Chapter 20: Ghost Story Middle School 2

Qiao Song frowned and found that after they came in, the orange school bus that followed did not come in, but instead turned hurriedly and continued to circle outside the school.

It was as if he knew that this order was hopeless and rushed to make the next sale.

Obviously, they have already reached their destination...

It seems that this school bus is determined to hit its target and stop it, rather than crashing the car into the Ghost Story Middle School.

Qiao Song raised his hand and put the confused ghost boss into the puppet line, which was considered locking the car.

There are only three or four cars in the huge middle school parking lot now.

When Xiao Ni got off the car, he was still wiping away tears unwillingly.

Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help looking at it for a long time, and handed over a piece of paper: "You are so old and still crying. You are a ghost now, why are you still afraid of them?"

Xiao Ni choked and shook his head, but said nothing.

Thinking of his identity as a water ghost, Tang Xiaoxiao seemed to understand something and could only whisper a few words of comfort to him. When she turned around, she found that her sister Qiao Song was already wandering around the parking lot.

Qiao Song was staring at several other cars in the middle school.

One of the private cars looked very high-end, not like the kind of car that desperate criminals on the run would drive, and it was parked in the faculty and staff area.

The other two were a very simple private car and a small to medium-sized bus.

Wait, Qiao Song touched his chin, this broken bus looks a little familiar.

After scanning the entire parking lot, she looked along another area and saw the bus entrance. On the scrolling electronic screen, it was written that the next bus would arrive in one day.

It seems that this middle school copy is semi-open and players can join at any time.

They had not been in the parking lot for a few minutes when they saw a thin-faced security guard appear in the distance and slowly waved at them.

The security booth was dark and had no lights on, but luckily it was daytime and the lighting from the windows was good.

"Newcomer, come over here and sign in."

Qiao Song calmly walked into the security booth, her eyes quickly scanning the decoration inside the security booth, and her gaze paused for a second on the photo in the corner of the desk.

"If you are a regular visitor, please write down the time and purpose of your visit, as well as each of your names."

The skinny security guard handed over a thick form clipped on a board. His fingers were as dry and black as his real self, like bones wrapped in skin. Perhaps because of the dark color, it seemed that there were all kinds of strange marks left on those dry fingers.

The other person's eyes seemed to be fixed on her, especially on her fingers.

Under the other party's gloomy gaze, Qiao Song unceremoniously turned over the form to look at the previous records.

She quickly scanned the visitor log and did not sign immediately. Instead, as the temperature around her dropped, she suddenly took out a pack of finger cigarettes with a smile.

"Hello, I'm new here. I was supposed to apply for a trainee teacher position today, but I accidentally got late. Where do you think I should go to report now?"

The falling room temperature suddenly stopped.

The security guard, who originally wanted her to just sign her name in the visitor book and then get down to business, was immediately attracted by the pack of cigarettes.

A flattering smile immediately appeared on the gloomy face.

"Well, if you want to apply for an intern teacher position, you need to report to Building A of the Political and Educational Building. They are recruiting intern teachers on a long-term basis. Are your two children coming to school or...?"

Qiao Song slammed the cigarette on the table with understanding.

"Of course they went to school. They were all my relatives' children, so I brought them along as well."

The security guard took the pack of cigarettes and put it in his pocket, then took out two other forms from the drawer.

"Then let the two children fill out this form."

Compared to the dry record of stranger visitors just now, the content on these two tables is obviously much more.

The names of each grade and class are directly listed at the top of the student-only form. It seems that one can easily enroll by just writing one's name and selecting a class.

Qiao Song took out the student-only schedule and gave it to Tang Xiaoxiao: "Pick a class for yourself, but I suggest you choose the one you are good at, after all, we should be separated."

Tang Xiaoxiao also knew that she couldn't always live under the protection of her sister Qiao Song. After taking a deep breath, she nodded heavily and began to choose the class she wanted to attend on the form.

And Xiao Ni...

He hesitated and stuck his head out, but he wanted to see another form in Qiao Song's hand regarding the school's staff recruitment.

Qiao Song raised his eyebrows: "Are you sure you want to follow us in? You can wait in the parking lot."

The little boy's tears had stopped, but there was still some fear on his face, but he stubbornly insisted on coming in.

"At least I understand some of the rules here. I don't want others to be like me..."

He pretended to be calm and said, "This copy definitely needs ghosts as NPCs. I'll see if I can get a spot in there."

The security guard was already touching the cigarette butt, ready to enjoy a cigarette of this rare high-end product after these guys left, but he exclaimed when he saw Xiao Ni.

"Were you a student here before?"

Xiao Ni swallowed his saliva: "It's not that I don't have it, I, I already..."

The security guard glanced at the cigarette in his hand, then at Qiao Song who was smiling at him, and said after a dry throat: "If he still has his student status in school, he can't fill out the application form like you, and can only continue to go to the original class."

