Chapter 26: Ghost Story Middle School 8

Tang Xiaoxiao only joined up with the main group in the afternoon, and he looked almost exhausted from the exam.

She said in a daze, "Why... I have already entered the infinite flow world, why do I still need to take an exam? And the questions on this test paper are real..."

It was so real that she almost thought she was taking some joint exam in another school instead of being in an infinite flow world where ghosts and monsters would appear at any time.

She said, why didn’t she feel like she was possessed by a ghost at all today? It seemed like the ghost was afraid of the exam and didn’t dare to disturb her, right?

After hearing her description, Qiao Song couldn't help laughing: "So how did you do in the exam?"

Tang Xiaoxiao actually carefully estimated her score: "I don't know if it's my illusion, but the scope of the exam is not much different from the real world. I should have done pretty well."

I just don't know what the level of other people in the class is.

Qiao Song told her other information about the two wishing items, and Tang Xiaoxiao's eyes widened immediately: "So, I was targeted by the ghosts who believed in the wishing tree at first, but if I do well in the test this time and get the wishing coin, then I can switch to the camp of the wishing well?"

"It's just speculation."

The empty tables and chairs represent missing persons, but they may not necessarily belong to the wishing tree, but may also belong to the invisible man camp.

"After all, you said at the time that your hands had touched the backs of the old desk and chairs before you sat on the newer desk and chairs."

Tang Xiaoxiao suddenly realized: "That's true... No wonder, I always feel that the sports committee member is too enthusiastic towards me."

The physical education committee member of their class is called Jiang Li. It is said that he used to practice long-distance running and is a student with sports expertise.

Jiang Li has been very keen on building a good relationship with her recently. When he sees Tang Xiaoxiao coming to class in the morning, he asks her about her well-being, whether she has adapted to school life, whether she will be under a lot of pressure since she has to take exams, and whether he wants to take her for a walk around the school in the evening.

I'm afraid that while they were strolling around, he took her to the back mountain and used her as a sacrifice.

Tang Xiaoxiao shuddered unconsciously: "And many people in our class are very strange. When they took the exam, they all had a pendant in their hands, saying it was a lucky charm. From a distance, it looked like a coin with a very special pattern."

Fortunately, I didn’t ask what the lucky charm was, so give me one too.

These students were quite normal during breaks, and their nervousness about exams was about the same as that of ordinary high school seniors.

The only person who was weird from beginning to end was probably the teacher.

"I clearly knocked the math teacher away with a book yesterday, but when she came to class today, she seemed to have no memory of what happened yesterday."

Just like the small BOSS in the dungeon that refreshes every day, as long as you don’t break the rules today, she won’t remember yesterday’s grudge.

Even after discovering that Tang Xiaoxiao was really listening to the class and answering questions seriously, his hostility towards her was reduced a lot.

Because of his outstanding math scores, Tang Xiaoxiao even had a strange feeling that he was about to be regarded as a favorite student by the copy creatures.

Qiao Song: "The ghosts in this instance are very focused on their factions. If you perform well, it will be easy for you to be recruited by both parties at the same time."

The wishing tree is represented by the students with poor academic performance. It is very likely that there are some special bonus items, such as arts and sports students. Once they are bullied, they will sacrifice the person who bullied them.

The wishing well is represented by students who are already at the top of their class. In order to maintain their grades, they use wishing coins. The price is currently unknown, but there is no such thing as pie falling from the sky in the world. Making a wish is like making a deal with the devil.

When Qiao Song said this, Tang Xiaoxiao seemed to remember something: "Oh, now that you mentioned it, I also felt it. It seems that those students who use coins as lucky charms especially hate those in the back row."

For example, Jiang Li, she is the sports committee member after all, and her grades don’t seem to be bad, but she always feels that many people in the front row are deliberately hostile to her and want to bully her, especially after class, this tendency of suppression will be very obvious.

So sometimes when Jiang Li came to talk to Tang Xiaoxiao, she didn't feel comfortable refusing.

Qiao Song frowned: "Will you subconsciously go looking for trouble with the people in the back row?"

This cannot be explained by jealousy. Does the price of making a wish mean automatically being hostile to people from the other camp?

