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Chapter 658 Words Don't Be Repeated Three Times

Kuai Hongji gripped the spiked club, and the next moment, the club shattered into strands of light that entered his body.

"Fatty, just make do with this for now," he muttered to himself, then looked at Tian Bufan.

"Young Master Tian."

He spoke slowly.

Tian Bufan's eyelids twitched slightly, then he didn't speak, but instead murmured as if in a dream, "The 'High-Rank Alien Angel' has indeed taken this step... but fortunately, this step is still within our calculations."

"Yes," Kuai Hongji said, "You've found the 'Principal's Office' too, right?"

“Found it,” Tian Bufan said.

Kuai Hongji nodded slightly: "Then I should hurry up and set off too."

Tian Bufan said, "Thank you for your trouble, Kuai Kuai, no... [Dormitory Manager-14-X0230506094]."

"You too." Kuai Hongji nodded slightly, glanced at the clock on the wall, picked up the old kerosene lamp, pushed open the bedroom door and went out.

"Bang!"

The door closed, and the dormitory returned to silence, while Tian Bufan once again drifted into a dream.

……

X023年5月12日，0:33，宿舍楼14层。

Kuai Hongji, carrying an old kerosene lamp, slowly made his way to the elevator and pressed the call button.

Behind the elevator door, a rapid whistling sound emanated from the elevator. After waiting for about a minute and a half, the rapid whistling sound was further suppressed by some huge object, becoming sharp and piercing. After the sound dissipated, a crisp "ding!" sound came from inside the elevator.

The elevator has arrived.

"Clang—Crack!"

As the elevator doors opened, long-awaited light shone through the elevator walls, like the sun breaking through the clouds, capable of dispelling all darkness.

Kuai Hongji entered the elevator, found the red transparent cover marked with an "X" above the floor panel, opened it, and pressed the button marked with an "↑".

“Bang!”

The elevator doors closed and began to tremble slightly. Then, a strange feeling of weightlessness quietly appeared, as if a space capsule had been launched into space.

After a delay of a second or two, the elevator car began to move.

It moves at a very slow speed, making it difficult to predict its path inside the elevator.

After a while, the elevator slowly came to a stop.

Kuai Hongji frowned slightly and glanced at the floor panel.

Dormitory Building - 39F

The elevator stopped on the 39th floor of the dormitory building.

As the elevator doors opened, the dormitory manager for that floor appeared before Kuai Hongji.

The dormitory manager was a very fit and strong woman, the kind who was good-looking, looked slim in clothes, and was incredibly strong when she took them off.

Her clothes were a loose long gown, but Kuai Hongji could easily see the well-defined muscles beneath them.

Kuai Hongji glanced at the dormitory supervisor's name tag on her chest—"Dormitory Supervisor-39-X0230109023".

This is a long-term dormitory supervisor. X023 joined the school in January and has not left since. His abilities should not be underestimated.

Behind her, there were three other participants, heads bowed, gripping tightly the chain extending from her waist.

The moment the elevator doors opened, she saw Kuai Hongji.

Kuai Hongji was not particularly tall, so her first target was not a person, but an old kerosene lamp, and secondly the dormitory supervisor's ID badge.

After that, she nodded slightly and led the three participants into the elevator like a donkey.

Although Kuai Hongji had already pressed it, she still opened the red cover and pressed the button as usual.

As the elevator doors slowly closed, "Dormitory Manager-39-X0230109023" began to scrutinize Kuai Hongji.

At first, she thought Kuai Hongji was going to recharge his old kerosene lamp, but she soon discovered that the light from his lamp was much brighter than hers, as if it had just been recharged. No, the brightness was beyond what an ordinary old kerosene lamp could produce.

Moreover, Kuai Hongji entered the elevator alone, without bringing any lost experience students with him. So what was he doing in the elevator?
The dormitory management rules state that dormitory managers can linger in the hallways after inspecting the dormitories, but they don't say that they can wander around aimlessly!

With these questions in mind, she slowly asked, "You... alone?"

Kuai Hongji was surprised that she would speak, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded.

"Where are you going? Is it... to read a book, or to look at the water?" Considering the understanding of the three lost experience participants, she still chose to communicate with Kuai Hongji in a subtle way.

The reason we can communicate is mainly because we are all "dormitory managers".

Kuai Hongji said, "Go where you want to go."

