While He Ming was dealing with the president of Langzhou University, Hu Jiu, remaining hidden, found Li Qisi secretly counting money in a corner.
With a smile on her lips, Li Qisi counted the money and quickly went to an ATM on campus to deposit it into her bank card to avoid losing it.
A windfall is certainly something to be happy about, but that happiness only lasted a short while. Soon, the smile on Li Qisi's face disappeared. She bought a sweet ice cream and ate the sweet treat with a gloomy expression.
Of course, her behavior was not an isolated case; many students coming and going were like this, with furrowed brows.
Following Li Qisi back to her dormitory, Hu Jiu saw that her three roommates were in a similar state. What was strange was that it was just getting dark, and college students should be enjoying their colorful nightlife, but they all returned to their dormitory in an orderly fashion, washed up without saying a word, and then went to bed together around seven o'clock.
At exactly seven o'clock, they all closed their eyes at the same time and instantly fell asleep.
Something's not right!
Hu Jiu wandered silently through the entire dormitory building. About one-fifth of the students had gone to bed early, and those who were awake were mostly listless. Games, live streams, novels, and movies all seemed to have lost their appeal. The college students, who should have been full of energy, all looked like people on their deathbeds.
Back in Li Qisi's dormitory, Hu Jiu didn't sense any Supernatural presence. However, this didn't mean the Supernatural was absent; it was possible that Supernatural forces were in a space beyond human perception.
"Dream!"
Hu Jiu had already thought of this possibility. After all, there were only a few keywords that could be associated with the unusual phenomenon of everyone falling asleep at the same time.
If Supernatural were at work in these people's dreams, it would explain why Hu Jiu didn't sense any Supernatural presence. Dreams don't exist in reality, so Hu Jiu naturally couldn't perceive anything in the real world.
All of this is just speculation so far, but it's not difficult to verify; it's simply a matter of invading someone else's dream.
Hu Jiu stared at Li Qisi's face, his body emanating an unusual, Supernatural aura. The scene before him began to shift, becoming bizarre and fantastical, as if he had entered another world.
This is indeed another world.
He entered Li Qisi's dream. In the dream, it was still the Main Campus of Langzhou University, but the whole sky was gray and there was no sun, moon or stars. The streets and buildings on campus were dilapidated and filled with an atmosphere of decay and oppression.
This time, Hu Jiu clearly sensed that there Supernatural everywhere.
"Truly... unbelievable." A glint of greed and jealousy flashed in Hu Jiu's eyes, but all his unspoken words ultimately boiled down to one sentence. "This ghost is destined to be with me!"
Hu Jiu remained hidden and began searching for the students in this dream school.
It's not hard to find.
A scream reached Hu Jiu's ears as he arrived at the dormitory building. He saw a female ghost resembling Kayako knocking on the door of a dormitory room. The students inside inexplicably opened the door and ran out, being frantically chased by Kayako. The students in the other dormitories trembled with fear upon hearing the noise.
The dormitory building in the dream is not much different from the dormitory building in reality, except that there may be occasional spatial distortions. For example, the students who were chased by Kayako just now kept wandering on the same floor and could not get away no matter whether they went upstairs or downstairs.
Hu Jiu ignored the unlucky few and instead went to find Li Qisi.
Terrified, Li Qisi suddenly heard a pleasant voice beside her. "Can you tell me what happened here?"
"Who! Who's speaking!" Li Qisi reacted immediately, almost opening the dormitory door and running away, but fortunately, her three roommates blocked her way.
"Li Qisi, what are you doing! Opening the door will break the rules and attract ghosts to hunt us down. Do you want to kill our whole dorm?" one of her roommates shouted angrily.
"I didn't mean to, I just heard a strange sound and thought a ghost had sneaked in," Li Qisi explained, her voice trembling with tears.
"It's definitely a trick by a ghost to lure you into opening the dorm door!" another roommate said with absolute certainty.
"No, I didn't mean to trick you into opening the dorm door. I just wanted to ask what happened here," Hu Jiu emphasized.
"You heard that too, didn't you? You heard that too!" Li Qisi's face was full of panic, and her three roommates also went limp, instinctively trying to open the dormitory door and run out.
However, the door handle wouldn't turn at all.
"Oh no, we're trapped in the dorm!" Li Qisi exclaimed in alarm.
"Didn't the rules say that the dorm is absolutely safe as long as the door isn't opened? How could something weird get in!" One of her roommates was even more panicked than her.
Another roommate quickly stepped in to calm things down. "Calm down, maybe it's just another trick by the ghosts to force us out of the dorm! Look, we haven't been attacked by ghosts yet, we're still safe!"
These words did indeed somewhat calm the restlessness and panic.
Hu Jiu sighed. It was really difficult to communicate with someone who was in a state of shock; the slightest disturbance could cause them to have an emotional breakdown.
"Look this way, I'm not a ghost!" A clear voice echoed in the dormitory, and a bright orange-red color suddenly appeared on the floor. In this dreamscape with its overall gray tone, the vibrant orange-red color seemed so alluring and dazzling.
The four girls in the dormitory gradually calmed down because what they saw was an adorable little orange fox. Its cute appearance made them lower their guard.
"Who are you?" Li Qisi asked tentatively.
"I am Fox Immortal. When I passed by, I found that resentment was overwhelming and Fierce Ghost were rampant. Is there anyone who can tell me what happened? I'll see if I can take care of it. It would be a good deed!" Hu Jiu, disguised as a little fox, casually made up a lie.
However, his lie was like a ray of light suddenly appearing in the darkness for these four female college students who were trapped in a nightmare! They wished they could kneel down and kowtow on the spot!
However, there was one person among the four who remained calm and intelligent. Although she was also excited, she dared not fully trust the Fox Immortal, fearing that it was a trick by the ghost to lure them away from the dormitory.
"Respected Fox Immortal, could you please lead us away from this nightmare? If we can leave and return to reality, we will tell you everything we know!" This clever and calm female college student made the first request, while the other three stared at the Fox Immortal spirit with burning, expectant eyes.
The fox nodded, plucked a few hairs and transformed them into the appearance of four female college students, deceiving the controller of the dream, and then flicked its tail.
The dream is over.