As night fell, everyone followed Ye Zhen's instructions and went to sleep peacefully.
However, as midnight approached, the sound of someone walking by suddenly rang out outside the door, their footsteps heavy, accompanied by the dragging sound of chains.
Everyone was jolted awake, their eyes warily fixed on the door. Some even wanted to get out of bed and open the door to check, but remembering Bella's earlier warning, they all sat back down.
Some carefree people simply continue sleeping, since they can't block out the sound anyway, so they might as well treat it as a lullaby and get used to it; it might even calm their nerves.
Unfortunately, the footsteps were just the beginning. As the night grew darker, there were urgent knocks on some people's doors, which startled the two people inside.
"What's going on?" Kunpeng sat on the bed, still half asleep, looking at Lin En across from him with a puzzled expression. At this moment, their dormitory door was being pounded on loudly, making one wonder if the door would be smashed to pieces.
“I don’t know, but this must be the accident Bella the Elementalist was talking about. No matter what happens, don’t open the door!” Lynn said with a frown, showing no intention of getting out of bed to open the door.
"Alright! I'm going back to sleep!" Upon hearing this, Kunpeng immediately lay down again, and soon soft snoring could be heard.
Lynn looked on with envy. Heaven knows how hard it is for older people to sleep. How could they possibly fall asleep with all that banging on the door? She had thought she could talk to someone, but now it seemed she would have to spend this long night alone.
The next day, when everyone met again, they found that only Lynn and Kunpeng's rooms had been knocked on. The others only heard footsteps, and the duration of the knocks varied and was quite random.
"Damn it! Why are you knocking on my door? Do you think I'm easy to bully?" Kunpeng said indignantly when he heard that only he was being knocked on.
"Maybe? You're ugly!" Ye Zhen chuckled, then turned and left. It was time for class, and they couldn't stay there any longer.
"Damn it!" Kunpeng cursed, but he had no choice but to go to the classroom for class.
With the teaching experience from the previous day, the second day's lessons were not difficult at all, and everyone quickly completed their respective lessons and then went on to carry out their own tasks.
Ye Zhen's music class was in the morning. After class, he went directly to the office building. Teachers usually came here to rest and prepare lessons after class, while people like the dean of studies and the principal would handle official business here.
The principal's floor was undoubtedly the highest, so Ye Zhen didn't bother to dawdle and went straight to the top floor. She wanted to knock on the principal's office door, but was stopped by a strange creature holding a lamp.
"This is the principal's office. Unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter!" A similarly hoarse voice came from under the cloak. The gatekeeper, hunched over, resembled an elderly butler, faithfully guarding the door to the principal's office.
"Hello! I need to speak with the principal about something. Could you please inform him?" Ye Zhen didn't give up easily and asked the other party.
"The principal isn't here, you can go back!" The other party refused without any politeness, which surprised Ye Zhen! This was the first time she had been rejected so decisively, even though she had used her charm ability from the very beginning.
"This? I mainly wanted to ask about matters related to teacher promotion. Do you know how to get promoted? For example, from teacher to head of teaching affairs?" Ye Zhen asked, biting her lip. "After all, everyone wants to do better, right?"
Upon hearing Ye Zhen's words, the other person's eyes, hidden beneath the cloak, quietly observed her, as if pondering something.
Ye Zhen didn't speak up again easily, as if waiting for a result. She bit her red lips slightly, her face full of grievance and stubbornness, as if she really wanted to get her professional title promoted.
"To get promoted, there needs to be a vacancy in the school and you also need to get the principal's favor. Just focus on doing your job well, and the principal will notice!" After a while, the other party spoke again, but this result was not what Ye Zhen was satisfied with.
She wanted to ask something else, but the other person had already turned and walked into the small room next door. Only then did Ye Zhen realize that the door hidden in the shadows seemed to be the residence of the butler or secretary.
With a slight frown, she watched quietly for a while before turning away helplessly. This trip to the principal's office was fruitless, but she couldn't leave empty-handed. She turned and headed down to the offices of the teachers and the dean of studies to continue gathering the information she wanted.
As night fell, everyone gathered again to share their day's experiences.
“Let me go first. I’ve been to the principal’s office, but I couldn’t get in. I was stopped at the door by a strange creature. If I’m not mistaken, it should be the principal’s butler. I asked him about promotions, and he said that there needs to be a vacancy in the school, and you also need to get the principal’s favor!” Time was of the essence, so Ye Zhen spoke first. The principal’s affairs were also what everyone was most concerned about.
"There are vacancies in the school? And you need the principal's favor? The beginning is manageable, but the end is a bit hard to judge!" Lynn shook his head and said. He was also a principal and knew that there was a lot of room for manipulation in this situation.
"So, can we interpret this as... that we can get rid of the head of student affairs and then become the head of student affairs ourselves?" Xuan Du said thoughtfully, and the surroundings immediately fell silent. How could this seemingly weak human be so... unconventional in his speech and actions?
"That doesn't seem wrong, does it? The head of the teaching department is dead! The head of the teaching department is missing! So the principal will naturally have to appoint a new head of the teaching department. As long as the head of the teaching department dies quickly enough, it will eventually be our turn to be the head of the teaching department, right?" Kunpeng responded with a quick and insightful remark.
"Then can we kill the principal too? Then we'll be the principal? Things are definitely not that simple. Besides, our strength is currently suppressed, so we might not be able to defeat these deans or even the principal!" Bella shook her head, directly pouring cold water on everyone's hopes.
Without considering breaking the rules and unleashing their true strength, as temporary classroom teachers, they can only exert the strength of the early stage of the fourth rank at most. This is still the advantage brought by their deep foundation. The headless principal, on the other hand, has at least the strength of the peak of the sixth rank. The strength of the two sides is not even on the same level. Even the other teachers have the strength of the fourth rank or above. It is obviously impossible to inherit the school by killing the principal.
Even for positions like grade leader or dean of studies, given their current circumstances, they might not be able to secure them.
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