"This, this is a deadlock, isn't it?"

Chen Taotao finished reading the words on the paper and immediately slumped.

Yes, from the new rules, it is indeed a deadlock.

At this moment, there were only five people in our dormitory, and Wu Yuqi, who had died, had not told a story yet, so even if we pushed ourselves, we could only tell five stories.

So we could only stay in the dormitory, silently awaiting death.

"This must be a punishment for our cruelty just now. If Yuqi didn't die, maybe..."

Luo Mengying sat on the edge of the bed, crying and sighing.

Fearing that she would affect Song Xin's emotions, I interrupted her directly.

"If we didn't do that just now, the outcome would be Yuqi not being able to save herself and dying.

"And one of us five would also be punished to death!"

Song Xin also stood up, her composure and calmness restored.

"What's done is done, we all have to focus on staying alive, right?"

Zhang Junhan nodded, "Song Xin, I trust you, what should we do next?"

Song Xin immediately started her analysis.

"From the new rules, there is no compulsory requirement to tell a story.

"In other words, as long as we don't leave the dormitory, we might be safe.

"Although this is not a long-term solution, at least we still have time to investigate the loopholes hidden in the rules or find new rules."

I understood what Song Xin meant. The so-called loopholes in the rules were like what we did just now, cutting off Wu Yuqi's limbs.

Some things, if they were bound to happen, could actually be made to happen earlier, or in a different way.

After we all calmed down, we discussed and decided to start by understanding the situation outside the dormitory.

Since we found Wu Yuqi hanging upside down in the toilet, our phone networks had all crashed, preventing us from contacting the outside world.

So we had to go to the balcony and try to contact the people in the adjacent dormitory.

The balcony was part of the dormitory, so it didn't count as leaving the dormitory.

When we reached the balcony, we found that the typhoon had stopped, but there was a thick fog outside, shrouding the entire school, making it impossible to see anything.

"Is anyone there?" I tapped the wall connecting to the neighboring dormitory and shouted towards that direction.

"Yes! Yes!" A frightened voice quickly came from the next room.

"There's a woman who returned from a business trip early. She put on a white dress to prank her boyfriend, applied some scary makeup, and went into her boyfriend's kitchen, hair disheveled.

"While waiting for her boyfriend to come back, she saw her own terrifyingly authentic appearance in the kitchen mirror, so she gave up the idea of scaring her boyfriend.

"Later, she mentioned this to her boyfriend, who was very horrified because there was no mirror in her boyfriend's kitchen at all."

The girl in the neighboring dormitory didn't give us a chance to speak and eagerly told a horror story.

After listening, we all looked at each other.

The girl anxiously asked, "Isn't it terrifying?"

Chen Taotao's face turned pale, clearly frightened. She just opened her mouth to answer, but Song Xin immediately covered her mouth, shaking her head, indicating for her not to speak.

"Please, quickly say 'scary' for me. If no one says 'scary', I'll die.

"Everybody in our dormitory died that way!

"Please, help me! Please!"

The girl became more and more agitated as she spoke, eventually escalating to frantically pounding on the wall.

We dared not speak because nobody knew what the rules were in their dormitory.

Soon, the girl let out a horrifying scream, and then everything returned to silence.

A piece of paper with blood on it floated over from the neighboring balcony, lingered on our balcony railing for a moment, then floated away.

I read the words on it clearly - "If you tell horror stories to others, the person who says 'scary' will be punished. If no one says 'scary', then you will be punished."