Chapter 124 Dahui 2
“Actually, it’s not surprising. Aren’t there high school students in our real world who commit suicide due to academic pressure? They feel relieved when they die and have a smile on their faces?” Yang Mei said.
He looked like he felt the same way.
"Besides, this school seems even more perverted and stressful than our real life. They can even persuade students to drop out. It's outrageous."
Wen Yuxin still felt it was a bit strange. "The smile on his face was really very happy. How should I put it? If there were tears, it could be said that he was crying with joy."
She tried to describe the strangeness she felt to her friends. "Also, the school doctor and security guard didn't think it was strange. They acted like they were used to it. This was also strange."
Xia Bai suddenly asked: "What is his identity? It seems to be summer vacation now, and there are only senior high school students in the school, but aren't the senior high school students all in the playground holding the swearing-in mobilization meeting?"
Before they discussed the issue, they heard the security guard shouting.
"Students over there! I'm talking about you! Hurry up and get to the classroom!"
The security guard ran towards them, and they stopped discussing and hurried to the classroom.
There are five classrooms and an office on the first floor of the teaching building. Class 13 where Xia Bai is located is on the third floor. At first glance, there are about 40 people in the class.
There are 25 classes in the senior year of high school, with a rough estimate of 1,000 students, of which there are exactly 800 players and about 200 students from the native world.
Class 13 includes Xia Bai, Yang Mei, and a female academic bully named Zhou Peiman. Xia Bai heard Jing Yan say in the group that this female academic bully with a high ponytail and a blank expression was a naturally numb person who entered the game just to seek excitement.
Maybe she felt that the exam was not exciting enough, and there seemed to be a layer of frost on her expressionless face.
Xia Bai: “…”
He admired it in his heart.
In addition to this female academic master, there are probably more than twenty prisoners and old players. Xia Bai is not sure of the number. He was changing symbols while the game was locked and could not remember all the players.
Not long after they sat down, the head teacher came.
The head teacher was a man in his thirties. He spoke as fast as the head teacher. "Students, our senior year has begun. It's a new school year, a new class, and a new atmosphere. Students must be fully motivated and work hard in this year that will determine your destiny."
I simply said something to encourage them, but because I spoke too fast, there was no intonation, and it had no encouraging effect at all. But he didn't care and continued to say what he really wanted to say.
"Next, let me tell you about our study and exam arrangements for this summer vacation. We call this summer training camp the Nirvana Special Training Camp, and it is designed to allow everyone to at least reach the college entrance examination level of ordinary high school students before school officially starts."
Like the head teacher and the grade director, the speed of speech is getting faster and faster, and they have to concentrate and listen hard so as not to miss any key information.
"This summer, first, we will have a baseline test tomorrow. After that, we will have a test every ten days, with a day off. There will be a total of five tests."
So, their task is to pass these five exams.
Hearing the inhalation in the classroom, the head teacher said: "Don't be nervous. Tomorrow's baseline test is just a test. There will be no passing score. But every test after that will have a passing score. Students who don't pass the passing score can still change schools during the summer vacation. The school has taken everyone into consideration, so it will implement this elimination system during the summer vacation."
“…”
That school is quite considerate.
The head teacher said, "Tomorrow we will have a baseline test. Today you can make your own arrangements. You can go clean up your dormitories or come to the classroom to study. A few more students can go to the office to distribute study materials."
Yang Mei immediately raised his hand, and Xia Bai followed him to the office to get his study materials, and three other players also followed.
There were a lot of materials piled up inside and outside the office door. Several players from other classes also came to move the materials, but since the teacher was here, they didn't say anything.
After presenting themselves in front of the teacher and handing out the materials, Xia Bai and Yang Mei decided to go back to the dormitory.
After following my former classmates to the dormitory, I saw the dormitory assignment list posted on the bulletin board at the dormitory door. We were both in the same dormitory, Room 206.
On the second floor, they saw Yang Yi.
