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Chapter 657 Dormitory Manager Kuai Hongji

The next moment, the old kerosene lamp rose up like a fire with new firewood added, and the warm light suddenly became much hotter. The black, dirty stuff hissed and emitted white smoke, as if it had been thrown onto a barbecue grill.

They were quickly burned out, but as the white smoke appeared and swirled in the dormitory, it vaguely formed the shape of a standing angel sculpture in front of Kuai Hongji. The angel sculpture looked coldly at Kuai Hongji, as if it could seep out from the layers at any moment and kill him.

Kuai Hongji had just finished dealing with the dark object when he noticed the presence of the angel sculpture.

He then slowly turned around to face the illusory mist, his brows furrowing slightly.

He gently placed the old kerosene lamp on the dormitory table.

As the old kerosene lamp slipped from his hand, the angel sculpture lunged at him without hesitation.

Kuai Hongji did nothing but coldly watch the angel sculpture approach him, but the angel sculpture spontaneously combusted just before it was about to pounce on him.

"Bear...! Huff..."

In the blink of an eye, the shadow of the angel sculpture burned to ashes like a lit talisman.

After eliminating the filthy creatures, Kuai Hongji silently walked to the window.

The dormitory management rules prohibit dormitory managers from looking out the window, but Kuai Hongji didn't care.

He looked out the window.

Outside the window was a bizarre scene that could overturn all ordinary people's perceptions, and even cause their perceptions to collapse. A torrential rain was pouring down from directly below the window, and in the rain, there seemed to be some humanoid things falling down.

Around the window, the entire wall was covered with thick moss. When Kuai Hongji pushed open the window, it was as if he had opened a hole in the thick moss.

Above that window, a large patch of nocturnal plants were diligently climbing through the moss.

They were clearly climbing down from above, but they looked incredibly strained, as if their sense of space was the opposite of Kuai Hongji's at that moment.

Kuai Hongji narrowed his eyes.

His expression remained as indifferent as ever, as if none of this was beyond his comprehension.

He glanced up—in the direction from which countless nocturnal creatures were crawling—and saw a vast black sea roaring and crashing, its waves breaking into countless droplets of water vapor on the black reefs.

Below him, at the source of the torrential rain, was a thick layer of clouds, and beneath those clouds, there seemed to be an upside-down black castle...

Art Building.

That's... the art building.

The art building, suspended upside down in the sky above the campus, seems to have landed on the dormitory building in a way that is infinitely close to the campus!

At the edge of the cliff near the art building, some creature seemed to sense Kuai Hongji's presence. Using him as a frame of reference, it took a small step forward and looked in his direction...

A pair of bright golden eyes, like the sun emerging from the clouds, shone with a terrifying and scorching light upon Kuai Hongji.

Night watchman!
It's "Night Watchman-03"!
The night watchman who holds the ancient lamp and the lamp "Mingzhao" and stands on the edge of the art building!

He and Kuai Hongji looked at each other across two layers of clothing!

Unexpectedly, Kuai Hongji nodded slightly to him, and then silently looked away.

……

X023年5月11日，23:06，在蒯鸿基看向艺术楼的半分钟前。

On the edge of the cliff of the art building, "Night Watchman-03" holding the ancient lamp "Mingzhao" gazes at the black waves sweeping into the sky ahead, his expression calm and undisturbed. At his feet, on the cliff face covered with thick moss, countless nocturnal creatures are climbing one after another.

But despite the endless tide of these nocturnal creatures, without exception, they were all swept away by the invisible field surrounding "Night Watchman-03" just as they were about to reach the edge of the cliff, and fell into the black abyss below.

As they fell, their forms flickered between the extraordinary and the bizarre, imprinted between layers by the storm in the black sea, and subtly rippled into the campus's reality layer.

Some nocturnal creatures, by sheer chance, managed to penetrate the barriers of the layers and fall from the top of the dormitory building, like a grotesque angel, while others, amidst the overlapping and fluctuating layers, projected their climbing figures onto the outer wall of the dormitory building...

This created the scene that Kuai Hongji saw when he looked out the window.

