【Remember to close the doors and windows before going to bed.】

Only Xin Yue's bed is right next to the window, but she is lying next to me at the moment.

Who opened that window?

Feeling Zheng Xin Yue trembling next to me, I gently patted her shoulder twice.

"Just... let it stay open."

No one dares to go down and close the window. Everyone is afraid of triggering something bad.

I tried to tightly close my eyes and subconsciously hypnotize myself.

Maybe the window was just not closed properly and was blown open by the wind.

The dormitory was very quiet, with only Zheng Xin Yue's breathing in my ears.

I knew she couldn't sleep either. It was impossible to sleep in this situation.

After closing my eyes, I lost the perception of the passage of time.

I don't know how long it has been, but the tranquility inside the dormitory was suddenly broken. I carefully distinguished the distance and source of the sound.

The direction is... over by the window.

Moreover, the sound is getting closer, like something crawling.

Slowly, but with a rhythm.

The sound stopped, and that thing had reached its destination.

Even with my eyes closed, I could clearly feel the darkness in front of me.

This indicates that the only source of light in the dormitory—the window—has been blocked by something.

【No one or anything outside the window is watching you. If there is, please remain quiet and don't disturb it.】

I dared not open my eyes, afraid that the moment I opened them, I would be staring at the face of that thing.

Xin Yue beside me was trembling even more noticeably. I tightly grasped her wrist under the blanket.

The dormitory fell into a eerie silence, but we both knew that thing was still by the window.

In this kind of silence, I became more and more uneasy.

There was no further movement. What was it going to do?

At the moment when uneasiness was about to reach its peak, there was finally some movement at the window.

Someone's alarm clock downstairs in the dormitory went off, and the music floated up through the window.

That thing moved slightly.

Again, there was a slow crawling sound, as if it was going downstairs.

I suppressed my fear and opened my eyes a little, looking towards the window.

A half-human figure was revealed behind the curtain.

No, it should be said that only the head was humanoid, with two long and slender arms on each side.

This was only the upper body. If it was the whole body...

I think it was probably a combination of a human and a spider, a human head with spider-like slender limbs.

I immediately covered Xin Yue's eyes, afraid that if she opened her eyes, she would scream.

No wonder this thing could crawl up along the wall. I was glad that I didn't open my eyes when it was at the window, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to control myself from screaming.

That thing crawled away.

After a while, there were screams and cries of despair from outside the window.

"Help! There's a monster, save us!"

"Xiao Xue, come back quickly, ahhh!!!"

The screams made me break out in a cold sweat and my heartbeat accelerated involuntarily.

The voices weren't far away, perhaps just downstairs from our dormitory.

Was it a coincidence? Or did we really escape unharmed because we kept quiet and didn't disturb the monster outside the window?

Are those rules on the broadcasts only effective if followed completely?

Now the only thing that can be confirmed is that it's not just our dormitory caught in this strange situation.

This entire building, and perhaps the whole school, has been enveloped in the unknown and darkness.