Dormitory Life in All Its Forms

"Hmph~"

Gu Sheng snorted without losing his temper. At university, even people on good terms shared a bed, let alone borrowing someone’s bed for a while. However, Gu Sheng and this guy were absolutely nowhere near that close.

Besides, the damn fatty had shoved his stinky feet, socks still on, into Gu Sheng’s blanket. For someone with mild mysophobia, even smelling them made him nauseous.

"Don’t get on my bed when I’m not around next time!"

Gu Sheng brought it up lightly, without making the atmosphere too tense. Unfortunately, the damn fatty had no sense at all. He pretended not to hear and loudly discussed things with the dorm leader.

Gu Sheng did not bother arguing with them. There was no need to get angry at people like this. If they truly made him sick, he had plenty of ways to deal with them.

Gu Sheng put his backpack on his desk, then took another set of bedding and a quilt from the wardrobe. He had bought two sets of bedding back then. Gu Sheng was rather frugal, so this set had barely been used and was still as good as new.

"You’re pretty particular, huh!"

The fatty who had crawled into the dorm leader’s bed and was sharing it with him called out sarcastically. When Gu Sheng glanced over, the fatty felt a chill in his heart and did not dare continue. He pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep.

"Go to sleep!"

Gu Sheng put the bag containing Tang Lie’s ashes into the cabinet, then placed his backpack at the head of the bed. After sitting on the bed and browsing videos, his QQ Number, and WeChat for a while, he patted Jade Azure Serpent Qing Ling inside the backpack, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

"Ring ring ring~~"

A series of alarms woke Gu Sheng. He opened his eyes groggily, then suddenly became fully alert. Picking up his phone, he saw that it was half past six. He looked around at all the immortals in the room, but every one of them was still asleep.

"Sigh!"

Gu Sheng shook his head. In The Nine Cauldrons World, he had already grown accustomed to getting up early, so he could no longer fall back asleep once he woke up. It was still early. After washing up, he tossed the used duvet covers, sheets, and other things from the previous day into the washing machine, then placed the old quilt and mattress pad outside to dry in the sun.

After finishing all that, Gu Sheng reached into the backpack and stroked Jade Azure Serpent Qing Ling, who was "hibernating" inside. Then he carefully took a book from beside it and began reading.

"Cold Moon Saber Art!"

Gu Sheng rubbed the slightly battered Original Manual in his hands. Liu San had real ability. He had even managed to dig out the manual Fourth Master Hong had kept hidden, which was enough to prove that he had harbored ulterior motives toward Fourth Master Hong long ago.

"Xiantian Method!"

Gu Sheng read with great care. This Cold Moon Saber Art was among the finest of the Human-Grade Manuals. Its final section even recorded a method for transforming postnatal Inner Force into Innate True Essence, allowing one to cultivate all the way to the Xiantian Void Core realm without obstruction.

"Let’s give it a try!"

Gu Sheng set down the manual, closed his eyes, and focused on his dantian. He began trying to use the Xiantian Method. Within his dantian, whirlpools spun on their own. After only a quarter of an hour, a tremendous amount of colorless Inner Force gathered.

Then waves of fluctuation began to rise, and a hazy red glow flashed in the center of his dantian.

"Boom~"

The Inner Force gathered in Gu Sheng’s dantian suddenly exploded outward. His entire body jerked violently, and he almost lost control and kicked wildly. Fortunately, he forced himself not to move. Otherwise, the fifth roommate sleeping in the bunk above him might have suffered for no reason.

If his physical strength of more than one hundred thousand pounds had erupted against the bed board, the bed collapsing would probably have been the least of the problems.

"What’s going on! Sixth, if you’re not sleeping, don’t move around! In broad daylight, what are you flying arou—"

The fifth roommate in the upper bunk shouted impatiently. Gu Sheng did not stoop to arguing with this kidney-deficient man.

This guy was a notorious womanizer in the dorm. He had started dating girls back in middle school. Birds of a feather flocked together, and the girls who were willing to date him were basically no good either, so there was nothing worth envying.

"Hey! Sixth, you’re something else! You’ve become famous!"

The third roommate, who was lying on his bed watching videos on his phone, suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted toward Gu Sheng and the others, "I’m sending it to you guys. Hurry up and look…"

"Thud~"

A short video appeared in the dormitory group chat on QQ Number. Gu Sheng opened it and took a look. Wasn’t this him being escorted back to school yesterday by Lin Qinghe and Le Erya? It seemed someone had secretly filmed them without him noticing at the time.

"Sixth, not bad! You really know how to keep a low profile!"

The fourth roommate teased him with a laugh. He was an easygoing person who got along well with everyone in the dorm and with most of their classmates.

Gu Sheng hurriedly said, "Stop right there. You can’t joke around about them! They came to question me yesterday. When I was discharged from the hospital, they happened to be coming here, so they gave me a ride. Don’t stir things up and spread nonsense."

"Wait! Weren’t you in the hospital? Why would they come question you?"

The duck-like voice was extremely grating. This was the dorm leader, a man three years older than Gu Sheng who had been held back several times.

"There was a murder at the hospital yesterday. Didn’t you see the news?"

Gu Sheng found it strange. Although yesterday’s murder had been extremely vicious, it had happened at the entrance of the busy inpatient department. There had even been such a huge disturbance beforehand. It had probably already spread among netizens, so it was unlikely the news could still be suppressed.

"Who pays attention to hospitals for no reason?"

The second roommate, who lived in the upper bunk above the dorm leader, snorted. He slept in a very strange position and liked sleeping on his stomach. He spent all day lying on his bed playing with his phone, with his eyes almost pressed against the screen. He looked awkward just watching him.

"Hey! I’ll search it!"

The third roommate laughed. "Holy crap! This is terrifying. It looks like his entire skin was peeled off! What kind of grudge could cause this?"

The third roommate got goosebumps looking at Yao Xingxing, who looked as though he had been skinned. Then he sent the pictures and news to the group to scare the others.

"Holy crap! Third, you’re such a jerk!"

"Ugh!"

"That’s disgusting!"

The dormitory instantly erupted. Some sat up and some stood, but after seeing those pictures, how could any of them still feel sleepy?

Gu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly and added fuel to the fire. "He wasn’t skinned. He was thrown down from the hospital’s tenth floor! Thrown, not pushed. I heard the killer carried him out of the rooftop with one hand, then smashed him down like an egg. His flesh was like egg white, just—"

"Ugh!"

"Stop talking!"

"I’m going to throw up!"

These people had decent imaginations but poor tolerance. They imagined an egg being smashed on the ground, then looked at those terrifying crime-scene pictures, and threw up everything they had eaten the night before.

"Hehe~~"

The third roommate laughed. "Sixth, I’ve noticed that spending time in the hospital has made you a bad influence."

"People always change, don’t they?"

Gu Sheng smiled and said something inexplicable.

"Beep beep beep~~~"

A message suddenly arrived on Gu Sheng’s QQ Number. He glanced down, grinned, then got out of bed and put his backpack on it. He locked the sheets, duvet covers, mattress, and the things he had just washed and dried inside the cabinet, leaving only a rolled-up mat on the bare bed board.