Chapter 30: Ghost Story Middle School 12 (End)

After the two of them had slept in the cafeteria for the whole night, they cleaned up and had a hot breakfast in the cafeteria.

The two big dogs disappeared after dawn. They must have gone out to help Qiao Song find the sculpture.

I don’t know if it’s because Qiao Song abolished the rule of no noise in the cafeteria, but the cafeteria became noticeably more lively this morning.

Tang Xiaoxiao peeled the egg and ate it in two or three bites. She looked at the people queuing and asked in confusion, "Sister Qiao Song, why do I feel that the NPCs look different?"

Qiao Song, who was drinking soy milk, also looked over there. The team, which was originally forced to be quiet due to the rules during meal time, was now talking to each other. Some of them were complaining about the exam, and occasionally someone would laugh out loud because of an interesting topic.

Compared to the previous lifeless and rule-bound place, this place is now closer to a real school cafeteria.

Qiao Song: "After all, some restrictions have been lifted, so it's time to start venting your emotions."

Being suppressed in a certain environment for a long time makes people prone to extreme behavior. How many people can resist the temptation of making a wish?

That fish is indeed good at provoking people, but I don’t know if she can afford the backlash tonight.

After dinner, Tang Xiaoxiao had to follow the rules and continue to take exams as a student, while Qiao Song also had to complete his work as a physical education teacher.

Since there were no physical education classes during the exam period, Qiao Song and other trainee teachers were sent to the gymnasium to count the equipment.

Tang Xiaoxiao was previously controlled by a possessed ghost and ran here to sleep. Qiao Song even quickly discovered the soft cushions that the other person used to sleep on.

The gymnasium is also a place with fixed rules, and the survival rules are very simple. Qiao Song explained it to others in a few words and then started searching for the sculpture.

The larger the place, the harder it is to find small things. They worked together and finally found the sculpture in the corner near the basketball hoop.

Qiao Song put away his things and said, "There should be sculptures on the playground as well. There is also a separate equipment storage room and teaching materials receiving and sending center nearby."

The yellow-haired man and the fat man said that they could go to the two places behind respectively.

After Wang Xiang was released by the clay doll, he was in a listless state. Qiao Song had already told the group about Jia Ao's wish. Although Huangmao and Fatty had lost a teammate, they still felt uncomfortable when they heard the content of Jia Ao's wish.

Huangmao and his friends never think of themselves as good people, but at least they won’t attack their brothers and friends.

If the wish rules had not been abolished yesterday, Wang Xiang would have gone to the back mountain to die. No wonder when they met the fish-headed monster, this guy kept rushing forward to commit suicide. It was obvious that he had auxiliary skills and it was impossible for him to defeat the fish-headed monster head-on.

Fortunately, the security guard stopped him.

Wang Xiang was unusually silent today, and rarely said anything bad about Jia Ao: "He deserved to die, and I am not a good person either. I was not the one who did it, but I acquiesced and watched."

Huangmao and the others didn't know what to say, so they just let Wang Xiang choose a place to find the sculpture by himself, and explained clearly the rules he had to follow in the place he was going.

Everyone agreed to meet at the playground in the evening.

By noon, they had found sculptures in 9 large venues. After redistributing the tasks, Qiao Song prepared to go to the girls' dormitory to look for them at noon.

This time, Qiao Song boldly searched every corner of the dormitory. Although there were no showers, each dormitory had a separate bathroom. However, when she came before, the bathroom doors were all locked, and she did not pry the locks in order to save time.

This time is different.

After easily prying the door open, Qiao Song looked around and saw that it was just an ordinary squat toilet.

Most dorm bathrooms had nothing in them, but some contained strange tools and bloodstains.

There were all kinds of strange things, such as a broken mop, some blood-stained bandages, iron clamps and compasses stained with old blood, etc.

The situation in the boys' dormitory was even more exaggerated. There were wooden chairs with broken legs and blood on them, stainless steel sticks with dents all over them...there was everything.

Qiao Song picked up those things and looked at them for a while. He began to understand why strange stories appeared so quickly in the Ghost Story Middle School.

