NOVEL NEXT Ch. 26
Chapter 26: Don’t Do Anything Foolish
The scene before her made Dong Ningning’s face instantly change.
She hurriedly ran to Bai Quye’s side and lifted her up.
“You… what’s wrong, Xiao Bai! Who did this!?”
But when Dong Ningning saw the kitchen knife beside Bai Quye’s pillow, she immediately understood everything, and her face darkened.
“Xiao Bai… how could you be so foolish!”
“What do we do… there’s no hospital here, and there’s no way to give you a transfusion…”
Dong Ningning’s face turned pale, her voice sounding panicked.
“It’s okay, Ningning… I just feel… so hungry, so thirsty…”
Bai Quye said weakly.
“Okay, okay! Just stay here, don’t move. I’ll go get you some food and water right now!”
Dong Ningning carefully placed Bai Quye back on the bed, then hurried toward the door.
Just as she opened it, preparing to leave, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.
“Xiao Bai… before I came, no one else entered your room, right?”
Her back was turned to Bai Quye, but her words carried something unusual.
Bai Quye was surprised, not understanding why Dong Ningning asked this, but she still nodded honestly.
“Mm…”
“Phew—that’s good. Everyone’s in a bad state right now. If your situation spreads, things might get even worse.”
Dong Ningning let out a breath of relief and turned back to give Bai Quye a smile.
“Enough of that, I’ll go get you food. Just wait here for me.”
Bai Quye nodded again, and in her heart she couldn’t help but feel genuine admiration for the girl before her—
Even in times like this, she could still think of the whole class.
She was truly so kind.
To have such a person as a friend, she really was lucky…
…
Lu Feng sat alone in the dining hall, silently eating the food on his plate.
At first, he hadn’t planned on eating, since eating so late at night wasn’t good for his stomach.
Even though he felt sleepy, he couldn’t fall asleep once he lay in bed.
Adding the faint hunger in his stomach, he decided he might as well get up and eat something.
While eating, Lu Feng thought—
The evil spirit would launch its second attack the day after tomorrow.
Yet both tasks had made no progress at all.
That was not a good sign.
At the very least, before the evil spirit killed again, he needed to obtain some key information…
Just as Lu Feng was eating and thinking, the dining hall door suddenly opened.
Lu Feng was surprised—someone else had also come here for a late-night snack?
The person entering was Dong Ningning.
Seeing Lu Feng there, she froze, looking a little unnatural.
“W-what a coincidence…”
She forced a smile and greeted him.
“Oh, you came for a late-night snack too.”
Lu Feng replied casually.
“Mm…”
Dong Ningning nodded lightly, quickly walked past him, grabbed some food onto a plate, and turned to leave.
“You’re not eating here?”
“No, I’ll eat back in my room.”
She lowered her head as she spoke.
“I see…”
Noticing that her behavior was somewhat unusual, Lu Feng didn’t say anything further.
After she left the dining hall, Lu Feng silently put down his utensils.
…
Lu Feng followed behind Dong Ningning quietly and slowly.
Turning a corner, they reached the hallway of her room.
But instead of stopping, she walked directly toward another direction.
In the end, she stopped before a certain room, then pushed the door open and entered.
That room… wasn’t it Bai Quye’s? Lu Feng thought in puzzlement.
Why would Dong Ningning bring food into her room?
Now that he thought about it, he hadn’t seen Bai Quye these past two days…
Lu Feng observed for a while, but Dong Ningning stayed inside and didn’t come out.
Maybe he was just being paranoid… Girls who were close friends sometimes ate together, even slept together—that seemed pretty normal…
Scratching his head, Lu Feng returned to his room with doubts.
…
“Here, eat quickly. I’ll go get you some water.”
Dong Ningning placed the food before Bai Quye and turned to pour water.
Bai Quye struggled to lift the food to her mouth.
Her weakened body desperately needed nutrition.
As she ate, her pale face gradually regained color.
What had started as refined eating grew more frantic, until finally she was almost devouring the food like a starving wolf.
Dong Ningning handed her the water, which she drank in one gulp.
“Don’t rush, eat slowly.”
Dong Ningning gently stroked her back, speaking softly.
The next moment, a tear fell.
Bai Quye set down the food.
Tears poured from her eyes, dropping onto the meal before her.
“Ningning, thank you…”
She looked at Dong Ningning with eyes full of gratitude and emotion.
“If you weren’t here, I really wouldn’t know what to do…”
“It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m right here—”
Dong Ningning embraced her, stroking her long hair like a mother.
“But you have to promise me, never do something this foolish again, okay?”
“Mm…”
Bai Quye nodded blankly, then lifted her eyes to Dong Ningning.
“Ningning… can we really leave this place alive…”
At the moment she asked, Dong Ningning’s eyes flickered, her expression slightly changing.
“Mm, we will… we definitely will.”
In the end, she still smiled as she gave her answer.
…
The clouds lingered, the night without light.
The sky outside the old mansion seemed eternally shrouded in its unchanging gloom.
When the quartz clock on the wall had just pointed to seven, everyone had already gathered in Lu Feng’s room.
“Same as yesterday—Zhang Tong, you search the boys’ rooms, Yu Mo, you search the girls’ rooms.
If anyone refuses to open their door, then we’ll use special methods.”
Lu Feng quickly assigned tasks.
“After midnight tonight, the evil spirit will begin its second attack. Before that, we must at least find something useful.”
Everyone nodded, though their eyes all carried some doubt.
“Um, Feng Feng… are you really going to do this?”
Lin You couldn’t help but ask.
“If we just break down doors when people don’t open… isn’t that a bit too much?”
“Ha… you think I want to?”
Lu Feng shook his head and sighed.
“There are two reasons to break in. One is to search for clues about the first task. The other is to ensure everyone’s safety—”
“Yesterday, Su Qi was killed by the evil spirit. Someone else might not be able to withstand the fear and pressure and try to kill themselves… Remember, with every death, our remaining time shortens by two days. Suicide absolutely cannot be allowed.”
At that, everyone finally understood.
“So there’s no time to waste. Let’s begin.”
…
“Sasa, are you in your room?”
“Yang Yang, you inside? Can you open the door?”
“…”
“No good, no one’s answering…”
“No choice then… break it down!”
“Everyone step back! Watch me give it an American-style flying kick!”
The long-silent mansion once again became noisy and chaotic that morning.