Strange Events in Room 202

Chapter 9

Fang Yi couldn't help but laugh when she saw Da Kai's silly expression. Da Kai laughed along with her. After laughing for a while, their eyes met. Fang Yi took a few steps forward and gently closed her eyes.

Da Kai swallowed hard, mechanically moved a little closer to Fang Yi, but didn't dare to kiss her. Fang Yi waited for a while, and seeing that Da Kai didn't react, she suddenly turned around, looked away shyly, and said, "The wind is so refreshing, I have to go back now, goodbye."

Dejected, Da Kai watched Fang Yi walk into the girls' dormitory, thinking to himself: Why wasn't I braver? I wasted such a chance. After Fang Yi had completely disappeared from his sight, he headed towards the boys' dormitory.

When they arrived at the square in front of the dormitory, they saw that almost everyone in the dormitory was standing there, including Gu Xing and his group, as well as the school supervisor and dormitory supervisor, who were speaking loudly to the students.

"What's wrong?" Da Kai walked over to Gu Xing's side.

"There was a fire just now, but it was a small one and it was put out in no time. But those two guys talked about fire safety for ages." Gu Xing said, pointing to the school supervisor and dormitory supervisor above.

The fire broke out in room 309 on the fourth floor. The school supervisor found several students in the room, criticized them for a while, and then ordered them to disperse.

Gu Xing and the others returned to their dormitory and looked at the clock; it was past eleven.

"Strange, a whole day has passed and nothing has happened," Li Xu said, sitting back on the bed.

"What on earth is that woman up to?" Yang Mian was very worried, wondering what might happen to her sister.

“Xu Chen wanted to harm Yang Yi, so he did it a long time ago. He doesn’t need to play any games with us. Things will work themselves out. In a couple of days, everything will be fine.” Gu Xing comforted Yang Mian, but in reality, he wasn’t so sure himself.

As night deepened, Gu Xing and the others sat on the ground in a circle, each comforting Yang Mian and saying whatever came to mind. In short, everyone had to be on high alert, just in case.

Chapter Six: The Ever-Repeating Saturday

Li Xu was woken up again by the knocking on the door. Of the group that Gu Xing and the others had vowed to stay up all night, only Li Xu was awake. Li Xu groggily opened the door, and Mo Xiaoqiang was standing outside.

"What's wrong? It's you again." Li Xu stood in front of the door, still half asleep, looking annoyed.

"What do you mean, 'me again'? I don't know what you're talking about. Is Da Kai there?" Mo Xiaoqiang peeked out from behind Li Xu and saw that Gu Xing and the others were all sleeping on the floor. He said, "Damn, why are you sleeping on the floor when you have a bed? Are you being a masochist?"

"Mind your own business, I'm going to sleep, you can leave." Li Xu slowly closed the door.

"I'm looking to play ball with Da Kai..." Mo Xiaoqiang said, but Li Xu pushed him away.

Then Li Xu slammed the door shut again.

Yang Mian, Gu Xing, and Zhang Da woke up at the same time and saw Li Xu walk back to bed, looking completely asleep. It seemed that everyone had fallen asleep last night.

Several people sat silently, occasionally snoring loudly. After a while, a commotion broke out outside the window, and Li Xu rushed to the window to look.

"What's going on?" Gu Xing didn't want to stand up, so he sat on the ground and asked Li Xu. Zhang Da also went with Li Xu to watch the excitement.

"There's a fight going on, it looks like those two guys from yesterday."

"They beat you every day, without ever explaining anything, they're like animals." Gu Xing was a little annoyed, but he didn't care about anything else and went back to bed.

It was almost noon when Da Kai finally woke up. Gu Xing and the others didn't want to get food, so they went straight to the canteen. Today, the canteen had Li Xu's favorite tomato and egg stir-fry. The red tomatoes were all mushy and mixed with some white egg. Yang Mian felt nauseous when he saw it. He took his meat and rice and went to the next table to eat. At this moment, two people walked over. It turned out to be the two who had been fighting earlier. They had injuries to their hands and feet.

Gu Xing and Yang Mian just kept eating, while Li Xu and the others gossiped about others. After they all finished eating, only Li Xu was left. Gu Xing and the others went straight back to their dormitory, leaving Li Xu alone.