First, let one group of students get used to the unearned success brought by wishing coins, and then let them be influenced by the coins to target another group of people. In the oppressive school, the evil in people's hearts will come out with just the slightest touch.

These hurt students gradually fell into despair. Children with poor grades who could not get wishing coins began to believe in the wishing tree. They accepted the invitation from the devil and sacrificed the people they hated.

But later, wishing coins became rampant in the school, and the believers of the wishing tree had long been replaced by one group after another. They no longer made wishes because they were bullied, but just because of greed.

Being able to fulfill wishes and make annoying people disappear, is there anything more wonderful in the world?

The most innocent people in this copy are probably the group of children who were sacrificed even though they did nothing.

Qiao Song dug out a sculpture from each of the two dormitory buildings. After leaving the dormitory, she went directly to the garbage disposal center. After checking the number with others, she now has 21 sculptures collected.

Just bear with it for a few more hours, and this crappy school will be able to have a grand rally.

This is the teaching building.

During the exam today, Jiang Li suddenly felt something was wrong. Before the exam week started, she sacrificed another person. Logically, the questions she encountered in this exam should have been ones she could answer, but it was not as smooth as she had imagined.

She nervously pulled the rest of the class to check answers, but those who treated the wishing coins as treasures looked even more distracted than her.

Jiang Li thought of the new transfer student in the class, the girl named Tang Xiaoxiao, who seemed to be very comfortable answering the questions today.

Jiang Li was originally prepared to try harder and use her as a backup sacrifice before the next exam, but thinking of today's exam, Jiang Li thought for a while and tried to force a smile, and went to talk to Tang Xiaoxiao as usual.

"Xiaoxiao, how did you do on the test today?"

Who would have thought that this little girl, whose heart was softened by her acting a few days ago, would act as if she had seen something dirty when she saw her today.

"Who knows? It has nothing to do with you anyway."

After saying this, the person opposite her put away his book and waited for the next, and final, exam, without paying any attention to her.

Jiang Li immediately clenched his teeth and stared at Tang Xiaoxiao.

She decided that no matter whether it would help her grades or not, she would do everything she could to take this guy to the back mountain and sacrifice him after the exam today.

Jiang Li hates all those who can laugh at her with ease, and she also hates those carefree people who grew up immersed in love.

They won't get beaten for poor grades, and they won't get scolded for spending a little more money. Why should such happy people live around me as an eyesore?

Just die, just disappear!

After the last exam, Jiang Li took a bottle of drink he had prepared in advance and said the words he had prepared in a pretended apologetic manner.

But Tang Xiaoxiao in front of her only quickly replied to the message on her phone, then raised her head and said to her with pity and ridicule:

"What apology can you accept? Do you deserve it?"

Just one sentence made Jiang Li so angry that he almost exploded.

How dare this transfer student talk to her like that!

Just as she was about to forcibly push the little girl who was much shorter than her, she noticed that the sky outside the window had darkened very quickly for some reason, and the pitch-black night almost instantly occupied the entire campus.

There was a feeling of panic that gradually strangled her heart.

It seemed as if something beyond her expectations was happening quietly.

By the time Jiang Li reacted, Tang Xiaoxiao had already disappeared in the classroom.

All the players have gathered in the gymnasium. There are 30 sculptures in total, forming a small circle, with coins pulled from the wishing tree in the middle.

One sculpture can transform a ghost in a fixed space into a new strange creature. Now 30 sculptures are concentrated in one space, surrounding the circle of wishing coins with names engraved on them in the center.

A strange space seemed to have formed in the sculpture circle, and an extremely cold atmosphere emanated from there into the entire gymnasium.

Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but shiver when she rushed in. Huangmao and Fatty didn't dare to get too close to there at this time and just stood near the gate.

"Where's Sister Qiao Song? She's not here at such a critical moment?"

After seeing the gathering message sent by Qiao Song in the group, she thought everyone was in the gymnasium.

"She just left. She said she was going fishing at the garbage disposal center."

The space where the sculptures are located will not be attacked by the fish-headed monster after nightfall. Now that all the sculptures have been removed, the fish-headed monster may become murderous tonight because it did not vent its anger last night.

The night in the school became darker, and the light shone through the gaps in the rolling shutters. There were only a few street lights still working in the whole school.

