The words on the paper were intermittent, suggesting that the writer's mental state was deteriorating, but the readable content had already made Zhou Bai feel extremely strange.
...
Every night, Mike would sit up and look at the door.
His condition worsened day by day, would he eat him?
Today, Mike still didn't sleep. He just stood at the door, seeming like he would leave at any moment. I didn't dare to get up... I felt he had already noticed something.
The door opened, Mike went out. I tightly wrapped myself in the blanket, forcing myself not to look outside the door.
The next day, Mike didn't come back, another person disappeared, what should we do?
My head feels dizzy, getting up every day is a struggle.
I am becoming more somnolent, he keeps staring at me during class, I feel I have been discovered.
In the morning, I found the paper I put on the door lock had fallen off. Who tampered with the door lock last night?
The pain in my chest is getting worse, I can feel something inside...
I'm too tired, I didn't go to class, he came to find me.
Everyone will be eaten, we have lost hope.
He is watching me, he peeks at me through the keyhole at night, he is waiting for me to come out!!!
I decided not to sleep anymore, I cannot be eaten!!
Not sleeping is the right choice, I feel better and better...
...
Zhou Bai frowned, this was a cultivation big shot, the latter words were mostly meaningless rants, already a bit unintelligible.
Alice beside him asked, "Any thoughts?"
Zhou Bai glanced at this girl who looked only about twelve or thirteen years old, and said softly, "Stay up less, sleep more."
"Not asking about that." Alice huffed angrily, "Who do you think the 'he' mentioned above is?"
Zhou Bai, "I don't know, too few clues, it could be you for all I know."
Alice pouted, "Don't you think the teacher and the whole base are very suspicious? I found this diary in the interlayer of the bed board. That person must have slept in my bed before."
Zhou Bai gave her an unexpected glance. A little girl growing up in such an underground base environment, her entire worldview was shaped by this environment, it's impressive she could actively suspect things.
However, Zhou Bai didn't plan to discuss much with a kid, he nodded and said, "Sleep early at night, don't end up like a Daluo Golden Immortal."
Seeing Zhou Bai about to leave, Alice stomped her foot angrily and caught up, saying, "Don't you want to leave the base? Don't you want to see outside? There might not even be an apocalypse!"
Seeing Zhou Bai still looking like he wouldn't pay attention to her, Alice said, "Ban Du's personality completely changed last month, as if he became a different person. He had also looked at this diary, but when I asked him about it again, he completely forgot it."
Zhou Bai's steps paused slightly, he looked at Alice, "What else do you know?"
Alice, "The laboratory on the fifth floor underground, Ban Du had been there, after he came back, he became a different person. I even suspect he isn't Ban Du at all!"
"How did he get to the fifth floor underground?" Zhou Bai touched his chin and asked, "I asked Elsa, the door there has fingerprint recognition, only the teacher can get through."
Alice said, "If we want to get out, we need to open the alloy door on the first floor, and to open the alloy door, we need an electronic card. Ban Du and I searched the entire base but couldn't find it. The electronic card can only be in the laboratory.
We found a ventilation duct connected to the fifth floor underground, Ban Du and I spent several months cutting the grate inside.
But after Ban Du went to the laboratory that day, he changed completely, and the grate in the ventilation duct was repaired…"
Fear appeared on Alice's face, "What on earth happened… Did the teacher find out about us?"
Zhou Bai's eyes showed a thoughtful expression, "Do you want to take a look outside?"
"You…"
"Then take me to that vent."
Whether it was the so-called electronic card, the cat related to the auxiliary system, or the secrets of the base and the teacher, they all seemed to be related to the underground laboratory. Zhou Bai decided to go see for himself.
So, under Alice's guidance, he found an air duct under the cafeteria ceiling and then reassured Alice to go back.
That night, after looking at the soundly sleeping Elsa, Zhou Bai quietly got up from the bed.
"Sure enough, I have to go at night."
However, the moment he reached out to open the door, Elsa's earlier warning flashed through his mind, don't leave the room at night.
"It's fine, the weird face I saw before was just that cat." Zhou Bai comforted himself, "Moreover, I am a man with telekinesis. Alice and Ban Du also cut the air duct every night, what am I afraid of?"
He walked out of the room and gently closed the door, looking at the pitch-black corridor, Zhou Bai frowned slightly.
Because it was an underground space with no light at all, the corridor outside was almost pitch dark, Zhou Bai found he couldn't see anything.
So, he had to reach out and feel along the wall, walking toward the cafeteria based on memory.
After walking a bit, Zhou Bai couldn't help but swallow his saliva, the absolute silence coupled with the near-absolute darkness made every second harder to bear than imagined.
After a few steps, Zhou Bai kept feeling as if something was watching him in the darkness.
After much difficulty, he reached the cafeteria and groped in the direction of the air duct.
In the darkness, Zhou Bai's hands moved one inch at a time up the solid wall. His hand suddenly touched something soft.
He was startled, 'What is this?' His hand followed the soft thing upwards, one hand suddenly grabbed Zhou Bai's mouth, scaring him almost to activate his telekinesis.
"It's me." Alice whispered, "I guessed you would come at night, what's your plan to get down? This time, I'm going with you."
Zhou Bai rolled his eyes, Alice continued, "This time, I must see for myself what's going on, if you don't take me, I'll shout…"
"Alright, alright, I'll take you." Zhou Bai said helplessly, "Let go of my neck, it hurts."
Alice was stunned and slowly said, "…I didn't grab your neck."
The hairs on Zhou Bai's neck stood up in the darkness, he instantly activated his Primordial Spirit power and pushed away the hand grabbing his neck.
Then he reached out and grabbed Alice, looking nervously around the dark surroundings.
Alice, who was caught, said with fear, "What happened? What is it?"
Zhou Bai, "Who's there?"
He looked at the pitch-black space, using his Primordial Spirit power to sweep around but couldn't sense anyone else.
"Come out."
In the utter silence of darkness, no sound responded to Zhou Bai's words.