Chapter 5 Midnight Whisper
This elementary school student is so amazing that even adults can’t compare to him.
Their numbers were next to each other, both ranked in the twenties.
Wang Biao and the three girls would follow behind them, and they would have plenty of time to observe the actions of others and think of countermeasures.
Several people were quietly watching the scene which looked like a circus audition.
After the group of children rolled over one after another, it was Lu Jiamu, number 22, who came first.
Yu Leng opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out.
Lu Jiamu's dark eyes turned slightly, and he withdrew his gaze from the child in front of him.
Quite interesting.
In the past, someone always told him that jumping from high places, climbing walls, trees, telephone poles, falling headfirst and other things that other people would not do are dangerous behaviors and will have terrible consequences.
So he had always been a well-behaved person and never did anything that could be considered dangerous.
Now thinking that he was finally going to do something unexpected, he felt a rare sense of pleasure, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Although he had only attended an ordinary school before, his teachers would not teach him such dangerous moves, and he had never tried any dangerous sports.
But after carefully observing the movements of the 21 students in front of him in detail and repeatedly rehearsing them several times in light of his own physical condition, he actually had a general idea of it.
Lu Jiamu stretched his hands to stretch his muscles, shifted his center of gravity, took a deep breath, and then, under Yu Leng's surprised gaze, he exerted force, imitating the movements of the other children, quickly leaping up and doing splits in the air, and rolling after landing.
The movements were natural and very skillful, without any sign of panic.
c…He used to practice gymnastics?
Yu Leng was stunned, exclaimed in amazement and swore in his heart, and even wanted to applaud him.
His companion's perfect demonstration made him feel more stressed.
But the two teachers had already set their sights on him.
If you anger these two monster teachers, no one knows what will happen. Maybe they will even eat children.
He had to go up. Yu Leng gritted his teeth and jumped up with his legs apart.
Then he imitated the other children in front of him and did a backflip.
Yu Leng had been a lazy eater since kindergarten, and would fall down when climbing a tree, but he did not fail immediately when doing these movements. It was really unexpected.
Could it be that he came here through the Wheel of Time and Space, and his body was transformed and strengthened in some way?
After being re-refined, although he became shorter, he also became stronger?
But Yu Leng felt that his movements were completely out of control due to the huge inertia. He was rolling faster and faster and could not react at all.
He had just done a few backflips when he fell to the ground with a thud.
Half of the reason for the fall was that he really couldn't react in time, and the other half was that he was subconsciously worried that he would break his neck if he continued, so he deliberately chose a posture that would not hurt him.
The two teachers looked at him, shook their heads and sighed.
Lu Jiamu walked back from the finish line with an expressionless face. On the way, he admired the miserable sight of Yu Leng falling to the ground, and then lined up again at the end of the line.
Yu Leng was afraid of being run over by the students behind him, so he quickly got up and ran back to the end of the line.
Wang Biao was standing behind several students, watching them tumbling out one after another with a little nervousness.
The performance of this group of children completely overturned his initial judgment. It was too terrible. For the first time, he felt that he was not even as good as an elementary school student.
But Wang Biao doesn't just look fierce. He is also very brave and has been good at sports since he was a child.
Besides, he had seen so many children in front of him perform some standard movements, some less so, and now he had basically grasped the key points and could deal with the two teachers.
Wang Biao successfully completed four movements and unexpectedly discovered that his body had unexpectedly a sense of balance and strength.
Coleman, who was a few meters behind him, also quickly noticed the physical enhancement. He gritted his teeth and learned three or four points, and managed to fool around a few times.
The two high school girls were very scared because it was their first time doing this and they were afraid of breaking their necks when doing the somersault.
After all, in normal schools, even if they teach, they only teach tumbling, who would teach somersaults? Physical fitness is not enough to completely make up for the huge defects in skills. If you don't do a good job of flipping and break your neck, you will be paralyzed from the waist down.
Normal people will feel scared to some extent.
Among them, the one with better balance, Lu Jiamu remembered the girl named Wei Xiaoyan, who managed to learn how to flip twice, while the other girl, Yu Tong, was so frightened that she lost her balance and fell to the ground at the very beginning.
The two monster-like teachers saw how disappointing these students were, with each falling down more miserably than the other. Their already ugly faces became even uglier, and looked extremely weird and terrifying.
The bloated teacher Wen was the first to shout: "You are truly the worst class of students I have ever taught!"