Qiao Song sat on the roof of the garbage truck at the garbage disposal center for a while. Half of the people in the garbage truck had been moved by her, and the other half were left open to be used as bait. But in fact, these baits were already wrapped in net bags. As long as she thought about it, she could put them back into the toolbox.

Maybe it was because he had captured too many ghosts recently, Qiao Song felt that his toolbox was cold to the touch. He didn't know if he would gain any strange skills after this dungeon.

Just when Qiao Song was thinking about whether he should move the garbage truck away if the fish didn't come again, he finally heard a very strange sound of footsteps on the road.

Boom, boom, boom.

It was like someone was walking along the road with heavy footsteps.

She lowered her head to take a look. The foot was quite big. Could it be that the fish-headed man had repaired it so well after gnawing away his own natal tree last night?

I saw a strange man with a fish head, whose height was as tall as a street lamp. He was walking and stopping, trying to figure out the direction, and finally he came towards the garbage station.

After the fish-headed monster arrived, she wandered around the periphery for a while. When she found that there was no aura of the statue inside that prevented her from approaching, she was immediately ecstatic and reached out to dig out the garbage truck.

Qiao Song seized the opportunity and hit her fingers!

The fish-headed monster screamed in pain, and angrily grabbed the door of the garbage management center with both hands and pried it out. Qiao Song quickly climbed through the window and into the passenger seat of the garbage truck.

Wang Xiang, who was in the driving seat, started the car instantly. After such a long time of playing the copy, it was finally his turn to perform.

【The unknown racer】

[Although you are not famous and have a low ranking, you only participate in idiot races, and your driving skills are not the best, but as long as you are crazy enough, when you hold the steering wheel of any car, all the steel bodies will make way for your car! ]

[Skill: Roaring Engine. Increases the performance of ordinary vehicles by 10 times in a short period of time, including impact force, bearing pressure and speed. But please note that after 10 minutes, the ordinary vehicle you are driving will be turned into scrap metal, or the hearse durability will be permanently reduced by one]

After learning about Wang Xiang's ability, Qiao Song immediately decided to ask him to come and assist in his fishing activities.

Wang Xiang is worthy of being the one who specializes in driving in Huangmao's team. He has first-class driving skills. Even among professional racers, he may not be the best, but the madness he shows in participating in the wild mountain road sports car race is scary enough.

The huge garbage truck was slapped hard by the fish-headed monster, but the car was intact. Instead, it ran over the fish-headed monster's big feet at a very fast speed and reversed out directly.

The monster felt the pain in his instep, but before he could react, he immediately felt the pain of a locomotive hitting his abdomen.

He shifted into reverse gear three times in a row and rammed her garbage truck like a sledgehammer, turning the fish-headed monster in the form of a little giant from the temptation of appetite into the anger of hatred.

Qiao Song stopped Wang Xiang, who was about to get angry, in time: "That's enough, don't fight any more, turn around and go to the gymnasium."

Wang Xiang actually listened to her and swung the car around to shake off the fish-headed man who had just gotten up after being hit.

"Ants - you ants, how dare you do this to me!"

The ugly fish-headed monster roared angrily, then got up and chased over here in big strides.

New and old grudges, plus the food in the garbage truck, almost made her overwhelmed, and she was completely unaware of the strange atmosphere on campus.

The strange creatures that had already taken shape in various buildings were also packed up and taken away one by one by Qiao Song when the sculptures were swept today, and now they are all concentrated in one place.

A place where more ghosts are about to be born.

The atmosphere in the gymnasium had become extremely weird. A thick black fog was swirling in the circle surrounding the statues.

Tang Xiaoxiao took a breath to warm her hands, and just then she received a message from Qiao Song. The yellow-haired man and the fat man were already shivering with cold, so they immediately turned around and walked out.

The main reason is that after a large amount of negative energy was released from the gymnasium, the temperature around here has dropped to zero.

However, if they left the gymnasium, they might be discovered by the fish-headed monster, so they could only hide at the door.

Outside the gymnasium, two bright orange light beams could be seen approaching rapidly from afar, and amid the rumbling sound of the earth, a fish-headed monster two or three stories tall was chasing the garbage truck ahead.

