The moment Cheng Zhi proposed the idea, Dorm 806 exploded with excitement.
The library had so many books, four floors in total. If they casually collected just one bookshelf’s worth of books, wouldn’t their space become much larger?
Once they made the decision, they acted immediately.
There were roughly three hours left before the winds really started picking up. The five girls did not waste a second and rushed straight to the library.
Luckily, it was mealtime, so there were not many people inside. They each selected areas with fewer people and started rapidly storing books into the space.
Doing something like this under surveillance cameras was incredibly thrilling.
But none of them cared anymore.
Tomorrow was the apocalypse.
Who was still going to care about a few missing books?
Even though Cheng Zhi had been the one to suggest the idea, this was still the first time in her life that she had done something like this. Naturally, she was nervous.
After struggling for a long time, she finally managed to collect one entire bookshelf.
Just as she was about to collect a second one, someone tapped her shoulder.
Instantly, Cheng Zhi’s heart shot into her throat.
She became so nervous she almost wanted to throw up.
No way.
No way.
Her first crime in this life and she was already getting caught?
But then Xiao Feiran’s voice sounded beside her.
“I think we should stop. I just went in and checked. The space has already doubled in size. Even our bathroom got upgraded. It has a bathtub now.”
A bathtub?
Oh my god.
Cheng Zhi stared in disbelief and immediately dragged Xiao Feiran toward the restroom. After entering a stall, they instantly flashed into the space.
Inside the bathroom, all four girls stood there blankly staring at the pristine white bathtub.
In their entire lives, they had never imagined they would see a bathtub inside a dorm.
The feeling was incredibly surreal.
The four of them wandered around the space and eventually returned to the dorm.
As the wind outside grew stronger and stronger, Zheng Wan still had not returned.
Cheng Zhi paced back and forth around the room, checking the time over and over.
Just as she was about to push open the door and go search for her, Zheng Wan finally came back carrying a huge pile of things.
Everyone curiously gathered around her.
“The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, Medical Compendium, Essential Techniques for the Common People…”
Xiao Feiran flipped through the books one by one.
“Wanzi’s changing majors now? Medicine? Agriculture? Hahaha!”
Still sitting in her chair and not yet fully catching her breath, Zheng Wan wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“When the power and internet are gone, these kinds of knowledge will save lives.”
That was true.
In their previous life, the internet had gone out after the typhoon lasted three days. Their phones and computers had instantly turned into useless bricks.
Although this time they had an alternate dimension space, along with generators and batteries, making extra preparations was still necessary.
The glass door rattled violently from the wind, drawing everyone’s attention.
The trees lining both sides of the road outside swayed wildly. Fallen leaves and trash were being swept into the sky, while a few pedestrians struggled forward in groups, supporting one another as they walked.
The people of Dorm 806 knew this was only the beginning.
In a few days, the water supply would also be cut off.
So they quickly filled containers with drinking water and took showers.
Perhaps because they had already experienced all this once before, the five girls seemed strangely unconcerned as they busied themselves with their own tasks.
Since there was land inside the alternate dimension space, Cheng Zhi began downloading videos and materials related to farming and raising livestock.
Xiao Feiran had always practically lived on the internet. Fearing boredom during the coming days, she frantically downloaded novels, movies, television dramas, and variety shows according to recommendation lists.
Zheng Wan chased celebrities and watched livestreams.
In their previous life, her favorite idol’s older brother had held a livestream on the twelfth. She had thought she could just watch the replay later.
But in the end, she never got another chance.
Meanwhile, Chen Siyu video called her family, chatting endlessly about random things and cherishing what little communication time they had left.
But if anyone deserved the title of most impressive, it had to be their class representative, Huang Yiyi.
While downloading files, Cheng Zhi got bored and started wandering around the dorm.
Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Huang Yiyi still solving practice questions.
“No way, no way. You’re still studying at a time like this?!”
Cheng Zhi immediately grabbed Huang Yiyi by the shoulders and shook her wildly.
“The apocalypse is here! Our lives are on the line, and you’re still thinking about passing exams?!”
Huang Yiyi looked like she was about to get a concussion from being shaken and desperately tried to retreat from Cheng Zhi’s demonic grip.
“I was just trying to calm myself down through studying! Besides, if I learn more now, maybe when the apocalypse ends, I can pass the exam immediately! Hahahaha!”
Xiao Feiran, sitting diagonally across while lazily swinging her feet, shook her head in disagreement.
“The country would let salted fish succeed before it’d let you succeed.”
Everyone burst into laughter.
For a moment, the atmosphere in Dorm 806 eased slightly.
But very quickly, with a loud bang, a broken section of tree trunk smashed into the balcony railing from outside.
Everyone instantly tensed up again.
In their previous life, because they lived on a high floor, the balcony had avoided serious damage.
Hopefully, this time their balcony would remain safe too.
The wind grew stronger and stronger.
Weather alerts from the meteorological station continued escalating.
Their counselor posted a notice in the class group chat saying classes were canceled tomorrow.
Everyone else happily celebrated not having to attend class. Some even posted on social media to show off.
Only Dorm 806, knowing the truth, was filled with anxiety.
The wind outside made people uneasy.
Cheng Zhi took one of the rabbits out from the space and placed it on the table, gently stroking it again and again.
Chen Siyu was even more anxious.
Throughout the night, she repeatedly got up and walked to the balcony door, every single time wearing a deeply furrowed expression.
Xiao Feiran sensed her anxiety and could only walk over and comfortingly pat her shoulder.
“What’s coming will come eventually. Besides, this is a natural disaster. Other than accepting it, there’s nothing we can do. Don’t overthink it.”
Humans were always small in the face of disasters.
Everyone understood that.
Chen Siyu gently placed her hand on the glass door and silently prayed.
If rebirth could happen, then let them live properly.
After finishing her prayer, Chen Siyu adjusted her mood and turned around to encourage everyone to get some rest.
After all, the days ahead would be hard.
They would spend every day worrying and living in fear.
There would not be many opportunities to properly rest.
Zheng Wan, who had just finished watching her livestream, immediately agreed. She put away her tablet and climbed into bed.
“We really should get some proper rest, recharge ourselves. Starting tomorrow, we need to work out too. We need strong bodies if we’re going to survive until the end!”
Sitting in her chair, Cheng Zhi looked at everyone’s energetic expressions, and the anxiety in her own heart eased considerably.
In their previous life, they had lacked supplies and had weak bodies. Every day, they had relied on encouraging one another just to keep going.
But this time, they had so much more.
They would definitely survive.
Accompanied by violent wind and torrential rain, Dorm 806 turned off the lights.
In the darkness, only a few scattered points of light remained outside.
Without an alarm, they should have slept until waking naturally.
But at five in the morning, Cheng Zhi was awakened by the screams of girls outside.
Opening her phone, she saw that the dormitory group chat already had over ninety nine unread messages.
It turned out a tree had been blown over and crashed directly into a second floor dorm balcony.
Thankfully, no one had been injured, but the girls living there had been terrified.
A few skinny girls had stubbornly insisted on going into the hallway to get water and had nearly been blown away.
They were now crying dramatically in the dorm chat.
Maybe it was because she had already died once before, but Cheng Zhi felt almost nothing.
She did not care about other people’s life or death.
She only cared about themselves.
After scrolling through her phone for nearly an hour, Cheng Zhi was completely awake.
She climbed out of bed and walked to the glass door.
Outside, there was not a trace of light.
The violent wind and torrential rain seemed to blur the entire world.
She could not even see the library building, which was usually the most noticeable landmark.