Chapter 67 Grave Numbers Above All 29 Sixth Middle School
Ling Yuanshan thought for a while and said, "Generally speaking, school rules are written by the school itself, so sometimes some strange rules are added, such as stipulating that there can be no trash in the students' trash cans and no textbooks in their desk drawers. The school rules of this school are so strict, they must have been set by the principal."
After listening, Wu Wangwang wondered if she wasn't very good at learning modern Chinese: "I understand the principles, but what does it mean that there can't be trash in the trash can or textbooks in the desk?"
"..." Ling Yuanshan fell silent. "You can understand it as, no trash means that students won't eat or be distracted by other things, and they will study hard. As for the rule that there can't be textbooks in the desk drawers, it's usually a rule for the evening. Students take their textbooks home, and if they are lost, it has nothing to do with the school."
Essentially, it's a transfer of responsibility and a restriction of student behavior, making them fear the rules and preventing them from doing anything more outrageous.
After all, there's a saying that "every outrageous rule is followed by an even more outrageous accident."
Wu Wangwang finally understood. She remembered something: "According to this statement, the school hasn't updated its school rules for a long time, as the vice principal said that day."
There are generally three explanations for this situation. First, since the last version of the school rules was issued, no student has done anything out of line for many years.
Second: The school tolerated these outrageous things.
The last possibility: existing school rules are sufficient to handle all unexpected incidents.
Therefore, when Wu Wangwang said that it was okay to do things that weren't written in the school rules, the vice principal was so shocked that he said the school rules should be updated.
After listening, Ling Yuanshan suddenly took out the student handbook. He flipped to the publication page and found the last printing and publication dates. He said, "The last update was seven years ago, which is when those thirteen suicide notes appeared."
“If I remember correctly, the first suicide note was from a boy in a regular class. He jumped off a building because of his poor grades. He said he didn’t blame the school, that the school was doing it for their own good, but he couldn’t stand the pressure from his family, so he chose to die.” Wu Wangwang recounted the contents of the earliest suicide note.
“Many suicide notes contain this kind of content. It’s not surprising that students endure strict school rules but can’t stand their families of origin even more.” Ling Yuanshan thought about the situations of other students and didn’t think this information was relevant.
It's rare to find a dungeon this perplexing. The increased death rate isn't just a figure of speech. Normally, with all the information they gather, they'd have a pretty good grasp of the escape rules. But now, they've encountered a whole bunch of ghosts and still have no clue. The ghosts are hoping the players will clear their names, while the players are hoping the ghosts will reveal the truth.
As a result, neither side could find a solution.
Wu Wangwang pondered for a moment and said, "Could it be that we're overthinking it? We were actually responsible for information on ten people at the beginning. If we break down the information, what we should be doing now is finding Tang Xiaofen and the track and field team seniors."
Gao Hu's ghost hasn't left; it's still in the opera house, but it can't communicate normally anymore. Tang Xiaofen and the track and field team senior are now nowhere to be found. Where did they go in just one day?
Furthermore, the students' grades didn't just start dropping this semester, so why are these ghosts still with them? Instead of being punished and leaving them last year after their grades dropped?
This makes absolutely no sense.
The article doesn't reveal much; it may simply be distilling a rule of death to warn the two to avoid it, rather than revealing the truth they were looking for.
Ling Yuanshan was also at a loss, so he could only suggest, "Since we've found some clues in key places, let's go to the dance studio and see if Tang Xiaofen is there. Maybe she's there."
Where Tang Xiaofen is, you should be able to find the track and field team seniors, and maybe then you'll find out where the gold medal is.
Wu Wangwang had no objections, and the two left the old campus early and returned to the dance studio in the new campus.
These past few days they've been skipping their lunch break. Perhaps the dorm supervisor is being lenient and hasn't bothered them; otherwise, not returning to the dorm for lunch break would result in points being deducted.
Since there were hardly any people left at the school, the players wandering around were quite noticeable, and judging from their expressions, they probably hadn't found any useful information either.
The dance studio always appears exceptionally bright during the day due to the reflection of the mirrors, making it easy to see whether anyone is there at a glance.
Having met with the person in charge, Wu Wangwang immediately took out her phone, turned on the video recorder, and filmed the dance studio. She didn't find anyone. Then, holding her phone, Wu Wangwang walked from the elevator to the changing room, and she really didn't see a single ghost.
Ling Yuanshan, who had been following her, hesitated and said after not finding any ghosts in the changing room, "It's impossible that there aren't any."
Even if it's not Tang Xiaofen, there should be at least two, right?
There are ghosts crawling around in the dormitory.
"Do ghosts get holidays too?" Wu Wangwang asked seriously.
“…You’re very humorous.” Ling Yuanshan was speechless and could only offer praise.
Wu Wangwang sensed Ling Yuanshan's unfinished meaning and shrugged: "Then we'll have to ask other ghosts. I have spray."
That spray is actually quite useful; it might even make the ghosts reveal all the information they know. The problem is, they haven't encountered many ghosts yet. If they go to room 504 in the old campus, they don't know how many times they'll have to refresh the page to find out what happened to Jingjing at the beginning. The ghosts that died later are basically useless; they don't know any more information than Senior Flute and the others.
Then the two started wandering around the campus, taking pictures everywhere with their phones.
The phone didn't have much battery to begin with, and they were lucky they could finish reading the message. The camera was never turned off, and they only took pictures for less than two hours without encountering a single ghost before the battery died. They had to take turns using all ten phones.