Xiao Ni's expression went blank for a moment.

Qiao Song patted him on the back and said, "Remember what I said before? If you don't eat well and exercise, your small body will never grow up."

She picked up the second form, took out a black pen and neatly filled in the position she wanted to apply for. Other positions either had too many requirements and required familiarity with textbooks, or had limited scope of activities and clues to contact. She filled in the one that she felt was the most suitable at the moment -

Physical education teacher.

Xiao Ni looked down and saw what she had written. He wanted to say something for a moment, but after his eyes stayed on her for a moment, he felt that there seemed to be no problem.

The next second after Qiao Song filled out her application form, a temporary teaching employee certificate suddenly appeared in her hand.

A system notification sound rang in my ears.

[You have successfully obtained the temporary identity of Kaidan Middle School: Junior High School Physical Education Group Intern Teacher]

She clipped the name card in front of herself and rubbed the head of the dazed kid hard.

"Now that you've become a ghost, you better be tough, okay? You can do a lot more with your ability than just running away, so don't always use it to escape and steal."

Qiao Song looked up and saw his dazed expression and laughed.

"You're not bad compared to other ghosts. I spent a lot of effort to catch you. Now that you have the courage to come back, go back and study hard. Hold your head high and don't shrink your neck all the time."

Tang Xiaoxiao next to her also chose the class she wanted to go to, and a temporary student ID card appeared in her hand.

【Transfer students from Class 1, Senior 3】

"Don't worry, Sister Qiao Song. I will collect information from the senior three group. We can agree on a time to exchange information."

Xiao Ni, who was one step behind, saw that the two people were about to walk away, so he quickly wrote his name on the student form and anxiously chased after them.

"Wait for me, don't walk so fast, you can't just walk around in this school."

An old student card with a noticeably different texture appeared in his hand.

[Class 9, Grade 9: Su Ruini]

"You may run into some weird people just walking around this school, so don't talk to strangers easily."

After Qiao Song caught up with him breathlessly, he raised his work badge. A line of words appeared on the back: "Is this what you are talking about?"

After leaving the security booth, I saw a few lines of bloody small words faintly appearing on the back of the white work badge.

【Strange Stories about Security Pavilion】

[The security booth at the Strange Story Middle School is a strange place. Students always say that there are two security guards in the booth, but they never appear together. It is said that one is fat and the other is thin. People who have seen the thin security guard always say that they are lucky and can escape from the security guard with a small price. However, after so many times, they always feel distressed when they don’t have enough fingers to write. Those who have seen the fat security guard usually stammer and can’t speak, after all, people only have one tongue. ]

When she entered the security booth, she felt very strange. Every detail here showed that there were always two people there, including the photo on the desk, which happened to be two brothers, one fat and one thin, who looked very similar.

The thin and dark security guard who received them had dense bite marks all over his knuckles, as if he would take a few bites to satisfy his craving when he had nothing to do.

After they entered the security office, the temperature was getting lower and lower. The guy kept urging her to fill out the forms quickly, as if after doing what he should do, the security guard could perform his duties.

"If we can't satisfy the security guard's wish to eat his finger before filling out the form, then we will most likely have to fill out the so-called visitor record form. However, the visitor record cannot provide us with a reasonable identity to stay in this school for 7 days, so the security guard may give us a new form to fill out later, but the price is that we need to hand over a finger, right?"

Tang Xiaoxiao actually realized that something was wrong with the security booth, and was ready to push the door open and escape early, but she didn't expect there were some twists and turns about the fingers. She thought the pack of cigarettes was just a bribe.

"No wonder I quietly pushed the door several times but it wouldn't open!"

She was already thinking at the time whether she should wait until she finished filling out the form and then take out the book and slap the security guard away.

In fact, when Xiao Ni saw Qiao Song take out the finger cigarette, he silently breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was just good luck that a blind cat caught a dead mouse. Unexpectedly, he still underestimated Sister Qiao Song.

"Well, when you encounter a strange person, you usually either have to fulfill their wish and avoid punishment, or break through violently."

Qiao Song and Tang Xiaoxiao just happened to correspond to these two different ways of coping, but Xiao Ni knew that this was far from enough, because -

"There are a lot of ghost stories in this school. Even before I escaped, there were already hundreds of them. So you must be very careful and cautious. Hold on for seven days and leave here immediately."

Qiao Song nodded, then decisively took out a card and asked Tang Xiaoxiao next to him to keep it.

The latter was hesitant to speak when he saw the lie identification card in his hand.

Qiao Song said calmly: "This thing is a bit useless to me, so it's just right for you, a little fool."

The clear-headed and foolish high school student, knowing his own shortcomings, silently accepted the things and resolved to use his brain carefully this time.

