A Judge in Escape Game Chapter 3

Liam Duan is a taciturn person, and his aura is different from that of ordinary students.

Ethan Qi was not an inferior young man. In order to maintain his image, he did not say anything but just watched Liam Duan pack his things quietly.

After Liam Duan packed his luggage, he took the basin for washing and turned around to go out.

This old-style dormitory does not have a bathroom in the room. There is a public toilet and washing area on each floor, and bathing is in the bathhouse on the first floor.

Liam Duan loves cleanliness. His bed and table are always spotless. He takes a shower as soon as he comes back from outside, which is in line with his lifestyle habits.

"Are you going too?" Liam Duan suddenly turned around and asked when he walked to the door.

Boys don’t have the habit of taking a shower together. Perhaps Ethan Qi’s gaze was too focused, causing Liam Duan to misunderstand and ask this question.

Ethan Qi shook his head and said, "No."

After the door was closed, Ethan Qi stood up and walked to Liam Duan's bed.

His return was definitely not accidental. Ethan Qi dared to guarantee this based on his intuition and rich gaming experience.

Ethan Qi did not touch Liam Duan's things. Liam Duan looked so serious and had obsessive-compulsive disorder. If he touched his things, he would definitely be discovered, and it was unpredictable what the consequences would be.

He was just observing the suitcase that Liam Duan brought back. The black one looked very valuable.

However, Ethan Qi looked for a long time and did not find anything suspicious on the outside of the suitcase.

At this moment, his cell phone rang.

Ethan Qi was stunned. This phone was almost just a decoration in the game, so it was very strange that it rang at this time.

He stood up and walked to the desk, looking down.

The caller is Noah Zheng.

"Ethan Qi, did you watch the news today?"

Ethan Qi paused and did not answer directly, but asked: "Where are you now?"

Noah Zheng said: "We had just settled down in the hotel when we saw the news..."

Noah Zheng was silent for a long time, as if he had something difficult to say.

Ethan Qi did not urge him, but just listened quietly to the movement on the other end of the phone.

It was very quiet on the other end of the phone, abnormally quiet. There was no sound, not even breathing.

In this somewhat strange atmosphere, Noah Zheng spoke up: "Liam Duan took that flight to go abroad."

Ethan Qi frowned and asked, "Has the list been confirmed?"

Noah Zheng said: "The list of victims is still being checked, and it's a bit messy. We are not Liam Duan's relatives, so we can't get too much detailed information. But the check-in list has come out, didn't you see it?"

"There's something wrong with the dormitory network. I can't open the web page here."

"Oh, wait a moment, I'll send it to you via WeChat..."

Before Noah Zheng could finish his words, the call was abruptly disconnected.

Liam Duan pushed the door open and walked in.

His hair had just been washed and was a little messy on his forehead, which made him look much calmer and his domineering aura seemed to be much less intense.

"is calling?"

Liam Duan asked the question seemingly casually. His brow bones were high and his features were deep, which made people feel a little oppressive when looking at him.

Ethan Qi was carefree and didn't have many other feelings. He answered directly: "Noah Zheng called and said they just arrived."

When Liam Duan heard this, his eyebrows frowned and he looked very surprised.

"Noah Zheng? Are you sure?"

Ethan Qi nodded: "It's Noah Zheng, what's wrong?"

Liam Duan said: "Did you see the news? There was a series of car accidents on the highway to K City."

"I saw it while eating in the cafeteria."

"Noah Zheng and the others' car is inside. I called before, but couldn't get through." Liam Duan's expression was very serious, and he seemed to not understand what Ethan Qi had said before.

Ethan Qi took out his cell phone and clicked on the call log: "Call log..."

He stopped talking before he finished.

What was displayed on the phone screen was not Noah Zheng's name, but the words "Unknown Caller".

Ethan Qi was slightly stunned, then he raised his hand and hit him.

"The number you dialed cannot be connected at the moment..."

This could be said to be an expected result. Ethan Qi stared at the phone without saying a word.

Liam Duan may have misunderstood his meaning, and whispered: "Actually, I changed my mind and didn't board the plane because I saw someone on Weibo talking about the serial car accident."

Ethan Qi was still immersed in the phone call just now. When he heard Liam Duan's words, his mind did not change. He just raised his head and said blankly: "Ah? So what?"

Liam Duan raised his hand and patted his shoulder, saying, "When you were arguing with Jake Wu before, you blurted out those words without thinking. I'm a little worried that you feel guilty about it."

After listening to this, Ethan Qi sorted out his thoughts and finally understood what Liam Duan meant.

The background story comes from that diary. Jake Wu looks down on the owner of the diary. In addition, there is another person in the dormitory, Liam Duan, who is far inferior to him in every aspect, so his mentality is even more distorted.

Specifically, Jake Wu tries to find a sense of existence from the character of Ethan Qi all the time, and the way he does this is naturally through sarcasm or other small pranks.

