Linji No.3 Middle School 5
"Ji Yunding?"
Lin Shu was stunned for a moment, then put down the strange weapon in his hand, stabbed him again, and looked at the person who suddenly appeared in the mirror. His first reaction was to take a step forward, but after reacting, he immediately retreated and kept a distance cautiously.
"What's the smell over there, Sister Qianqiu?"
"I only connected my vision and hearing. Oh, Sister Lin Shu, I just disconnected my hearing."
Ji Yunding answered honestly, then pointed behind him.
"Then, I seem to have gotten into some trouble, and now there's no turning back."
Lin Shu stared at the swollen, rotten corpse hanging in the air behind Ji Yunding, frowned, and tried to activate his ability.
Ineffectiveness is something where intelligence has almost disappeared.
Lin Shu stared at the thing for a while and felt a little nervous out of instinct.
"…Newcomer, how did you get into trouble with this thing?"
Ji Yunding thought about it and told Lin Shu the whole story, only hiding the reason why he hurried out at the end.
Lin Shu thought for a moment, took Ji Yunding's hand, and led her out: "Let's go find Sister Qianqiu."
"Sister Lin, what on earth is this?"
"I don't know, I just feel bad."
As he walked out, Lin Shu turned his head and looked at the thing. He felt an irresistible nausea and vomiting.
"Theoretically, if I kill this thing on the ground, it should disappear. This is not a derivative weirdness, nor is it a weirdness..."
Even if a monster loses its mind, it will definitely retain its core desires and at least be able to interact to a certain extent.
In other words, the failure of Lin Shu’s ability means that this thing is definitely not weird.
Ji Yunding tilted his head and asked, "Something like a ghost?"
"There are no ghosts in the world. You've watched too many movies. If the monsters were like those in your civilized world..." Lin Shu stopped talking halfway.
If this thing isn't weird, then what is it?
"Don't be afraid, newbie. There will definitely be a way."
Lin Shu's voice was trembling - this was not anything she had known since childhood.
What to do…
"Sister Lin Shu, I'm not afraid. You are the one who is a little calmer." Ji Yunding was a little helpless and held Lin Shu's wrist with his backhand.
The greatest fear comes from the unknown - drunkards, criminals, and even people with suspicious behavior... People instinctively fear the unpredictable.
Experienced investigators are more familiar with the weird, so it is easier for them to stay calm when facing the weird. This does not mean that they will not feel scared, but they are used to the weird.
Just like people are more afraid of the corpse of a stranger, but most of them will not feel afraid of the corpse of someone close to them, especially their closest relatives.
But for Ji Yunding, who had never been exposed to anything weird before, she actually didn’t feel there was any difference.
Whether it's humans, monsters, or ghosts, they are just different problems that need to be solved, that's all.
On the way to Wei Qianqiu, Lin Shu looked back from time to time at the rotten corpse hanging in the air not too far behind him, with cockroaches or maggots falling out of it from time to time.
"New guy, it's gone."
Ji Yunding remained silent - the voice came from behind, and Lin Shu was walking beside her at the moment. Hearing this voice, Lin Shu cursed in a low voice and pulled Ji Yunding to speed up his pace.
Is this what it means to be careful in your future life?
"Sister Qianqiu!" Lin Shu didn't feel relieved until he saw Wei Qianqiu. He hurriedly pulled Ji Yunding over.
After listening to their story, Wei Qianqiu frowned, casually broke off a long willow branch, walked closer, and stood facing the rotten corpse.
Almost in an instant, Ji Yunding heard a crackling sound similar to a steel whip tearing through the air, a popping sound like pus oozing out like exploding liquid, and a rustling sound of a bunch of insects squeezing and crawling on each other after falling down.
"no."
Wei Qianqiu watched the corpse in front of him slowly recover and shook his head.
"Wait me a moment."
After saying that, Wei Qianqiu took a few steps back, found a place with a wide view, looked up at the sky, and stared at the starry sky that looked like a chessboard.