"Xiao Ni, keep going. There are hundreds of ghost stories. Then what? After each encounter, will there be a hint on the back of our name card?"

Xiao Ni followed them with a serious expression. After Qiao Song signaled him to continue, he stammered, "To be precise, when you encounter a strange story, the name of the strange story will be displayed, but only after you escape the clutches of the strange story will the specific content of the strange story appear on it."

Just like what I just experienced at the security booth.

"And the rules of ghost stories are not static. Except for a few fixed locations, such as the security booth and the cafeteria, the movable ghost stories in other places will change the rules according to the mood of the ghost story owner. So even if I tell you everything I knew before, it may not apply now, and it may even mislead you."

Not to mention that he himself died because of these rules, and died in a place he never wanted to go to again.

He lowered his head in frustration and twisted his sleeves anxiously, not knowing what to do.

Qiao Song lifted his collar and said, "I told you not to keep your head down all the time. Keep your head up and your chest out. Tell us the strange talk rules of those fixed places you know, and we will handle the rest ourselves."

A school filled with hundreds of ghost stories is worthy of being called Ghost Story Middle School.

Their mission this time is to successfully survive for 7 days, and they can leave here after 7 days.

While we were walking and exchanging information, we arrived at a fork in the road. The school was not small, and there were signposts at every intersection.

To the left is the political and educational building, and to the right is the teaching building where students attend classes.

"I just checked, and there is cell phone signal, but I don't know if you students are allowed to use your cell phones. If you are, we can communicate via text messages then."

Xiao Ni hesitated and said, "I don't have a cell phone, but you can carry a small mirror with you. I will come to find you as much as possible."

Qiao Song directly gave Tang Xiaoxiao a bottle of water.

"This is more suitable. As long as there is light, you can create a medium for coming anytime and anywhere."

I don’t know if Xiao Ni was recalling his experience at the convenience store, his expression suddenly became much more complicated.

In the past, he only used this ability to escape after stealing things. He never thought that one day he would say, "I made a mirror and came to find you."

Qiao Song raised his chin: "Your expression now is much better than before, keep it."

Tang Xiaoxiao has become much braver than before. When he sees someone who is even less brave than him, he immediately puts his hands on his hips and starts to teach him a lesson.

"You are already a ghost now, maybe you can even join the ghost story party, so don't always be timid, the two of us are still waiting for your protection."

Maybe it was the last sentence that touched Xiao Ni. He gritted his teeth and followed Tang Xiaoxiao. But after passing the intersection, he couldn't help but look back, but Qiao Song's figure had disappeared on the road.

Qiao Song walked along the road for a few hundred meters and soon found the second signpost. This time there were three directions. To the left was the garbage disposal center, to the right was the back mountain of the school, and continuing forward was the political and educational building.

But this road sign is very strange and looks very new. The previous road sign at the corner had a sense of being weathered by wind and rain, while this sign looks like it was newly put up.

She narrowed her eyes, took out the small hammer she had taken out of the toolbox, and continued walking forward.

This time, she realized something was wrong after walking only a few dozen meters.

There are more and more trees on both sides of the road, and there is a faint trend of moving upwards.

Is the school's political and educational building also on the mountain? Or is it that the road sign is wrong and the direction she is heading is the mountain behind the school?

In order to facilitate the activities of students and teachers, the political and educational building is usually not too far away from the teaching building.

Basic office facilities are usually not built in places like the back mountain because it is too inconvenient. Moreover, the back mountain is the place where accidents are most likely to happen in a school. It is vast and remote, so it doesn't matter how many people are buried under the grove.

But now, there are no roads around. Apart from the increasingly dense landscape vegetation, there is only a straight stone staircase leading straight forward, which is obviously leading to the back mountain.

Qiao Song finally stopped, took off his work badge and took a look. Sure enough, there was a line of small words on the back.

【Signboard Strange Stories】

Okay, okay, you gave her the wrong directions on her first day at work, right?

Her eyes were fixed firmly on the strange boulders that were getting closer and closer to her, and the small hammer in her hand had been replaced with the giant hammer she had used to demolish the wall before.

"I'll give you three seconds to regret it. Either point me to the right way immediately, or I'll make this a weird story about road signs at Ghost Story Middle School. How do you think?"

Her words did not receive a response. Instead, after she said this, the surrounding rugged rockery rocks that were originally hidden among the green vegetation and slowly approaching suddenly began to move towards her as if stimulated.

It was squirming and deforming, like a soft, burnt human figure about to crawl out of the rockery.

Qiao Song sighed and had no choice but to walk into the bushes, dragging a big hammer that reached his shoulder.

Ten minutes later, she emerged from the bushes covered in gravel.

The surrounding scenes slowly receded like water waves, and an old road sign appeared in front of me, with two directions written on it: to the left was the garbage disposal center, and to the right was the political and educational building.