Yang Mei stopped as soon as she saw him, and after a second or two she walked forward as if nothing had happened.
Yang Yi glanced at him, then looked at Xia Bai and said, "I have a new discovery."
"Oh." Xia Bai didn't know what to do. He was about to speak hesitantly when he heard Ling Changye shouting at the stairs: "312, there's no one in our dormitory."
Since the captain had spoken, everyone went to Room 312.
Yang Yi didn't keep them in suspense and told them directly: "I asked about the identity of the student who committed suicide that Xia Bai mentioned after I returned to class."
Yang Mei pulled the corner of her mouth, "Did you use that skill of yours to find out?"
This time Yang Yi ignored him and continued, "In addition to the students in our class who have been promoted from the second grade to the third grade, there are also students who have repeated their studies in the previous grade. They do not need to attend the oath-taking ceremony. That person should be a repeater."
Ling Changye understood, "That means he might be a reflection of our future."
The boy who committed suicide actually experienced the senior year of high school at Dahui No. 2 Middle School, and ended up like this. This may also be what they will become in the future, as well as the ending of some students from Dahui No. 2 Middle School in the real world who died in the previous game.
But in fact, this doesn’t mean anything. It makes sense that someone would commit suicide due to high-intensity study pressure.
The key to Yang Yi's discovery is, "There are other repeaters in the school. Maybe we can find out something from them. Do we know where they are?"
Yang Yi said, "On the fourth floor of the library."
The library of Dahui No. 2 Middle School in the game is just across the road from the second and third grade teaching buildings, and has a total of four floors.
It was strange that they were having classes in the library instead of in the teaching building.
Ling Changye asked: "What about the dormitories? They should also be staying there, right? We can go to their dormitories first."
"The dormitories were just assigned today, so I haven't found out yet." Yang Yi said, "Do you want to go to the library first?"
Starting from tomorrow, they will be busy. There is no class today, and the head teacher said they can arrange their time freely. This is a rare opportunity, so the four of them went there now.
Unfortunately, they were not allowed to go to the fourth floor. The librarian told them directly: "The fourth floor of the library is for senior high school students to study. They are studying now. Please do not disturb them. Just read and study on the first to third floors."
Yang Mei asked: "What should we do?"
Xia Bai glanced at the green outside the window and said, "Let's go to the back and take a look."
The four of them went around to the back of the library, where there were a few trees.
While the other three were still looking up, Xia Bai had already climbed up the tree skillfully.
“…”
The three of them then took the initiative to keep watch for him.
I don’t know if it’s because students often commit suicide, but the school has a lot of security guards and they patrol at all times. Not long after Xia Bai climbed up, a security guard came over here.
Ling Changye clenched his fist to his mouth and coughed softly.
Xia Bai immediately came down from the tree and walked towards the teaching building with them.
After the security guard left, Ling Changye went back and threw his surveillance prop out of the fourth-floor window.
Xia Bai: “…”
He was careless and forgot that Ling Changye had this prop. If he had known this, he would not have climbed the tree like that.
Climbing a tree isn't very appropriate after all, especially in front of your boyfriend.
When they arrived at the teaching building, Xia Bai first told them what he had discovered. "There were indeed more than a dozen students studying inside. Each of them was very serious about their studies, so I didn't see their faces. But I discovered something very strange."
Usually the strange places in the game are clues, and the three of them listened carefully.
Xia Bai: "I don't know if they are doing exercises or reading books. They are using electronic devices such as tablets and mobile phones instead of textbooks and test papers. There are not many books on the fourth floor."
This is a bit strange. A normal high school, especially a high school like Dahui No. 2 High School which values academic performance more than anything else, does not allow students to use mobile phones during class. Students still prefer paper books and test papers, not to mention that more than a dozen students are using mobile phones.
But if it is a very smart school, especially for repeaters, who don’t know how many paper books and test papers they have already gone through, it is acceptable to scan a large number of questions with a mobile phone.