The Wishing Tree will sacrifice those who bully them, which becomes a closed loop, and the people in both camps will become fewer and fewer.

That’s right, there are indeed fewer and fewer people in classes nowadays, the school is full of missing students, and there are more and more strange stories.

Qiao Song pondered for a few seconds and said, "We have two tasks tonight. One is to go to the dog to get some clues. The other is to look for the back mountain. I feel that there will be all the answers there."

Thinking of this, she revealed a meaningful expression again: "Xiaoxiao, if you do well in the exams these two days, you can chat with people around you appropriately and say that a strange sculpture seems to have appeared in the school and is destroying the monsters wandering around the school. Remember to emphasize that the sculpture appeared during the day."

Tang Xiaoxiao nodded. Although she didn't understand what this was all about, she knew she would never go wrong if she listened to her sister Qiao Song.

only--

“Why sculpture?”

Qiao Song: "You'll know in a moment. It just so happens that I have something to give you."

It is now lunchtime and the cafeteria has fixed rules to follow, so Qiao Song and Huangmao agreed to go to the staff dormitory after lunch to discuss their next plans.

It was Tang Xiaoxiao's first time to enter the staff dormitory: "It's bigger than I thought. There are two beds in one room. Is it the same in the student dormitory?"

Qiao Song remembered that Tang Xiaoxiao had never lived on campus: "The student dormitory is a little smaller than this, and has iron beds, with 4-6 people in each dormitory."

After showing her around casually, Qiao Song went straight to the dormitory where Huangmao and the others lived.

The two people who finished the physical education class returned directly to the dormitory. Because they were injured, they are now using props to heal their injuries.

The tall and strong man named Jia Ao was full of anger at this time: "If there weren't so many of these little bastards, I would have torn them to pieces."

Wang Xiang didn't know if it was because of the farce in the past two days, but he looked exhausted at the moment. Even if he had recovered to normal, he didn't want to pay attention to his teammates.

The fat man was just there, being a good person and using healing tools on the two men. When he saw Qiao Song coming, he immediately greeted him:

"Hey, this little girl is the one you asked me to help make a stand-in prop for. It just so happens that the thing has been made, so I'll give it to you first."

A total of three clay dolls were placed in Qiao Song's hands, two of which were in her own image, and one was in the image of Tang Xiaoxiao.

Qiao Song had originally planned to make one for Xiao Ni, but she didn't have a photo of him, and since entering the dungeon, that boy had been like a drop of water entering the sea and had never appeared again.

The fat man explained how to use the prop: "This is different from the props you buy. It can't be turned into a card. It's best to keep it close to you. It will automatically take effect as long as you encounter fatal damage. But the premise is that you don't challenge the red-clothed level ghosts. My little prop can't withstand such a big damage."

Qiao Song weighed the thing in her hand. The workmanship was much more exquisite than she had imagined. It was a small clay doll no bigger than three fingers, and she could vaguely make out the doll's facial features.

"Since you can make clay dolls, you should be able to make sculptures too."

The fat man hummed and asked in confusion: "You want to be a puppet?"

"I want to order a few ordinary sculptures, in the style of these little dolls, but they don't need to have the abilities of a stand-in doll. How many can you make?"

This was probably the first time that Fatty had heard of such a special request: "If this were in my past working at a clay shop, I probably wouldn't be able to make many in a day, but after entering the game, this is a special situation. If I didn't need the ability to die for someone else, I could probably mass-produce a bunch of these dolls in a few minutes."

Perhaps thinking of the unusual style of the man in front of him, the fat man asked tentatively: "What do you want to do by doing this?"

Qiao Song didn't say it directly: "It's just a small attempt. If you can do it, I'll order 30 first."

The fat man agreed immediately. Since the ability to die in place of others was not needed and it was not considered a prop, he did not make much money. He started working according to Qiao Song's requirements and finally packed 30 of these small clay dolls for 100 soul coins.

After slightly drying the surface and applying a layer of color-enhancing glossy varnish, it really looked like a sculpture. Qiao Song put it in a net bag and put it in the toolbox.

