Chapter 41
After a physical education class, only the last six students were left in the entire huge campus.
The empty road was extremely quiet. When the bloodstains were covered by the black snow again, no one could tell what had happened here.
On the way back to the classroom, Yi Tu met Qu Bai and his partner, who also looked tired and heavy-hearted.
Wang Xiaolei's boyfriend held one hand while she covered her empty eye sockets with the other.
It was pitch black there, and looked creepy.
Although Wang Xiaolei knew that the injuries suffered by the players in the card room would heal automatically after they left.
But the pain was too real and still made him feel scared.
The three of them met, but remained silent.
"It's almost over." Yitu sighed softly.
Qu Bai was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yeah, it's almost over."
When they returned to the classroom, the other three had already arrived.
Jiang Hanyu was still sitting in his old seat, fiddling with the two golden tickets in his hand with an indifferent expression.
The empty seats around him had no effect on him.
At least compared to the other two people who were obviously depressed, Jiang Hanyu seemed very relaxed and contented.
He must have long since adapted to the uncertainty of life and death in the game, and the inevitable depression afterwards.
Yi Tu hesitated for a moment until Jiang Hanyu looked up and caught a glimpse of him standing at the door in a daze.
"come over."
Yitu walked over and sat down at his seat, and Jiang Hanyu handed him a ticket.
"Is this...a ticket to the theater?"
"Yes." Jiang Hanyu said, "After completing the mandatory mission, the card game plot will automatically advance to 80%."
However, their plot progress, which had been increasing slowly, was still stuck at 43%.
This golden ticket with the words "Snowy Night" written on it will easily make the plot reach 80%.
Once the plot reaches the required level, the doorplate of this card field will be refreshed.
All they need to do next is wait patiently.
"The tickets were given by the physical education teacher. Everyone who survived got them, right?" Yitu asked.
Jiang Hanyu nodded, "This is the reward for playing the game."
Only the players who survive will get the ticket to advance the card scene.
Yitu clenched the thin piece of paper in his hand and frowned slightly:
"What happens if no players survive?"
Jiang Hanyu paused as he fiddled with the ticket. "There's no way this could happen."
"Someone will survive."
Yitu looked up into the man's brown eyes, which were deep and profound.
He didn't ask any more questions, and Jiang Hanyu didn't continue to explain.
Although the two had only known each other for less than three days, they had an amazing understanding in some aspects.
Now most of the seats in the classroom are empty, but it is impossible to continue attending class.
It is estimated that there will be no teachers teaching in the next few days, and their current schedule shows that there are two self-study classes in the morning.
To be on the safe side, they stayed in the classroom obediently and rested until noon.
After lunch, Yitu looked at the game rankings and found that the number of recommendation votes had basically stabilized.
Unless one of them dies again, there will be no major changes in the number of recommendation votes.
Before the performance started in the theater, Yitu and Wang Xiaolei chatted casually.
The tickets they received had the start time and showtime of "Snowy Night" written on them. They could not catch the first show in the morning, so only the show from 2 to 4 pm was still available, but they would have to wait.
Wang Xiaolei, who lost an eye, was not in a good mood, especially after playing such a game of hide-and-seek. Except for Jiang Hanyu, everyone else was more or less covered with black snow.
The black snowflakes created cracks on their exposed skin. Although they were not fatal, they would definitely affect people's mood if they got too much of them.
Especially when they waited until 1:30 in the afternoon, Yitu's right arm was almost stiff and unable to move.
Among the five people, he was not the only one who encountered this situation.
When Qu Bai stood up from his seat, he almost fell to the ground, and Wang Xiaolei was startled.
"Brother Hao, what's wrong with you?"
Qu Bai's expression changed slightly, and after a long while he finally said, "My legs can't move."
He unzipped his trouser legs, revealing snake-like black cracks running all over his calves.
And he didn't even notice when the touchless snow poured in.
At the same time, Jiang Zhong, who was sitting on the side, found that the back of his neck was completely stiff and he could hardly turn it.
He knew that a lot of black snow had drifted into the back of his neck, but he didn't expect the situation to be so serious.
Only Wang Peiqi, whose presence had always been low, did not speak. He had no desire to speak, but just squeezed his stiff left hand with his right hand.
Everyone present knew very well that if this card game didn't end quickly, they would sooner or later die under this long-planned black snow.
