The Silent and Eerie School (Twenty-Six)

"Don't be afraid, these are not human bones."

Wang Fan's voice reassured everyone, and everyone in the cabin unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Huang Chenchuan finally opened his eyes.

“The reason we initially thought they were human bones was because most of them were fragmented pieces rather than a complete skeleton. And because we were in fear, we naturally didn’t investigate whether these bones were actually human bones.” Wang Fan said, picking up the bone in his right hand. “This bone looks a lot like a human rib at first glance, but it’s not.”

“A person’s ribs are not as curved as this bone, and they are relatively wider, while this bone is more rounded, like a small tree branch.”

"Then what kind of bone is this?" Li Su suddenly remembered the round skull she saw on the first day. It was also made up of several pieces, and the bones in the nose and mouth area were missing.

He was just too flustered at the time to think things through or even dare to think about it in detail.

Wang Fan carefully examined the two pieces of bone in his hand, trying to piece them together. After a long while, he finally spoke: "I think it looks like some kind of super-large canine."

Before anyone could react, the system's voice rang out in everyone's minds again.

[Congratulations to the player for successfully figuring out the source of the bones found in the corner of the campus; main quest progress 50%.]

"It really is a dog bone?" Huang Chenchuan opened his mouth in surprise.

“The sheer number of bones…” Wang Fan glanced at the pile of bones and couldn’t help but frown. “Why is the school keeping so many large dogs?”

Before he could figure it out, a sound suddenly came from outside the cabin door. The group exchanged glances and huddled together, looking at the cabin's wooden door.

With a clattering sound of keys outside, the wooden door was pushed open from the outside, and the sudden light from outside made the group squint.

Qi Ye first covered Li Su's eyes with his hand, feeling her soft eyelashes fluttering in his palm.

"You students! You're disobedient!" The security guard at the door glanced at the situation inside the wooden house and his eyes widened.

The eyeballs looked as if they were about to pop out of their sockets, bulging out high and even trembling uncontrollably.

"Get out! All of you, get out!" The security guard in front of them seemed genuinely angry, and even the hat on his head was shaking uncontrollably.

The group exchanged glances and silently lined up to leave the wooden house.

"Come back! Carry all these bones!"

The security guard who had just been telling them to get out suddenly started yelling at them to come back.

"Ah... I don't want to touch those bones..." Huang Chenchuan's legs went weak. Even though he knew they were dog bones, it was still... creepy, okay? Aren't dog bones scary?! Who knows how those dogs died?

"Hurry up!"

Li Su saw the security guard in front of her pull out a thick black stick from his lower back and press it down. Then, a blue electric current flashed at the tip of the stick.

The security guard was furious. Seeing that the men still didn't move, he pressed the button on the stun gun again, and a crackling sound of electricity immediately rang out.

Clearly, the current this time is stronger than the previous one.

Qi Zui stood in front of Li Su and went in first. The group of people each carried a pile of bones, and their faces were not good.

The two security guards' expressions seemed to finally soften, but they still kept urging, "Keep up! Hurry up!"

They shouldn't have been so afraid, but they were carrying a pile of bones, so it was clear they weren't going to a good place.

Aside from the security guards' occasional urging, the group remained silent throughout the journey.

After going through countless twists and turns, they were finally led to the back door of the kitchen.

When Li Su saw the countless skeletons piled up in front of the huge black boiler, he was so frightened that his hands trembled. With this tremor, the bones he was holding fell to the ground and were clearly visible in the quiet boiler room.

"You!" The security guard behind him strode up to Li Su, his expression filled with barely suppressed joy, and even the muscles on his face couldn't help but tremble.

You give me—

Li Su shrank back instinctively and hid behind Qi Zui.

Huang Chenchuan and the others were startled by this sudden change and quietly held their breath.

Qi's darkest gaze fell on the agitated security guard, looking at him coldly.

The security guard's stun gun trembled, and after struggling for a while, he could only manage to stammer, "You...you pick it up!"

"I can't take it anymore, I'm dying of laughter, hahaha!"

"Is this security guard a comedian? He's hilarious, I can't stop laughing..."

"The words I was about to say took eighteen turns, hehe."

"I'm saying, these NPCs are really afraid of Qi Zui, that's really suspicious!"

Huang Chenchuan and Wang Fan were visibly taken aback.

Huh? This is a good thing, but is that all? Just pick it up?

Why are you being so fierce? All I asked him to do was pick up bones. Can't you just talk to me nicely? It's not like he doesn't want to pick them up.

Li Su pursed her lips and squatted down to pick up the dog bones one by one.

"You bunch of unruly students, stand guard over the boiler! Put all these bones into the boiler to burn!" The two security guards shouted, pointing to piles of broken bones on the ground. "If you don't follow the rules this time, you won't get any food today!"

Two security guards walked up to the door and stood there with wide eyes, clearly looking like they were going to monitor them while they worked.

Although Huang Chenchuan wasn't usually very bright, physical labor was a piece of cake for him. He patted his chest and lowered his voice, "Leave it to me! You guys rest first and think about what to do next."

They didn't fight with him; they all squatted on the ground pretending to pick up bones, but in reality, only Huang Chenchuan was actually picking up bones.

