Girls’ Dormitory Escape

Chapter 15: Four Seasons Protection Guide

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– July 01, 2022

 Chapter 15: Four Seasons' Protection Guide

    Tang Xinjue's gaze stopped on the girl's face for half a second, and then she turned her head expressionlessly and continued to walk forward.

    “Xinjue, Xinjue!” Zhou Xiao held on to her leg and begged bitterly: “I only want to eat one bun, or you can give me some water, just a little, save me, I'm only 20 years old, I…
I don't want to die…” The girl was sobbing.

    Tang Xinjue couldn't pull out her legs, and she didn't want use the toilet plunger on a familiar face, so she lowered her head and said to the crying girl, “Your tongue fell out.”

    Just as it was about to raise its head, it heard Tang Xinjue: “It really fell, just below your neck, and it was immediately crushed.”

    It was startled, and instantly arched its body to take a closer look, and let go of her hand subconsciously.
Tang Xinjue immediately seized the opportunity and walked away, quickly leaving “Zhou Xiao” behind.

    Within two seconds, there was a scream behind her, but Tang Xinjue ignored it as if she had not heard it at all.

    The disguise of the monster didn't work in her eyes, let alone the monster that had appeared in her dream before.
At a glance, she knew that this was an “old acquaintance”.

    In the nightmare, there was a monster called glutton, which would pretend to be a familiar person and ask for food.
Once the food was given out, the person would be marked at the same time.
After nightfall, gluttons would follow the signs to devour the person.

*original name is 贪食鬼 tan shi gui, which separately mean greedy-eating-ghost and at once got translated into glutton, so I'm just using it.

    There were also such big pits in a level that had only been going on for less than fifteen seconds. Tang Xinjue dare not take it lightly.

    604, 605…
here it was.

    Under the number 606, Tang Xinjue stopped.
The door was hidden but it could be pushed open directly.
Her already cold teeth couldn't stop chattering, but she didn't rush to push the door.

    Something was wrong.

    She has lived in the dorm for three years.
From walking to the door and pressing the doorknob, it should be a smooth and natural body memory, but before reaching out, she felt a fleeting sense of discomfort.

    Her roommates' familiar voice sounded from the door: “Xinjue, are you back?”

    “The door is open, come in quickly, it's too cold, who has a thick down jacket?”

    “I have it, I have it…”

    Miscellaneous sound of the conversation diluting the discomfort at the door.
Tang Xinjue frowned, but still did not open the door.

    After a two-second pause, she took out the key from her pocket, put it outside the keyhole of the false door, and placed it at a distance of about 5 mm away.

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    Even across the distance of her upper body, she could still clearly tell that the shape of the key and the keyhole did not match.

    This was not dormitory 606!

    Taking a step back, Tang Xinjue found the reason for the discomfort: it was the wrong sense of direction.

    Turning behind her, on the opposite side, on the door of the “616” dorm with the door closed, Tang Xinjue inserted the key belonging to the 606 dormitory.

    The moment the door was opened, the chatter of the “roommates” behind her suddenly stopped, and the next moment, the gloomy aura rushed towards her back.
But in the end, it didn't catch up with the speed at which she entered the door, and disappeared out of the door angrily.

    “Xinjue! You're finally back!” In the dorm, Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing were wrapped in layers like two penguins, staring at her with round eyes.

    At first sight of the two fat dumplings in front of her, Tang Xinjue thought that she had entered the wrong place, but after realizing it, she couldn't help laughing.
Unfortunately, her lips couldn't lift – she was frozen.

    Her roommates hurriedly put a down jacket and a padded jacket on her.
Tang Xinjue replaced the denim jacket with a thick sweater, and quickly put on the thickest down jacket, gloves, hat and scarf.
Only then did she feel that she could breathe.

    She opened her mouth and asked in a hoarse voice, “What's the temperature in the room?”

    Her roommate held out a clock: “It's minus 27 degrees now.”

    It's colder indoor than outdoor!

    This was an environmental measurement meter that Guo Guo bought from the student mall at a huge cost of 10 points.
It could instantly detect the temperature within 100 degrees above zero and one hundred degrees below zero, and could also give simple danger warnings.

    “When you weren't in just now, this watch kept ringing on the door alarm, scaring the two of us to death.”

    Guo Guo sighed, and a white mist spit out in the air.

    Tang Xinjue understood: “It's not because of me, but because of the monsters behind me.
But now they've been blocked by the door…
Wait, what about Zhang You?”

    There were only three people in the dormitory now, and Zhang You was nowhere to be seen.

    Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing shook their heads together, “We haven't seen Zhang You since we entered the exam.”