After the transaction, Qiao Song noticed that Huangmao was not in the dormitory at that time.

"He went to wander around other places on campus. During the day, his few skills to save his life were quite powerful, and basically few creatures could catch him. He should be back by now."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the yellow-haired man coming up the stairs panting, carrying a lot of bags.

When he saw Qiao Song and Tang Xiaoxiao, his eyes lit up: "Hey, why are you here? I just bought some supplies, let's share them. The food in the school cafeteria is too thin, it's really not for human consumption."

Tang Xiaoxiao hadn't spent much time with Huangmao in the past two days, and her impression of him was still stuck on the incident when he robbed a convenience store. So she felt a little awkward after he forcefully stuffed a bunch of snacks into her mouth.

The yellow-haired man scratched his head, bared his teeth and apologized to the little girl again: "I was stupid and incompetent at that time, but now I have come to my senses. From now on, Sister Qiao is mine--"

He gave a thumbs-up sign.

The fat man was laughing happily beside them, but as for the remaining two, Wang Xiang remained silent. Jia Ao glanced at Qiao Song subtly, but did not say much because the other party was said to have helped him once. Judging from his expression, he did not think much of Huangmao's flexible appearance.

Qiao Song picked up a small loaf of bread from a bag with a shelf life of 7 days written on it.

"Did you buy it at the school supermarket?"

She was very busy these two days and hadn't been able to visit every corner of the school, but strangely, she didn't come across a supermarket.

Huang Mao raised his head and said, "Supply points occasionally appear in this kind of dungeon. They are all hidden in very corners. It may not be easy to find them according to the dungeon map. You have to ask the local special NPC."

"If you want to go, I'll draw a map for you later. The place is indeed a bit remote, and there are very few goods. They only sell daily necessities. Sister Qiao, you have participated in convenience store dungeons, so you should know that your kind of convenience stores have special shelves that sell prop cards. Convenience stores in dungeons like this one won't sell that kind of thing."

He opened a loaf of bread and a bottle of drink and started eating them noisily.

Because he disliked the food in the cafeteria and that there were too many rules, he didn't want to go to the cafeteria for the next few meals. In addition, his teammate in front of him had an accident, and their team was not small in number, so he planned to buy more food and stayed in the staff dormitory for the next few days.

"Speaking of which, Sister Qiao, how did you clear the level so quickly? Didn't you just come out of the convenience store? How did you enter the dungeon again?"

When Tang Xiaoxiao heard this, she almost choked on the juice.

How do you explain this? Because while passing a dungeon, the convenience store collapsed, and the hearse drifted along the way, and accidentally drifted into a dungeon?

Qiao Song calmly brushed it off: "I got hit by a school bus from the Ghost Story Middle School and ended up in here. Speaking of which, I went to the parking lot at noon and saw that the buses there had stopped running. If no more cars come in, the dungeon is likely to have been closed."

When Huangmao heard this, he almost choked on the bread in his mouth. He swallowed the food quickly with some juice. Only then did he come to his senses.

"The copy is closed. Are you sure you heard it right?"

He and the fat man looked at each other, and not only the two of them, but also the others' faces turned green.

But usually, these NPCs won't lie when chatting, after all, they are also dungeon workers.

"Kaidan Middle School is an open dungeon, with players constantly joining and leaving. If it is closed, it means it will enter the promotion state, which is not good."

The fat man touched his round chin and said, "Everyone should ask their own system to see if the reward for clearing a level has been increased. Generally, those stupid systems will not proactively inform players of this kind of news."

After entering the dungeon, the final salary obtained is often different depending on the profession assigned to each person, except for the novice dungeon like the convenience store.

If this kind of ordinary copy is calculated on a daily basis, the daily salary will be between 300 and 500 soul coins.

The more difficult the copy, the higher the reward. There will be other bonuses based on the performance of the copy. For example, Tang Xiaoxiao received an additional 50% soul coin reward in the convenience store copy because of his high force output.

But the system is also quite cunning. It will deduct players' rewards to compensate for the losses of the copy. Qiao Song is itching to give the system a few loving iron fists just thinking about it.