He moved the bones in front of the boiler door aside, used pliers to open the boiler door, let in air, and flames shot high out of the boiler door, a wave of heat rushing out.

Huang Chenchuan was startled and quickly took a few steps back, picking up the bones piled on the ground and throwing them into the flames.

Suddenly, Wang Fan picked up a piece of bone and examined it, his expression becoming increasingly serious, the wrinkles between his brows deepening: "Something's not right."

Li Su looked up.

"This is a human bone!"

The bone that Huang Chenchuan was holding instantly fell to the ground.

"Brother, don't scare me..."

Wang Fan was unusually serious. The security guards at the door kept peeking in, so he could only lower his voice and say briefly, "This bone is clearly a human collarbone, and it's perfectly intact."

Huang Chenchuan looked at his hands and couldn't stop trembling.

He's already thrown away so many bones, are there any human bones mixed in with them...?

Seeing that Huang Chenchuan was on the verge of collapse, Wang Fan walked to his side, threw the collarbone in his hand into the sea of ​​fire, and comforted him, "Don't be too sad, it's a way of sending them off on their final journey."

"So, are all the students' bodies inside here?" Li Su looked up at the dark boiler in front of her.

It was as tall as a four- or five-story building, and the wronged souls inside had been burning for who knows how many days and nights.

Li Su: "So, in order to cover up and facilitate the disposal of the students' remains, Shengze Middle School mixed a large number of large dog bones into the students' remains to deceive people."

[Congratulations to the player for successfully finding a way to dispose of the students' remains at Shengze Middle School. Main quest progress 60%.]

The mission progress has exceeded 50%. The item shop will be opened for all players soon. Please use your points to purchase items that will help with the mission.

Tip: The shop interface can only be opened once, so please choose the items you wish to purchase carefully. Once the shop is open, viewer point rewards for the entire game livestream will be disabled.

Huang Chenchuan quickly checked his points and found that the points panel showed 500. Huang Chenchuan was stunned for a moment.

So that's how popular he is with the audience? Besides the 300 points from the two side quests, the audience actually gave him a total of 200 points as a reward.

Li Su checked his points. The first two side quests, plus the points deducted, gave him a total of 450 points. Then, he gained another 500 points for reaching 60% of the main quest. Finally, with the points from the audience's rewards, he had a total of 1500 points.

Wang Fan calmed down and said, "I wonder how things are going with Jiang Xiaoning and Li Xue."

[Players, please prepare yourselves. The system shop will be open soon, for a limited time of 60 seconds.]

"60 seconds?" Huang Chenchuan almost cursed. "Is this damn system afraid we'll be able to see what's actually there?"

Despite his complaints, Huang Chenchuan focused intently on examining the system shop the moment it opened.

He hadn't meant to look, but what he saw left Huang Chenchuan completely bewildered: "Huh? What does 'gasoline' mean?"

Holy crap! There's a camera? What for? Who's thinking about taking pictures right now?!

Huang Chenchuan cursed inwardly.

There weren't many items on the shop panel, only a few.

Gasoline, lighter, instant camera, instant film, shovel.

There are only these five items in total.

Huang Chenchuan couldn't understand any of these things, and he couldn't even figure out what they were used for.

Looking at the points corresponding to the items, Li Su felt even more overwhelmed. She looked up and asked, "What can you buy with your points?"

It would have been better if he hadn't asked. But after asking, Huang Chenchuan almost cried. The instant camera cost 1,500 points, gasoline cost 900 points, the lighter cost 400 points, the instant film cost 700 points, and even the last item, the shovel, cost 500 points.

He only had 500 points in total.

Wang Fan broke out in a cold sweat: "I only have enough to buy one lighter." He had 300 points from two side quests, and 101 points from viewers' tips. After buying the lighter, he would only have 1 point left.

"I only have enough points to buy a shovel..." Huang Chenchuan was heartbroken. He thought he had enough points, but who would have thought that this system was a swindler and would sell things at such high prices!

[The shop will close in 20 seconds. Please select the items you wish to purchase as soon as possible.]

"Damn it!" Huang Chenchuan cursed, "Then tell me what all this stuff is for!"

[The shop is closing in 10 seconds. Please select the items you wish to purchase as soon as possible.]

The system alerts started flashing, which was quite alarming.

[The shop is closing in 5 seconds. Please select the items you wish to purchase as soon as possible.]

Huang Chenchuan shakily tapped the shovel.

He didn't know what it could do, but this was all he could buy; he couldn't afford anything else!

[Player Huang Chenchuan asked if he had confirmed the purchase of the item "shovel"?]

Huang Chenchuan, who thought he could buy it with a click, was almost scared to death. The system was still giving notifications, and the countdown hadn't stopped.

[The shop is closing in 2 seconds. Please select the items you wish to purchase as soon as possible.]

With red eyes, Huang Chenchuan clicked to confirm, and a circle composed of small dots appeared on the light blue fluorescent board.

[Purchasing the item "Shovel" for player Huang Chenchuan. Please wait patiently.]

Oh no!

A hundred different kinds of animals roared through Huang Chenchuan's mind.

This lousy game's system even takes time to load!