Chapter 73
"Welcome to Sunflower Kindergarten!"
The woman in a professional suit had a very friendly face. She smiled as she looked at the twelve trainee teachers who were standing in front of her and reporting today.
"I'm Shi Min, the principal of Sunflower Kindergarten."
"For the next five days, Xiao Cai and I will guide you through the process of becoming familiar with the roles of kindergarten teachers. I hope everyone will pass the induction assessment."
Yitu stood with the remaining eleven teachers, and the twelve players formed two rows.
He and Xu Heng were in the second row, while Ding Rong and Hu Zaozao were in the first row.
Yitu was not sitting next to Xu Heng, and there were two female players between them.
He took a look at the original environment of the card room. The walls were painted in a lovely pink, with various innocent and beautiful cartoon patterns drawn on them.
Behind Shi Min is a spacious and comfortable children's reading area. Colorful sofas are arranged like piano keys, and various picture books and building blocks are placed on low shelves for children to take down at any time.
This is a boarding kindergarten. Yitu saw photos of dormitories posted on the exhibition blackboard nearby.
This time, the twelve players are trainee teachers at the Sunflower Kindergarten and have a five-day internship assessment.
Yitu could easily guess that the mandatory task of this card game was probably to require players to complete the internship assessment and obtain employment qualifications.
He opened the game panel and took a look, and it was exactly as he had guessed.
【Diamond 4 Card Field--Sunflower Kindergarten:
Casino ID: 955663
Card game difficulty: low
Number of players: Confidential
Number of players entered: Confidential
This card game will exist for 5 days (the countdown has been started)
Bonus points for this card game: 180,000
This card game requires you to complete the following tasks: Complete the internship assessment
Props available in this card game: (/)
Status of this card game's escape doorplate: Not refreshed (80% of the card game plot is completed, and the refresh status is changed)
Servant assessment of player survival rate: 72%
(Note: Due to the unique nature of this card game, the player ranking and player ticket bidding modes have been disabled! Players, please try your best to survive!)
When Yitu saw the card game prompts in the last line, he frowned slightly.
This card room has blocked all functions that may reveal the number of players, such as player rankings and player bidding modes.
The reason why the system does this is still unclear.
The principal briefly introduced some basic information about the Sunflower Kindergarten, then asked the twelve teachers to wait in the hall while he went alone to get the staff ID cards.
For a moment, the hall fell into a strange silence, only the cat TV hanging on the wall was still playing cartoons with relaxing melodies.
A little girl with a ponytail spoke first:
"Why is the card game in a kindergarten this time? It doesn't look very scary."
"Isn't kindergarten scary?" A boy standing in front of her turned his head and said in a serious tone:
"You don't know how terrifying it is when a child turns into a ghost."
"Ah? Don't scare me!" The little girl shrank her neck.
At this moment, the cat-shaped TV screen suddenly flashed strangely a few times, and the nursery rhyme also became stuck.
Everyone was startled and looked up at the TV.
".....An urgent announcement. At 4:40 PM on xx/xx, a multiple murderer escaped from the hospital and was last seen near No. 1 Sun Road..."
".....The police have been dispatched urgently and additional personnel have been deployed to capture the suspect. Residents living near No. 1 Sun Road, please pay attention to travel safety..."
The serious face of the female host in a blue suit began to flash and soon disappeared from the screen.
Familiar cartoons and nursery rhymes sounded again, and the hall fell into deathly silence.
“No. 1 Sun Road…”
A middle-aged man in formal attire hurried out of the hall, looked at the house number on the wall outside, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief in his hand.
"This is No. 1 Sun Road."
"Damn." Someone cursed under his breath.
"What does this mean?" The girl who spoke at the beginning showed a hint of confusion on her face, and then her face quickly changed color.
"Is the murderer hiding in the kindergarten?"
"That's still good." Xu Heng said with a smile, "I'm just worried that he might be one of us."
Yitu looked up at him. Xu Heng's current appearance was not much different from that in real life. His smile still carried a hint of coldness and ill intention.
"That's not nice of you to say."
Ding Rong responded to Xu Heng's words with a frown on his face.
Soon someone took over his words and agreed:
"Yeah, yeah, what do you mean by that? Do we have to be suspicious of each other as soon as we enter the card room?"
Xu Heng sneered, "Are you an idiot and can't use your brain? The system blocked our player count. Have you ever considered the strangeness of this?"
"The murderer could be in the kindergarten, or he could be among us. Which is more likely? You can figure it out with your ass, right?"
The man was speechless and his face turned red instantly.
Xu Heng turned his head away in disdain, not even wanting to look at Ding Rong's extremely stupid face.
But when he turned his head, he happened to meet the gaze of the new member.
Xu Heng was stunned for a moment, then smiled at him, "Am I wrong?"
Originally, he didn't expect to get a response from that person, but Yitu actually nodded.
"Among us, there may be twelve teachers, or there may be only eleven."
