The moonlight outside the dormitory building was bright and clear, without even a trace of cloud in the night sky.
In dormitory 417, it seemed like a sudden rain was falling.
The sudden rain fell on Jin Nan's small bed .
In the darkness, "raindrops" kept falling from the void onto Jin Nan's body and his bed .
Jin Nan lowered his head, leaned against the wall, and did not move.
"Click," "Click," "Click."
The "raindrops" fell faster and faster, and more and more, quickly covering the small bed.
A drop of "rain" bounced to Jia Qing's side. Jia Qing couldn't move his eyes, but he could clearly feel the thing twisting in his hand -
It's a bug!
What kept falling onto Jin Nan were bugs!!
Jia Qing's eyes were bloodshot as he watched Jin Nan being overwhelmed by more and more insects, his heart beating wildly.
Across the bed, Xia Jing watched all this silently.
Unable to close his eyes, his eyeballs were exposed to the air for a long time, and his eyes physiologically secreted tears.
Yet he remained calm and observed.
The continuously falling insects soon covered Jin Nan's entire body, twisting and crawling densely, connecting with the bed to form a wriggling hill.
At some point, the "hill" hummed and moved slightly, as if it had finally woken up...
The next second, Jin Nan began to scream, but his cries soon turned into indistinct whimpers because the insects crawled into his mouth.
Under the hazy moonlight, Xia Jing and Jia Qing could only see Jin Nan rolling around wildly on the bed like a fish on a chopping board. He kept shaking his head and scratching his face with his hands.
Because he struggled too frantically and because his eyes were penetrated by insects and he couldn't see anything, he soon rolled off the edge of the bed and fell directly from the upper bunk, knocking the chair below him over heavily and hitting the ground!
The dense insects on the bed flowed down with him like a stream, and all poured onto him.
Jin Nan rolled on the ground, wailing and struggling in pain.
"puff"!
A strange voice suddenly sounded.
"Puff!" "Puff!"
Several bubbles suddenly appeared on Jin Nan's face and body.
The bubbles blew up some of the insects a little, but soon deflated again and covered his body again.
——He is trying to use his special ability to divert the bugs!
However, it was not known whether it was because he could not concentrate, or because…his ability could not help him.
Jia Qing's face was pale and tears kept flowing down.
Xia Jing was sitting slightly sideways on the bed.
This posture ensured that he could see Jin Nan and Jia Qing's beds , notice the space on the lower bunk, and even use a little peripheral vision to observe the luminous clock on the wall.
The second hand of the luminous clock keeps moving forward.
In just a dozen seconds, Jin Nan had turned into a cocoon wrapped by insects.
The pupa stretched out its hands and raised its head, as if it wanted to look at something, or to reach for something.
Xia Jing's eyes turned.
However, Jin Nan ultimately failed.
He lay back on the ground exhausted.
After this time, there was no sound.
The second hand of the luminous clock on the wall is constantly approaching the number "12".
On the ground, countless insects were wriggling on Jin Nan's body.
He turned into a hill again, but a hill that could never move again.
The second hand finally points to "12" again.
Jia Qing and Xia Jing can move!
Jia Qing leaned against the wall as if he had lost his strength, his whole body covered in cold sweat. He had clearly done nothing, but he was panting, staring at Jin Nan in the lower bunk, and shivering.
Xia Jing stood up and looked directly at the luminous clock as if he had a premonition. He watched with his own eyes as the second hand stopped at the number "12" and suddenly turned back rapidly, one circle, two circles, three circles, four circles -
The lights in the dormitory suddenly came on, startling Jia Qing. "What the hell?"
His throat was dry and weak.
However, not only their dormitory, but the lights in the entire dormitory building were on!
Jia Qing was stunned: "Could it be that the NPC discovered that something happened in our dormitory?"
But this doesn't require lighting up the entire dormitory area!
Xia Jing quickly got out of bed and said, "No, the time has returned to 9:50!"
Jia Qing turned his head suddenly and looked at the bell.
The hour hand, minute hand, and second hand on the final plate seemed to have returned to more than two hours ago!
There was a rapid knock on the door, and Xia Jing ran to open it. Song Yang, Liu Yi, Wang Yueran and the old lady were standing outside the door. When they saw the scene in Xia Jing's dormitory at first glance, Wang Yueran's scream almost burst out of his throat, but he quickly remembered something and covered his mouth.
Song Yang asked them to go into the dormitory quickly, then closed the door, and the group gathered around Jin Nan's body.
——Not really. The other people didn't dare to get close at all.
There are not many bugs left on Jin Nan's bed, and the ground is the bugs' base camp.
I don't know if it's because they have achieved their goal, but these white, thread-like insects spread and squirmed aimlessly, soon exposing Jin Nan's entire body.