"Going alone?" The dormitory manager (39-X02030109023) looked slightly surprised.

Kuai Hongji was cold and gloomy, rarely interacting with Wei Liang, and usually unwilling to have much interaction with outsiders. Therefore, when faced with the female dormitory supervisor's question, he simply gave her a cold look and stopped talking.

Faced with Kuai Hongji's dismissive attitude of not replying to her face, the muscles under the long shirt of "Dormitory Manager-39-X0230109023" twitched subconsciously, but her good manners still restrained her impulse to elbow Kuai Hongji and lift him up like a chick.

"Humph!"

She hummed in response and said nothing more.

The two people and the three lost souls, who looked like human sticks, huddled together in the not-so-large space of the elevator car. The only sounds in the silent elevator were the low breathing and the wind rubbing against the exterior walls of the elevator car.

After running for a while, the elevator stopped again.

"Teaching Building - C-1F".

Kuai Hongji frowned, remaining silent.

"Bang—!"

The elevator doors opened, but there was no one outside.

"Dormitory Manager - 39 - X0230109023" seemed to sense something, and her hand unconsciously tightened its grip on the old kerosene lamp. "Be careful, get behind me!" she said in a low voice to Kuai Hongji, and subconsciously moved a few steps toward the elevator door, as if to block an unseen enemy.

Kuai Hongji was stunned for a moment, and looked at the female dormitory supervisor blocking his way with surprise.

Clearly, the female dormitory supervisor mistook him for a little chicken.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle... sizzle sizzle sizzle..."

The incandescent lights in the teaching building corridors began to flicker, causing the light inside the elevator car to also flicker.

Amidst the flickering light and shadow, the floating mist outside the elevator began to move like ghosts, and four eerie angels, their faces covered and seemingly weeping, appeared in the elevator doorway.

Whenever the lights come on, the grinning angel disappears, and whenever the lights go out, the grinning angel reappears, getting closer to the elevator with each flash.

"An angel sculpture...?!" Dormitory Manager -39 -X0230109023 tensed up, her expression terrified and bewildered. "It doesn't seem like... what I saw in my hallucination. Is this one of those grinning angels that roam the campus?"

As the Grinning Angels drew closer to the elevator, the female dormitory supervisor was on high alert. She weighed her options and realized that even with an old kerosene lamp, she couldn't possibly defeat four Grinning Angels. So she turned her head slightly, hoping that Kuai Hongji would join forces with her.

Even a novice dormitory manager, with the support of her authority, would at least have a minimum level of combat power. Together with her, they should be able to drive away the Laughing Angel.

However, when she glanced to the side, she found Kuai Hongji huddled in the innermost corner of the elevator lobby.

"Damn it! That darn bamboo pole spirit! It's such a coward!!"

She was filled with rage, wishing she could take out a whip and beat Kuai Hongji severely, to death this cowardly man who was so disappointing!

But these thoughts could only flash through her mind, because she needed to fight off the intrusion of the Laughing Angel with all her might.

But she was outnumbered; the sly angel easily entered the elevator and, like a ghost, began to occupy the four corners of the elevator.

"It's over..." The female dormitory supervisor was utterly despondent, looking at Kuai Hongji with deep resentment. "You idiot... If you had had any courage just now, you could have fought them with me. Now, we can only wait to die together... No, what are you doing right now?!"

She discovered that Kuai Hongji had somehow left the corner of the elevator car and gone to the floor panel, where he was secretly poking at the close button with his finger.

"Are you in such a hurry to die?" She sighed deeply. At this moment, she found herself ridiculously devoid of even the thought of being angry with Kuai Hongji.

“Bang!”

The elevator doors closed and began to vibrate slowly as it entered the track. The enclosed elevator shaft instantly became the hunting ground for the grinning angel.

But it was only at this point that Kuai Hongji, who had been completely invisible, finally spoke.

"Close your eyes," he said, addressing the female dormitory supervisor.

Because the three lost experience students were in a state of "closing their eyes tightly, gripping the chains tightly, ignoring whatever they heard, until the female dormitory supervisor spoke to them."

The female dormitory supervisor looked at Kuai Hongji in confusion: "What?"

“I won’t repeat myself three times… Close your eyes,” Kuai Hongji said coldly.

