Chapter 103 24-Hour Teacher (6)
Bai Ye looked again after regaining his composure. Zhang Xiao in front of him was not some short, ugly girl at all; she clearly looked like a student.
"It's nothing." Bai Ye waved and said with a smile, "Go on, take your breakfast and go home, your family will be worried soon."
Zhang Xiao pursed her lips and remained silent, turning away in silence.
That night, as Bai Ye was half asleep, she heard a tinkling sound.
At first, he thought he was dreaming, so he calmly told himself that he didn't need to pay attention and that the sound would disappear as he fell asleep.
But as time went on, the sound grew louder and louder, eventually becoming deafeningly loud right next to your ears.
Someone is banging on the window!
Bai Ye suddenly woke up and got up to look at the side of the dormitory.
Outside the glass window, a dark shadow was pressed close together, slapping against the glass and growling in a low voice.
"The Strange Ones have been mobilized."
Bai Ye realized something was wrong, immediately got up, and tiptoed to the window. As she passed the wardrobe, she casually picked up the tennis racket next to it.
"Clang—"
The glass window shattered, and the shadowy figure was scattered by a gust of wind.
The torrential rain, accompanied by a strong wind, soaked Bai Ye to the bone.
I opened my eyes and found myself lying on my dormitory bed, with water dripping from the ceiling above my head.
Turning my head to look at the ground, I saw that the water had already accumulated to almost five centimeters.
Did the water pipe upstairs burst?
Bai Ye walked out wearing slippers, just as several teachers came downstairs.
"What happened?" Bai Ye asked.
The others just shook their heads. The young teacher who lived next door to Bai Ye whispered, "Your class's music teacher drowned."
"What?!"
"It's so pitiful. A perfectly healthy person, drowning in the bathtub while taking a bath. Sigh, paying money to suffer like that. We don't have money, so we just use the showerheads we bring from school..."
The experimental primary school has many teachers specializing in non-core subjects, such as music and art. It's not a case of one teacher teaching all the courses for several grades. On the contrary, these teachers have a relatively easy job, as each teacher only needs to be responsible for three or four classes.
The music teacher of Class 601 is even more relaxed than that; she only teaches Class 601.
Other teachers are saying that this Teacher Yang must have some special skills.
Even though the death occurred at the school and the news was promptly contained, most of the teachers in the group already knew about it.
Bai Ye lived directly below this Teacher Yang, and many teachers secretly came over to inquire whether there was any inside information.
"How would I know!" Bai Ye looked completely bewildered.
Some teachers didn't believe it, "Didn't you hear anything? Was it really an accident?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Teacher Yang, didn't you know? She is the actual guardian of one of your students."
Bai Ye was stunned; no one had told him this information.
The teacher who came to inquire about the news realized he had let something slip, gave an awkward laugh, and quickly slipped away.
Bai Ye immediately called Yan Xin, wanting to know what had happened.
"You mean Teacher Yang? She's Zhang Xiao's aunt. Zhang Xiao's parents aren't in China, so Teacher Yang has always been in charge of this student's daily life."
"Why didn't you say so sooner? Why wasn't this recorded in the file?" Bai Ye was furious.
Yan Xin sounded bewildered, "You didn't know about this? Everyone knows! Besides, this is just an elder relative. Teacher Yang doesn't even attend parent-teacher conferences."
After a pause, Yan Xin realized something and asked in a low voice, "What...what happened? Is there something wrong with Zhang Xiao?"
"Zhang Xiao is fine. I'll most likely have to make a home visit."
Bai Ye mumbled a few words and hung up the phone.
During the second period in the afternoon, the grade leader came over and told Bai Ye to go to Teacher Yang's house.
“Ms. Bai, you are now the homeroom teacher of Class 601, so you have to take responsibility for this matter. Ms. Yang is not only your colleague but also your student's temporary guardian. Zhang Xiao lives with Ms. Yang, and since this happened, you need to go to her home to offer condolences on behalf of the school and to check on the student's mental state…”
As the homeroom teacher, it was indeed appropriate to visit them.
However, the school skipped the proper procedures and made him the person representing the school, which was quite arbitrary.
But what can I do? I'm just a nobody, and I still have to make a living at school.
Having no classes in the afternoon, Bai Ye packed up and went to Teacher Yang's house.
The address is just across the street from the school, only two streets away. It's very close, so Bai Ye doesn't understand why Teacher Yang would choose to live on campus.
When they arrived at the other party's house, they found that things were even stranger.
The Yang family was quiet, with no signs of any family members having passed away. In fact, the person who opened the door was one of his students, dressed in casual clothes and looking relaxed and natural.
"Forehead……"
Bai Ye hesitated for a moment, unsure of what to say.
"Teacher Bai, are you here for a home visit?" Zhang Xiao opened the door, turned to the side and said, "Teacher Bai, please come in."
The child is too young to understand sadness.
Bai Ye comforted himself, explained his purpose to the students, and then went inside.
As a result, the room was empty, and the entire environment lacked any of the atmosphere one would expect from a funeral.
"This..." Bai Ye was stunned in surprise.
Zhang Xiao poured herself a glass of water and explained, "I don't like a messy house."
Did you inform your parents when your aunt passed away?
"Mom is dead, and Dad is nowhere to be found."
"What?"
"Teacher Bai, I'm doing my homework, and there are a few questions I don't know how to answer. Could you teach me?"
As she spoke, Zhang Xiao walked towards her bedroom.