Wang Xiang was a little angry when driving. After being chased for a while, he would turn a corner to get rid of the opponent, then drift in circles, and run over the fish-headed monster's feet from behind again to continue moving forward.

Yu Ren was almost driven mad, and her hatred for the car made her forget to sense whether there was anything wrong around her.

After the garbage truck slid in reverse for a while and hit the opponent's abdomen for the last time, a black figure quickly jumped out of the car and quietly entered the gymnasium.

Wang Xiang in the garbage truck even stuck his head out of the window and raised his middle finger to add fuel to the fire: "A loser who can't even advance to the Red Clothes level dares to chase me. With someone like you, any random player would dare to shit on your head!"

"Don't you want to advance to the next level and eat living souls? Come on! Come and catch me, you useless fish head!"

The huge garbage truck reversed again and hit the fish-headed monster's legs hard. This time, the extremely angry monster hugged the car.

The high-speed rotating tires made a harsh sound when rubbing against the ground. Wang Xiang quickly dodged the big hand that was grabbing him and jumped out of the car directly.

The garbage truck, having lost its skill, was instantly flattened like a cardboard by the fish-headed monster.

The fish-headed monster who had turned the car into scrap metal threw the thing aside and stared at the gymnasium in front of him with squinted eyes.

The hoarse and unpleasant voices instantly echoed around.

"You audacious ant, you think you can restrict me by using the loopholes in the sculpture? This dungeon is a paradise created by me. As long as I want, everyone is my food and everyone is my chess piece! I will eat you all and dye my clothes red with your blood!"

After she finished speaking, her body stretched upwards a few more sections, and some of the scales on the originally gray fish head began to rapidly turn red, as if it had overdrawn some kind of power.

After the fish-headed man finished accumulating power, he slammed down on the roof of the gymnasium. Due to the rules of the sculpture, she could not enter the gymnasium, but as long as she completely destroyed it and buried the sculpture, then she would see where these ants could run to.

“Food food…I want food…!”

At a certain moment, the gymnasium, which had been impregnable just now, seemed to have lost its confidence, and suddenly the entire roof was blown off by her.

But before the fish-headed monster could even smile, he felt something was wrong.

It would be more accurate to say that the roof was broken rather than being torn off.

An extremely cold and gloomy aura emanated from the gymnasium. The fishman with blood stains on her face slowly lowered her head. In this big box-like gymnasium, she saw countless densely packed souls squeezed together like fish eggs.

Some of them had ferocious expressions, some were missing facial features, some were covered with scars, and some died with their eyes open.

The only thing they have in common is hatred.

The extreme hatred prompted the dead souls to quickly lock onto the object of hatred.

Hundreds of ghosts with horrific looks of death slowly raised their heads and stared at the huge monster on the ceiling.

It was this smell that they remembered.

This is the fish, this is the owner of the coin, this is the owner of the tree, and this is the one who pulls them into the abyss of greed and sin.

Food, are they food?

No, someone told them that ants can also kill elephants.

“Isn’t a ghost who has not been promoted to red clothes worthy of your revenge?” said the woman holding the hammer, “Blood debt must be paid with blood. If you are in pain, then return this pain to the culprit.”

She's right, she's right—

The painful memories of being turned into coins urged the dead souls to crawl out of the box and out of the gymnasium one after another.

"Impossible——How can you ants recover? This doesn't make sense, this doesn't make sense——!"

The fish-headed monster felt panic for the first time. She wanted to escape, but found that her feet were caught by a pile of transparent things.

If such a weak ghost appeared in a normal copy, she could kill it with just one slap.

But what about one hundred, one thousand, several thousand or even tens of thousands?

There is a level suppression between ghosts, but to a certain extent, big ghosts can eat small ghosts, and small ghosts can also bite big ghosts to death.

After a painful scream, she vigorously shook off the pouring ghosts, but after killing one, there was still another one. These ants, which she had just ignored, climbed up the body of the fish-headed monster little by little and bit her soul.

The former predator has become the prey.

She was crushed by the weight of the suffering of thousands of dead souls.

But not every ghost stayed here to attack the fish-headed monster. Some of them even went to the teaching building in the dark campus, where there were things that made them hate even more.

