Chapter 48 Grave Numbers Above All 10 Sixth Middle School

There's another point that Wu Wangwang finds very suspicious: if the description in the file is true, and a group of people went out and someone died in an accident, then why was only Ge Nan bullied?

Is Ge Nan the organizer of the night run?

Given her family background and personality, it's obvious that she wouldn't be the type to openly invite classmates on adventures. She would only be a follower, and she might have hesitated for a long time before agreeing to go for a night run, only agreeing for the sake of team harmony.

Why was she the only one bullied after the accident?

Ling Yuanshan said, "Don't rush, take a look at it in conjunction with the other content."

Aside from some deductions and punishments, there were no other records on Ge Nan's end. After listening to Ling Yuanshan's words, Wu Wangwang continued reading.

Next is Gao Hu, the son of a music master. He studied abroad as a child and received a very good music education. It can be said that his level is more than enough to get into the best music academies abroad.

Why he suddenly returned to China at such an advanced age is unknown. He enrolled at the age of 21, which was last year, and came back directly to study for his senior year of high school, taking the art exam and the national college entrance examination. To put it bluntly, he is a "banana" (a person of Asian descent who is Westernized), so he is very ostracized.

However, he is indeed good at music. Like Ge Nan, he helped the school win many youth awards after he returned. The Sixth Middle School had always been lacking in this area, only those with outstanding academic performance. It can be said that Ge Nan and Gao Hu helped fill the gap in the Sixth Middle School.

If they can build up their reputation, perhaps in the future Sixth Middle School will become the best comprehensive high school in the city.

Gao Hu's grades had always been stable, but at the beginning of this semester, he was always absent, or unable to perform on stage due to various objective reasons. On one occasion, he even disrupted an ongoing opera performance, for which he was given a demerit. According to the records of his classmates, Gao Hu was arrogant and looked down on them, which is why he did such a thing.

The school agreed with this statement and told the parents that students should not become arrogant and disdainful of others just because they are talented. Opera is not a one-person show; without other characters, it cannot even begin.

After that, Gao Hu was in a slump. He did not receive any awards and was also penalized for his poor academic performance.

The remaining eight students were in similar situations. Female student A and male student A were both excellent dance students. The former danced folk dance and the latter danced classical dance. They had won awards since they were young. They had an accident before the art exam. Female student A's face suddenly disintegrated during a competition, which terrified the judges.

Male A nearly died on stage when his neck was strangled by the water sleeves while dancing. After these two accidents, they never won any more awards, and their art exam results were mediocre.

The second female student had a past romantic affair with her teacher, which resulted in a major demerit in her file. She was an art student, and a rare one at that, specializing in traditional Chinese painting. After consideration, the school dismissed the teacher and replaced her with a strict female teacher, thus suppressing the matter.

Male B also had a romantic entanglement, but he refused to say who the female classmate was. The school couldn't find out, but his phone records showed that he was indeed in a relationship, both inside and outside of school. According to the school rules of No. 6 Middle School, he should have received a major demerit and been punished. From then on, his oil painting grades also became very poor.

Next up is the female student from the acting class. She used to be the lead actress in the school play and even acted in a TV series when she was young. Everyone assumed that she would go to the best arts university's acting department.

But on New Year's Day this year, the school planned a stage play for the evening party. The male lead who was acting opposite the female lead suddenly died on stage. Just a second ago, the two of them were deeply in love. Although this incident seemed to have nothing to do with the female lead, she couldn't get over it and has been terrified of acting ever since.

She had already decided to attend acting classes and had taken all sorts of courses, so it was impossible to let her give up at this point. Therefore, the school kept having her play supporting roles to readjust, but the effect was not good. Her art exam score was very low, so she failed. She is also a bit neurotic. Her most recent script was to play a supporting role with no plot, but she could walk around the stage with an umbrella, which was very strange.

Because the female contestants did not follow the stage rules, they would be penalized with points deductions and punishments every time they went on stage, so there were quite a few similar records.

There was also a girl in the instrumental music class who suddenly broke a classmate's head with her flute during the school anniversary celebration. She was almost expelled, and her classmates spontaneously isolated her. From then on, she lived like an invisible person, and her grades slowly declined.

Finally, there were two girls, C and C, from the regular class. They were originally very good students, but were demoted to the regular class. After looking at their files, Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan learned that there was only one elite class in No. 6 Middle School, and the rest were ranked according to their grades.

The elite class is not included in the class ranking; it is simply called the elite class. It has only thirty students and is located on the seventh floor. Starting from the elite class, there are classes one and two, and so on.

The top classes at No. 6 Middle School are not fixed. Only the top 30 students in each month's monthly exam can enter. If their grades are not good, they will be transferred to another class. It is a rotating management system.

Under this system, female student C and male student C dropped from the top class on the seventh floor to the sixth floor, which shows how much their grades differed.

However, the records show that both of them entered the No. 6 Middle School with top scores and remained at the top for the next two years until last year's second mock exam, when they were found to have cheated. As a result, they were both kicked out of the top class and were given a major demerit for it.

The school reassigned them to separate classrooms for exams, and their grades did not worsen. However, the evidence of cheating was conclusive, and the school could not rescind the punishment. Instead, they were randomly selected and moved to regular classes.

