Chapter 47 Grave Numbers Above All 9 Sixth Middle School
The players were stunned. They suddenly felt much better. At least they followed the normal dungeon standards. It was better than getting a reward and then being disappointed.
A silence fell over both sides, and all four understood something from that silence.
Unable to bear the pitying look in the other person's eyes, Ling Yuanshan asked, "Among your players, are there any who have already been punished? Our eight classmates were tricked into going to be punished this morning and haven't come back yet."
The male player thought for a moment, then suddenly pointed at Wu Wangwang and said, "There was one, who was in the class next door, on the seventh floor. Like her, he was a sports student. I don't know why, but he was caught and punished. I heard him try to escape with a prop, but he couldn't get away."
"Didn't they come back either?" Wu Wangwang pressed.
"No, I didn't see anyone in the dormitory. I specifically passed by their class after my afternoon nap to check, but I didn't find them back. Could it be that being punished means death?" The male player's voice trailed off, sounding very worried about this possibility.
Even Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan could be punished for having too good grades. Other players are older and have long forgotten what they learned. It's impossible for them to keep their grades from dropping. If the punishment is a death penalty, it would be too terrifying for them.
Ling Yuanshan thought it was unlikely, so he said, "It shouldn't be. If accepting punishment is equivalent to death, then there's no point in putting the punishment and the point deduction rules together. If the person is dead, what's the point of deducting points?"
After hearing Ling Yuanshan's words, the players felt somewhat relieved and prepared to continue drawing maps. Since they couldn't find any students there, Ling Yuanshan and Wu Wangwang continued to explore the remaining areas.
Unable to find her in the art building, the two guessed that she might have gone back to the classroom, so they went back to the teaching building. After running around like this, they entered the teaching building just as get out of class was ending, and the NPCs were coming downstairs one after another, and they were walking against the flow of people.
When they returned to the sixth floor, they actually ran into two students who hadn't left. They were a girl named C and a boy named C who had been assigned to the regular class. Based on their previous impressions, the girl named C was a shy and somewhat timid girl, while the boy named C had a bad temper and had mocked Ling Yuanshan as soon as he entered the instance.
But now they are both sitting in the classroom, frantically writing problems, their eyes glazed over, muttering to themselves.
The students' names had never been revealed, so there was no way to call them directly. Ling Yuanshan glanced at the papers on the table and tentatively called him by the NPC's name: "Mi Cai?"
Upon hearing the name, male student C suddenly stood up and loudly replied, "Here! The first rule of the student code..."
He actually started reciting the student code of conduct word for word, which startled Ling Yuanshan.
Ling Yuanshan reached out and shook the man's shoulder: "Where were you punished? Why did you end up like this?"
However, Male C showed no reaction at all. His eyes were wide open and unblinking, bloodshot and with dark circles under them, as if he hadn't slept for many days. His lips were chapped, and he was frantically reciting the student code of conduct, completely ignoring what Ling Yuanshan was saying.
Seeing that he showed no sign of stopping, Ling Yuanshan looked at Wu Wangwang and said, "It seems that the punishment is brainwashing or some kind of mental punishment, forcing them to memorize the entire student code of conduct. In addition to obeying school rules, they must also study hard."
"But why are only he and another girl in the classroom? Aren't all eight of them punished?" Wu Wangwang found this strange.
Ling Yuanshan had a sudden inspiration: "The Sixth Middle School building has more than one elevator, and also stairs. We might have missed each other. Let's go back and take a look."
The two ran back to the art building, and sure enough, they found the punished students there. Their situation was similar to that of Female C and Male C; they were all practicing frantically. The problem was, their art exams were over, and if they kept wasting time there, they might still be punished tomorrow for lower grades. The two students they first encountered in the art class were also painting intensely. Female B was in the traditional Chinese painting class, and Wu Wangwang noticed that she was using that small jar of paint, and that her painting was predominantly red.
Ling Yuanshan knew there was no hope for this, and was about to leave when he noticed that Wu Wangwang hadn't followed. He went back and asked, "Ge Nan, why aren't you leaving?"
Wu Wangwang examined the strange painting by the second female student and said, "This classmate said she couldn't paint traditional Chinese paintings, but this one she painted..."
Upon hearing this, Ling Yuanshan also came back. Ling Yuanshan's painting skills were only so-so; he could do some sketching and appreciation. Moreover, his family often had famous Chinese paintings. He followed Wu Wangwang to look at the painting by the woman.
After the woman had applied more and more paint, Ling Yuanshan asked hesitantly, "Is this... a uterus?"
Since the second female student really can't draw, identifying what's drawn from the color blocks is like recognizing a kindergarten child's drawing, requiring a bit of an early childhood educator's imagination.
Wu Wangwang pondered for a moment: "To be precise, this is a uterus carrying a child. The sex of the child is unknown, but in terms of size, it's about three or four months along."
Ling Yuanshan suddenly looked at the jar: "Isn't that what's in the small jar..."
“More than that, I’ve noticed another problem,” Wu Wangwang said, secretly picking up a small jar. “Could the first difficulty we encountered this morning be related to the firsthand information we received? Is that why they behaved differently after being punished?”
Because the eight students were locked up at the beginning and time was tight, Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan didn't have time to investigate the specific reasons for their punishment. Now, based on their current state, they can work backward to deduce the reason.