Jiang Li has been a little absent-minded since evening self-study.

She bit her fingers nervously, always feeling that something bad was about to happen. The moment the bell rang, she rushed out immediately.

She just wanted to get back to the dormitory as soon as possible and lock the door after the curfew. If it weren't for the rule that no one could stay overnight in the teaching building, she wouldn't even want to step out of the building.

It’s okay, the dormitory rules can protect her, it’s okay, nothing will happen.

But the campus was particularly quiet today. There was no one on the road. The classmates who were walking behind her just now disappeared one by one without knowing when. It seemed that she was the only one left on this dark road.

Jiang Li suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Jiang Li, do you still remember me?"

A girl with a broken forehead walked out of the darkness. Her whole body was glowing with green light, and clusters of black mist were constantly surging.

Jiang Li screamed and was about to step back.

"Huh? Why are you afraid of me? Didn't you say we were best friends? Didn't you say you were beaten by your dad and you were very sad and asked me to accompany you to the back mountain to relax?"

One figure after another emerged from the darkness.

"By relaxing your mind, do you mean knocking us out with rocks and sacrificing us to that tree?"

"Jiang Li."

"Let's be friends, good friends for life."

Countless evil spirits surrounded the girl, grabbed her legs and bit them off as she screamed in panic, then scraped off the flesh on her face, legs, and stomach inch by inch. It was not enough, it needed to be more painful.

Jiang Li almost fainted from the pain.

"Don't be afraid, Jiang Li."

Another girl's voice sounded softly. This unremarkable voice made Jiang Li tremble all over.

Her eyes widened as if she remembered something.

This was the man, the first person she had sacrificed, and her first friend.

In extreme pain, Jiang Li seemed to see that face again, which had no special features but possessed the happiness of an ordinary person.

Her deskmate still looked at her with that caring expression.

Just like when seeing someone pick him up after countless evening self-study classes, Jiang Li said: Miaomiao, I envy you so much. But the other person shyly said that he was actually very ordinary and there was nothing to envy.

But how can you be so happy even though you are so ordinary!

Don't look at me with that pitying look, don't look at me like that...

A white light flashed in Wang Simiao's hand, pulling the dying person back from the brink of death. Only after being cured could he experience the pain of being eaten by thousands of ghosts for the first time.

Compared to what I, others, and my grandparents have gone through, what does this matter?

"Don't worry, I will heal you, and you will play with us for a long, long time."

"We are friends after all." Wang Simiao leaned against the two big dogs and smiled gently.

The same screams were heard in every corner of the campus.

Hundreds of ghosts roam the night, seeking revenge when there is revenge, and seeking justice when there is injustice.

The players took advantage of the night to light fires everywhere.

Qiao Song collected the sculptures and ran away from the gymnasium. As expected, the gymnasium exploded not long after she left. After all, although there were only a few bags of coins in it, there were actually thousands of ghosts hidden inside.

Tang Xiaoxiao shouted that it was so exciting while holding up a book, fearing that a ghost would suddenly come up and attack them.

"Each of you should carry a sculpture in your arms. This thing can amplify the damage caused by physical attacks to ghost stories. If any ghost dares to attack you tonight, just fight back. We can also add some more offensive ratings before the dungeon is cleared."

While everyone else was stunned by the scene of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, Qiao Song had already started preparing to improve his copy rating.

But Huangmao felt a little panicked when he saw the chaotic scene around him. It was the first time he saw a copy become so horrible.

Can there be so many ghosts in a copy below the Red Clothes level? Won't this copy collapse?

Qiao Song changed the subject without any guilt: "I'm going to the junior high school to find a friend. You guys can walk around the campus. If you encounter the soul of the fish-headed monster, remember to kill it in time."

She had already taken the photo of the woman in white down from the principal's bulletin board. Everyone had seen and remembered this face. Tonight, not only ghosts but humans as well would be hunting her down.

After the fish-headed monster was devoured by the ghosts, we also had to prevent her soul from rising from the coffin again.

"Class 9 of Grade 9, Class 9 of Grade 9—We're here, Sister Qiao Song is here!"

