Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 53 Part 3

So she simply went all out, borrowing from her method of dealing with No. 71 in the haunted house last time, directly froze the other party’s feet to the ground with blood, clutching its feet and refusing to let go until she confirmed the time limit had passed. Then she used her last bit of strength to kick it, took the chance to go upstairs, hid in the bathroom, and ate a pill given by Yang Buqi to stop the bleeding.

She wasn’t sure if others had heard. But when she was hiding in the bathroom, she did hear an angry and painful scream from downstairs.

At the same time, there was a prompt saying “Congratulations on obtaining 500 Courting Death Value points”. At that moment, Xu Turan knew that this dormitory supervisor would probably be at odds with her.

…But so what?

Xu Turan thought indifferently, anyway, I’m not the one violating the rules, and I’m not the one who suffered the most, rounding up, I’m the one who profited.

In fact, Xu Turan’s gains last night were not just these.

She waited for a while in the bathroom, only returning to the dormitory after confirming her wound had healed. She only intended to rest well, but in her dream, she entered the “Cemetery of Disaster” again.

Last time, she was only one step away from touching the next light. Now she just happened to have 3000 substitute steps left, so she used them up on the spot. So when she woke up, not only had she touched the light, but she had also passed through the door to the next area.

After touching the light cluster, her disaster level directly rose to Lamp level. Two skills also improved accordingly—

For “Ice No. 7”, the description given was that her control over crystalline bodies was further strengthened, she could control the range of crystallization, and could freely control the crystallization and melting of liquids, but Xu Turan hadn’t tried out what the specific effect was yet; for “Ice No. 18”, the trigger probability increased to 68%.

…This was so stingy, as if raising it directly to 70% would kill them.

Of course, she couldn’t tell all this to the girls beside her. Xu Turan, half-truth and half-lie, finally only said that she used her ability to trick the dormitory auntie into the bathroom and locked her in for a while, thus dragging past her time limit to return to the office.

The bathroom has no shortage of water, giving her natural disaster ability a lot of room to play. Zhu Tang and the others all thought her attribute was Snow White, naturally carrying a “monsters see monsters love” halo, so although it wasn’t easy to trick someone into the bathroom, it wasn’t impossible to achieve.

“A reminder. That thing is very little affected by my ability. Estimated to be at least Pyre level,” Xu Turan thought and added, to prevent these two girls from also getting ideas about “having a run-in” with the dormitory supervisor.

Zhu Tang nodded thoughtfully, then frowned: “Then this must be an attendant, right? If dormitory supervisors are attendants, what about other teachers?”

Xu Turan slowly shook her head: “What I’m more concerned about is, what about other ability users?”

“Right,” Lin Ge said, “Since this is a ‘box’. There must be ability users stationed here. We need to find them quickly to understand the situation.”

The three exchanged glances, then looked around—at this time, the surroundings were crowded with people, girls wearing the same clothes were pouring out of the dormitory building like a tide, surging towards the cafeteria.

Just as Fang Xing said, some of these girls were obviously strange. Pale skin, hollow expressions, malicious eyes, they might as well have “I’m not human” written on their faces.

However, more girls looked very ordinary—their faces were either numb, alert, or worried, their expressions might be different, but they were all quite lively. Their skin color was normal, and their movements showed no stiffness at all.

In terms of proportion, the normal part was clearly more than the abnormal. However, Xu Turan always felt something was off.

There were too many people.

This was a domain that had always been supervised and controlled. She originally thought that even having more than a dozen students here would be a lot, who could have imagined there were so many—assuming all the dormitories in the building were occupied, with six rooms per floor, two people per room, excluding the unoccupied first floor, one building would have more than 60 students.

Where did this school get so many students from? What about those ability users? Was this situation still under their control?

Xu Turan frowned in confusion, thought for a moment, then turned to look at Fang Xing beside her.

