Chapter 52 Grave Numbers Above All 14 Sixth Middle School
Players didn't see anything wrong with this behavior. Information is so important in dungeons, who cares how it came about? If it were a powerful player, they would at least say thank you for saving their lives. But Wu Wangwang isn't one. No matter how many times she cleared the dungeon, no one would think highly of her. They would assume she only survived because of men.
Didn't I see her sticking to another guy the whole time in this instance?
Wu Wangwang's words did not make the players feel guilty at all. They even told Wu Wangwang to leave quickly. Students should just be students. Why are you getting involved in their business?
At this moment, Ling Yuanshan came upstairs. He quickly walked to Wu Wangwang's side and asked what had happened.
When Player 10 saw Ling Yuanshan coming over, he said directly, "Don't bring this woman who's dragging us down. Women are useless in dungeons. She keeps interrupting us and is of no use at all. She's also affecting our discussion of the dungeon's progress. You can come, but tell her to go back to her dorm and hide."
Ling Yuanshan didn't understand what they were saying at all: "Holding them back? Her?"
Other players chimed in, "Yeah, yeah, she doesn't understand anything and keeps interrupting us. Let her go."
Seeing that all the players said the same thing, Ling Yuanshan was speechless and laughed: "Forget it, good advice is useless against these damned ghosts, let's go."
Ling Yuanshan then ignored the players' expressions and pulled Wu Wangwang downstairs.
Once they reached the fifth floor and were sure the people upstairs couldn't hear them, Wu Wangwang asked, "Shouldn't we try to find out anything from them? We don't know their identities yet; they might have other information."
Ling Yuanshan shook his head: "In the dungeon, you absolutely cannot exchange information with people who have an unbalanced mentality. Their mentality is naturally unbalanced, and they will definitely have problems understanding the information they see. They will mislead us instead. Just like Guan Lian and the others in the last dungeon. However, the players in the last dungeon were influenced by the game settings, while the players in this dungeon may be like this by nature. The information they provide is not so credible."
Unless they become ghosts, ghost stories are more believable than human stories.
Wu Wangwang nodded to indicate that he understood: "Okay, but I also got some information from them. The deceased had short hair on the first day he came, but on the second day, which was yesterday morning when he came to early self-study, his hair had grown long. I suspect that the deceased found something in the dormitory."
Now that the campus is empty, it will be much easier for them to get the information. The two immediately decided to find the deceased's identity information first. They figured the grade director or homeroom teacher would definitely have a new copy, so they could just go there.
The teaching building has several staircases. Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan avoided the players who were still discussing information on the seventh floor and went up to the eighth floor from the other side with great skill.
Unfortunately, the head of the grade's office windows were locked today, just to keep out people like Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan.
Ling Yuanshan didn't know how to pick locks. Just as he was thinking about how to break in, Wu Wangwang pierced the lock bolt with a pair of scissors.
“…Sometimes we need to be more civilized. If we get caught, I’ll have to go sing karaoke all night again.” Ling Yuanshan tried to discuss it with Wu Wangwang.
Wu Wangwang put away the scissors: "It's okay, school's out for break now, the anti-prostitution squad can't come and arrest us."
Other teachers weren't as vigilant; as long as the vice principal from the anti-prostitution squad wasn't around, they couldn't catch them.
Ling Yuanshan was persuaded by Wu Wangwang and followed her inside to find the grade director's information.
As expected, the information here from the grade head was very complete and up-to-date.
The document even records that Ge Nan, Gao Hu, and their homeroom teacher were punished together last night, but the vice principal did not record it, presumably because he did not have the authority.
Wu Wangwang still went to look for lifestyle-related items, but she needed the name of the deceased girl.
Ling Yuanshan searched for a while and said, "Found it. It's Liu Hong, a girl who jumped to her death. The police and doctors came to confirm that she died from a fall. They said that she died because the building was relatively low. She didn't completely lose her vital signs when she hit the ground, but there was no way to save her, so she died."
Based on Liu Hong's name, Wu Wangwang searched through the life director's notes, first looking at the contents of the previous two days to see if any problems had occurred after the player was replaced.
On her first night in the dormitory, Liu Hong reported to the dormitory supervisor that the fan was broken and could not be turned off, but the power supply was blocked. She asked the supervisor what to do. The supervisor said that the switch was probably broken and told Liu Hong to bear with it and that a repairman would be notified the next day.
Speaking of this, Wu Wangwang recalled that in the girls' dormitory, there were fans. There were two fans in each dormitory. One was hung above the door, and the other was hung on the wall directly opposite. The two fans were facing each other. The switches were by the door, but the plugs and sockets were sealed with wooden boards, so they could not be turned on.
Of course, with the right tools, it could be disassembled; it's just wood, so it's easy to take apart. But doing so would violate school rules.
This rule is even written in the student handbook: students are not allowed to dismantle any hardware facilities in the school at will, and violators will be penalized with points deductions, demerits, and punishments.
Besides, Liu Hong is a very peculiar NPC. She is very picky and always tells the dormitory supervisor that there are some problems with the dormitory and hopes that they can be improved, especially the bed board. She keeps saying that there seems to be a bulge in her bed board and hopes that it can be replaced, but the board is never replaced until she dies.