And so, nothing happened until evening. After dinner, Yang Mian returned to his dormitory and asked Gu Xing, puzzled, "Nothing has happened so far, what is that woman up to?"

"I don't know either." Gu Xing said, shaking his head. After saying that, he sat down at the computer to go online. He didn't want to mention Xu Chen. Yang Mian seemed to have seen through Gu Xing's thoughts and didn't bring it up again.

Just like last night, Li Xu, Yang Mian, Zhang Da, and Da Kai started playing cards. After a while, a group of people rushed in. It was the same group from last night. One of them stood up and said to Gu Xing, who was online, "There are live football broadcasts online. Let's watch them here."

"Wasn't there already a match last night? Why is there another one today?" Gu Xing looked at the man in confusion.

"That's not true. It's only available tonight, not last night." The man panicked, snatched Gu Xing's spot, and logged into the website.

When Gu Xing saw that the two teams playing online were the same as the two teams from last night, and all the live streams showed the same thing, he immediately asked those people, "Haven't you watched it?"

"It's a live stream, do you think it's possible we watched it?"

After listening, Gu Xing felt very strange. He stared straight at the live stream, but the live stream he was watching now was no different from the one he had watched last night.

Yang Mian and his friends were playing cards and didn't pay attention to the people who came in, assuming they were just there to watch football. While they were playing, another person came to the door and said to Da Kai, "Da Kai, someone's looking for you."

Da Kai put the cards back in his pocket and walked out of the dormitory. Li Xu asked the person, "Who was looking for Da Kai?"

"I don't know, but it was a woman."

When Li Xu heard it was a woman, and thinking it was Fang Yi again, the others went out, leaving only Gu Xing in the dormitory watching the same live stream as yesterday.

Da Kai drove to the dormitory entrance, and sure enough, it was Fang Yi.

He smiled broadly and asked, "What brings you here?"

"Didn't you ask me to go to the movies?"

"Going again? Didn't you go last night?" Da Kai's eyes widened, looking very surprised.

"What do you mean, 'going again'? You asked me to go to the movies on Saturday night, and I waited for you in the dorm for ages, so I came to find you. You're so pathetic to expect a girl to come to you first." Fang Yi seemed a little angry.

"Didn't we go see it together last night? Why are we going again today? You're not addicted to it, are you?"

Fang Yi snorted and turned to leave.

Da Kai stood there, stunned, thinking about the conversation. Yang Mian and Li Xu had already followed him out and walked up to him, asking what had happened. Li Xu was chuckling to himself, but Da Kai saw this and started chasing after him. The two chased each other back to the dormitory, and a certain smell wafted over.

"Do you smell anything?" Li Xu asked Gu Xing as soon as he came in.

"There seems to be a smell." Gu Xing hadn't noticed it before, but Li Xu reminded him, so he sniffed hard and realized that the smell was coming from the group of people who came to watch the football match.

"Have you all taken a shower?" Gu Xing asked one of them.

"We took a shower and ate a long time ago to watch this game," the man replied, engrossed in the game, without turning his head.

Gu Xing ignored the group of people. He had already watched the game last night, so he went back to bed, and Yang Mian and the others all gathered around him.

“Something’s not right,” Yang Mian said to Gu Xing first.

"Yes, what happened today is too similar to yesterday. There was a fight in the morning, and they all came to watch the game in the evening. Moreover, the live broadcast content was exactly the same," Gu Xing replied.

“Yes, Fang Yi also said that I asked her to go to the movies tonight, but we already went yesterday.” Da Kai agreed.

Zhang Da concluded, "It seems we are repeating what we experienced yesterday."

“A small fire broke out in room 309 around 10 p.m. last night. If Zhang Da’s guess is true, we will know whether it is true or not when we wait until after 10 p.m.

After listening to Li Xu's explanation, Gu Xing and the others nodded in agreement. They had been waiting for quite a while. Although the game was over, the group was reluctant to go back and was still reading the comments online.

At 10:15, someone suddenly shouted from upstairs, "Fire!" Then came a lot of footsteps and noise from upstairs, down the stairs, and then to the next room, along with a few clear swear words.

