If I did that, it would ruin Wei Liang.

Wei Liang would go insane from such an unbearable turn of events.

"Don't worry too much about me, Old Lin..." Not sure if Wei Liang had noticed the slight change in Lin Yi's expression, he deliberately spoke up to remind him, "The last few days I was here, it was like this too... Maybe it's a common problem with the campus, which is why the experience period is only seven days."

Lin Yi felt a chill in his heart, originally thinking Wei Liang was talking to him, but he suddenly realized Wei Liang wasn't really talking to him at all, he was using a way of speaking as if he was in a conversation, simply to keep talking.

'Is Liangzi... anchoring himself through me?!'

Lin Yi noticed Wei Liang's hand.

A faint greyish-blue color appeared on Wei Liang's hand, very Cold but not entirely cold.

At the contact point between Wei Liang's palm and his shoulder, there was still a thread of residual warmth, yet this warmth flickered like the flame in the wind, uncertain when it would extinguish.

Wei Liang's expression was panicked, he mumbled to himself, yet it seemed very much like he was talking to Lin Yi.

And among these words, Lin Yi sharply caught a sentence:

"...really, don't worry, once I get back to the dorm, a hot shower will warm me up..."

'A hot shower...?!'

His eyes suddenly brightened.

The student rules specifically listed a rule for dormitory showers, if showering didn't have any benefits, they could have written [Use the gym every two days during Physical Education class for showers] instead of creating a rule specifically for this, right?

'Could it be that a hot shower can effectively combat the contamination... or at least, alleviate it?'

He then said in a deep and firm voice, "Liangzi, I'll take you to the dorm right away, hang in there."

As if his words had triggered some incomprehensible hidden mechanism, before he finished speaking, a rustling cold wind suddenly stirred in the corridor.

'Whoosh—'

It was as if something invisible had suddenly perched on his shoulder and breathed out a cold breath in a fine manner, he suddenly shivered, feeling the hair on his body uncontrollably stand on end.

Temperature suddenly returned to Wei Liang's palm, his panicked expression changed abruptly, and then in a lowered voice he said, "No, Old Lin, don't say such things, quickly say, 'I won't take you to the dorm!'!"

"I have my Student ID, I... can open the door myself! You don't need to take me!" Wei Liang added anxiously.

Lin Yi was taken aback, but the chilling sensation made him feel an immense pressure, not quite grasping the meaning behind Wei Liang's words but immediately stated decisively, "'I won't take you to the dorm.'

Hearing Lin Yi say this, Wei Liang instantly sighed in relief.

At the same time, that silently rising eerie wind also quietly receded, and the cold sensation reluctantly peeled away.

Lin Yi glanced at the dormitory doorplate next to him, instantly realizing something, and felt terribly uncomfortable, with a hissing coldness running up his spine.

The dormitory doorplate beside him read '1406,' seemingly unproblematic, but the doorplate brought to his mind a notice for the dormitory building:

[When you encounter a dormitory room that doesn't match the doorplate number, remind yourself that you saw incorrectly, and ignore any and all calls from that dormitory.

Note: A paranormal dormitory will never open on its own, unless!!! you invite it. (The word 'unless' is circled and marked with a large '!!!' sign)]

There is a very frightening keyword in this sentence—invitation.

A paranormal dormitory will never open on its own, unless it receives your invitation!

There's too much information in this sentence, and he unwittingly understood one of the layers of meaning!

Even if a dormitory is paranormal, it can't open by itself; whatever can open it must be something inside the dormitory.

But this thing won't open the door on its own, unless it's invited.

Who would invite it?

Lin Yi.

The sentence he just said—"I'll take you to the dorm right away," if some indescribable being automatically took its place, wouldn't it become the addressed 'you'?

This is no longer just an invitation but rather... a proactive lead!

Lin Yi's mind went ice-cold, and he thought of a rule concerning European vampires.

'The Blood Clan, uninvited, shall not cross this threshold.'

Even though there are no vampires here, there is... a rather odd classmate. Not only is there an odd classmate, but there are also those sneaky figures hidden in the mist, as well as the terrifying and formidable creatures that enter the classrooms after the lights are out.

Since the dormitory building is one of the most dangerous areas within the campus, let's assume all of these bizarre entities could possibly appear inside the dormitory building.

Then let's further assume... these things have some sort of mechanism, and for one of these dreadful species, the mechanism is the need to be "invited".

Of course, all these thoughts were just things he realized in an instant, and he was not sure if they were right or wrong, but that didn't matter.

What mattered was that after he repeated Wei Liang's word "refuse", the eerie sensation that had been enveloping him truly dissipated quite a bit.

He continued to move forward.

Dorm 1407, Dorm 1408, Dorm 1409...

"We're almost there," Lin Yi said silently to himself.

He glanced down the hallway ahead.

The hallway was quiet and serene; although the lights were bright, there always seemed to be an elusive sense of danger lurking around the bend out of sight, like a lingering perfume that wouldn't dissipate.

"Please don't let anything weird happen now!" Lin Yi clenched his jaw subconsciously, one hand gripping the strap of his bag tightly, the other lightly resting on Wei Liang's cold palm.

On one hand, he comforted Wei Liang, and on the other, he steadied himself.

At the same time, he preemptively repeated in his mind:

"My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098..."

"I am currently in the 14th-floor dormitory building, my dorm is 1414, I am on my way to the dormitory..."

"My name is Lin Yi, I..."

He repeated these lines while carefully moving forward with Wei Liang.

Soon, he walked past Dorm 1412, and if nothing unexpected happened, he should have been facing Dorms 1413 and 1414 head-on.

But Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly halted because, as expected, something unexpected happened.

He silently observed the corridor ahead, his expression a jumbled mix as if he had mashed several emotions together.

It was probably a mix of "here we go again," two parts "I knew it," three parts "slightly panicked," and four parts "Hey dorm building, you're being a real dumbass XXX."

"Sigh..."

With a deep sigh, Lin Yi felt that this "emergency" had become all too common, nothing out of the ordinary, and rather dull, but even so, he really wanted to know...

"What the hell, how does this right-angle turn replace the curving corridor ahead so seamlessly?!"

He had just walked past the door of Dorm 1412 and was about to gleefully reach into his pocket to pull out his student ID card to swipe and enter Dorm 1414 when a goddamn corner appeared in front of him!

It was even smoother than that girl's hair from the Dove shampoo ad!

"Ugh..."

Lin Yi suppressed the subconscious scrutiny of his surroundings brought on by his High Sensitivity through a bellyful of complaints, then followed the instructions from the dormitory building notice, slowly turning around with Wei Liang.

"There is no corner ahead, no corner, no corner... say the important things three times..."

Dormitory Building Notice (Rules) states:

[If you find a right-angle turn in front of you while searching for your dormitory, please turn around and tell yourself that there is no right-angle turn, then turn back around.

Only continue moving forward once you've confirmed that the path ahead has returned to normal.]

Having turned 180 degrees and firm as an incantation, he recited the dormitory building notice a few times; Lin Yi turned again to look ahead.

The right-angle turn was indeed gone.

But Lin Yi couldn't laugh, and even his urge to ridicule was momentarily erased.

The right-angle turn had disappeared, but along with that turn, everything else had vanished as well.

There was nothing but emptiness in front of him.

Forget about a hallway, there wasn't even a single hair.

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