Chapter 60 Grave Numbers Above All 22 Sixth Middle School

Later, these people recounted what happened that night in the group chat. Because the humans couldn't keep up, there were only the track and field team and a bunch of ghosts on the secluded road.

Adding to Ge Nan's somewhat confused description, we know that after Ge Nan refused, the track and field team rushed up and shoved her. Other ghosts, unable to stand by and watch, secretly tried to break up the fight. As a result, somehow, the track and field team captain lost his footing and fell directly down the hillside. However, at the moment it happened, everyone was stunned and didn't chase after him. Unfortunately, a train was passing below, and although it braked quickly, it still broke the captain's leg.

To evade responsibility, the rest of the track and field team put the blame entirely on Ge Nan, claiming that she planned the night run, that she chose the route, and that she was the one who caused the track and field team captain to lose his legs.

According to this argument, Ge Nan should have been expelled from school and had to pay a large sum of money in compensation to the track and field team captain.

Fortunately, the other people in the group caught up in time. They had already preserved a lot of evidence. Although those things could not stop Ge Nan from being bullied, they could at least clear her name.

With the help of classmates in the group, and because the school was worried that the bullying would be exposed, the matter was covered up with an unspoken understanding. Everything went back to normal. When the track and field team captain went home, everyone said that she had fallen down by herself. She really did fall down by herself.

After the incident, Woman B asked Ge Nan in the group chat, "Did she really fall down by herself?"

Ge Nan said she didn't know. She was being pulled tightly by several people, and her clothes were almost torn. Plus, it was dark, so she couldn't see how the captain fell down.

The ghosts could see it, but there were quite a few of them. To find out what happened, they started to recount the events. With the help of the female character and her best friend's impressive drawing skills, they managed to recreate the scene from that night.

Based on the ghosts' descriptions of the pushing sequence, their repeated attempts to save Ge Nan, and Ge Nan's identification of the track and field team's characteristics, it was finally discovered that the third person noticed the track and field team captain being slowly pushed to the edge of the mountain path. As if possessed by a ghost, she directly pushed the track and field team captain off the path.

At the time, there were several other people pulling on Ge Nan, but no one noticed, assuming that everyone was pulling in the same direction.

When the truth was discovered, the group was silent for a long time. They were all shocked. The second-place player wanted to cause trouble for the first-place player so that he could take the position. However, the third-place player was also eyeing the position in front of him.

If the second-place player can rise in the rankings by destroying the first-place player, then why should the third-place player be relegated to the second-place position?

If the methods used are all dirty, then whoever wins first place will simply be determined by their own abilities.

It just so happens that Ge Nan is not popular and is ostracized in the track and field team. This matter can be completely pushed onto her. The second place got into trouble, the first place took the blame, and the third place reaped the benefits.

The plan was perfect, but unfortunately, Ge Nan had already made a bunch of good friends beforehand, and they used their own methods to ensure Ge Nan's innocence.

After this incident, the track and field team senior finally revealed what happened back then. He was either in an accident or pushed off the track. During team training, he was never allowed to run around freely. It was part of the daily training, and the goal was to maintain a neat, standardized, and relaxed routine so as not to have a significant impact on his body.

They ran around the corner in perfect unison, but someone pushed him. The teacher was afraid of taking responsibility, and the students wanted to win, so they accepted the explanation that it was an accident.

The drama of competing for rankings has never stopped at No. 6 Middle School. With scores being paramount, it's natural to strive for first place.

Ge Nan was terrified of these kinds of disputes on campus, especially since the original third-place finisher on the track and field team was still there; she had simply become second.

She was originally in cahoots with the track and field team captain and they were friends, but she acted without hesitation. Now that the first-place winner is safe, why would she give up? She will definitely find an opportunity to kill Ge Nan in the future to help herself improve her ranking.

The peaceful routine in the group was suddenly shattered, and everyone fell into a state of panic. It was from this moment that Ge Nan began to hope that her parents would agree to let her transfer to another class. After realizing that her parents could not be relied on, she refused to win the gold medal. Of course, there was also some reason for her mental confusion.

Not long after, the girl's best friend started dating, and one thing after another happened. The group members didn't have much peace for long before a series of mishaps occurred.

In December, the girl who started this mass texting incident jumped to her death. As she wrote in her suicide note, the warmth from her friends could not heal the pain caused by her family of origin. Her writings should have reflected her own spirit and state of mind, but her parents could not see it. They only hoped that she could get into a good university, and their pursuit of high scores became more and more extreme.

The girl had already lost her best friend and teacher, and then she lost another friend. All the punishments she and her best friend inflicted on the boy were done with the help of the girl who jumped off the building. It was she who found more of the documents that allowed them to use curses to frighten the boy.

However, Man B had briefly joined the group because he was dating his best friend. He knew that there were many fake accounts in the group and understood that these timid girls could not possibly invite any powerful ghosts to punish them, so he was fearless.

However, the way his best friend died still frightened the second man. From then on, he was paranoid and always worried that his best friend's tragic death would turn her into a ghost and haunt him.

