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At noon, Jiang Huali arrived at the cafeteria.
The cafeteria has two floors; the first floor is for students, and the second floor is for teachers.
As soon as Jiang Huali entered through the door, someone bumped into her.
Jiang Huali looked down and exclaimed, "Xiao Tian?"
Xiao Tian was holding a rice bowl, the lid of which had been knocked off and fallen to the ground. Jiang Huali squatted down, picked up the lid, and handed it to him, asking, "Why were you running in such a hurry?"
"I'm sorry, Teacher Jiang." Xiao Tian glanced at her timidly, grabbed the bowl lid, and ran out.
Jiang Huali watched Xiaotian's figure disappear around the corner before going up to the second floor.
The teachers' cafeteria on the second floor was noticeably less crowded. Jiang Huali got a meal from the window and found the main characters at a table in the corner.
The four main characters sat down in pairs facing each other, with Jiang Huali being the extra one.
Jiang Huali sat down next to Qi Man, who glanced at her and asked, "You're here?"
Jiang Huali: "Mm."
The other three kept their heads down and ate their food, neither greeting her nor looking at her.
The atmosphere was somewhat subdued, but the five people present continued eating as if nothing had happened.
No one spoke until the meal was finished.
Qi Feng spoke first, "Sister, what are our plans for this afternoon?"
Qi Feng is Qi Man's younger brother. The two siblings look very alike, with about 70% similarity in their eyes and eyebrows.
Qi Man put down her chopsticks. "You and Hua Li go to class. Meng Shu and I will go with her, and Cun Ke will go with you."
Yin Mengshu nodded, indicating that she had no objection.
Cun Ke glanced at Yin Mengshu and nodded.
Jiang Huali naturally had no objections.
Qi Feng glanced at Jiang Huali and snorted twice, "Sis, you'd better be careful, or someone will throw props at your head again."
As he spoke, he blew on his hair, saying, "Heartless and ungrateful."
Jiang Huali remained silent.
Seeing that no one responded to him, Qi Feng felt sullen for a while, but in the end he didn't say anything more.
Who knows what his sister was thinking, bringing this troublemaker and burden along.
But what could he, as the younger brother, do? He still had to support his older sister.
After discussing the afternoon's arrangements, the group talked about the strange things they had encountered in the past two days.
Qi Man: "Yesterday I went to the vice principal's office and found a bloodstained red scarf in his drawer."
Yin Mengshu: "The male teacher in the same office, Qian Tong, is a pervert who likes to harass female teachers and students."
Jiang Huali: "I encountered ghosts yesterday. There was a student ghost who appeared with a red scarf effect, a white ghost that liked to tear flowers, and another one, I don't know if it was a person or a ghost, knocked me unconscious."
Qi Feng: "I didn't run into anything, except for that Director Luo. Yesterday, after I finished picking up my lesson plan, a student stopped me to ask a question. Director Luo saw this and scolded me, saying that I wasn't making good use of my time to prepare lessons and was chatting with students."
Cun Ke: "Where is Qian Tong?"
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The other four looked at Cun Ke, their lips twitching in unison. Yin Mengshu, as if used to it, twirled the chopsticks in her hand and said, "He tried to touch my butt, so I beat him up and threw him into the men's restroom."
Cun Ke: "Oh."
“I walked around the school yesterday and there were some corners with signs of fire.”
Burn marks?
Everyone thought of the main quest of this instance.
Why was the Hope Primary School abandoned? Was it destroyed by fire?
Qi Feng frowned: "Why is it only in some places?"
Cun Ke shook his head; he didn't know either.
Jiang Huali rested her hand on the table; the cafeteria table was quite old and had many scratches on it.
She said, "Is it possible that time and space have overlapped?"
Qi Man looked at Jiang Huali.
Jiang Huali continued, "I encountered a ghost in the student dormitory last night. The timeline there was wrong. It took me seven minutes to walk from the fourth floor to the first floor, but in my perception, it took me at most one minute."
Then there was that blood-stained red scarf that suddenly appeared. Jiang Huali suspected that from the moment that red scarf appeared, she had been pulled into another time and space.
