Chapter 68 The Number of Graves is Paramount 30 Sixth Middle School
The homeroom teacher refused the PE teacher's request and, in a particularly harsh manner, insisted on a harsher punishment, saying, "How can a student's grades keep dropping? This is too degenerate; they must be severely punished."
After the homeroom teacher left, the security guards came on stage. During the day, they didn't look so much like robots, but they still didn't look like living people.
Wu Wangwang calmly looked at the PE teacher, waiting for him to announce the punishment.
The PE teacher took a deep breath: "Although I don't know how you did it, I suggest you be a little more normal. This time you have to run 600 laps. Even if you're going to drag it out, at least drag it out until the end of evening self-study, okay?"
Actually, after Ling Yuanshan pointed out that it wasn't human speed, Wu Wangwang considered whether to slow down. However, she later found an excuse for herself, since she had a spray. If asked, she would say that the ghost was hallucinating from eating mushrooms, and it wasn't her problem.
So Wu Wangwang gently shook her head: "No, I need to hurry back for dinner."
Then the PE teacher looked on in despair, and Wu Wangwang started running at Ge Nan's fastest speed again. After three hundred laps, only a little over half of the afternoon class time had passed. The PE teacher always felt that Wu Wangwang might have secretly sped up.
After the last 300 laps, even the PE teacher and the security guard couldn't keep up. They felt like they had stumbled into a perpetual motion machine.
Wu Wangwang did speed up. She realized that even at Ge Nan's fastest speed, she couldn't finish 600 laps before the bell rang, so she had to accelerate.
The 600 laps were completed ten minutes before the end of get out of class; Wu Wangwang timed it perfectly.
The PE teacher coldly stamped and signed the punishment slip, gritting his teeth as he said, "Ge Nan, I hope you study hard from now on and don't come back again!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Wangwang scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly: "It might not be possible. My English and biology are both quite poor. If I guess too many multiple-choice questions wrong next time, I'll still have to come."
She ran 600 laps without even breaking a sweat, her face was flushed and her heart was racing. The PE teacher didn't want to talk to her anymore: "Get out of here."
Wu Wangwang shook her head: "That won't work, school isn't over yet."
"Then why didn't you slow down and wait until the bell rang?" The PE teacher was exasperated. It was only ten minutes. She wasn't forced to run that fast. She had clearly said it would be best to wait until the end of evening self-study!
"Because I have something I want to ask the teacher. Teacher, when a student comes to ask a question, the teacher should teach them everything they know, right?" Wu Wangwang has recently learned to use moral blackmail.
The PE teacher looked utterly exasperated: "I have nothing more to teach you."
Wu Wangwang looked disapproving: "Hey! Confucius said, 'Among three people walking together, there must be one who can teach me.' Teacher, you shouldn't underestimate yourself. You still have a lot to teach me. For example, who made the school rules?"
The PE teacher, who was already in a bad mood, felt like he'd died instantly after hearing Wu Wangwang's question. He covered his head and said, "I told you, and you're just leaving?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Wangwang thought for a moment and said, "I might have other questions."
The PE teacher closed his eyes: "I can't tell you too much, but since you've completed the punishment, I can tell you some harmless information. For example, the school rules are drafted by the principal and decided by a vote of all teachers, students, and parents. Even if you propose new school rules, they can't be changed without enough votes."
"So, the parents agree to the rule of giving a demerit for attempted suicide?" Wu Wangwang thought of some outrageous content in the school rules.
"Of course, don't think our school is strict. If parents didn't agree, our school wouldn't be able to accept any students. The fact that they are still willing to send their children here means they agree with this philosophy and believe that as long as their grades improve, nothing else matters." The physical education teacher gave a slightly sarcastic smile.
Seeing the PE teacher's reaction, Wu Wangwang thought that perhaps some teachers felt the current school rules were too strict. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Teacher, let me ask a question unrelated to the dungeon: those students who left here alive, did they survive? Or rather, did they live like human beings afterward?"
The PE teacher was taken aback, then let out a long sigh: "I don't know, anyway, he's never come back."
Wu Wangwang remembered that Fu Mei and the others still remembered to go back and visit their teacher, but in this instance, no one came back.
The PE teacher couldn't reveal more details, so Wu Wangwang smiled silently, said goodbye to the teacher, and walked out of the old campus just as the bell rang to signal the end of class. Looking at the bustling campus again, she felt a pang of emotion, then took out her phone, which was hidden in a compartment of her backpack, and pointed it at the flowing students.
As soon as she raised her phone, she suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked up at the students walking back and forth on the school path. She didn't see anything. When she looked down at her phone again, she saw that most of the students were accompanied by ghosts. The ghosts floated around the students they were following, occasionally grabbing a handful of flowers or leaves and scattering them on the students' heads.
Students who can see the ghost will glare at it, while those who can't will simply think they've been hit by falling petals and leaves, and won't find it strange.
Wu Wangwang still took a few photos. She seemed to understand why the number of ghosts in the school had decreased significantly during the previous holidays, and why the head of the grade had chosen to believe the report.
This school is already sustained by these ghosts; death is even considered a form of resource replenishment.
Thinking of this, Wu Wangwang immediately ran downstairs to the teaching building, where she ran into Ling Yuanshan, who had come looking for her.
Ling Yuanshan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Wu Wangwang; "Thank goodness, you're still here. Are you alright?"
