Tong Xiaosong was a bit worried, “Has he encountered something?”
Ke Lin shook his head, “Don’t worry about it. If he’s in trouble, he can’t keep it to himself. If something really happened, he’ll spill it out without us asking. Just eat noodles. Maybe he’ll come down on his own when he gets hungry.”
Under Ke Lin’s guidance, Tong Xiaosong started preparing the instant noodles step by step.
When he took the first bite of the noodles, Tong Xiaosong was amazed, his eyes sparkling.
He exclaimed, “It’s delicious!”
Ke Lin and Wen Dong almost sprayed out the noodles in their mouths again.
After savoring the entire bowl of instant noodles, Tong Xiaosong held the paper bowl to drink the soup.
Ke Lin sighed, “Poor thing, don’t worry. In the future, with us, you won’t lack anything.”
Tong Xiaosong smiled a bit shyly.
He felt that his new roommates treated him with respect, unlike the complete lack of respect and condescension he had experienced from others before.
His new roommates shared with him, expressed sympathy for his past, but absolutely did not give him things for no reason.
They treated him as an equal, like they would treat any other friend.
This made him feel very happy and relaxed.
Ke Lin looked up at Wu Mabo and muttered, “He does have some backbone, didn’t even get out of bed, but looks like he’s had his fill.”
Everyone chatted and laughed, and soon it was time to go to bed. Wen Dong, in the upper bunk, could turn off the lights by reaching down.
Everyone lay in bed, moved a bit, gradually became drowsy, and fell into a deep sleep.
In the quietness, a knocking sound echoed.
Tong Xiaosong opened his eyes in a daze.
Wen Dong in the upper bunk asked, “Who is it?”
Ke Lin on the lower bunk turned over, “Who is it in the middle of the night!?”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Qlat j milmx, Qfc Gbcu aegcfv bc atf iluta.
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Kbcu Wljbrbcu ibbxfv regqglrfv ja atf jvpjmfca eqqfg yecx, yea atfgf kjr cb bcf atfgf, jcv atf yfvvlcu kjr cfjais jggjcufv.
Didn’t Wu Mabo come back a long time ago? When did he go out?
Both Ke Lin and Wen Dong looked puzzled, and it was Tong Xiaosong who got out of bed to open the door.
Wu Mabo walked in, “Is there anything to eat for me? The classmate who was supposed to do the cleaning duty with me took leave, so I cleaned the entire room alone and went to the big trash station in the back to sort out the garbage. I’m so tired… Why are you all looking at me like that?”
Wen Dong frowned, “Haven’t you come back before?”
Wu Mabo looked completely bewildered, “No, I’ve been doing the cleaning duty until now. How could I have come back? Cleaning while returning at the same time, haha, haha…?”
He awkwardly chuckled, noticing the strange expressions on the faces of the three people in the room, he asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ke Lin stood up and glanced at the upper bunk, surprised, “This isn’t right, Da Bo. Earlier, you came back, climbed silently to the upper bunk to sleep. I asked if you wanted to eat instant noodles, and you ignored me. I even called you grandpa, and you didn’t say a word.”
Wu Mabo’s face immediately turned unpleasant, “Don’t talk nonsense. I really didn’t come back, no joke, I didn’t come back.”
Wen Dong furrowed his brow and whispered, “Da Bo, no joke, the three of us saw you come back. We were talking to you at that time, and you ignored us. Tong Xiaosong was even worried if something happened to you.”
Wu Mabo couldn’t force a smile anymore, looking troubled, “Don’t mess with me, brothers. I will call you grandpa instead, don’t scare me. I really didn’t come back. Think about it, if I had come back, when you were eating instant noodles, could I have resisted? Besides, when have I had something and not told you guys? I…”
He seemed to recall something, his voice gradually trailing off, and his gaze became somewhat trance-like.
Tong Xiaosong, with a pale face, spoke with a trembling voice, “Actually, I didn’t dare to tell you guys today. Last night, I saw…”
The three sets of eyes immediately focused on Tong Xiaosong.
Wu Mabo urgently asked, “What did you see?”
Tong Xiaosong replied, “I saw a person on the rail of your bed. The posture was strange, like the upper body was suspended, staring at me all the time. But it was too dark, and I couldn’t see clearly. I even called your name softly at that time, but there was no response. Later, I fell asleep. When you said you slept against the wall this morning, I felt something was wrong, but I was afraid to scare you guys and thought it might be my imagination, so I didn’t say anything…”
Silence filled the dormitory.
Wu Mabo’s face not only looked unpleasant; it turned green, resembling someone who had been constipated for eighteen days.
