Chapter 28: Ghost Story Middle School 10
Suppose the scales of the koi fish are coins, and coins are the exam rewards given by teachers to students, and are also one of the important props for making wishes.
If Qiao Song guessed correctly, in fact, one does not need to go to the back mountain to make a wish. One only needs to go to any place with water and throw the coin into the pool, just like what Huangmao did in the staff dormitory when he was cheated by the coin before.
For example, the fishy smell she smelled in the long sink in the bathroom at the end of the girls' dormitory corridor.
Since one doesn't have to come to the back mountain to make a wish, the only use of this big pond is to raise this fish.
Then who raises this fish in the back mountain?
The reason why there are so many ghost stories in Ghost Story Middle School is that wishing leads students to compete with each other, sacrifice each other, and even sacrifice many ordinary people who have never touched upon such a thing as wishing.
How could a fish have such great power? The coin should be given by the fish to the teachers as a gift to reward students who do well in exams. Whoever has the coin can make a wish come true by making a wish facing the pool.
There is only one person in the school who has this right.
Qiao Song narrowed his eyes. This fish has never appeared before. Is it raised by the new principal of Ghost Story Middle School, or is this fish the principal himself?
Qiao Song carefully savored the conversation between the bus driver and the thin security guard:
Driver: "The target has not been met. That dead fish knows how to make things difficult for us because it can't complete its own work."
Security guard: "Who said it wasn't? There are not many people and ghosts on this street recently. Where can we recruit people to come in? Fortunately, the dungeon will be closed soon. If we can't get promoted this time, we will probably have to change jobs and find another place to hang out."
So, the fish is the superior of the security guard and the driver and can give them orders. All the ghosts in the school also know about the existence of the fish. That is to say, is this fish trying to become a red-clothed-level ghost?
How could a fish turn into something in red? She thought that something in red referred to a resentful ghost in red, but it turns out that it doesn't necessarily have to be a human.
But when she thought about the people with hippopotamus, rabbit heads and gorilla heads she saw in the Rule Convenience Store, she seemed to understand it again.
Qiao Song stared at the big koi swimming below, moved back and took a photo, and when he put his phone away, he suddenly felt a strange touch under his palm.
This large stone slab that I found specifically to hide in feels unnaturally rough.
This stone slab embedded in the cliff wall does not seem to be naturally formed. It seems to be a stone tablet that just got stuck here.
There are some words carved on it, but they have been blurred by water.
"Rules of the wishing well... a strange story...?"
In an instant, as if she had come into contact with some key words, the nameplate on her chest began to heat up. Qiao Song turned over the ID card and saw a few lines of small words that had just appeared.
[Strange Talk about the Rules of the Wishing Well (Abandoned)]
1. If you get lost in school and accidentally walk into the back hills, you can leave any belongings you have on the spot (black font)
2. If you hear someone calling your name in the back hills, please do not respond (black font)
3. There are no goldfish or koi in the pond. The fish you see may not be fish (black font)
4. Fish can't talk, so don't believe anything it says (the first half is red, the second half is black)
5. If you get a golden coin, you can make a wish to the fish (red)
6. If you get lost in the back hills for the second time, if something calls your name, please respond to it, otherwise you will disappear (red)
Combining his deductions from the rules of ghost stories over the past two days, Qiao Song immediately realized that the red part was wrong and the black part was correct.
At this moment, someone in the group sent a message.
A Little Candy: Sister Qiao Song, the dog brought me to the back mountain. It seemed like he wanted me to find something for him, and I triggered the weird rule of the abandoned wishing tree. I took a photo and posted it in the group!
[Wishing Tree Rules Strange Stories (Abandoned)]
1. When you see a strange golden sapling in the back hills, please do not approach it, leave any belongings behind and leave immediately (black font)
2. If you hear someone calling your name in the tree trunk, please do not respond (black font)
3. There are only gold leaves on the tree, no coins. Please do not touch the coins if you see them (the first half is red, the second half is black)
4. There is a pond in the back hill, in which there is a magical koi. You can make a wish to it with the coins on the tree (red)
5. If you encounter the golden sapling for the second time, you can sacrifice anyone who has used the coin to him, and you don't have to pay anything. (The first half is black, the second half is red)
Perhaps because these two rules are now obsolete, the correct and incorrect items of the rules are directly marked on the nameplate. In this comparison, these two strange stories seem very strange.