This is why dormitory supervisors are not allowed to look out the window in the "Dormitory Supervisor Rules," because if a dormitory supervisor's senses collapse at that moment, their presence could become a means for nocturnal creatures to infiltrate the dormitory.

But Kuai Hongji wouldn't.

Regardless of his current level of understanding or other reasons and conditions, he will not suffer any negative consequences from such actions.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, "Night Watchman-03" moved half a step towards the front of the cliff, then stuck its head out a little and looked down.

"That is……?"

Beneath the black cloak, "Night Watchman-03" narrowed his gaze, golden flames rising from his deep-set eye sockets, until he finally saw Kuai Hongji's protruding head.

Upon seeing Kuai Hongji, he showed no emotion until Kuai Hongji nodded slightly at him.

At that moment, the silhouette of a gaunt figure seemed to emerge from Kuai Hongji's body...

The golden flames in "Night Watchman-03's" eyes trembled violently, and the arm holding the ancient lamp "Mingzhao" shook violently.

"That's...that esteemed person?!"

"They're back?"

"They...are finally back?!"

Beneath the cloak, his body trembled with excitement.

He looked up at the black tsunami, his eyes burning with unprecedented excitement.

"Countless years of waiting... have finally come to an end!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"came back!!"

"They're all back...!!"

……

X023年5月11日，23:08，宿舍楼，1423号宿舍。

Just as Kuai Hongji looked out the window, the cold light from outside seeped in through the rain and cast his shadow on the mirror of the washbasin.

A layer of damp mist floated on the mirror of the washbasin, but at this moment the mist seemed to come alive and floated, and behind the mist, Kuai Hongji's figure appeared there as if he were slowly walking out.

Even more strangely, the "Kuai Hongji" appearing in the mirror did not follow Kuai Hongji's actions, but simply stared coldly at the real Kuai Hongji. Kuai Hongji sensed this, silently closed the window, locked it, and then looked at the mirror.

The "he" in the mirror is naturally looking at him as well.

"You want to carry 'my' shadow?" Kuai Hongji looked at his reflection in the mirror with a sinister gaze. "You think you're worthy?"

After saying that, he turned and left, picked up the old kerosene lamp, and walked out of the dormitory.

As Kuai Hongji left, the "Kuai Hongji" in the mirror began to distort, his features becoming increasingly blurred, eventually turning into a "faceless" appearance.

The water vapor floated on the mirror, slowly gathered, and everything returned to normal.

……

After leaving dormitory "1423", Kuai Hongji carried his old kerosene lamp slowly and steadily through the dormitory building's corridor.

Before midnight, he had inspected all the dormitories on the floor.

According to the dormitory management rules, after this, he could choose to stay in the dormitory building corridor or return to the dormitory manager's office.

Kuai Hongji naturally couldn't return to the dormitory manager's office; he was heading to the art building.

But instead of heading straight to the art building, he walked forward from the last dormitory room.

The dormitory corridors are circular. He can walk straight ahead to the dormitory manager's office, the elevator, or... dormitory room "1414".

When he arrived at dormitory 1414, it was exactly midnight.

He slowly pushed open the door and walked into the dormitory where he had slept for several days.

With his arrival, the glow of the old kerosene lamp instantly bathed the dormitory in a warm, yellow light. Kuai Hongji silently scanned the dormitory without uttering a word.

"..."

Kuai Hongji glanced at the window next to the washbasin again. The glass there was already covered with water vapor, and raindrops the size of soybeans were hitting the outside like a hail of bullets.

He stood quietly in the dormitory, slowly walking up the ceiling to Tian Bufan's side.

He stared at the sleeping Tian Bufan, the flickering light from the old kerosene lamp casting an indescribable mystery over his face, making his already sinister eyes seem sunken into their sockets.

He waited silently, and after a few minutes, Tian Bufan's body began to tremble violently, and soon the entire bed began to shake as well.

"There's been infiltration... It seems everything is going smoothly."

"Very good, very good..."

