"Miao Miao, are you okay?" Miao Miao's father worriedly helped his daughter up, who looked dazed. He put his phone aside and said, "You were unconscious after drowning, and then lost consciousness. It took more than a week for you to fully wake up. Don't be so emotional. Dad will be very worried about you."

"By the way, your homeroom teacher and the principal are here to see you."

Miaomiao raised her head in a trance: "Who?"

Miaomiao's father patiently repeated: "The principal and the homeroom teacher."

As he spoke, the door of her ward was pushed open, and a group of men and women with gloomy expressions and dusty faces walked in. The principal looked at Miaomiao's father, pulled up a smile, and then looked at Miaomiao on the hospital bed with a greedy expression as if he was looking at a piece of cooked meat.

Miaomiao's father subconsciously blocked the uncomfortable look, but soon the principal retracted his gaze. Miaomiao's female head teacher stepped forward to negotiate with Miaomiao's father: "Miaomiao's father, Miaomiao has missed a lot of review courses recently. Let me tell you how to make up for it."

"How about we talk outside?" The female teacher glanced at Miaomiao and lowered her voice, "I'm afraid Miaomiao would be anxious if she heard it."

Miaomiao's father stood up hesitantly, but he finally nodded: "Let's go."

The door of the ward was not closed, but Wang Miao was sleeping in a bed inside. The blue curtain was drawn, so it was difficult to see from outside. The principal stared at Miaomiao with a gloomy face. Miaomiao looked back at him in a daze. She could hardly recognize that the middle-aged man in front of her with flabby skin and old looks was the principal who was so high-spirited during the 100-day countdown.

"You have seen the college entrance examination paper, right?" the principal suddenly asked.

Wang Miao was startled. Her mind came to its full clarity and she subconsciously asked, "How do you know?!"

"How many questions can you still remember?" The principal's expression became more and more gloomy. He leaned his hands on the railing of the bed and his tone became even more aggressive. "Your grades are still okay. You can answer 400 to 500 questions correctly. Do you remember them all?"

Wang Miao was frightened. She curled up in fear, shaking her head from side to side, and couldn't utter a word.

The principal took a deep breath, lowered his hands from the railing, stared at Wang Miao uncertainly for a while, and said, "Now that things have come to this, I'll just tell you straight away."

"I believe you will know after seeing Gaokao Lake that the rumors about Gaokao Lake are true."

"There is something special at the bottom of the lake that allows certain students, those who are destined to fail the college entrance examination, to see their future college entrance examination scores."

Wang Miao finally spoke, her voice trembling as she asked, "How did you know?"

"Because I'm a player." The principal lifted his drooping eyelids, "The things at the bottom of the lake are the props I redeemed from the game and put in there."

These words fell into Wang Miao's ears, and turned into a confused string of sounds. She raised her head blankly and asked back: "What did you just say?"

The principal and the two teachers beside him looked at each other and said in a low voice: "She is not a player. Where is the Lu Station that saved her?"

The teacher next to him replied in a serious tone: "I have repeatedly tried the Lu Station in our class. He should just be passing by to save someone. He is not a player."

"Lu Yizhan has circled around Gaokao Lake before, but his desire cannot even open Gaokao Lake, which does not fit the characteristics of a player."

"Who answered all the questions correctly and escaped unscathed from this tool and reported us?" The principal's expression was somewhat cruel and bloody. "He also attracted people from the Heretic Management Bureau to come and take my tool away."

"Have the people we come into contact with in the game been screened?"

A teacher nodded and said, "We have checked it. We were all in disguise in the game and have never been exposed. It is impossible that a player would deliberately follow us from the game to the real world to target us."

"That should be what we guessed before." The principal sat down with his arms and legs spread out, and he smiled sinisterly, "There was a little bastard in this school who entered the game, and was lucky enough to come out alive. He discovered that there are heretics and props in this world, and then he meddled in other people's business and came out to play with us."

