Chapter 71 Shugao Girls’ High School 31
It was very quiet, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop on the ground.
Xie Xiaoya felt herself in a trance, "Who do you say you are?"
She looked at her hands. Yesterday, she and Xu Li had hugged Mengru by the Moon River. Her fingertips seemed to still have the warmth of her body. The bodies of ghosts were cold and penetrable, but "Fu Mengru" could fight alongside them. The warmth coming from her shoulders was so warm.
How could he be such a warm person and be a murderous evil ghost?
"Evil spirits are always deceiving people."
Ji Hongcha said without any emotion: "I can make you treat me as a real friend by using some poor interpersonal skills. You really don't understand your friends at all. Human emotions are really cheap and disgusting."
She glanced at the ground with great regret and said, "I hadn't thought of showing up so early..." If Fu Mengru hadn't shown up on her own, she might have continued to play out this "auld friendship" drama for a long time.
"To be honest, I am very comfortable using this skin." She pointed at her cold cheek absentmindedly, and said that her original warm skin was the best.
"This character called Fu Mengru has a personality very similar to mine. I have played many characters before, but they would be recognized after a few days, so I had to kill them all."
"After looking around, this is still the best. What a pity..."
Xu Li couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted her neurotic chattering: "When did it start? You lied to us, when did it start?"
Ji Hongcha laughed, "Do you know that starting later will make your pitiful self-esteem feel a little better? Then let me tell you, at least when you were being nice to me like an idiot and obeying my orders like a puppy, you didn't recognize that I was the evil ghost you came all the way to find!"
"You still want to capture me alive? How shameless! When you were making those idiotic plans, I was listening right beside you. And you had to hold back your laughter while listening, hahahaha! So stupid! And you even come to ask me, Mengru, what do you think? Hahahaha! Idiot!"
Ji Hongcha was afraid that her laughter was not harsh enough, so she laughed louder and louder.
When had Xu Li ever been insulted like this? In a flash, his shadow was close to her head, and the light of the talisman emitted by his palms completely enveloped her. However, Ji Hongcha did not seem to think of dodging. She raised her head and smiled slightly through the sparkling light.
Xu Li suddenly felt something was wrong. She couldn't believe it as a face twisted and changed, and stopped at the facial features of "Fu Mengru". Her "companion" frowned and said in a familiar tone: "Xu Li, are you going to attack me?"
Xu Li: "I... I..." She paused for less than a second before she was blown away. She rolled on the ground for more than ten times before stopping. She raised her body and spurted out a mouthful of blood.
Xie Xiaoya: "Xu Li——!!!"
She turned around angrily and glared at "Fu Mengru": "You attacked my partner and used such a shady trick... I will never forgive you!"
"Do I need your mercy?"
Ji Hongcha rushed forward instead of retreating, her sleeves fluttering in the wind as she rushed in front of her. She repeated her old trick a second before Xie Xiaoya made her move, this time, she changed her face to Xu Li's. Xie Xiaoya was stunned for a second, and was also knocked away, like a leaf falling off a string, and fell beside Xu Li.
Ji Hongcha said: "This kind of shady trick is too useful to deal with you."
"Xu Li..."
Xie Xiaoya lay on the ground with her back exposed to the sky.
A gaze was attached to her back, cold and full of resentment. It was like sticking a tongue to an icy iron pipe on the coldest night of winter, tearing the skin off her back. She couldn't help but tremble and wanted to turn over.
"Click, click, click." The footsteps approached steadily.
The evil ghost behind her seemed to be slowly disintegrating her mental armor. The hateful thing was that she actually did it. Now her hands were weak and she couldn't help shaking. It was the instinctive fear of death.
"Xu Li..."
Xie Xiaoya couldn't help but reach out to touch her friend, but the next second she was grabbed by the hair and pulled up. Xu Li's face flashed in front of her for only a moment, and she saw the open space in front of her in the severe pain of her scalp being torn. After only a second, her face was smashed to the ground.
"Long——!"
"Long——!"
Xie Xiaoya's head and face were smashed into a bloody mess. Xu Li wailed, but because of his injured throat he could only make unclear sounds: "... Um... What's wrong with you..."
"Long——!"
This time Ji Hongcha did not pull her hair again. Xie Xiaoya raised her head, her eyes were covered with blood, and she saw that Xu Li was in pieces.
She pulled up the corners of her mouth and smiled, but found that it hurt more. "Don't cry. Don't cry in front of such a person. Xu Li."
"What kind of person?" Ji Hongcha's voice came from behind, "Are you talking about me?"
Xie Xiaoya couldn't answer, she had fainted.
"Dead?"
