Chapter 53: The Female Dormitory

"The girls' dormitory has always been strictly managed. I heard that if a male student breaks in, the minimum penalty is a disciplinary warning, and by then—"

As Xiaoying lowered her head and spoke halfway, she was interrupted by an urging voice coming from inside the dormitory building: "What is your dorm room number?"

Without considering the so-called rule violation, Rodi had already entered the dormitory lobby and was standing right at the entrance of the stairwell.

The tone of his voice had also changed, sounding more like a command.

"0510, I'm coming with you!"

Xiaoying hurriedly followed him, her eyes subconsciously glancing toward the dormitory supervisor's lounge. Indeed, there was not a single person inside.

However, there were usually two supervisors in the dormitory building, whose duties included routine lighting patrols and feeding the corner parrots on each floor.

It was very likely that the supervisors had confirmed all the students had left the dorms to participate in the crucial physical examinations, and were taking advantage of the empty building to conduct a comprehensive lighting inspection of the entire dormitory.

During the ascent,

Rodi kept his eyes fixed on the floor numbers at each corner. Fortunately, there were no duplicate floors, and they smoothly reached the fifth floor.

The visibility on this floor was relatively low, with at least half of the light bulbs not functioning properly, which was already enough to tell a story.

"Class—"

Xiaoying, standing at the entrance of the hallway, was about to shout out loud when—

Slap! Rodi pressed his hand firmly over her mouth, made a silencing gesture, and then walked with soundless steps toward the monitor's dormitory.

Xiaoying immediately followed suit, mimicking his actions and maintaining absolute silence.

She also noticed that Rodi was actually holding that corner-attributed blade in his hand. Although she wanted to say something, she held it back.

0510 was located in the middle of the hallway.

The door was slightly ajar, clearly indicating that someone had entered or exited, and someone might still be inside.

His palm gently pressed against the cold surface of the security door, exerting a little force to push the wooden door open at a steady speed. But... Creak~ The friction of the door hinges still produced a noise.

Since the noise had already been made,

Rodi no longer concealed his actions.

He exerted sudden force... Bam!

The security door slammed heavily against the inner wall, and he rushed inside instantly.

No one was there.

The dormitory's lighting system had been sabotaged, and even the curtains were drawn. The entire dorm was illuminated only by the dim light spilling in from the hallway.

Although gloomy, it was barely enough to see clearly.

Rodi's gaze swept quickly across every corner of the dorm, finding no trace of anyone.

"Why is the light broken?"

Xiaoying followed him inside, walking over to her own bed, only to find that the bedside lamp she had purchased herself had also been smashed by something.

Meanwhile, Rodi had already walked toward the window sill, grabbed the curtain, and pulled down hard! Crack... The entire curtain structure was destroyed by brute force.

The vast amount of light sources that should have been present on the campus failed to project inward as expected. The spilling light was pitifully scarce, and the dormitory remained gloomy.

It wasn't because the dorm was blocked by something;

Instead, the entire school was wrong.

"This is!"

Rodi's features twisted together, and he looked at the sky before him with a solemn expression.

The original starlit sky and the pristine white crescent moon had now transformed into a pitch-black vortex, as if it were about to suck everything below into it.

A concept surfaced in his mind,

A special concept written at the back of the textbook, marked in red font.

At that very moment,

Click~ A clicking sound was made in the mouth.

Although it had long become a habit—Rodi would make this sound whenever he was focused—he still put aside his thoughts and looked back with heightened vigilance.

Utilizing the faint light filtering in from outside the window, coupled with a favorable viewing angle, Rodi caught sight of the "thing" he had failed to detect during the initial check.

At the very top of the entrance to the dormitory, in the corner least covered by light,

A distorted creature was clinging there.

The entity had locked onto its target—Xiaoying, who was checking the beds below.

Rodi had never engaged in any practical combat cooperation with Xiaoying. Even if he shouted "Watch out" now, he wasn't sure if she could react in the first instant.

Besides, the dormitory space was so small that even if she could react, it would be difficult to escape.

That mass of distortion had already moved.

It released its hands, which had been clinging to the wall,

And lunged downward!

Just as its slender arms were about to reach Xiaoying's head,

Something flew straight toward it,

Spinning at high speed and carrying immense force.