The clues they have seen so far are so ambiguous, the boy's suicide and learning with electronic devices are both a bit strange, yet seem acceptable.
Ling Changye turned on his cell phone, which was connected to the surveillance device.
However, the props fell on the windowsill and the view was limited, so I could only see them concentrating on their studies.
Yang Yi said, "Otherwise, let Wen Yuxin come and take a look later."
Ling Changye: "Her eyes don't have the ability to see through things. When she wants to see distant things, it's like using a telescope. She has to go up high to see."
"Then..." Xia Bai said, "I teach her to climb trees?"
Ling Changye: "...You can try."
Xia Bai finally decided to use Medusa's skills to move Ling Changye's surveillance prop to face the students inside. If there was anything abnormal, they would be able to see it from Ling Changye's mobile phone.
Instead of returning to the dormitory, they went to the third floor of the library and sat in a position where they could see the stairs, waiting for people from the fourth floor to come down. Students on the fourth floor always have to eat and sleep, and now is mealtime.
More than half an hour passed before they finally saw someone coming down from the fourth floor.
First, I heard a strange sound, like a bell, and it was very harsh. Harshness does not mean it is loud, but it makes people feel very uncomfortable. I can't tell what's strange about it.
Then they heard some noise upstairs, someone was about to come down.
Ling Changye glanced at Yang Mei, who nodded and immediately walked to the stairs and bumped into the person who was about to go downstairs without much effort.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Yang Mei bowed her head and apologized, then looked up at the classmate, looked at him carefully, and asked, "Classmate, are you okay?"
The classmate didn't even look at him, walked around him and went downstairs.
Yang Mei wanted to stand at the stairs and continue watching, but the administrator suddenly shouted: "Students, it's time to close the museum now. Please come back tomorrow morning."
Xia Bai glanced at the time. It was just past half past six, which meant that the repeaters on the fourth floor only started eating dinner at half past six, while the school cafeteria seemed to open at five o'clock.
The repeaters' meal times are different from theirs, at least they are away from the peak hours.
After leaving the library, Yang Mei told them about his discovery, "First of all, he is a human, not a ghost."
The ghost detection expert said that it was a ghost, so if he said so, it was definitely not a ghost.
"Secondly, he looks a bit like a zombie," Yang Mei said.
Ling Changye: "What do you mean?"
Yang Mei: "You saw it, he didn't reply when I apologized to him. Not only did he not reply to me, but he was also very slow to respond, as if he didn't understand what I said. Also, he looked very tired. He looked like a walking corpse."
Xia Bai: "Is this what they call studying yourself to the point of being stupid?"
He felt deeply about this, and often when he was in a daze, some people would ask him if he had studied too much and become stupid, while others would simply call him a nerd.
However, he could not hear what others were saying only when he was in a daze. Most of the time, even when he was in a daze, he could still hear what others were saying.
It won't be such a slow reaction.
"A bit like that." Yang Mei frowned, "But also a bit unlike that."
Ling Changye said: "Follow them and see."
Only three people from the fourth floor came down to eat. They came one after the other and there was no communication at all.
They seemed to have blocked out everything from the outside world. They did not react to anyone passing by them on the road, even if someone spoke loudly.
They were indeed slow to react. When they were getting their meals, the cafeteria aunt called them and they took the food after a while.
Several people frowned, feeling very strange.
Dahui No. 2 Middle School is not just about having a high rate of admission to higher education, but more importantly, it has a high rate of admission to prestigious universities. Getting into a key university is the foundation here, and more students are admitted to top prestigious universities.
If a school like Dahui No. 2 Middle School accepts students who are repeating their studies, they must have very good grades but just did not perform well in the college entrance examination. They should be the seedlings that can enter the best universities.
They really couldn't tell from these three students how good their grades would be with their reaction speed.
Yang Mei was right, they did look a bit like zombies, the walking dead.
There are too few clues now, so they can’t figure it out so they let it go for now.
After finishing dinner in the cafeteria, they returned to the dormitory. Hua Haoming was waiting for them at the door of Xia Bai and Yang Mei’s dormitory 206.
