We are the disgusting stinking rats!

They just stood in the crowd, letting others push and shove them around.

When the clock on the library's rooftops pointed to seven in the evening, the streetlights on the roadside lit up in unison, illuminating the group of students in front of the door. Slowly, the group of students began to quiet down.

They began to straighten their clothes and comb their messy hair with their hands. They smiled and lined up slowly.

They stood there looking at the people in the building until a hunched man with his hair covering his eyes walked up to them.

Wang Shitou was holding the small stone that Qi Jing had picked up today. The stone was held tightly in his hand, causing him pain.

Through the gate, they watched the man give orders and lead the group of students back step by step. When they took the seventh step, he no longer hunched over, but straightened his back, raised his head which had been lowered, and looked at them with the lower half of his face which had been covered.

Shu Yan stared at him, looked at his trembling body, and looked at the motionless students outside the door, until the man took everyone outside and left.

Some people had already started walking down the corridor. Some of them had tears on their faces, some had no expression on their faces, and some were dragging their teammates who had fainted from crying back.

"Let's go."

Shuyan turned around, still holding the paper he had written on. They returned to the room, locked the door, and sat together.

"Bang—" Ma Liangchen pounded the table angrily. "I was wondering why the leader said to be careful. So this is what he meant."

Zhang Heqian was also very angry, but he didn't pound the table. Instead, he stood up and took the paper that Qi Jing had written at the beginning: "Since we came here, besides the survival rules, the only thing Chen Ming's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple told us about finding mice."

"But, everyone who pointed out the students who violated the rules of survival today has become an NPC. Not only that, but they've also killed and eaten people just like NPCs. Is this still a school? It's become a slaughterhouse."

"Do you remember the student I mentioned?" Shu Yan looked at them. "The first time I saw him, he was squatting beside Chen Ming, hunched over, head down, trembling. After Chen Ming finished eating the chicken drumstick, he rushed over to us and smeared the oil on his hands on me."

"The second time, in front of the dormitory door, he stood behind Chen Ming, still hunched over, with his head lowered and trembling."

"The third time, he wasn't hunched over anymore, and he raised his head. He stood in front of the group of students, looking at us inside the building, and he was still shaking."

"Did you see the student clearly this time?"

Shu Yan stared straight at Shi Yuncheng, as if he was back in the cafeteria when he asked them the same question, "Did you see that student clearly?"

What were they thinking at the time? They wondered if Shu Yan was angry. After all, no one would be happy with someone who smeared you with grease, bumped into you, and ran away without saying sorry.

"He's excited!" Shi Yuncheng grabbed the corner of his clothes: "He's not afraid at all, he wants to eat us!"

Seeing his little movements, Shu Yan kicked his chair back, letting him out of the circle so that everyone present could see his movements clearly. Shu Yan stood up, walked behind him, and placed his hands on the back of Shi Yuncheng's chair. He looked at them and said, "Just like he is shaking with excitement now, pinching the corner of his clothes."

He patted Shi Yuncheng's chair and raised his voice: "Don't you understand yet? The rat they are looking for is us, how come we are that disgusting stinky rat!"

"How is that possible!" Wang Shitou stood up and refuted him.

"How is it impossible!"

Shuyan slapped the piece of paper he had written in front of him.

"Do you remember what the master said last?"

Wang Shitou was patted on the back and sat down on a chair. "Good luck to everyone! I hope to see you all on the return bus!"

Zhang Heqian: "The most beautiful campus survival rules are: first, stand in line consciously. Second, dress in uniform. Third, obey school rules. Fourth, do not be late. Fifth, be polite to others. Sixth, you are not allowed to take food out of the cafeteria. Seventh, you cannot return to the dormitory outside of the designated time."

Ma Liangchen: "Why is it the law of survival rather than the rules of the game?"

Qi Jing stood up and walked to the balcony. The street lights outside were all off, and the mess on the ground had returned to its original state, even the bloodstains were gone. He opened the window, and the breeze that blew in broke the heavy atmosphere in the room.

He leaned against the balcony, silent and not saying a word. He was obviously fine in the morning, so why did he change in the evening?

The initial 294 people in the group became 214, and 80 people died in just one afternoon.

Since they came into this world, from the initial 930 people to now, the way home has become longer and longer.

Qi Jing hated this feeling, the suffocating and painful feeling. He had said last night that he had a feeling he would be able to go home after this was over.

At eight o'clock in the evening, it started to drizzle outside the window. They prayed that tomorrow would not be like today with people dying everywhere. However, tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

When the hands of the four-faced clock on the top floor of the library pointed to twelve o'clock, the sound of something heavy falling was heard outside, followed by a woman's scream and the sound of someone running in the corridor.

