Chapter 68 Haunted High School (2)
From the student's story, Su Yue learned that the boy's name was Wei Wan. He was a young master from a wealthy family, but he was so withdrawn that he had no friends.
Although he looks very young, he has actually been in school for six years, including two years of delayed graduation. This year is the final year for graduation no matter what.
The student snorted as he told the story and tapped his temple with his index finger. "I heard he has a problem 'here'."
Su Yue just responded with a "hmm", not really caring at all.
As the main NPC in the game, having some flaws is of course a necessary trait.
Wei Wan has always been a loner. Although many people came to talk to him when he first entered the school because of his handsome face and affluent background, he was cold to everyone. Over time, no one bothered him anymore.
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Those strange things that are called "unlucky" first appeared three months ago.
There was a rich young man who transferred to the school. When he saw Wei Wan for the first time, he was shocked by her beauty and tried every means to strike up a conversation with her. One day, he even teamed up with his friends to block Wei Wan in the study room.
However, Wei Wan passed away in the end, but no one else saw the rich young master. It was not until a day and a night later that the young master was found dying in the men's restroom in the study room under repair.
"It is said that there was a hole the size of a bowl on his forehead and all the blood had drained out!" The student described it vividly, as if he had really seen the scene with his own eyes.
The police came to inquire, and Wei Wan, who was left in the study room with the young master for the last time, became a suspect, but the young master did not die and miraculously survived. No one could prove that this incident was related to Wei Wan. Wei Wan was released after being interrogated for two days.
At this time, many people in the school still felt that evil would be punished, but then all kinds of strange things happened.
A classmate of Wei Wan inexplicably jumped from a building and was seriously injured after helping him fill a pot of hot water. Wei Wan's laboratory partner mysteriously burned himself in the laboratory.
Later, the classmate who sat next to Wei Wan in the cafeteria was found on the rooftop the next day and is still lying in the ward.
After the four accidents, the whole school was in panic.
Some people say that there are perverts and violent people on campus, and some people say that there are unclean things in the school, but of course all speculations cannot be confirmed.
The new classroom was sealed and cordoned off, and the counselor posted a message in the group: "Students, please do not approach Building xx for the time being."
The atmosphere in the whole school was tense.
Later, everyone focused their attention on Wei Wan, thinking it was his fault.
Wei Wan was isolated, and things seemed to be gradually calming down. Although there were students injured and hospitalized from time to time, the students' condition finally stabilized.
Su Yue nodded when he heard this.
In fact, no one can prove that these four things are related to Wei Wan. The school is so small, and there must be more than one person who has had intersections with the four people in succession.
But this is not surprising.
Because when people's lives are threatened, they will always try to find a crime to accuse the victim.
Then, by saying that he was not guilty of this crime, he comforted himself by saying that he would not become a new victim, and sought a little peace of mind.
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With so many things happening, the school didn't even have a holiday.
Instead, after the final exams, all students were kept for another two weeks.
Because in two weeks, the 100th anniversary of the century-old "Jinling University" will be celebrated, and the school has been preparing for a grand celebration a year in advance.
Moreover, less than ten students were injured in three months, which does not seem to be a serious matter in the Jinling campus with thousands of students and a century-long history.
However, for the students who lived on the same floor as Wei Wan, things were not so simple. They deeply believed the rumors about Wei Wan, but the legendary demon was right beside them, which was really difficult to endure.
"I'm telling you, one day someone close to him will die," the student lowered his voice, his eyes wide. "When someone dies, I'll see how the school can keep covering it up! So what if his family donated a building? Who would dare live in a building donated by the family of such a jinx?"
"In short, stay away from him, otherwise you will be in trouble." The student was talking, and when he looked up, Su Yue had already walked to Wei Wan.
"Hey!" The student shouted, but when Su Yue ignored him, he shook his head and said, "Whoever wants to be unlucky can be unlucky."
Su Yue has already walked to Wei Wan's side.
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As I got closer, I saw that the boy was even thinner, with a small face the size of a palm. The soft light hitting his face made him look very handsome, with delicate features and a faint sense of coolness. From the perspective of the game, he should definitely be the protagonist NPC.