Yang Mei told him what they found.
Hua Haoming told them what he had found out.
"This school is really weird." Hua Haoming said, "Can you imagine that at least half of the students in this school have been admitted to the top five universities? I heard from my classmates in the original world that every student in the senior year of the previous year was admitted to a prestigious university."
Yang Mei blinked, "Why is it the year before last?"
"This is just the beginning of the summer vacation, and the admissions for the previous class of senior high school students have not yet been completed," said Hua Haoming.
Yang Mei said "Oh" and glanced at Yang Yi casually. Yang Yi said, "It's really weird. I was originally going to a very famous provincial experimental school in high school. The source of students was very good, but it's impossible for all my classmates to go to famous schools."
Xia Bai: "In other words, what special methods did they use to improve students' grades?"
Ling Changye: "That may be the case."
Hua Haoming: "If so, this special method may be the key to the game."
Ling Changye: "We don't have any clues yet. It's useless to overthink. Take the test tomorrow and have a good rest tonight. Don't be too nervous."
Being too tense is definitely not helpful for exams.
Several people returned to their dormitories. The dormitory was a six-person room. In room 206, in addition to Xia Bai and Yang Mei, there were four other men, all of whom were players.
One is an old player, and there are three new players, all from prison.
At that time, Ling Changye's suggestion was to find death row prisoners, but Xia Bai didn't pay any attention to it afterwards. He didn't know whether these people sent by the External Relations Department were death row prisoners, but if it was based on the principle of voluntariness, people who had committed minor crimes and were sentenced to only a few years in prison would definitely not come to the game.
Therefore, these three people must have committed serious crimes, and it is basically no problem to say that they are death row prisoners.
At this moment, they were all sitting at their desks, gnashing their teeth while reading their textbooks, which was quite strange.
Unexpectedly, after Yang Mei came back, she also sat obediently at the desk and read the textbook.
Xia Bai, who had already climbed onto the bed, was too embarrassed to continue lying there. He leaned his head down and asked Yang Mei, "Were you always so hardworking?"
Yang Mei snorted in an ambiguous tone and turned another page. "Not like it?"
Xia Bai said "hmm", indeed he didn't look like that, he looked like a love-brained person with pink bubbles popping out of his eyes even during class.
"I'm not a pervert like you. If I want to get into a good university, I have to work harder." Yang Mei said with a pout.
Seeing this, Xia Bai asked a bold question, "Is it Yang Yi who supervises you?"
Yang Mei didn't say anything. Xia Bai thought he would not answer his question, so he took out a workbook and started looking at it for a while. Suddenly, he heard a very low "hmm".
Xia Bai thought that maybe Yang Mei and Yang Yi had a very good relationship in the past.
He even felt that Yang Mei, who was not a diligent person, studied so hard just to go to the same university as his brother Yang Yi, even though Yang Yi was about to graduate when he was admitted to that university.
And just now, when talking about Dahui No. 2 High School, a high school with an incredible admission rate, Yang Mei subconsciously looked at Yang Yi, and Yang Yi was talking about the provincial experimental school he was originally going to attend, which means that he didn't get to go to that good school in the end.
Xia Bai originally didn't want to meddle in other people's private affairs, but he thought of the time when he and Yang Mei were watching fireworks at the amusement park in Quanguang City and Yang Mei called him brother.
He turned over and asked again, "Why didn't he go to the Provincial Experimental Middle School that Yang Yi mentioned?"
"Because another crappy high school gave him a very high scholarship," Yang Mei said.
Xia Bai quickly asked: "Why do you want such a high scholarship? Are you short of money?"
After hearing the sound of flipping pages from below, Xia Bai finally heard Yang Mei's voice, very softly, "Because she needs to treat me."
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment. They really had a very good relationship at that time.
Even his unreliable grandfather knew that he had to choose a good high school for him, even though he had good grades.