Not to mention that as a newcomer, she had just learned that the difficulty of a dungeon could be increased midway, and players could only judge whether the difficulty of the dungeon had increased by changes in rewards.

The first copy she experienced, she was even paid first.

After Qiao Song asked, her system responded weakly.

"It has been detected that the dungeon is being upgraded. After the upgrade is completed, the player's clearance reward will be increased accordingly. The current salary level remains: Physical Education Intern Teacher, 500 Soul Coins per day. Depending on the final changes in the dungeon, the salary will increase by 50%-100%."

The higher the salary level, the more difficult the game is.

Qiao Song said, "If we don't ask, the system won't proactively inform us that the difficulty of the dungeon has increased?"

The desire to build a system is stirring again.

Perhaps knowing what she was considering, the system quickly stammered to explain: "Isn't this upgrade not successful yet? I will definitely give you a reminder after the upgrade is successful!"

By the time that time comes, the day lily will be cold.

Qiao Song narrowed his eyes. Based on the conversation between the security guard and the school bus driver yesterday, the person behind the copy actually wanted more players to join, but was in a hurry, so he wanted to close the copy in a hurry.

But why are you in such a hurry?

The school's midterm exams happen to be coming up soon, and the exam pressure is huge. It goes without saying what these students, who have been overwhelmed by the wishes, will do.

Although the student camp was divided into a wishing tree and a wishing well, she always felt that the same person might be behind both.

Let the two groups of students consume each other. You bully me and I sacrifice you. Then the number of students will gradually decrease. There will also be more and more ghosts on campus, and a good middle school will be full of ghost stories.

Thinking of this, Qiao Song felt even more that he should have a good chat with the dog tonight.

Because of the incident of the copy being upgraded, everyone lost their appetite. After finally getting through the afternoon classes, they were about to face a dangerous night.

Like the other two people who were infected before, Tang Xiaoxiao recovered after a day away from the objects that disturbed them, so Qiao Song placed her in the staff dormitory at night.

"You'd better follow the regulations on employee management. If there are any unexpected situations, please call me."

Tang Xiaoxiao patted the books on her chest confidently.

"Don't worry, I'm not afraid of anyone except the legendary big dog."

Even the teacher couldn't beat her when she hit a math book.

Qiao Song felt like laughing when he saw the books Tang Xiaoxiao was holding. She had to take an exam tomorrow, so even if Tang Xiaoxiao slept here at night, she had brought several books that she would need for the exam. While others were out looking for clues, she still had to review well here.

However, Qiao Song thought of one of the management regulations and felt that the dog might not run around outside tonight. Judging from Tang Xiaoxiao's confidence just now, the dog might come to the dormitory. He hoped that the little girl would not be scared.

With the experience of the first night, this dormitory inspection went very smoothly. Not only did the other little ghosts fail to take advantage of Qiao Song, but she also caught several of them and confirmed their camp identities.

The people in the Wishing Well camp really like to stuff coins into other people's pockets, and once they are caught, they will immediately run away with the coins.

Four people came from Huangmao's side today, and the frequency of their trouble-making has dropped significantly, and the numbers counted are more accurate.

There were supposed to be 1,000 people in the women's dormitory, but the actual number was 910.

There were supposed to be 1,000 people in the men's dormitory, but the actual number was 890.

The number has further decreased, which means that people are constantly disappearing, either turning into invisible people, or being sacrificed and becoming ghosts after death, or becoming campus ghost stories.

Is it really the exam week? Otherwise, how could there be so many fewer people in one day?

After both parties confirmed the number of people, they quickly locked the door with an iron chain and walked out. Since they had been prepared in advance for encountering dogs or other ghosts, no one was as nervous as the first night.

But the strange thing is that the campus is still so quiet tonight, and the light of the street lamps is extremely dim, as if something will rush out from the darkness at any time, but they didn't encounter anything.

Qiao Song guessed that it might be because they seemed too popular when they were together, so he suggested that they wander around the campus separately, and the four men could also form groups of two.

The yellow-haired man and the fat man were fine, but Wang Xiang and Jia Ao were obviously unhappy. Although the two had returned to normal, it seemed that the little estrangement in their hearts and some past unhappiness had been brought up because of this game, and they were unwilling to be separated.

