Chapter 51 Grave Numbers Above All 13 Sixth Middle School
A group of people were singing and dancing around the corpse; it looked incredibly eerie.
Wu Wangwang turned her head to look at Ling Yuanshan, who had similar emotions in his eyes. Besides sighing, he was also wondering why the player couldn't take it anymore and jumped off the building first.
Despite the incident, unless otherwise notified, the students still had to return to the classroom to study. The cheers didn't last long; they returned to the classroom right on time, fell silent instantly, and began their morning reading.
The homeroom teachers came over just before the morning reading session ended and said that the morning would be changed to self-study, and that someone from the cafeteria would bring food. For the time being, no one could leave the classroom or do morning exercises. Everyone was to stay in the classroom and study while waiting for the school's instructions.
Wu Wangwang wanted to investigate and ask the players what was going on. There were quite a few players this time, and they all passed the level normally without increasing the death rate. So why did they die first?
After much thought, Wu Wangwang could only come up with one reason—a player had accidentally triggered the death rule.
Unlike the ten students on Wu Wangwang's side, the students were quite well-behaved, but they lacked experience, so they would strictly abide by the school rules after being tricked once.
But players are different. They have students as a shield, and they think the students are stupid. They will definitely test out the rules of death for them first, so they are prone to being careless. In addition, players have passed too many levels, so they will have a certain sense of contempt. Even if they think they are not contemptuous, they still cannot change their habitual behavior.
In a strictly regulated instance, without the ability to bear the consequences of experimentation, one can easily die instantly.
It is unknown whether the deceased players left any clues. If there are any traces, the specific rules of death can be tested. Fortunately, Ling Yuanshan has the Red Silk item that allows them to live and die together. One person can try it, and the other person can use it as a resurrection point in another place.
Wu Wangwang was looking at her textbooks in the classroom, mainly studying English and geography. Her grades in these two subjects were not good enough. She had learned some in the real world, but she was afraid that she would not be able to keep up when the difficulty of the test papers increased in the game.
The homeroom teacher came during the third period in the morning and said that there had been an incident at the school, so the students were given a three-day holiday. They would return on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to take the exams and complete the week's tests. The teacher also said that even during the holiday, students should study hard and not relax.
This means that the NPC students are going home, while the players should all be staying at school. A holiday doesn't mean everyone has to go home, but Wu Wangwang was extra careful and specifically raised her hand to ask if she could stay at school. Her home was too far away, and she loved learning and wanted to continue studying at school.
“Ge Nan has suddenly become very studious,” the homeroom teacher said sarcastically. “You can stay at school, but if you live on campus, you can’t leave the school grounds. This is to prevent accidents from happening outside the school gates, which the school cannot supervise. At least living on campus is safe.”
Actually, it's not very safe, Wu Wangwang thought to herself. After thanking the homeroom teacher for the answer, she sat down. Sure enough, players could stay at school at will, and the NPCs would leave temporarily, giving the players a chance to investigate.
It would be terrifying if every investigation required sacrificing a player's life to create an opportunity.
We still need to work with other players to find out what happened as soon as possible.
The NPCs left quickly, and before noon when school let out, all the teachers, students, and NPCs on campus had disappeared. Wu Wangwang went to find Ling Yuanshan and asked him, "We need to find other players; they might know something."
Ling Yuanshan nodded: "Okay, but I want to take care of the students first. The eight of them have no experience and were punished first, so they are under a lot of mental pressure. I have to tell them that they cannot leave the campus."
Wu Wangwang sighed: "Given their condition, it's hard to say whether they'll survive to the end. Young Master, don't you think they're a burden? Everyone has their own destiny."
“The core gameplay is still about following the rules. It’s not impossible to save them. They are all innocent. If they had died and gotten here on their own, that would be one thing. But they were tricked into it by others. If we can help them, we should. It doesn’t take much effort.” Ling Yuanshan insisted on his idea. He wasn’t being overly saintly; he was just helping within his means.
Everything about the instance is still unclear, and we don't know if someone's death will have other effects on the instance, so helping is a conservative option.
Wu Wangwang stopped trying to dissuade him and just told him to be careful.
The two then parted ways; Wu Wangwang went upstairs to find the other players, while Ling Yuanshan went to the sixth floor to find the students.
Upon arriving at the back, as expected, after the NPC disappeared, the players gathered together to review the game. This was probably the experience of players who had completed the game multiple times. Once someone died, unless it was an enemy faction, they would try to test each other.
In the instance, there may be instances where players use the rules to kill people they dislike, and the meeting and probing also serves to rule out players intentionally killing others.
The players weren't standing very close together. Because the teaching building had a huge atrium, there were naturally spacious activity areas on each floor, so the seventeen people standing scattered around weren't crowded. Therefore, they noticed Wu Wangwang as soon as she went upstairs.
Because she always hung out with a group of students, the other players found her annoying. One of the male players said, "Kid, hurry back to your dorm. You guys have a high mortality rate and no experience. Don't drag us down with you."
Wu Wangwang walked directly to the railing in the courtyard before saying, "The boy I was working with, we're both veteran players. We've probably cleared more dungeons than you guys. We told a little white lie to avoid upsetting our classmates. Did you find anything?"
