[502] Inside the Dormitory...
Lin Yuan clung to Ye Haoyu like an octopus, his body trembling uncontrolbly.
On a normal day, Ye Haoyu would have kicked him off the bed.
But now... listening to the "crunch, crunch" chewing sounds coming from outside the door, Ye Haoyu felt his hair stand on end and instinctively hugged Lin Yuan tightly.
The two burly men shivered, holding each other tightly.
The other three in the dorm also squeezed onto one bed, with the short Qi Yinhong lying in the middle, Zhang Yang and Gao Wenyi on either side.
The three huddled together, burying their heads as low as possible, looking like a cozy family of three.
"So much bromance, bro, why aren't you joining in?" Younger Sister watched the scene with gleaming eyes.
***
Just moments ago, heavy and slow footsteps echoed in the hallway.
Then came some eerie muttering.
Su Yuan recognized it as Mao Houwang's voice.
Was he calling for "Mom"?
Then came the chilling chewing sounds.
Oh... and there was a "thud" in between.
Like something hard smashing against a wall and exploding.
Even without witnessing it, Su Yuan could imagine the terrifying scene outside based on the horror movies he'd seen!
He clenched his teeth, his hand holding the phone trembling slightly.
[You're still in the mood to joke... what do we do now? That thing outside won't come in, will it?]
"You ask me, but I don't know either." Younger Sister ughed, "But don't worry, bro, I'll protect you!"
[You can protect me?]
"Of course!"
[Then go out and take care of that thing!]
"Uh..."
Younger Sister's smile froze on her face:"Actually... I was just joking with you, I can't even cheat on an exam."
[...]
Su Yuan turned off his phone and pulled the bnket over his head.
The internet says ghosts won't harm people hiding under bnkets, which he thought was nonsense.
But it did provide some sense of security...
The dorm was deathly silent; no one dared to make a sound.
After a few more minutes, the chewing sounds in the hallway slowly stopped.
But then, footsteps started again, coming closer and becoming clearer in everyone's ears.
Thump—
Thump—
Thump—
Was the thing outside heading towards room [502]?
The dorm became even quieter, everyone instinctively held their breath, only the pounding of their hearts could be heard.
The most scared among them was Lin Yuan.
He was visiting another dorm... could that ghost be coming for him?
He gritted his teeth and turned his gaze towards the balcony, making up his mind.
If that thing really came in, he'd jump from the fifth floor.
The footsteps reached the door of room [502].
But fortunately, they didn't stop and continued forward.
Was it leaving?
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief...
But soon, their hearts were in their throats again.
Because the footsteps stopped at the door of room [501].
"Knock, knock... knock knock knock... knock, knock knock..."
The oppressive and heavy knocking echoed in the silent hallway.
It knocked on the door of room [501]!
This action by the creature outside made Su Yuan feel icy cold, his blood almost freezing.
The door's soundproofing wasn't great, so the people in the other dorms should also hear the commotion in the hallway.
So he wasn't worried that some foolish cssmate would actually open the door...
What worried him was that the thing outside intended to enter the dorm.
If it could break in, wouldn't the next target be their dorm?
Time ticked by, and the knocking turned into a chilling scratching sound.
It was like nails on a bckboard, long, sharp, and piercing, tormenting everyone's nerves.
Imagine, in the dead of night, outside the dorm hallway, a ghost just finished eating your cssmate, then started scratching the door of the next dorm with its nails.
This was beyond fear, it was a colpse of one's worldview.
After a while, the scratching finally stopped, and footsteps sounded again in the hallway.
This time, they were heading towards room [502].
"Knock... knock knock knock..."
The repeated knocking and scratching continued as it moved to the next dorm.
Until it passed room [505], the footsteps gradually disappeared at the end of the hallway.
Su Yuan threw off the bnket, sat up, and gasped for air, cold sweat soaking his back.
"Did I... did I hallucinate? Was it all an illusion just now? Or am I dreaming..."
In the darkness, Gao Wenyi's voice came, deliberately lowered and tinged with tears.
"Yeah, you hallucinated, and the six of us hallucinated together." Ye Haoyu said irritably, "Lin Yuan, can you loosen up a bit? You're choking me!"
"No way, I have to hold you tonight!"
Lin Yuan clung tightly to Ye Haoyu, never imagining that a man's embrace could feel so secure.
If Su Yuan hadn't stopped him from going out, he couldn't imagine what horrors he would have faced.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuan felt a chill of fear, "Little Su, do you want to come over too? My butt's a bit cold..."
"Get lost."
"Was that Mao Houwang outside just now?" Qi Yinhong's voice trembled, "He didn't... die, did he?"
At these words, everyone simultaneously recalled the chewing sounds in the hallway, falling into silence.
Everyone had their own little circles in school, and Mao Houwang often bullied cssmates in css, so their retionship with him wasn't great.
But... after all, he was a living person they saw every day, and to die in such a terrifying way...
Their feelings now were more fear than sadness.
"What do we do now?" Gao Wenyi's tearful voice came from the top bunk.
"What can we do?" Zhang Yang said, still shaken, "This is a supernatural incident, the school is haunted! We're just students, what can we do?! There's nothing we can do... nothing..."
He repeated this, his emotions clearly on the verge of colpse.
"Stop babbling, you'll attract that thing again." Ye Haoyu said impatiently.
Hearing "that thing," Zhang Yang shivered and quickly fell silent.
The dorm fell silent once more.
After calming down, Su Yuan leaned against the headboard, lost in thought.
Too many questions lingered in his mind.
What was the bloody writing on the bckboard?
What was its connection to the ghost in the hallway?
What happened in room [503], and why did Mao Houwang leave the dorm?
And... where did the Dorm Auntie go?