She dragged the hammer towards the political and educational building. Perhaps because the sound of the hammer sliding across the ground was too harsh, nothing blocked her way along the way.

On the back of the ID card she took off, the true background of the strange story appeared.

【Signboard Strange Stories】

[When you find a brand new road sign at any intersection, please do not believe any direction indicated on it. Our school has not added any new buildings or facilities since its establishment. The road signs are customized and will not be replaced. What? You said you saw the back mountain on the road sign? Please remember that there is no back mountain in our school. There is no back mountain! ]

No back hill?

The thing that had just been smashed into pieces by her hammer ran up the mountain crying all the way.

However, it seems to be just as Xiao Ni said, the strange stories in fixed locations are not difficult to solve. You can either follow the rules or use brute force to solve them.

But the problem was that there were too many of them. She had already encountered two of them not long after entering the school.

After wasting more than ten minutes, Qiao Song finally arrived at the so-called political and educational building.

The building is not tall. There is a very obvious sign on the first floor that says "Trainee Teacher Registration Office".

She walked into the spacious office, where there was only a bald old man wearing reading glasses and a white jacket sitting on a recliner.

There was a radio next to the old man, and he seemed to be tuning the channel.

Seeing her come in, he was a little surprised: "Isn't the recruitment season over? There are still new teachers?"

Qiao Song smiled widely: "We have recruited enough students for other subjects, but I am applying for a physical education teacher, right?"

The old man uttered "oh" twice, and seemed not to understand why a physical education teacher would come to apply for the job at this time. He squinted through his reading glasses and examined the trainee teacher ID card in his hand from top to bottom.

"Physical education teachers, the physical education teachers in the junior high school group do consume more quickly. How about this, I will give you the daily necessities first, and after you move the things to the staff dormitory, you can go around the school by yourself."

He took out a few forms and wrote and drew on them slowly. He also took out a box of ink as if he was going to stamp his name. However, perhaps because he was old, he was not very agile and wrote very slowly. He also asked Qiao Song questions.

"Oh, speaking of this, I don't know what happened to my radio recently. It seems to be broken. You young people should know more about these electrical appliances than I do. Can you help me check it? I usually have nothing to do after get off work, so I just like to listen to this."

As he spoke, his writing hand slowly paused, and his broad forehead cast a shadow under his eyes. The old man raised his eyes sinisterly and stared at Qiao Song.

"You can fix it for me, right?"

Qiao Song raised his eyebrows, and sure enough, another line of small words appeared on the back of his ID card.

But before the name of the strange story was fully revealed, she hit the academic desk with a hammer, and the old man who was writing with a pen was startled by her.

After thinking for a few seconds, he decided whether to attack Qiao Song, who had no intention of spilling blood on the Academic Affairs Building, or to help him repair the radio.

Just take apart the outer shell, cut off a section of the aged wire, and reconnect it. It's not difficult.

Only living ghosts can provide her with better information.

"Is the seal ready?"

The old man, who was a little frightened by the hammer just now, quickly finished the form and stamped it. Now that he saw that she had helped him fix the radio, his expression immediately looked much better.

"Oh, you are not only strong, but also very careful. No wonder you are applying for the position of PE teacher. Only someone like you can control those lawless little bastards."

Qiao Song asked, "Where did you buy this radio? I usually want to listen to it when I'm bored in the dormitory."

The old man looked her up and down in confusion, and his frown gradually relaxed: "I thought only we old people liked these things. I bought them at the school store. They occasionally sell some strange things, but they are slow to update, and they only restock once every seven days."

Hearing the keyword "7 days", Qiao Song immediately weighed the radio in her hand. No wonder she felt that the texture of this thing was a bit too good. Could it be that it was left by a previous player?

Qiao Song started tuning into the radio channels on the pretext of testing whether the radio was good or not, and soon he was able to listen to several clear news channels.

It seems that the old man's favorite thing to listen to, apart from opera gossip, is various news reports. I don't know if it's because of the school copy, most of them are some strange missing persons reports, and the victims are mostly middle school students in their teens.

While tuning the frequency and recording the information, Qiao Song suddenly turned to a special channel with excited voices.

"Hello everyone! This is the Infinite Highway Fog Special News Report broadcast on time!

Our city has recently added two new red-cloth copies, and is now recruiting a large number of ghost NPCs. Please contact the relevant personnel and sign up actively.

The next piece of urgent news is about the Infinite convenience store chain which is currently in the limelight.

The boss of the Infinite convenience store chain seems to have encountered a big problem recently. It is said that a new convenience store exploded with raw materials only three days after the trial operation. Users living nearby have made a lot of money just by picking up garbage. Well, be careful, beware of the anger of the boss Cai who lost money. It is said that he is extremely angry now and is determined to catch the culprit..."