The two players who had met before suddenly looked enlightened. The female player said, "No wonder you two were so calm when I saw you in the art building! Even knowing that the school's punishment and reward measures were the same thing, your expressions didn't change much."
With witnesses testifying, the players began to believe her somewhat, but she and Ling Yuanshan were too young, and besides, she was a thin girl. They didn't think much of her, assuming that as a girl, she must be protected by Ling Yuanshan.
However, since Wu Wangwang came up alone, perhaps on Ling Yuanshan's orders, and he might have something to do, the player didn't continue to drive Wu Wangwang away. Instead, they treated her as if she were invisible, didn't answer her questions, and continued talking to themselves.
Looking at their separated positions, Wu Wangwang noticed that the remaining seventeen players were scattered. Apart from the male and female players who had been playing together, there were two young men who had paired up. The others who were older were all independent and did not intend to cooperate. It seemed that they had all come in alone and were lone wolves playing the game by themselves.
There were too many people, so Wu Wangwang decided to sort them by height, just like the students.
Player 1 spoke first: "I was indeed in the same class as the woman who jumped off the building, but we never interacted. She was a loner, and I didn't even know her name."
The school uniforms of the Sixth Middle School make it easy to distinguish between boys and girls: boys wear shirts and trousers, while girls wear shirts and pleated skirts. The girl who jumped off the building happened to be a girl with relatively long hair, but it didn't reach her waist.
Actually, the management of this school is very strict. Except for art students and sports students, neither girls nor boys can have long hair. Girls have to have a uniform student haircut, and boys have to have a uniform buzz cut. They are all competing to see who has the shortest hair. Judging from the length of her hair, the female player who jumped off the building earlier should be an art student.
When Wu Wangwang briefly looked at the class assignments on the day they entered the instance, she counted the remaining players and suddenly exclaimed, "Wait a minute, art students and sports students are all here, so why is the girl who died long-haired?"
The players who were discussing what the deceased had done before his death fell silent instantly. They turned to look at Wu Wangwang in shock, and Player Two managed to ask, "What did you say?"
“If I remember correctly, the girl who entered the dungeon had short hair. Players' appearance changes to match the NPCs when they enter the dungeon, isn’t that common knowledge?” Wu Wangwang thought they didn’t believe her, so she explained.
But the players' expressions turned even uglier. One player gasped, "But yesterday, when she came to morning self-study yesterday, she already had long hair! There were too many people when we entered the dungeon, I don't remember what her hair looked like..."
Player 5 suddenly said, "I remember, on the day we entered the dungeon, during free time, I went to the art building with her. At that time, she had short hair, which was cut quite nicely, like a bob, and she looked very cute. I hadn't finished memorizing the school rules, so I thought it was her own hairstyle."
The player who just chased Wu Wangwang away was the tenth tallest. Wu Wangwang temporarily nicknamed him Player Ten. He said, "Didn't she trigger the rules in the teaching building? Was it in the dormitory?"
"But if the rules are triggered in the dormitory, why jump from the teaching building? Since it's going to be suicide before morning self-study anyway, why not just jump from the dormitory?" Player Twelve retorted.
People made various guesses, but none of them sounded very plausible. There were always people who could refute them. In addition, Player One couldn't really say what happened to the deceased throughout the day yesterday, so it was difficult to find other information to support the claim.
However, from their arguments, Wu Wangwang discovered that the players had it easier than the students. After finishing their exams in the morning and knowing their results in the afternoon reading session, they would basically study or attend self-study sessions. However, the teachers were not strict in managing self-study sessions, and some players would find various excuses to come out and investigate clues.
Only one day has passed in the instance, so it's unlikely that any useful clues will be found. Generally speaking, the shorter the instance duration, the higher the information density. This instance lasts for a month, which means that players can only obtain a very small amount of information in the early stages. They must become familiar with all the operational details of this instance before they can collect all the information.
Wu Wangwang listened to their endless arguing without getting to the point, so she asked again, "Stop arguing. The reason this dungeon doesn't have many fancy features is that it prioritizes scores. Did the dead player have a good score? I mean, before the player took over, did the NPC who was replaced have a good score?"
The players aren't quite in the zone yet, and their sense of crisis is far less than that of the students, so they haven't received this information yet.
They weren't willing to cooperate with Wu Wangwang, this little brat. It was as if a group of adults, who had tried so many times to clear the game, should listen to a child. This child was a little girl with little ability, and they looked down on her even more.
So Player Ten waved his hand dismissively: "Don't make things worse, don't mislead us. Just listen. If your partner asks you what you heard and you can't remember it, he definitely won't care and will leave you to fend for yourself in the dungeon."
"Without me, you wouldn't even know the length of a dead player's hair. Now that you have the information, you're complaining about me. Are you planning to use the information I provided for discussion later, thinking it's your own idea and has nothing to do with me? Being this selfish will bring retribution in the dungeon," Wu Wangwang kindly reminded her.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: I wasn't cursing you, I was just trying to be helpful. [starry-eyed]
Ling Yuanshan: That's right, the baby is good, they're bad! [Thumbs up]
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Update! I'm writing the second update now, so it might be a little late. Don't wait, you can check back tomorrow morning! [kissing emoji]
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