NOVEL NEXT Chapter 14 - Hallucinations in Room 212?
Outside the door of room 212 in the male dormitory building.
He Gu stood in front of the door, listening to the noisy laughter coming from inside. The confused expression on He Gu’s face grew more and more complicated.
Inside, there were indeed Xiao Ying and Zhang Chao’s voices. He Gu was certain he hadn’t misheard.
But…how could they be here?
And Zhang Chao…was he a person or a ghost?
A bunch of questions swirled in He Gu’s mind.
The door to room 212 was slightly ajar, not completely closed.
After standing by the door and listening for a while, He Gu pushed the door open unconsciously.
As soon as the door opened, He Gu was stunned.
Inside room 212, seven or eight people were sitting in a circle drinking beer and playing board games. They had even set up a stove on the side and were grilling barbecue.
What made He Gu freeze was that he recognized every single person here.
Xiao Ying was indeed among them, sitting together with Zhang Chao.
Apart from Xiao Ying, the rest were all He Gu’s dormmates.
People who had left campus for internships a week ago and were already dead from a car accident according to Teacher Fang, were currently drinking beer and playing games with laughs in front of He Gu.
He Gu was a bit absent-minded, even forgetting what he was supposed to do.
After standing at the door for a few seconds, it was Xiao Ying who noticed He Gu first. She got up and said with a smile, “What are you standing there frozen for? Come join us!”
As she spoke, the others also turned their heads to look at He Gu, warmly greeting him one by one:
“Old He’s back!”
“Brother Gu, you’re just in time, come, come, sit down with us!”
“Brother Gu! Dad! Have a drink for me, these rascals are ganging up on me!”
…
Looking at this lively scene, He Gu felt a little dizzy.
Due to receiving the memories of the game character, He Gu’s mind was disturbed by those memories that did not belong to him. At this moment, a sense of intimacy arose spontaneously.
Just then, Xiao Ying handed He Gu a grilled bird: “Here, I just grilled this quail and saved it for you.”
He Gu took it unconsciously, but vaguely felt something was wrong.
This quail…looked so small!
He Gu blurted out, “This is a quail? Why is it so small?”
Xiao Ying giggled and said, “It’s a baby quail, the meat is so tender, try it.”
At this time, the dorm leader老 Huang said with a laugh, “This was specially grilled by Xiao Ying for you. She wouldn’t even give it to Chao if he asked.”
Zhang Chao also jokingly scolded, “Damn, no wonder you wouldn’t give me any. Turns out it was saved for him?”
Xiao Ying rolled her eyes at him, “You left me here and ran off. Wasn’t it He Gu who took care of me?”
…
Hearing their conversation, He Gu’s mind stirred.
Taking care of…Xiao Ying?
Vaguely, He Gu felt like he had forgotten something. Just as he was about to remember, there seemed to be a layer of film separating him from the memory, and he just couldn’t recall it no matter what.
At that moment, He Gu suddenly noticed a white feather stuck on Xiao Ying’s clothes, which looked somewhat like the parrot’s feathers.
Wait…
Parrot!?
The next second, He Gu’s mind exploded with a “buzz”.
He remembered!
The memories that did not belong to him receded like the tide, and He Gu was instantly clear-headed.
Parrot!
Looking again at the grilled bird meat in his hand, this was clearly the parrot, not some quail!
When he looked up again, everyone in the dorm was smiling at him.
Their smiles were extremely bizarre, sending chills down He Gu’s spine.
At this time, Xiao Ying standing in front of him said again, “Why don’t you eat it?”
In the dorm room, Zhang Chao and the others also urged in succession, “Eat it! This is Xiao Ying’s sincerity, eat up!”
The dorm leader Lao Huang got up and walked towards He Gu, “What’s wrong with you Old He? Eat!”
As Lao Huang spoke, it seemed like something fell from his hand onto the floor.
He Gu glanced down and discovered it was a bloody palm!
Lao Huang’s right palm had fallen off!
He Gu was shocked. When he looked up again, everyone in the dorm except Xiao Ying had become bloody and mutilated, some missing arms or legs, and one even had a deformed head.
It was like a car accident scene!
He Gu looked at them in horror, his hair standing on end. Letting out a scream, he wanted to run backwards but was grabbed by Lao Huang.
Immediately, everyone pounced on He Gu with sinister laughs, grabbing him with all their hands and feet, trying to pull him inside.
Just as He Gu was about to struggle, he discovered that his own arm had also been torn off…
Right when He Gu was screaming in terror, about to be dragged inside by them, a big hand suddenly pressed down on He Gu’s shoulder from behind.
The moment that hand landed, He Gu instantly felt relieved as the hands grabbing him also retracted back into the dorm room.
He Gu looked back and saw the dorm manager uncle’s face.
At this time, the dorm manager uncle was frowning and holding down He Gu’s shoulder, “Which class are you from? How dare you barge into someone else’s dorm room?”
“The students of this dorm have all gone off for internships, and their belongings haven’t been completely moved out yet. If anything goes missing because of you barging in, who’s going to take responsibility?”
Barging into someone else’s dorm room?
He Gu was confused for a moment. When he turned to look inside room 212 again, it was completely empty, without a single person.
Just now was…a hallucination?
He Gu felt somewhat dumbfounded, feeling like something was off but couldn’t figure out what.
Was the scene just now really a hallucination he had, or did he truly encounter something bizarre?
If the dorm manager uncle had not shown up in the end, and he was pulled into the dorm room, would he have been in danger?
At this moment, He Gu felt a faint pain in his head.
After examining the dorm room carefully again, the curtains inside were tightly drawn, and the lighting was very dim, exuding an eerie, sinister vibe.
Looking closely, He Gu suddenly noticed a flash of black shadow darting into the corner.
It looked like…a black cat!?
Just as He Gu was about to take a closer look, the dorm manager uncle suddenly pulled He Gu away from the door, then stepped forward and heavily closed the dorm room door.
“Considering you’ll be leaving for internship soon, I’ll let this slide today. Otherwise I’d have to report you to the student affairs office and give you a disciplinary warning!”
The dorm manager uncle seemed to be in a terrible mood today, completely unlike his previous smiling appearance, looking fierce and sinister instead.
“Alright, go back to your own dorm. Don’t go barging into empty rooms again!”
After speaking, the dorm manager uncle pushed He Gu.
Only then did He Gu notice that the dorm manager was not wearing his red vest today, but a uniform instead.
Looking down further, he was also holding a thick rolled up newspaper in his hand.
One end of the newspaper was tucked into his sleeve, clearly concealing something inside.
Judging by the silhouette…it looked like a knife!
Recalling the dorm manager uncle he saw this morning wearing a uniform and holding a blood-stained cleaver, He Gu shuddered instantly and didn’t dare say anything more, turning around to run up the stairs instead.
And just as He Gu had just stepped into the stairwell, he vaguely heard the sound of the dorm room door opening again downstairs.
The next moment, a shrill cat cry rang out from the second floor…