Chapter 72 The Number of Graves is Paramount 34 Sixth Middle School
They secretly brought these things out, barely making it to the cafeteria for dinner, followed by evening self-study, with absolutely no time to rest.
Even Ling Yuanshan gradually felt that this tense life was wearing down his will, let alone the students who had been here for three years; it would be good enough if they didn't go crazy.
Evening self-study was just the same old repetitive problem-solving. Finally, school was over. Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan took the belongings to the students and gave the phone to Nv Bing. Nv Bing had heard someone calling her name when she was being punished, which should have been the ghost she had summoned. Now that she had the phone, she should be able to dream about the ghost.
As soon as girl C saw the phone, she exclaimed, "That's it! I found it in my drawer on the first day of morning self-study!"
This phone is very small and very pretty; at first glance, you might mistake it for a folding mirror for a woman.
"That's good. Although the drawing you gave me is rather abstract, fortunately, among the phones confiscated by the homeroom teacher, only this model matches the position you drew." Wu Wangwang said, returning the abstract drawing to Girl C.
Afterwards, everyone went back to the dormitory together. On the way, Wu Wangwang thought for a moment and gave the suicide note at the beginning of the article to Ling Yuanshan.
Wu Wangwang said, "Although the senior said that a person can only invite one ghost to possess them, the opera house senior is not actually someone you invited. It was the flute senior who made the connection. Your spot may still be empty. Try to call the head of the article over. I'll see if I can call the senior back."
Ling Yuanshan nodded: "Okay, we'll exchange information tomorrow morning."
They said goodbye at the crossroads, and Wu Wangwang went back to the dormitory with the girls, then parted ways on different floors.
Fearing that it would be stolen, Wu Wangwang always kept her medal close to her body, even when she took a shower, and carefully placed it under her pillow when she slept.
However, since her senior kept appearing in her dreams all night, Wu Wangwang began to wonder if it was because she didn't need to sleep, which prevented the ghost from coming to her dreams? Or was the ghost's punishment so severe that her senior was still too busy?
Having found nothing, she waited until the next morning, then quickly met up with the other girls to go find Ling Yuanshan.
They've figured out the timing in the last few days, and they'll be able to meet at the crossroads.
Ling Yuanshan spoke first: "I met Wen Shou. She came very quickly and is now with me, but I don't have time to hear her explain in detail yet. What about you? Have you met anyone else?"
Wu Wangwang thought she was the only one who hadn't encountered it, but it turned out that everyone else was shaking their heads as well.
“What’s going on…” Wu Wangwang was stunned for a moment.
Ling Yuanshan suddenly frowned, pulled Wu Wangwang aside, and said, "We don't have much time, let's not discuss this anymore. Class is important, let's go to class first, we can talk about it tonight."
Everyone else thought Ling Yuanshan was telling the truth, but only Wu Wangwang noticed a momentary change in Ling Yuanshan's expression. She thought for a moment and guessed that it must be because the beginning of the article mentioned something, perhaps related to other ghosts.
It might be important, so we can't just say it casually. There are NPCs all around us who are preparing for morning self-study, so it's really not good to speak casually. Everyone subconsciously sped up.
Ling Yuanshan was preoccupied all day. He was somewhat absent-minded during lunch and after school. After dinner, with an hour left before evening self-study, he finally couldn't sit still any longer. He told the students to go back and shower first, while he took Wu Wangwang to the old campus.
But it wasn't the music classroom from last time; it was the administration building that was locked after class.
The building was very old; the railings were difficult to step on, and the walls were too dangerous to kick. Ling Yuanshan had to put in some effort to find a good path to help Wu Wangwang climb up.
Then he randomly found an unlocked office and hid inside, then said to Wu Wangwang, "Take out your phone and check the group chat."
Wu Wangwang took out her phone with a puzzled look. She kept her phone off during the day to prevent it from running out of battery or ringing suddenly.
After turning on the computer, Wu Wangwang opened the chat software, entered the group chat, and found that the group, which had been dormant for a long time, had a new message, which was the first post by Wen.
[The Hermit Girl: Flute-senpai and the others will never return, because they are dead.]
Upon seeing this message, Wu Wangwang's eyes widened in surprise: "What? Why? When a ghost dies, its soul is scattered. Who did this?"
The text begins by stating a school rule that fighting is prohibited on campus, and that everyone, whether ghost or student, must abide by the rules, or be punished for violating them.
Fighting is a serious matter at the Sixth Middle School, with consequences many times more severe than at other schools. In other schools, fighting might result in probation, and after various investigations, a decision might be made on whether or not to record a demerit, which would be removed upon graduation.
However, once the Sixth Middle School takes action, the first step is expulsion, and a major demerit will be recorded in the student's file, leaving no chance for reduction or cancellation.
The rules were mentioned at the beginning of the article before the story began. After her death, she discovered that she was still at the school, but she had never been so free. So she didn't go back to find her friends, but stayed at the school quietly and kept an eye on them from time to time.
About two weeks ago, a very strict new teacher came to the school. He was invited to be the homeroom teacher of the worst class, in the hope that he could give the worst class a final push and help them improve their scores and stabilize their college entrance examination scores.
The first one to be arrested was Gao Hu. He wasn't in a bad class, but he was an art student. When the Sixth Middle School ranked students, art students, sports students, and special students were ranked based on a comprehensive ranking.
