Chapter 21 Destiny is a cycle. Only by breaking out of this rule can it be maintained...
Li Ming lowered his eyes and sat quietly in his seat.
On his left sits a faceless student with textbooks on the desk, and on his right sits another faceless student with textbooks on the desk.
They moved in unison, and even their manners were mechanically identical.
The classroom was packed.
Row after row of faceless students sat in their respective seats in exactly the same posture. They were dressed in monotonous clothes and had pale faces, just like rows of sardines being dried in a food processing factory.
The eyes were pierced, the mouth was lifted up, the belly was ripped open...
After the workers have completed these processes, the sardines are densely packed in the same narrow space.
At this moment——
Even the air became crowded and sticky.
But in this suffocating space like a sardine can, Li Ming sat quietly among them. He was wearing a white sweatshirt and a pair of brown overalls today.
His upper body was obviously wearing white clothes of the same color, but he stood out so clearly.
Because he is the only student with a face, because he is the only student who is dressed differently, and more importantly, because he is the only living person in the classroom.
Li Ming grabbed his sleeves tightly with both hands, feeling a little nervous.
There was nothing in front of his desk. He hadn't brought any textbooks to class, so there were no books on his desk. The only things he could put on his seat were his clenched fists.
Just now, at the last moment when the bell rang,
He was surrounded and carried by the crowd until he sat down in his current seat.
Li Ming tried to run away and find his roommate, but the result was no doubt a failure, just like he was still staying in this classroom.
That door, that strange door.
No matter how many times he opened the door, he could only see the corridor at sunset through the glass of the doors and windows.
Everything seemed like a dream.
He was trapped in the classroom inside the door and he couldn't reach the corridor outside.
The corridor outside the door seemed like a sticker in a game, a mirage that did not exist but was vividly presented in front of the eyes of travelers trying to survive in the desert.
Far away and out of reach.
Li Ming's thoughts were very confused at this time.
A drop of cold sweat dripped from his forehead, along the contour of his face, and suddenly fell onto the solid and cold floor. The tiny drop of sweat made a tiny sound, but in this dead silent space, the sound was suddenly amplified.
Fortunately:
None of the students around him looked at him, but this was exactly what made him feel suffocated.
Why did the current situation happen?
Li Ming carefully recalled his recent actions and secretly analyzed the doubts about his recent actions. He couldn't find the problem, and he had no idea what had led to the current situation.
I didn't see anything that shouldn't be there, nor did I touch anything that shouldn't be touched, but the result was that I was suddenly transferred to an unfamiliar classroom.
Space transfer? Is it related to space?
But this cannot explain why time can leap to the setting sun in an instant.
Calm down, Li Ming. Calm down...
He repeated these words in his mind, trying to restore his shaking hands to normal.
The clock on the wall was ticking.
When Li Ming's emotions were finally able to stabilize, he silently looked down at his palms and found that they were already full of sweat.
Seeing this, Li Ming sighed and closed his eyes.
Because even he... couldn't figure out what was going on now...
“Crunch, crunch…”
The floor suddenly made a loud noise. The sound got closer and closer, and sharper and sharper, until it stopped abruptly just before it was about to pierce the eardrum.
Li Ming looked quietly towards the classroom door.
The wooden door was suddenly opened.
A huge, hunched figure instantly filled the narrow door frame. But before he could come in, a strange old man's head was the first to reach through the door.
He condescended to survey the position of his students as a farmer surveys his pen of pigs.
A foul-smelling, sticky liquid flowed from His mouth.
Li Ming watched helplessly as the students in the first three rows were covered in his saliva. He swallowed subconsciously and thanked himself for not sitting in the front row.
Maybe it's because the surroundings are too quiet...
After Li Ming finished swallowing, the head suddenly looked towards the area where Li Ming was, as if a jackal had smelled something.
Li Ming's heart suddenly stopped.
He instinctively stopped all possible actions.
Then he saw that strange head, that wrinkled old man's head, swaying above his head, and the saliva dripping onto the floor, rotting the wooden boards.