This also made Su Yue confirm that Haunted High School should be a game with more than 3,000 points.
When the game score is higher, there will be such eye-catching NPCs. They will have more refined personalities and more delicate emotions, as well as a clear main storyline.
Compared with the initial 100-level mountain village copy, the story line of the high-scoring game will be more tortuous, the background will be more vivid, and the sense of immersion will be stronger.
It even gives people the illusion that they are not playing a game, but that all this is real.
Su Yue also likes this kind of game with higher scores, as if he is really living another life.
Wei Wan heard Su Yue's footsteps and turned to smile at him.
He has very long eyelashes, but when he smiles, his eyelids droop, giving him a cold and distant look.
"Who are you?" Wei Wan asked.
"New classmate." Su Yue answered fluently and returned a smile.
"What's the matter with you coming to see me?" Wei Wan's attitude was indifferent, including his smile. "You'd better stay away from me, otherwise they will isolate you."
"That doesn't matter to me." Su Yue said.
Wei Wan looked at him again and said nothing.
Obviously, he didn't want to talk about this topic.
Su Yue didn't know what to ask Wei Wan, because there was too little information now, and Wei Wan was a high-level NPC, so he couldn't be bullied like a low-level NPC.
If he asks the wrong question, it may reduce the NPC's favorability towards him. If the favorability is low, the chance of getting story clues from the NPC will be greatly reduced.
The only thing we know now is that the other party is definitely the main NPC, and if we want to understand the plot, we can't let him get away.
A high-level NPC like Wei Wan, whose temperament suggests he has a story to tell, should be hiding secrets related to the main storyline.
If you ask him about himself, he may not tell you, but asking other things may get a response from him.
So Su Yue thought about it and started asking about his own affairs: "I just moved into the dormitory today and haven't met my roommate yet. Do you know where I should go to find him?"
As expected, Wei Wan did not refuse to answer.
He thought for a moment and said, "My roommates are probably in the classroom or study room. Lingnan University has a heavy workload. Even though the final exams are over, I still have to prepare for the mini-semester."
"Also, there's a club event coming up that everyone in the school is required to attend, and your roommates will probably be there too. After that, everyone will meet in the dorm."
Su Yue keenly grasped the message that "this is a club activity that everyone in the school must participate in."
Considering that he hadn't met another player yet and was forced to hang out with NPCs, it was very likely that "club activities" or formal classes were where the players gathered.
"Thank you." Su Yue smiled. He took out his student ID card and waved it in front of Wei Wan. "Let's get to know each other formally. My name is Su Yue."
Wei Wan followed suit, but he didn't smile and didn't look particularly enthusiastic. "Wei Wan."
Su Yue saw that on Wei Wan's student ID, the words "Wei Wan" were printed in cursive font after his name, while the name column on Su Yue's student ID was blank.
It seems that the way to distinguish players from NPCs is the name column on the student ID card.
I don’t know how many players there are in this game, and the game doesn’t have any prompts at all... Su Yue was thinking about it when the phone in his pocket vibrated.
He took it out and looked at it, only to find that it was not his own mobile phone, but a prop phone, a very old-fashioned brick phone.
There is only one line of words on it.
——[Gather in classroom A101 at 7:00 PM for activities.]
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Wei Wan had been quietly observing Su Yue. When Su Yue was stunned by the words, he explained, "This is a notice about club activities. Every club will send a message to invite members to participate in the activities. People in the same classroom belong to the same club."
This NPC's personality isn't as cold as other students say.
Even kind of...helpful?
"I'm in classroom A101," Su Yue said. "Do you know what club this is?"
Wei Wan was visibly stunned. "It's the club I'm in."
Su Yue sighed in his heart.
He is indeed the main NPC. Even if he doesn't talk to players now, when the main quest begins, players will naturally know Wei Wan.
They are now a little familiar with each other. If Su Yue were to say, Wei Wan's favorability towards him has increased from 0 to 5. Although the full score may be 100, it is still cause for celebration.
So Su Yue continued to ask: "Can you introduce what club it is?"
