Knocking at the Door

While Bai Zhi was cursing under his breath and busy dodging the increasingly fast-moving Snake in his room, Night Owl was in trouble in another room.

Obediently following Bai Zhi's advice, the Night Owl didn't touch the computer. After changing her shoes in her room, she immediately ran to bed and covered herself completely with the blanket.

In winter or spring, when we need to cover ourselves with blankets, everyone probably has this habit or thought in mind when going to sleep at night.

--If your arms or legs are outside the blanket, you may be attacked by something unexpected, but if you are inside the blanket, you are safe because of the Quilt Barrier's protective barrier.

Night Owl aren't very brave; for someone who needs the lights on to fall asleep at night, the dark is her biggest fear.

If it weren't for the fact that the [Apartment Resident Notice] clearly states that every Resident must return to their room after 9 PM, she might have even considered going to find Zither-Drum Harmony to sleep together.

The layout of her room was the same as that of Bai Zhi and Heavenless Heretic's rooms, or rather, the layout of each of the five residential rooms on this Apartment was almost the same.

The Unique slight difference was the style of the posters on the wall next to the bed.

However, the Night Owl was timid, so when she first woke up, she spent some time covering the posters on the wall with a Transparency black cloth... out of sight, out of mind.

He wrapped himself completely in the blanket, including his head, and leaned against the wall, Night Owl eyes fixed on the clock above the wardrobe.

According to the clock, it was now 9:10. Following Bai Zhi's instructions, she didn't touch the Notebook, which had automatically gone black, and instead prepared to patiently stay in bed and get through the remaining two hours.

If the lights really go out at 11 o'clock...

After a moment's hesitation, the Night Owl took a card out of her Inventory.

[Plant Card ▪ Street Lamp Flower]

She had previously experienced the [Save Dave] Game Dungeon, and under Bai and *Tu*Shuzhi's guidance, she cleared several levels in one go. Although she wasn't lucky enough to piece together two plants with the Plant Fragment she obtained, she managed to piece together one plant, namely [Plant Card ▪ Street Lamp Flower].

[Item Name: Street Lamp Flower]

[Type: Item]

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect 1: Dispels the Mist]

[Special Effect 2: Illuminating the Darkness]

[Special Effect 3: Calming the Mind]

[Effective range: within a 5-meter radius]

[Consumption:: 25 Sun]

[Current Sunlight: 100]

[Usage Condition: None]

[Note:: Only one street light flower can exist at a time.]

Although this Plant Card has no offensive capabilities, it is still a very powerful Support item, and as long as it is not maliciously destroyed, the Streetlight Flower can exist indefinitely.

However, due to the limitation that only one street lamp flower can exist at a time, the value of this item has been significantly reduced, and this card can only Storage 100 points of sunlight per card.

After carefully placing the [street lamp flower], which emitted a soft glow, on the bedside table, the Night Owl felt her mood calm down considerably due to the [street lamp flower]'s inherent effects.

Just then, a loud bang was heard outside the door, knocking on the door.

"!!!"

A sudden tightness gripped his heart, Night Owl unconsciously wrapped himself tighter in the blanket.

"Bang! Bang!!"

Seemingly impatient at not receiving a response, the knocking resumed, this time louder than before.

The next second, PrayerUnderDreams's slightly amused voice rang out from outside the door.

"Alright, you can open the door now. This guy is just being paranoid, talking about 9 pm and all that... We're planning to go check out the Entertainment Area now, do you want to come along?"

... Was his judgment wrong?

The Night Owl glanced at the wall clock on the wardrobe, then remained silent.

"It's true. Actually, it's something that's very easy to tell."

Perhaps because of her silence inside the door, following PrayerUnderDreams, Zither-Drum Harmony's patient explanation also rang out from outside the door.

"The internet is open after 9 PM, so to determine whether it's 9 AM or 9 PM, just check if your computer shows a network connection."

... computer?

He glanced at the Notebook on the desk, its screen already automatically blacked out, Night Owl, with a blank expression, wrapped himself up even tighter.

Regardless of whether what was said outside the door was right or wrong, and regardless of whether there was internet access or not, she only needed to firmly remember Black&White's instructions.

Computers are a trap; it's best to stay away from them.

Do not believe any noise or commotion coming from outside the door. Stay in the room patiently until 11 o'clock. If the lights are still on by then, wait until 11:30 before going out and meet me in the Corridor outside the door.

... As for the knocking at the door?

Could those two voices coming from outside the door really be human?

Since she hadn't paid any attention to the sounds outside the door, after the first two sounds, silence returned outside.

But before the Night Owl could even relax a little, the loud knocking on the door started again, interspersed with violent kicking and banging. It seemed that the mysterious visitor outside had finally lost his temper and deliberately abandoned all pretense to launch a violent door-breaking operation.

However, this thick Security Door was quite sturdy, and since she had locked it properly, although the noise coming from outside was terrifying, the Night Owl was still relatively calm thanks to the built-in effect of the [street lamp flower] by the bedside.

But after about a minute of this violent banging on the door... something even more terrifying happened.

--The sound has been transferred.

From the closed bathroom door directly opposite the single bed, came the same polite knocking sound from the beginning.

"Bang!"