"Yes." The teacher next to him bowed and agreed, "Otherwise, how could someone get all the answers right on the prop of the [Incorrect College Entrance Examination Paper] placed at the bottom of the lake, and memorize the questions and bring them out? And then directly report us to the investigation team and the Heresy Administration with a complete college entrance examination paper?"

“This is something that only players can do.”

Wang Miao looked at the principal and the teacher who were talking in front of her, but she couldn't hear a word. This reminded her of the wrong questions she had seen before, and she couldn't help but tremble: "What are you talking about?!"

The teacher who was talking to the principal raised his head and glanced at Wang Miao, his eyes were as contemptuous as if he was looking at an ant: "Then how to deal with Wang Miao, an ordinary student?"

"Handle it as usual." The principal waved his hand, stood up and left, saying impatiently, "You talk to her. I have to go back to school."

The flesh on his cheeks trembled slightly with anger, and he spoke angrily: "I asked my subordinates to help me screen out a list of students who might be players. I will verify them one by one after returning."

"If I could find this little bastard who ruined my business..."

The principal left the ward. When he went out, he greeted Miaomiao's father outside the door in a friendly manner. It was hard to tell that he was asking his teacher to explain something to his daughter.

In the ward, the teacher sat opposite Wang Miao and began the conversation in a businesslike manner:

"Student Wang Miao, you have already jumped into the college entrance examination lake and done the questions. If the thing at the bottom of the lake exists, if nothing unexpected happens, the questions you did will become college entrance examination questions, and you will definitely get the score you got at the bottom of the lake. You must have been in a hurry to do the questions at the bottom of the lake, right? That score would not look good."

"You now have two choices. The first is to take the college entrance examination like this and then fail miserably."

Wang Miao retorted with a trembling voice: "I, I can repeat it!"

The teacher looked at Wang Miao with pity and said, "Reread? Do you think you can still understand the questions?"

"Didn't you hear me? This score is definitely your college entrance exam score, no matter how many times you repeat it."

"——This is a rule tool, which means that no matter what method is used, it will definitely follow this rule in the end."

"What is the second choice?" Wang Miao's teeth were chattering. She didn't hear the second half of the sentence and just asked in a rigid tone.

The teacher smiled and said, "Tell us the questions you remember, and we will provide them to students in need and give you a generous commission."

"What do you think, Wang Miao?"

Wang Miao's mind went blank, the world was spinning in front of her eyes, and she couldn't utter a word.

At the same time, at Xu Wei's home.

"Are there any students in class who are behaving strangely recently?"

Xu Wei was on the phone in the living room. She nodded humbly and fearfully while continuously saying on the phone: "Yes, yes, that's right, Principal, yes, Bai Liu's behavior is very strange. I received a notebook from him, and on it was a picture of him and another very strange creature that was with him every day."

"Yes, probably since the beginning of his senior year, this student's behavior has suddenly become very strange. He often talks to himself, saying things I don't understand, and his grades have also risen dramatically. His early situation was very bad, but in his senior year, it was as if he got some help, and his situation suddenly improved."

"Does this student named Bai Liu want anything in particular?" Xu Wei repeated what was said on the phone.

"Yes!" Xu Wei's tone became excited. She stood up and said, "I've heard before that he likes money very much. He did a lot of things in the previous private charity welfare home just to make money. He also likes horror games and scary creatures very much. He plays horror games when he has nothing to do."

"He's particularly interested in horror games."

On the other side of the phone, in the principal's office.

The principal listened to Xu Wei's report, narrowed his eyes, drew a heavy red circle around Bai Liu's name on the list of students under him, and then hung up the phone.

"These seventeen students are the ones who are screened out as the main suspects of being players." The principal turned his chair and threw the list of his subordinates in front of the desk. He squinted and raised his head, looking at the four teachers standing in front of him with their heads down. "Try to make these seventeen students jump into the college entrance examination lake to see how they react to the props and screen out the real player."