The four of them stared at Wu Mabo’s bed as if facing some kind of monster.
Wu Mabo trembled and said, “Did you see that thing leave when I went out?”
Everyone remained silent.
Their thoughts were roughly the same.
They only saw it enter, not leave. Most likely, that thing was still in their dorm.
Wu Mabo swallowed hard, his face full of despair, “Can someone else take my place next time? I don’t want to squeeze with that unknown thing.”
Ke Lin teased, “Didn’t you already squeeze together all night last night? Why not squeeze again tonight?”
Wu Mabo immediately became angry, “Are you speaking like a human!?” He looked at Tong Xiaosong, who spoke more softly, and said, “Can I squeeze with you? I can sleep against the wall as long as you don’t make me sleep on that bed.”
Tong Xiaosong hesitated. He wasn’t used to being too close to others.
But… after finally establishing such harmonious dormitory relationships, he didn’t want to ruin it.
He hesitated and said, “Um, okay…”
Wen Dong interrupted, “Da Bo, you can squeeze with me. Tong Xiaosong doesn’t look comfortable sleeping with others. Don’t bully him.”
Wu Mabo nodded, “Okay, okay, anyone is fine, just don’t make me sleep alone.”
After speaking, he immediately climbed onto Wen Dong’s bed.
Tong Xiaosong breathed a sigh of relief and gratefully said to Wen Dong, “Thank you.”
Wen Dong replied, “No problem. If you don’t like it in the future, just speak up. Don’t keep it to yourself and make us guess. With Da Bo’s personality, it’s hard to figure out. If we have to endure and suffer, it will be you, and there’s no need for that.”
Tong Xiaosong nodded hurriedly, “I’ll pay attention in the future.”
Everyone got back into bed and turned off the lights.
In the darkness, no one slept, and after a while, it seemed that nothing happened.
Wu Mabo had already started to snore carefreely.
Gradually, the breathing in the dormitory became calmer.
Tong Xiaosong also closed his eyes, curling up under the blanket.
In a semi-dream state, Tong Xiaosong heard someone on the opposite bed tossing and turning as if they had fleas on their body.
Colin was awakened by the noise and subconsciously kicked upward in his drowsiness, saying, “Da Bo! Sleep honestly! Fuck, see what I’ll do.”
This shout woke everyone up.
With a snap, Wen Dong turned on the light, brightly illuminating the room.
Ke Lin hesitated for a moment, looking at the three people staring at him from across the room. Suddenly, he realized there was no one on the upper bunk.
“I…fuck..” Ke Lin didn’t say a word. He ran barefoot to Tong Xiaosong’s bed and exclaimed, “Fuck, fuck, fuck! There’s no one on my upper bunk!”
Tong Xiaosong wrapped himself in his blanket, shrinking towards the foot of the bed, silently looking at the upper bunk on the opposite side, his mind full of the copper basin.
Did he cause trouble for his roommates?
Ke Lin curled up, hugging his legs and panicked, “And I saw someone hanging upside down, looking at me with their head down. I thought it was Da Bo! Now that I think about it, that person’s hair seems quite long, and I couldn’t see the face clearly.”
Tong Xiaosong quietly welled up with tears and decided to tell everyone about the copper basin incident.
It might be better for him to go back to his original dormitory and live alone. At least he wouldn’t harm others.
Just as he was about to speak, the upper bunk, Wu Mabo, suddenly said, “Oh no, I really attracted something dirty. I’m sorry, guys…”
Tong Xiaosong was stunned. How could Wu Mabo apologize to everyone? Clearly, it was him, he was the one who had let everyone down.
Wen Dong’s voice was serious, “Da Bo, what’s really going on? I noticed something was off when you came back yesterday.”
Wu Mabo said, “Last night, when I was going up the stairs, I suddenly remembered a ghost game. It’s said that when a person walks up the stairs alone at midnight, counting the steps, there will be one extra step in the end. After that, they won’t be able to walk out of the stairwell. I didn’t believe in such things at the time, and I didn’t pay attention to Tong Xiaosong’s warning not to play ghost games. I thought it wasn’t midnight anyway, so I counted the steps, and then…”
“Then you couldn’t get out?” Ke Lin asked curiously. “But you came back last night, didn’t you?”
Oh phew, I was worried it really was Tong Xiaosong who let the ghost in!
Aiyaya thats why you should listen to tong xiaosong, da bo!
There is no way I would sleep in that room in that situation🤣🤣
thank you for the chapter translator sama❤
ˁ•ᴗ•ˀつ～ 💞
Fr though. That dorm needs to be exorcised… and then burnt to the ground.