But there was no one in the junior high school classroom at night, so they went to the boys' dormitory. Unlike the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons in the high school teaching building, the junior high school building was a little quieter. Maybe the pressure to enter higher education was not so great, so the wishing tree and wishing well were not used so frequently. But what she experienced in physical education class also showed that these kids were not easy to deal with.

But the dormitories were mostly empty, with only the sound of splashing water coming from the bathroom at the end of the corridor and the sound of children whimpering in pain being drowned by the water.

"Su Ruini, aren't you very powerful? Why, after seeing your former friend being bullied by me like this, you still don't dare to come out?"

"You're just a coward who can only turn invisible! Weren't you so brave when you kicked me from behind a few days ago?!"

A vicious boy pushed the struggling guy under his hands back into the water.

"You won't come out, right? Then I'll turn this guy into a water ghost like you. It's not the first time I've done this..."

Qiao Song, who had just entered the room, clicked his tongue and kicked the kid so hard that he flew onto the partition of the bathroom.

"You are so young, I can see what you can do."

The guy who was kicked flew away with a hiss, and quickly climbed up holding his head. When he saw Qiao Song, he narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Isn't this the new physical education intern teacher? It's not good to hit students."

Qiao Song looked him up and down and said, "I don't hit the flowers of the motherland, but I don't hit people like you who can't even sort the garbage at the garbage station."

The little devil in front of him laughed sinisterly twice and then disappeared on the spot. Instead, there was an increasingly thick white fog in the bathroom and the sound of rolling waves.

"It seems that you also know that guy Su Ruini. I tortured his friend for so long, but he refused to come out. So I want to see, if it were you, would he still hide?"

A flood of water suddenly appeared in the bathroom, trying to wrap around Qiao Song like jelly, but was quickly knocked away by a big book.

But the water seemed to restrain Tang Xiaoxiao's book, and Qiao Song took out his hammer.

"You like bullying, right? Okay, today I'll let you feel the hammer of education."

She placed a small sculpture near the sink, and immediately, the yin energy of the entire bathtub filled with water vapor trembled, as if it had encountered some physical enemy.

Qiao Song asked Tang Xiaoxiao to step back, and as soon as the water ball appeared, she would hit it with a hammer.

Logically speaking, even if the soft water was broken up, it would only turn back into liquid. However, after Qiao Song's hammer hit the water ball, the sound of broken glass and a boy's screams was heard in the air.

"You like to flood other people's heads with water, don't you?"

A hammer hit the ground where there was accumulated water, and the transparent liquid shattered into pieces like ice.

"You like bullying and showing off how powerful you are, right?"

Another hammer smashed into the pool of water where the shadow appeared, shattering the pool and the entire thing.

“When you bring nightmares to others, have you ever thought that others can also become your nightmare?”

Qiao Song swung the hammer and knocked over another huge transparent ball of water, and heard a boy's scream of pain.

Qiao Song continued, "Su Ruini, listen to me! If anyone scares you, stand up and make him scare back. I have told you so many times not to hide when something happens. Today, there are hundreds of ghosts outside at night, and so many former victims dared to stand up and gather together like ants biting an elephant to death. Don't you dare to come out?"

Qiao Song grabbed the person whose head was soaked in the pool and found out that it was not Xiao Ni.

A ghost's laughter was heard in the air.

"Hahaha, One Hundred Demons Night Parade! I get it, I know why he doesn't want to come out, he can't get out at all! The water pool in this school has been tampered with, does he think that if he escapes from the school, he can embrace a new life as a wandering soul? As long as he comes back, his soul will still be restrained and become nourishment for that adult!"

"The adult you are talking about is the guy with the ugly fish head who is being bitten to death by the ghosts outside?"

Qiao Song identified the direction from which the sound came from in the air, and with a hammer he broke a bathroom cubicle. He quickly cast a net bag along the shadow on the water and pulled out a confused male ghost.

"Your ability to hide is not as good as Xiaoni's."

She grabbed the man's neck tightly and said, "Tell me about the pool. Does the fish-headed monster have any other tricks up his sleeve? Where is the pool where she restrains souls?"