Beneath Tian Bufan's skin, one bump after another began to appear, like countless beads about to burst out of his body. This was because Tian Bufan was buying time for Lin Yi at the art building's observatory, allowing Lin Yi to obtain the coordinates of the principal's office from the "Starry Night," which led to him being contaminated by the aura of the "High-Rank Alien Angel."

All of this seemed to be within Kuai Hongji's expectations. He watched the scene expressionlessly, then placed the old kerosene lamp on Tian Bufan. Next, his Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and he spoke in a low, hoarse voice, completely out of character for his usual tone:

"It's dawn, please open your eyes."

Tian Bufan, who was trembling violently in his sleep, suddenly stopped struggling and calmed down. Then, he abruptly opened his eyes.

At this moment, Tian Bufan's eyes were completely black, with no visible whites or pupils, as if they were an abyss, within which countless eyes rolled and wandered.

When he opened his eyes, those eyes seemed to have found an outlet and burst out of his eye sockets.

Kuai Hongji watched this scene indifferently, letting the eyeballs bounce and pop out like beads, falling all over the dormitory.

Once all the objects of the naked eye had left Tian Bufan's body, Tian Bufan's body stopped trembling.

Kuai Hongji then said, "It's dark, please close your eyes."

Tian Bufan closed his eyes once again.

"High-ranking alien angels... So many years have passed, are you still going further and further down the path of stubbornness...?"

"Alright... since that's the case, let's take it and use it..."

"Perfect timing, that good-for-nothing fat guy just happens to be lacking something..."

Kuai Hongji didn't pick up the old kerosene lamp that was on Tian Bufan's body, but instead reached out and wiped his right eye while muttering to himself...

Beneath his palm, a sinister smile began to appear on Kuai Hongji's lips, and a dark gray mist entangled with blood-red threads began to rise from his body.

He was like a coal stove with its lid off, his whole body spewing out a smell of coal smoke.

The dark gray mist quickly diffused into the entire bedroom, and the restless eyes, upon contact with it, immediately wilted and froze in place.

Kuai Hongji walked over to the locker, grabbed the clothesline pole, and pierced one hole after another like a spearfish.

He quickly pierced all the eyes, but these eyes did not disappear after they shattered. Instead, they turned into wisps of mist, which, as if possessing a spirit, frantically tried to squeeze through the only cracks in the dormitory, such as the door, in an attempt to escape this place of trouble.

But the entire dormitory was impregnable, and the only place to escape was a trap that Kuai Hongji had set up beforehand—the broken vessel he had hidden in his bed.

Unlike when it was in the hands of the fanatics, this vessel, though from that region, has been engraved with intricate patterns inside and out by Kuai Hongji. At first glance, it looks like a broken pottery jar unearthed from ruins and used to seal demons.

When Kuai Hongji picked up the vessel, it was already filled with a translucent liquid resembling lotus root starch.

The liquids struggled incessantly within the vessel, like magnetic powder thrashing and jumping in a magnetic field, trying to escape from the vessel.

Kuai Hongji picked up the vessel and walked to Tian Bufan's side, then poured the translucent liquid inside into the old kerosene lamp as if watering flowers.

As these translucent liquids were injected, the old kerosene lamp seemed to overload, emitting a dazzling light that turned the entire dormitory into a platinum-white hue.

Kuai Hongji made a grasping motion in the air with one hand, then, as if pulling something out, slammed it hard onto the vessel.

"Ding!"

When the intangible object met the vessel, it produced a sound like striking iron.

"Ding! Ding! Ding—!!"

Kuai Hongji worked again and again, as if he were smelting something in the bright light. The secret patterns carved on the vessel seemed to fly up like tiny insects, buzzing and fluttering around Kuai Hongji, and then little by little, they were injected into... that clothesline!
The clothesline pole grew thicker and thicker, as if it were being wrapped with strips of cloth, until it finally resembled an object in the shape of a baseball bat...

The secret patterns that danced like tiny insects were constantly imprinted on the bat, turning into one small spike after another.

As the bright light faded, the vessel in Kuai Hongji's hand shattered into dust, while the clothesline pole was sculpted into a spiked club.

(End of this chapter)