Even when I ran out, I was running in the right direction, but I still ended up near the cafeteria, and the surrounding buildings were even older.
Jiang Huali suspected that there might be two different timelines overlapping. If this guess was correct, then the fact that only some areas on campus showed signs of fire might be because the overlap between the two timelines was incomplete, with only a portion merging.
After hearing Jiang Huali's guess, everyone fell silent for a moment.
Qi Man said, "If that's the case, then in certain scenarios, we might be able to enter different timelines. We need to be careful in the afternoon class."
Yin Mengshu and Cun Ke nodded.
Qi Feng looked at Jiang Huali in shock. Why was she acting so strangely today? In the past, during group discussions like this, Jiang Huali would either remain silent or say a few simple words.
Why are you talking so much today? Something's definitely up.
Qi Feng said to Jiang Huali, "Don't say so much now, or you'll suddenly go insane again and throw props at your teammates instead of the ghosts."
Qi Man tapped her finger on the table, "Qi Feng."
Qi Feng curled his lip, "Isn't what I said the truth?"
Last time, his sister's hair was burned by a fireball. He thinks Jiang Huali is up to no good. He doesn't know what kind of bewitching drug she gave his sister, but she insists on bringing her into the team.
The other two teammates are either violent or love-struck, so they can't be relied on at all.
The midday conversation ended unhappily.
Yes, it was Qi Feng's unpleasant ending all by himself.
Jiang Huali discovered that among the main characters, only Qi Man knew about her situation, while Yin Mengshu and Cun Ke were indifferent, and Qi Feng seemed to have accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction.
The original owner's situation at this time was not too bad, and all of this was because of Qi Man.
Although the original owner and Qi Man were classmates in college, they did not live in the same dormitory and did not communicate much, so they were basically strangers.
People who enter horror games think only about how to survive. Even the closest relatives and friends can turn against each other in an instant. Jiang Huali was very surprised that Qi Man was willing to help the original owner and keep her in the team.
After Jiang Huali returned to the teachers' dormitory at noon, she took out the lesson plans and textbooks she had received earlier and looked at them. She found that the contents were all kinds of strange things. In short, it was not like a normal math book.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Huali arrived at the classroom to prepare to teach her students.
Qi Man and Yin Mengshu moved a stool to the back of the classroom under the pretext of auditing the class.
The students were still making noise after the school bell rang.
Talking, chasing, shouting—the classroom was so noisy it was giving me a headache.
Jiang Huali stood on the podium and was surprised to find that Xiaotian was also in this class.
Xiao Tian sat alone in the corner at the back of the classroom. He had no deskmate and did not talk to other students. He sat quietly in his seat with his head down, and his expression could not be seen.
Jiang Huali tapped the podium with her book. "Quiet down, everyone. Class is starting."
Jiang Huali had never been a teacher before, so she could only teach by following the problems in the math book.
"There are 30 students in Class 1 of Grade 3. Director Luo checks the number of students wearing red scarves every day."
"Today, Xiao Hong forgot to bring her red scarf. Xiao Huang gave his red scarf to Xiao Hong and then snatched the red scarf from Xiao Lan's hand."
"When Director Luo was inspecting the classroom, all the students were wearing red scarves, but some naughty students secretly ran out of the classroom and hid."
"Little Red said, 'I'm wearing a red scarf, but Little Blue isn't.'"
"Little Yellow said, 'I'm wearing a red scarf, and Little Blue is wearing one too.'"
"Little Blue said, 'My red scarf fell into the toilet.'"
"Little Green said, 'Little Blue took my red scarf.'"
"Only one of these four people told the truth. Please help Director Luo figure out how many students in Class 1, Grade 3, were not wearing their red scarves?"
Jiang Huali finished reading the questions in the book and fell silent.
This question just doesn't seem right no matter how you look at it.
The students below were all discussing it.
"I think everyone was wearing a red scarf."
"No, you idiot, I think it's a classmate who didn't wear it, and that classmate must be wearing a green one."
...
“Teacher Jiang.” Director Luo suddenly appeared at the classroom door.