Ji Hongcha picked her up and took a look at her, like looking at a useless doll, and then threw her aside lightly: "You are a bug who overestimates your own capabilities. Bugs should have the awareness of bugs. Isn't it good to stay in your beautiful garden-like academy home? Why do you have to come to me to be annoying?"
She fearlessly met Xu Li's hateful gaze and said calmly, "It's your turn next. I will control my strength a little so that you can meet your good sisters soon."
After grabbing Xu Li's head, Ji Hongcha saw her lips moving and hummed, "Oh, you want to thank me in person--"
A mouthful of spit mixed with blood was spat on her face. Ji Hongcha wiped it off expressionlessly.
After spitting out the blood in his throat, he spoke more clearly. Xu Li said hatefully: "Don't you have a heart? Don't you have any heart at all?!"
Ji Hongcha looked down at her and said, "I hate people spitting on me."
Her beautiful face became ferocious, and she pulled Xu Li's hair. The latter felt in great pain that this was her original strength - she had restrained herself when dealing with Xie Xiaoya just now. And he was about to die completely under her full-strength attack.
She was completely hidden in the shadow of Ji Hongcha, and her life was slipping away bit by bit.
But this indestructible shadow was blocked by a soft hand. Xu Li stared with wide eyes, looking at Jiang Yuelu who had crawled over at some point and stood in front of him in a ridiculous way.
"Jiang Yuelu..."
Aren’t all the bones in your body broken?
"Want to come and rescue people again?"
Ji Hongcha sneered: "What a great teacher. Saving a class is not enough, saving a school is not enough, now he is saving his own team members."
Jiang Yuelu laughed miserably, with a bit of madness in her voice, "You also said it, saving one is saving, saving two is also saving, why not save them all..."
Ji Hongcha stared at him for a long time, and suddenly threw Xu Li aside. The latter stubbornly supported himself on the ground for a while, wanting to help Jiang Yuelu, or call Leng Wenhan over. But the noise she made made Ji Hongcha quite impatient, and he turned around and whipped her a few times, causing her to faint completely.
"Okay." Ji Hongcha walked towards him slowly, "The annoying noise is finally gone. Now we can discuss some things quietly."
"Discuss?" Jiang Yuelu smiled while panting.
Ji Hongcha was standing, and he was lying crookedly. Ji Hongcha's clothes were not damaged, but he was covered in blood. Ji Hongcha was in high spirits, and because he had just started to kill, he was still in an excited and active state. But he was already out of breath and would soon die.
He was really curious about what Ji Hongcha wanted to discuss with him.
She casually found a clean stone to sit on, and looked at her ten fingers, admiring the sky for a while, and then carefully polishing her long black nails. Jiang Yuelu knew that she was torturing herself on purpose.
After a while, he heard Ji Hongcha ask: "You and Xia..."
Her expression changed subtly, as if she didn't dare to say the name directly.
"What is the relationship between you and that adult who even ghosts come to visit?"
Jiang Yuelu felt dizzy: "..."
This question again!
It's fine that a girl's high school student is so persistent, but why do you, the mayor of a ghost city, come to ask me? Is there no way around it?
But he thought again, Ji Hongcha used a honorific title instead of calling him by his name, and it seemed that he was quite afraid of Xia Yi. Maybe bringing up his name would change the current situation...
“Don’t ignore me!” Ji Hongcha waited for a long time, but didn’t hear him speak. Her deep red eyes showed a strong hostility: “Answer my question!”
Jiang Yuelu smiled bitterly: "I didn't ignore you."
"I'm in so much pain, I might die soon. Please be patient and gentle with me. This way I can live longer and answer your questions."
"You deserve it." Ji Hongcha looked at him like he was trash, frowned and said, "Why are you being pitiful? Just hold in the pain and die. It's because you are such a waste that you have ended up like this. I really don't know what he was thinking... Why would he favor a waste."
Hearing her incomprehensible complaints, Jiang Yuelu would have burst into laughter if she hadn't felt uncomfortable.
"Xia Yi and I have a normal friendship, please don't make it sound weird..."
"You're just talking nonsense!" Ji Hongcha cursed, "I've been following him for so many years, but I've never touched the Ghost Seal. But he gave it to you without even thinking about it! And that bead, the lords offer him so many good things every year, but he treats an ugly bead as a treasure and doesn't allow anyone to touch it.
"Last time I secretly opened it out of curiosity, and before I could touch it...he put me in solitary confinement for two months!" Ji Hongcha almost cried when she thought of this.
He turned around and glared at Jiang Yuelu with even more hatred: "But he gave all the beads to you!"
"Now what are you saying...you two are normal friends. Would I believe it?"
Ji Hongcha became more and more angry as she spoke. She stepped on the high stone with one foot, not caring at all that her skirt was flying and showing off her beauty. This unscrupulous posture was exactly the same as someone else's. Jiang Yuelu could only turn her head away, not looking sideways, and cursed Xia Yi in her heart, saying that he simply didn't know how to discipline his children!