Fang Xing had already been informed that “Zhu Yan Qiaocui” and “Lin Lailai” were Xu Turan’s companions, and had consciously kept her distance when they gathered to talk. Now meeting Xu Turan’s gaze, she silently moved closer again: “What?”

“I want to ask you something,” Xu Turan asked, “From when you entered school until now, has anyone ‘guided’ you?”

Fang Xing: “Hm?”

“Like telling you what to do, what not to do. How to stay alive, how to get out…” Xu Turan described in detail.

“Yes,” Fang Xing nodded, “My former roommate. But she never told me how to get out, only said to follow the rules to stay safe…”

Xu Turan sensed something was wrong: “She came before you? Then how did she get into trouble by answering the door?”

Last night, Fang Xing had said that her roommate disappeared because she responded to the wrong knock on the door. But given Fang Xing’s personality, if she found out her roommate was wrong, she would definitely remind her… Unless her roommate didn’t know this rule, otherwise this doesn’t make sense.

“I don’t know. She was in a daze at the time, completely ignoring me,” Fang Xing lowered her eyes.

Xu Turan guessed that girl must have been in an unclear state of mind, sighed inwardly, and continued: “Besides her?”

“There’s also…” Fang Xing frowned, “It’s hard to say clearly. It feels like as soon as I entered the class, I heard various people emphasizing that we must follow the school rules. There were class committee members, and ordinary students…”

“No teachers?” Zhu Tang curiously interjected.

“Teachers… teachers only require obedience,” Fang Xing said honestly.

The other three exchanged glances, obviously all feeling that this information was not enough.

“Then do you know how many people are in this school now? I mean students,” Xu Turan asked again, “What’s the frequency of new students entering?”

“For the Thinking Study Building, there are two classes in total. Each class has 30 people. They share one set of teaching staff,” Fang Xing recalled seriously, “As for the frequency of admission… I really can’t say clearly. After me, for the Thinking Study Building, I only know about you three.”

“Wait a minute,” Xu Turan finally noticed the problem, “You’ve been saying Thinking Study Building, Thinking Study Building, have you never been to the Aspiring Study Building?”

Fang Xing shook her head: “I’ve only been to the library next door. I took the back path. There’s still some distance between the library and the Aspiring Study Building… but I’ve never been over there.”

The whole school is divided by a pond, with the Thinking Study Building on one side and the Aspiring Study Building on the other. On the Thinking Study Building side, besides the matching dormitory building, there’s also an experimental building and an indoor gymnasium. While on the Aspiring Study Building side, it includes the library and another teaching building called the “Diligent Study Building”.

“The two campuses share an outdoor sports field and cafeteria. These are the only two facilities that have entrances on both sides. However, the usage times for the sports field are staggered, and the doors leading to the other area are always locked. The cafeteria is the same, we’re on the first floor, they’re on the second floor, entering from different entrances, we never even see each other’s faces.”

As they were talking, they had already walked past where that grove of trees was last night, only to see that the place was empty, with no trees at all.

Xu Turan frowned slightly, but Fang Xing was unsurprised.

“That grove only appears at night,” she said softly, “During the day, you can cross over the bridge. But the school rules explicitly say it’s best not to go.”

Xu Turan hadn’t read this part of the content yet, and instinctively asked why. Fang Xing shook her head blankly, but Zhu Tang beside them spoke up: “Right, before we came, Xiao Li also said that the Aspiring Study Building was dangerous, and the Thinking Study Building was safe…”

“The problem is that it doesn’t look that safe here either,” Xu Turan said bluntly, “As for the opposite side—”

As she spoke, she unconsciously raised her eyes to look at the opposite side, and her gaze suddenly froze.

Because there was no grove during the day, her gaze fell unobstructed directly on the building across the bridge.

She saw that the building that should have been square and orderly now showed an unusual undulating contour—as if some huge viscous thing was clinging to its outer wall, struggling to extend its body, trying to wrap around it entirely.

…It was exactly the monster that Xu Turan had seen on the Thinking Study Building last night.