Her tone and expression were sinister. "The students are discussing the issues so actively. Shouldn't you let them come up to the stage and answer the questions?"
Jiang Huali's lips twitched. She hadn't expected there to be a Q&A session. She forced a smile and said, "Ah... okay, would any student like to come up and answer a question?"
The students in this class were almost too enthusiastic, with hands raised one after another. Jiang Huali randomly selected two students to come up.
A little boy and a little girl.
The little boy went up to the stage first. "I think there are no students in the class who are not wearing red scarves, because Director Luo has very good eyesight and never makes a mistake."
Hahahaha—
The students burst into laughter.
It was obvious that the little boy was there to cause trouble.
Jiang Huali glanced at Director Luo at the door and noticed that he had no expression on his face.
"Okay, this student can go now. Let's have the next student share her thoughts."
The little girl walked up to the podium. She had long hair, which was tied up with a blue hair tie and clipped with a delicate blue butterfly clip.
The little girl said, "I think one of my classmates isn't wearing a red scarf."
Director Luo suddenly spoke up, "Then which student do you think wasn't wearing it?"
The little girl said, "It's Little Green!"
After the little girl said those words, the temperature around her dropped instantly, and the light dimmed. Jiang Huali looked down at the little girl and saw only a pair of dark, empty eyes staring at her, and a childish but hollow voice rang out.
"Teacher, what do you think?"
The little girl had a big smile on her face, and the smile kept getting bigger and bigger.
System: [Aaaaaaah, host, run! A ghost! A ghost!]
Jiang Huali suddenly came to her senses and looked towards the door, only to find that Director Luo was nowhere to be seen.
She quickly moved away from the podium and looked towards the back of the classroom.
Qi Man frowned and stood up with Yin Mengshu, assuming a defensive stance.
At that moment, the students in the classroom seemed to be controlled by the same frequency, their dark eyes staring straight at Jiang Huali, uttering the exact same words.
"Teacher, what do you think?"
Jiang Huali didn't want to think that she was about to faint.
Suddenly, Qi Feng's shouts echoed down the corridor: "Ah—help! Sister! Sister, please save me!"
The three people in the classroom exchanged glances and ran towards the door.
Before running out of the classroom, Jiang Huali glanced at the back of the classroom.
Xiaotian remained seated, head down, motionless.
Qi Feng rushed over in a panic. His classroom was on the same floor as Jiang Huali's. Qi Man called out to him, but Qi Feng didn't have time to say anything else, "There's a ghost! It's chasing me!"
Qi Man stopped Qi Feng and forcibly turned him around, "There's no ghost behind you now, but where's Cun Ke?"
Qi Feng got excited again, "Cun Ke went to stop that ghost! I was in the middle of class and needed to pee, so I went to the toilet. I didn't expect there to be a ghost in there! When I ran out, the ghost kept chasing me. Then, as soon as Cun Ke saw the ghost, he grabbed his knife and slashed at it!"
The group stood in the hallway as the students in the classroom rose from their seats and slowly walked towards them, muttering the same question: "Teacher, what do you think?"
Jiang Huali and the others ran towards the stairwell. At that moment, Cun Ke also appeared at the stairwell. His first words to them were, "Run downstairs! There's a ghost chasing us!"
Their classroom was on the third floor today. The group ran downstairs, but the stairs seemed endless. After running for five minutes, they still hadn't reached the first floor.
A large group of students followed closely behind, their movements becoming increasingly faster and more deliberate than before.
"Props!" Qi Man shouted.
They all took out props from their backpacks and threw them at the dark, ghostly figures behind them.
At this time, the best tool is a fireball, and Jiang Huali also took out the tool from her backpack.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, she suddenly had a moment of distraction.
My body suddenly became uncontrollable.
The fireball in his hand changed direction, about to be thrown in the direction of Qi Man.
Jiang Huali finally understood the situation of the original owner being controlled.
The body is out of control, but the mind retains a certain degree of clarity.
Jiang Huali tried her best to control herself, she couldn't throw it... she couldn't throw it!
The fireball in his hand changed direction again, flying towards the monster chasing behind.
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