In the end, the Dean of Studies still didn't notice Bai Liu hiding in the corner. He and Hei Tao hid beside the wall behind the ping-pong table, holding hands, their breathing was disordered, waiting for the Dean of Studies to leave.

"After we go back." Bai Liu lowered his eyelids. His face was still flushed, but his tone was very calm. "Don't disturb me from studying."

Heitao held Bai Liu's hand tightly, and he said "oh", and asked: "Can we still come here tomorrow?"

Bai Liu did not answer, he just slowly shook Hei Tao's hand back.

In the busy study, the days passed by in a flash, and some strange things happened in the meantime, but they were quickly revealed.

For example, a girl from the mountain jumped into the lake because she was superstitious about the legend of the College Entrance Examination Lake, but she was rescued by a Lu Yi Station who happened to pass by. Then Qiaomu Private High School was reported for leaking questions.

The whole school was shocked. A secret purge came and the school spirit of the entire Qiaomu Private High School was shaken.

As a student sent to the welfare home, Bai Liu received special attention. The inspectors called him out and asked him about his situation. The inquiries were not official or formal, but rather like casual chat.

"How's life here?"

“Have you ever thought about what to do next?”

"Your grades have improved quite well recently."

After going around in circles, the inspector finally got to the point. He handed Bai Liu a business card and said with great care, "I have learned about the situation in your class and also about your situation."

"I can't tell you much, but I can tell you that you are not without help."

The man patted Bai Liu on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Many people are willing to help you share the burden, including me, the welfare home, and your friends. Don't fight against some unfair things alone."

He said this briefly, as if to avoid embarrassing Bai Liu, and did not go into details about him. Instead, he waved his hand, turned around and prepared to leave.

Bai Liu later found out that he was given special attention because the student who anonymously reported the missing exam questions at Qiaomu High School mentioned him when he pointed out the many unfair situations in the school.

During that period, Qiaomu High School was in turmoil. From the principal to the dean who caught little couples every day, all of them were investigated and suspended. Even Xu Wei, the small fish at the bottom of the food chain, was affected. Her title of senior teacher and her evaluation as an excellent teacher were investigated, and the inspectors suspended her qualifications to work in extracurricular education institutions.

Overnight, Xu Wei's monthly income dropped from just over 30,000 to 4,100, and it was still declining. As a result, Xu Wei's face turned pale when she came to class every day. She would feel like she was going to faint when she picked up the English lesson plan, even before she opened her mouth.

Finally one day, Xu Wei fainted in class.

That day, she was found to have accepted gifts from her parents worth nearly 200,000 yuan, and she was asked to return the full amount.

The gifts that have been sold can be converted into money and repaid.

The classroom was in chaos again. Bao Kangle hugged Xu Wei, who was lying on the podium, and cried out in dismay, "Mom! Mom! What happened to you, Mom?"

Looking at Xu Wei's face which was as pale as a dead person after she fell down, those students who had used various financial resources to do things outside the rules had visible fear on their faces.

...Xu Wei's fate today may be their fate tomorrow.

These students and their parents are also being investigated. The members of the investigation team act as if they are the masters of Qiaomu High School. They come to visit whenever they have nothing to do, and every time they visit, they make a teacher or student faint. It seems that they will not leave until the matter of the missed college entrance examination questions is investigated thoroughly.

Moreover, as time goes by, the number of these people has not decreased, but has increased.

Bai Liu, who was sitting by the window, lowered his eyes and looked out the window at a new group of investigators who had come in. These investigators had octopus-shaped badges on their shoulders, and the previous investigators welcomed them in with great respect.

Under such circumstances, Bai Liu, the orphanage student, became their main focus, or the object of their protection. No one in the school dared to say or do anything disrespectful to him.

After Xu Wei was discharged from the hospital, the first thing she did when she arrived at school was to call Bai Liu to her office and apologize to him.

"Student Bai Liu." Xu Wei's body had not recovered yet. She leaned on the desk with a pale face to prop up her thin body. Her voice was weak, without the arrogance she had when she called Bai Liu over to teach him a lesson. "The leaders of the investigation team came to talk to me. Did you report this to them?"

Bai Liu glanced at her calmly and said, "Teacher, is this what you asked me to talk about?"

The implication was obvious: if he continued to talk about such boring things, he would leave.

Xu Wei raised her head and took a look at Bai Liu, who was totally disregarding her. She almost bit her back teeth to pieces and was so angry that her whole body was shaking. She subconsciously opened her mouth to curse.

But when she was about to say it, she thought of those investigators whose origins were unknown and those strange rumors she had vaguely heard about Gaokao Lake. Xu Wei felt a chill on the back of her neck and stopped talking:

"...No, the teacher asked you to come here just to say sorry to you."

"I didn't mean to scold you before. I just said a few words to you because I was anxious because you didn't make progress. I didn't expect that you would degrade your personality and insult you. If these words hurt you, I sincerely apologize here."

"Yeah." Bai Liu nodded indifferently.

Xu Wei's eyes lit up. She slowly pushed a document in front of Bai Liu and bit her lower lip: "Student Bai Liu, if you understand the teacher, please sign this letter of understanding so that I can show it to the leaders of the investigation team."

Bai Liu glanced indifferently over the letter of understanding and then picked up the pen.

Xu Wei's eyes widened as wide as she could.

Bai Liu signed several names on the letter of understanding: [Orphan from Welfare Home], [Social Parasite], [Mental Patient], and then looked at Xu Wei, who was stunned, and said calmly: "I have signed it, teacher."

