However, Bai Yuze knew that he couldn't just sit back and do nothing in the current situation. The most important thing at hand was to gather information. As for whether Yang Peng's hints were correct, Bai Yuze decided to find them first.
Thinking of this, Bai Yuze quickly searched the man's corpse. After confirming that only the surgical knife remained on the corpse, Bai Yuze wanted to reach out and touch the knife, but his intuition told him it was best not to casually touch anything on the corpse for now.
Bai Yuze stood up, put the milk candy into his pocket, and handed the note from his pocket and the previous note to the two girls.
"Remember the rules on it; this is key to our survival."
After saying this, Bai Yuze poked his head out the door. After confirming there were no strange phenomena in the corridor, he took a deep breath and pushed open the wooden door of Room 101.
What greeted his eyes was still a dilapidated bed, but unlike Room 104, this room had a bedside table.
The cabinet was divided into upper and lower layers. Bai Yuze opened the drawer and found it empty, as was the lower layer.
"Isn't there one in this room?"
Yang Peng said he had scattered the hints in every corner of the residential house. Could it be literally every corner?
Bai Yuze stood frozen, staring at the bedside table and thinking for a while. Then he yanked both drawers out violently and squatted down to look.
Sure enough, a note was pasted in the remaining space inside.
"Today is my first week at Sunshine Residential House. The room is very strange; supplies are refreshed at irregular intervals. To be honest, this feeling is not good. There are always children's 吵鬧 noises at night, coming from upstairs, but my intuition tells me it would be foolish to go up and argue."
"Monday: The clock in the corridor is broken; it's stuck at a certain time, so I can only use my phone to tell time. I need to rest at night, otherwise my body will get tired."
"Tuesday: I think I should go look for some information, but I can't go to the upper floors, whether day or night. It seems the time in the residential house doesn't depend on the outside world but on certain things inside..."
"Wednesday: How strange, there's a sound of chopping things coming from upstairs from time to time, and it lasted all day."
"Thursday: The environment is becoming increasingly eerie. Moss is starting to grow on the surrounding walls, and the residential house is becoming damp!"
"Friday: I feel like my memory is starting to decline, so I'm incredibly glad I made a habit of recording my daily life."
"Saturday: I found that if I don't sleep at night, I can..."
"Sunday: I almost died when I was a child @#@#￥#@%% I have a bad feeling, a feeling very similar to what humans experience when facing death!"
The content on the note ended here, but it revealed a lot of information.
"What can happen if you don't sleep at night?"
Bai Yuze looked at the note and fell into deep thought. It was clear that the message for Saturday being destroyed was Its doing, which revealed two pieces of information.
One, the note had already been discovered by It, and it was likely that some of the rules on the note had been modified by It.
Two, something strange would happen if he didn't sleep at night, and the phone in Tuanzi's hand could be used to check the time, but Bai Yuze always felt that the fact that only Tuanzi had a phone was not that simple.
Bai Yuze decided to form an alliance with the two girls before proceeding with the next step of exploration. After all, the item that could confirm the time was currently in Tuanzi's hand. Whether rationally or emotionally, an alliance with the two girls was necessary.
"Tsk! Although in my previous life I knew the underwear of these anime characters inside and out, the people standing in front of me now are living, breathing humans! Dealing with people and all that! It's so troublesome!"
Bai Yuze irritably tugged at his school uniform, and then something surprising happened!
He saw three marks on his left wrist, looking as if they had been cut by a sharp object, and not very deeply.
In this strange world, Bai Yuze's vigilance was at its peak. Let alone scratches, even if a fly flew by, he would confirm if it was male or female!
Therefore, upon seeing three scratches on his wrist, he immediately began to check if there were other things on his body.
Just then, the two girls outside the door pushed it open, wanting to ask Bai Yuze some questions, and so...
"Ah!!! Pervert!"
Youbihama, in her panic, accidentally dropped her phone, and Bai Yuze, to save this important tool, selflessly pounced in the direction of the two girls.
Bai Yuze gripped the phone tightly in his right hand. Seeing the phone completely intact, he immediately let out a sigh of relief.
It is well known that when a person is in a state of panic, if one hand exerts force, the other hand will also subconsciously exert force.
"Ugh! It... it hurts!"
Hearing a soft whimper from beneath him, Bai Yuze only then noticed what his left hand was doing!
Bai Yuze quickly got up, looking left and right, pretending to be very busy.
"I am very sorry!"
Yukino silently helped Youbihama up. She had watched the whole thing from the side. She didn't say much; arguing and bickering in a dangerous place was the most meaningless thing to do.
Bai Yuze felt the heavy atmosphere in the air, so he put on his clothes and chuckled apologetically to the two girls.
"I'm sorry, I acted that way because three scratches inexplicably appeared on my wrist."
Bai Yuze scratched his head, showed the two girls the scratches on his wrist, and then said,
"You should also check yourselves for any injuries."
After saying this, Bai Yuze fled from Room 101 as if escaping, hiding in Room 102 and closing the door behind him.
Although Bai Yuze was currently separated from the two girls by a corridor and two doors, he could still clearly hear the sound of clothes being removed and other sounds...
That seemed to be... snoring?
"Snoring?"
Bai Yuze stood up. He first glanced at the dead body in front of him, confirming that it was still lying there quietly, then he shifted his gaze elsewhere.
"This location is..."
Bai Yuze pushed open the door and walked out. Only his footsteps echoed in the corridor. As he slowly approached Room 106, the snoring became increasingly clear.
At the same time, he also noticed a clock hanging on the wall between Room 104, where he had been before, and Room 106.
The clock had no glass cover, and its hands were steadily stopped at a certain time.
"Half past twelve at night? No, it could also be exactly twelve noon."
Suddenly! Bai Yuze's pupils constricted!
"Why did I subconsciously think it was midnight? Logically, the lights are so bright..."
"Wait! The lights!"
Bai Yuze realized why he subconsciously thought it was midnight: because if it were noon, there would be no need for the lights to be on! Therefore, the basic common sense of turning on lights at night made Bai Yuze subconsciously believe it was night, and he also subconsciously thought the time on the clock was midnight!
Bai Yuze turned on the phone. Although Tuanzi had set a lock screen password, checking the time was still possible.
The phone clearly displayed:
21:30
And that rule instantly flashed through Bai Yuze's mind.
"The sound insulation of the residential house is sometimes very poor. For safety, everyone is strictly forbidden to go out at night."
"It all matches! Everything matches. Because the sound insulation is poor, snoring can be heard..."
Bai Yuze swallowed hard. He dared not recall the latter part of the rule... He felt as if something was standing behind him.
Now Bai Yuze was certain that something was indeed standing behind him, because a pair of large hands had already climbed onto his shoulders...
A drop of cold sweat slid down Bai Yuze's forehead.
He suppressed his inner fear, reached out, and moved the hands on the clock, setting them to nine in the morning.
Click!
The lights went out!
Bai Yuze felt the pair of hands clinging to his shoulders disappear.
He collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. He was very glad he remembered another hint.
"It seems the time in the residential house doesn't depend on the outside world but on certain things inside."
Bai Yuze stood up and took down the clock; such an important tool had to be carried with him.
And on the back of the clock, there was a note, on which a sentence was written crookedly, with somewhat childish handwriting.
"I wish time could stop."