The two little girls, Wei Xiaoyan and Yu Tong, supported each other and walked back to the team silently.
Teacher Gao also said hoarsely and gloomily: "If you continue like this in the future, I think you don't need to live. The school does not support students who eat for free."
Fortunately, although these two monster teachers looked a bit cruel, with twisted and dissatisfied faces, this entrance test was probably just a private behavior, so they scolded them harshly and did not mention any additional punishment.
After the scolding, the monster teachers carefully reviewed the areas where each student in the class needed improvement, and Teacher Gao said hoarsely: "That's it for today, go back."
He said something to the bloated Teacher Wen, and led the students lined up back to the dormitory.
"Today is the first day of school, and the number of students has not yet been counted, so the school has not prepared dinner for you. But if everything goes well tonight, you can still look forward to breakfast tomorrow."
Teacher Gao stood outside the room, supervising them as they found their respective beds. He stroked the iron door with one hand and looked at them lifelessly: "I won't lock the door from the outside. This may affect your necessary escape. If you are afraid, you can bolt it from the inside."
The student closest to the door immediately responded tremblingly.
"Go to bed early and enjoy your last leisure time." Teacher Gao stared at the students in the room with his mummy-like face, and then slowly said in a hoarse and unpleasant voice as if he had phlegm in his mouth, "Good night, sweet dreams."
After saying that, he gently closed the door. After the student closest to the door confirmed that he had gone far away, he immediately went over and bolted the door.
Just based on his horrible expression and that unpleasant voice, I'm afraid few people can have a good dream.
Lu Jiamu withdrew his gaze from the door and wanted to look at the textbook to preview it in advance.
But when they came back, Teacher Gao forgot to take them to the classroom to organize their textbooks.
He didn't have much to talk about with his companions. And looking at the two of them, they didn't seem to be in the mood to chat.
Lu Jiamu had no choice but to lie down on his side and curl up quietly in his little quilt.
Yu Leng sat on the musty bedding, feeling the chill of the dormitory. He had a feeling of being stranded in a foreign land. He did not have as good a mentality as Lu Jiamu for the moment, and felt that he might suffer from insomnia.
Wang Biao glanced at Yu Leng and Lu Jiamu, adjusted his pillow, lay down on his side, sighed, and whispered to them, "I'm by your side, nothing will happen, don't worry."
He looked like a menacing figure, and it was especially reassuring to look at him at night.
Yu Leng hummed and huddled into the quilt, not knowing whether he was comforting himself or saying to the other two people: "I am sandwiched between you. There is nothing to be afraid of."
In the cold dormitory, the other children also looked very lacking in energy. Few of them chatted with each other. They all lay quietly on their beds, hoping to fall asleep quickly.
It was quiet for an unknown amount of time. Even Yu Leng, who thought he would suffer from insomnia, had his breathing become steady. Suddenly, a series of unclear voices came from the corner of the dormitory.
Lu Jiamu was a light sleeper and he woke up as soon as the sound was heard.
He did not open his eyes immediately, nor did he make any movement. He just listened carefully to confirm the direction of the sound.
Then he gently tilted his head towards the direction of the sound, slightly raised his eyelids, and squinted to look.
With the faint light coming in from the crack in the door, Lu Jiamu saw a dark shadow with long hair.
The dark shadow was half bent over, standing in front of a small bed, talking in a "chi chi chi" way.
As soon as Lu Jiamu took a look, the black shadow seemed to sense something. It suddenly stood up and turned its face away stiffly.
It was a green, swollen, and blistered face, with a pair of pale, pupil-less eyes staring at him.
It looks like everything except a living person.
Lu Jiamu just looked at it for a moment, then immediately closed his eyes as if nothing had happened, pretending that he had just moved in his sleep.
But it was too late. A gust of cold wind carrying a fishy smell rushed to Lu Jiamu's bed.
Lu Jiamu felt that there was a person standing at the head of his bed. Just like the scene he had vaguely seen before, he lowered his head and stared at him with pale dead fish eyes.
"Tick-Tock"
“Tick…”
There was the sound of sticky liquid dripping next to Lu Jia's ear, very close at hand.
He also felt a damp sensation on his face, as if something was coming towards him. Because it was too close, his own exhaled air was blocked and turned back to spray on his face.
The "tick, tick" sound was still ringing rhythmically, but the thing didn't speak.
Um……
Lu Jiamu quickly ruled out the possibility that this was a teacher.
