Dormitory 1414, 23:55. At Lin Yi's insistence, everyone still made a trip to the bathroom before midnight.
Lin Yi went last. After finishing, he planned to check the doors and windows before getting into bed.
But the moment he touched the doorknob, he suddenly drew his hand back on instinct.
Cold!
So cold!
The warmth of his hand had melted a handprint directly into the spot he touched. The entire dormitory door was already coated in frost!
He looked down. Beneath the gap in the door, a little fog also seemed to be creeping in, barely perceptible, only to rapidly dissipate when the light hit it.
Lin Yi sucked in a cold breath, then immediately spat and blew it back out.
Fuck, I got careless. Almost swallowed that fog...
He went over to the washbasin to check the window as well. By now, the difference between the nighttime temperatures inside and outside the dormitory had covered it in condensation, leaving it a hazy white.
And this time, just as he confirmed that the window was locked tight and was about to turn away, a dark shape suddenly flashed past outside!
"What the fuck?!" He jumped on instinct, then promptly scrambled into bed and lay there trembling.
On his first day, he might well have stared at the window a while longer, trying to figure out what that big black rat was. But his approach had changed now: first make sure he was in a safe zone, then take a sneaky look.
His specialty was frowning and retreating behind everyone else.
He first glanced at the time on the grandfather clock.
23:57.
Then he checked his watch. The times matched.
Only then did he look out the window, silently counting the seconds.
He gave himself just thirty seconds. If he saw