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Chapter 74: Dormitory Rules 2 (Special Circumstances Edition)

1. If you feel the dormitory door has been opened, do not doubt it; the door has indeed been opened.

2. If you hear something knocking on your window, or calling your name outside the window, do not doubt it; there is indeed something outside the window.

3. If you hear wind, waves, flute sounds, singing, or any sound that reminds you of the ocean, do not doubt that you misheard; firmly tell yourself: 'This is sleep-aid music provided by the dormitory for students with insomnia,' and do not think too much about things in that direction.

Do not concern yourself with what opens the door, do not concern yourself with what knocks on the window. Do not try to find the source of these noises. While believing in their existence, ignore their existence.

Do not care who they are. As long as you pretend to be asleep, nothing will happen, even if they have already crawled to the side of your bed.

4. From 0:00 to 6:00, leaving your bed is prohibited under any circumstances.

5. In all of the above rules, if a security guard or dormitory administrator becomes involved, trust the security guard or dormitory administrator unconditionally.

Note: The security guard or dormitory administrator will have a lamp in their hand. This lamp is the only factor to identify their identity.

If creatures claiming to be security guards or dormitory administrators appear around you, but you do not see a light source, ignore them.

As long as you follow the above rules, your safe state will not be broken.

6. If you violate any of the above rules, get out of bed and leave the dormitory before you lose your self-awareness.

After leaving the dormitory, you will find the door to the stairwell. Open the door and enter the stairwell. This is the last way to keep you in a 'safe' state.

After entering the stairwell, you will know what to do next.

Dear experiencer, we wish you a wonderful dream.

After reading it the first time, Lin Yi read "Dormitory Rules 1" and "Dormitory Rules 2 (Special Circumstances Edition)" again. Then, combining all three rules that appeared within the scope of the dormitory building, he conducted a simple overall analysis.

First is the time issue.

The time issue is still a relatively normal issue.

Among the four rules, there are three involving time: the dormitory elevator, the lighting system inside the dormitory building, and the lighting and water supply system inside the dormitory.

The opening hours of the dormitory elevator are 6:00~7:40 and 21:00~22:00, which overlaps with the period when the dormitory corridors have lighting.

But after he enters the dormitory, he will be separated from the dormitory building's power supply rules and instead abide by the dormitory's power supply rules.

The dormitory will cut off the power at 0:00, which means he has 2 hours to wash up and exchange information with Tian Bufan and the others about what they learned during the day.

Then, he must lie down on the bed before 0:00 and present a state of being asleep on the bed.

In summary, if we put aside some unavoidable special circumstances, the correct way to open the dormitory building should be to enter the dormitory before 22:00, then immediately take a shower and go to bed—even if you want to communicate, you must lie down on the bed first.

After communicating or when it is almost 0:00, go to sleep immediately. Even if you can't fall asleep, you must cover your head with the quilt and ignore everything until 6:00 the next day, then get up, wash up, and leave the dormitory building.

If the dormitory is a question, then from the current situation, ignoring other factors, the problem-solving approach from a time perspective should be like this.

Secondly, there are the external special circumstances, which are also the parts where conflicts between rules are relatively concentrated.

Including but not limited to:

1. The dormitory that can only be entered by swiping a student ID is entered by other "uninvited" things.

The dormitory building rules say [Only people with student IDs can return to the dormitory, and they will open the door themselves], and Dormitory Rules 2 (Special Circumstances Edition) says [If you feel the dormitory door has been opened, do not doubt it; the door has indeed been opened], and even, there are those who climb in through the window…

In addition to this, there are dormitory administrators and security guards who can appear in the dormitory for unknown reasons…

"Please… Why does this perfectly good dormitory give people the feeling of a bus? But at least buses require payment, but how does it feel like anyone, human or ghost, can come in and wander around?"

2. Dormitory administrators appearing in the dormitory.

[At no time will the dormitory administrator check the dorms.]

[If a security guard or dormitory administrator becomes involved, trust the security guard or dormitory administrator unconditionally.]

"When a dormitory administrator who cannot enter and will not enter the dormitory enters the dormitory, what kind of scene would that be?"