Li Ming deliberately controlled himself not to think about anything and not to see anything.
After a time that seemed like a century had passed, the old man's head was reflected in his eyes again. The monster, unable to find the source of the sound, withdrew its head in dismay.
Li Ming looked at all this, secretly feeling relieved, but also feeling a huge sense of sadness.
He was an old professor he knew.
No, it should be said that He was an old professor whom he knew.
He corrected his description word by word in his mind.
Because only in this way can he survive this catastrophe that has no end in sight; only in this way can he persist in this endless ocean...
The long-necked teacher slowly raised his right hand, which was as wrinkled as an old dead tree, picked up the chalk tremblingly, and tried to write something on the blackboard.
The sharp, harsh sound of chalk rubbing against each other echoed in the silent classroom.
While his body was writing on the blackboard, he even turned his head to observe the situation of the students behind him. However, most of the students behind him were faceless students without faces or souls.
His threats received no response, and His threats received no response.
He could only drool at the food on the table, because even the shapeless sardines in the cans were a rare delicacy for the hungry employees.
Li Ming struggled to control his behavior and expression.
His fingers were numb from sitting still for so long, and he had to use up all his strength to not blink when the strange head hanging in the air stared at him.
This is more terrible than going to jail.
Li Ming secretly complained about the current situation.
At this moment, he inexplicably thought: It’s also good to be a faceless student. At least they have no fear at all, and they don’t have to worry about making any expressions.
Yes, because they have no face at all.
Li Ming found this surprising and funny.
He suddenly felt that the faceless students were not scary, because they were also oppressed like normal students in school, and also because they were also at the bottom of the academy pyramid.
LOL, the bottom and the bottom.
If they fight each other, wouldn't that be internal fighting? Or maybe it is internal fighting.
But Li Ming thought so, in reality he was still extremely vigilant against the faceless students. This was not only because of the senior sister's words "be careful of those students", but also because of a lingering dark picture -
"Mom, Mom, it hurts..."
He had witnessed his junior fellow student crying like this before dying.
Anyone who witnessed those scenes should have the same opinion as him, and anyone who participated in those things should be as wary of these students as he was.
They are not ignorant lambs, they are wolves that bully the weak and the strong.
……Wait.
Li Ming's memories suddenly stopped on his junior's blank face.
He watched the Li Ming in his memory suddenly and fearfully retreat after witnessing everything. His outstretched hands turned into grayish-white, rough soil, and tiny cracks appeared on his face like a clay doll.
He was looking at him.
Break free from the shackles of memory, transcend the illusion of fantasy, and look from the false past to the real present.
The two people looked at each other across reality and illusion.
The last sigh sounded, and Li Ming heard Him say with a lament:
'This is the most crucial clue.'
Li Ming suddenly woke up. He looked at the blackboard full of chaotic lines, at the monster head that was dangling in the air without noticing anything, and thought stiffly:
How long can humans go without blinking?
It can't be half an hour, and it definitely can't be ten minutes. So if he has managed to not blink for ten minutes, or even half an hour, can he still be considered a human being?
Li Ming couldn't see his own face.
There has never been a person in the world who can see his own face without the help of external objects.
Then Li Ming understood instantly:
The assimilation of the Faceless Students never required physical suppression. Their influence had already spread throughout the campus long before we woke up today and long before we met on the playground yesterday.
The people who can influence students the most are naturally [students].
The senior student reminded them specifically because she noticed that they didn't notice the potential impact of the faceless student. But why did she follow up with the sentence "You have to follow the rules but you can't follow them completely"?
Following the rules will keep them away from the school monsters, while not following the rules will force them to fight the monsters.
But what if this point is applied to the "Faceless Student"?
Would abiding by the rules mean that they would be silently assimilated into the faceless students?
Li Ming suddenly woke up.
They must have done something that seemed suspicious to others, but they themselves were completely unaware of it. For example... For example...
Why didn't he have any memory of going to the classroom with his roommate this morning?
Why did he forget that they had plenty of time to knock on the doors of other dormitories after they woke up this morning, while he was regretting that he didn't knock on the doors of other dormitories one by one last night?