Wu Wangwang shook her head, casually said it was nothing, and dragged Ling Yuanshan back to the teaching building. The students all had to go downstairs to eat at this time, so the teaching building would be empty for a while.
Finding a quiet corner, Wu Wangwang quickly showed the photo to Ling Yuanshan: "This, I found a ghost."
Ling Yuanshan glanced at it, and although he was also shocked, he asked first, "Let's put this aside for now. What's wrong? Why aren't you in the classroom?"
At noon, Wu Wangwang hadn't confirmed all her scores and still held out hope, so she didn't tell Ling Yuanshan. Anyway, she could continue to improve her scores by boosting her scores in other subjects she was good at. Besides, judging from her usual report cards, Ge Nan's grades weren't particularly good; she was just a mediocre student whose scores hovered around the undergraduate cutoff.
Unexpectedly, the final result was slightly worse than Ge Nan's previous result, which happened to be the one where Ge Nan's score had improved.
Wu Wangwang said dejectedly about her poor scores: "I didn't expect to not even guess many questions correctly in biology, and I didn't get many fill-in-the-blank questions right either. It's okay, I'll just improve my other subjects later."
Ling Yuanshan was confident in Wu Wangwang's other subjects. He knew that Wu Wangwang was very unbalanced in her subjects, so he raised his hand and patted her head: "It's okay. Once things settle down, I'll give you some extra biology knowledge to help you get a few more points. As long as you're not taken away by a ghost, it's fine."
"Now it's not ghosts taking people away, it's people taking ghosts away." Wu Wangwang sighed as she looked at the photo.
Students at No. 6 Middle School rarely use their phones. Even if they do, they won't waste time taking pictures. And since everyone does it, if someone notices a photo being taken, they'll definitely delete it if they don't intend to report it, to avoid conflict between them.
It seems there aren't many wandering ghosts left in the school now, but with these ghosts keeping them company, the students have the strength to keep going.
It's like a cat in a prison, giving prisoners who no longer face the death penalty a reason to live.
After all, sometimes a school is more like a prison than a prison, and one or two cats are not enough to maintain the students' mental state.
Ling Yuanshan had never seen such a dungeon before. Humans and ghosts coexisted peacefully, but death and murder still did not stop. Some ghosts even disappeared.
Seeing that Ling Yuanshan didn't speak, Wu Wangwang hid her phone back in her bag and told him something else: "Oh right, when I was being punished by the PE teacher, I discovered some things. First, the punishment rules are unchanged. Second, the school rules require a vote from all teachers, students, and parents to be implemented. Finally, none of the students who left have come back."
After listening, Ling Yuanshan said, "These are all very ordinary rules. With such strict school management, students who leave definitely don't want to come back. In the current situation, we don't have much of a chance of getting help from the senior students. Moreover, after what just happened, I thought of another possibility."
"What?" Wu Wangwang asked in confusion.
“Supernatural events are not necessarily initiated by ghosts; they may also be driven by students,” Ling Yuanshan said confidently.
Those who died in this school were mostly students, some good and some bad. If the spirit of a good student was summoned, they would be like Ge Nan and the others, studying hard and waiting to leave. But what if the spirit of a student was summoned, and they only wanted to kill the top student to rise to the top?
What the ghost can teach its students is, of course, to kill and improve their ranking.
From another perspective, it can be considered a continuation of the same lineage.
Wu Wangwang suddenly realized: "That's right. Besides looking for scapegoats or wanting to eat people to increase their strength, ghosts also have to abide by the rules of the instance if they want to kill someone. But the rules of this instance are that students can summon ghosts to help them. So it doesn't mean that if you want to kill someone, you can just summon a vicious ghost?"
Ling Yuanshan let out a sigh of relief: "Senior sister can't leave the opera house, that's her own problem, there's nothing we can do, but we have to find a way to bring Tang Xiaofen and the others back, and also find our missing belongings, I suspect they were stolen."
Since everyone might be carrying a ghost, when Ge Nan was framed, the fact that she survived made others realize that she was accompanied by a ghost. The track and field team probably wanted to take her away long ago, but the ten of them usually escorted her in pairs except when they were in class, so it was difficult for them to make a move.
They were separated only around New Year's Day when they had to perform different programs.
To survive the high mortality rate in this instance, you must retrieve your relics.
Without delay, Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan rushed to the cafeteria to find the students. They hadn't known the importance of the belongings before and had been damaging their lockers and calling security to fix them, which had already been done once.
Realizing the importance of the items in the cabinet, they dared not damage it any further and opted to have someone come and retrieve them by card.
While no one was around, Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan told the students what was on their phones, telling them to keep the relics safe and never leave them unattended. If they were stolen, they should tell them immediately so they could work together to find them. Whether they could pass the level depended on the ghosts attached to these relics.
The belongings were incomplete, especially the suicide note and the cell phone that the girl had mentioned. That old cell phone turned out to be a real keepsake, which had been confiscated by the teacher. To get it back, they would have to steal it from the office.
Stealing from an office will result in a demerit, which is clearly stated in the school rules.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: The predecessors cut down the trees, and the successors are left to bask in the sun. How can you steal our offices before us? [Please!]
Ling Yuanshan: Even if no one steals it, this kind of thing should be written in the school rules. [laughing and crying with facepalm]
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