    Guo Guo woke up ten minutes ago in the bathroom, and the voiceover made her knock open the frozen bathroom door.
Zheng Wanqing's task was to unclog the frozen faucet.

    Tang Xinjue immediately took out her mobile phone to contact her roommate, and just after turning it on, Zhang You's call came in.

    After the call was connected, the roommate's collapsing voice sounded in her ear:

    “I was thrown out again!”

    “Wait, why am I saying this again!”

    The three of them could understand Zhang You's collapse very well.
If the two of them with thin clothes were thrown into the icy outdoors, their mentality would be worse.

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    Tang Xinjue asked her: “What is your mission?”

    Zhang You: “The mission is to find the way back to the dormitory, but there is so much white fog outside that I can't see the way! I'm very worried now that I'll run into the owner of the supermarket from last time, I'm trembling in fear… Wait a minute, someone is coming…%￥#…&*…” The call turned into a string of unintelligible current garbled characters, and then got interrupted.

    “Zhang You is really unlucky…” The roommates muttered to themselves.
It was as if everyone was in the spring fountain, only Zhang You was thrown into the wild again and again.
This bad luck was indescribable.

*I think this refers to battle arena game terms, where in game you revive in the spring water after getting killed in the wild area.

    The dormitory door could not be opened from the inside, and they could not go out to find someone, so they could only wait for phone support at any time.
At the same time, the measuring table that detects the ambient temperature also issued a slight alarm sound, and the value displayed on it was already minus 30 degrees.

    The indoor temperature was still dropping!

    Tang Xinjue: “Air conditioners, hair dryers, desk lamps, hot water bottles, hot water system cards, water dispenser heating…
all things related to electricity cannot be used, we can only use artificial heating.”

    All they could find was a box of birthday candles and matches.
The heating effect was very limited.

    “Actually, it's more than minus 30 degrees.
It's not the lowest temperature outdoors in the northeast.
Mohe (city) at the northernmost end can reach minus 50 degrees.
Especially when there are no factors such as wind, rain and snow indoors, it is easier to endure than outdoor.”

    Tang Xinjue folded the padded down jackets and put it under the bed quilt to slow down their freezing.
“What's really scary is that we don't know how far the indoor temperature will drop, or when it will stop,” she concluded.
When she first entered the door, the indoor temperature dropped rapidly at a rate of 1 degree per minute, reaching minus 30 degrees.
After that, it started slowing down to 5 minutes once.

    “If it goes on like this, it will be forty degrees inside in an hour.” Guo Guo grew up in a city where the four seasons were like spring.
She had never experienced such severe cold.
She had the illusion that her brain is freezing.

    If it really dropped below 60 degrees, none of them could stand it.

    “When necessary, I will directly use the Frozen Three-Foot Talisman.” Tang Xinjue said.

    Roommates: “??? We are all so cold, do we still need to lower the temperature?”

    She explained: “Frozen three feet will not only instantly reduce the temperature, but also have an icing effect.
The ice cubes it creates will be zero degrees.
“

    That's why some people build igloos in cold areas.
The temperature of the ice was actually much higher than the surrounding temperature, so it could also prevent heat loss.

    Guo Guo cried: “…I never thought that one day, I would feel that ice is very warm.”

    An hour later, at 10 am.
The indoor temperature was minus 42 degrees.

    In order to resist the cold, the three began to do frantic warm-up exercises, using the heat created by the body to offset the freezing feeling.
It didn't take long for the roommates to give up one after another, and was dragged up by Tang Xinjue and continued to dance.

    “You must persevere.
When you are tired, eat to replenish your calories.” Tang Xinjue was very cold.

    Two hours later, 11 noon.
The indoor temperature was minus 48 degrees.

    Guo Guo's exposed skin had frostbite, so she had to get into the quilt and shrink into a ball.
A wailing sound came from the quilt: “My health has dropped!”

    “Me too.” Zheng Wanqing's eyebrows were knotted, full of frost.

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    [Mild Frostbite: Your body temperature begins to drop slowly, making it impossible to maintain your activity requirements.
Health per hour – 2]

    Tang Xinjue frowned and stared at the APP screen, but Zhang You on the other end did not call again.

    She felt as if some information had been missed by her.

    If this exam could only rely on the dormitory materials to resist the past, then for Zhang You, who had been assigned outside from the beginning, was it not a fatal situation?

    A balanced game system did not have dead ends.
In addition to hard resistance, there were probably other ways to get through this extreme environment, which meant that there must be some clues around them that have not yet been triggered.

    After a while, Tang Xinjue suddenly got up and started from the door to conduct a carpet search* of the entire dormitory.

