School Rules

Ever since Long Yao and He Lizhou reached a verbal agreement, Long Yao was no longer a loner and would occasionally talk to He Lizhou about some trivial clues.

Because of the weekly test, He Lizhou and his friends did not have time to look for clues and focused on studying.

As soon as the bell rang, Sheng Ju threw his book down, held his head and said in agony, "When will this end?"

Today is Saturday, and tomorrow is the time for the weekly test. He Lizhou patted him and comforted him, "You can relax a little after today."

Although No. 1 High School has arranged weekly tests, many teachers do not specifically lead everyone to review and continue teaching new lessons, so He Lizhou and his classmates have to take time during breaks to review previous knowledge.

In addition, the development within the copy is different from the development of the world they live in, and many knowledge systems need to be rebuilt, which is more time-consuming and energy-consuming.

Long Yao applied to change seats. He was half a head taller than He Lizhou, so he sat behind He Lizhou. Hearing the conversation between the two, he raised his head from his arms and said, "I have something to do tonight. Do you want to go?"

Sheng Ju was completely ignored by him. Sheng Ju gritted his teeth and raised his hand first, "I want to go."

Long Yao didn't even look at Sheng Ju. After He Lizhou nodded, he rejected him ruthlessly, "The staff is streamlined, you don't have to go."

Sheng Ju was not convinced. He was an advanced player who had completed many dungeons. Why was he regarded as a drag by Long Yao? He secretly made up his mind to follow him secretly, but was stopped by He Lizhou's eyes.

He Lizhou understood that although Long Yao thought highly of himself, he would not stop others if they wanted to follow him to commit suicide. Since he said that it was better to reduce the number of personnel, it must be a light operation and it is not advisable to mobilize a large number of troops. If Sheng Ju was brought along, then Peng Ningyu must also be brought along.

Too many people can easily attract attention.

He Lizhou looked at the students in the classroom, who were either reading or sleeping on their desks. He turned around and asked, "What's going on?"

Long Yao had already laid back on the table. When he heard He Lizhou's question, he raised his head and said, "The principal's office."

He Lizhou blinked slightly.

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The moon was covered by dark clouds tonight. The night was deep and terrifying. It seemed as if there was something secretly spying on them in the darkness, ready to drag them into an unknown place at any time.

He Lizhou followed behind Long Yao. The two of them walked lightly and nimbly like cats, hiding perfectly in the darkness.

Long Yao led the way to a building that students usually don't go to. When He Lizhou went out of school to get a haircut a few days ago, he paid special attention to the school's architectural layout and knew that this was an abandoned teaching building.

Is the principal's office here?

He Lizhou looked puzzled, but Long Yao had no intention of answering. He turned his head slightly and motioned He Lizhou to go in.

He Lizhou looked at him for a while and took the lead in pushing open the door of the building.

There was no electricity inside, so the dim green safety passage light was naturally not on. It was pitch black. He Lizhou took out a small flashlight, turned it on, and shone it around.

It was no different from an ordinary abandoned teaching building. He Lizhou didn't find anything wrong. He frowned and wondered why the principal's office was in an abandoned building. He couldn't help but feel that he had been fooled by Long Yao.

But there is no reason for Long Yao to lie to himself...

When He Lizhou turned around, Long Yao had disappeared.

He Lizhou stood alone in the darkness. There was silence all around him, not even the sound of insects. There was only his own breathing and heartbeat.

He stood in the only light source in the darkness.

He Lizhou noticed this and immediately realized that something was wrong. He quickly turned off the flashlight so that the thing lurking in the dark could not find the target.

He deliberately paid attention to the sounds around him at the moment he turned off the flashlight, but did not hear any of the same sounds. Just as he was quickly leaving where he had just stood, He Lizhou's ears moved slightly.

Something fell where he had just been standing.

He didn't dare turn on the flashlight again. He guessed based on his experience what the fallen thing was. It hit the ground with a crisp sound, but the sound was not loud. He Lizhou had an idea in his mind, but he was not sure for the time being.

He Lizhou did not stay in the same place. Although it was easy to bump into things and make noises when moving, and it was also easy to hit that thing, it was better than standing there and becoming a target for others.

He knew that the thing that attacked him just now fell from the upper floor, and he intended to go upstairs to take a look, but he couldn't figure out where the stairwell of the building was, so he could only wander around slowly.

He Lizhou walked for a long time, taking one step at a time, and he had an approximate distance in his mind. He had already walked two kilometers, which was definitely not the normal length of a teaching building, so he didn't know when he was taken to another place.

After He Lizhou realized this, the building suddenly became brightly lit and the scene in front of him suddenly became bright. He Lizhou closed his eyes uncontrollably and tears oozed from the corners of his eyes.

When he recovered, he saw a neat and tidy teaching building in front of him.

It doesn't look like the teaching building they are in now, but more like the style of more than ten years ago.

