Chapter 56 Grave Numbers Above All 18 Sixth Middle School
Ling Yuanshan was also at a loss: "I don't know either. I don't know how to unlock it. If I restore it to factory settings, all the contents inside will be gone."
Guessing the password based on Liu Hong's life story is unreliable. If you guess wrong too many times, the phone will lock itself, which is no different from resetting the phone.
"Let's take it one step at a time. If the players' rules are indeed different from ours, then there's no need to unravel them. They'll definitely find the answer from other sources." Ling Yuanshan quickly made a decision and went to the library with Wu Wangwang first.
Upon arriving at the library, Ling Yuanshan, who was quite adept at using computers, began searching for campus history and student archives from each year.
Wu Wangwang could look at her phone while she did so; she was already quite skilled at this task.
Ge Nan's old phone was also brought over. By comparing the software information on both sides, it was possible to identify who was who. Moreover, Wu Wangwang carefully checked whether there was a secondary account.
After comparing the contents of eleven mobile phones, Wu Wangwang confirmed one thing—the ten people selected by the referee knew each other. Although they came from different classes, had different life backgrounds, and had vastly different future directions, they had indeed come together.
Because cell phones are contraband at No. 6 Middle School, they were afraid of being discovered, so they carefully used code names online. If their cell phones hadn't been found in their lockers, it would have been impossible to identify who was who. Therefore, Wu Wangwang decided to continue using the serial numbers she had chosen for them and informed Ling Yuanshan of these numbers.
Their names were too hard to remember, and considering they would be living at school for a whole month, if they used their names and the teachers or security guards heard them, they would definitely be caught and punished. If they used code names, the teachers wouldn't recognize them.
Ling Yuanshan thought this was a good idea; they could discuss it freely at school without worrying about being overheard and reported to the teacher.
Then Wu Wangwang took out her phone and told Ling Yuanshan the story of how these ten people got together.
The first group I met were pairs of students from the same department. This was evident from the initial class assignments. Apart from Ge Nan, Gao Hu, and the female student Ding from the performance class, everyone else was in pairs in their class.
Therefore, students in the same class will definitely get to know each other first.
Girl C from the regular class and Boy C knew each other the longest. They were both students in the top class and consistently ranked first and second. Girl C was first and Boy C was second. They competed fiercely. Once, Boy C broke down and asked Girl C why she could always score higher than him.
The third woman told him that if she wasn't number one, she would die.
Male student C couldn't understand. If not getting first place meant certain death, then everyone in the school except for female student C would surely be dead.
Then, after a long silence, the man thought he had touched a nerve. That same evening, the woman suddenly sent him a picture of her injury, saying that was the reason.
The picture shows her arm, which is swollen and bleeding from what appears to have been hit. It looks terrifying. In the man's opinion, it must have been caused by hitting her with a very thick stick with all his might; it's impossible to do that with a normal slap or fist.
Girl C said that this was the consequence of her grades dropping by one or two points; if she hadn't been number one, she would have been beaten to death.
From then on, the relationship between male student C and female student C improved, and they stopped competing for first or second place. Male student C told female student C that no matter how good his high school ranking was, it was not as good as his performance in the college entrance examination. He just wanted to do well in the exam, but his parents were not as scary as female student C's family. He would not be beaten if he got second place, but if female student C got second place, she would be finished.
Next up were female student A and male student A from the dance class. They met at a school gala, where the teacher had arranged for them to perform dances one after the other. One of the decorations on the female student's head fell off that day, and the male student picked it up, which is how they met.
Although they met early on, they became close friends relatively late. After discovering that their dance scores hadn't improved, they comforted each other and gradually developed a friendship.
Unlike the peaceful lives of these four, the story of the two from the art class is quite dramatic.
Male B paints oil paintings, and dating is forbidden at school, but he falls for Female B's best friend, who also paints traditional Chinese paintings. Female B often covers for them.
But later, the second male cheated on his girlfriend with the female teacher in the oil painting class. This made the second female female and her best friend very angry, especially after they found out that the female teacher was pregnant. The two girls almost went crazy.
In a fit of anger, Woman B and her best friend wanted to expose the matter and ruin Man B's life. However, unexpectedly, Man B first slandered Woman B for having a relationship with the male teacher in the Chinese painting class, and even photoshopped pictures as evidence.
First, male student B made a report. Although the school investigated and found it to be untrue, a conflict had already broken out. When female student B then used the same reason to bring it up, it seemed to become a private grudge between students. The school would only give them a severe beating and tell them to focus on their studies.
It was hard not to be angry about this. Girl B and her best friend thought about it for a long time. They heard that there were many vengeful spirits in the school, so they tried all the methods they found online to curse Boy B.
Since they didn't know what method worked, they were quite surprised by the consequences—the female teacher in the oil painting class suddenly stepped on turpentine and slipped in the classroom, bleeding profusely. While the students frantically went to find other teachers for help, the female student from the traditional Chinese painting class and her best friend came to watch the commotion.
Then, in the chaotic oil painting classroom, a baby covered in blood crawled out from under the female teacher's skirt. However, it seemed that only the second female student, the second male student, and the second female student's best friend saw this scene, and the three of them screamed.
The students around them assumed they were frightened by the blood and urged them to go outside first.
The baby crawled after the three of them, and the man was so frightened that he lost his composure. In the end, the woman's best friend picked up the baby and took it home. About seven days later, the best friend returned, gave it to the woman, and then arranged to meet the man in the oil painting class to break up.