The overlap is too high.
Both have golden coins to encourage people to make wishes, and the solution is to just drop a piece of property on the spot. There is almost no difference except that one is a tree and the other is a fish.
These two strange stories seem to be basically the same thing.
Qiao Song clicked on the photo he had taken and enlarged it. The huge koi at the bottom had golden scales that were indeed big and round, and the part that had fallen to the bottom of the pool did look like the coins stacked in an ordinary wishing well.
There is a 90% chance that the wishing coin is actually the scales that fell off the koi carp.
The messages in the group are still popping up.
A Little Candy: Strange, Sister Qiao Song, the tree I found now is not pure gold. The trunk has turned red and has only a few leaves hanging on it. The rest of the tree is covered with densely packed coins.
Tang Xiaoxiao sat under a tree and continued to send messages to the group. Next to her was a huge vicious dog squatting with a ferocious expression. Its face was covered with traces of stitches. There was not much hair on the dog's body and most of its body was mottled.
On the surrounding rock walls, some substance emitted a faint light, which was brighter than other places on the campus at night. This allowed Tang Xiaoxiao to see the dog's true appearance for the first time.
Very fierce and looks a little old.
When the wind blows, a strange sound of coins colliding can be heard on the big tree behind, and the dog's expression will become angry and sad.
The old vicious dog sneezed, and then uttered some human words in a sporadic and inarticulate manner.
"Find coins."
"Wang, Si, Miao."
Although he spoke slowly, he pronounced every word very standardly. As if afraid that she had found the wrong word, he even used his claws to scratch out the way the words were written on the rocky ground.
Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but tremble when she heard the hoarse voice, but inexplicably, when the dog could speak a little human language, she was not so afraid of it. Not to mention that the dog put her in a book and brought her to the back mountain just to ask her to help find something.
This Wang Simiao must be a very important person.
The strange tree next to it is indeed full of coins, and the backs of these coins are engraved with names.
Tang Xiaoxiao quickly replied to the last group message.
A Little Candy: The big dog also brought me a pair of gloves and asked me to wear them. It seemed that it wanted me to wear the gloves and flip the coins on the tree, probably to find the one with Wang Simiao's name on it.
After reading the message sent by Tang Xiaoxiao, Qiao Song heard some noise below before he had time to think about the relationship between Wang Simiao and Da Gou.
The golden koi swimming leisurely in the water suddenly seemed to notice something, and it swung its tail, splashing a lot of water, and was about to rush in a certain direction.
It was as if he was aware of the uninvited guest in his home.
But the next second, a huge strange white dog jumped down, turning the originally peaceful pool upside down.
Tang Xiaoxiao already had a big hairless dog that Qiao Song had seen before, and this one was obviously another one.
It seems that there is more than one dog in the school.
The golden fish was provoked and immediately started fighting with the dog. Qiao Song discovered that the seemingly ordinary golden koi was actually full of fangs when it opened its mouth.
The white dog was bitten all over and bleeding, but the big dog was not to be trifled with. After a few paws, the water was instantly filled with fish blood, directly turning the clear water in the pool turbid.
Qiao Song hid on the stone wall and could even smell the stench coming from the pond after the fish was injured.
This smell is very similar to what she smelled in the student dormitory. No wonder the dog also had a strange odor before. Could it be caused by fighting with fish every night?
The big white dog not only bit the fish but also actively swallowed it. Qiao Song saw that the fish realized that it could not beat the dog, and after fighting for several rounds, it suddenly swung its tail to knock the dog over and tried to dive directly to the bottom of the pool.
The dog seemed unwilling to let the fish go and immediately dived back into the water to continue chasing it.