*地毯式搜索; carpet search: a comprehensive search.
Specifically, place squares (ranges) on the ground and search for these squares (ranges) in a certain order.
No clue why it's called that.

    All their activities were in the dormitory, and if there was a clue, it must be inside the dorm.

    Five minutes before 12 o'clock, the indoor temperature was minus 50 degrees.

    Zheng Wanqing began to practice squatting up under the quilt, like a large penguin that was constantly collapsing and expanding.
She stopped suddenly, leaned over to Guo Guo's bed and shook her: “Wake up! You can't sleep!”

    Guo Guo opened her heavy eyes: “My brain is hibernating automatically…”

    Clang—a loud noise interrupted their conversation and made both of them clear their minds at the same time.

    Tang Xinjue, who had been busy for an entire hour, unexpectedly moved Zhang You's entire bed, and moved the desk two inches outward, and moved the water dispenser next to her, exposing more than half of the corner of the wall.

    “I found it.” A smile finally appeared in her eyes.

    There was a palm-sized black radio hidden in the corner of the wall.

    “This is?” Her roommates looked up.

    Tang Xinjue dug out the radio, “This should be an exam prop.”

    Turn on the radio and tune it for about two minutes, and a voice sounded inside:

    “…
Hello everyone, this is the student union radio station, I'm reporter Xiao Ming, I believe you have already discovered that this Monday is destined to be an unusual day.
Our school has ushered in a sudden drop in temperature.
It is expected to drop to minus 70 degrees at 8 o'clock tonight.
Please take measures to prevent cold and stay in the dormitory according to the regulations.
Those who died of freezing need to be cleaned outside the door, and the school sanitation team will come to collect …”

    -70 degrees below zero?

    At this moment, the temperature in the hearts of the three of them was colder than outside.

    The voice on the radio continued to introduce some situations, to the effect of encouraging students to resist the cold with perseverance and perseverance.
After talking nonsense for a long time, the conversation changed:

    “Of course, many students may want to ask, why is the school not taking heating and anti-cold measures this winter?

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    “Please don't worry, this is what the student union will lead everyone to try to solve today.
So first of all, we will randomly interview a few classmates who travel illegally and ask them how they feel about the cooling in this winter.”

    After a few seconds of noise, the speaker changed to a girl: “Hello everyone, I'm a reporter from the student union, Lili.
The classmate next to me did not stay in the dormitory according to the regulations during the cooling period, which is a serious violation.
Let us interview: why did you choose to stay outside?”

    After a long while, the interviewee replied quietly: “…I came out, bought breakfast, and got lost.”

    In the dormitory, the three of them froze.
It was Zhang You's voice!

    “Ah, then you are really lucky,” Lili giggled twice, “after all, according to the regulations, all students who violate the rules must be dealt with in a centralized manner.
But now, you have a chance to avoid punishment, as long as you can cooperate with the interview and answer the questions, and help us find the cause of the heating failure.

    “Our student union also took a lot of effort to get this interview opportunity.
If you fail to answer, it's a pity—”

    Without giving her any time to react, Lili asked in a fast voice: “You know this time, what is the reason for the heating failure?”

    “Although I don't know,” Zhang You gritted his teeth and added quickly, “…but my roommates may know, so I can call them and ask.”

    “Any help off-site? It's a good way, but because the weather is too cold, the cell phones of the classmates have been automatically turned off, and you can't seem to contact them.”

    Lili raised her tail: “Unless, your roommate can take the initiative to call the radio hotline during the broadcast time.
The interview can continue normally.

    “However – the interview time is limited, we will only wait 30 seconds.”

    Zhang You hurriedly asked: “But the radio station may not be heard by everyone, do you want to confirm again, or I can find a phone booth nearby…”

    “There are only 20 seconds left.” Lili interrupted her with a smile, “We haven't received any calls~”

    Zhang You: “But, you haven't said the number of the radio station!”

    “There are 15 seconds left.” Lili's sweet voice revealed a hypocrisy and coldness that did not match her age, “We don't need to remind us, all the students in the school know how to contact us, this is normal, isn't it?” With the smiling face of the “Student Union reporter”, Zhang You felt a chill in her heart.

    Only she could see that on the back of these students' heads, like the supermarket owner in the previous dungeon, there was a second human face.

    They were not human at all!

    And now, the other party was obviously certain that no one would make the call at all.

    Time passed second by second.

    “…7, 6, 5, tsk tsk, it seems a pity, let's pass the microphone to the next classmate…”

    A pleasant bell suddenly appeared, and Lily's laughter stopped abruptly.

    “Ding dong.
The radio hotline has been connected—”

    “Hello.
I'm Zhang You's roommate.”

    A gentle and clear voice sounded.