Chapter 94: The Student Who Committed Suicide
If Mr. Gao is not a ghost, he is still a very good teacher.
Lin Xi felt this way from the bottom of her heart. Teacher Gao spoke softly, yet her words carried a certain authority and a leadership quality. During her conversation with Teacher Gao, Lin Xi had been thinking about how she would properly educate Lin Lin when she got home. But once she left the elementary school and the breeze calmed her, she put that thought aside.
People only need to be knocked down once, they can't be knocked down by the same thing again and again. If Lin Xi continues to help Lin Lin with her homework, she will directly get high blood pressure.
She sat outside with Shen Sangning and waited for a while. When the bell rang at 4:30, the elementary school students followed their teacher out the door one after another. Lin Xi carefully counted the number of anchors. Fortunately, there was still seventeen, no change. She breathed a sigh of relief. Her future was uncertain, but these anchor students could help her fulfill most of her requirements.
Every anchor student is Lin Xi’s lamb. If one of them is eaten by a wolf, she might rush into the school and fight with the teacher.
After picking up Lin Lin, Lin Xi didn't leave. Instead, she waited until all the students had left before meeting Wei Ziqi and the others. Du Kang arrived the fastest, rushing over to thank Lin Xi. "Thank you so much for enlightening me today. Otherwise, I would have been so elated that I'd already been recognized by so many students."
The two sides exchanged information, and Lin Xi recounted his experience entering the school today, meeting Aaron Jones, and his experience in the lecture hall. Wei Ziqi nodded and said, "If I run into Aaron Jones at dinner tonight, I'll tell him."
"As for the haunted thing you mentioned, this is the first time I've heard of it. I'll ask other teachers about it later."
Lin Xi also shared Cai Hua's thoughts on fear with them. She doubted their team would use SC for this information. SC was life-saving for them. While it might make the ghosts the anchors faced stronger... it was still fatal to them, and the most important thing right now was to save their own lives.
Things related to fear can be discussed after we exit the dungeon.
After Lin Xi finished speaking, the three of them looked at each other. Wei Ziqi pondered for a while: "In other words, we want to show that we are not afraid of ghosts at all? And try not to let the audience see the terrifying scene of ghosts?"
Wang Xue smiled bitterly: "Now I see that my colleagues' legs are trembling. If they scare me, I will be really scared. I...I can't do it."
Du Kang also sighed: "It's quite difficult, let's try our best."
At this point, she was almost done talking, but Wang Xue suddenly remembered something and stopped them: "By the way, there's one thing I don't know if you've noticed. I haven't seen the principal come to the cafeteria to eat. Even now, I still don't know what the principal looks like."
Wei Ziqi frowned: "I haven't seen it either. I hardly have the chance to go to the administrative building."
Du Kang said, "Didn't Sister Xi say before that the principal might be the big boss of this dungeon? It's better not to run into him."
Lin Xi frowned: "It's impossible that we don't have any information about the principal. Do you know the principal's last name? Isn't there a photo of the principal in the school corridor?"
"No, they are all famous quotes from people in our real life." Wei Ziqi frowned even deeper: "I only know that the principal's surname is Di, and everyone calls him Principal Di.
The rest is unclear.”
To be honest, after meeting Teacher Gao, Lin Xi had a question: "Could Teacher Gao be the principal?" After knowing that the principal's surname was Di, she was a little confused. One was tall and the other was short, so they were more or less related. But it was also possible that she was overthinking.
Lin Xi was not a smart person, so she told her doubts to Wei Ziqi and the other two. Wei Ziqi was obviously a smart person, and three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, what if they really figured out something?
Facing Lin Xi's speculation, Wei Ziqi simply said, "Teacher Gao, let's find out more about this."
At this point, they really had to leave, especially Wang Xue, who had to work in the cafeteria that evening and couldn't be late. Lin Xi waved goodbye to them and took Shen Sang Ning and Lin Lin on the bus. All the way back home, Lin Xi was thinking about something.
After thinking for a long time, Lin Xi saw the shrimp in the refrigerator and took them out after a moment's hesitation. She also took out the salted egg yolk and prepared to make salted egg yolk baked prawns, which was a bargain for Lin Lin. After finishing the meal, Lin Xi asked Chen Sang Ning to call Lin Lin, who was doing homework, to come out. The three of them sat at the dining table and prepared to eat.
Halfway through the meal, Lin Lin suddenly spoke.
"You want to know about the haunted school?"
Lin Xi's eyes lit up. She wanted to know. She wanted to know so much. Lin Xi even stretched out her chopsticks, picked up a shrimp for Lin Lin, and put it in Lin Lin's bowl: "Yes, you know this rumor?"