The koi fish is not unable to defeat the enemy, but it just wants to escape, as if its house is on fire and it is unwilling to stay outside for long.
Qiao Song understood. Tang Xiaoxiao had just been tied up by a dog and brought to the back mountain. She was also given professional waterproof gloves and was about to pick up coins from the tree. Then a dog jumped out here and tried to catch the fish.
This golden koi is indeed connected to the wishing tree, maybe the two bodies are connected to each other.
And the dog and the fish are indeed in opposing camps.
Looking at the flying fish scales and blood, it seems that the hatred is quite great. Qiao Song calmly watched the fight between the two tigers and lowered his body back.
But she also discovered that the fish was actually no match for the dog.
But even though so much flesh had been bitten off the koi, it was still alive and kicking and wanted to rush home.
Qiao Song touched his chin and felt something was wrong: "His vitality is too strong."
And why is it that the more you fight this fish, the better its strength recovers?
Qiao Song noticed that there seemed to be something fishy about the water in the pool, so he immediately decided to take advantage of the two people fighting below and seize the opportunity to sneak down from the side.
It was unknown whether the dog noticed her or not, and it even took the initiative to press the fish into the water and hit it, and even turned its back to Qiao Song to prevent the fish from noticing her.
Seeing the sudden tacit understanding between the two parties, Qiao Song immediately slid down from the rock wall and ran towards the passage where the fish was just about to escape.
There was barely a walkable gravel road on the other side of the cliff. After walking forward for a while, she found a natural hot spring pool of varying depths, overlapping like clouds. The water on top kept accumulating and flowing down the rock wall.
There might be some strange luminous moss growing on the surrounding rock walls, which made this area extremely bright. Driven by intuition, Qiao Song looked directly at the small hot spring pool at the top.
Then we saw a small spring the size of a bowl. It could even be said that it didn't look like a hot spring because it was located too high.
In the golden spring, liquid like flowing gold leaked out from the edge drop by drop, and then leaked into the pool below. After being diluted once, the golden color continued to flow down and repeatedly slid into the pool on the next layer.
After being diluted many times, it finally flows into the waters where koi live.
Qiao Song observed carefully for a while and found very faint golden lines flowing in the bottom layer of water, which then flowed towards the koi that was fighting with the giant dog.
After absorbing the gold, the bloody parts of the koi seemed to be repaired a little.
Can this spring water heal fish injuries?
Qiao Song immediately knew why the dog let her in. The enemy of my enemy is of course my friend, not to mention that she now felt that this fish was the mastermind behind the two major weird rules in the entire school.
Without bothering to conceal her figure, she immediately climbed up and soon heard louder noises coming from the pool behind her. She wondered if the koi had discovered her.
At this moment, Qiao Song and the white dog reached a perfect understanding. The other party held the fish while she went to deal with the spring.
After climbing to the top and touching the spring, she heard the long-lost system coming online. The dog system asked in a tone that was almost gritting its teeth:
[It is detected that a player has touched a damaged copy core editor. Do you want to use key items to repair the damaged wish fountain? Kindly note that even if the copy core editor is repaired using items, the main system will not give any compensation to the player]
The system proactively told her that there would be no compensation. Was it because it was afraid that she would waste the props?
It's weird that he is so kind.
As soon as Qiao Song heard the tone of the system, he felt that he was in luck: "Repair items sound very valuable, so why is there no compensation after repair?"
The system knew that this guy had already guessed what the key item was, so it began to count down mercilessly: "The player has one last bit of time to make a choice 10, 9, 8, 7..."
Qiao Song decisively took out his gains from the first copy.
[Orange Wishing Star: One Star Version]
[After use, the most suitable props can be changed according to the user's wishes]
She doesn't have any repair items, but she has a universal item card, and the name seems to be somewhat consistent with the two wish-granting ghost stories in this copy.
The system will remind the player, which means that repairing this thing is good for the main system, but it will make it clear that she will not be compensated, which does not comply with the principle of equal exchange.