Firstly, even compared with the teachers in this school, this thing looks really outrageous. Secondly, if other teachers come to see them at night, Teacher Gao should be able to introduce them during the day.
Because Lu Jiamu has astigmatism, he sees double when he looks at things without wearing glasses, and his night vision is not very good, so he only got a rough idea of the thing he saw just now.
I only saw the swollen outline of its blistered face and its pale, dead fish eyes, but I couldn't see any details on its face.
So Lu Jiamu now couldn't figure out what that "ticking" sound was about.
Is it water dripping on the ground? Is it blood? Is it rotten meat?
Or a bug?
Teacher Gao didn’t mention anything about washing during the day, and I don’t know if I can take a shower here, and how often I can take a shower.
It rushed over after just one glance at it, and Lu Jiamu chose not to look at it a second time.
Lu Jiamu didn't want to face it, so he closed his eyes and turned over.
The frequency of the "tick-tock" sound changed a little. After a small breeze caused by the movement of objects, Lu Jiamu felt that cold and damp feeling in front of him again.
It's pasted again, and I don't know how it was done at this angle.
Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Lu Jiamu realized that the thing didn't seem to have any further plans, so he ignored it.
He counted the rhythmic sound of dripping water in his mind, which was like counting sheep, and soon he fell drowsy again.
When he was half asleep and half awake, something slippery and wet touched his face.
The smelly wind blew past his nose. The thing leaned over the side of Lu Jiamu's face and whispered in a sinister female voice: "Hey, stop pretending to be asleep. I know you're awake~"
Lu Jiamu woke up immediately.
Tick-tock, tick-tock…
It exhaled a fishy breath and said quickly and sinisterly: "I know you are awake. You can't hide it from me. Pretend to be asleep, bad boy."
"There's a midnight snack in school. It's about to start. There are lots of cream cakes. If you don't get up, it will be too late."
The slippery thing stroked Lu Jiamu's face again, and he leaned over to his ear and whispered, "Your friend doesn't want you anymore. He just made an appointment with me to go out and play together. Do you want to go with him?"
“…”
Who hasn’t heard a few ghost stories as a child?
Lu Jiamu immediately understood the key point: this thing was trying to trick me into opening my eyes and looking at it, and trick me into going out with it.
Lu Jiamu sighed in his heart and shook his head: What he said was very clear, it was an insult to his intelligence.
All students have to get up at six o'clock tomorrow morning. We don't know how complicated tomorrow's classes will be.
If this thing keeps chattering beside him all night and keeps him awake, it will really affect his energy.
"your……"
Before the cold female voice finished speaking, Lu Jiamu felt the bed frame next to him tremble violently.
It was Yu Leng in the next bed who woke up. He probably heard the sound and opened his eyes to look in his direction, but he saw something he shouldn't have seen and shivered with fear.
The female voice suddenly paused, and the damp and cold feeling against Lu Jiamu's face suddenly disappeared.
The fishy wind blew to the side, and Lu Jiamu heard the "dripping" sound of liquid dripping away from him and reached the head of Yu Leng's bed.
Yu Leng seemed to move a little. Because the beds in the same row were tied together, the shaking of the bed frames was very obvious.
But he didn't speak.
Finally left. Lu Jiamu didn't open his eyes, and turned his back to Yu Leng.
Then he noticed that apart from the ticking sound, the room was a little too quiet.
There wasn't even the slight snoring that other children would hear when they were sleeping; there was a tense silence.
Lu Jiamu sighed in his heart: They are all awake.
After a while, I heard a series of "chirping" sounds coming from the side, but I couldn't make out what was being said.
It is obvious that this is a single-player chat mode and I don't want others to hear clearly.
The bed frame was tied together, and Lu Jiamu could feel the constant tremors coming from the side, becoming more and more obvious. Without opening his eyes, he could imagine Yu Leng curled up in the quilt and shivering.
How pitiful, weak and helpless.
But speaking of it, it must have been in for a while and must have been seen by other children, but it was still just talking to others, which made people suspect that it was made of paper.
Lu Jiamu was so shaken that he couldn't fall asleep. He closed his eyes and listened quietly for a while, then uttered an interjection: "Tsk."
As soon as Lu Jiamu spoke, a fishy wind blew over.
The thing returned to Lu Jiamu's bed in an instant, pressed against Lu Jiamu's face, and screamed in surprise: "Stop pretending! You're awake! I heard you talking!"
So what? Do you see I opened my eyes?
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