Chapter 161

Chapter 161

This development was completely outside Jian Fan’s expectations.

He suddenly thought of the idea that had occurred to him earlier. Could they really have happened to cross over to the very day Zhao Yingguo died?

Jian Fan lowered his head and looked under the bed again.

There was indeed a suitcase under the bed.

Jian Fan immediately dragged it out and unlocked it with the combination.

There were plenty of things inside, but the Metal Box they would later find was the one thing missing.

While doing all this, Jian Fan never let go of Qin Nan’s hand, so Qin Nan was crouching beside him at that moment.

Seeing that there was no Metal Box in the suitcase, Qin Nan didn’t seem surprised. But then his brows suddenly drew together, and he said, “Why do I smell smoke?”

Jian Fan snapped his head up to look at him, and Qin Nan himself froze as well.

Smoke… Why would there be smoke? Where there was Fire, there would naturally be smoke. And for the smell of smoke to be this strong…

Realizing something at the same time, the two of them shot to their feet and rushed out of the dormitory supervisor’s room.

They stood in the corridor. For now, they couldn’t see any Firelight, but very soon, they saw smoke continuously pouring out from under the door of one of the dorm rooms. That had to be the room where the Fire had started.

No words were needed. In perfect tacit understanding, the two of them ran straight toward that room.

They rushed to the dorm room door.

The door had been locked from the inside. They couldn’t open it at all.

Even with Jian Fan and Qin Nan throwing their combined weight against it, after ramming it for quite a while, the dorm room door didn’t budge an inch.

“Did it send us back to this point in time just so we could take a tour of this corridor? At least let us see something useful,” Qin Nan complained while slamming into the door.

When Jian Fan heard his words, he suddenly froze, then stopped moving.

Qin Nan rammed it a few more times. Seeing that Jian Fan had gone still, he stopped too and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Jian Fan didn’t answer. Instead, he looked up at the dorm room number.

6107.

It wasn’t 6103. It wasn’t Zhao Yingguo’s dorm room.

The place Zhao Yingguo had chosen for mutual destruction was not dorm room 6103.

But for now, this information was useless. At the very least, they had no way to open this dorm room door. If they wanted to open it, they would need a key.

A key-

Jian Fan’s eyes lit up. He grabbed Qin Nan and started running back.

“What are you doing?” Qin Nan looked utterly confused, but he didn’t let Jian Fan drag him for long; he started running after him on his own.

“Looking for a key,” Jian Fan said.

In the space they had been in, there really had been no key left. But what about this time dimension? Shouldn’t the dormitory supervisor’s room have keys to the students’ dorm rooms?

The two of them returned once more to the dormitory supervisor’s room.

Unfortunately, they didn’t find any keys there. Jian Fan wasn’t surprised. He made a snap decision and immediately pulled Qin Nan toward the lower floor.

However, Jian Fan didn’t take the Stairs entrance where they had appeared. Instead, he chose the other side, the Stairs farther away from them.

Since they had come up from that Stairs entrance, it was very possible that the moment they stepped into that area, they would enter another time-space. They still hadn’t figured out what was going on here, so Jian Fan naturally had no intention of leaving yet. That meant they had to avoid that place.

There wasn’t only one Stairs in the dormitory building.

Jian Fan and Qin Nan sprinted down the dormitory Stairs, went straight to the first floor, and rushed into the dormitory supervisor’s room there.

Jian Fan once again found the key under the carpet.

But when he took the key, opened the door, and stepped inside, he froze for a moment at the sight of the room’s interior.
Inside the dormitory supervisor’s room on the first floor, a middle-aged woman was lying on the bed, hugging her quilt and sleeping soundly.

Neither of them had expected to see another person here.

But that also meant one thing: at this point in time, it was night.

Jian Fan only froze for a split second before snapping back to his senses. He grabbed Qin Nan and started searching through the room.

This time, the keys were not hard to find.

Jian Fan quickly dug several key rings out of the dormitory supervisor’s drawer. He soon found the ring for the sixth floor. Just as he was about to take it and leave, something suddenly occurred to him, and his voice turned excited. “The main gate key!”

Qin Nan realized it too.

There had been no keys in the space of their own time dimension. But what about this point in time?

Since there were keys to the student dorm rooms, then there should also be a key to the main gate!

The two of them started searching again.

Before long, Qin Nan pulled a key ring out of the drawer and said, “Is it this one?”

There was nothing written on it, so Jian Fan could not give him an answer either.

“Try it,” Jian Fan said.

They left the room and headed straight for the dormitory’s main entrance.

There were several keys on the ring Qin Nan had found. He tried them one by one on the dormitory’s front door, and when he reached the fourth key, it turned successfully.

“The main gate key,” Qin Nan said to Jian Fan as he pulled it out.

Jian Fan nodded. “Back to the sixth floor.”

Although the main gate was now open, leaving at this point in time did not necessarily mean they had escaped this locked room. There was a good chance they would run into some other bizarre situation. Besides, there were more than two of them. No matter what, they had to regroup with Qin Weiyi and the others before leaving.

Qin Nan had no objections.

The two of them sprinted all the way back to the sixth floor.

Their trip there and back had taken quite a bit of time. By now, even more smoke was pouring out of room 6107. From a distance it was still bearable, but the moment they drew near, the smoke hit them full in the face.

Jian Fan had rushed over too quickly and could not help choking on several mouthfuls.

Coughing, he found the key to 6107 and inserted it into the lock.

The key turned, and the door to room 6107 opened. In the next instant, a burst of Fire surged toward them. Qin Nan reacted fast and yanked Jian Fan back, saving him from the fate of being swallowed by Fire.

The Fire had already been spreading toward the doorway. Once the door opened, the Fire leapt outward even more violently.

Jian Fan covered his mouth and forced himself to endure the smoke as he looked inside.

At that moment, the dorm room was already a sea of Fire, but they could still vaguely make out some of the scene inside.

Zhao Yingguo had been pinned beneath twelve people. She was laughing wildly now; the more pain she was in, the louder she laughed. She roared, “You don’t deserve it! What right do you have to sacrifice my life?”

The moment they heard those words, the two of them immediately matched the scene before them with what they had seen earlier on the television.

The Fire grew fiercer and fiercer.

Although both of them wanted to go in and get a clearer look, the Fire would not allow it. They lingered outside for a while, but the Fire had already begun burning toward the doorway.

They might very well end up buried in this sea of Fire too.

To be safe, the two of them gritted their teeth and retreated.

No matter how important the clues were, staying alive came first.

And just as they turned and ran, Zhao Yingguo’s final voice came from inside room 6107.

“I will come back.”

That was what she said.