Chapter 54 Grave Numbers Above All 16 Sixth Middle School
Looking at her, Wu Wangwang recalled Ling Yuanshan's statement that some players would be corrupted. Logically speaking, this instance should not have such a setting, so why was she still affected?
Moreover, as students in the same regular class, Liu Hong jumped off a building, while Girl C just studied like a madwoman and hated those with good grades.
The difference between the two was undeniable. Perhaps Ling Yuanshan's guess was correct; the referee chose different death rules to differentiate between the two groups of players.
Judging from the state of the woman, it seemed impossible to communicate with her. Wu Wangwang wanted to try to calm her down, but stopped when she reached out. If she did that, the information she received would be unfounded, and game players generally assume that clues deduced from the game are likely false.
In the end, Wu Wangwang put her hand down and chose to check the cabinet and the bed.
Among the cabinets designed to be installed against the wall, one of them has the word "cheating" carved in huge characters, making it impossible to ignore.
Since both female student C and male student C were reported for cheating and thus ranked first and second in the exam, Wu Wangwang realized that this was female student C's locker, which was unlocked, and she opened it directly.
As soon as it was opened, a lot of books and notebooks fell out, covered with all sorts of notes. These were real notes, not the "go to hell" that the female student is frantically writing now.
The items fell to the ground, so Wu Wangwang had to pick them up. She looked through them and found that they were the same as the ones she had seen in the changing room of the teaching building. They were all very carefully taken notes, and it was impossible for someone who didn't work hard to do them like that.
The cabinet didn't even contain any of the girl's personal belongings; it was full of books, notebooks, and unopened pen refills.
Wu Wangwang didn't find any useful information in the cabinet, so she went to search through the beds. Since she hadn't had time to find the students' and players' living information yet, she didn't know which bed was hers, so she simply searched through them all.
Of the ten beds, nine were fine, but in the corner, Wu Wangwang found a needle on the pillow. The thing almost pierced her finger, but luckily Wu Wangwang sensed something first and found it was a needle stuck in the pillow after searching carefully.
Then Wu Wangwang found a total of seven needles on the bed, distributed in the pillow, mattress and quilt. If Nv Bing went to bed directly, she would be pricked like a hedgehog.
After cleaning up all the needles, Wu Wangwang found a suicide note in the pillowcase. It looked quite old. The note said that she had done poorly on a test because she was sick once, which she could not accept. She was afraid of dropping her grades, so she chose to escape through death.
Judging from the age of the paper, it must have been stored for at least several years, as it looks about the same age as the oldest letter in the counselor's office.
The girl next to the desk basically ignored what Wu Wangwang was doing. After she finished speaking, she started repeating "Go to hell" again.
Wu Wangwang originally wanted to leave, but Ling Yuanshan seemed to care about his classmate. After thinking about it, Wu Wangwang went back and patted the girl on the shoulder as if brushing off dust: "Classmate, you seem to be a little dirty."
The woman suddenly jolted awake, as if she had just come to her senses after being possessed. She was dazed for a moment, and was shocked to see the scribbles on her desk, but her expression seemed to indicate that she still remembered them.
Then, the woman noticed someone behind her. She turned around abruptly and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Wu Wangwang: "It's you, Ge Nan... By the way, I have something to tell you and Ling Yuanshan!"
Seeing this, Wu Wangwang took the opportunity to ask, "What is it? I just came here to see if there were any clues in the cabinet, but there were none."
"The clue isn't here, it's the details of the punishment!" Woman C stood up excitedly and told Wu Wangwang about her punishment.
Wu Wangwang didn't actually give her a special blessing, because the woman's condition seemed more like she was being affected by evil energy. Many people, when affected, will do strange things, such as suddenly cleaning their rooms in the middle of the night. That is actually because they have been affected by something, such as an emotional or mental illness outbreak.
Female C was influenced by something else, which made her only think about getting first place. However, her situation was different from that of Guan Lian and the others in the previous instance. Guan Lian and the others were assimilated into the rules and heading towards death, while Female C and the others were not heading towards death. They just wanted to get first place.
Regarding the punishment on the first day of the dungeon, Female C said that after entering the classroom, she found an old-fashioned cell phone in her drawer. It was a white flip phone with a beautiful red butterfly pattern on it. Given Female C's age, she had never seen such an old-fashioned cell phone before. In addition, the butterfly kept flashing, so she couldn't help but pick it up.
As a result, the homeroom teacher rushed out and grabbed her, saying that she had brought her phone to class, which was a violation and would result in points being deducted and punishment being imposed.
The woman was almost paralyzed with fear. Without even realizing it, she asked, "Is that a cell phone?"
Then the homeroom teacher opened the cover, showed her the screen, and confirmed that it was indeed a mobile phone. There were also some test question explanations inside, which seemed to confirm that the girl had cheated on the exam.
But at that time, the girl knew nothing. She didn't even have a chance to explain herself before she was sent to the old campus. There, she was locked in a small, dark room. There was no light anywhere in the room, and she couldn't feel the edge of the room. It felt like she had been walking in the darkness for a very long time.