Wei Wan: "Invite the Immortal Society."
Su Yue looked confused.
Wei Wan calmly explained, "It's a club where people get together to pray to the Pen Fairy or the Ouija Board, things like those things from urban legends."
Su Yue: "..."
Suyue: Excuse me?
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After Wei Wan said the name of the club, he left, leaving Su Yue staring at his back in a daze.
I didn't expect that this kid looks so well-behaved, but actually plays so wildly.
Setting up a spirit-calling club in a haunted game? Is this guy worried that everyone won't die fast enough?
From this perspective, the rumors that the student said about Wei Wan being "unlucky" may not be completely untrue.
But this is a problem to be considered later. The name of the game is "Haunted High School", it would be really strange if it was not haunted.
Su Yue looked at the time on his phone. It was already 6:30 in the evening. It seemed that the next step was to gather at the club at 7 o'clock.
Nothing else matters. Su Yue is now looking forward to the club gathering, because only by going to the club can he see Cang Zhi.
He has become accustomed to working with the puppet Cangzhi to complete levels. Now, if he does it alone, there will be no problem on the technical level, but psychologically he always feels a little lonely.
"Do you want to go to the club together?" Su Yue asked Wei Wan.
Normally he wouldn't be so proactive towards anyone, but the other party was the main NPC after all, holding the clues to passing the level, so Su Yue certainly had to improve his impression of him.
The few who had just gathered together to discuss Wei Wan happened to walk over with their arms around each other. When they heard Su Yue's question, they gasped and looked at him, as if he had said the stupidest thing in the world.
Wei Wan lowered his eyes, not even looking at those people, and replied to Su Yue indifferently: "You go by yourself, I have something else to do."
The student who had just tried to dissuade Su Yue but failed said, "Tsk, why are you clinging to him so much? He's definitely not treating you well."
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Since Wei Wan was unwilling to go to the club classroom together, Su Yue went alone.
He and the NPC originally had a cold relationship of trading favorability, and it wasn't like he really had any good feelings towards Wei Wan.
The final exams had just passed, and it was the height of summer. It was a little after six in the afternoon, and the weather was still sunny. The sun was no different from that at noon. Su Yue was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and it was still a bit hot, so he deliberately chose to walk under the shade of a tree.
Su Yue's face is extremely eye-catching no matter where he is, not to mention that he has dyed his hair a very eye-catching white color. The student NPCs passing by, both male and female, will take a second look at him, and some people's eyes clearly say "See you at the confession wall tonight."
Jinling University's campus was enormous, something Su Yue had already read about in the student handbook. Luckily, once he'd left the dormitory building, he'd spotted the ubiquitous signposts along the way. Classroom A101, where he was headed, was in the First Teaching Building. Su Yue followed the signs and walked along the path.
All around him were university students, young and full of life. In their twenties, they were brimming with a youthful energy that even the supernatural world couldn't conceal. Su Yue was just admiring this beautiful youthful campus life when suddenly someone behind him shouted, "You're violating morals! You have no respect for your elders! Write a self-criticism as punishment!"
Su Yue:?
Isn't this a university campus?
How come the punishment of writing a self-criticism has come out?
He stopped curiously and looked in the direction of the sound.
He saw a female teacher who was probably in her forties and was wearing a black sequined skirt suit, with her hair in curly ramen curls and tied into a low ponytail at the back of her head.
To his surprise, the female teacher was staring at him, pointing her finger with bright red nail polish at him, and shouting those words.
When their eyes met, the female teacher touched Su Yue's nose with her finger in mid-air. If there wasn't a distance between them, she would probably have directly poked her finger into Su Yue's face.
"I'm talking to you! Why are you pretending to be stupid?" the female teacher yelled.
Su Yue pointed at himself in confusion: "Me?"
"That's you!" the female teacher glared at him fiercely. "You're a good college student, yet you insist on dyeing your hair white. How immoral and outrageous! You're clearly a student who violates school rules daily, has no respect for rules, and doesn't know how to respect others! I punish you by giving me a 1,000-word self-examination by tomorrow. Reflect on your mistakes!"