Today is a cloudless day with clear skies. If you ignore the surroundings, it's a great time for a picnic.
About seven or eight minutes later, Wei Qianqiu said, "It is something that is the opposite of a 'zombie'. You can only see it here."
Zombies - as the name suggests, living corpses. When a person's mind is gone, but the body is still driven by excessive positive energy, wandering zombie-like creatures will appear.
But unlike the stereotypical zombies, because positive energy attracts each other, to humans, these zombies created by positive energy are extremely beautiful, but to monsters, they are disgusting existences that they avoid at first sight.
Places where zombies appear are filled with excess positive energy, and most of them are the immortal caves described in ancient texts. Short-term residence there is beneficial for various diseases.
But everything is excessive or insufficient - staying in such a place for a long time is similar to being in a sterile environment, which will cause physiological dysfunction in people. After returning to the normal environment, they will soon bleed all over the body and die suddenly.
"Now these places have been nationalized and have become one of the means of supplementary treatment in national hospitals. Investigators have priority access."
After Wei Qianqiu finished explaining, he pointed at the thing behind Ji Yunding.
"They were probably created under the opposite environmental conditions to zombies. So due to the mutual repulsion of the two polar energies, it would be particularly uncomfortable for humans to see them."
In fact, it is not as simple as feeling "particularly uncomfortable" subjectively. It probably brings about an objective physiological discomfort, which constantly destroys people's mind.
Judging from Wei Qianqiu's expression, she also felt some instinctive discomfort.
Ji Yunding actually thought it was okay, but he nodded anyway.
According to Wei Qianqiu, after the mission is over, it should be fine to take them to those places where positive energy gathers to flush them. However, Ji Yunding now has a rather strange concern.
"What should we call it in contrast to 'Zombies'?" Ji Yunding scratched his head, looking somewhat troubled. "Call it 'Dead Man'? That's weird."
The topic was instantly diverted. After a few people discussed this topic for three minutes, the mental pollution was inexplicably resolved by the strange question.
"Do you want to quit now?" Wei Qianqiu changed the subject and looked at Ji Yunding, "There is still some time. We will send you out."
"No need, I feel fine." Ji Yunding shook his head, "Just don't look back and don't answer."
It was just dawn, about 3:30. There was not enough time to cause trouble for the ghost story. They headed to the front of the teaching building, preparing to rest for a while before going to class.
We passed a farmland on the way and there was a sign at the entrance.
【Agricultural students’ experimental field, anyone who tramples will die.】
…It doesn’t seem like a weird standing upright rule card.
"Isn't this a middle school?" Ji Yunding couldn't help but feel a little confused.
"It's a middle school, but a weird one. According to the information, this was originally a university in the real world." Ji Changsheng glanced at the farmland and explained, "They are weird and have their own education system, but the specific operating mechanism is not clear yet."
In the farmland, there was a baby's head locked in a square glass container. Next to it was a grown, cubic head of an adult, looking towards Ji Yunding, and its weak eyelids barely blinked.
This reminded Ji Yunding of the biology class in high school, where the teacher specifically emphasized that the genes and chromosomes of square watermelons are no different from those of normal watermelons, but their growth is restricted by the square container during the growth process, which does not fall into the category of chromosome mutation.
This question is multiple-choice.
Ji Yunding felt this string of information coming to his mind instinctively, however, the few people around him who had not received compulsory education obviously did not have this feeling. They just discussed taking note of this and coming to take a look when they had time.
“Humans will grow into what kind of container they are in.” Ji Yunding seemed to understand a little more about why this world was so strange.
People are born different, and it is impossible for them to fully understand each other. Maybe the world is equally strange to everyone, but most people are just pretending to be normal.
After taking turns closing their eyes for a while beside the teaching building, Wei Qianqiu first sent Ji Yunding to the bottom of Teaching Building No. 3. He glanced at the rotten corpse following Ji Yunding with some concern, and then turned around and returned to Teaching Building No. 2 with Lin Shu.
