Ox Sacrifice 8
It was already very late when the evening self-study ended. Meng Yueyue wanted to step forward and ask about Yan Ke's identity, but Fang Yu grabbed her hand. She wanted to shake him off, but she saw Fang Yu's strange smile on his strange face, staring at her eyes. At that moment, Meng Yueyue was surrounded by fear.
"You..." Meng Yueyue's voice was completely lost in fear.
Yan Ke didn't notice Fang Yu's abnormality. He walked out as soon as the bell rang.
After walking a few steps, Nanyu appeared. Nanyu looked behind Yan Ke and narrowed his eyes, which instantly became sharp. Fang Yu behind him seemed to suddenly wake up and looked at Meng Yueyue who was shaking with fear in front of him.
"We are still alive, I am so scared!!"
Fang Yu's voice brought Meng Yueyue back to her senses: "Fang Yu?" Then she burst out with strength to break free from Fang Yu's grip on her wrist: "Are you sick!!!" Then Meng Yueyue left angrily.
Fang Yu was confused at this time. He wanted to chase after him, but he seemed to have remembered something and looked to the other side. At this time, Yan Ke had already been buried by the students who were leaving get out of class.
Those strange creatures twisting and wriggling in the darkness curled up waiting for the next prey to fall into the trap.
Yan Ke didn't know what she was thinking at this time, but Li Heng said: "Although nothing happened during the evening self-study, my right eyelid kept twitching. I don't know what's going on, but I always feel like something is happening."
Nanyu laughed: "Haha, you are really sensitive. Do you feel that something is following us?"
Li Heng looked back and didn't find anything unusual, but still said: "It's really scary to plant sunflowers in the school's greening area at night, but it's okay during the day. This one is pretty and can be recycled in the fall."
Yan Ke suddenly stopped, and the other two were startled.
"What's wrong?"
Yan Ke said, "Nothing, just tying my shoelaces." He squatted down and looked at the shadows under the dim light. The shadows of the three people were all normal. He observed the two people calmly: [Fortunately, this is a normal dungeon world now.]
The two stopped and waited for Yan Ke.
Nan Yu asked, "Mo Fan, what happened during the evening study session?"
Yan Ke tied his shoelaces and stood up and said, "Everything is normal, nothing happened."
Nan Yu frowned and said, "I always felt that something happened, but now that feeling has disappeared."
Li Heng nodded: "I felt it too, but it's nothing. Maybe we are too sensitive. We have only been in this dungeon world for one day, and our life is not normal at all. If you were not here, I would be too scared to sleep."
Yan Ke said to the two of them, "Let's go. It's easy to catch a cold here. There's no medicine for getting sick here."
The three people left one after another, and the path covered with sunflowers gradually twisted and straightened, but Yan Ke and others did not notice the abnormality here.
"I still don't know how to write the paper. It's very difficult." Li Heng said after returning to the dormitory: "It's so tiring. This is more tiring than marching dozens of kilometers."
Nan Yu wanted to wash up, but he saw the headless monster standing in the middle of the bathroom. He smiled and said, "Yeah, the thesis is very difficult. I haven't learned it after a whole day of studying." Then he locked the door and closed it in one go.
Yan Ke went forward to wash up, but he turned the door handle several times but it didn't open. He frowned: "Nanyu, why did you lock it?"
Nan Yu said, "It's not locked. It was working fine just now." Then he walked forward and twisted the bathroom door handle a few times and said, "Oh my god, this thing can't be broken."
Nanyu acted so naturally that Yan Ke noticed his little move, but Li Heng didn't notice it. "Hey, let's go to the public restroom to wash up, together."
There is a bathroom at the end of each floor, and there are also areas with many faucets for washing.
Three people came out carrying washbasins.
Li Heng said at this time: "I see a lot of people downstairs, but why are there so few people on our floor?"
Nan Yu said: "It's good to have no one around. It won't be crowded when I wash up."
"Maybe those teachers don't live in school." Yan Ke explained.
The other two thought this might be the case.
"Don't you feel a little chilly? I know you are scared too, otherwise you wouldn't come out to wash together." Li Heng watched the two of them find a random place in the wash area and start washing. No one answered him.
Nanyu washed his face and said, "This water is so cold."
Yan Ke finished washing up without saying a word. He looked at the hot water and said, "There is hot water here. Do we have a hot water card?"
Li Heng nodded: "No, I will ask the dormitory manager for one tomorrow."
Yan Ke nodded.
It's this kind of thing that a normal life that is no different from the real world can sometimes lead to a world of weird entanglements. Even a person with a strong mental state will be tortured and go crazy. For example, Yan Ke is thinking about this now. No matter how normal he looks on the surface, it does not mean that his spiritual world is absolutely normal.
After the three of them washed up, they returned to the dormitory. When they returned, Li Heng frowned: "Why is it so smelly?"