"Hey, say something!"
Ji Hongcha's jumping up and down look was no different from that of a willful young lady. It showed how good her life was before. She must have gotten whatever she wanted without being bullied and was doted on by others until now.
Jiang Yuelu felt herself getting colder and colder, and said weakly: "Please fart quickly, I'm dying."
Ji Hongcha stared at him. "Oh. You are going to die. Who told you to be a hero? Do you have any unfulfilled wishes? Tell me and I will cheer you up."
Of course, she would not be so kind as to help Jiang Yuelu realize his wish. She just wanted to make him talk more and not faint, otherwise she would be the only one left in this silent ruin.
Jiang Yuelu started to cough, the light in her pupils spreading, "Wish..."
"I want to spend Christmas with them again."
Ji Hongcha: "They? Who are they?"
Jiang Yuelu leaned his head to the side and stopped talking.
Ji Hongcha said to himself, "Is he dead? He hasn't told me yet."
She was really curious, wondering what unfulfilled wish the person favored by the master had. So she moved closer. To be honest, this was her first time observing Jiang Yuelu up close, and with preconceived notions, this observation was rigorous and picky from the beginning.
Perhaps because the previous system was replaced, and he was now extremely weak, he could not maintain his female disguise. His long hair was gone, replaced by short hair, not very well cut, but very smooth in texture.
At this moment, he was leaning crookedly against the broken stairs, frowning slightly, and seemed to be very uncomfortable. When his tightly closed eyes opened, they would be full of vitality and color like a deer, but they refused to show themselves to himself and only bloomed for that adult, so Ji Hongcha only saw a pair of eyelashes casting a shadow under his eyes.
She placed her palm lightly on Jiang Yuelu's forehead, and warm scenes slowly unfolded before her.
In a small and comfortable bedroom, Jiang Yuelu sat cross-legged. Compared with the current him, he was more immature in the past. There were two boys on each side, and a little girl hanging on his back.
Jiang Yuelu was teaching them how to play games. He looked relaxed and content.
Is he someone who can be satisfied so easily?
Ji Hongcha always thought that he was cunning, calculating, and clever. So... were those for outsiders to see?
She looked at him for a long while, then slowly gritted her teeth and said, “You’ve had a pretty good life these past few years.”
"You found a suitable family easily, and your non-blood-related brothers and sisters also love you. Everything went smoothly after you entered school. You got high scores thanks to your photographic memory, and won the favor of those old men, and the respect and trust of others. Humph, you deserve it. You got burned to death because you had it too easy. They deserve it, and you deserve it!"
"Why? Why can you easily obtain something that some people try their best and even sacrifice their lives to obtain?"
"The most hateful thing is!" Ji Hongcha gritted her teeth and said, "You didn't even cherish the life script you got so easily."
Jiang Yuelu hadn't said anything, which made her a little anxious. She walked back and forth in the ruins, which was so quiet that it almost drove her crazy. Suddenly, she seemed to think of something and smiled meaningfully: "You really want to save people, right?"
"So far, everyone you promised to save has been rescued."
The first time he answered the question, he protected the students in his class, and he did it.
He also succeeded in saving all the students of the girls' high school the second time after the priest tampered with the answers.
"This time, just try to save them."
"This way, you can also see what happened ten years ago and see it with your own eyes instead of listening to other people's words."
"That priest made up a lot of things, but he was right about one thing. The moon power that the tree people possess was given by the tree god. Each of us has an innate tree of life. So we can open the door between yin and yang without sacrificing our lives. We only need to call out softly, and the door will open in response."
Ji Hongcha smiled and said, "It's a pity that the priest died, otherwise I would really like to see his expression at this moment. The end of his all-out effort is within my reach with just a slight raise of my hand."
As soon as she finished speaking, she raised her hands, closed her eyes and prayed in the void. Dark cracks grew longer and longer under her hands, expanding infinitely as if something was coming out of it. Soon, it covered an area of 100 miles in radius and swallowed up the Moon River and the Snow Forest.
From a distance, it looked like a huge gray disc suspended in the air, filled with cries and sticky water. The next second, Ji Hongcha knocked the rotating gray vortex to the ground, and an ethereal bird song was heard, as if knocking on the door from afar.
The door opened.
The boundary between yin and yang is broken.
At the moment when everyone was either dead or unconscious, the tree-man girls' high school in the dark opened its doors to welcome its past and present students.
Ji Hongcha's voice rang out in the air: "You have saved countless people. Can you save them as promised this time? Candidate Jiang Yuelu, this is the third test question I have tampered with for you--"
"Let all the students of this Shuren Girls' High School from ten years ago survive."
