0713: You who shine in the parallel world

Following the light in the corridor, the seven people arrived at the next location in the story: an eight-person student dormitory.

Based on the timeline, this must be a university dormitory. Su Xing looked around and couldn't help but sigh that it was quite similar to his boarding school dormitory in junior high, where everyone had their own bed.

"Is it possible that all student dormitories in China look like this?" Wang Yuexin walked around the room. "My university dormitory was like this too, but mine was a four-person room with bunk beds and desks underneath."

"I'm sorry, I've only ever lived in dormitories like this in middle school," Su Xing said.

"I'm sorry, the largest dormitory room I've ever stayed in was a two-person room," Yu Yu said.

"I'm sorry, I've never lived in a school dormitory before," Chen Chusheng said.

"Excuse me... no, actually I'm sorry, I've lived in a dormitory before." Land Rover wanted to maintain formation, but then suddenly realized that he was actually on Wang Yuexin's team.

Zhang Yuan and Wang Zhengliang are the same, but Wang Zhengliang's student life is too far removed from the present, so his experience is not a reference.

During the search, Zhang Yuan discovered that most of the beds had red clothing on them. Red was Qiuqiu's least favorite color in the previous scene because she had been bullied and forced to wear a red floral dress, leaving her with a lasting trauma. But what does this red clothing symbolize this time?

The brothers speculated that this was also a story about bullying, and the college student comprehensive quality evaluation form on the table confirmed their speculation about the timeline.

Then they discovered that the counselor on the evaluation form was actually Xiao Liang, also known as Wang Zhengliang. In the script, he was a former university counselor, which was a dreamlike connection with his real-life identity as a professor at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

The background audio then introduces Lele's story, explaining that his roommates are his only friends in college, and that they need to go back to their dorms to study. The background audio then reminds them to go to bed as soon as possible so as not to disturb their studies.

"Otherwise, would they also turn into fat caregivers, turn off the lights, and arrest us?" Yu Yu suddenly switched gears.

"Pah, pah, pah, impossible! Shut up!" Zhang Yuan didn't want the nightmare he experienced last year to happen again this year.

“Goodnight, Makka Pakka,” Land Rover said, climbing onto the nearest bed. “I’ve discovered a secret: if we close our eyes, we can’t see caregivers or roommates who suddenly appear.”

“Indeed, your secret is very secret. As long as I close my eyes, I have nothing to fear!” Zhang Yuan said.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang at the door.

"Ah!" Zhang Yuan and Lu Hu were startled and screamed reflexively, but they quickly covered their mouths and secretly observed the movement at the door through the gap in the bed curtains.

Two young people walked in through the door, carrying large and small packages of parcels. The noise they made earlier was because one of the packages had slipped from their grasp and fallen to the ground.

"What's that noise?" one of them asked, looking at his companion.

"I don't know, maybe the kettle boiled," another person said, with a touch of dry humor.

They came in, placed the delivery box on the table, and excitedly discussed the campus music festival, how handsome the band's lead singer was, and how good his red leather jacket looked.

The NPC teacher who dropped the box initially mentioned that he also had the same clothes as the lead singer, and later found them and asked "that person" to help wash them.

The NPC teacher, who compared the screams of the brain-dead brothers to a kettle, joked: "He hates red things the most. Everyone else has red things on their beds except him. You still want him to wash them for you?"

The teacher who dropped the box said smugly, "So what? Let me tell you, we've got him wrapped around our little brother. He's our little brother. If we tell him to go east, he'll never go west. He still wants to be brothers with us? With his attitude, he can dream on."

As expected, Lele's friends didn't take him seriously. He craved friendship, but others only saw him as a "simp." And if they hadn't previously deduced that their NPC friends were all the same person, the conversation between the two roommates would have been a clue.

Qiuqiu hates red, and Lele hates it the most, so there are no red clothes on his bed.

Yu Yu searched the bed and, with a pity, pulled a red scarf from under the pillow.

This bed doesn't belong to Lele, so he won't be involved in this part of the story.

He was rather curious about who the lucky winner was this time.

Yu Yu lifted the bed curtain and draped it over her back, then sat cross-legged on the bed, propping her head up with one hand and watching the plot unfold.

Sure enough, both NPC teachers treated him as a background character. He was sitting so casually on the bed, making himself a conspicuous figure, and they pretended not to see him. They were even discussing that "he" should be sleeping, and that they still had so many packages to unpack, so it would be a good opportunity to wake "him" up and get him to work.

Then, the two of them stood up and lifted the curtain of the lower bunk opposite them.

Land Rover was sitting at the foot of the bed, hugging his knees and leaning against the wall, looking at them with a bewildered expression.

"Oh, you're awake," the kettle teacher teased. "You're not going to blame us for waking you up, are you?"

Land Rover hesitated, unsure how to respond, but Teacher Dropping the Box answered for him: "How could that be? Lele is our good brother. He'd do anything for us, how could he blame us for disturbing his sleep?"