The people who came to watch the game were initially taken aback, but then rushed out of the door in a hurry. Some people even told Gu Xing and the others to hurry up and leave. Gu Xing and the others were somewhat prepared at this point, but it was still just speculation. If a fire really broke out, it would be troublesome. So, after those people left, the few of them also hurriedly walked out of the dormitory.

Once outside, a large crowd had gathered, all looking up at the building. Gu Xing and his group also looked up and saw that the fire had indeed started in room 309, but it had already been extinguished. Some people in the square saw that the fire was out and were about to return to their dormitories when they were stopped by the dormitory supervisor. The school supervisor also arrived, and the two of them began to talk at length.

“Just as it happened last night,” Zhang Da said in surprise.

As Zhang Da was speaking, a gust of wind blew by, carrying a scent from the people in the square, just like the one they had smelled in the dormitory earlier. Gu Xing and the others didn't pay any attention to it. After listening to the two school supervisors talk for an hour, they returned to their dormitory.

All the events were just like yesterday. As Zhang Da said, they were experiencing the same things as yesterday. Several of them couldn't sleep either, so they sat around on the ground and discussed it.

"This is incredible! Xu Chen actually has this ability!" Zhang Da exclaimed excitedly, intrigued by this phenomenon that defied the logic of nature.

“Now I finally understand what she meant by two points. She said that these three days refer to the time at that time, not your time. In other words, no matter how many days have passed, as long as the world's time remains Saturday, we can only be considered to have spent one day in this school.” Yang Mian stood up and looked at everyone.

A girl's reply, "That's right," came from outside the window. Everyone looked out and saw Xu Chen floating outside.

Everyone was too scared to speak. Only Gu Xing slowly walked over, and Da Kai followed him, worried that something might happen to Gu Xing.

Gu Xing looked at Xu Chen. She used to be so adorable, but now she was like a devil, making everyone uneasy. Gu Xing didn't know what to say at this moment, and just looked at Xu Chen.

Xu Chen and Gu Xing looked at each other and said, "You guessed right. You are repeating what you experienced today. You can't get out of this space. So your days here can only be considered as one day. But don't worry, as I said, my abilities are limited. Don't give up easily. After all, I don't want to be finished so soon."

After listening to Xu Chen finish speaking in one breath, Gu Xing took a few steps forward and looked at her. Xu Chen was a little awkward at this moment and slowly floated away. Yang Mian rushed over and said, "Don't go. If we finish playing this game and no one quits, will you really give Yang Yi back to us?"

"Don't worry, I mean what I say. I'm not like Gu Xing, who's shameless." Xu Chen said with some resentment. After he finished speaking, he fell headfirst down. Gu Xing and Da Kai went to the window and looked down, but they couldn't see anything.

Gu Xing let out a breath and sat back on the bed.

"I'm not like Gu Xing, a shameless person." Xu Chen's words just now echoed in Gu Xing's ears, refusing to leave. Why would Xu Chen say that? Gu Xing kept recalling: "I haven't known her for very long, and I haven't done anything to wrong her, so why would she say that?"

At this time, Yang Mian also sat in a corner, not wanting to talk. Da Kai and the others didn't know what to do either. Until dawn, only Li Xu and Da Kai fell asleep. Yang Mian and Gu Xing thought about things all night with heavy hearts. Zhang Da also sat on the bed, not knowing what he was thinking about.

At nine o'clock, there was a knock on the door. Yang Mian and Gu Xing seemed to be lost in thought, not hearing it. Zhang Da opened the door and was greeted by a foul smell. Zhang Da covered his mouth and saw Mo Xiaoqiang.

"Da Kai~~~Are you there...?" Mo Xiaoqiang said a little slowly.

Zhang Da stepped back, avoiding the smell, and said, "You're still asleep. Do you need to see him?"

"Damn it~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's nine o'clock, and he's still sleeping... I'm going to find him to play basketball." Mo Xiaoqiang looked around the dormitory room unwillingly.

Unable to stand the stench, Zhang Da shoved him out, saying, "Come back at noon." Then he closed the door.