High schools have a great influence on college entrance examination scores, especially schools with poor learning atmosphere, which have a serious impact on students who want to study.
Yang Mei said it was a rubbish school, probably a very bad private school.
In order to treat Yang Mei's illness, Yang Yi essentially put his own future at risk.
Xia Bai asked: "Are you sick? What's wrong?"
He didn't notice that Yang Mei had already climbed onto his bed, pounced on him, strangled him and said, "You're going too far. If you ask me again, I'll strangle you to death!"
Xia Bai: “…”
He was just about to say that this was all the strength you had when he suddenly heard a loud "bang".
A new player picked up a chair and smashed it against his iron bed, "This is so annoying! Are you going to let me study?"
Yang Mei was startled and immediately sat up angrily, "This is a dormitory, not a study room, and you won't let me talk?"
"I said you can't talk, so you can't talk!" said the strong new player as he walked closer, looking as if he was going to pull Yang Mei down.
The prison requires a shaved head, so he looks fierce and scary when he frowns.
"You are so fierce to me, why are you so fierce? No matter how fierce you are... I have a brother." Yang Mei pulled Xia Bai up, "He has a dead body, scare you to death!"
Xia Bai: “…”
With a blank expression on his face, he called out the four members of the Holy Travel Guild.
The dormitory was quiet for a second.
Yang Mei went downstairs and brought up the exam book, "Brother, come and help me with my tutoring."
Xia Bai took it expressionlessly, after all he was just a stand-in.
Dahui No. 2 Middle School starts morning reading class at 6:30 a.m. and lasts until 8 a.m. 8 to 9 a.m. is breakfast time.
The morning reading on this day was also occupied by a baseline test. They got up hurriedly before six o'clock to take the baseline test.
The placement test is held in your own classroom. There are three teachers invigilating in each classroom. One stands at the podium looking back, one stands at the back of the classroom looking forward, and another teacher walks back and forth between the seats. It is quite strict and it is difficult to hand in cheat sheets.
In Xia Bai's opinion, the difficulty of the exam is not that abnormal, but it should be difficult.
He saw Yang Mei scratching his head, not to mention the other prisoners.
On the other hand, the female student only took 40 minutes to finish the math test. After finishing, she sat there with her arms folded across her chest, looking at the podium. The three invigilators thought she had some problems, so they walked over to her and saw that she had finished the test paper. They all looked at her in surprise.
The exam lasted from morning until 9:30 in the evening. After the exam, almost all the players lay on the table and did not move.
Several curses were heard in the classroom.
The top female student stood up leisurely and left the classroom with ease.
Afterwards, Xia Bai also took the weak Yang Mei out of the classroom. At the entrance of the teaching building, they saw several people from the Game Management Bureau and several old players waiting for them.
Ling Changye asked Xia Bai: "How do you feel?"
Xia Bai said: "The test questions are quite difficult, but not outrageous. They can barely be considered normal high school simulation questions."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was met with several resentful looks.
But this is indeed the case. The questions are difficult, but not out of touch with reality. They are slightly simpler than the selection questions set by the Tourism Administration. More importantly, the number of questions and the time required to answer them are normal.
If the difficulty is of this level, even if the difficulty is increased by 50%, Xia Bai feels that those top students can pass the next five exams. Seeing that the top student in their class looked very disappointed when she just finished the exam, it might be that the exam was too easy to disappoint her.
"It's a little simpler than I expected, or more normal," said Ling Changye.
Hua Haoming said: "Maybe it's because this is a preliminary test, and the formal test will be difficult later."
Ling Changye said, "Hmm," and then he said, "Let's wait and see if the passing score is out."
The school's grading speed was very fast, and their results came out at noon the next day.
Xia Bai scored 702 points out of a total of 750 points.
The top student in their class scored 727 points. When Xia Bai saw this, he felt a toothache for the first time.
The head teacher didn't say anything about their class's results, but he said something particularly scary, "This is the final exam paper for the first-year students in our school before the summer vacation."
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