Chapter 4 School for the Blind
It was late at night and from time to time one could hear dogs barking outside the window.
NPC's parents had already gone out to work the night shift, and the whole house was plunged into darkness, with only a flickering light at the door.
“Boom—boom—boom—”
Heavy footsteps echoed in the corridor, the wooden boards creaked underfoot, and the discussions of the adopted sons and daughters could be heard from a long distance away.
"Brother, if we kill our second brother, we can go to school."
"If it wasn't for him, we would be the ones going to school!"
“I want to go to school, too…”
Soon, the two arrived at Xu Zhiyan's door.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
"Brother, open the door!"
My sister's sweet voice came from outside the door.
If he only listened to the voice without looking at the appearance, Xu Zhiyan felt that he would open the door without hesitation.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
There was no answer, and the knocking on the door became more intense.
Soon, the knocking sound turned into a banging sound, and the two monsters outside the house kept banging on the bedroom door trying to force their way in.
The door of the room was fairly strong, but it couldn't withstand the enormous power of the monsters and could only emit teeth-grinding howls.
"Bang--"
“Bang—bang—”
“…”
“Boom!”
Finally, the door panel could not bear the weight and fell down with a loud bang, and dust flew everywhere.
The adopted sons and daughters rushed in like two pieces of rotten meat mixed together, their limbs were embedded in the collision, and then pulled apart to return to their original state.
In short, visually, they have nothing to do with humans.
"Where are the people..."
"Second brother, where are you?"
The dim moonlight shone on the furniture, and the bedroom was empty.
The adopted son dragged his huge body to the bed and lifted the quilt that was bulging like a hill. There were only a few soft feather pillows inside.
It pulled out a fruit knife from its waist as if to vent its anger and stabbed the pillow with it.
“Keng——”
The force was so great that the blade penetrated the wooden board directly and scraped against the metal bed frame, making a harsh sound.
"Window! The tiles below were broken!"
Unlike her brother who was quick-tempered, the sister was obviously more flexible. She discovered the problem, pushed open the window, pointed at the broken tiles and said.
The adopted son moved to the window.
You can tell at a glance that the broken tiles outside were broken by humans!
"Did he go to find his parents?"
"Impossible! How dare he go out at night? The streets are full of monsters! It would be great if my second brother was eaten by monsters."
As if in response to their words, screams were heard from the end of the street outside the window.
The sound of gunfire mixed with inaudible curses, the sound of broken doors and windows, and the howling of wild dogs were enough to prove the horrific scene on the street.
The adopted son and daughter stood at the window, looking out.
There was no sign of Xu Zhiyan.
"Where will he go then?"
"Where will he go then?"
"Then he..."
They kept repeating this sentence, as if expecting the other party to stand up on their own.
Xu Zhiyan lay under the bed, calm and composed.
His eyes glanced at the gray ankles of the two monsters, and he wondered how long he would have to lie there.
At present, it seems that most of the situations are consistent with my predictions.
The adopted sons and daughters lack noses. They have no sense of smell and rely on vision. Their intelligence does not seem to be very high. Their bloated and stiff bodies make them reluctant to bend down at the first opportunity, especially after seeing the broken tiles.
But the more troublesome thing now is that there are monsters on the streets.
In other words, the escape traces he disguised at the beginning might not be so useful, and it would depend on the monster's judgment next.
After a while, the monsters stopped repeating.
The adopted son was the first to flip out of the window, and fell to the first floor with a thud, and went away to an unknown destination.
The younger sister waited until her elder brother's figure completely disappeared, then returned to the center of the house.
There was another moment of silence.
"I know where you are hiding, second brother!" A sharp and distorted voice suddenly appeared, and it screamed while shaking its arms.
The sound came too suddenly. Xu Zhiyan was so frightened by the scream that his heart beat faster, but it was just his heartbeat that quickened. He did not move at all.
After guessing the monster's strengths and weaknesses, he was extremely careful when entering under the bed, leaving almost no traces, and also cut the wires so that the lights in the room could not be turned on, thus affecting the vision.
Sure enough, although the adopted daughter said that she had found it, her body was walking in the opposite direction.
It yelled and opened the closet door.
Inside were piles of clothes.
No one is hiding here.
"How is this possible? How is this possible? How..." It seemed as if it didn't believe it and plunged headfirst into it.
It turned out that when Xu Zhiyan was creating the illusion of escape, he put on a thick coat in order to make it more realistic. In his haste, he did not close the cabinet door tightly, and his adopted daughter mistakenly thought that someone was inside.