Even without claustrophobia, people will feel fear in a place where they can't see or touch anything. The woman ran around inside for a very long time but couldn't find the exit or the wall. She screamed and cried wildly until her voice was hoarse.
In her despair, she suddenly heard someone whispering in her ear: "Exams come first, scores are paramount. If you do well on the exams, you won't have to go through this pain. If you want to do well, you have to start by following the school rules."
At that time, the woman was so terrified that she had a mental breakdown. She felt as if she had been locked up for many days, and she was hungry, tired and thirsty. In her collapse, she started to memorize the text. The more she memorized, the more dazed she became. Later, she felt like she was in a daze and didn't know what she was doing after she came out.
Just now, when Wu Wangwang patted her shoulder, it was as if a sleepwalker had finally woken up from a dream and realized that she was dreaming.
"I must be seeing a ghost! I think the ghost is right. This game is all about scores. As long as we get good scores, we can pass the level safely!" Girl C said excitedly, grabbing Wu Wangwang's arm. She hadn't lost her memory, and despite no hints, she couldn't help but believe in this rule that sounded so easy to follow.
After listening, Wu Wangwang reminded him: "The referee said from the beginning that we should do better in the test according to the rules of the game. Other things were just meant to affect our performance. Look at the notebook on your desk. According to your habits, you should have done the questions properly after you came here, but you were still doing questions yesterday, and today you are writing 'go to hell'."
That's why you need to keep looking for the rules and information in the instance, so that you won't be affected or die when you're trying to complete the rules for clearing the instance as stated by the referee.
The woman glanced down at her notebook in a daze, then covered her head in horror: "So... what I did after I came out of the dark room... was completely beyond my control?"
Wu Wangwang gently comforted her, "It's okay. People are like this after being affected by evil spirits. As long as they don't kill, set fires, or commit suicide, it's not serious."
"...Thank you." The woman didn't seem comforted.
She also wanted to visit other girls, so Wu Wangwang told Girl Bing to stay in the dormitory. She had already removed anything from the dormitory that might bother her. She also told her to remember to eat at the cafeteria. The cafeteria seemed safe at the moment. As long as she ate at the designated times and returned to the dormitory to rest, there shouldn't be any major problems.
As Wu Wangwang reached the door, Girl C suddenly caught up with her: "Ge Nan, Ge Nan, wait a minute. I want to ask, what should we do if we encounter something like a cell phone again? I didn't even realize it was a cell phone at the time because it was an old model. I think I wasn't even born when I used that thing..."
Wu Wangwang recognized her. The timeline of the instance she was in happened to be when rich people could afford flip phones, although there weren't any fancy models. But paper effigies were already being made and burned for gods and ancestors, so she had met her there.
The problem is that these students are all very young. Ling Yuanshan dropped out of school due to illness and is older than them. He has seen some old people before. But the remaining students are really young. They started school early and come from ordinary families. Their experience in this life is limited to school.
Moreover, the woman's considerations are not without merit. If something unfamiliar appears, it is difficult for people to judge how to deal with it.
Wu Wangwang thought for a while and said, "It's difficult to find a solution because Ling Yuanshan and I discovered that the teachers and students at the school would deliberately frame us because of the death rate. Even if we didn't break the rules, they would use some outrageous reasons to make us accept punishment."
The punishments are designed to drive all the students to a mental breakdown. If they can't handle it, it will affect their chances of passing the exam, and then they might really die.
Woman C hadn't expected this; she thought it was an accident: "How could this happen..."
"The malice of that watercolor prop was too obvious. It was probably used by the user against someone they disliked, and it ended up affecting us. There's no better way to deal with this situation right now. You can only try to avoid being targeted by NPCs using the school rules. I think that thoroughly studying the school rules is the best way right now," Wu Wangwang said helplessly.
Since things had come to this, Nv Bing could only believe Wu Wangwang's words. She took out her student handbook and began to study it word by word.
Then Wu Wangwang went to the dormitories of several other girls and found different things in each of them. Like Liu Hong, these NPCs seemed to have made wishes to different things in order to improve their grades.
However, Wu Wangwang dared not clear out the students behind her too thoroughly, as the gap was too large. She only slightly awakened their minds to prevent them from committing suicide on the verge of collapse.
Wu Wangwang packed a bunch of things in her backpack, sealed each item carefully, and took it to the playground. Ling Yuanshan had already arrived at the playground by then.
"Young Master, let me tell you, I found a lot of strange things!" Wu Wangwang ran over and held up her backpack for Ling Yuanshan to see.
Ling Yuanshan glanced at it, then silently opened his backpack: "I found some too..."
Wu Wangwang peeked out and saw that it was a backpack full of cell phones.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: It looks like you stole a phone to sell. [Facepalm while peeking]
Ling Yuanshan: I shouldn't be that down on my luck [laughing and crying while covering face]
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