"I was being petty, don't take it to heart," said Teacher Boiler, plopping down on the bed and giving Land Rover a tight hug on the shoulder. "Since you're our good brother, it's only right that a good brother helps us out, right?"

"Uh, yes, yes, you're right." Although he didn't know what to do, Land Rover nodded instinctively when someone asked him for help. However, he also vaguely understood that someone who approached him in this flashback scene was probably not a good thing, so he just quietly agreed.

"Then come and help us unpack these boxes. We need to study, we don't have time to do this." The teacher pointed to the pile of packages on the table and ordered, "Keep your voice down, don't disturb our studies."

"Unpacking delivery boxes?" Land Rover blinked, his previously cautious voice becoming much lighter when he heard that his task was simply to unpack packages.

Relieved, Land Rover patted his chest and assured his two roommates and teachers, "You've come to the right person! I love unpacking boxes, I'm the best at unpacking boxes."

"Let me tell you, when I was staying home, my record was over thirty packages arriving in one day, and I opened them all in one day! I love finding interesting little gadgets. Hey guys, what are these things you have? I have a lot of practical, good-quality, and inexpensive little things. Want me to send you some links?"

The relaxed Land Rover was now so talkative that he seemed to have made friends with everyone, calling each other "brother" in a very friendly way. If you said he was an idiot at this moment, no one would believe it. Even his two roommates and teachers were getting a headache from his loud chatter.

"Stop, stop, stop! What links? Do we need your worthless trinkets?" Teacher Drop Box said with a look of disdain. "Or do you think we don't even know how to use shopping apps or how to search?"

When the NPC teacher got a little stern, Land Rover immediately stopped laughing and stammered, "No, no, that's not true. I just wanted to help you two out."

"The biggest help you can give us is to keep quiet and unpack your packages. Can't you see we need to study?" Teacher Boiler patted the textbook in his hand.

Land Rover looked at him, hesitated, and finally couldn't help but whisper, "Hey bro, you're holding your textbook upside down."

"..." Teacher Boiler remained silent for a moment, as if he hadn't heard Land Rover's prompt. As for whether he heard the suppressed laughter from the other men on the beds, that was even less clear.

"I did it on purpose, to see if you were really focused on your work. You were definitely slacking off. If you don't want to help your brother, just say so." The kettle teacher was quite stubborn.

Land Rover chuckled: "Alright, bro, sorry, I wasn't paying attention. I'll get right to it. I've already figured out how to open packages; all it takes is a quick swipe here..."

"Quiet, shut your mouth!" The teacher glared at Land Rover warningly.

"Okay, no words!" Land Rover saluted.

Wang Yuexin was so trying not to laugh that she almost broke out of her skin. She winked at Yu Yu in the next bed and whispered something. Hu Zi didn't look like the unlucky guy they were teasing; he looked like he was playing a prank on them.

Of course, it's only "similar"; the honest Land Rover owners didn't do it on purpose.

The two roommates pretended to study, and Land Rover also started his work of unpacking the box. However, he searched the table for a long time but could not find a knife or scissors. He hesitated and glanced at his two roommates a few times. Seeing that they were so engrossed in studying that they did not notice him, he finally decided to unpack the box by hand.

Small boxes are easy to open; no matter how tightly the tape is sealed, he can still open them. But larger boxes are different. Larger boxes are obviously more sturdy. He struggled and his face turned red, but the tape seemed to be deliberately working against him, and he couldn't pry it open no matter what he did.

The two roommate NPCs were there to cause trouble and pranks. Even if the Land Rover made a very quiet noise while opening the box, they would complain that it was disturbing their studies, let alone when the Land Rover made a lot of noise but failed to open the box for a long time.

The teacher, looking impatient, threw down his pen: "Why are you making so much noise? You know we're all studying, and you're deliberately disturbing us."

Land Rover honestly said, "Sorry, bro, but the box is really good quality, I just can't open it. I recommend you buy things from this store again next time, at least the chance of damage during shipping is lower."

"Seriously? You can't even do something as simple as unpacking a box?" The kettle teacher wouldn't miss any opportunity for PUA and was quite dedicated.

"I'm not kidding you, this box is really hard to open," Land Rover hurriedly explained, pretending to take it apart to show Teacher Kettle, "Look, this tape is all torn into a line and I still can't pull it off..."

"boom."

Land Rover intended to demonstrate to the kettle teacher, but he never expected that he would tear open the box himself, and in the instant it was opened, a dark shadow rushed toward the kettle teacher's face with lightning speed.

"Ahhh!" Land Rover was so startled that he immediately dropped the box.

"Sizzle—" The teacher was startled by the falling box, not because of the prank inside, but because the sudden scream from the Land Rover made him shudder, causing his chair to slide back a little and make a screeching sound on the ground.

The kettle teacher, whose face was hit by a popped-out balloon: ...Is this right?

Was the Land Rover scared? Yes, it was scared, but something still felt off.

How did a prank originally intended for players end up being smeared on an NPC's face by a Land Rover?

Yu Yu couldn't help but clap his hands and exclaim, "Wonderful, absolutely wonderful! No wonder he's our Tiger Brother!"