Lin Yi ran back to the dormitory door and carefully reread the two sets of dormitory rules several times, then returned to the desk and plopped down, his expression grim.
"It's... completely different from what I first thought." He gritted his teeth, his face dark, and slammed his fist against the desk.
"That's why I said what's written on this scrap of paper is interesting." Tian Bufan always seemed to think one step ahead of Lin Yi. He had read the paper while Lin Yi was showering and seemed to have already guessed at some truth. "What did you find?"
Lin Yi said gravely, "It's full of contradictions."
"First, before lights-out at midnight, the Nonhuman Classmates actually couldn't enter the dormitory at all. Only Song Rentou, who swiped his Student ID to open the door, could get in."
[Dormitory Rules 1] Rule 5: Never invite anyone who knocks to enter. Only those with a Student ID can return to the dormitory, and they will open the door themselves.
"If those Nonhuman Classmates wanted to meet the conditions for 'breaking in' before midnight, there were only two possibilities. First, they had Student IDs..."
"But what they were reciting was the identity information of Song Rentou's roommates. If they had his roommates' Student IDs and could swipe them to get in, then what was going on with Song Rentou's roommates?"
The Dormitory Building Rules had a strict stipulation:
[After leaving the elevator, please find your dormitory according to its number. Swipe your Student ID to open the door and enter.]
There was also this rule:
[Do not enter the wrong dormitory!]
"To get through the door, you have to be someone who lives in that dormitory and swipe that person's Student ID to open it."
"But this line, 'I don't know why