As soon as two o'clock arrived, Yitu took the golden ticket and went downstairs with the others and walked towards the theater.
At this time, colorful lights were lit up around the small theater, and the signs outside were also replaced with new content.
The final small campus drama, "Snowy Night," is about to begin. Students with tickets please go through the turnstiles and enter!
Jiang Hanyu was the first to step forward and stuffed the golden ticket into the gate. The green light came on and the gate opened.
Several others followed closely behind.
After Yitu entered, he found that the theater was pitch black and they could only grope their way forward by the seats.
As they walked, the others dispersed. Just as Yi Tu was about to find a place to sit down, a slender hand gently grasped his wrist in the darkness and pulled it lightly.
Yi Tu turned his head and saw Jiang Hanyu's handsome profile. He felt something in his heart and sat down.
Their seats were in the middle, not at the front, but the seats were basically empty, enough for them to choose a viewing seat that satisfied them.
Wang Xiaolei and Qu Bai sat at their lower left corner.
When the first beam of white light suddenly hit the center of the stage and the red curtain opened to both sides, Yitu knew that the skit had begun.
But when he saw the scene on the stage clearly, a look of surprise flashed across his face.
That was the classroom they were in when they entered the card room. Yitu saw his own face among the group of students sitting there obediently.
Not only his, but on the student's left side, he also saw Jiang Hanyu's handsome profile and straight back.
"The characters in the play?" Yitu frowned.
All players who survived the game appeared in the drama with their own faces, retaining their identities.
But those who died were directly wiped out by the card field, leaving no trace.
Yi Tu scanned the faces of these students one by one and soon found Ye Li in the last row of the classroom.
There was a red birthmark on Ye Li's face, which instantly ruined her originally pretty and beautiful face.
Because of his short stature, Ye Li had to wear a pair of bulky glasses so that he could see the contents on the blackboard clearly.
She is an obedient and good student, and her grades are even among the best, but she is not liked by her subject teachers.
When the math teacher walked into the classroom, Yitu saw a very familiar figure.
The giant spider raised its pointed forelimbs and climbed up to the podium with ease. When it faced the students, it looked back. Yitu saw Ye Li visibly trembled.
Yitu didn't know why the teachers in the sitcoms still didn't change their inhuman image.
But their existence must imply something.
After a rigorous math class, Ye Li was called to the teacher's office as expected.
She has never been good at math, so her mother asked Teacher Spider to tutor Ye Li in math when she has time.
The large number of difficult questions assigned to her by Teacher Spider made her feel embarrassed and extremely guilty.
"Mathematics is a meticulous and tight network. Ye Li, you must clearly know where every line intersects."
Spider's favorite thing to say to her was, "If you can't fully grasp all the knowledge points, my teaching will be in vain."
"If your mother hadn't begged me like that..."
Ye Li suddenly looked up at his math teacher, the spider's hideous face reflected in his clear eyes.
For the first time, she felt that what the teacher said was right. Mathematics was a meticulous and tight net that was about to drown her, a little fly.
"Did my mother really beg you?" Ye Li asked cautiously.
The math teacher sneered, "Do you think the teacher would lie to you?"
Ye Li didn't dare to speak again, she knew that her mother always had high expectations of her.
Because only in this way would her father be willing to come back and take her and her daughter away.
After the scene ended, what remained in Yi Tu's eyes was the image of Ye Li being tightly wrapped in a spider web and strangled to death.
The thin girl struggled frantically and screamed, but no one could hear her cries for help.
There was only a tall, thin and upright figure standing beside Ye Li's body, staying there for a long time.
The lights dimmed and then came back on, and the scene was still the same classroom.
The students' cheerful faces are filled with spring light.
Yitu saw himself casually putting his arm around Jiang Hanyu's shoulder, and leaned close to the man's ear and said something jokingly.
Jiang Hanyu responded with an angry smile.
The two pushed each other, laughed and fought outside the classroom, knocking over Ye Li's pile of books in the process, but no one cared.
Ye Li picked up the book as usual, stared blankly at the empty space for a few seconds, and then picked up the pen again.
She was never able to fit in with the relaxed and lively atmosphere around her and lived like an outsider.
What made her most tormented was the following Chinese class.