Swish! The rapidly spinning sharp object pierced accurately into the body of the distorted creature.

Not only that, the impact force contained within it completed an aerial interception, carrying the creature's body crashing toward the dormitory's security door.

Aah!

A miserable scream echoed.

While screaming, the agonizing pain inflicted by the corpse poison forced the distorted creature to pull the blade out of its abdomen immediately.

The ambush had failed.

This thing had no intention of continuing the attack; utilizing two pairs of limbs that exceeded human anatomy, it scuttled out of the dormitory like a reptile at high speed.

Xiaoying, standing before her bed, was completely stunned. She hadn't even realized something was behind her.

Her gaze only saw Rodi standing by the window sill, striking a standard throwing pose.

The next second, Rodi rushed forward at top speed, picked up the zombie knife from the floor, and bolted out of the room in an attempt to determine the creature's escape route.

Strangely enough, the entire fifth floor was dead silent.

Despite slashing that thing, there wasn't a single drop of blood left in the hallway, and all traces of its presence were gone.

Xiaoying also hurriedly chased after him, looking around with a slightly trembling voice and asking, "Was that... a Doppelgänger just now?"

"Yes."

"Then... what did that thing look like?" A terrifying thought had already formed in Xiaoying's mind. Compared to encountering a real Doppelgänger for the first time in her life, she was more afraid that her guess would come true.

"Rest assured, it's not the monitor."

"Then who is it?"

"The dormitory supervisors. It should be the two dormitory supervisors."

"Two?"

Rodi had seen the entity's appearance clearly during the brief battle. It bore a certain similarity to the spider-woman he had once encountered in the residential area, both possessing the traits of "ambush and crawling."

However, this Doppelgänger was not one person, but two.

The bodies of the two female supervisors seemed unrestrained by bones, entwined together like a twisted dough twist, and parts of their skin and flesh had even fused together.

Four arms, four legs, and two heads hung and tangled around their necks.

Xiaoying still found it hard to believe. "The dorm aunties usually seem so nice. Why would they suddenly become like this? Could it be that it was all an act? Even if it was an act, how could two people turn into something like this together?"

"I don't know. The whole school is strange right now.

Let's go find the monitor first. The reason the supervisors were lurking in your dorm might be because they were hunting the monitor down, and the monitor may have escaped to somewhere else."

"Okay!"

The two of them no longer considered the college entrance examination. Besides, with such an incident happening at the school, the exam would inevitably be forced to pause and be postponed.

The most important thing right now was to find the monitor and escape from this dormitory building if possible.

The entire fifth-floor hallway was quiet and silent, and they had not the slightest clue where the monitor had gone.

However, based on the monitor's experience in dealing with abnormal events and their own abilities, it was entirely possible that they had escaped alone, or perhaps while Rodi and Xiaoying were on their way to the dorm, the monitor happened to climb out of a window on the other side of the building and escape.

Just as Rodi was pondering, Xiaoying suddenly realized something.

"Stands to reason, the dormitory hallway feels a section longer than before. Aren't there two extra dormitories at the end?"

Just as Xiaoying wondered if her memory was playing tricks on her due to nervousness, Rodi had already walked toward the deep end of the hallway and motioned for her to follow quickly.

In Rodi's view, Xiaoying wouldn't make such a mistake.

The door numbers on both sides at the end were [0521] and [0522] respectively.

Xiaoying immediately cleared her memory: "I didn't remember wrong! Previously, the innermost room was only 0520; these two must be extra... Is this a spatial extension caused by a corner-like space?"

Rodi reached out to open [0521], but behind the door was a wall of reinforced concrete, with no dormitory at all.

Immediately following that, he opened [0522].

Presented before their eyes was a staircase leading downward into the depths. Judging from the slope and depth of the stairs, it had exceeded the spatial dimensions of the dormitory building itself.

Is it a corner-like space? An even more terrifying answer seemed to form in Rodi's heart.

Taking down a ceiling lamp from the dormitory hallway to use as a temporary flashlight,

Rodi did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately stepped onto this staircase leading to an unknown area. Li Xiaoying also resolutely followed behind, her right hand tightly gripping the claw knife.