Zhang Heng pushed open the door to the dormitory. The corridor was quiet, a little like the morgue in a hospital. Only his footsteps could be heard.
The door to the dormitory opposite was not closed, and there was light coming from inside. Zhang Heng poked his head in and saw four people engrossed in their computer games.
On the screen, their characters were chasing after a low-health Annie. Their skills were suspended in the air, and the excited expressions on their faces were frozen at that moment. They looked like four lifelike statues.
Zhang Heng noticed that one of them had an alarm clock on his desk, and the time was the same.
After that, he walked around the other dormitories on this floor.
Some of them had locked their doors before going to bed, so he couldn't enter them. The ones that he could enter all stopped at the last moment of the day.
In the bathroom, someone was smoking behind the dormitory manager's back. The sparks on the cigarette were clearly visible, but they didn't spread downwards. The smoke that was exhaled was frozen at the side of the mouth.
Zhang Heng couldn't help but take out his phone and take a picture of this magical scene.
When he pressed the shutter, he discovered something interesting.
In this world where time was stagnant, not only did everyone have the pause button pressed, but everything was also frozen at the last second.
For example, the skill that flew halfway, the electric fan that stopped moving, and now the cigarette that would never finish burning.
However, there were exceptions to this rule.
To verify his conjecture, Zhang Heng pulled the cigarette out from between the other person's fingers.
As a result, the cigarette butt continued to burn when it reached his hand.
So it was like that.
In this time where only he could move, things would return to normal when they were in his hand. Now, it was just a cigarette, a phone, a computer, and an MP3 player that were working normally. The only difference was that the time displayed on them wouldn't change.
Also, his touch function didn't seem to work on humans. He had pushed Chen Huadong in the dormitory for a long time, but the latter didn't respond.
What about other living things other than humans?
Zhang Heng's interest was piqued. He turned around and walked back to the dormitory. He switched his phone to flashlight mode and approached his roommates. Two minutes later, he used his 20 million Soft Light Dual Shot to find his target in the dark.
It was the most common and hated animal around most people during the summer — mosquitoes.
As long as one of them sneaked into a room, no one would be able to have a night of peace.
Zhang Heng's dormitory was on the third floor, which was considered relatively low. At this height, mosquitoes didn't even need to take the elevator. They could just move in with their bags. Therefore, everyone had a variety of ways to prevent mosquitoes. Some used mosquito coils, some applied mosquito repellent lotion, and some even hung mosquito nets. Still, there were always mosquitoes that slipped through the net.
Now, this mosquito was lurking beside Wei Jiangyang's pillow, waiting for an opportunity to feast on him.
Unfortunately, its beautiful dream was destined to fail tonight.
Zhang Heng reached out and gently pinched one of the mosquito's wings. He grabbed it from the air and placed it in his palm.
But in the end, he still maintained his posture of swinging his arms. He was like the most professional actor, and he ignored the fresh prey that was right next to his mouth.
"Looks like animals won't work either."
At the end of the experiment, Zhang Heng casually crushed it, achieving the achievement of eliminating a scourge for the people.
Well, I've pretty much finished exploring the dormitory. It's time to go out and take a look.
He used the faucet in the washroom to destroy the evidence and went down to the first floor.
The dormitory manager on duty was standing at the door with a large U-shaped lock in her hand, probably preparing to lock the door.
This kind of thing was considered a characteristic of high schools, but there was a big difference in dormitory management between different universities.
Although Zhang Heng's school had a rule to lock the door at twelve o 'clock, if he came back late, he could knock on the window to wake the manager on duty. After registering, he could go back to bed. However, if he did this frequently, he would be punished and criticized.
Zhang Heng walked past the manager calmly. If it were any other day, the manager would definitely stop him and ask him where he was going at such a late hour.
But now, she seemed to have suddenly gained the ability to see through things. The focus of her eyes passed through Zhang Heng's body and focused on the door handle. It was as if she did not notice a living person had just walked past her.
So Zhang Heng walked out of the dormitory unhurriedly, looked up at the night sky above his head, walked through the empty campus, and finally arrived at the school gate.
It was a lot livelier here.
Zhang Heng's school was not big, but its location was good. It was located on the edge of the Third Ring Road, directly opposite a road. The night in the big city was always particularly long.
The pancake stall on the overpass was booming. Many young white-collar workers had just left the office building at this time, hungry and in urgent need of a midnight snack to replenish their energy on the way home. Not far away, the sanitation workers waved the brooms in their hands and silently swept the sidewalk. Under the platform, two bald uncles in suits and leather shoes held their mobile phones while waiting for the night bus that had yet to arrive. Behind them, the girl with the little bear hairpin in the 24-hour convenience store gave a long yawn in front of the cashier …
And at the same time, they were all frozen in time.
It was like a scene from a movie that had been paused.
The speeding cars on the road all stopped at this moment.
Zhang Heng had once gone to the station to pick up a friend, and he had seen what the city looked like in the middle of the night.
But this was the first time he was observing it up close.
He could see the chopped green onions sprinkled in the hands of the pancake vendor, the calluses on the hands of the sanitation workers and their tanned faces, the greasy nose of the bald uncle, the picture of his one-month-old daughter on his mobile phone screen, and the celebrity sticker that the girl with the little bear hairpin secretly hid under the cash register …
All these details that were overlooked in daily life were now displayed in front of Zhang Heng.
It was like he was getting to know the city all over again.
Zhang Heng used WeChat to unlock a mobike and rode it through the city in high spirits.
He also continued to test his hypothesis.
When the hour hand on the starfish was about to make its second turn, he rushed back to the dormitory before the dormitory manager locked the door.
It was also 00: 00. This time, Zhang Heng did not bring his headphones.
The next second, all the voices poured into his ears like a tidal wave.
"Beautiful, this head is mine!!! The Infinity Blade can finally be used! "
"Push the tower quickly, they won't dare to attack."
"No, I have to go home and replenish my health first!"
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