The female dormitory supervisor was furious. She thought to herself, "What? Close your eyes? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" But when she saw Kuai Hongji's face, which looked like a villainous evil figure in the dim light of the old kerosene lamp, she inexplicably chose to obey.

"I'll trust you this once!" The female dormitory manager steeled her heart; she was going to die anyway, so she might as well trust this bamboo pole spirit this once!
Kuai Hongji ignored her. The two reminders were the greatest kindness he had learned from Lin Yi to others—provided that the female dormitory supervisor had unexpectedly protected him beforehand.

Otherwise, he wouldn't care much about her life or death.

The female dormitory supervisor closed her eyes with some skepticism, and as soon as she did, she felt a wave of heat rising from the inside of the elevator car...

The four grinning angels were also hit by the heat wave, their bodies immediately stiffening. Their original posture of covering their faces and weeping turned into pressing their faces tightly together.

Kuai Hongji had already placed the old kerosene lamp at his feet... For ordinary people, "having an old kerosene lamp in hand" is one of the conditions for having the authority of a dormitory supervisor. Putting down the old kerosene lamp is usually equivalent to giving up the identity of a dormitory supervisor, which is a very dangerous identity.

However, for Kuai Hongji, his own "identity" may be more damaging than his identity as a dormitory supervisor.

The gray-black mist slowly spread, engulfing the entire elevator car like the ashes of the sun. The semi-transparent body of the grinning angel quickly materialized in the mist, soon turning into a real sculpture.

After being sculpted, it quickly decayed and rotted, eventually breaking into plaster fragments scattered on the ground.

Kuai Hongji picked up four round stone spheres from the plaster fragments; these were the feathered eyes of the four grinning angels.

Then, with a slight exertion of force, these plaster fragments were ground into powder particles carrying extraordinary properties by the gray mist.

He bent down, picked up the old kerosene lamp, and the powder particles that the four grinning angels had transformed into swirled up like fine sand and poured into the lampshade.

After half of the oil was poured in, the old kerosene lamp began to get slightly hot.

Kuai Hongji frowned and glanced at the old kerosene lamp in the female dormitory supervisor's hand.

The old kerosene lamp in the hands of this "dormitory manager-39-X0230109023" seemed to have been "nurtured" by her for a long time and had been imprinted with some of her aura. But now the lamp was somewhat dim. It was obvious that after she went to the art building this time, she would most likely go to the library to wait for the security guard to recharge the old kerosene lamp.

Kuai Hongji said nothing, raised his hand and pointed, and all the remaining powder particles in the elevator car were poured into her old kerosene lamp.

The old kerosene lamp seemed to have been rejuvenated, becoming visibly brighter.

The female dormitory supervisor, who was connected to the old kerosene lamp, immediately sensed the change in the lamp in her hand and couldn't help but show a surprised expression. She wanted to open her eyes, but remembering Kuai Hongji's words, she chose to keep them closed.

And so… she waited for a very long time, but still didn’t hear Kuai Hongji speak, so she couldn’t help but ask, “Um… can I open my eyes now?”

Kuai Hongji nodded, but then, remembering that the female dormitory supervisor's eyes were closed and she couldn't see him nod, he mumbled, "Hmm."

Upon hearing Kuai Hongji's barely audible voice, the female dormitory supervisor immediately opened her eyes.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she immediately picked up the old kerosene lamp in her hand and looked at it, then exclaimed in surprise, "You charged my lamp?!"

"Impossible, no, incredible, how did you do that?"

She stared wide-eyed at Kuai Hongji, her eyes filled with shock.

Kuai Hongji's cold nature couldn't withstand such a fiery gaze, so he said indifferently, "Mine is full, it would be a waste not to inject it into yours."

"Huh? Ah? Ah~?!" The female dormitory supervisor asked in a series of question marks, but she keenly noticed the change in the elevator. "Those four grinning angels...?! What did you do to them?"

Kuai Hongji thought to himself, "Why is this woman so annoying? Since I already guessed it, why ask so clearly?" He replied, "Kill her, recharge her."

"You, you...you...?!"

"Shut up."

"Oh." The female dormitory supervisor silently shut her mouth. I'll let it slide, considering you took me under your wing!
But her eyes kept darting around, as if she wanted to see right through Kuai Hongji.

Kuai Hongji remained silent, but muttered to himself: I really don't understand how Old Lin could put up with Li Huiyuan's personality...

(End of this chapter)