Finally, the fat man jumped out and said that he was in a group with Jia Ao, the yellow-haired man was with Wang Xiang, and Qiao Song was dragging the hammer and walking alone.

Later, fearing that Hammer would make her seem too difficult to deal with, she put her things away again, patted her face, and tried her best to appear delicate.

However, after walking around the school several times, I didn't see any living creatures, let alone ghosts.

Just when she was feeling strange, she suddenly saw a red light sign at the corner.

【Waste Disposal Center】

Article 3 of the dormitory management regulations: Please stay away from the security room and garbage disposal center at night. If you hear a dog barking, please do not look back or run away quickly, but leave on foot.

This made Qiao Song even more curious. What exactly does the garbage disposal center do at night?

Putting the nighttime garbage management center and keeping away from dogs in the same rule makes it easy for people to think that the nighttime security room and the garbage management center are on the same side as dogs.

She stood there thinking for a few seconds, and finally walked into the garbage disposal center with a hammer.

At the same time, in the quiet staff dormitory building.

Tang Xiaoxiao was holding a history book, trying desperately to memorize the knowledge points. This was the subject she was least good at. Qiao Song also knew this, so he asked her to stay in the dormitory to review well and help them keep an eye on the movements in the base camp.

Suddenly, Tang Xiaoxiao's ears moved, as if she heard a strange sound in the corridor.

That's not right. Aren't people out at this time looking for clues on campus at night?

If I come back early, I should also send her a message.

Tang Xiaoxiao bravely stood up, carefully moved behind the door, put his ear against the door, and listened to the movement in the corridor.

Through the door, although the sound was blurry, I could vaguely hear it was a strange sound of footsteps.

Click, click, the rhythm of the footsteps was strange, as if he was dragging his legs forward without any strength.

The man walked slowly, stopping every two steps. It was unclear whether he was looking for something or doing something else. Occasionally, he would stop in front of some doors.

Tang Xiaoxiao seemed to sense something was wrong. Aren't they the only ones in this dormitory building? Not to mention the half of the building where the female intern teacher lived. She and Sister Qiao Song were the only two living people up and down the building. How could there be a strange sound of footsteps suddenly?

Who could this be?

Her heart suddenly began to beat involuntarily. She swallowed carefully and switched the skill to the ready state, ready to shoot out a book if anything went wrong.

But after thinking it over again and again, she still leaned over the peephole first, and then she saw a long-haired woman in white clothes standing at the door of the dormitory opposite.

The person had her hair spread out behind her, and she was wearing a white nightgown and had her back to this side.

Tang Xiaoxiao noticed that the other person was not wearing shoes and was walking barefoot in the corridor. No wonder the footsteps sounded so strange, "dong dong dong".

There were metallic clicking sounds, and the man was actually pressing the door handle opposite, trying to open the door outside without a key.

Doors like those in dormitories are all anti-theft doors, and they cannot be opened by knocking like this. Soon the woman turned around, as if preparing to change her target.

Tang Xiaoxiao was startled by her, but soon realized something was wrong.

When the woman turned around, she had a very ordinary face, not the fearless female ghost face she had imagined.

Moreover, the other party's eyes were blank and slightly dazed, as if he was in a daze or -

Sleepwalking.

That’s right! Tang Xiaoxiao remembered that it was written on the dormitory management regulations she had just received today.

Article 4: It is normal for people to sleepwalk in the corridors of dormitory buildings at night.

Staff dormitory is also a type of dormitory.

Speaking of which, wait a minute...!

Tang Xiaoxiao's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she thought of the harsh words she had said to Sister Qiao Song before. As long as the person coming from the dormitory building was not a dog, she could beat him to death with a book.

But the problem is that Article 5 of the Management Regulations also states that dogs are likely to appear in dormitories. Now that sleepwalkers have appeared, will…will that…

At the end of the dark corridor, a huge figure like a piece of rotten meat squeezed in from the window, breathing heavily, like a wild beast ready to attack.

Tonight the dog did not appear anywhere on campus. He came to the dormitory.