Ding Rong felt upset when he saw Yi Tu actually standing on Xu Heng's side.
Isn't this nonsense? Either the murderer is not among them, or the murderer is among them. There is no second possibility.
In fact, among the people present, only Xu Heng understood the meaning of Yi Tu's words.
This person has been talking about two possible existences from beginning to end, that is, the murderer must be among them.
What the twelve teachers meant was that the murderer's identity might overlap with the player's identity.
Since they can play the role of a trainee teacher, who says players can't play the role of a murderer?
The situation with eleven teachers is a relatively good possibility.
After all, it is better for eleven players to find an NPC that exists among them than for one player to disguise himself among them.
Yi Tu looked at Ding Rong and Hu Zaozao. There was no change on their faces, so he knew that neither of them understood what he meant.
But Xu Heng tilted her head slightly, and her eyes lit up when she looked at him.
"If there were twelve teachers...it would be really interesting."
Yitu avoided meeting Xu Heng's gaze. This man's behavior was a bit strange, and Yitu had only played cards with him once.
Gu Yongnian and Ou Cheng were both there that time. Xu Heng rarely spoke. Most of the time, it was Gu Yongnian who made the decisions. He just watched from the side, without giving any opinions or bothering to communicate.
It's like I'm extremely bored with this state.
Yitu didn't respond to him because the head teacher soon came over with a bunch of small blue signs.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long." Shi Min smiled apologetically and distributed the signs to them in order.
"This is your teacher ID card. Please fill in your name as soon as possible. It doesn't need to be too formal, even a nickname will do."
"This sign is mainly for the children to call us. I will take everyone to their respective classes later. The students are still sleeping now..."
Yitu got his own blue badge, which was the same as everyone else's, with no photo or name, and the information column was completely empty.
He suddenly said:
"Director, don't we need to go through the onboarding procedures before our internship?"
Shi Min was obviously stunned when he heard this, and then he immediately explained:
"Of course there are, but the teacher who interviewed you had some family problems recently, so your information is with Director Wen."
"Because I misremembered your reporting time, Director Wen is not here today. I will help you with the onboarding procedures tomorrow."
After hearing this explanation, Yi Tu nodded.
Both the affairs teacher and Director Wen knew the relevant information of the intern teachers who were hired this time. As long as Teacher Wen came to work the next day, they would know who among the twelve people was the extra murderer.
If Teacher Wen could come on time.
After lunch break, the children in each class woke up one after another, and Shi Min took the twelve people to the children's classes.
Since this kindergarten is a boarding school, the place is very large.
Yitu and Hu were assigned to Area A early on, managing a small class of students aged three to four.
The small class in Sunflower Kindergarten has a maximum of sixteen students. Although the number is small, the children are young and not very obedient, so it is still a headache to teach them.
Ding Rong and Xu Heng were assigned to Area B, responsible for the middle-class students aged four to five.
The number of students in the middle class is not much different from that in the small class. The purpose is to ensure that teachers can take care of them all and not neglect or favor anyone.
Hu Zaozao's class happened to be next to Yitu. After interacting with the children in her class, she came to take a look at Yitu.
When she arrived, Yitu was wiping the face of a child who had just woken up, and her movements were particularly gentle.
Hu Zao Zao's heart moved, and he walked forward and said with a smile:
"Kids are very healing, aren't they?"
Yitu looked up at her and did not deny it.
"Do you like children?"
Hu Zao Zao nodded. "My husband and I both love children, but... we can't see a future together, so we've never dared to have one."
How can someone who is in the game and doesn't know when he will die dare to give birth to new life?
"...You said the murderer is in this kindergarten. Will these children be in danger?"
Hu Zaozao suddenly changed the subject and his expression changed slightly.
“That’s a possibility.”
Yi Tu didn't say anything final, but in fact he was more able to accept the facts than Hu Zaozao.
A murderer will not refrain from killing a student simply because he or she is young or well-behaved.
In particular, their mandatory tasks are related to internship assessments, which in turn are indirectly linked to students.
Students are the key to whether they can pass the internship assessment.
Yitu did not explain the pros and cons of this to Hu early on, and the game will definitely remind him of these situations again.
"I thought it would be easier after seeing the name of this card room," Hu Zao Zao said with a wry smile. "I didn't expect it to be much harder than I imagined."
"If the murderer was one of us... there would probably be a big fight."
Yitu shook his head. "It's too early to say anything before the story unfolds."
Hu Zao Zao was stunned, "Yes."
"Let's wait for Teacher Wen to come tomorrow." Yitu tried to comfort her. "When she comes, we'll know who the extra one is."
"Yeah." She thought so too.
As long as Teacher Wen comes, the problem will be easy to solve.
However, no one expected that Teacher Wen, who came the next day, would meet them in this way.
She was wearing a blue business suit, and the thick powder on her face couldn't cover the freckles underneath.
She was dropped by a rope onto the electric fan in the hall, and blood flowed down her snow-white thighs to the ground.
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