When Su Bai woke, the first thing he saw was the clock hanging on the dorm room wall.
It was identical to the one in the General Affairs Department office, its face still marked with countdown numbers from 1 to 24. The hour hand pointed to "17," meaning there were seventeen hours left in the day.
The dorm room was extremely bare. Its four white walls had no decorations, and the only furnishings were two standard single beds and two wooden desks. There were no bedside tables, and the desks were empty, without even a drinking glass. The room was unnaturally quiet. Not a single footstep could be heard from the hallway, as though it were a space of absolute silence.
What concerned Su Bai more was that he had no memory of when he had fallen asleep.
The last thing he remembered was following the Headless Receptionist into this terribly overpriced dorm room with Wu Heng. Everything after that was a blank.
"This building is strange," Wu Heng said beside him.
Su Bai turned to look. Wu Heng had taken off his black cloak and was sitting on the bed with his back against the wall. His dark red eyes looked even calmer than when they had first entered the instance. One hand rested on his knee, and even that casual posture carried the bearing of someone accustomed to authority, utterly at odds with the shabby dorm room.
Yet when Wu Heng looked at Su Bai, the air around his entire "person" softened a little.
"Once the lights dimmed, the whole building went quiet." Wu Heng's voice was steady. "I don't mean the sound. The flow of power stopped too."
Su Bai frowned slightly at that. He tilted his head to glance at the bare light bulb glowing on