"Ji Yunding."
Wei Qianqiu's voice sounded behind Ji Yunding, but Ji Yunding ignored the voice and walked into the teaching building.
The trouble is, this thing actually has the ability to learn. But for now, it can't cause too much interference to Ji Yunding.
The rules of Teaching Building No. 3 are no different from those of Teaching Building No. 1, but Ji Yunding still took out his mobile phone and took a photo to record it.
"There should be four daily classes here today. Sister Lin Shu and I managed to complete one last night. Sister Qianqiu and Senior also completed one... We are still short of the target of 14 to 18..."
Ji Yunding muttered to himself and calculated, then yawned - he had just slept for about an hour. If he couldn't sleep this afternoon, he would have to sleep at night.
I hope that this place and the cafeteria can be finished in time, and then everyone can rush back to Room 1101 to rest and complete the task early.
The longer you stay in the ghost story, the greater the physical and mental strain. Generally, the duration of such missions should be controlled within five days. Any longer will be a great burden both physically and mentally.
I heard from Sister Lin Shu that she only spent half a month in the fixed ghost story before she reached the target, and she felt exhausted as if she was dead when she came back.
However, at this pace, as long as the other group can complete their daily lessons normally in the remaining four days and don't have too many deaths, it shouldn't be difficult unless there are any unexpected events.
It was about half past six, and there was still half an hour before class started. Ji Yunding stood at the door and heard a familiar voice humming a song.
It was the voice of a little girl, about eight or nine years old. Her pronunciation was clear, but a bit childish could be heard.
"Xiaoxing?"
Ji Yunding pushed the door open and frowned when he looked at the little girl with a terminal illness whom he had seen in Anle Tomb before.
Has she become weird?
"How do you know my name? You look so familiar, have we met somewhere?"
Xiaoxing turned his head, stared at Ji Yunding and thought hard for a while, then suddenly laughed happily.
"Oh, I remember you. When we last met, I was in pain all over. Doctor Chen said you helped him and helped him cut Xiaoxing's bad flesh out of his stomach."
Children of this age don’t remember people very well, so it’s good enough that they can remember them.
"The seniors in Group 1 are all child laborers. How come the alternate dimension also uses child laborers..." Ji Yunding frowned, squatted down and looked at the little girl in front of him, "Will Anle Tomb provide compulsory education?"
Xiaoxing tilted his head, a little confused: "What is 'compulsory education'?"
"It seems like no, you should study English well." Ji Yunding said a few irrelevant words, and then asked, "Xiaoxing, what are you doing here?"
However, children have difficulty concentrating and do not always answer other people's questions properly. Instead, they are more focused on things that concern them.
When a person is born, the self is everything in the world. The younger the child is, the more he or she uses himself or herself as the standard to unify the measurement of the whole world. In the process of growing up, with the emergence of the concept of "others", the "self" gradually weakens.
It is true that human beings are the sum of social relations, and they cannot be human beings without others. However, it would also be a terrible thing if one's nature was erased as a result.
"Sister, you seem to be dying." Xiaoxing walked to Ji Yunding and pointed at her neck. "Here, there is a circle of red string. The guy behind you wants to hang you. This should be very painful. It's not good."
"I won't die." Ji Yunding shook his head and denied it seriously.
"Hey, why? After you die, you won't feel any pain anywhere."
Xiao Xing jumped and danced around Ji Yunding, seemingly full of energy. There was no trace of the man who had been lying on the hospital bed before.
"Or does sister still not understand the eternal tranquility?"
Having said this, Xiaoxing's movements slowed down again, and when he looked at Ji Yunding, an undisguised, chillingly naive sympathy appeared on his little face.
The school bell rang with a changed tone, and Ji Yunding heard a "bang" sound behind him, as if the door closed by itself.
It's seven o'clock.
"Just like Xiaoxing's parents don't understand us... But it doesn't matter, Xiaoxing will teach you."
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