It only means that players can gain enough benefits during the repair process.
Qiao Song put the card close to the golden spring that was leaking water: "My wish is to repair this spring."
The next second, the orange-gold card in her hand burst into star-like light, and then little by little melted into the spring that was constantly dripping water.
The water splashed loudly, and the golden koi that was fighting with the giant white dog was in great danger. It was determined to push the white dog over and rush back, but it was too late.
Qiao Song saw with his own eyes that after the wish card took effect, the leaking spring began to shrink and then turned into a small spinning jar.
[Wish Jar/Fixed/The Ghost Story Editor function is being restarted]
Weird editor?
Qiao Song's eyes suddenly lit up. Was this what she thought?
No wonder the koi fish could control two rules! It turned out that he secretly used a broken editor!
The system realized that something was wrong and quickly persuaded him: "That fish is the ultimate boss of this copy. It will soon be upgraded to the red level. You can't beat it. Now while it and the dog are fighting, you should run away quickly."
The system was not so kind as to worry about her getting hurt. It just didn't want Qiao Song to touch the jar.
Qiao Songli ignored it.
On the top of the golden wishing jar, the words "Countdown to restart in 60 seconds" were lit up. Qiao Song reached out without hesitation and grabbed the wishing jar before it restarted.
It's called a ghost story editor.
The moment she touched the jar, it was as if her soul was sucked out of the copy and thrown into a completely white space. Qiao Song immediately realized that she could freely use the functions here for 60 seconds before the ghost story editor restarted.
Large amounts of subtitles appeared in front of Qiao Song's eyes, like a system log, recording the various rules and weird things that were created in this copy after the wishing jar was born, as well as what people did with these weird things and the weird rules.
The wishing jar, that is, before the problem with the ghost story editor, the Ghost Story Middle School only had fixed-rule ghost stories, and new players only needed to abide by the fixed rules in each different place.
The rules in the canteen are no wasting and no loud noises, the rules in the dormitory are no night wandering and no visiting other people’s dormitories, the rules in the playground are no appearing on the playground at night with the opposite sex, the rules in the classroom are no dozing off in class and no peeking at classmates’ answers during exams, etc…
Although strict and stifling, it is still within the scope of reason.
Players can pass the level as long as they survive seven days in these places. Until one day, the new principal came to the Ghost Story Middle School. She had a gentle appearance, wore a white dress, and looked very friendly.
But she felt that this copy completely wasted the purpose of the wishing jar, so she carried out major reforms and united the ghosts in the school to put the jar on the back mountain.
Soon after, new rules were born in the school, the wishing tree rule and the wishing well rule, and the principal disappeared. Instead, a beautiful golden koi would appear from time to time in a pond in the back mountain.
And the woman in white wandering around the student dormitory.
She told them that they could get whatever they wanted if they made a wish.
Through this almost cheating method, the ghosts of the Ghost Story Middle School began to decrease in number. Occasionally, players would mistakenly enter this copy and come in as students and teachers, and then be consumed.
According to the earliest records, there were at least 8,000 students at the Guidan Middle School, but now there are less than 2,000 left.
The last time, the key point of Koi's failure to be promoted started with a girl named Wang Simiao. She disappeared on the campus after making a wish. Influenced by her, her family went crazy and began to turn into a pack of dogs at night, patrolling the campus, devouring a large number of ghosts to complete the transformation, which completely affected the pattern of Ghost Story Middle School.
The editor was broken at this time. The copies below the Red Clothes level could not have so many rule antics, and the wishing jar could not bear the wishes of so many dead souls, so it could only complete the most basic wishes about academic performance.
Unless someone like the player, whose soul does not belong to this copy, still has to make a wish to die, but the price paid is often heavier.
Qiao Song opened the editor usage record despite a headache and quickly saw all the wish records in the dungeon:
"On October 25th at 7:13 pm, He XX used the wishing coin to make a wish that he could be in the top ten in the grade in this midterm exam."
