The whole school was shocked.
"Isn't this person..." Mu Sicheng looked at the young and slightly familiar face on the stands, nodded, and frowned, "Who is it? Have I seen him before?"
Tang Erda also frowned.
Lu Yizhan, isn't this Bai Liu's good friend? How come he appears in the game as an NPC?
——Is it the same as the situation at the Rose Factory before?
When Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi saw this face, they both paused and turned to look at Bai Liu without saying a word.
Bai Liu looked calm and said nothing.
The principal was so angry that he wanted to climb up and pull Lu Yizhan down: "What are you talking about, Lu Yizhan! Get down!"
Lu Yizhan nimbly dodged the principal who was about to come up. He held the microphone and ran around the stands skillfully, reciting his own commentary quickly:
"These seventeen students all improved their scores to the top 100 in a certain exam in their senior year of high school, and then went down the mountain..."
Mu Sicheng frowned and asked, "What does it mean to go down the mountain after going up?"
The voice of Lu Yizhang reading the script gradually overlapped with the voice of Bai Liu explaining calmly below:
"The students in the area on the mountain of Qiaomu High School are mobile, and they are selected based on their scores in each exam. The top 100 students in each exam can go up."
"The fact that they went up the mountain and then down again means that these 17 students were not ranked in the top 100 before, but they managed to get into the top 100 by chance in a certain exam, weekly or monthly exam, and successfully went up the mountain. However, in a subsequent exam, their scores fell out of the top 100 in the school, so they went down the mountain again."
Liu Jiayi was quick to notice something, and she turned around and said, "You know this school very well, Bai Liu."
"Is this your high school?"
The other four people paused, and suddenly turned to look at Bai Liu. Bai Liu's face had no expression at all. He looked at Lu Yizhan who was playing a chase game with the principal on the stands without saying a word.
On the stands, the principal was chasing furiously from behind, while Lu Yi was standing in front, dodging and running away nimbly as if he were hanging a monster. The sound of the script was getting louder and clearer:
"Although the police have verified that the 17 students committed suicide, the continuous deaths in one place are definitely not without reason."
"Everyone has the instinct to survive. When 17 people in the same environment go against their instinct and choose death, there must be some reason that forces them to escape this environment where they cannot survive at the cost of death."
Offstage, Liu Jiayi walked up to Bai Liu, looked him straight in the eye, and asked, "This instance has been in your high school, right? What happened in your high school?"
"What is your relationship to these seventeen dead students?"
Bai Liu was silent for a while, then he raised his eyes and said, "Not seventeen people died."
"No one died when I was in high school, but I failed to log in to this instance."
"The landing failed?!" Tang Erda looked at Bai Liu in astonishment, "How is it possible that the landing failed without the intervention of a strong external force?"
——The previous landings at the Rose Factory and Ice Age had failed, and it took almost the entire force of the Heretic Management Bureau to barely control them, and some people were killed and injured.
Tang Erda clearly remembered that there was no record of Qiaomu Private High School in the records of the Heresy Management Bureau, which meant that the Heresy Management Bureau had never come here to deal with heretics. In this copy, he failed to log in without anyone dying.
How is this possible? !
Bai Liu lowered his eyes: "Someone has prevented this copy from landing."
"One person stopped a copy from landing?!" Tang Erda asked in disbelief, "And there were no casualties?!"
"Yeah." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and looked at the stands. "He won't let innocent people die under his nose."
"He's just such a bad guy."
Lu Yizhan and the tired principal were standing on opposite sides of the stands. A group of people gathered around the principal and wanted to catch Lu Yizhan, but Lu Yizhan was too agile. He ran for only twenty minutes without being touched by them even the corner of his clothes.
The students in the audience had already started to make a noise. Many of them were laughing and then running around, just like what they did at Lu Yizhan. The teachers were simply unable to control the students' behavior, and the place suddenly became a mess.
On the stage, Lu Yizhan was calm and collected, holding the microphone and smiling as he discussed with the teachers: "When a school allows 17 children to choose to end their lives, there must be something seriously wrong with this school."
"These children committed suicide after climbing up the mountain and then coming down. Principal and teachers, have you ever thought that maybe the problem is not with these 17 children, but with the mountain?"
"The mountain?" Mu Ke quickly grasped the hidden meaning of Lu Yizhan's words, "Is there any clue to the game on that mountain?"
"You can say yes." Bai Liu said lightly.
"What's on the mountain?" Liu Jiayi stared at Bai Liu intently, "Have you guessed how to pass this dungeon?"
"I have a rough idea of how to clear this dungeon within seven days." Bai Liu explained calmly, "When I was in high school, our school had a very strange campus legend."
"What campus legend?" Mu Sicheng asked.
The principal on the stand panted and asked coldly, "These seventeen students committed suicide. How could it be related to the things on the mountain?"
Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan turned their heads at the same time. They both looked towards the dark and deep mountain that stood behind the campus. Their eyes fell on the top of the mountain, and their voices gradually overlapped:
"College entrance lake on the mountain."
The principal's expression turned cold, as if he had been exposed. He shouted angrily, "What Gaokao Lake? It's just a nice artificial lake. It's just a bunch of bullshit rumors made up by students! Lu Yizhan, don't spread rumors to me!"
Mu Sicheng asked curiously, "What is Gaokao Lake?"
"There's an artificial lake at Qiaomu Private High School, on the mountain." Bai Liu explained slowly, "I haven't been there, but people who have been there say it's a very beautiful artificial lake, right in the middle of the mountain, and it can reflect the moon."
"This artificial lake is called the College Entrance Examination Lake because it is said that every senior high school student who passes the entrance exam can walk around the edge of the lake three times in front and three times in the back on a moonless night with the moon reflected in the center of the lake without getting your feet wet. If you look towards the center of the lake, you will see that the yellow moon in the center of the lake disappears and becomes a set of yellow single-person tables and chairs."
"And in the middle of that table there will be a set of examination papers." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "That's the college entrance examination paper from that year."
"Gaokao Lake can predict the exam papers for that year."
"At this time, you have to jump into the lake, dive to the bottom of the lake, and do the college entrance examination papers. The score you get after you finish them will be your college entrance examination score for that year. If you don't jump, soon this set of tables and chairs will turn into the moon and disappear under the water."
Mu Sicheng was stunned: "Isn't this cheating?!"
"You can say that." Bai Liu said calmly, "But this is said to be the reason why Qiaomu Private High School's admission rate was once so high. It is also the reason why many rich and powerful people tried their best to send their students here, to the mountains."
"It's because of the legend of the College Entrance Examination Lake."