Under the dual effects of the sculpture and the hammer, the little kid finally realized that the player in front of him could really kill him with one blow of the hammer.

"It's in any of the pools in the school. The pools are all connected, and all the water ghosts are locked up there. Before, that kid Su Ruini could go in and out freely, but today he might have been locked up by that adult and was prepared to be eaten as food."

Having said that, the male ghost suddenly grinned.

“But he’s about to become completely transparent. You won’t be able to find him, hahahaha.”

Qiao Song knocked him half to death with a hammer, and then threw him into the net bag.

Qiao Song asked Tang Xiaoxiao to use books to block the gaps in the ground, and then turned on all the faucets. In an instant, the accumulated water flooded the ground and slowly rose.

If all the pools are connected, it means that the fish has a backup plan and has hidden some food. No wonder it dared to increase its size so much today and become the target of public criticism.

Xiao Ni was also hiding in that pool.

Qiao Song narrowed his eyes, and suddenly dived into a spot of light in the pool.

It seems that the underwater world is connected to another world. The surrounding space is cut into pieces. Some of them look like the former wishing pool in the back mountain, some look like a lotus pond in an unknown location on campus, and some are connected to the bathroom of the school dormitory building.

These waterways are connected to each other, so it's no wonder that as long as you throw a coin into the pool, the fish will receive the wish signal.

At the very bottom of the pool, like the umbilical cord of a fetus, there are transparent souls that are about to disappear, connected one after another, which are transformed into nutrients and quickly digested like ice cubes.

This is the fish's last resort. A group of students who were bullied in school will be consumed by the wish when they are alive, and will become water ghosts after they die and will be consumed by the fish as nutrients.

Qiao Song seemed to be able to see the past of these souls in the water.

School bullying is a nightmare that almost every school cannot escape.

No matter it's because of your grades, looks, family background, personality, or even your name, people who want to bully you will always have a hundred reasons to do disgusting things to you.

Some children don’t even know what bullying means. They will join in the fun, help judge their classmates, and prepare torture instruments to inflict pain.

Once a child becomes vicious, he will not be inferior to any adult.

From ordinary sticks, to utility knives, and sharp pencils.

Sometimes there are only one or two people who actually inflict violence, and many of their peers won't even take action. They just watch coldly. They are afraid that they will be the next to be bullied, so they use such a vicious circle to divide people into different groups.

In this middle school, the children use wishing coins together. Their initial reason may be simply to get better grades, graduate early, and escape from this school to a better place.

Or maybe it's because they were looked down upon, bullied, or isolated, and they want to retaliate.

But then it changed.

The good students began to isolate those who were not as good as themselves, and the bad students used revenge as an excuse to eliminate the people they hated in all aspects, and even sacrificed those unimportant classmates who no one would remember after they disappeared in order to fulfill their wishes.

There is a Wang Simiao in every class. She has an ordinary personality and average grades. She always keeps her head down and doesn’t like to talk. She doesn’t have many friends, and many classmates don’t even remember what she looks like.

But not every Wang Simiao will have grandparents who love her so much. Even if her memory is erased by the rules, she will still remember that little transparent baby.

Even if I turn into a monster in the night, I must get her back.

There are more little transparent people who are really unloved. They are bullied and have no one to talk to. They can only kneel down and beg the bullies to let them go, and then follow their instructions to do all the evil things you can think of.

They live in a place where they receive education but have no dignity, no freedom and no love.

Such a transparent person will disappear little by little, and no one can see him or need him.

Su Ruini is not Wang Simiao.

He has no friends, no relatives, average grades, and nothing he is particularly good at.

He had died long before the wishing rules became widespread. I don't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, but after his death, the strange story of the wishing tree rules broke out, and the people who bullied him became another group of people who were bullied and died in the same place.

He was taken away from the school and taken to another place, where he became a thief in exchange for a slightly better life than before.

After meeting Qiao Song and the others, he once thought that everything could change, but his soul had already been branded and tied up. The people who had killed him had also turned into ghosts, and could still torture him over and over again.

He was trapped in the water, and just like when his skill took effect, he became a transparent mass, something that no one could see or catch.

Even after turning into a water ghost, he was still useless. He couldn't defeat the big ghost in the water, nor could he pass on information to Sister Qiao Song and the others.