Gao Hu grew up abroad and his Chinese is terrible. He'd be lucky if he could even understand most of the exam paper. Plus, he has recommendation letters from his parents and good art grades, so he could be admitted with a lower score requirement.
But the new teacher didn't think so. He believed that some students in the school couldn't improve because they were at the bottom of the class and didn't work hard. So he approached Gao Hu and told him to study hard. Even if he was a foreigner, he had to follow Chinese standards when he came to China.
In fact, Gao Hu had already tried very hard. Cultural differences cannot be overcome in a day or two. He listened to his teacher and decided to follow the teacher's standards.
In this way, the new teacher talked to all the students with low academic scores, until he finished talking to the student with the highest score in his class.
Senior year of high school is already tiring enough, but suddenly all the students below the top of the class in the worst-performing class were affected, and they all complained. The learning tasks given by the new teachers, combined with the already existing intensity of school learning, quickly drove many students crazy.
Students who weren't originally in the lower-achieving classes started to resent the students in those classes, feeling that it was because of them that the new teacher included them in the class. They were originally assessed based on a comprehensive evaluation, and they had put in the same effort in arts and sports. While others were doing practice problems, they were also constantly practicing.
Why should they be treated with a single standard now?
Conflict was about to erupt. Someone couldn't take it anymore and thought that if someone died, the school would be on alert for a holiday. So they chose the student with the worst grades in the worst class—unfortunately, it was boy A. He was a dance student, timid and cowardly, and his grades were not very good. His overall score was always the lowest among the ten students.
At the time, the ghosts did not realize that ghosts were also subject to school rules. They were just used to the existence of school rules before they died, and subconsciously avoided making choices that violated the school rules, which is why everyone went smoothly.
But if male A is attacked by other ghosts, his ghost and the other ghosts will definitely come to help. The students are either studying or going back to their dormitories. Are they just going to watch and do nothing?
Everyone in the group is a friend; how could they just stand by and watch Man A get murdered?
Just like when they rescued Genan, the ghosts outnumbered them and managed to save Man A from the edge of the railing. However, the next day, the villains accused Man A of using many ghosts to fight, completely turning the tables on him.
According to school rules, if people aren't fighting, it's fine; but if ghosts are fighting, they'll all be expelled.
She said at the beginning of the article that she thought that dropping out of school would allow her to leave the school and be reincarnated. She even wanted to see her off. Later, when she went to the old campus, she found that the ghosts left behind in the school were very weak and would be eliminated by the school rules if they violated them.
The school does not keep rebellious students who violate school rules, whether they are human or demon.
Wu Wangwang sensed something was amiss: "Why does the school have such power? It's one thing for humans, they're given this by their parents, but what about ghosts? Ghosts have no parents anymore, shouldn't their fate be governed by the underworld?"
[The Hermit Girl: Because of consensus, a rule agreed upon by more than half of the people becomes a school rule. Even if some people disagree, as long as the school rule is established, it becomes the rule that restricts everyone in this school. Sometimes I can't tell whether what kills us is the school rule or the rule in our own hearts that we can't break free from.]
In other words, did those ghosts who died know they were going to die for breaking school rules, or were they truly erased by the school rules?
This is the truth that Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan investigated for two weeks. The new teacher was summoned by the school after the ghosts fought. He was told that he could no longer use the rules of intensity to force students. Today it's ghosts fighting, tomorrow it could be humans. With the college entrance examination just around the corner, even if they knew that such a method was effective, they could not allow such an accident to happen.
The new teacher was reassigned to the first year of high school to adapt to the school's rules, so players will not be able to access this information once they enter the instance.
The article concludes by saying that if you want to survive here until graduation, there are two rules: first, persevere; second, abide by the school rules.
There is no other way. Even if someone comes to kill you and steal your ranking, you have to grit your teeth and endure it. You can't fight back. If the school finds out you fight back, you will be expelled, and your ghost will be wiped out.
After listening to what was said at the beginning, Wu Wangwang remained silent for a long time. She remembered two things: "Something seems wrong. I threatened the ghost with scissors, cut the ghost's hair, and argued with the vice principal, but I was fine."
Ling Yuanshan also recalled what Wu Wangwang had told him before. He was silent for a while, then hesitated and said, "Could it be... that your behavior has been defined as bullying? In this school, this kind of covert bullying does not violate school rules. If it did, Ge Nan and Gao Hu would not have been bullied all this time."
Wu Wangwang suddenly realized: "I know how to survive and pass the level. While getting good grades, I turn myself into a bully because the school doesn't care. If someone tries to force us to fight back, we bully them back. If they can't help but fight back, we report them to the teacher, just like Jingjing's boyfriend. Didn't he graduate without any worries?"
“I know you mean to retaliate if we’re bullied, but we’ve never done anything like that before. It’s easy to misjudge the situation and end up being exposed by the NPCs with their extensive experience, making us break school rules. If only there were a way to keep us from being attacked until graduation,” Ling Yuanshan said helplessly.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: Eat the ghost! Eating it doesn't count as fighting. [Empty bowl]
Ling Yuanshan: [Question mark]
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone! Wishing every little cutie a full and round Mid-Autumn Festival, just like the full moon on the fifteenth! [kiss]
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