The two students behind them, perhaps due to their mindset, gradually saw their grades drop to their current class rankings. Judging from the state of their locker rooms, the girl in question was working incredibly hard, even breaking school rules to prove herself.

Meanwhile, the third man gave up entirely and simply stopped caring, not even bothering to maintain his own closet.

After reviewing all the files, Wu Wangwang said thoughtfully, "All ten of them had accidents before New Year's Day, and their grades plummeted afterward, never to recover."

Ling Yuanshan nodded: "Yes, it's impossible to tell from the files whether these ten people know each other. What's even more coincidental than Ge Nan's night run and the accident involving his teammates is that these ten people had accidents at almost the same time. Perhaps there are other reasons behind it."

"Could it be jealousy? I think they were originally ranked first," Wu Wangwang pointed out.

If no one can surpass the first place, then if the first place no longer exists, the second place can become the first place.

Ling Yuanshan fell into deep thought: "I don't know. I looked through the other people's files and it seems that the second-place person didn't stay in first place for long after rising to first place. The first place was rotated afterward. Could it be a group crime, with the benefit being the rotation of the first place?"

After listening, Wu Wangwang had another question: "But wouldn't this violate the school rule that the score must be higher than the previous one? Think about it, the first place with 100 points is gone, and the remaining 99 points take over. Then it will be the turn of the person with 98 points to be first, and the person with 99 points will have to control their score and let their grades drop, right?"

At No. 6 Middle School, grades are paramount. Every exam must be high, not low, and at the very least, grades must be maintained. If grades drop, it's like being punished. One or two people might be okay, but how can so many people be willing to sacrifice themselves for each other?

More likely, the person who was originally in third place saw the person in second place rise in the rankings and wanted to use the same trick to take down the person in second place as well.

Ling Yuanshan put down the file bag and sighed: "Then we can only start from other aspects. Didn't you say before that you and the girls saw someone fall in the atrium on the sixth floor? But they disappeared? The teaching building has eight floors in total, and we don't think we've ever been up there before."

There's so much material left, I couldn't finish looking through it all by the time the college entrance exam was over, so I had to search very precisely.

Wu Wangwang nodded: "Okay, if there are still stairs, we can sneak up to the rooftop and take a look. Maybe we'll find some clues."

As they left the archives, they glanced at the clock on the teaching building and decided they should eat first. They hurriedly ran to the cafeteria, ate something, and then rushed back to the teaching building.

There was nothing wrong with the seventh floor of the teaching building; it was just rows of classrooms. They even took a look at the top class, which had thirty neat desks and many knowledge points written on the blackboard. Compared to the regular classes, the level of difficulty they taught was much higher.

Finding nothing unusual, the two continued up to the eighth floor.

Previously, the map downstairs showed that the eighth floor was the office. Sometimes the principal, grade director, and senior teachers would work on the eighth floor, as well as a large office for meetings.

The windows in the corridor had no curtains drawn, so they could see into the office. In the large office, there were some documents on the desk. Wu Wangwang, with her sharp eyesight, quickly saw them and read aloud: "Second semester grade rankings and college entrance exam score predictions... Is it still useful to discuss this now?"

Ling Yuanshan could barely make out the large characters in the title. He replied, "It should be useful. The last month of intensive training should still be useful, just like Mi Cai did."

The students who had been punished were working like madmen, as if they had become different people, but Wu Wangwang was very doubtful whether that would work.

They then followed the corridor to the head of the grade's office. One of the windows in the office was unlocked, which saved them the trouble of prying it open; they could simply pull open the window and jump inside.

According to the signs on the table, there are six grade directors in total, with two assigned to each grade. They are not divided into main and deputy directors; there are two directors: one is the academic grade director, and the other is the life grade director.

The academic director is in charge of academic performance and monitors whether students comply with school rules regarding academics; the life director is responsible for managing students' lives, supervising their daily routines, and also overseeing issues such as early romantic relationships and leaving school early.

The two directors divided their responsibilities very carefully. Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan each checked one table, mainly to find detailed records of Ge Nan and ten others.

According to the student ID number, Wu Wangwang first found Ge Nan's. She discovered that Ge Nan's appearance score was frequently deducted by the life director. Moreover, it didn't start after she started running at night, but after she joined the track and field team. It was because her school uniform was torn or dirty, and it would happen every three to five days.

This situation continued until the incident during the night run. This incident was recorded as a major demerit by the director, and it was a big stamp. However, from that day until half a month ago, Ge Nan did not lose any more points for his appearance.

But then another question arises: Ge Nan was not in any trouble during this time, but she was bullied. How was she able to keep her clothes clean?

Also, why did Ge Nan's clothes become dirty and messy again half a month ago? Did something happen half a month ago that caused her to lose control of her appearance again?

Assuming that the bullying Ge Nan suffered from the night run could not cause her any real harm until half a month ago, why did she frequently tell her parents that she wanted to leave the sports team during that period?

Problems kept arising, and Wu Wangwang couldn't find a single answer; instead, she became more and more confused.

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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]

Wu Wangwang: This is so hard! It's even harder than a math problem! [Chin resting on hand]

Ling Yuanshan: Because you can do math problems! [Sigh]

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