"On October 25 at 8:05 pm, Bai X offered a sacrifice to Liu XX, a classmate who had bullied him, to the wishing tree, wishing that he would not fall out of the top 20 in this exam."
Tens of thousands of these data flashed by in one second. The massive records quickly washed over Qiao Song's will, making her dizzy. But this was the best opportunity to get the copy information through the back door, and she certainly couldn't miss it.
Qiao Song even saw the names of the two members of the Huangmao team who had lost control in his wish list.
"At 10:23 am on November 6, Jia Ao used the wishing coin to make a wish, hoping to get through the physical education class safely. At 5:09 pm on November 6, Jia Ao used the wishing coin to make a wish, hoping that the ghosts haunting him would disappear. At 7:10 pm on November 6, Jia Ao used the wishing coin to make a wish, hoping that his companion Wang Xiang would shut up forever."
This guy named Jia Ao got the wishing coins from somewhere, but he was so bold as to make three wishes. If he encounters a dog tonight, he will probably be in great danger.
As for the reason why dogs would attack players who used wishing coins, Qiao Song already knew it in the new ghost story record at the bottom.
[Rules for Night Out at Ghost Story Middle School]
1. Dogs that roam at night will protect all those who roam at night
2. Dogs that roam at night will eat people who have made wishes.
3. Dogs that roam at night will tear apart people who have hurt their companions.
4. The garbage management center will store all the people vomited by dogs.
Dogs eat people who make mistakes, people who make wishes with coins, and people who try to harm their classmates, but dogs will keep those who are not truly bad people in their stomachs and then spit them out at the garbage disposal center.
The dog only targeted the koi from the beginning to the end. As for the reason, it was nothing more than the miserable old couple. Because the new principal of the school changed the rules, they seduced their only granddaughter to use the wishing coin. From then on, her soul was hung on the wishing tree and became the food for the koi's promotion.
The dog devours students who follow the same path as his granddaughter every night, then spits them out and locks them in the garbage station.
The dogs didn't kill all the students because they were looking for someone, they were looking for Wang Simiao.
They killed the principal's soul wandering in the dormitory again and again and asked her where Wang Simiao was, until Wang Simiao disappeared for so long that they themselves forgot who she was.
I only remember the name. I only remember to kill the woman in the white dress and the koi.
As long as the wishing ghost story exists in this school, these students will always repeat the same mistakes. In this case, it would be better to eat them, lock them up, or put them in a garbage station.
The stench from the garbage station can cover up the fishy smell on them.
Qiao Song traced back along the wishing records and finally found the name on the first day when the wishing pool rules of the Ghost Story Middle School came into effect.
[January 1, 21:20, Jiang Li made a wish: She hoped to be in the top 20 in this monthly exam, and for this she was willing to sacrifice her most hated deskmate "Wang Simiao"]
Neither a top student nor a student with special talents, Wang Simiao is just an ordinary little girl.
The wish came true and Wang Simiao disappeared. No one remembered her except her grandparents who had depended on her for many years.
Because of the rules of the wishing well and the wishing tree, those who disappear will eventually hang on the tree in the form of soul coins and be slowly absorbed by the tree until the tree turns completely red.
The dogs understood this and subconsciously tried to reduce the principal's power until they found a coin with a certain name engraved on it among the piles of coins. They only remembered that name.
Qiao Song browsed through dozens or even thousands of copy records in just a few tens of seconds. Feeling dizzy, his desire to kill fish reached its peak.
The fish are indeed damned, playing with everything, bewitching everything, and finally eating everything.
Since she likes editing ghost stories so much and letting people make wishes so much, she will let the fish see that it is too few for a small ghost story school to have only more than 100 ghost stories.
In the last 30 seconds before the ghost story editor disappeared, Qiao Song took out the net bag from his toolbox and, amid the screams of the system, quickly dipped the 30 small sculptures one by one into the golden liquid remaining in the wishing jar.
At the same time, she accessed the editor and quickly wrote a line.
【Strange Stories about Sculptures in Strange Stories Middle School】
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