It dug a hole in the wardrobe, and after making sure that no one was there, it walked out of the room in disappointment.
"My second brother must have gone to Mom and Dad's room..."
"I'm going to find my second brother..."
The adopted daughter muttered to herself and finally left the bedroom, looking back every few steps.
"Bang!" The broken door of the bedroom was pulled up and leaned against the door frame, looking particularly pitiful.
Xu Zhiyan was not in a hurry to go out and remained motionless.
About ten minutes later, he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard footsteps gradually fading away from the door.
It's not that I haven't thought about hiding in my parents' room. Given the two monsters' fear of the NPC parents, that room is relatively safer.
But he had never been to his parents' room before, and he didn't know the structure inside. The windows on the first floor of the house were all equipped with iron bars. If he was trapped inside, he would be unable to escape.
The two monsters have already checked this bedroom and probably won't come back unless something unexpected happens.
Let’s just stay here until dawn, Xu Zhiyan thought.
Gathering his clothes together, he couldn't help but sigh. Fortunately, he had put on an extra layer of clothes to create the illusion of running away. Otherwise, the floor was so cold that he would definitely catch a cold after sleeping.
I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, so I have to take good care of myself and rest.
Perhaps the monster's intelligence was reassuring, Xu Zhiyan fell asleep in a daze while listening to the faint sounds of demolition downstairs.
The bloody night is still going on outside the window.
Things don't always go as smoothly as we imagine.
A few hours later, it was still dark.
The faint sound of fierce dog barking gradually became clearer.
Xu Zhiyan was startled out of his sleep by the sound.
Hearing the sound of hurried footsteps coming up the stairs, he had a bad feeling and reached out to pinch his thigh.
The pain woke him up quickly.
Without having time to think, he subconsciously turned over and jumped onto the bed, saying "Oh no" in his heart.
Then the broken door panel leaning against the door frame was whipped a second time.
A hound with bared teeth rushed in, followed closely by the adopted son and daughter. If the adopted son had not been holding the dog leash, Xu Zhiyan would not have dared to imagine what would happen next!
Two people and a dog blocked the door, the situation is critical!
Xu Zhiyan's hands and feet were so stiff that he pressed against the corner of the wall, keeping as much distance as possible from the vicious dog. He felt something blocking his chest, and even breathing became difficult.
What kind of game is this?
Why can monsters call for help?
He has never been afraid of ghosts or the dark since he was a child.
The only thing that led to my not-so-happy childhood experience was my fear of dogs.
Especially this kind of hound with a sturdy body and sharp teeth is the nightmare within the nightmare!
Compared to this dog, the monster brothers and sisters have become a lot cuter!
Seeing this, the adopted son and daughter thought that the other party was afraid of them, and they started giggling. Saliva kept overflowing from the corners of their mouths, which could not be closed, and accumulated on the ground into a small puddle of disgusting water.
"Brother, are you scared?"
"Since you are so afraid of us, why don't you give us your place in school?"
My sister said this in a spoiled tone, tightening the bone-cutting knife in her hand.
"Okay, I'll give it to you."
Xu Zhiyan agreed to the conditions without even thinking about it.
After discovering that the brother and sister, despite their monster appearance, were able to communicate, he had other ideas in his mind.
The monster siblings didn't seem to expect the other party to agree so easily, and they stood there without moving.
Seeing that the situation was not chaotic for the time being, Xu Zhiyan held on to the corner of the wall for fear that his legs would go weak and he would fall down. He cleared his throat, stared at his adopted son and spoke slowly:
"In fact, during dinner that night, I secretly changed the name on the admission application to my sister's."
"Everyone knows that younger people are more suitable for studying. We are all older than my sister, so this place should be given to her, right?"
“I don’t really want to go to school.”
This statement came from the bottom of my heart and was so sincere that it couldn't be more sincere.
Seeing his adopted son and daughter waving their weapons, Xu Zhi lowered his voice and said, "I was careful when I handed the application form to my parents. I folded it. They probably didn't notice it."
"If you don't believe me, you can go to your parents' bedroom and check if what I said is true."
Of course it's fake.
The admission application is in the system backpack, it would be strange if I could find it.
He glanced at the fruit knife in his adopted son's hand and said, "Brother, even if you kill me, I won't be able to go to school and you will be blamed by my parents."
"You know."
"There is only one admission spot."