After the death, the group's spirits immediately dissipated. The ghosts that had been summoned returned to the deceased's belongings. The remaining people and ghosts in the group became increasingly silent. They didn't know how many more partings they would have to endure, or whether another person would give up.

The chat logs on the ten phones stopped on the day the players arrived, and there were no new records after that. The ghosts didn't ask why everyone was silent.

“More importantly, we don’t seem to have seen the ghost that’s with us,” Wu Wangwang said worriedly.

The chat logs clearly show the help the ghosts provided to humans; everyone was indeed very lucky to have found a good ghost who only wanted to learn and improve and didn't kill indiscriminately.

If a dungeon provides players with this configuration, it will be there from the start, and something must have happened in between that wasn't recorded.

Ling Yuanshan had already entered the electronic database. He originally wanted to check past death records, but after listening to Wu Wangwang's summary, he checked those ghosts first.

There was a printer right next to them, so Ling Yuanshan printed out the documents and showed them to Wu Wangwang.

"The names of these ghosts can be found in the school's past student records, so it seems to be true. The cause of death is consistent with what they said themselves," Ling Yuanshan summarized.

Wu Wangwang brought over all the printed files. She flipped through them and said to Ling Yuanshan, "The photos are the same as the videos in the group, it's the person... Hey, in that case, wouldn't you say they're some kind of mechanism provided by the copy system?"

For example, players can use the same method to ask ghosts for help, but there is a certain probability of encountering one with resentment, which will harm both themselves and others.

Ling Yuanshan pondered for a moment and said, "It's hard to say whether it's a mechanism or a trap. Besides, they haven't appeared since we entered the instance. What if the misfortune of these ten students was caused by ghosts? Even if they didn't think that way or didn't do it intentionally, their luck was still affected. As the saying goes, humans and ghosts are on different paths."

There are only ten students and the chat logs of the ghosts they summoned. They themselves are living in a daze and cannot distinguish the cause and effect of all the events.

Wu Wangwang thought it made sense, so she put down the printed file, took out Ge Nan's notebook and pen, and said, "In that case, let's take a look at the school's death records in recent years and see how many people have died at the school over the years."

From the perspective of the entire school, the number of deaths was not large, but from the perspective of time, it was a long time.

Every now and then someone dies, as if there's some KPI to meet.

Wu Wangwang had recorded the names Ling Yuanshan had given her earlier, but she was too lazy to write them down later.

The two looked at the cases from the last three years, and they found all sorts of deaths: depression, fighting, accidents, pregnancy... the reasons were varied. It's quite remarkable that such a strict school couldn't stop these kinds of messy things.

Wu Wangwang covered her head: "With such strict management, why do they still have so much energy?"

Ling Yuanshan was tired of reading, so he rubbed his eyes and said, "Young people are naturally energetic. Schools seem strict, but in reality, they are only strict about academic performance, not about management. This creates a rigid feudal social hierarchy."

Even children shout, "Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?" In this model, studying hard is merely a way to gain power, not a means to strive for a better future. The goals are completely different.

"So, what about the results? How did these dead people fare?" Wu Wangwang only wrote down the names; Ling Yuanshan glanced at the detailed files at the end.

“They’re all very good, at least in the top five,” Ling Yuanshan gave an affirmative answer.

Wu Wangwang was silent for a moment, then couldn't help but say, "Then can we say that the school has given too much freedom to good students?"

If they weren't so free, they probably wouldn't have caused so much trouble.

Ling Yuanshan looked at her helplessly: "Even without so much freedom, many people will eventually give up and exchange their lives for rest. That would make the dungeon storyline much simpler, but it doesn't seem to fit the kind of storyline that players like us with an 80% mortality rate have."

In short, it was extremely difficult for them to get in this time.

Wu Wangwang sighed: "I see... Then let's check Liu Hong's dorm room. Do you remember what I told you? There were two ghosts in Liu Hong's dorm room, and this lucky bag. I wonder if this lucky bag came from those two ghosts."

Players with a normal mortality rate died first, which must be due to some unavoidable rules about death.

Ling Yuanshan nodded and began searching by dormitory room number to see what he could find.

The computer's direct indexing is much faster than searching through individual files; it only took two minutes to get detailed results.

Since this is a dormitory in the new campus, Ling Yuanshan skipped over the relevant information about the dormitories in the old campus and just used the dormitory where Liu Hong died.

Wu Wangwang waited for Ling Yuanshan to open the record. They discovered that the girls in that dormitory kept dying, and even Tang Xiaofen used to live there.

When she wrote down this name, Wu Wangwang was stunned: "Tang Xiaofen? She lives here too? But she said she was so sad that she accidentally fell off the corridor railing."

Ling Yuanshan and Wu Wangwang exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes. They had thought that Tang Xiaofen and the other ghosts were already close to the rules of death, but they didn't expect the rules of death to appear even earlier.

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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]

Wu Wangwang: I'm starting to doubt whether our dorm is really safe after all. [Chin resting on hand]

Ling Yuanshan: [Hug]

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