Recap
A wave of dizziness hit, and this time, both Xia Jing and Jia Qing clearly saw that the world in front of them did have a momentary double vision.
“Holy crap, holy crap—” Jia Qing pressed his forehead, resisting the nausea, and shouted in a low voice, “Brother Jing, old bro, are you guys okay?”
Soon, Jia Qing found that he couldn’t move.
He was frozen at the moment when he turned his head to look at Jin Nan’s bed and opened his mouth wide to say the word “okay”.
And Xia Jing was staring straight at Jin Nan on the opposite bed.
The strong man was leaning quietly against the wall, his head lowered, and at some point, he had stopped breathing, as if he had fallen asleep.
With a slight “plop”, something fell on Jin Nan’s bed.
The moonlight outside the dormitory building was bright and clear, and there wasn’t a single cloud in the night sky.
But in dormitory 417, it seemed like a heavy rain had started.
This heavy rain fell on Jin Nan’s small bed.
In the darkness, “raindrops” kept falling from the void onto Jin Nan’s body and his bed.
Jin Nan hung his head, leaned against the wall, and didn’t move.
“Plop”, “plop”, “plop”.
The “raindrops” fell faster and faster, more and more, quickly covering the small bed with a layer.
A drop of “rain” jumped to Jia Qing’s side. Jia Qing couldn’t move his eyeballs, but he could clearly feel the thing wriggling on his hand—
It was a bug!
What kept falling on Jin Nan were bugs!!
Jia Qing’s eyes widened, watching Jin Nan being submerged by more and more bugs, his heart pounding like crazy.
On the opposite bed, Xia Jing silently watched all this.
Unable to close his eyes, his eyeballs were exposed to the air for a long time, and his eyes physiologically secreted tears.
But he remained calm and observed.
The constantly falling bugs quickly covered Jin Nan’s entire body, wriggling and crawling, connecting with the bed to form a wriggling hill.
At a certain moment, this “hill” hummed and moved slightly, as if it had finally woken up…
The next second, Jin Nan started screaming, but his cries quickly turned into indistinct whimpers as bugs crawled into his mouth.
Under the hazy moonlight, Xia Jing and Jia Qing could only see Jin Nan rolling frantically on the bed like a fish on a chopping board. He kept shaking his head and grabbing his face with his hands.
Because he struggled so frantically, and because his eyes were filled with bugs and he couldn’t see anything, he soon rolled off the edge of the bed, fell directly from the upper bunk, slammed into the chair below, and crashed onto the ground!
The dense bugs on the bed flowed down like a stream with him, all pouring onto his body.
Jin Nan rolled and wailed on the ground, struggling painfully.
“Poof”!
A strange sound suddenly rang out.
“Poof”! “Poof”!
Suddenly, several blisters appeared on Jin Nan’s face and body.
Those blisters puffed up some of the bugs, but soon deflated and covered him again.
—He was trying to use his ability to move the bugs!
However, he didn’t know if it was because he couldn’t concentrate, or because… his ability didn’t help him.
Jia Qing’s face was pale, and tears kept streaming down.
Xia Jing was sitting slightly sideways on the bed.
This posture ensured that he could see Jin Nan and Jia Qing’s beds, as well as the space below, and could also spare a glance to observe the luminous clock on the wall.
The second hand of the luminous clock kept moving forward, moving forward.
In just a dozen seconds, Jin Nan had turned into a pupa wrapped in bugs.
This pupa struggled to stretch out its hand forward and raise its head, as if trying to look at something, or trying to reach for something—
Xia Jing’s eyes flickered.
But Jin Nan ultimately failed.
He fell back to the ground as if exhausted.
After this, there was no more sound.
On the wall, the second hand of the luminous clock was constantly approaching the number “12” again.
On the ground, countless bugs were wriggling on Jin Nan’s body.
He turned into a small hill again, but a hill that could no longer move.
The second hand finally pointed to “12” again.
Jia Qing and Xia Jing could move!
Jia Qing leaned against the wall as if he had lost his strength, covered in cold sweat. He hadn’t done anything, but he was panting and staring straight at Jin Nan below, shivering.
Xia Jing sat up, staring straight at the luminous clock as if he had a premonition. He watched the second hand stop at the number “12”, and then suddenly rotate rapidly backwards, one circle, two circles, three circles, four circles—
The lights in the dormitory suddenly turned on, startling Jia Qing, “Damn, what, what’s going on?”
His throat was dry and weak.
But it wasn’t just their dormitory, the lights in the entire dormitory building were on!
Jia Qing’s face was full of shock, “Did the NPCs find out that something happened in our dormitory?”
But there was no need to light up the entire dormitory area, right?
Xia Jing quickly got out of bed and said, “No, it’s that time has returned to 9:50!”
Jia Qing abruptly turned his head and looked at the clock.
The hour hand, minute hand, and second hand on the dial had clearly returned to more than two hours ago!
A hurried knock sounded on the door, Xia Jing ran to open it, Song Yang, Liu Yi, Wang Yueran, and the old lady were standing outside. At first glance, seeing the scene in Xia Jing’s dormitory, Wang Yueran almost screamed, but quickly remembered something and covered her mouth.
