The eight of them studied the books carefully.
The longer they looked, the more their heads began to ache.
Under the night sky.
There was not a trace of insect chirping or human voices. The silence was terrifying.
Outside the Self-Study Room, waves of white mist rolled in, surrounding the entire dormitory.
As the white mist spread across the windows, Number Three turned to look and saw scar-covered human faces appearing on the glass.
Those faces were staring viciously at the people inside the Self-Study Room, their gazes fixed on them.
Number Three nearly cried out, but fortunately, he had experienced a Rule Game before.
In his panic, he remembered: "Inside the Self-Study Room, absolute silence must be maintained." Only then did he lower his head, but he could no longer focus on the book.
Wen Sheng was also attending evening self-study with the others.
He noticed something strange about Number Three and then looked toward the window Number Three had been watching.
In his field of vision, the window was pitch-black, reflecting only the complete figures of four people inside the Self-Study Room.
They were himself, two ordinary male students, and a Slightly Fat Girl.
The reflections of the other four—Number One, Number Two, Number Three, and the tall girl—had no heads! Yet they were completely unaware of it.
At that moment.
The others discovered another major problem.
They could not understand the books.
Advanced Mathematics, linear algebra, Introduction to Algorithms—before their eyes, they might as well have been Heavenly Books.
They recognized every word individually, but had no idea what they meant when put together.
It's over, it's over. I can't understand any of this at all. The tall girl thought as she looked around to see whether the others could do it.
To her relief, the others