Although the protagonist of the game is inferior and honest, he is still a young man of 10** years old after all, and he will have some temper no matter what.

These frictions accumulated and eventually evolved into a dispute some time ago.

At that time, the protagonist of the game could no longer bear it and started arguing with Jake Wu. However, he was not good at speaking, so in the end, he only refuted a sentence or two and was ridiculed by Jake Wu unilaterally.

He didn't fight, because a big fight in the dormitory would only have a negative impact on his studies.

In a fit of rage, he said, "People like you will be punished."

Jake Wu added, "Do you think I can run at 70 mph when I go out to play?"

Now that I think about it, what I said came true.

In terms of character, if Jake Wu really died in a car accident, he would definitely feel bad.

Ethan Qi glanced at Liam Duan, feeling somewhat confused.

Is Liam Duan's character this kind of considerate? I always feel something is wrong.

After thinking it over, he still didn't know how he should react as a secret admirer to the sudden concern of his sweetheart.

"I went to take a shower."

After Ethan Qi uttered these words, he fled in panic.

The bathroom is at the end of the corridor on the first floor. It is an old-fashioned bathroom with faucets surrounded by a circle and exposed to each other.

As soon as Ethan Qi walked into the bathroom, he felt something was wrong. The bathroom was too dry.

At present, he and Liam Duan are the only two people living in the dormitory building, and the hot water supply time has also been shortened, with hot water only supplied for one hour every night.

Liam Duan had only been upstairs for a few minutes, but the bathroom was unexpectedly dry.

It was so dry that it looked as if it hadn't seen water all day. Ethan Qi put down the basin and walked around the bathroom to make sure the entire floor was dry.

This old-fashioned bathroom is not well ventilated. No matter how hot the weather is, it is impossible for the moisture to evaporate in such a short time.

So where did Liam Duan, who just now had the fragrance of shower gel on his body, take a bath? Was the problem the bathroom or Liam Duan?

Ethan Qi was a little confused and walked around the bathroom. When he reached the corner, he stopped.

In the corner was a drain, and a bunch of long black hair was tangled in the drain.

This might not be surprising in the bathroom of a girls' dormitory.

However, this was a place temporarily used as a boys' dormitory. Only Ethan Qi and Liam Duan were left in the entire dormitory building, and both of them had very short hair.

Ethan Qi squatted down and took a look, confirming that even if all his hair fell out, it would not cause such consequences.

What's even more bizarre is that the hair tangled in the sewer outlet is usually messy and frizzy, mixed with dust and debris, and in short, it looks dirty.

The hair in front of me was different. It was black and shiny, as if it was still growing on the head of a young girl.

After studying it for a while, Ethan Qi decisively stood up and left.

He wasn't so stupid as to be so curious as to want to pick out the hair and see what it looked like in its entirety.

When Ethan Qi walked out, a gust of wind came from nowhere and blew his basin to the ground.

The lid of the shower gel was broken open and spilled all over the floor.

"well."

Ethan Qi sighed. Even though the situation was strange, he couldn't just leave like that.

Who knows if I leave this thing here, will the dormitory manager who comes in to check the next day slip on the shower gel and cause the death of a key NPC and I won't be able to pass the level.

In fact, Ethan Qi felt that something was wrong since he entered this strange escape game. Apart from everything happening around him, what was even more wrong was his mentality.

Ethan Qi had lived an ordinary life for more than 20 years and had never encountered any supernatural things. However, after entering this place, he was very receptive and did not even have any fear of the possible evil spirits.

He felt as if he had dealt with a ghost before, and it lasted for a long time.

While Ethan Qi was aimlessly thinking about these strange emotions, he took a mop and cleaned up the shower gel on the floor.

He was so focused that he didn't notice what was happening in the inner room at all.

The hair on the floor drain twisted and spread. The black hair climbed up the ceiling along the corner of the wall and then merged with the mottled ceiling.

The black hair turned into a moldy spot and twisted towards the outside.

The mold spots had reached Ethan Qi's head, but he was still cleaning up the mess and didn't seem to notice anything unusual.

A strand of black hair meandered down from the mold and was about to fall on Ethan Qi's head.

"kindness?\"

Ethan Qi suddenly felt a chill on his head and looked up with some confusion.

Above his head was a large patch of mold, covering the mottled wall. In an old dormitory with poor ventilation, it was not uncommon to have one or two patches of mold on the ceiling.

Ethan Qi lowered his head and continued with the work at hand.

The long hair fell down again, slowly approaching Ethan Qi's shoulders, as if trying to go around from the back of his shoulders to the front of his throat.

Soon, this person will be hanged in the bathroom, like many others who come here.

The moment the hair touched Ethan Qi's shoulder, it suddenly shrank back, and the dark red flame swept up along the hair, burning it to ashes within seconds.

There was a burning smell in the air, and the large patches of mildew above my head had disappeared completely.

Ethan Qi had just cleaned up everything when he smelled the smell of burning protein. He sniffed and felt very confused.

"Did someone blow dry their hair?"