If the biological child and the adopted child have always lived in peace, it proves that the two monsters will not attack the biological child because of their parents' different treatment.
The biggest contradiction at present is the admission quota. As long as this quota can be transferred, the hatred will also be taken away.
Sure enough, after hearing these words, the two monsters stood still and did not move.
The younger sister is smarter than her brother. She knows exactly what her brother will do next, so she strikes first.
"Bang--"
The attack was about to break out, and the bone-cutting knife weighing more than ten pounds fell heavily on my brother's face, making a sound of bone breaking.
However, the adopted son was not to be outdone. Although he failed to find a suitable weapon, his stronger body than his sister allowed him to gain the upper hand in the next round of fighting.
Flesh splattered everywhere, and foul-smelling blood continued to flow out as the brother and sister fought.
The hound, which had just been barking around the bed, smelled the blood and stopped circling around the bed. Instead, it licked the minced meat on the floor and ate it with relish.
Seeing that the door had become a dangerous area, Xu Zhiyan quietly moved his body, climbed out of the window, sat on the roof of the first floor with his knees hugged, and took out two oranges, the after-dinner fruit from last night, from behind the window beside him.
The sky was turning pale.
The long dark night is finally coming to an end.
In the live broadcast room.
Although a large number of people left the live broadcast room last night because they were not optimistic about him, the one million bet is powerful and the live broadcast room was still crowded.
[What the hell? What the hell! ]
[How can this be? How can he sleep at night? I stayed up all night with him yesterday, fearing that he would be killed by a monster! But he slept all the way until morning. Damn it!]
[Same as above, I didn’t sleep well last night, I watch it every half an hour]
[I just saw an NPC with a dog, and I thought Xiao Baiwan was going to be in trouble.]
[Yeah, one million, I feel bad 555]
[Silly boy above, it's not your points, why are you so upset! ]
The barrage was noisy, but it did not affect the progress of the copy at all.
Amid the not-so-wonderful sounds of monsters fighting each other, Xu Zhiyan peeled an orange and stuffed a piece into his mouth.
Sweet juice exploded on the tip of his tongue, and the unique fragrance of the fruit drove away the fishy smell of the monster. He squinted his eyes happily, and his mood became much happier.
"I should have taken two more."
The first ray of sunlight in the early morning hit the young man wrapped in a thick coat on the roof, dispelling the coldness of the night and giving him a gentle golden glow.
Rotten flesh and blood occasionally fell out of the window, and the streets of the town were in full view.
Across the street at a distance, a flower of blood exploded in the yard, and gun parts, broken limbs and bones were scattered on the ground. Judging from the colors, there were both monsters and humans. They should be the players who went out for refuge last night.
After eating two oranges, Xu Zhiyan put the orange peel back on the windowsill and stretched his head to take a look at the dying monster in the room.
The adopted son's head had been nearly chopped off, and the adopted daughter wasn't much better off. Only her upper body could move, and she kept swinging the bone-cutting knife.
The two monsters wrestled with each other again.
Soon, there was no movement in the room.
【Death of Monster's Adopted Daughter】
[Players can view monster information]
The system prompt came at the right time. Xu Zhiyan stood up straight and looked at the winner with a smile - his adopted son whose head and neck were only connected by a piece of flesh.
The hound was nowhere to be found, probably having slunk away after having had his fill.
After making sure that the monster had no strength to move, he climbed in through the window, picked up the bone-cutting knife on the ground, was stunned at first, and then gave a fatal blow to his adopted son who was half alive.
“Boom—”
The heavy head fell to the ground.
【Death of Monster's adopted son】
[Players can view monster information]
Ignoring the pop-up system, Xu Zhiyan instead became very interested in the knife in his hand.
The black handle is connected to the silver blade, and the sharpened blade still has traces of blood that have not yet dripped. When you hold it in your hand, it is not as heavy as you imagined, but feels just right.
"So there's a chance that items will drop when you kill monsters?"
[Name: Sister's Bone-Chopping Knife]
[Level: D]
[Type: Attack]
[Introduction: The items held by ordinary monsters look very powerful, but in fact their attack power is limited. ]
【Notes: None】
Although they are very low-level props, they can be put into the system backpack, which is much better than looking for weapons when encountering danger.
Clicking on the monster information again, the brother and sister's panels appeared in front of you.
[Monster: Adopted Son/Daughter]
[Level: Low level]
【Threat: Medium】
[Note: Monsters in the Blind School have limited intelligence and are very ordinary. There is a certain probability that they will drop low-level weapons after being killed.]
