Chapter 46 Grave Numbers Above All 8 Sixth Middle School
Although it was called a reward, both the homeroom teacher and the surrounding classmates showed malicious smiles, without feeling any envy or jealousy that Wu Wangwang could attend physical education class.
It seems there's something wrong with the rewards each student received, which is also why the judges chose their identities.
Wu Wangwang did not refuse. She asked which class she could attend for PE. There were three classes in the afternoon. The homeroom teacher said that the reward class was usually held in the last class, which was the class before school ended. Wu Wangwang did not have to sit in the classroom, but went downstairs to find the PE teacher.
Just in case, Wu Wangwang asked one more question: "What if we can't find a PE teacher? What if he gets sick?"
The homeroom teacher replied happily, "Then that counts as skipping class. Skipping class will result in points being deducted."
Points deductions are a minor matter; Wu Wangwang remembers that the consequences of skipping class are severe. The student handbook states that too many absences will result in a demerit, and once a demerit is recorded, one will suffer severe punishment, though the specifics are not written down.
The first two classes proceeded normally; the teacher explained the test content and assigned homework.
By the third period, the whole class watched Wu Wangwang leave, as if they were seeing someone off on a path to death.
After leaving the house, Wu Wangwang ran into Ling Yuanshan, who was also coming out. Wu Wangwang greeted him, "You were also rewarded for your excellent grades?"
Ling Yuanshan paused in surprise, then nodded helplessly: "Yeah, I managed to get around 90 points, but I still scored higher than the NPC. They said the reward would be a performance at the opera house. What kind of reward is that? I thought I could go see it. By the way, what about you?"
"They rewarded me with a PE class, but everyone seemed so happy. They even said that if I couldn't find the PE teacher, it would be considered skipping class, and skipping class would result in a demerit." Wu Wangwang was a little worried.
"It seems the performance I'm going to participate in isn't an ordinary one; it's designed to kill us." Ling Yuanshan couldn't help but feel that the person who got them into this situation was very malicious.
It's understandable to want a stand-in, but you can't just find an innocent person and use a prop with such a high mortality rate, can you?
The school's schedule was too packed, so they had no time to chat. They had to separate after traveling together for a while. Ling Yuanshan went to the art building, while Wu Wangwang searched the entire campus for a physical education teacher.
But after searching the entire school, she even used her perception abilities to look through the administration building and discovered that the school had no physical education teachers. The office of the physical education group in the administration building was covered with a thick layer of dust, indicating that no teacher had been there for a long time.
Wu Wangwang walked towards the sports equipment room with some disappointment, but halfway there she realized something was wrong—if this school didn't have a physical education teacher, who would take care of the training of the sports students?
Without a physical education teacher, relying solely on the assigned physical education students to train on their own will eventually ruin them. The teacher provides guidance and also sets a safety standard to prevent accidents.
It's impossible to completely lack physical education teachers. Since the new campus, which is like a coffin, doesn't have them, then let's go to the old campus!
Wu Wangwang rushed towards the old campus. The school bell had already rung, and she had to report to the PE teacher before the end of get out of class, otherwise she would be marked absent from her last class.
The old campus is not smaller than the new campus, but many parts are old, and the map is semi-circular. Standing in the center, you can see the entire campus.
She ran towards the administration building marked on the map. In the deserted campus, only the sound of Wu Wangwang running could be heard. She ran to the administration building to find the physical education group. Sure enough, she saw an office that had been used and a male teacher who looked quite old.
When the male teacher saw someone approaching, he said directly, "Give me your student ID number; you're skipping class."
Wu Wangwang was taken aback: "Why? I came to ask the PE teacher for a lesson. My homeroom teacher said I did well on the test and rewarded me with a PE class."
“All courses have now been moved to the new campus. The old campus is only used for temporary replacements or when teachers apply for it. If you come here during class time instead of at the new campus, it will obviously be considered an absence,” the male teacher said matter-of-factly, and quickly stamped the absence stamp on his badge.
It was already irreversible, and Wu Wangwang wanted to at least die knowing why: "But I couldn't find a PE teacher at the new campus, and there was no one to teach PE classes. The PE department's office over there was covered in dust."
The male teacher took a sip of tea and smiled: "Who said that? Students can't lie. The school has always scheduled physical education classes and has physical education teachers. If you don't believe me, go back and check now."
Wu Wangwang knew that there was no point in saying anything more at this point, so she quickly ran back. When she re-entered the new campus, she suddenly heard a lot more noise from the school. She went around the building and came to the edge of the playground, where there were many more students in class, and the physical education teacher had also appeared.
There's no point in reporting it now. Wu Wangwang went directly to the administration building. The administration building is open during the day, but it's easy for teachers to catch you skipping class, so Wu Wangwang carefully avoided people and went to the sports department.
Unlike the dark, dusty, and cobweb-filled office just now, the office now has teachers, normal sports equipment, and bookshelves filled with files and archives, making it look like a frequently used office.
Everything was normal except for the first time I came to see it.
No wonder they set a rule that you can't be considered absent if you find the PE teacher. Logically, if you can't find anyone at the new campus, you'll definitely think they're training at the old campus, so all the PE teachers are there. Once you go to the old campus, being absent is a sure thing.
This is the first time Wu Wangwang has been tricked like this by a dungeon. So this is what it feels like when the difficulty increases. The previous dungeons were too lenient.
Since she had already been tricked, before the teacher came to arrest her, Wu Wangwang went to the art building. When she got to the music floor, she found the opera house and discovered that someone was performing there that day.