"Or rather, what kind of outrageous special circumstances would have to occur for this situation to arise?"

3. Sounds of wind, etc., that would never appear in a closed environment, but actually appear in your ears.

The dormitory building rules say [The interior of the dormitory building is a closed environment, and there will absolutely be no fog or wind sounds] and Dormitory Rules 2 (Special Circumstances Edition) says [Hearing wind, waves, flute sounds, singing, or any sound that reminds you of the ocean]…

Lin Yi only briefly imagined these special circumstances, and he felt a tingling scalp and a chill down his spine.

Especially this Dormitory Rules 2 (Special Circumstances Edition), it simply throws the four big characters "abnormal situation" in his face and tells him not to doubt it!

Please!

Please!!

Why does the promised "safety" have to be hung with a long string of conditions?

The situation where you are dangerous if you can't do it, and safe if you can do it, is really outrageous, okay?!

But Lin Yi just complained a little about this, after all, life still has to go on.

Soon he captured a key word—lights out.

These seemingly conflicting rules are actually just explaining one thing, and that is: [The dormitory after lights out is completely different from the dormitory before lights out.]

Thinking of this, a strange light suddenly flashed in Lin Yi's eyes.

Regarding lights out, there are two situations in the dormitory building.

One is the lights out in the dormitory building corridor.

The lights in the dormitory building corridor will be turned off at 22:00, and at this time, the lights in the dormitory are still on, but the dormitory building rules clearly stipulate that students are prohibited from entering the dormitory from this time.

But the dormitory building does not turn off the lights in an instant. According to the dormitory building rules: [The dormitory building will turn off the lights 20 minutes after the specified time.]

That is to say, the corridors of the dormitory building only fall into darkness from 22:20.

And these 20 minutes are not for opening the door, but for going to the dormitory administrator's office.

He cannot conduct any effective thinking in the absence of information about what the logic is inside.

The other is the lights out in the dormitory.

The lights out time in the dormitory is 0:00, and it should be extinguished in seconds, and after the lights are turned off, it is very likely that some indescribable things that need to be ignored will enter the dormitory.

The appearance of the keyword “lights out” effectively helped him extract another rule related to it from his memory—the “Cafeteria Rules” also had records about lights out!

According to the Cafeteria Rules:

【The lighting in the student cafeteria area is on 24 hours a day. Do not enter areas without light.】

【A cafeteria with the lights off is different from a classroom; there are no safe areas!】

“A cafeteria with the lights off… a classroom with the lights off… a dormitory with the lights off…”

These rules from several buildings simultaneously surfaced in Lin Yi’s mind, and then, in a flash of inspiration, he arrived at an astonishing conjecture:

“Could ‘lights’ also be a kind of ‘anchor’!”

“Does the light anchor the building to the normal layer? When the building loses its light, the stability of the anchor fails, causing the building to fall into other layers?!”

“But… buildings are ‘inanimate objects’ and don’t have ‘cognition’ at all? What’s going on?”

“Am I thinking wrong, or am I missing something?”

He thought as he read, constantly organizing his thoughts.

After all, the dormitory is a place to relax and think freely.

Time passed little by little.

Lin Yi suddenly felt a sense of oppression and tension.

He glanced down at his watch.

21:31.

It had been 13 minutes since he arrived at the dormitory, but Tian Bufan and the others hadn't returned.

“What’s happening to them now?”

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Lin Yi couldn't help but feel anxious, and a trace of irritability welled up in his heart.

Just then, the bathroom door opened, and Wei Liang came out with his changed clothes, also wearing a brand-new outfit.

Although S City University provides laundry services, it does not include pajamas, so some exchange students come with large bags, while Lin Yi and the others didn't consider this.

Just wearing a T-shirt as pajamas or sleeping naked is fine; big men don't need to think too much.

Having finished his shower, Wei Liang looked refreshed, as if he had respawned at a respawn point.

“You washed your hair?” Lin Yi asked in surprise.

“Yeah, without washing my hair, my brain would be messed up.” Wei Liang said with a chuckle, completely opposite to his previous neurotic state in the mist.

“How did you wash your hair with your eyes open?” Lin Yi was a little curious; the student rules stipulated not to close your eyes when washing your hair.