Baked prawns with salted egg yolk are Lin Xi's specialty. The crispy egg yolk sticks to the shell, making it irresistible. Lin Lin, a shrimp lover, couldn't resist such a dish, so she devoured every prawn Lin Xi placed in her bowl.
After she finished eating, she answered Lin Xi: "Yes, everyone knows it. There are often such rumors in elementary schools, such as the thirteenth step and the ghost stories in the girls' bathroom, but the most famous thing in our school is the ghost in the lecture hall." She picked up another prawn, and after the prawn with salted egg yolk stuck to the rice and made the rice appear golden, she continued: "I heard that it was a senior in the sixth grade. She was originally a good seedling for musicals and won many awards on behalf of the school. But because her academic performance was not ideal, she committed suicide in the lecture hall."
Are you sure this isn't talking about Lin Lin?
For a moment, Lin Xi had a fleeting feeling that this female ghost was Lin Lin. Her academic performance was poor, with only passing grades in music and art. Furthermore, Lin Lin was a gloomy type, which made the description fit perfectly. But then she thought about the age difference. Lin Lin was only in the third grade, a girl under ten years old. Sixth grade was already 12 years old, a stark contrast to Lin Lin.
"Are you all like this in elementary school? Do you commit suicide because of poor grades in elementary school?"
Lin Xi felt a little baffled. If it were a middle school or high school student who chose to commit suicide for this reason, Lin Xi could understand it, but they were still elementary school students! Even if their grades were poor in elementary school, they wouldn't have to do this...?
Lin Xi's words made Lin Lin fall into silence. She lowered her head and stopped talking, just concentrating on eating her meal.
After dinner, Lin Xi washed the dishes while Lin Lin returned to her room to continue her homework. Although she was only in third grade, she still had quite a lot of homework. She started as soon as she got home, and continued until Lin Xi finished cooking dinner and called Lin Lin to eat. She continued after dinner, cleaning up the kitchen and watching TV with Shen Sangning for a while before she finished her homework.
Cai Hua watched the scenes unfold in the livestream. As a psychologist, she easily discerned Lin Lin's unspoken thoughts from her performance. Just as Lin Xi had thought, elementary school didn't need to be so competitive. While grades were important, the fact that the little girl had won numerous awards for musicals proved she was incredibly talented. Children like that were generally proud.
Without external force, she could always be a proud little swan.
The problem is, living in this world requires external forces. While elementary school students are generous and wouldn't commit suicide simply because of their academic performance, what if they're being pressured by their teachers or parents? Such cases exist; parents often care more about their students' grades than the students themselves.
Especially after being labeled a genius, parents are very likely to say, "You're not stupid. You've won so many awards for musicals. You just haven't worked hard enough academically. If you put the time you spend on musicals into studying, you'll definitely do well."
But that's not the case. Even if she puts all her time and effort into academic subjects, she won't necessarily get good grades. This is because her talent and passion lie in musicals. If she's forced to learn other subjects, she simply won't be able to learn them.
Cai Hua has always believed that 80% of the reasons for a child's suicide are due to their parents.
As a "new mother", Lin Xi didn't seem to notice this. Cai Hua frowned. She didn't plan to send this message to Lin Xi as SC. Because Lin Xi's SC had been used twice, she had to be cautious with this last chance. She felt that no matter whether it was Teacher Gao, Principal Di or the girl who committed suicide in the lecture hall, they were all the top priorities for cracking this copy. She felt like Lin Xi had found the main task.
The same is true, the less she can send SC easily.
After Lin Xi washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen, she sat on the sofa with Shen Sangning, picked up the game controller, and began playing a two-player game. How could one describe the games in this world... While the specific games were different from the real world, the gameplay was very similar. It was just that there were some issues that could arise during play, like inexplicably entering some strange Easter egg scene, or the characters you controlled not obeying your commands.
Fortunately, such situations are not common. Even if it happens under Shen Sangning's threat of force, the easter egg scene will be quickly logged out and the villain will obediently act according to his own operations.
The two of them played for quite a while, with Chen Sangning occasionally playing dirty. She'd clearly not stepped on the trap and accidentally fallen into the abyss, but she'd still try to grab Lin Xi's controller, forcing her to fall in with her. The result was that they both resurrected at the starting point, wasting a lot of time.
But Lin Xi didn't care. Playing games became twice as fun because she was with the person she loved, and Shen Sangning's cheating also made her happy.
The two of them played games for a long time, and it was past the time to assign homework to Lin Lin yesterday. Lin Lin felt strange, and when she walked out of the room, she saw her "mom" and her girlfriend lying together playing games. Lin Lin was silent for a while, then walked over and asked, "Aren't you doing homework today?"
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