"Do we have to let them manipulate us like this? I've never been so helpless in my life!" Wang Jiayi gasped as she lay in bed, still exhausted from the incident at the cafeteria during lunchtime.

"I don't want this! I want to eat! I want to eat delicious food! I must leave this cursed place!" Zhang Shirun angrily declared while munching on a biscuit.

Li Yingying said, "I also want to go home. I miss my parents and my little dog. I don't want to die here..." As she spoke, tears welled up, and all three of them started crying.

Yes, why are they treating us like this? We just want to attend university.

At that moment, tears streamed down my face too. I didn't know if my grandfather's condition had improved. I missed my family dearly.

But after a moment, I wiped away the tears from my face.

"Stop crying because it won't help. If we want to leave this place, we absolutely can't sit around and wait for death," I said.

Hearing my words, they also stopped crying.

"Guangxin, what do you plan to do?" Wang Jiayi asked.

I thought for a moment and replied, "My grandfather once told me that everything in the world follows the balance of yin and yang. Since there are rules, there must be loopholes, just like when we dealt with those Qing Dynasty monsters in the teaching building this morning. So..."

"So we must find the loopholes in the rules!" all three of them said in unison.

"That's right, but we can't be hasty. Haste makes waste. I suggest we observe for a few more days, thoroughly understand the rules, and then make our next move," I said.

"Okay, we'll listen to you."

All three of them agreed. Now, our next task was to memorize all the rules by heart because we couldn't afford to break them every time.

As I expected, over the next week, we repeated the experiments in the teaching building, cafeteria, and dormitory—the three rule testing grounds. The rules and scenarios in each place were almost identical. However, it was strange that there were several times more cafeteria staff than what we saw on the first day, while the number of students attending classes decreased.

The four of us in the dormitory had mastered the rules and remained unharmed.

Finally, on Sunday evening, we held a dormitory meeting.