"That's not your name at all!" Xu Wei's expression became distorted and hysterical.

Bai Liu replied calmly: "Teacher, you also know that this is not my name, right?"

"Then why do you always call me like that?"

Xu Wei's expression froze. She looked dazed and absurd, and her hands fell from the desk as if they were weakened.

Yes... these are the words she used to curse Bai Liu before.

Now it's all back on her head.

Bai Liu put down his pen and turned away, "Teacher, if you really want to apologize, show some sincerity."

"At least bring classmate Bao Kangle to apologize with you."

A small flower bed next to the playground.

Fang Dian listened to Bai Liu's account of Xu Wei's apology to him with a refreshed look, and gave him a thumbs up: "Cool!"

Bai Liu looked away and looked at Lu Yizhan: "What happened at Gaokao Lake? I heard from others that you were the one who rescued the people?"

"Just happened to run into her." Lu Yizhan shook his head and sighed, "I don't know why this girl was so depressed that she suddenly jumped into the lake. Fortunately, I was quick enough to pull her out."

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why did you appear around Gaokao Lake in the middle of the night?"

Lu Yizhan paused and said, "Because I'm investigating the Gaokao Lake incident."

"What happened at Gaokao Lake?" Bai Liu asked.

Lu Yizhan placed his hands on his knees and slowly clenched them: "I carefully investigated the origin of the legend of Gaokao Lake and discovered the specific conditions for opening Gaokao Lake in the legend."

"What are the specific conditions for opening Gaokao Lake?" Bai Liu narrowed his eyes. "What is this?"

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and said, "You guys down at the foot of the mountain may have heard the rumor about Gaokao Lake, which is that you can see the test paper when the moon is reflected in the center of the lake. But we up at the mountain also heard another version of the story from some teachers in private conversations."

"——The students who can open the college entrance examination lake are definitely the students who are destined to fail in the college entrance examination."

Lu Yizhan's eyes deepened: "That is to say, only when a student fails in the future college entrance examination can he open the college entrance examination lake."

"Suppose the rumors about Gaokao Lake are true, but this doesn't make sense, right?" Fang Dian propped up his chin. "If you can see the future Gaokao papers in Gaokao Lake, do them once, learn them, and then do them in the Gaokao venue, your grades should be okay, right?"

"That's not the case." Lu Yizhan's lips were pressed into a straight line, his eyes were deep, and his tone was unusually solemn. "You have done questions in the college entrance examination. If you don't know how to do it, then you will never be able to do it right again."

Hospital, Ward 301.

A girl with wet hair and a pale face was lying on the bed. She was the girl who was rescued from the bottom of the water by Lu Yizhan last night. Now she was lying on the bed with a weak look on her face, but there was no trace of defeat after drowning. Instead, her face was full of excitement. Her eyes glanced left neurotically at the mobile phone on her bedside table.

Her heart was beating very fast and she slowly reached out to take the phone.

Press to turn on the phone, unlock the screen, open the browser, and start typing in the topic to search.

The ward was empty except for a high school girl who was searching for answers with an almost crazy look on her face. Her chest was heaving violently due to her intense emotions, and the shrunken light and shadow of the screen was reflected in her eyes.

【What is cyanobacteria? 】

[Is "step by step" the right idiom? 】

…

She saw it, she really saw the college entrance examination paper underwater, and she successfully memorized and answered many questions correctly!!

The more she searched, the more rapid her breathing became. Her originally pale face quickly turned red and her lips trembled unconsciously.

There was one question, a big one on organic chemistry that she often got wrong. She tried hard to memorize the question and wanted to search for it.

But the moment she tried to write out the question, her mind went blank.

She couldn't remember the question.

How could that be?!

She thought about it again and again unwillingly, but the 15-point question that she didn't know the answer to kept circling in her mind, as if it was stuck by some unspeakable barrier, preventing her from writing or thinking.

The girl pursed her lips.

Maybe she didn't remember or forgot. If she looked at the types of common organic chemistry questions in the college entrance examination, she would know what kind of question it was!

But when the girl opened the collection of wrong answers from the college entrance examination organic chemistry exam memo on her phone, her mind went blank again. These topics that were her weak points, the topics she had studied hard for more than a month for the college entrance examination, now seemed like rows of alien text, twisting and shaking in her eyes. Each word turned into a small worm with human faces growing on it, grinning evilly at her outside the phone.

"Ah!" She dropped the phone in horror.

"Miao Miao, what's wrong?" The father who was standing outside the door pushed open the door and looked at the wrong questions in the memo on the phone that was thrown on the quilt. He wanted to pick them up helplessly, "Have a good rest, don't do the questions for now."

But Miaomiao seemed to have gone crazy. With her hair disheveled, she snatched the phone from her father's hand and looked through the list of her wrong answers with an almost panicked and dull look.

There was a big organic question that she didn't answer at the bottom of the lake, and now she can't see any of the questions.

The biological genetics problem was not solved at the bottom of the lake and it remains the same.

Physics timer speed calculation problem...

She slowly put down her phone, and with a blank expression, she recalled the story of Gaokao Lake that her friend had jokingly told her:

——【The score from the lake bottom test is your college entrance examination score.】

She laughed and argued: "How can I get the same score if I do the same test paper twice?"

Now she finally understood.

——Because the questions that you didn’t solve the first time will be erased from your world.

No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to do it right again.