Therefore, the most common complaint was about replacing the bed board. The second most common complaint was that she felt her bed was always dirty and suspected that someone was deliberately soiling it. There were also some other minor issues. The core problem was that she felt uncomfortable in the dormitory and hoped that the dormitory manager could help her improve it, but she didn't know why nothing had been done.
The NPCs have had the same fan problem before, always complaining that they can't turn it off, especially in winter. It's so painful when the fan can't be turned off; it's already cold, and then you have to rely on the fan.
On the first day the player entered the instance, they made the same report, saying that the fan was moving.
What kind of fan runs all year round? It's understandable if it can't be fixed after one repair, but if it still can't be fixed after eight hundred repairs, the money spent on hiring a repairman could buy a hundred or two more fans, right?
Wu Wangwang shared the information she had obtained with Ling Yuanshan. He had also found some information. He said, "Is that so? I found the report card. Liu Hong's grades are average. She is quite hardworking, but she is too spoiled. Every time she does poorly on a test, she cries and makes a scene in the classroom, saying that she doesn't want to be punished and that it is very painful."
"No one would want to accept punishment, right? It's simply impossible for a human to complete. Like the punishment given to Ge Nan, she couldn't finish running even if she ran all night." Wu Wangwang recalled the punishment that she had accidentally completed. According to Ling Yuanshan, even if Ge Nan was exceptionally talented, she, as a normal person, would not be able to complete it.
Ling Yuanshan pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps the punishment has a time limit because the student still has to take the next exam. In order to prevent the student from missing the exam, the school may just use a very strict condition to cover all the punishment time. If the student does not complete it within the time limit, they will be lenient and let him study hard."
This is a psychological tactic, commonly known as giving a slap followed by a sweet date. Extreme physical punishment can dull a person's brain, so when they receive the instruction to rest, they will inexplicably feel gratitude and special emotions, thus becoming devoted to the person giving the order.
However, whether this approach is effective depends on the individual. Some people are emotionally unstable and easily brainwashed. For example, students who have not experienced similar events are the most brutal things they have seen in the news about war. Since they cannot experience it firsthand, they have no real understanding of it. When they are actually tormented, they will not be able to stabilize their minds.
People like Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan, who always act according to their own conscience, are not affected at all; on the contrary, they can try to find clues.
Mental attacks are a very effective tactic in dungeons; maintaining mental stability is key to surviving to the end.
Wu Wangwang agreed with Ling Yuanshan's statement: "That makes sense. Liu Hong is a pampered person. She definitely doesn't want to suffer any kind of punishment. Besides, she is a student in a regular class and has always kept her hair short. That's the only suspicious point. If we want to know the answer, we have to go to the dormitory building, but you can't go in."
Even during holidays, certain areas still require adherence to school rules, such as the dormitories, where the dormitory staff do not take holidays, thus preventing male and female students from visiting each other's rooms.
Ling Yuanshan said, "It's okay, let's tie the red line. You go back to the dormitory building, and I'll go to the changing room in the teaching building as we talked last night to see who the ten students' friends are."
“Okay.” Wu Wangwang replied, handing over her hand, and Ling Yuanshan carefully tied the red thread between them.
As Ling Yuanshan left the office, he carefully closed the door. Then he whispered to Wu Wangwang, "By the way, when you go back to the dormitory, pay more attention to the players and students. This batch of players are all seasoned veterans. In their eyes, human life is not life, and women are not human either."
Thinking about the attitude of the players on the seventh floor towards her, Wu Wangwang was somewhat puzzled: "I told them that you and I are both players who have completed the game many times, but they are unwilling to discuss it with us. It's so strange."
In previous dungeons, Wu Wangwang had never encountered players like this. Some people were just short-tempered, but rarely did they show such clear discrimination. Everyone else was focused on survival, but the players in this dungeon seemed unable to survive without discrimination.
Ling Yuanshan fell into deep thought. He hadn't been there earlier and had only heard the last part, but he felt that the players' malice towards Wu Wangwang was overflowing.
It wasn't the kind of malice Wei Dong had, hoping someone would die for him; it was simply malice of looking down on, despising, and not treating Wu Wangwang as a human being. It wasn't even the kind of malice some berserker players had, treating human lives as data to fill in the rules. To put it bluntly, it was malice rooted in male chauvinism, comparable to the mindset of Wu Wangwang's parents.
To have such thoughts in the face of life and death, without considering the doubts and help Wu Wangwang raised, directly denying everything she did, and even taking credit for the information she provided, is very much in line with an ancient system—the estate system.
The practice of paternalism arose because men feared they were infertile, and thus used this method to pretend they could reproduce.
Those players clearly have this mindset. One player might think this way, but there's no reason why seventeen players would all agree to this approach.
It's not like the game just happens to have seventeen crazy people in the same dungeon playing a brain-dead synthesis game, is it?
Ling Yuanshan felt something was wrong and grabbed Wu Wangwang: "Ge Nan, something's not right. The information the players received might be completely different from ours. The referee might have given us two different sets of information to distinguish us from the players who came in normally."
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: I want to report the referee for biased treatment! [Shrug]
Ling Yuanshan: I second that proposal. [clasped hands]
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