But in the end, her best friend died in the oil painting class. Many paintbrushes and art scrapers were stuck in her neck. Her neck was almost broken off, and her head and body were only connected by the skin on the edge.
From that day on, Man B went crazy, constantly thinking he had seen a ghost, and even asked if Woman B was deliberately messing with him.
Since the surveillance footage showed that the best friend did it herself, the second male was cleared of suspicion. Many people discussed the relationship between the two, but the second male insisted that he had nothing to do with his best friend, and that her death had nothing to do with him. He claimed that she committed suicide on her own that day and even implicated him.
As for the second woman, she didn't know if her best friend had told her something in private, so she didn't reveal the matter and remained silent.
Rumors are hard to stop, and the school eventually investigated the boy's situation and found that he was indeed in a relationship, but he didn't know who he was in love with. So the school could only give him a demerit as a warning, while reassuring the other students that the matter had been resolved and they should stop discussing it.
Among these relationships, the most surprising is that of Ge Nan and Gao Hu. They met separately first, and even though they had different exam directions, they still became friends.
According to the chat logs, the two met when Gao Hu was once again bullied by his classmates due to jealousy. As a half-foreigner who could hardly understand what was being said, he could only understand the literal meaning of all the verbal bullying and once thought it was all his own fault.
One day, he was tricked again. Just like Ling Yuanshan was ordered to apply for cosmetics and ended up being punished, Gao Hu was tricked into going to find a repairman, saying that some equipment in the opera house was broken. Since he was a good student and didn't need to practice, he could go instead.
On his way there, Gao Hu bumped into Ge Nan, who was running barefoot. That's how they met. Gao Hu felt sorry for Ge Nan because he didn't have shoes to run, and Ge Nan felt sorry for Gao Hu because he was always being deceived. They licked each other's wounds and became good friends who were unknown to others.
Later, when Gao Hu was tricked again, Ge Nan was able to help him translate those malicious words, so that Gao Hu would be tricked less often. Gao Hu was grateful and knew that Ge Nan was often bullied because she was fast, so he carefully guarded her cabinet and gave Ge Nan a cell phone.
The new phone was a gift from Gao Hu; Ge Nan didn't want it, saying she also had a secretly kept phone, but it was older and couldn't download many apps.
Gao Hu said, "It's dangerous to bring a cell phone to school. You can just consider it as borrowing mine so we can stay in touch. You can return the phone to me after graduation. Anyway, I always have the latest model."
Ge Nan eventually agreed to Gao Hu's request and secretly contacted him using the new phone.
Up to this point, everyone still knew each other secretly. What truly brought them together was the student who jumped off a building last semester.
The latest suicide note I found in the counselor's office was from last December. The person who jumped was a girl. She was in the class below the top class and was considered a student who excelled in humanities but was average in science. She was very talented in literature and had consistently won student literature awards.
She doesn't really value literary awards in the college entrance exam anymore, but they will help her win more awards in college in the future, so she continues to write as the college entrance exam approaches.
The first person we contacted was Ms. B. The girl who jumped off the building wanted to write an article about the study of traditional Chinese painting. She was supposed to interview the painting teacher directly, but she arrived late that day. The teacher had already left work, and in the quiet studio, only Ms. B and her best friend were there.
The three girls were all very tired from studying. When they heard that the girl who jumped off the building was there for an interview, the second girl even asked her if she would write her complaints into an article.
The girl who jumped off the building smiled wearily: "Of course not. Nowadays, articles have to be sunny, happy, and positive. But I can change the rhetoric a little based on what you said, turning 'repeatedly defeated' into 'repeatedly defeated but still fighting.'"
And so the three girls became acquainted. They gossiped about school secrets, annoying school rules, and the "kick the cat" effect that these rules created among the students.
Wu Wangwang didn't understand the so-called "kicking the cat effect" at first, but later the girl who jumped off the building explained it in their private chat history. She is a very knowledgeable girl. She said that this effect refers to a situation where, in the company, the boss bullies the employee, the employee goes home and bullies his wife, the wife scolds the child, and the child sees the cat in the house and kicks it.
This is the "kicking the cat effect," which refers to the hierarchical structure of human society and the downward flow of emotions, with all emotions passing down to the lowest level of the family.
Schools are divided into different tiers based on their administrative divisions. When students feel suffocated, they need a cat like this to be kicked – that is, the students who are being bullied invisibly.
The girl who jumped off the building wrote her article quickly; she had to submit it within a week. She also likely wouldn't be able to play around until the next competition, as she would have to study for her exams.
It was at this moment that Girl B said in a private chat: "If the rumors at school were true, we wouldn't have to work so hard, we could still get good grades, and we would have plenty of time to chat and play together."
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: As expected, it's impossible for ordinary people to get good grades without working hard. [Facepalm and peeking]
Ling Yuanshan: What you said makes me want to buy it! [laughing and crying with face covered]
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I only realized I missed a student when I got to this chapter, namely female student Wu. I had to go back and add some information. To save you the trouble of going back and looking, I'll just add it here.
Female E is in the instrumental music class. She is socially anxious to the point of having a mental illness. The original NPC did not have this personality. The first information she received was about two flutes, one new and one old. She once hit a classmate on the head with a flute, which resulted in a deduction of points. After that, she was isolated and her grades dropped.
After being punished, she took an old flute and played a tune in the music room, which sounded very eerie.
That's all. No need to go back and watch it again. Just know that there's one more person involved in the plot, that's enough. Mwah! [kiss]
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