Li Xu was woken up by the sound of the door closing. Sitting on the bed, he asked Zhang Da who it was. Before Zhang Da could answer, Li Xu said repeatedly, "Oh... oh, I know, it must be that guy Mo Xiaoqiang, right? He came to play ball with Da Kai, didn't he?"

"Yes, it was him. How did you know?" Zhang Da walked up to Li Xu curiously.

“He comes to see Da Kai every morning, saying the same thing. Didn’t he say our time is stuck on Saturday? He’s come twice already, and I opened the door both times. How could I not know?” Li Xu finished speaking and went back to bed.

When Zhang Da heard him say that, he started talking to him again: "Then in a little while, there will be a fight in front of the dormitory."

"Yes, about three minutes."

Zhang Da immediately rushed to the window and looked at the scene of the incident. He saw two people pulling at each other, then arguing, and then fighting. In less than three minutes, they were fighting. The onlookers and those trying to break up the fight were all arguing. Li Xu also went to the window to watch. After a while, the school supervisor came to mediate and the matter was over. Li Xu lazily went back to bed to sleep, but Zhang Da stood there thinking.

When it was noon, Da Kai, Zhang Da, and Li Xu went to the canteen for lunch, leaving Gu Xing and Yang Mian behind who had no appetite. They planned to get food for them after they finished eating. When they got to the canteen, Li Xu still ate the same mushy tomato and egg rice. After they finished eating, they got food for Gu Xing and Yang Mian and walked out of the canteen, but they smelled a foul odor.

“It’s that smell again. Can you smell it?” Zhang Da asked, looking at Da Kai and Li Xu.

"No, no, it's so annoying, who cares about the taste?" Da Kai said irritably, and quickened his pace.

"I smell it too, it smells like a dead rat." Li Xu looked around but couldn't find any rat carcasses. However, there were several people sitting in the roadside bushes reading.

The group returned to their dormitory. Gu Xing and Yang Mian were also a little hungry. They each ate only a few bites. Gu Xing suddenly stopped, looked at Yang Mian, and said, "I'm sorry. If I hadn't provoked Xu Chen to come back, this wouldn't have happened."

“You don’t need to apologize, we’re friends.” Yang Mian looked at him, and there was not a trace of blame in his eyes.

Yang Mian put down his lunchbox and stood up, saying, "Zhang Da, Da Kai, Li Xu, I don't know what we'll encounter this time, so if there's any danger, you should withdraw. I won't blame you."

"Damn it, what are you saying? Aren't we friends?" Da Kai also stood up.

Room 202 fell silent; the unspoken bond between the men was palpable.

That evening, the group of people who wanted to watch the game arrived at the dormitory on time, repeating the same lines: "There's a live football broadcast online, let's watch it here." The difference was that they spoke slowly and deliberately, and they brought a foul odor with them. Gu Xing and his four friends couldn't stand it, and they couldn't get rid of them, so they all went outside to get some fresh air. As soon as they stepped out of the dormitory, they saw Fang Yi approaching from afar and greeted her with a big smile, but Fang Yi's face was filled with displeasure.

Before Fang Yi could scold him, Da Kai already knew what had happened and spoke first: "I made plans to see a movie with you, didn't I? I forgot for a moment, I'm sorry."

Seeing that he had apologized, Fang Yi's expression softened a bit. She gestured to Gu Xing and the others, and then went to the screening room with them.

“It’s great to have a big house, I can go to the movies with my beloved girl over and over again.” After Li Xu finished speaking, Zhang Da nudged him. Li Xu suddenly realized what was happening, looked at Gu Xing, and saw that he had turned his head away and was not saying anything. Li Xu coughed guiltily and then stopped talking.

On the other side, after Da Kai and Fang Yi sat down in the screening room, Da Kai smelled a foul odor permeating the room and wanted to leave. However, seeing Fang Yi's enthusiasm and remembering that she had said she had been looking forward to watching this movie for a long time, Da Kai did not want to spoil her mood, so he endured the smell and sat down.

After watching for about half an hour, Da Kai covered his nose, glanced at Fang Yi, and seeing that she was intently watching the movie, he asked her in a low voice, "Do you smell anything bad?"