Song Yang told them to quickly enter the dormitory, then closed the door, and the group gathered around Jin Nan’s body.
—Not really, the others didn’t dare to get close at all.
There weren’t many bugs left on Jin Nan’s bed, the ground was the main camp of the bugs.
He didn’t know if it was because they had achieved their goal, but these white, thin, thread-like bugs were spreading and wriggling aimlessly, quickly exposing Jin Nan’s entire body.
Liu Yi vomited.
Jin Nan’s eyes, mouth, ears, and nose were full of bugs.
These bugs seemed to be able to get into any hole, going in and out of all the openings, bringing out blood, and even brain matter.
His mouth was wide open, his eyes half-open, and his eyeballs were no longer visible, only bloody holes.
These bugs could also spin silk. At this moment, Jin Nan was like he had just been in a silkworm cave, covered in webs.
Xia Jing and Song Yang ignored the bugs and squatted down next to Jin Nan.
Song Yang even directly reached out to push aside the webs and bugs, and lifted Jin Nan’s shirt.
Wang Yueran couldn’t take it anymore and rushed into the bathroom.
This time, they didn’t need Wang Yueran’s “mother” to tell them. Just by Jin Nan’s appearance after death, they could be sure that his cause of death couldn’t be “sudden death”.
Even his skin color after death couldn’t be as rosy as Huang Mo and Xu Jin’s, because those bugs had already gotten into his body.
At this moment, whether it was Jin Nan’s neck, arms, or belly, there were bumps wriggling under his skin. In some places, the bugs had even broken through the skin.
“If it weren’t for these bugs, do you think his body after death would still remain ‘alive’ like Huang Mo and Xu Jin?” Xia Jing asked softly.
“Yes, because that’s a clear clue given by the instance, it won’t change,” Song Yang answered decisively and stood up.
“What the hell is going on? Why did time rewind this time?” Jia Qing shivered, “Do we have to do it all over again?”
“But this child is already dead, the time reversal didn’t bring him back to life,” the old lady hesitated, “If we do it again, wouldn’t that—”
Another person would have to die.
Suddenly, the broadcast sounded, and the hoarse male voice shouted frantically with a hint of schadenfreude and coldness, “Students, students, focus on your studies, don’t listen, don’t look, don’t think! Focus on your studies, don’t listen, don’t look, don’t think—”
Coughing sounds came from the bathroom.
The old lady hurried to check and helped Wang Yueran out.
Wang Yueran vomited, washed her face, and was choked by the sound.
Her face was wet at the moment, as if she had been drenched.
Thinking that not only had they lost a companion, but time had also inexplicably rewound two hours, and another person would have to die, she squatted down and cried in despair.
The knock on the door sounded again, and this time it was the teacher NPC’s cold voice outside the door, “What happened here?”
Xia Jing and Song Yang looked at each other. Song Yang went to open the door and let the teachers carry Jin Nan’s body away.
After carrying the body away, the teacher stopped, looked at them sideways, and asked coldly, “It’s almost ten o’clock, aren’t you going back to your dormitories to sleep?”
Jia Qing, Wang Yueran, and Liu Yi froze.
They didn’t answer, and the teacher didn’t move.
In the confrontation between the two sides, the teacher’s expression became more and more stern, and more and more suspicious.
She turned around completely and looked at them suspiciously.
If they confronted the NPC at this time and were locked in the little black room, it wouldn’t be good.
Song Yang quickly made a decision, “Liu Yi moves to 417, Wang Yueran and Grandma come back to 414 with me, and after we go back, I’ll start a group voice chat on WeChat!”
Without bothering to think about whether the mobile phone would attract the NPC again later, they had to exchange information now.
Several people nodded nervously.
Song Yang took Wang Yueran and the old lady back to 414, and the teacher NPC finally left the dormitory.
The moment they closed their respective doors, the dormitory lights went out again.
This time, no one went back to bed, mainly because their minds were in a mess, and they didn’t know what would happen next.
As soon as Song Yang started the group voice chat, everyone joined immediately.
Song Yang was the first to speak, his calm voice coming from the mobile phone, “Xia Jing, can you tell us what exactly happened just now?”
Xia Jing said straightforwardly, “The time reversal was the result of Jin Nan’s imagination.”
Several people exclaimed in the group, “What?”
Xia Jing’s tone inexplicably had a calming power, “Song Yang said it before.”
“If imagining happy things can’t dispel the fear in your heart, then ‘close your eyes and think about whether there is any way to die that can make you seem dead, but actually escape death’.”
The group fell silent.
In times of crisis, let alone whether the imagined things were enough to dispel the fear in their hearts, many people might have a blank mind and couldn’t think of anything.
But Jin Nan, he did think.
At least after Song Yang proposed that idea, for a moment, he must have thought about what he could do to escape.
And when he was about to be completely swallowed by the bugs, he reached out his hand towards the clock.
—Time reversal was the method he came up with!
“But time reversed, and he didn’t come back to life. Only our time reversed, he still died!” Wang Yueran said in despair.
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