Chapter 155

Chapter 155

The group immediately got to work.

The layout of this dormitory supervisor’s room was not much different from the previous one. The orientation had changed a little, but overall, it was about the same.

The things inside were the same, too.

With his previous experience, Qin Nan started looking for the remote control as soon as he came in. This time, the television did not light up on its own. Only after Qin Nan pressed the power button did the TV turn on, displaying a normal television screen.

The moment it came on, it was showing CCTV.

One glance was enough for Qin Nan to know it was useless. Still, he did not turn the television off. Just in case. He simply let it keep playing.

After that, Qin Nan began rummaging through the drawers of the table beneath the television.

As for Jian Fan, the first place he chose was still the desk.

There were some documents on the desk as well, similar to the ones from before. They were all information related to the dormitory. Jian Fan flipped through them once. There were quite a few names written on them, but he really could not extract any useful information.

There were also some of the dormitory supervisor’s personal belongings inside, but likewise, they offered no clues.

And it was not only Jian Fan who came up empty-handed. After the others searched the room from top to bottom, they found no clues either.

Whether the clues were hidden too deeply, or whether this room simply had none at all, they did not know.

“Maybe there really aren’t any clues,” Yellow Hair said with a sigh after going through everything again and confirming that he had found nothing.

Qin Weiyi also frowned.

They had searched every place in the room that could be searched, but there really was nothing that looked like a clue.

“I think something is off,” Lin Junruo suddenly said.

Everyone looked toward Lin Junruo. In this instance, Lin Junruo had helped quite a lot, so the group was genuinely hoping she might be able to point out some new discovery.

Being stared at by everyone like that, Lin Junruo immediately became restrained, but she still mustered her courage and spoke.

“There should be keys in a dormitory supervisor’s room. The keys to every dorm room,” Lin Junruo said.

With that, everyone was truly reminded.

Among their group, some had graduated years ago, while others were children like Qin Weiyi. Although Mu Xin was a high school student, she had not lived on campus for long and had not really thought about this. As for Lin Junruo…

She had graduated from university and had only just entered society not long ago. Campus life still occupied a large part of her mind.

That was why Lin Junruo was the quickest to notice what was wrong.

The dormitory supervisor should have the keys to every dorm room. Sometimes, when students forgot their keys or had other reasons, they would borrow a key from the dormitory supervisor. But whether it was on the sixth floor or the first floor, there were no strings of keys to be found.

So where were the keys?

And it was not just the keys to the dorm rooms. Lin Junruo’s words also reminded everyone that the dormitory supervisor on the first floor should have had the key to the main entrance as well.

But now, all the keys had disappeared.

Jian Fan fell into thought.

“If only the key to the main entrance had been taken, I could understand that. But why take the keys to every single dorm room, too?” Qin Weiyi was also very puzzled.

Under normal circumstances, for a dormitory building of this size, there would probably be several rows of key rings. But right now, they had not seen a single key.

There were still traces that people had lived in the dorm rooms, and all their luggage was there too, so the keys should have still been there as well. Wait-

Qin Nan abruptly raised his head and asked, “Why do all these dorm rooms still look like people lived in them, even though the building has been abandoned?”

If the entire dormitory building had been abandoned, shouldn’t the luggage have been moved out first? For the dormitory supervisor’s room on the sixth floor, they could explain it away by saying the supervisor had died under bizarre circumstances, so no one had cleaned up. But what about the one on the first floor?

Among the dead, there had only been one dormitory supervisor.

Why was the dormitory supervisor’s luggage still here in an abandoned dormitory building, while 6103 had been cleaned out completely and showed no traces of Fire damage? And where were the keys that should originally have been in the dormitory supervisor’s possession now?
And then there was the most important question: who exactly was the hidden boss behind the scenes-that girl?

Zhao Yingguo had been burned to death in the Fire and then turned into a ghost. But what about that girl? She should still be alive. What reason did she have for getting mixed up in this mess?

By ordinary logic, that girl should also be inside this dormitory building. So where was she hiding?

As a living person, how was she surviving in the dormitory building?

They seemed to have cleared quite a few stages already and uncovered a number of clues. The background story of the Escape Room also seemed to have mostly taken shape. Yet the most crucial part remained hidden behind the fog.

After thinking for a while, Jian Fan finally spoke again. “Keep searching.”

There had to be somewhere they had yet to discover.

No one objected.

They had indeed suspected there were no clues in this dorm room, but Lin Junruo’s words had reminded them that there had to be something wrong with this room. And if there was a problem, yet nothing suspicious could be found, then that in itself became the most suspicious point of all.

Everyone resumed the search, though each of them changed locations.

Jian Fan went to inspect the wardrobe.

There were some clothes and luggage inside. Jian Fan did not find anything strange, but just as he was about to close the door, he suddenly froze. He said, “The wardrobe in the dormitory supervisor’s room on the sixth floor smelled foul, right?”

Qin Nan was searching by the bed. Hearing Jian Fan’s question, he nodded. “Right. There were a few dead bugs. The smell was really strong.”

“Why?” Jian Fan asked.

Qin Nan did not understand. “What do you mean, why?”

“Bugs. Shouldn’t they be more likely to appear on lower floors than higher ones?” Jian Fan said.

Qin Nan paused. Then his gaze fell on the wardrobe that looked perfectly ordinary, as if there were no problem with it at all.

The wardrobe on the sixth floor had started stinking because of the dead bugs inside. Then shouldn’t the first floor be even more prone to bugs? By that logic, this wardrobe should stink even worse.

But why was this wardrobe normal, while the one on the sixth floor smelled so bad?

Between the two wardrobes, which one was the problem?

In Qin Nan’s heart, he still felt the one on the sixth floor was more likely to be the issue.

If that was the case, did that mean they had to go back up to the sixth floor?

Qin Nan suddenly felt a dull ache in his teeth.

“Maybe it’s because Zhao Yingguo kept coming and going from that room?” Yellow Hair suggested.

After all, Zhao Yingguo was already dead. If that caused the dormitory supervisor’s room to have a stench, that should make sense too, right?

Jian Fan shook his head and said, “I’m not sure. Maybe we really do have to go back to the sixth floor and take another look.”

At the mention of the sixth floor, everyone fell somewhat silent. They had finally managed to escape, only to have to run back again? That was truly a headache. Besides, when they had lured Zhao Yingguo over, they had turned the television volume up loud. Who knew whether Zhao Yingguo had left by now? And the glass door to the balcony was probably already broken.

This… offered them no guarantee at all.

Jian Fan said nothing more. He closed the wardrobe door and continued searching for other clues.

Seeing this, Yellow Hair scratched his head but did not say anything else. He turned around and got busy as well.

Qin Nan hesitated for a moment, then straightened and walked over to Jian Fan.

Once he reached him, Qin Nan suddenly leaned in and lowered his voice. “Jian Fan, are you really not worried about Xia Zeqin?”

Why did he feel that Jian Fan wanted to return to the sixth floor not only because of the stench in the wardrobe, but also for another very important reason-Xia Zeqin?

Jian Fan abruptly turned his head and looked at Qin Nan with a complicated expression.