The actors on stage made startling sounds, making it hard to believe that the vibrations were even human vocal cords, singing strange but not unpleasant tunes.
Wu Wangwang looked around but couldn't find Ling Yuanshan. After thinking for a moment, she went to check the changing room.
A group of people were changing clothes and putting on makeup in the dressing room. They noticed Wu Wang looking over, so someone with a full stage makeup came over and said, "Backstage area, no unauthorized personnel allowed."
"I'm looking for a classmate named Gao Hu. His homeroom teacher asked me to tell him to go back to class," Wu Wangwang casually lied.
"Gao Hu?" the person in front of him repeated in a mocking tone, "Hey, someone said they're looking for Gao Hu and want him to go back to class!"
Then the entire locker room erupted in that uncomfortable, bullying laughter.
After they finished laughing, he said, "Gao Hu isn't here. He's always been aloof and arrogant, and he's not on our side. Why would he come to perform with us? Go look for him elsewhere and don't bother us."
Then, with a bang, he slammed the locker room door shut, refusing to let Wu Wangwang in.
Wu Wangwang seemed to be deep in thought, feeling that their words provided a very useful piece of information: Gao Hu was arrogant and aloof, which was why he was bullied.
However, this is only the bully's side of the story; the specifics need to be determined by combining information from Gao Hu himself.
There was indeed no trace of Ling Yuanshan in the changing room, so Wu Wangwang had no choice but to leave. She planned to look for him elsewhere, but on her way to the elevator, she encountered Ling Yuanshan carrying a box.
The two bumped into each other in the corridor. Wu Wangwang asked in surprise, "Hey? Where did you go? The people in the dressing room said you didn't want to sing with them, so you weren't here."
Ling Yuanshan was also shocked: "Weren't you in PE class? How did you get here?"
Immediately, both of them realized they had been tricked.
Ling Yuanshan found an empty music classroom nearby, put down the cosmetics she was holding, and said, "As soon as I got here, I heard people in the dressing room hurriedly say that a certain cosmetic was out of stock and that I should go to the purchasing teacher in the administration building to apply for it. When I got there, I found out that this item was purchased by the program teachers and they never let the students come to pick it up themselves."
So, Ling Yuanshan thought he didn't know the procedure, so he ran back to the teacher who organized the program today to apply. The teacher gave him a form to fill out and take it to apply. But when he got it, the purchasing teacher told him that students need additional student proof to do this kind of thing.
In other words, students need a teacher's certificate to handle this matter; otherwise, it will be considered as skipping class, and even with an application form from the teacher, it still won't work.
But when Ling Yuanshan went to find the program teacher when he came back, the teacher said that he was the one who proposed applying for cosmetics, so he had to take responsibility for it and could not give the student a certificate.
The events happened one after the other, and Ling Yuanshan didn't expect that even with his considerable experience in dungeons, he could still be tricked like this. After hearing about Wu Wangwang's experience, he frowned slightly: "You will also be punished. Speaking of which, those eight students haven't returned yet, and they weren't even allowed to take the morning exam. What kind of punishment takes so long?"
"I don't know. How about we go check other classrooms now?" Wu Wangwang suggested. "We've already been punished anyway, so let's gather more information."
Ling Yuanshan had no objection. He said, "Then I'll take the cosmetics to the changing room first."
Wu Wangwang called out to him, "Wait, I went to the dressing room to find you just now. I think you were pranked, no, we were pranked. It might be related to our NPC status. We don't know about Ge Nan yet, but the people in the dressing room said that Gao Hu is arrogant and doesn't want to perform with them. But you just went out to get cosmetics. There's no shortage of cosmetics in the dressing room."
Upon hearing this, Ling Yuanshan sighed: "I know, I noticed it when I came to prepare earlier. They didn't tell me what the play I need to sing was. Regardless of whether I can do it or not, it's really wrong not to let me go on stage. Anyway, let's see what the situation is for the others first."
Fearing something might happen to Ling Yuanshan, Wu Wangwang accompanied him. Sure enough, the people in the locker room launched into another round of sarcastic remarks. After leaving, Ling Yuanshan calmly said, "See? That's how they all talk to me. It's hard not to know they bully Gao Hu."
The dungeon's setting was cryptic and didn't provide much information. There was also little free time. The two of them ran through all the art students' classrooms upstairs and downstairs, but they didn't see any of the students. However, they did run into two other players who had also been assigned to the art class.
They happened to run into them, so they came over and asked Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan if they wanted to exchange information.
Wu Wangwang first shrugged: "Our setup is too difficult. We haven't found any information yet, and we've already been tricked by the dungeon. We'll be caught and punished soon."
The two players exchanged a surprised glance. One was a man, and the other a woman. The woman asked, "Were you also punished for missing class and forced to come to this professional class?"
"Punishment?" Ling Yuanshan asked in astonishment. "You mean, your coming here is punishment?"
The female player nodded: "Yeah, in our class, we had geography class and we had to draw maps. We didn't know how to draw them, so we just drew a big rooster and that was it. Who knew the teacher would punish us by making us come to art class because of that? We had to draw the map correctly before we could go back to class."
Wu Wangwang said thoughtfully, "But we were rewarded for getting such good grades this morning."
The reward and punishment are the same measure; has the instance gone mad?
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: Since that's the case, if I study hard today, I'll reward myself with a small cake. If I skip class today, I'll punish myself by eating an extra small cake. So I can eat two small cakes!
Ling Yuanshan: Eat, you can eat as many as you want!
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