The restroom was chilling with a whistling cold wind.
The only dim yellow light was broken, and if she had a choice, she definitely wouldn’t have used the restroom here.
The air was thick with the smell of formalin. Outside the window, the tall trees cast shifting, uneven shadows that formed eerie patterns on the ground.
Xu Yinuo closed her eyes, her heart pounding with extreme fear.
She only hoped to finish her business quickly and then flee this suffocating building.
Suddenly, she heard a creaking noise from the hallway, approaching her direction.
Xu Yinuo’s heart started pounding violently, as if it would burst from her chest.
The door to the restroom creaked open, and a slim figure entered, heading out of habit toward the position closest to the door.
"Ah!" Xu Yinuo let out a loud scream, her voice completely altered.
"Ah!" The person seemed just as startled and quickly moved to another spot, "Sorry! I just realized the restroom light seems to be broken. I couldn’t adjust to the darkness when I came in and didn’t see that someone was here."
Hearing the other person’s voice, Xu Yinuo’s heart, which had been half-scared to death, calmed down slightly, the newcomer was An Hao.
When Xu Yinuo had left the classroom, she was still holding onto Teacher Yan Ye, asking questions.
Now, she must be the last person there.
Xu Yinuo could no longer bother with the restroom, and hurriedly wiped herself with toilet paper, dashing out of the restroom as if escaping.
In that instant, a thought flashed through her mind, and without even having the time to think it through, she executed it decisively.
She slammed the door shut and in a swift turn, fixed two pencils from her backpack onto the restroom door handle.
Then she ran out of the hallway like crazy, and as she passed the entrance, the building manager for the dissection building asked her, "Girl! Is anyone still in the classroom?"
Xu Yinuo blurted out in a panic, "No! There’s no one left!"
The building manager watched the girl run out like the wind, shook his head with a smile, "What a timid child. Every year there’s always such a timid student... If you’re so scared, why insist on studying medicine?"
As he spoke, he leisurely switched off the lights and then locked the door to the hallway with a click.
Having fled the dissection building, Xu Yinuo was shaking so badly that even the hands gripping her backpack straps wouldn’t stop trembling.
She dared not return to the girls’ dormitory and sat on a bench nearby for a while until her emotions stabilized, then she went upstairs.
Opening the door to the dormitory, everyone was already there.
Gu Shuangshuang noticed Xu Yinuo returning so late with such a pale face and asked with concern, "Yinuo, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Your complexion looks really bad!"
Xu Yinuo nodded, put down her school bag and picked up the basin to go to the water room.
"If you’re not feeling well, go get checked out." Gu Shuangshuang saw Xu Yinuo with such a dreadful complexion for the first time and could not help but add, "Or, were you scared by tonight’s class?"
"No... not at all. I just felt a severe headache and went out for some fresh air. Now I need to wash up and go to bed quickly," Xu Yinuo lied, then carried the basin out of the dormitory.
The moment she closed the door, she heard Gu Shuangshuang muttering, "This An Hao is really something else. She’s absolutely relentless with her studies! It’s so late, and she’s still holding onto Teacher Yan Ye, asking questions!"
"Exactly! We should all learn from her dedication to study," Lei Linxuan said as she opened her notebook on the bed, "I have two questions I want to ask her when An Hao comes back."