Nanyu also frowned, he smelled it.
Yan Ke said, "Let's go find the dormitory manager to change dormitories. I'll go get the key." After saying that, he left the dormitory.
Li Heng could indeed feel the unique taste, he quickly said: "Mo Fan, I'll come too."
Nanyu followed.
What Li Heng and the other two didn't expect was that when they changed dormitories, the dorm auntie was particularly happy and said to them, "How about you live on the first floor?"
Yan Ke replied: "It's not the last room, or it's next to the bathroom on the first floor."
The dormitory manager handed over the key and said, "How about we give them all to you and let you choose. There are more people living on the first floor, but there are still five or six empty rooms. The dormitory next to the bathroom is now a warehouse."
Yan Ke nodded: "Then there are extra quilts or something, we can buy them."
In this way, Yan Ke and the other two changed dormitories, but everyone knew the reason. As a soldier, Li Heng had smelled that stench before, and he originally thought that nothing happened today and it was all a set of self-consolation excuses.
But they slept well all night until the alarm rang for the next day.
After washing up, the three of them came to the classroom again. Yan Ke was still sitting in the same seat. Fang Yu and Meng Yueyue were sitting below with dark circles under their eyes. They started yawning as soon as they started morning self-study. They have all graduated from college. Both of them do not work in companies, but are niche professionals. One is a martial arts inheritor and the other is an internet celebrity. They don't need 007 or 996, and they can stick to 587, which is a manifestation of their hard work.
I have to say that the two of them are very blessed. They were afraid of something happening at night, so it was no surprise that they both suffered from insomnia.
Yan Ke opened yesterday's book, which was about "student sacrifice". It seemed that sacrifice had existed in this copy world since ancient times.
The book tells a fable.
“In ancient times, the imperial examination system was the main way to select talents. People from poor families or common people who lived outside of the aristocratic families all relied on the imperial examination system to rise above their status, cross classes, and obtain official positions and power.
According to legend, a number of strange deaths of scholars occurred in a private academy. Due to the huge impact of the incident, the emperor sent an imperial envoy to find out the truth.
When he first arrived at the academy, there was nothing unusual. The imperial envoy spoke highly of the academy. This academy was opened by an old scholar who had served as a county magistrate and was loved by the people. After he retired and returned to his hometown, he opened an academy. Most of the students in the academy came from poor backgrounds. Their families could hardly find rice and had to go hungry one day.
The dean of the academy relied on his own status to obtain donations, which allowed the academy to survive. Later, the academy got on the right track, and many students successfully passed the examinations and returned home in glory.
The good times did not last long. After a scholar named Wen Ming died mysteriously, the academy became strange and bizarre. After that, several scholars who passed the examinations died one after another. The dean also passed away because he was old and could not bear the shock. This continued until the imperial envoy came to investigate.
Upon investigation, it was found that the college students were unwilling to give their reasons. Some left the college and never returned, while some had to study in the college due to difficult conditions.
The imperial envoy was deeply puzzled and spent many days without any progress until another scholar died in the academy. This was the first time the imperial envoy saw the scene of a scholar's death. The scene was strange and seemed like a sacrifice. The imperial envoy immediately felt something was wrong and later arrested everyone in the academy.
Later, the matter involved the concept of gods and ghosts, and the impact was so serious that students were banned from participating in sacrifices across the country. If it happened, it would be a capital crime. Only then was the impact of the incident curbed and eliminated.
But this incident had far-reaching consequences, causing many students from poor backgrounds to completely lose their chance to take the imperial examinations. The dynasty was short of talent, conflicts arose frequently, and it was later abolished by another dynasty.
Yan Ke frowned. The history of this [Student Sacrifice] was quite long. He looked at the book. This book was a reference book he found in order to complete the task. He flipped through it. The story was quite long. He only read one page, and the content was so shocking.
He turned to the next page and continued reading:
"When a new dynasty was established, order was just established, and there was an urgent need for liberal arts talents to govern. So the founding emperor restarted the imperial examinations. However, he heard that [sacrifice] was a shortcut and the price was heavy. However, many people still followed suit. In the previous dynasty, it spread from small academies to all classes, and the impact it caused was profound.
The founding emperor of the new dynasty came from a noble family and had heard about this matter, so he hired talented people from all over the world to find out the truth of the matter.
Because the reward was so generous, talented people from all over the world came here. After arriving in the capital, they began to investigate the source of the "sacrifice", but it led to a huge disaster, causing the new dynasty to suffer a great loss of vitality and become shaky. "
Yan Ke frowned. Did this [sacrifice] exist since ancient times, or did it suddenly appear in that inconspicuous academy? This aroused his curiosity.
At this moment, the stage suddenly changed, and a thin figure suddenly appeared in front of him, smiling and looking down: "What are you looking at?"
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