Ling Yuanshan immediately realized: "You said there was a gutted dead fish in your drawer, and pepper spray in mine. It's true that both are related to firsthand information. Could it be that she was discovered to be pregnant out of wedlock?"
The ink paste made from the fetus is still here. If it weren't for the hatred in it, I wouldn't have used this ink paste to frantically paint such a picture as soon as I got back.
Wu Wangwang stuffed the small jar into her pocket and said, "I don't know if she's pregnant out of wedlock, but it's definitely related to the child. Let's write down the corresponding names and student numbers on their wardrobes and check the school records."
Ling Yuanshan nodded and then said, "Time is of the essence. We might be caught and punished during evening self-study. We need to know the reason before we are punished. So, let's split up. I'll go to the administration building to find information. You write down the special circumstances of the eight students and see if you can find any corresponding clues. If we have enough time, we might be able to meet up before we are punished."
This is the best solution right now. Wu Wangwang trusts Ling Yuanshan's abilities and has no objections. She goes to the oil painting classroom, while Ling Yuanshan quickly runs to the changing room.
As expected, only male student B remained in the oil painting classroom. Unlike female student B, who was painting frantically, he was washing his tools, cleaning his brushes and palette knives until they were spotless, and arranging them on a white cloth according to size.
Wu Wangwang stood at the door for a while. She remembered that this NPC used salt to ward off evil spirits. If he did this, it meant that he would see ghosts. If there were no ghosts, it was just that suspicion breeds ghosts. If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. He must have seen something or done something.
Cleaning tools is a habit that many art students might have, but given the extent of the man's current madness, it's hard not to suspect that he might have used these tools for something, to the point that he can't stand seeing any corresponding marks on them.
Then Wu Wangwang went upstairs to the performance, instrumental music, and dance floors. The students in the performance class were walking around inside with umbrellas, rehearsing the script over and over again. From their entrance to their exit, they were always walking around with umbrellas.
The students in the instrumental music class stood on the stage, playing the same tune over and over again on a slightly worn flute. The flute was out of tune, and the girls, lacking strength, couldn't maintain their breath after playing for so long, which made the originally melodious music sound very strange.
The students in the dance class were dancing wildly in the dance studio, but Wu Wangwang noticed that after each dance, the female students would change their lipstick color, while the male students would change their necklace. The two of them kept changing their lipsticks, and soon the girls' lips were bleeding from rubbing. As the boys were dancing intensely, the necklaces gradually rubbed blood spots onto their necks.
Everyone was doing what was appropriate for their identity, and Wu Wangwang stood in the corridor, deep in thought.
If she and Ling Yuanshan hadn't avoided being framed that morning, then according to the student code of conduct, they would have been directly arrested and punished. The punishment would likely be related to the pepper spray and the reason why Ge Nan was bullied.
The problem is that even if they avoided being framed in the morning, they were still sent back to the playground and opera house in the afternoon under some pretext. In other words, if they were to be punished for truancy in the future, the core reason would be the same as in the morning.
Therefore, if they want to avoid being framed by NPCs based on their original settings, they really need to know about the NPCs' past.
Thinking of this, Wu Wangwang hurriedly went to the administration building to find Ling Yuanshan and told him about it as soon as possible. Even if they were to be brainwashed, as long as they thought about the original past of the NPCs, they could avoid being brainwashed into becoming like the other eight students.
After school, all the teachers in the administration building were gone. Wu Wangwang easily found Ling Yuanshan in the archives room upstairs, where he was looking at the files of this year's students.
"Young Master, I've discovered something, and I have to tell you." Wu Wangwang quickly told him what she had just discovered. If her discovery was correct, they would definitely be punished. It should be a relatively quick way to obtain information, although it would be a bit painful.
Upon hearing this, Ling Yuanshan's expression became even more serious: "If that's the case, then it's not surprising. Come and see this."
Wu Wangwang walked around in confusion and found that Ling Yuanshan had laid out ten files on the shelf, which belonged to the ten students.
Leading the group were Ge Nan and Gao Hu, followed by Mi Cai and eight others.
According to her file, Ge Nan was not specially recruited as a sports student. She was discovered to be exceptionally fast during a physical education exam in her first year of high school, so she was immediately persuaded to become a sports student. Later, she participated in many competitions and won first place in all of them. Her file contains a very long record of awards.
Until her senior year of high school, she and another group of classmates received demerits, and they were major demerits.
It is said that a group of them went for a night run, which led to one of the students accidentally falling and landing on the nearby railway tracks. The student's legs were crushed by a train.
After receiving the demerit, Ge Nan's condition remained poor, and she never won any awards again. She kept applying to withdraw from the sports class so that she could take the college entrance examination with students from regular classes, but each time her application was rejected by her parents who claimed they were unaware of it. As a result, Ge Nan still has to attend school as a student in the sports class, and she continues to be penalized and punished for poor grades.
Wu Wangwang pointed to the message about the severed leg and asked, "Is this possible? Isn't it too much of a coincidence?"
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: If I'm captured and brainwashed, can I then proselytize them and make them believe in me and pay me tribute? [Starry-eyed]
Ling Yuanshan: [Question mark][Question mark][Question mark]
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