"Especially this student named Bai Liu." The principal pointed at the first name of Bai Liu on the student list. His tone was murky and unclear. "It is very likely that he is a player. He may have items from the game."

"Not now, but it will be in the future. We need to pay close attention to see if we can bring him into our team."

"But this student is also the focus of the investigation team and the people from the Heretic Management Bureau who came this time." A teacher below couldn't help but speak up, "He has a special identity. He is a student from the welfare home. It's not easy for us to take direct action against him."

"And the people who came here to investigate this time are said to be the second team of the Heresy Administration. The captain of this team is very cruel to players. It's best not to let him find out that we are players."

The teacher couldn't help but shudder as he spoke, and tactfully suggested, "...Principal, why don't we not take action, and find an ordinary person to test Bai Liu?"

The principal pondered for a moment.

"Principal, our points have been very tight recently." The teacher couldn't help but persuade him, "We have already spent a lot of points on the [Incorrect College Entrance Examination Paper] before. We have finally recovered our investment in the past few years and are about to make a profit. But now we will have to use props again to directly attack the players."

"We... don't have any points to redeem for items."

The principal took a deep breath with a gloomy expression and said, "I see. Then I'll spend some money and ask Xu Wei to test Bai Liu."

At two o'clock in the morning, Xu Wei answered the phone in a daze. After listening to two sentences, she woke up instantly. She almost rolled off the bed, ran to the balcony, locked the door, and asked in a trembling voice: "Principal, what did you just say?"

"What two and a half million?"

The principal's voice came out of the phone slowly: "I don't know if you are willing to do it, Teacher Xu Wei. As long as you lure Bai Liu to jump into the College Entrance Examination Lake, I will give you 2.5 million."

"This matter is known only to heaven and earth, you and I, and no one else will know about it. I can also guarantee that nothing will happen to you if you do this."

"Jump into the Gaokao Lake?!" Xu Wei couldn't help but raise her voice, but soon lowered it again. Her voice trembled more and more violently, "Will Bai Liu... drown? Will I be discovered?"

"Whether he drowned or not has nothing to do with you." The principal began to sound impatient. "It was the final sprint of the college entrance examination, and he must have had a thousand reasons to jump into the lake. Anyway, nothing will happen to you."

"Well, let me think about it."

Xu Wei hung up the phone almost exhaustedly. She slowly slid to the ground and looked up at her new home in a daze.

She bought this house with a loan after she started working at Qiaomu High School. It is located next to the school and costs NT$41,000 per square meter. It is a well-known wealthy area. The people living here are all the parents of the students who are either rich or noble in the school. Xu Wei dreamed of becoming one of them, so she was crazy about buying a house here.

Finally bought it.

But she has to pay off her mortgage of 20,000 yuan a month for 30 years. Because of the recent investigation, she can no longer afford her mortgage. Recently, because Bai Liu refused to sign a letter of apology for her, Xu Wei heard a rumor that the investigation team said that her teaching style and ethics were problematic, and they were considering revoking her teaching certificate.

If she doesn't get any money coming into the account, she'll have to move out soon.

Xu Wei's gaze slowly moved down, through the balcony glass, and landed on the letter of understanding that was pressed by the porcelain cup on the coffee table.

The name Bai Liu wrote on the letter of forgiveness was still "the orphan from the welfare home."

Yes, Bai Liu was an orphan, and no one would care if she drowned. At most, she just induced Bai Liu to jump into the lake. Even if she could be held accountable afterwards, it would be moral condemnation at most, and she could get two million and leave. This deal was calculated no matter how it was done.

Xu Wei took a deep breath and just wanted to stand up, she saw a human-shaped shadow standing in front of the tea table. She was frightened and almost screamed. But when she looked carefully, she found that it was her son, Bao Kangle.

Bao Kangle's eyes were full of bloodshot, and his face showed an almost crazy excitement: "Mom, I heard that you can get 2 million."

"I'll help you get Bai Liu into the lake!"