"Make sure the balcony door is shut after lights-out. If anyone enters the room for an inspection after lights-out, pay attention to their expressions. If they are smiling, leave the dormitory as quickly as possible."
"Stop using your phone after midnight. Any messages you receive will be garbled..."
The sheets of paper were densely covered with dormitory building rules, several times more than the classroom rules. Just memorizing them had taken Gao Ming a great deal of time.
"This doesn't look good." Wang Jie, who normally had no interest in studying, was desperately memorizing them too. "We have two wild cards in our room: Zhuo Jun and Yuan Hui. If neither of them comes back, we'll definitely face two room inspections. That means we'll have to open the door after lights-out."
Pacing around the room, Wang Jie's gaze turned vicious. "Those two are nothing but trouble!"
"It's better if they don't come back. What worries me is if they come back after lights-out. We won't even know whether it's really them, since we haven't agreed on a password." Du Bai had resigned himself to the situation and picked up a washbasin, ready to head outside.
"What are you doing?"
"Getting water to wash up. There's a full set of toiletries in the cabinet."
"How can you still be thinking about that at a time like this?" Wang Jie snatched the washbasin from Du Bai. "Our time is precious. The longer we stay in this school, the harder it'll be to escape."
Setting down the basin, Wang Jie sketched a simple map of the school on a sheet of paper. "An elder in my family told me that if you get trapped in a haunted building like this and can't escape within seven days, you'll be stuck here forever. Our bodies