It was as if all the students in their dormitory moved from the dormitory building to the classroom in an instant, but the weird thing was that no one noticed the problem.
How did the senior sister find out about the problem? Where might she have found out about the problem?
From the road.
From the content of the communication.
From the moment they never thought of paying attention to the 'Faceless Student'.
What normal student would climb over the wall to attend class?
But at that moment, all the students' goal was to go to class. They walked out of the dormitory, walked out of the dormitory building, walked along the road, walked into the teaching building, and finally walked into the classroom.
And they can only stay sane by breaking this rule.
However, the senior student did not dare to give too obvious a hint. Because outside the classroom door and in the corridor, the monsters waiting for prey included not only the long-necked teacher, but also the subjective consciousness of the faceless students.
He is an intelligent monster who bears grudges.
What he and Zhou Haoyu did on the playground ultimately offended the person they should not have offended the most.
The intermittent sound of chalk rubbing finally stopped. The blackboard was full of chaotic lines and symbols, sloppy but weird. The long-necked teacher standing on the podium turned around and slowly walked towards the door.
The class period had not yet ended, but He had already opened the door.
The students in the first row had already stood up. They lined up neatly and walked out of the classroom mechanically.
why is that?
Li Ming was at a loss. He tried to recall as much information about the class as possible, and finally found out to his surprise: the name of this class... this elective class seemed to be called "Experimental Chemistry"...
So are they going to the lab?
While Li Ming was panicking, he looked up unexpectedly and saw the monster professor who had been rigid since just now secretly and randomly biting a classmate's head.
The student's body was suddenly hanging in the air.
He swayed, like a sunny doll hanging on the balcony. Finally, the faceless student suddenly fell to the ground and shattered into a pile of gray-white sand on the floor.
Granular sand splashed onto Li Ming's face.
Li Ming looked at all this and suddenly his mind went blank because he could not see how the faceless student had violated any rules, and he could not even see any difference between these faceless students.
There was a faceless student in each row, and the long-necked teacher randomly selected students to eat.
He was like a hungry beast that was finally able to eat, biting and devouring his few prey voraciously.
Li Ming's hands and feet turned cold when he saw this.
Because he already knew that now was——
Teacher's snack time.
Li Ming stood up stiffly and mechanically following the team and slowly walked towards the classroom door. He looked at the classroom door and silently said in his heart: One in ten probability... One in ten probability...
It’s not big, but it’s not small either.
In just a few minutes, Li Ming's thoughts became a knot in his mind. He was so nervous that he couldn't think of anything, and he was extremely upset.
Should he gamble or not?
Li Ming's heartbeat suddenly quickened.
At this moment, he finally had the chance to see his own appearance through the reflection of the glass window: his face had become stiff, his eyes had become dim, and his clothes were fading...
Li Ming suddenly fell into speechless silence.
Why should he survive?
His "survival" is definitely not this kind of worthless "existence".
The long-necked teacher at the side was still chewing, his head pressed tightly against the ground. He behaved like a disaster victim in times of famine, alert and protecting his few grains of food. At the same time, Li Ming at the other side was pushing away the faceless student in front of him and running quickly out of the classroom.
By the time the monster teacher reacted and let out a sharp howl, Li Ming had already run to the stairs.
The setting sun is fading and the sunset is fading.
All the natural scenery that Li Ming saw was losing its original colors.
But Li Ming was still running, running without hesitation, because he knew very well that there was no real sky in the disaster area, and he knew even more well that one of the talents of Teacher Long Neck was [Space Blockade].
But he could only run.
Run out and get where the monsters can't see you.
This is the only way to survive at the moment.
As he climbed up one flight of stairs after another, he saw his face in the floor-to-ceiling mirrors on each floor become lively again, his eyes become bright again, and his clothes become colorful again.
The last one——
He saw the blurred face of Li Ming in the mirror, the Li Ming who died in the teaching building, the Li Ming who saved Wei Zhehan at the last moment, and shouted at him:
"Run! Li Ming, run!"
You absolutely cannot die here!
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