Yitu saw the Chinese teacher's beautiful but cracked face. When she walked into the classroom, countless small insects flew out of the cracks and drilled into the students' ears.
Afterwards, Ye Li watched as a large number of small insects flew out of the mouths of the students around him.
"I heard that Ye Li's mother had some improper relationship with the principal. Did you know?"
"With the principal? Isn't it with the PE teacher? I saw her mother and the PE teacher walking together last time, and they were so close!"
"Is this true? Isn't that PE teacher our homeroom teacher's fiancé?"
"Well, of course it's true, but her mother and our homeroom teacher have a bit of a tense relationship. The last time I went to the office to hand in my homework, they seemed to be arguing."
"How can they have a good relationship when their fiancé is about to be snatched away? But her mother must be well-connected, right? Otherwise, how could she attend our school?"
"Ye Li's mother is unmarried, you know? Her mother used to be a mistress to a rich man!"
"Everyone in the school knows about this, don't you need to tell me?"
Amidst the discussions among his classmates, Ye Li covered his ears in despair.
And the little bugs that kept pouring out were almost drowning her.
However, amidst all the rumors and strange looks, there was only one person who was clean from head to toe.
He sat by the window, supporting his head with his right hand, revealing only his handsome profile.
The sunlight just happened to hit his body, giving him a golden glow.
The little bugs couldn't get into his ears, and naturally couldn't fly out of his mouth. He was so otherworldly that he had no interest in these dirty rumors.
Ye Li's face was lost in the swarm of flying insects, and her gaze remained on the boy.
The eyes are longing, but out of reach.
After seeing this, Yitu had roughly understood why those teachers were in non-human form.
The formation of this card field is not so much the world in which Ye Li exists as it is the inner world of Ye Li's real fantasy.
Ye Li, who had suppressed his true inner self for a long time, abstracted the teachers he hated one by one.
So there was the spider teacher who appeared at the beginning and the split-faced Chinese teacher who came in later.
Each subsequent scene shows Ye Li's inner world of extreme despair and desire for liberation.
An English teacher who constantly reminds her that she was once a thief and had a shady past.
The physical education teacher, who was eyeing her mother and trying to get close to her, was like a giant lizard that had set its sights on a piece of rotten meat and refused to let go.
Despite living in such a terrible and irreconcilable environment, Ye Li can only grasp the only light in his heart and try his best to live.
The young man who appeared around her was just a vague and illusory shadow.
She takes care of her mother wholeheartedly, even though she has high expectations of her.
Ye Li wanted to live. She was still so young, her grades were so good, and she had a bright future that she could imagine.
If she hadn't poured out her feelings on a piece of paper, if she hadn't neglected her studies because of her secret love.
But unfortunately, there is no if.
Yi Tu knew that the boy Ye Li liked should be Pei Ze. In every sitcom, Pei Ze's appearance was always coated with a layer of golden light.
He is so different from others. His good education, excellent character and superior family conditions make him the object of admiration of many girls in the school.
Especially when such a person also has an extremely outstanding appearance.
Ye Li is just one of those girls who is dreaming.
Just because of a simple action of the other person, or ordinary words that you can't even remember, you can imagine a complete love story.
When Ye Li was a child, his right leg was bitten by a dog. Despite timely treatment, he still had a limp.
She rarely left her seat, and never left the classroom even during recess, because her limp would make people laugh at her.
Whenever she moved, the whole class would stare at her as if she were a tethered monkey in a zoo.
Yitu finally understood why the players were unable to open the classroom door when get out of class was over.
It wasn't because the classroom door was locked to them, but because Ye Li had a heavy psychological shadow about leaving the classroom, so she locked herself up.
Even such a person with extremely low self-esteem is most afraid of taking physical education classes.
The warm-up jog before class always made Ye Li feel extremely painful.
Although her mother had already asked the physical education teacher to let her jog, it was this difference from normal students that made her particularly sad.
At the next sports meet, the entire grade will have to walk in square formation.
Ye Li didn't want to participate in the rehearsal because she had a bad image and didn't want to embarrass the class.
But she couldn't say it out loud, because the Chinese teacher would only sneer at her and would never agree to her request.
But at this time, someone spoke for her.
The young man covered in a layer of golden light appeared again. Pei Ze took her feelings into consideration and spoke beautifully.