Wang Shitou, who was sleeping at the door, heard the door of the next room closing and the sound of talking outside the door.

"Someone jumped from the building."

"So many people jumped off buildings. What happened to them? Are they possessed?"

Although they were trying to muffle the noise, he could still hear it clearly. Someone exclaimed, "Most of those who jumped were from the fourth floor. They had secretly climbed up to the top floor."

"Oh my god, it's only the first day, and everyone on the fourth floor is almost dead, right?"

Someone lamented: "Who says it's not? Many people on the fourth floor were in the library today, and not many people came back."

Outside, some people were secretly crying, while others were watching everything with indifference. The people who jumped from the building chose death over NPC. They seemed to realize that even if they survived, they could not go back.

In the room, they lay on their respective beds, wrapped themselves tightly in the quilt, and listened quietly to the sounds outside until ten o'clock the next morning.

After they all dressed up, they walked out. Everything outside was normal. There were no corpses, no blood, and no frantic students. There were only students with strange smiles.

The students rushing to the laboratory greeted the ones in front of them as they passed by, their childish voices tinged with laughter: "Good morning."

After what happened last night, the people in front of them were not in a good mood to treat them. When faced with the students who greeted them, they didn't even look at them, simply choosing to ignore them. However, they seemed to have forgotten the fifth rule of survival - be polite to others.

So, after they ignored the group of students who greeted them, they shrank in front of everyone, then turned into NPCs and followed behind the group of students.

"Oh my god."

Zhang Heqian, who was walking behind them, froze in place. The others who saw this scene also stared in amazement. The next moment, another student passing by said to them, "Good morning!"

Zhang Heqian trembled: "Hello."

After receiving the reply, the students seemed disappointed, but they still left with a smile.

Wang Shitou looked at the group of students and said, "They seem to have changed."

Zhang Heqian sat at the front, his eyes fixed on the students as they passed by: "I can see they are deliberately trying to trick us into making mistakes."

Shu Yan stood beside Qi Jing, staring at the NPC who had just become one of them and said, "It's time to have some fun."

When I arrived at the teaching building, there were already quite a few people downstairs, but at a glance, there were far fewer people than yesterday morning.

When the time reached 10:20, Chen Ming No. 1 appeared, with a red silk scarf on his chest pocket, which swayed automatically.

Chen Ming No. 1 stood where he had stood yesterday, looked at them and said with a smile: "Please abide by the rules of the game and stand in line consciously."

They lined up and went upstairs under the leadership of Chen Ming No. 1, then stopped on each floor and took some people away.

After arriving at the seventh floor, Chen Ming No. 1 dropped Qi Jing and the others there and left. Seeing him leaving, Zhang Heqian wanted to pull his clothes anxiously, but unfortunately, the second before he touched him, Chen Ming No. 1 disappeared from their sight.

“Oh my god!”

Zhang Heqian rubbed his hands together, looked at them, and questioned, "Gone? He's gone just like that?"

Ma Liangchen rolled his eyes at him and said, "Can you speak? That's called disappearing, not gone. It's like the person is dead. If you really can't do that, just cry for him a few times, that'll be considered filial piety."

Zhang Heqian: "Get lost!"

Qi Jing stood at the door of the classroom and looked at the students inside. Some of them were sleeping, some were playing, some were doing homework and preparing for lessons, and some did not stay in their seats and ran directly to the podium to play with multimedia.

Qi Jing looked at the chubby student at the podium. "Actually, at first, I thought, just like you, that the mouse was a student the teacher hated, or perhaps it was Chen Ming's red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple number. After all, there are figures in a certain area that don't follow the rules, and besides the students, there's only Chen Ming."

"But now it seems that we are more suitable to be the mouse than Chen Ming."

He turned around and leaned over the railing, overlooking the playground and library. He then witnessed someone identifying students and then becoming an NPC: "We're the only ones who go to the cafeteria to eat early, run around wearing different colored clothes while students are in class, wander around while they're doing exercises, walk around among them while they're cleaning, and maybe even mess up the piles of leaves they've swept up."

"We would run outside the students' dormitories after they fell asleep and shine the flashlight around. We would also stop reading in the library and walk between the rows of bookcases. We would stare at students in the laboratory building when they were not doing experiments and might even break their lab equipment from time to time."

Zhang Heqian was very sad: "But this is our job!"

Shi Yuncheng: "That's why they hate us, and that's why this school is called the most beautiful school."

"Because here, they are the kings and they are the beneficiaries of the school."