I'm sorry, Sister Qiao Song, I'm sorry, Tang Xiaoxiao, I'm really useless...

He thought selfishly, but if possible, please don’t forget me, just think of me as a useless kid you met on the road. He also hoped that Qiao Song and the others would remember him.

That was the final proof of his existence.

Just before his consciousness was completely absorbed by the water, he heard a hazy and familiar female voice.

The sound of water splashing was like a beautiful dream, and someone was saying:

"Wang Simiao has her grandparents, and Su Ruini can also have a new family."

Qiao Song's voice gradually became clearer.

"A little transparent person can also be loved by someone."

"Xiao Ni, wake up and come to me."

The soul that had almost become transparent suddenly opened his eyes. He felt that his hand, which was about to melt completely, was suddenly held warmly, and the umbilical cord that bound him was cut off.

He was found.

He who is transparent is seen and remembered.

"Tell me, where is the core of that fish?"

Big balls of tears melted in the water. Xiao Ni rubbed his red eyes and pointed in a direction.

Qiao Song pulled him forward as if he was leading an army of thousands. At the end of the water area, there was a beating heart like a sapphire. Countless transparent umbilical cords grew on the heart, connecting to the souls hidden in the water.

A circle of sculptures soon floated in the water, and Qiao Song grabbed Xiao Ni's hand and raised the hammer together.

"Don't be afraid, let's smash it together."

The sledgehammer fell, and the sound of ice breaking was heard. At the same time, many invisible things were also cut off.

Far outside the gymnasium, the fish head, whose body had shrunk by half, was still crawling forward. She knew that she still had other chances. She could transform her soul and be reborn in another body.

This copy couldn't hold her back. She even used such a precious item. If she failed, the person who gave her the item would definitely not let her go...

The invisible sound of shattering passed through countless barriers and reached her ears.

“No, it’s impossible. Why would they be discovered there? No, don’t disappear. I don’t want to—!”

The struggling fish-headed person seemed to have her soul shattered and suddenly lost all her strength. The walking corpse fell to the ground, and every piece of flesh and blood collapsed. The surrounding ghosts immediately rushed over, sucking her flesh and blood and sharing her strength.

Just as she once did.

No red-clothed person was born tonight, but tonight thousands and thousands of ghosts fulfilled their long-cherished wishes.

Qiao Song climbed out of the pool, with Xiao Ni, who was crying and hiccuping, hanging on his body: "Sister, Sister Qiao Song, you found me, you actually found me..."

Qiao Song held the little brat's head, and without giving him time to explain, he grabbed Tang Xiaoxiao and ran downstairs.

"Run away, run away! I think I just smashed something incredible. This copy will probably break something too—"

Qiao Song’s premonition was quite accurate. The next second, all the players in the copy heard a system announcement.

[Ding, it is detected that the copy is facing irreversible damage. The copy of Ghost Story Middle School ends immediately. All players will automatically pass the level.]

[Ding, it is detected that the entrance and exit of the dungeon have been closed. Players are requested to spend the remaining days on their own. After the game time is over, the entrance and exit will be opened again.]

Qiao Song leaned over immediately, somewhat doubting whether this system was targeting them.

She immediately called the group chat and said, "Are you all still alive? Those who are still alive should hurry to the only safe area in the dungeon. The dungeon is about to collapse. We can't get out, so let's hide there first!"

As for where that is?

Of course, it is a certain convenience store branch that is stationed in various copies to complete resource supply, has branches everywhere, and ranks first in making money!

That place is not part of this copy at all. The copy will collapse, but the convenience store will not.

Qiao Song dragged a man and a ghost, against the procession of a hundred ghosts at night, and finally found a way in the campus where ghost stories broke out, and rushed into a store that had closed long ago.

The yellow-haired man and the fat man also rode Wang Xiang's drift electric scooter, overloading and speeding all the way. When they got off the car, they saw Qiao Song skillfully swinging a hammer to smash the lock on the door.

A group of people hurriedly squeezed into the small convenience store tacitly. A few seconds after the door closed, a rumbling sound like an earth-shaking earthquake was heard outside.

The copy began to collapse.