The head teacher had no reason to refuse his request, especially for such a good student from a wealthy family.
Ye Li, who was rescued, could hardly take his eyes off that person.
After that, the two of them got closer and more in touch with each other. The boy's good education and quality made Ye Li think that he was no different from other people.
She wondered if it was possible that Pei Ze would also like her, what if there was even a slight possibility?
That love letter was the first and last one she ever wrote.
Yi Tu looked at the scene in front of him. Zheng Xiuxiu, the girl who deliberately approached Ye Li for Pei Ze, stole the love letter that Ye Li wrote to Pei Ze.
He handed the love letter to the head teacher, and the Chinese class that afternoon unsurprisingly turned into a class meeting.
Just as Yi Tu and the others had experienced, the Chinese teacher's undisguised humiliation and ridicule made Ye Li particularly devastated.
However, what made her even more devastated was that her Chinese teacher actually tore the love letter to pieces in public.
The scraps of paper fell to the ground and were picked up by some classmates. When they saw the names on the papers, bursts of laughter came from the classroom.
"How can she have the nerve to write a love letter? How can the handsome man of Pei University fall for her?"
"Pei Ze! This cripple actually likes you!"
"Pei Ze, you need to reflect on yourself. Why did you let such an ugly guy fall in love with you? Haha."
Ye Li's classmates' unpleasant words kept coming into her ears, and she just stared blankly at Pei Ze's still straight back.
Soon this matter was known to Ye Li's mother and even reached the ears of the head teacher.
Ye Li's mother looked at her daughter in disbelief, her grades plummeting. Her pretty face was filled with suppressed anger that was about to explode.
However, her first words were choked with sobs and tears:
"Ye Li, how can you be worthy of my good intentions!"
After hearing this, Ye Li also burst into tears.
"Actually, your father came to me a long time ago. He wanted to take me away, but I couldn't bear to leave you."
Qiu Yi said with a look of disappointment, "I persevered for you! I told your father that you had excellent grades and were always well behaved! You will be an outstanding daughter and will definitely not be inferior to his other children just because of your appearance!"
"But what about now? Ye Li, are you worthy of me?"
Ye Li stood there, still not realizing that his biological father didn't want him.
But her mother told Ye Li the cruel truth so suddenly that she wanted to commit suicide.
She knew that her father was a prominent figure who had achieved great things at a young age, otherwise why would Qiu Yi follow him so wholeheartedly and even have a child out of wedlock.
But because of this, his father would never recognize an illegitimate daughter with a blemish on her face and a lame leg.
"Mom, I'm sorry, I was wrong." Ye Li admitted his mistake while crying.
Just like when she was a child, she wanted to ask her mother to forgive her as she had in the past.
But the disappointment had accumulated for too long, and once it erupted, it would be a pain that Ye Li could not bear.
"How many times have I told you not to do something? Why don't you listen? I want you to study hard. I told you that Daddy would come pick us up. Why didn't you believe me?"
"I told you to ignore those rumors. They have no right to judge you! But you repeatedly let them affect your studies and even wrote love letters to someone you secretly love!"
"Ye Li, you've really disgraced your father." Qiu Yi closed her eyes in disappointment. "He already knows about this. Is Pei Ze someone you can't possibly marry?"
"I really tried my best, I really really tried my best..."
Qiu Yi hugged her daughter and burst into tears, "Ali, why didn't you listen to your mother? If you hadn't gone out to steal food that night, you wouldn't have become lame. If you hadn't become lame, everything wouldn't be so difficult!"
"Mom really wants to go back to Dad. Why don't you listen to me, Ali?"
Ye Li also hugged Qiu Yi, her face full of tears, but she could only say sorry, sorry over and over again.
In fact, she knew a long time ago that she was just a burden to Qiu Yi.
If everything could be done over again, or if she left, would it make things easier?
"Mom, I wish I could be in your belly again."
A healthy me, a clean and beautiful me, a me who has not experienced such pain.
When Ye Li stepped onto the roof of the teaching building, she looked up at the distant and unreachable sky, and saw black snowflakes slowly falling.
“It’s snowing.”
Bang.
The girl's body hit the ground, and a dark red blood flower bloomed.
[The progress of this card game has reached 83%. The door number has been refreshed. Players are requested to find the door number and leave the card game within 18 hours!]
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