Liu Yi spit it out.
Jin Nan's eyes, mouth, ears, and nose were full of bugs.
These worms seemed to be able to drill into every hole, going in and out of all the holes, bringing out blood and even brain matter.
His mouth was wide open and his eyes were half-open, so you couldn't see his eyeballs at all, only bloody holes.
This kind of insect can also spin silk. At this moment, Jin Nan seemed to have entered a silkworm cave, with silk webs hanging all over his body.
Xia Jing and Song Yang ignored the bugs and squatted down beside Jin Nan.
Song Yang even directly pushed aside the silk nets and insects and lifted up Jin Nan's shirt.
Wang Yueran couldn't hold on any longer and rushed into the bathroom.
This time, they didn't need Wang Yueran's "mother" to tell them. Just based on Jin Nan's death appearance, they could be sure that Jin Nan's cause of death could not be "sudden death".
Even his skin color after death could not be as fresh as Huang Mo and Xu Jin's, because those bugs had already drilled into his body.
At this time, whether it was Jin Nan's neck, arms, or belly, there were bumps wriggling under the skin. In some places, the bugs had even drilled through the skin.
"If there were no bugs, do you think his body would remain as 'fresh' as Huang Mo and Xu Jin after his death?" Xia Jing asked softly.
"Yes, because that is a clear clue given in the copy and it will not change." Song Yang gave the answer decisively and stood up.
"What's going on? Why is time going backwards this time?" Jia Qing shuddered. "Do we have to do this all over again?"
"But the child is already dead, and even turning back time didn't bring him back to life," the old lady hesitated. "If it happened again, wouldn't it be—"
One more person has to die.
Suddenly, the loudspeaker blared, and a gruff male voice, tinged with gloating glee and a chilling coldness, frantically shouted, "Dear students, dear students, focus on your studies. Don't listen, don't look, don't think! Focus on your studies. Don't listen, don't look, don't think—"
There was a coughing sound from the toilet.
The old lady hurried to see and helped Wang Yueran out.
After Wang Yueran finished vomiting, he washed his face and was so frightened by the sound that he choked on water.
Her face was wet at this moment, like a drowned rat.
When she thought that not only did they lose a companion, but time was inexplicably turned back two hours ago and another person would die, she collapsed and squatted down and started crying.
The knock on the door sounded again, and this time it was the teacher's NPC's cold voice that rang out from outside the door: "What happened here?"
Xia Jing and Song Yang looked at each other. Song Yang went to open the door and asked the teachers to carry Jin Nan's body away.
After carrying the person away, the teacher stopped, looked at them sideways, and asked coldly: "It's almost ten o'clock, why don't you go back to your dormitories and prepare for bed?"
Jia Qing, Wang Yueran, and Liu Yi froze.
When they didn't answer, the teacher didn't move.
As the two sides confronted each other, the teacher's expression became increasingly stern and suspicious.
She turned completely around and looked at them suspiciously.
If I confront the NPC now, it would be bad if I was locked up in a small dark room.
Song Yang made a quick decision: "Liu Yi will be transferred to 417, and Wang Yueran and grandma will go back to 414 with me. After we get back, I will start a voice group chat on WeChat!"
They didn't have time to think about whether the phone would attract NPCs again later. They had to exchange information now.
Several people nodded nervously.
Song Yang brought Wang Yueran and the old lady back to 414, and the teacher NPC finally evacuated the dormitory.
The moment everyone closed their doors, the dormitory lights went out again.
This time no one went to bed , mainly because their minds were in a mess and they didn't know what would happen next.
As soon as Song Yang started a group voice chat, everyone joined in immediately.
Song Yang spoke first, his calm voice coming from the phone: "Xia Jing, can you tell me what happened just now?"
Xia Jing said bluntly: "The time reversal is the result of Jin Nan's association."
Several people in the group exclaimed, "What?"
Xia Jing's tone inexplicably had the power to soothe people: "Song Yang said that before."
"If imagining happy things doesn't dispel the fear in your heart, then 'close your eyes and think about whether there is a way to die that would make you appear dead but actually escape death.'"
The group fell silent.
In a crisis, not to mention whether what you imagine is enough to dispel the fear in your heart, many people may have a blank mind and can't think of anything.
But Jin Nan, he did think about it.
At least after Song Yang proposed that idea, there was a moment when he must have thought about whether there was any way he could escape the disaster.
When he was about to be completely swallowed by the insects, he stretched out his hand towards the bell.
——Reversing time is the solution he came up with!
"But even if time goes backwards, he still doesn't come back to life. Only our time goes backwards, but he still dies!" Wang Yueran collapsed.