Bai Ye stood in the living room, stunned for a long time, and walked towards the student's bedroom with a puzzled look in her mind.
The door opened, and there was a dozen or so dolls in front of you, each with a smile that was neither here nor there, but the corners of each doll's eyes were blood red.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the red color was actually applied with lipstick.
It's so realistic, it looks just like flowing blood.
Bai Ye was startled by the arrangement of the bedroom, and in an instant, she was transported back to a past game.
"Teacher Bai, how do you solve this problem?" Zhang Xiao asked calmly.
Bai Ye suppressed all his guesses, stepped forward, and stood in front of the desk to explain.
Time passed by, and Bai Ye had explained more than a dozen math problems before finally losing patience.
"Zhang Xiao, these dolls of yours?"
"It was given to me by my father."
"Where is your father? I heard he's abroad."
"I don't know, maybe he's dead, and his daughter doesn't want him anymore."
"Zhang Xiao..."
“He never thought of coming back to me, and he probably stopped liking me a long time ago. Well, I'm so strange, how could my dad like me?”
"Maybe Dad is just too busy with work. Zhang Xiao, you're such a good girl, your dad must love you..."
Bai Ye's first home visit, intended as a gesture of sympathy, turned out to be even more unacceptable than he had imagined.
The whole thing seems to be shrouded in an indescribable falsehood.
There were no adults at home, so Bai Ye didn't linger and got up to leave in less than an hour.
Zhang Xiao stood up to see the guest out, but Bai Ye refused directly, saying, "No need. You should rest at home. The teacher will report everything else to the school."
With only one guardian and only one child in the family, this matter cannot be resolved so simply.
At the very least, we need to consider how this student will spend the next few months, whether it will affect their studies, and even whether their mental state will change.
The best solution is to contact the senior students' parents, but the school has to step in on this.
While waiting for the elevator, Bai Ye couldn't help but recall the pile of dolls in Zhang Xiao's room. Those dolls always seemed familiar, and each one was quite eerie.
"I feel like I've seen this somewhere before."
"They look a bit like the dolls in the Daddy's Dungeon."
"That doll, the one on the bed... yes!"
Bai Ye suddenly woke up with a start, then trembled all over and turned his head in fear.
The door to Teacher Yang's house was ajar.
It's clear that it was closed when I left!
"That doll, that doll."
Bai Ye finally remembered that the largest doll placed by Zhang Xiao's bedside had eyes that were clearly the same as the one in the housekeeping and cleaning dungeon.
"It's that doll, it's that puppet."
Zhang Xiao is the second most mysterious person, and she is the owner of the doll!
Bai Ye quickly understood this, and while she was afraid, she finally calmed down.
Without the appearance of strange creatures, the dungeon is incomplete; that's the norm.
"Zhang Xiao is a second-highest level of mystery. What is her purpose?"
"Why does she have so many dolls? Are these dolls puppets?"
The elevator doors opened, and Bai Ye stepped inside without a second thought.
At this moment, his mind was filled with thoughts of the doll and Zhang Xiao.
When they realized something was wrong in the elevator, the floor display showed floor 18.
The elevator stopped and got stuck on an intermediate floor, neither going up nor down.
Bai Ye pressed the emergency call button, and the other end answered quickly, only to be told that the entire building's elevator system was malfunctioning and needed to be repaired one by one.
"How long will it take? Master, I'm still stuck in the elevator," Bai Ye asked.
The voice on the other end was intermittent, "I don't know, it will take a while... Jinyao's elevators have been malfunctioning lately... This matter has already been reported."
"Jin Yao? Master, you just mentioned Jin Yao?"
"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"I'm in the elevator of Chaoyang Residential Complex."
"Nonsense, this is the Jinyao Building."
The communication was suddenly cut off. Bai Ye pressed the distress bell again, but only a busy tone was heard on the other end.
He looked at the bright red 18 in front of him and felt a chill run down his spine.
Jinyao Building was the office building that An Wenyuan had taken him to. The 18th floor was where An Wenyuan told him he would live.
But why?
Just a second ago, he was still in Chaoyang Community, having just come out of Teacher Yang's house.
"Teacher Bai, are you going to make a home visit?" A voice came from outside the elevator.
Bai Ye carefully recognized the voice as that of his student, An Wenyuan.
Mingming, An Wenyuan is at school!
Bai Ye felt even more incredulous, realizing that he had probably entered some strange territory.
Strange occurrences have been observed in both Jinyao Building and Chaoyang Residential Area.
"Teacher Bai, are you going to make a home visit?" the voice outside continued to ask, persistent and determined to get a response from Bai Ye.
Just as Bai Ye was about to speak, an arm suddenly reached out from behind and covered his mouth.
"Don't respond, or it will drag on."
Bai Ye suddenly turned around and saw a doll standing behind him.
The doll was dressed in Lolita fashion, incredibly beautiful, but her eyes were slightly filled with bloody tears, as if she was about to cry.
"You, you..." What the hell is that?
“Those things are calling you. Don’t go, or you’ll be dragged down,” the doll repeated.
Bai Ye glanced at the elevator door, said nothing, took a step back, and examined the doll in front of him.
He had never seen this doll before; its face, especially its eyes, were completely unfamiliar.
"It doesn't seem like they ran away from Zhang Xiao's house, it's just..."
Bai Ye's attention shifted to the Lolita dress worn by the doll. This dress was so similar to the one that the strange creature had given him.
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