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Jiang Yuelu moved his fingers.
The pain in his body disappeared. He tried to lift his hands, then his legs, but there was no pain as expected. Before he passed out, his limbs were all in pain. But now, he seemed to have a brand new healthy body.
Are you dreaming?
Jiang Yuelu slowly opened his eyes. Silent white snow was falling from the sky. The winter here seemed even colder than the original snow forest. A window separated him from the cruel cold world. The room he was in was very warm.
"Teacher. Teacher."
Someone kept calling out.
Jiang Yuelu subconsciously turned her head and saw a face with its facial features worn off. Because it had no facial features or hair, she couldn't tell whether it was a boy or a girl. It stood in front of her, without any vocal organs, but the sound was accurately transmitted to her ears.
"Teacher, the physical examination of Class 3 will begin soon. You need to go and comfort the students."
3rd shift? Physical examination?
Familiar classes and unfamiliar tasks jumped into his mind at the same time. Jiang Yuelu nodded and walked out of the warm room. As soon as he entered the corridor, the cold air hit him in the face. He was surprised to find that his current body could withstand the biting cold north wind.
what happened?
He remembered that before he passed out, a series of answer hints popped up, so he clicked on them again to check.
The top few items were [Countdown to the second test time], [Warning of failure in the second test], and [Notification of the end of the second test]. It seemed that he had passed the test given by the priest.
Swipe down and you will see two notifications about [Additional questions open] and [Third time to answer questions open].
Jiang Yuelu was a little confused. The third time to answer the question? An additional question?
A lot seemed to have happened while he was unconscious.
The attached information of the two notices was very brief. The description of the additional question was: [Please explain in detail the ins and outs of the birth of Shu Ren Girls' High School], and the description of the third question was: [Please rescue all the students of Yin Zhi Shu Ren Girls' High School]. After seeing these two pieces of information, Jiang Yuelu finally understood.
It seems that another tree-man girls' high school that disappeared in the netherworld has opened its doors, and I have transferred here to become a teacher of Class 3. However, this Class 3 is not the same as the previous Class 3, and the students here are not the same as before. Could it be that the children studying in this girls' high school are children of the tree-man tribe? Their teaching methods seem to be very different, and physical examinations are also something that was not available before.
Thinking of this, he came to the door of Class 3.
Before entering, he first looked in the mirror against the reflective glass to see if he was the same "faceless man" he had met in the office before. In fact, he had met many "faceless men" on his way through the corridor. There was nothing unusual about their movements and conversations, and only their faces firmly attracted people's attention.
The figure reflected in the glass was a young man with ordinary facial features, who looked nothing like him before. Most importantly, he was a man.
This girls' high school does not seem to have a tradition of hiring female teachers.
With this in mind, Jiang Yuelu walked into the classroom. The students sat in their seats, quietly waiting for the next arrangement. He glanced around and immediately found something wrong.
Among these students, there are both boys and girls, and boys account for a large proportion. In this case, why is it called a girls' high school?
But before he thought about that, he had to find something else to say, because they were all looking at him eagerly.
Jiang Yuelu said, "It's just a routine check. Just relax and don't worry too much. If the sky falls, there are teachers."
The girl in the front row couldn't help laughing: "Teacher, you are so strange today. Why are you so polite to us?"
Jiang Yuelu: "Maybe it's because I had a nightmare during my nap."
"What nightmare?"
"It's a——" Jiang Yuelu stopped talking abruptly.
"Report." The girl who suddenly appeared at the door spoke carefully. It was hard for him to forget this face, because just half an hour ago, she was hitting Xie Xiaoya's head with a ferocious look on her face.
But now, she was asking herself in an anxious tone, fearing being scolded: "Teacher, can I come in? I didn't mean to be late."
"Ji Hongcha?"
"……Yes."
Jiang Yuelu: "Why are you late? There must be a reason." His tone was cold. If possible, he actually wanted to let her get out without asking any questions, but the answering rules did not allow him to take revenge.
Ji Hongcha blushed: "Because I...slipped, teacher."
"No!" Another person appeared behind her, shouting. Jiang Yuelu was also familiar with this face. He and she had met briefly in Iron Town. His name was Qin Xue. At this moment, he was shouting loudly: "Teacher, she is lying. She didn't slip. She is not feeling well - ah! Why did you hit me again..."
"Because you're annoying! It's not like I don't have a mouth, why should I ask you to speak for me?"
"Ugh...I'm sorry."
Looking at the girl standing at the door with her hands on her hips asking for an explanation, and the boy with his head bowed and a sad face, Jiang Yuelu's previous doubts all disappeared - yes, this is her and him, this is Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue.
They both reappeared.
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