But they were all turned off when the lunch break bell rang.
Ling Yuanshan looked at the last broken phone and sighed, "We need to find a place to charge it. These days, the only things that can find ghosts besides the rules of death are phones. We can't find anything else, so we can only use this clumsy method. The phone's battery life is very important."
There are charging cables in the lockers of the Gaohu teaching building's changing room, but no one else has them. This is because everyone has very little time to play on their phones, especially boarding students. They can use their phones for about three to five days after charging them once. After they run out of power, they ask some students who can leave the school to take them out and charge them for them.
Of course, most of the time, I managed to survive until the holidays by studying intensely and using up all the battery power I had.
There's no electricity now, but art and sports students still have power lines because they occasionally need to leave school to participate in competitions or exams and need to stay in touch by phone.
They went to eat first, then got a charging cable, and then secretly used the computer socket in the library to charge their phones. While charging, the two of them looked at the school archives in both order and reverse order.
For the next few days, they went through a cycle of searching for ghosts and recharging their batteries while looking through files, but unfortunately, the campus was too big and there were too many files, so they didn't get any more information for the time being.
Because Wu Wangwang carefully checked on the girls in the girls' dormitory every day, they were in good condition, obedient and did not go out. They were also studying peacefully in the dormitory. Apart from having dreams at night, they did not encounter any strange things.
The situation was much worse in the boys' dormitory. Ling Yuanshan wasn't there during the day, and the three boys were actually quite obedient, studying and reviewing in the dormitory. If they survived the ordeal, they would have to take the college entrance examination. It just so happened that the atmosphere of "if you don't do well, you'll die" made them study obediently, and they could even help each other out occasionally.
The problem is that, perhaps due to the good fortune of being suppressed by Wu Wangwang, the female players didn't encounter any accidents, while the male players kept having some rather abnormal events. Running around at night and walking around with the dormitory supervisor was already commonplace. After Ling Yuanshan returned, Male Player A told him that for some reason, a male player was borrowing the bathroom to take a shower in every dormitory with the door open or occupied.
Ling Yuanshan and Wu Wangwang simply asked the students to follow the rules, avoid trouble, study hard, and ensure they remained within the protection of school regulations. They agreed that it wasn't unusual for the students to use the restrooms.
However, when the male player, who had taken a shower all day, passed by Male Player A's dormitory at night, he looked like he hadn't showered at all, because he smelled of sweat from running. Males naturally have a strong odor, and the sweat smell was particularly unpleasant and lingered for a long time.
Despite his curiosity, the male player didn't ask any further questions. However, he overheard players from other dormitories asking him why he was sweating so much after just taking a shower. The male player explained that he had been running around the old campus all day and hadn't come back at all.
Things gradually became strange. During the day and at night, it seemed like a few more people came out of the boys' dormitory. They were clearly familiar faces, but when the people involved were asked the next day, they all said they didn't know, didn't do it, and that it was done by a ghost.
Panic began to spread among the players.
Before you know it, it's the weekend, and the school suddenly becomes lively. Teachers and students arrive all at once, and strange things always appear in the drawers before morning self-study. Having experienced this once, the students are now able to calmly move the evidence and study hard without getting distracted.
Previously, the school was on holiday, but now it's the new college entrance examination, which requires three days of testing. However, the school has added evening self-study sessions, so the exam can be completed in two days.
Everyone took the exams non-stop for two days, and these two days were also very peaceful. The strange things in the male dormitory stopped, and all living and non-living things on campus had to give way to the exams.
These weekend self-study exams are set by the school teachers themselves. They grade each exam immediately after it's finished, and since the school has its own grading machine, the teachers grade relatively quickly. The results for the Chinese exam in the morning are available during the evening self-study session.
Wu Wangwang adjusted her score, and her Chinese score was still 90 points, with no improvement or regression. In addition, since school had just ended for the holidays, there were no points deducted, so 90 points was just right.
The following subjects were a bit more troublesome, because Ge Nan chose biology, politics, and history. Wu Wangwang knew absolutely nothing about biology, and Ling Yuanshan hadn't tutored her in that subject, resulting in her score being even worse than in English.
Moreover, to make matters worse, her overall score was slightly lower than Ge Nan's previous total score, which shows how desperate Wu Wangwang was about English and Biology.
The results came out on Monday, and Wu Wangwang was also punished in the morning. She was taken away after finishing her Chinese exam on Monday, without having time to say goodbye to anyone. She had carefully scored five extra points, but she still couldn't escape punishment.
She was a sports student, and once again, her homeroom teacher sent her back to the old campus, where she faced a physical education teacher who was not happy about her.
The PE teacher felt a headache coming on when he thought about Wu Wangwang's inhuman antics last time. He asked the homeroom teacher, "I think our school rules are a bit outdated. Can we improve them?"
Before the homeroom teacher could answer, Wu Wangwang immediately said, "I agree. Why don't I write the new one? You tell me who can make the decision, and I'll write the report on the new school rules and give it to him. It'll be quick; I can finish it right away, as fast as I can run."
"..." For the first time, the physical education teacher felt that he couldn't see a future in his professional career.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: Who said that? Can't you see the end just by looking at it? [Starry-eyed]
Ling Yuanshan: Because the future of your professional career is bleak? [Question mark]
Wu Wangwang: Hehe [starry eyes]
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