"Is this attack power only for low-level monsters? It sounds like there are quite a lot of them." Xu Zhiyan smacked his lips.
With his current small body, if he were to go head-on with these two low-level monsters, he would probably be embedded in the floor in minutes.
He wanted to take another look at the live broadcast room, but when he heard the door opening downstairs, Xu Zhiyan put away his bone-cutting knife, adjusted his expression, and ran downstairs.
“Oh no!”
"Brother and sister are fighting!"
His tone was terrified, as if he was really frightened.
In the living room, the NPC parents saw the situation and instead of going upstairs to check, they comforted their son in front of them.
The family of three sat on the sofa, and Xu Zhiyan trembled as he recounted the tragic events of last night.
"They wanted to kill me. I was so scared! I could only hide on the roof of the first floor. Later, when it was almost dawn, I saw that there was no sound in the room, so I dared to come back to check... Who knows..."
The thin young man curled up on the sofa, his eyes became red as he spoke, and he leaned his head on his knees and sobbed.
The voice is expressive and the acting is perfect.
I just couldn't squeeze out any tears and didn't dare to look up.
"Don't be afraid, Yanyan. Those two unpresentable guys will just die if they die!" The mother touched Xu Zhiyan's hair, her tone was full of heartache.
The father standing by also frowned, very dissatisfied: "They are not worth anything anyway."
After that, he took out his wallet from his pocket, took out three bills and handed them over, saying, "Here's your pocket money. Buy some delicious food when you get to school. Those two idiots don't deserve to be with you. You should communicate more with your classmates."
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining campus currency]
【Pocket money: 300】
Xu Zhiyan paused, then took the three hundred yuan.
When the school bus arrives, it’s time to change the scene. Although I don’t know what I can buy with my pocket money, the more the better.
He stuffed the money into his pockets and shook his head: "I don't want to go to school. My brother and sister both died because they wanted to go to school. If I go, what if I don't have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear..." He talked for five or six minutes, explaining why he didn't want to go to school.
Seeing this, the NPC parents had no choice but to take out more money from their wallets.
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining campus currency]
【Pocket money: 300】
"But..." Xu Zhiyan took the money, hesitated to speak, and looked at the two of them eagerly.
The couple looked at each other, gritted their teeth and opened their wallets again.
After this show of beating the sympathy bell, Xu Zhiyan's total pocket money increased from 300 to 1000.
Satisfied, he took the two upstairs.
Yesterday at the dinner table, if the two hadn't said they would give him more pocket money after paying his salary, he wouldn't have been so stupid as to face these two monsters by himself!
Fortunately, the results are good.
Just as the family of three was happily collecting the bodies, the live broadcast room exploded after a brief silence.
【Change face in one second.jpg】
[Is this even possible? What the hell?]
[Wow, am I the only one who thinks that Xiao Baiwan’s weak look when he cries is quite sympathetic? ]
[Back to the above, NPC parents also thought so, so their wallets were emptied. ]
There are many people who like to do good things and jump back and forth between several live broadcast rooms.
[I looked at other live broadcast rooms. If the NPC parents had not been asked to leave last night, they would only get 50 pocket money today. Some people used props to avoid being chased and got 200 yuan in the morning.]
[There is also a player with very high attack power who forcibly killed the adopted son and daughter, and his pocket money is 300. ]
[A dog trainer, huh? There are hunting dogs nearby, which just fit his skills. ]
[Sleeping in gets 50, running all night gets 200, killing with force gets 300, being thick-skinned gets 1000, thank the Bodhisattva of Statistics. ]
[I understand. From today on, I will be shameless.]
[…Wait, what do you think Xiao Baiwan is doing? ]
[Gah! Is he a bandit? ]
A black school bus was driving slowly in the middle of the town's road.
After making sure that the NPC parents would not give him any extra supplies, Xu Zhiyan went back to the living room to clean up before the car arrived.
He filled two large pockets with the oranges in the fruit plate. He also took the lighter on the table, half a pack of cigarettes in the drawer, and a pair of small scissors in the sewing basket. He accepted everything and packed it up and took it away.
By the time the school bus stopped in front of the house, the small backpack he found in the bedroom was already full.
After saying a brief goodbye to his parents, he got on the bus alone carrying his backpack.
At the same time, the game panel popped up.
[Task 1: Catch the school bus alive the next morning]
[Progress: 100%]
[Task Reward: Pocket Money]
[Additional rewards: None]
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