Su Yue was stunned at first, then even laughed out loud: "I dyed my hair, and you can tell whether I violated the school rules or not. Do you know how to respect others?"
"No one who dyes or perms their hair is any good!" the female teacher shouted confidently, "Especially those who dye their hair a messy color like yours. They are all so-called 'non-mainstream' and none of them will grow up to be successful!"
"Your stereotype is very exaggerated." Su Yue said.
He had no intention of refutating the female teacher. It was rather outrageous to get angry with an NPC. However, he really didn't expect the female teacher to say that to him. The key point was that she even punished him by asking him to write a self-criticism, which was simply outrageous.
Su Yue had intended to stop after saying this, but unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking, someone next to him whispered, "Don't go against her."
The voice sounded familiar. Su Yue turned back in surprise and found that the person walking behind him on the left was Wei Wan, who had just refused to go to the club activity with him.
Wei Wan held a book between his elbows, his soft chestnut bangs fluttering in the evening breeze. His collar was wide open, revealing his thin collarbone, which looked like it would break if touched.
"Aren't you busy?" Su Yue asked in surprise.
"It's done." Wei Wan said calmly, "That's the Dean of Studies. She has a bad temper and loves asking people to write self-criticisms all the time. Just deal with it. Don't cross her. She once increased the word count for a self-criticism for a student who had a grudge against her to 100,000, and she wouldn't let anyone graduate until they finished it."
"Isn't this sick?" Su Yue said.
Wei Wan nodded lightly. This was the first time he expressed his approval of Su Yue. "She is just sick and very arrogant."
After saying this, he frowned and pressed his long, slender fingers against his temples, as if he had a headache.
After more than ten seconds, Wei Wan finally let go of his hand, raised his eyes and smiled, looking a little tired. "Sorry, I didn't feel well just now."
"Just 'feeling a little uncomfortable'?" Su Yue certainly didn't believe it, "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?"
"No." Wei Wan smiled again, "My headache is just an old problem. It's okay."
It seems that this is the attribute of this NPC itself. If you want to know more, you can only wait for the subsequent plot to progress.
The Dean of Studies, seeing Su Yue and Wei Wan's conversation, became even more furious. "You're not listening to me and are whispering to each other, right? Each of you will be fined 500 words, and you must give it to me by tomorrow! Wei Wan, you must be the one who started this trouble. You'll be fined an additional 1,000 words!"
Su Yue was shocked. How could there be such a subjective and weird dean in the world? However, Wei Wan stopped him from arguing with his eyes, so the dean was able to finish his words.
"Each of you write a 1,500-word self-criticism and hand it in to me after the club activities tonight! Those who can't finish it will be expelled from school!" The dean of studies finally made the final decision and announced the punishment for the two, then walked away in his high heels.
Su Yue: "..."
He suddenly discovered a terrible trap:
If other players provoke the dean, they will be forced to write a self-criticism, and if they fail to finish it, they will be expelled from school.
You have to know that this is a game and players log in as students, so if they are "expelled from school", it means that the game has failed and the player has died.
"I advise you to finish those 1,500 words," Wei Wan whispered. "Given the Dean's temper, it doesn't matter if your writing is awful, but if it's not enough, she'll definitely not let you off."
Su Yue's mind raced, and he had already made up his mind. He nodded and said to Wei Wan, "Don't worry."
When the two of them walked into the first teaching building one after the other, it was exactly 18:50 in the evening.
There are 10 minutes left until the event starts.
Classroom A101 was at the end of the corridor. Su Yue saw Cang Zhi waiting at the classroom door at a glance. This was the most exciting news for him that day. Cang Zhi was indeed there and was looking for him. Su Yue waved and ran towards Cang Zhi quickly.
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"Azhi!" Su Yue called out enthusiastically, "You're here!"
Cang Zhi raised the corner of his mouth subtly, "Well, I'm here."
"?" Su Yue's mind didn't quite wrap around it, he asked, "What weird things are you talking about?"
"Nothing." Cangzhi caught Suyue who was running towards him, and they gave each other a small hug. "I'm glad to see you again."
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