He Lizhou stood there, observing the wall, and then a group of students came out from the corner of the stairs.

They were wearing school uniforms, which were not the same style as the ones students wear now. They surrounded one person and came down. It’s not quite right to say they surrounded him, because their attitude towards the person in the middle was not nice. He Lizhou even saw one of them pulling her ear.

Because of the strong pulling, the earlobe was torn and bleeding.

He Lizhou was shocked by the scene. He didn't know whether he should avoid it or step forward to stop it. However, the group of people seemed not to see He Lizhou and walked past him.

The one who was pulling the earlobe of the girl in the middle whispered, "You look down on me just because you are liked by the teacher. Let me see if you beg for mercy today!"

This sentence was said when she passed by He Lizhou, so even though the girl spoke in a low voice, He Lizhou heard it clearly.

He subconsciously felt something was wrong and shouted to stop the group of people, but no one responded. Only the girl in the middle who was oppressed to the point of having to walk with a bent back turned around and looked at He Lizhou.

That gaze passed through the crowd surrounding her and looked at He Lizhou. It was indeed He Lizhou, not the person behind him.

The protagonist who brought him to this place has appeared. She is the girl who was bullied in school.

He Lizhou also remembered that face. He had seen it somewhere before. It was the girl he met in the classroom that night.

"He Lizhou!"

When He Lizhou opened his eyes again, he heard Long Yao's shouting first. He no longer cared that it was a dangerous night and might attract the security guards to check and might shout out something unexpected.

Long Yao's voice was full of anxiety, but he didn't know how much of it was worry about He Lizhou and how much was worry about himself.

He Lizhou turned on the flashlight. The distance between the two was only ten meters. Long Yao immediately ran over, looked He Lizhou up and down to confirm that he was not injured, then he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What happened to you just now?"

He didn't think that He Lizhou was hiding and not replying on purpose. It could only be that something happened to him. "What took him away?"

He spoke vaguely because he was afraid that saying the word "ghost" in the copy and the means would attract their attention, but He Lizhou understood and nodded, "I now have a new suspicion."

Long Yao looked at He Lizhou, and seeing that He Lizhou was not going to say anything for the time being, he did not ask any more questions, "Forget it, it's getting late, let's go upstairs quickly."

This time the two of them found the stairwell easily, went up the stairs and climbed to the top floor.

He Lizhou shone the flashlight around and found a stain on the corner.

Dark red.

Everyone is very experienced with this kind of trace, it is old bloodstains.

Long Yao also noticed it. Although it was indeed abnormal to have bloodstains here, he could no longer care about it. He always felt panic in his heart, and his intuition was telling him to leave here.

Long Yao gently pushed He Lizhou and motioned him to look, "There."

It's the principal's office.

The door lock is new and dust-free.

In the abandoned teaching building, there was the principal's office that was in use. He Lizhou pried open the door lock and pushed the door open.

Long Yao originally thought that there might be someone inside, or even a ghost, but after seeing the entire picture of the principal's office, he suddenly felt a chill.

"What the hell is this!"

In the spacious principal's office, apart from a table and a chair, the rest of the space was filled with sculptures of naked upper bodies of female students.

In the front is a full-body sculpture that is quite old, but is obviously carefully wiped every day.

These rows of sculptures are placed in the office, with tables and chairs opposite the sculptures. When the principal sits on the chairs, they seem to be standing facing the principal.

Although Long Yao did not consider himself an upright and kind person, he still felt sick when he saw this scene. He only knew about these things before, but had never encountered them. He did not expect to enter a copy and see it with his own eyes.

Long Yao resisted the urge to smash all the sculptures, went straight to the table, opened the drawer and started looking through the information.

However, he didn't expect that after he opened it, only the first few copies had words on them, and the rest were completely blank.

Long Yao flipped through the thick stack of papers at the back in disbelief. The pages made a rustling sound, but he still didn't see a single word.

Just when he was wondering if he had been deceived, he saw He Lizhou walk into the group of sculptures out of the corner of his eye, studying something.

He was about to ask when He Lizhou turned around and waved for him to come over.

Long Yao put down the folder in his hand, walked to He Lizhou, and was about to speak when he noticed something was wrong.

Only the sculptures in the front are finished products; the sculptures in the back are becoming increasingly blurred, until the last row are only shapes.

Long Yao couldn't help but take a deep breath. If the documents he was looking through were deliberately confused by the principal, then judging from how much importance he attached to the first sculpture, the sculptures would never be placed in a row of semi-finished products.

If this house is not a decoy, then the problem is this abandoned teaching building.

Long Yao pondered in his heart, wondering if this was what He Lizhou had just guessed. He stood up and was about to leave when he heard the door behind him being pushed open.

The "creaking" sound was very obvious in the silent night.

The two of them froze at the same time, and someone else came.