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"Grab your weapons!"

Zhao Lei grabbed the blood-stained plastic broom, his eyes turning extremely fierce.

"Everyone be quiet! Go and block the balcony door, then use something to barricade the main door!"

The moment Zhao Lei finished speaking.

"Bang!!!"

The door to their dormitory was suddenly hit by a violent slam!

The poor-quality wooden door creaked under the weight, and dust fell from the door frame.

Through the gap under the door, the beam of the flashlight reflected several eerie, scarlet rays.

[System notification: Your dormitory has been surrounded by a swarm of hungry mutated rats (Lv.2)].

[Temporary Survival Mission Triggered: Night Breakout]

[Mission Objective: Survive tonight, or fight your way out of Building 7.]

Looking at the increasing and densely packed red lights outside the door, Su Hao silently raised the heavy book "Advanced Mathematics" in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, the first dull thud seemed like a battle horn, completely igniting the frenzy outside the corridor.

"Bang bang bang bang——!!!"

A series of violent impacts followed, shaking the entire wooden door violently.

Su Hao could even feel the nauseating, fishy wind and the frenzied pushing force outside through the door.

"Damn it! These animals have gone mad!"

Wang Pangzi jumped three feet high in fright, not even knowing where he had thrown the empty bottle of floral water.

She scrambled and crawled behind Su Hao's bed ladder like a ball of flesh, covering her head with her hands.

"Stop standing there like that! Come over here and help block the door!"

The eldest brother, Zhao Lei, threw away the blood-stained broken broom in his hand and slammed his entire body against the wooden door.

The tremendous force coming from outside the door made his shoulders ache. That was definitely not the kind of noise that a dozen or so rats could make; there must have been at least several hundred outside!

"Third brother! Fourth brother! Push the table over here! Hurry! The latch is about to break!"

Zhao Lei roared, his face flushed, his sneakers scraping against the floor, but he was still being pushed back inch by inch by the force outside.

Su Hao and Chen Fei suddenly realized what was happening.

"One, two, three! Let's go!"

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, gripped the edge of the attached metal desk in the middle of the dormitory tightly.

This thing is so big that even four people can hardly move it an inch when they do a deep clean. It's stuffed with all sorts of useless professional books, dumbbells, and Chen Fei's secret stash of instant noodles.

But under the stimulation of the explosive adrenaline, Su Hao felt a surge of power that he didn't usually have in his muscles.

He glanced at his attribute panel: [Strength: 6].

This digitized body that the broken system gave me is actually real!

"Gararara—"

An extremely piercing metallic scraping sound rang out. The two of them dragged the heavy, attached desk, weighing several hundred kilograms, half a meter across the dusty cement floor before slamming it against the dormitory door.

"Again! It's not dead yet!" Su Hao gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.

"Fatty! Stop pretending to be dead! Get over here and do some work! Do you think your [Constitution: 7] is just for show?!"

Chen Fei pushed the table while cursing loudly at Fatty Wang in the corner.

"They're here! I'm afraid they'll bite my ankles!"

Although Fatty Wang is timid, his size is undeniable.

The nearly 200-pound mountain of flesh slammed heavily onto the desk, combined with the strength of Su Hao and Chen Fei.

"Bang!"

The metal desk was firmly pressed against the wooden door.

The terrifying sense of oppression outside the door, which felt like it could be smashed open at any moment, has finally lessened considerably.

The four people leaned against the desk, like four fish that had just been pulled ashore, slumped on the ground, panting heavily.

In the darkness, only the beam of a flashlight flickered on the ceiling.

"Click...click click..."

Suddenly, a series of extremely faint yet incredibly dense chewing sounds rang in their ears.

The four people fell silent instantly, even their breathing stopped.

Zhao Lei stiffly turned his head and shone the flashlight beam on the lower part of the wooden door.

All that could be seen was that the cheap plywood door, which had been ravaged by previous students for countless years, was being frantically gnawed at by the mutated rats outside!

Wood shavings fell down like snowflakes.

"Holy crap! They're gnawing on the door! The door panel is hollow inside!"

Chen Fei screamed in terror.

The system message clearly stated that this was a "hunger mutated rat swarm".

A monster in a state of frenzied hunger will even bite into cement, let alone this broken wooden plank.

"Thump!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a fist-sized hole was gnawed through the bottom of the door panel!

A rat's head, covered in black fur and with sharp fangs adorned with wood chips, desperately tried to squeeze into the hole.

A pair of scarlet eyes stared intently at Zhao Lei, who was closest to it, and it opened its mouth to let out a piercing scream.

"Fuck your grandpa!"

Zhao Lei was sweating profusely with anxiety. He grabbed the broom he had just thrown on the ground and used the hard plastic handle to stab the rat's head hard.

"squeak--!"

The mouse was poked squarely and its head shrank back. But soon, more gnawing sounds came from every corner of the door.

"It can't hold on. This door will be eaten through in five more minutes at most."

Su Hao stared at the rickety wooden door, clutching the book "Advanced Mathematics" tightly in his hand, his palms sweating profusely.

"How about we jump off the balcony?"

Fatty Wang's voice was trembling with tears.

"I'd rather break my leg than be eaten alive by rats!"

"Are you out of your mind? This is the fourth floor! If you jump, you won't even be bitten by rats; the whole village will come to your house for a feast!" Chen Fei cursed.

"Besides, it's pitch black outside right now. Who knows what might be lurking in the bushes downstairs waiting for us!"

"What do we do now? Just wait to die? The system gave us that 'Dark Night Breakout' mission, isn't that forcing us to go out and deliver takeout? The hallway outside is full of these things!"

A sense of despair began to spread in the dark 404 dormitory.

Hearing the screech of the swarming rats outside the door, and the occasional screams and cries for help coming from the neighboring dormitory...

These college students, who usually only knew how to unleash their full power in the canyon, finally experienced a true apocalyptic situation.

Just when everyone was at a loss.

Wang Pangzi, who had been staring blankly at the door panel, suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Snapped!"

The sound was extremely crisp, startling everyone in the tense atmosphere.

"What's wrong with you, Fatty? Did a mouse bite your butt?"

Zhao Lei turned around in an annoyed manner.

"No... Boss, Third Brother, Fourth Brother! Think about it, where are we right now?"

Fatty Wang's eyes gleamed, and his tone suddenly became extremely excited, even curing his stutter.

"Why wait to die in a 404 error page? Where else can I go?!"

"No! We're playing a game! This is a real-life open-world RPG!"

Fatty Wang was so excited that he waved his arms and legs, pointing at the dilapidated wooden door, drooling as he spoke:

"Have you guys ever played World of Warcraft? Or Legend of Mir? When you encounter those high-risk dungeons with hordes of monsters where you'll get instantly killed, how do we poor players usually manage to survive?"

Chen Fei paused for a moment, then, as the most hardcore gamer in the dorm, he almost instinctively joined in the conversation.

"Pull the mobs? Find a corner to block their line of sight? Or... find a narrow area and let the mobs line up and come to you?"