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"If there are really two ghosts, sleeping anywhere will only make us their prey." Jiang Yubai pondered for a moment, "So I'm not going back." "But there are rules for the dorm..." Shen Qingci still hesitated.
"The rules also say to have a midnight snack after 11 o'clock, but after the 11:30 dorm check, we can't leave the dorm, so it's contradictory. We don't necessarily have to follow it." Jiang Yubai walked slowly, and Shen Qingci's watch showed it was 13:45, but the sun was still high in the sky.
"Okay, I'll do as you say." Shen Qingci didn't ask anything else. All he could do was trust Jiang Yubai unconditionally.
"Do you know? When we were in the teaching building, I found that none of us had a shadow, but just now in the cafeteria, I saw the staff and Cafeteria Auntie had shadows," Jiang Yubai said what he had noticed at the beginning.
"What do you mean?" Shen Qingci didn't understand why he suddenly brought this up.
"That man died, then came back to life, as if he had become a part of this world." Jiang Yubai didn't answer his question, but continued speaking.
"Is it possible that, even though we were brought here involuntarily, we are actually the invaders?" Jiang Yubai looked steadily at Shen Qingci. His eyes were a very light brown, like a piece of fine amber. When he looked at someone seriously, it was hard not to believe his words. "They are the true masters of this world."
"Maybe, so what, are you ready to rebel?"
"Get lost." Jiang Yubai rolled his eyes, "What I mean is I agree with you, those rules may not all be true."
"But even if we know they're not all true, it's useless, we can't tell the difference between truth and lies." Shen Qingci scratched his head in frustration, his brown hair becoming even more disheveled. "It's getting more complicated."
"In fact, this rule restricts both us and them." Jiang Yubai tiptoed and naturally raised his hand to ruffle Shen Qingci's hair, then awkwardly thought of retracting his hand after realizing his action. When they were dating, every time Shen Qingci encountered a problem, he would be irritable, and he would habitually ruffle his hair to comfort him. Shen Qingci didn't react to his action, but instead seemed to enjoy rubbing his palm.
"You used to think these rules were contradictory because they are actually a mixture of two sets of rules."
"If we continue to follow the rules, will we slowly become one of them?" Jiang Yubai suddenly stopped and turned to look at Shen Qingci, his eyes deep and sharp.
"Don't you see?" Jiang Yubai delivered the final blow, pointing to the ground, "We are starting to cast a shadow now."
Shen Qingci Following his gaze, there were indeed the silhouettes of two people on the ground, but they were not very clear, with fuzzy edges, as if something was struggling to break free.
Shen Qingci He felt a chill creeping up his back, not only because of Jiang Yubai's words, but also because at some point, he had unconsciously ignored the need to escape from this matter.
Clearly, they did not belong in this world, and these rules would surely cost them their lives.
"Alright, let's go to class first," Jiang Yubai sighed and finally identified the problem when he asked, "By the way, which class are you in?"
"I'm in Class B," Shen Qingci suddenly reached out and put his arm around Jiang Yubai's shoulder, using one hand to hold his head in place, "Don't look over there, there's a student wearing black clothes."
Jiang Yubai nodded slightly to indicate that he understood, and Shen Qingci let go of him.
Two people entered the teaching building and quickly climbed to the platform between the two floors. Through the window, the student in black clothes was blocking several players and saying something. The players obviously remembered the rule of ignoring the student in black clothes, but at this moment, they chose to escape after making eye contact with each other. Unfortunately, just as their feet were about to step into the teaching building, they suddenly fell to the ground, and a large amount of blood sprayed from their mouth and nose.
"But please don't refuse their request..." Jiang Yubai recited the second half of the rule, "I wonder what request Black Clothes will make."
"It must be against the existing rules, otherwise they wouldn't have come," Shen Qingci analyzed, "I agree with you, this rule might really be a combination of two rules."
"Be careful in the afternoon class." Already at the door of Class A for three years, Jiang Yubai waved to Shen Qingci.
"You too."
The afternoon classes were uneventful, but that doesn't mean they are very safe.
The man who initially wanted to rush out, because of the girl who shouted about death, is Jiang Yubai, who witnessed the process of death with his own eyes. Although he did not see the others, he also saw a familiar face going upstairs in the cafeteria. He doesn't know the situation in the dormitory, but it's hard to guarantee that no one has died.
Jiang Yubai observed the people in the class, but now there were no empty seats in the class, just like when he first arrived. In other words, those people had all come back to life. Or perhaps they had been assimilated into the true members of this world. During break time, Jiang Yubai and Shen Qingci met and walked to the restroom together. They tore out the page from the notebook, then carefully dampened it with a fine stream of water. Shen Qingci delicately separated the two pages.
On another piece of paper, only six words were written densely across the entire page: "Quickly escape, you are a monster." Each word was soaked with water, causing the edges to blur.
"Do you dare," Jiang Yubai suddenly looked up and gazed at Shen Qingci, his amber eyes reflecting Shen Qingci completely, as if at this moment his world only had him. "To skip class with me?"
Jiang Yubai's tone was very casual, as if discussing a trivial matter, as if it was really just an ordinary high school student skipping a regular class, rather than resisting the rules in a life-and-death game.
Their eyes met, as if there was an invisible current passing between them, a dangerous and ambiguous atmosphere flowing between the two, mixed with probing and crisis.
Shen Qingci suddenly smiled, reaching out to caress Jiang Yubai's cheek. His rough thumb rubbed against the teardrop mole at the corner of his eye, then slowly slid down to lift his chin. With Jiang Yubai's consent, he leaned in and lightly kissed his lips.
"Do you want me to risk my life and skip class with you?"
"The price is a kiss, you've hit the jackpot."
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