mentioned in the mall's slogan?
"There are only three channels in total, and two of them are not available."
Zheng Wanqing was furious: "Swindler!"
Fortunately, this was earned from the event, not bought with money, otherwise they would be heartbroken.
After they finished breakfast, they switched to the second channel and found that the screen had changed.
A green screen stage appeared on the TV. On the stage stood two creatures with fish heads and human bodies. From their clothes, it could be seen that they were a man and a woman. They were holding microphones and their gills were moving:
"Happy holidays, dear audience, and welcome to the University City Festival Gala Stage!"
"The annual Freshman Entrance Festival has begun. I believe everyone is still feeling unsatisfied after the Freshman Entrance Festival three days ago. But it doesn't matter. From today on, the party stage will continue to present wonderful performances to everyone every Wednesday!"
As the two fishmen announced, the green screen turned into grass, and a little girl in a red dress ran onto the stage, clasping her hands nervously together: "Hello everyone, my name is Little Red Riding Hood. Now I will perform a dance for you."
Then she lifted one leg and began to spin in place. After a few circles, she spun faster and faster. She accidentally lost control and her head fell down in excitement.
I saw the head flying higher and higher in the air, getting closer and closer to the screen——
"thump!"
Little Red Riding Hood's head passed through the screen and fell into the dormitory.
The four people who were watching TV attentively: "..."
The little girl's head turned twice in confusion. After realizing that she had fallen into the audience room, she opened her mouth at a loss and blurted out "Happy holidays!"
