"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Loud knocking sounds echoed in the corridor, not from our dormitory, but it wasn't far away.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The person continued to knock forcefully.

"Inspection for prohibited electrical appliances! Open the door quickly!"

A sharp and thin voice of a woman, sending chills down our spines.

【There is only one male administrator for the dormitory, and the administrator wouldn't inspect prohibited electrical appliances after lights out.】

Why is it a woman?

Moreover, it's already lights out.

Soon, footsteps followed, the sound of high heels approaching our dormitory.

One after another, the doors of the dormitory were knocked, and now it was the turn of the neighboring dormitory.

"Open the door! I'm the administrator, open it quickly!"

"Have you been secretly keeping prohibited electrical appliances that are not allowed in the school?! If you have any, it's best to hand them over immediately!"

Who dares to open the door? Unless they don't value their lives.

"Open the door! If you don't open it soon, you will all face punishment!"

In addition to being sharp and thin, the woman's voice carried a hint of coldness and stickiness.

The corridor fell silent for a few seconds, and the knocking turned into pounding on the door, "Bang! Bang! Bang!," even more forcefully and urgently.

I felt that even the door of our dormitory was vibrating, as if it would have been broken down if it weren't made of iron.

All of us were filled with indescribable fear, sweating for the next-door dormitory.

What's even more terrifying is that if they don't open the door soon, it will be our turn.

Just then, a scream came from the next door.

"Yang Lu, are you crazy?! Don't open the door!"

Creak---the door of the neighboring dormitory was slowly pushed open.

The woman's voice traveled through a wall into our dormitory, and it was quiet inside, so we could hear it clearly.

"Have you been secretly keeping prohibited electrical appliances in your dormitory? Hand them over voluntarily!"

The girls in the dormitory denied it in a panic.

Then, there was the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

"What's this?"

"Hehe, I found it. Electronic alarm clocks are not allowed in the dormitory, you know?"

Electronic alarm clocks?

Why would alarm clocks be prohibited electrical appliances?

I looked around the dormitory and saw that we had many electronic alarm clocks.

It seems that the prohibited electrical appliances she was checking for are completely different from what we normally think of, so we couldn't hide those things in advance.

"Except for the student who opened the door just now, the rest of you will all face punishment."

The woman laughed sinisterly.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Through the wall, we could hear the screams of the girls next door.

With a bang, the door was slammed shut.

The girls in the neighboring dormitory were probably in grave danger.

Zheng Xinyue sat beside me, her head buried in her blanket, whimpering softly.

But it seems like I've found a thread in this tangled ball of yarn—Yang Lu, the girl who was punished last night, was wearing a black mask this morning, and I don't know if she's human or ghost.

So, she's no longer part of our wave of students...

Did she team up with the administrator? Or with some "things" that I haven't figured out yet?

No one dared to speak, let alone speculate on what was happening in the neighboring dormitory at this moment.

Maybe, next, it might be our turn.

However, in this fear and unease, we spent the whole night on edge, but that woman never knocked on our dormitory door again, and she never came out of the neighboring dormitory.

We surprisingly made it through the whole night safely.

The attendance check was over.