Wei Liang raised his eyebrows, revealing a cheap look. He beckoned to Lin Yi: “Come here, I’ll teach you… hehe.”

If it weren't for that “hehe,” Lin Yi would have really worried about Wei Liang's mental state, but now he was certain that Wei Liang was really okay for the time being.

So he walked towards the bathroom.

The dormitory bathroom at S City University is not the traditional space-saving shower and toilet combo design, but rather relatively spacious.

One corner of the bathroom is the toilet, and the other is the shower area, with a retractable waterproof curtain between the two.

But what surprised Lin Yi was that he found a window in the shower area.

The window was small, only able to open about 30 degrees, probably for ventilation when showering.

The entire bathroom was covered with square tiles, and all the lines looked straight.

While Lin Yi was sizing up the bathroom environment, Wei Liang, holding his dirty clothes and a large pile of socks, walked to the sink, opened the washing machine door hidden under the sink, and threw them all in.

Next, he took off his slippers, grabbed a towel, and walked barefoot into the shower area in front of Lin Yi.

As he walked, he muttered in a low voice, “If you had said you wanted to know, I would have let you come in and watch me shower just now…”

The corners of Lin Yi’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch: “Get lost.”

“Tch!” Wei Liang sneered, “If it were the boss, I don’t believe your eyes would be empty.”

“…” Lin Yi said unhappily, “Hurry up, are you going to teach me or not?”

“Teach! Why wouldn’t I teach?” Wei Liang said, making a backward leaning posture, then folded the towel and put it on his forehead, and then said, “You keep this posture, and let the water from the showerhead pour down on your head, and then your eyes, just look at the pattern on the ceiling… how about it, is it simple?”

Lin Yi watched Wei Liang's strange posture, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch.

“Strange tricks.”

“The flavor is right!”

“That familiar Wei Liang is back!”

Seeing Lin Yi in a daze, Wei Liang waved his hand and said with some regret: “Lao Lin, I can understand your difficulties… after all, this kind of iron bridge looks simple, but it actually requires a lot of core and waist strength… it's all about the unity of waist and horse, you kid have kidney deficiency, it's normal if you can't hold on.”

“If you really can't do it, just scoop the water out and move it to the sink, I'll help you wash it… but the effect might be a little worse.”

“Get lost! You're the one with kidney deficiency!” Lin Yi said speechlessly.

Wei Liang smiled: “Okay, I'm going to blow-dry my hair first. Just throw the changed clothes into the washing machine by the sink… but that thing just looks like a washing machine. Remember to take out anything useful before you throw your clothes in, otherwise, once you throw them in, they're gone forever.”

After he finished speaking, he went to blow-dry his hair by himself.

Lin Yi turned his gaze back from Wei Liang, glanced at the washing machine, and then decided to take a shower first.

He didn't want to waste time. Instead of waiting like this, he might as well do something useful. While Young Master Tian and the others hadn't returned, he would take a shower first, so as not to waste time waiting in line for a shower later.

He walked to the bed where the bag was placed, opened the door of the wardrobe, took out the change of clothes, and then put on a pair of slippers.

Just then, he heard the sound of the dormitory door lock moving, “click, click, click.”

Someone was opening the door from the outside.

Wei Liang was blowing his hair and didn't hear the movement at all.

But when the dormitory door was pulled open, the cold air drove the originally warm air in the dormitory, causing Wei Liang to notice and turn his gaze over.

A burly, bear-like figure entered the dormitory under the gaze of Lin Yi and Wei Liang.

The corners of Lin Yi's eyes curved slightly, and a unspeakable joy appeared in his eyes.

Tian Bufan had arrived.

“Young Master Tian!” he called out happily.

Tian Bufan entered the dormitory, covered in dust, and closed the door behind him.

Tian Bufan wasn't surprised that Lin Yi and Wei Liang had returned to the dormitory first. He looked at the clothes in Lin Yi's hand, then at Wei Liang who was blowing his hair, and then frowned slightly.

“Wei Liang has already taken a shower?”

He didn't exchange pleasantries with Lin Yi and asked this question as soon as he opened his mouth.

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