Chapter 121
After going through hundreds of exams, Shen Baizhou's scores in each subject, which were in the single digits, actually began to increase little by little.
By the end of the year, I could score 20 or 30 points in every subject!
He finally stepped down from the last place as he wished.
On the day when the monthly exam rankings came out, Shen Baizhou looked at his bottom-ten ranking and wished he could use a loudspeaker to announce it to the whole world!
Over the past six months, his legend has spread to almost every classroom in the school that has made an outstanding contribution to his academic performance.
The players who went out asked for a long time, but there was no news about Shen Baizhou.
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Facing a late winter snow, Xingnuo ran home with his schoolbag and sent invitations to the whole family.
"We are going to have a performance at our welcome party. Parents can come and watch."
Shen Baizhou had to attend classes on the day of the party, and Shen Wen had to go back to the manor in the next two days, so he might not be able to attend in time.
Chen Wen gently rubbed Xing Nuo's soft little face and spoke apologetically:
"I will definitely come back early to watch Xingnuo perform on stage."
Xingnuo knew that his father would sometimes be very busy and wouldn't be back for several days, so he shook his head and let his father go about his own business.
"It's okay."
Xingnuo Kindergarten also participated in evening performances. Chen Wen had been there many times, so it wouldn’t matter if he missed one.
On the day of the New Year's Eve party, Shen Yan postponed several meetings and attended in formal attire.
Xingnuo was wearing a little bee suit, with the furry white wings on his back fluttering as he ran, and he ran to greet his brother.
"elder brother!"
Shen Yan laughed and pinched Xingnuo's wings.
"Why are you dressed as a little bee? And holding your little wooden sword?"
Xingnuo didn't want to spoil the content of the performance to her brother, so she frowned and took her brother's hand and walked towards the seating area of the auditorium.
"Brother, sit down. I have to go backstage. We are the second performer!"
The auditorium can accommodate nearly a thousand parents and students. Many parents have already arrived and are talking lively.
Chen Yan adjusted the camera carefully, planning to record Xingnuo's entire performance later.
The head teacher of Xingnuo Primary School maintained discipline in the parent seating area and made a few requests to everyone, asking parents to remain quiet.
Amid the parents' great anticipation, the evening performance finally began.
The first to go on stage was a singing performance by another first grade class. The kids stood in a row, but when they left the stage they came down from all directions, which was really funny.
Xingnuo and his friends poked their heads out from behind the curtain, covered their mouths and laughed, and the two antennae of the little bee also swayed.
Chen Yan saw the little guy's head sticking out from behind the curtain, raised his thin lips, and took a few photos of Xingnuo with the camera string.
Senior students took the microphone to host the event:
"Next, let us invite the students from Class 2 of Grade 1 to perform for us - Brave Little Bees!"
The lights dimmed.
When it came on again, Xingnuo and a bunch of kids were wearing chubby bee suits, flapping their wings and pretending to fly over.
“Although we are just little bees, we must have courage!”
"Great, we can defeat the big bad guy too!"
It was a fragmented performance, with the plot ruined by the little ones who forgot their lines.
However, the parents were very tolerant and were able to guess the general content based on a few lines of dialogue.
A few cute little bees met a terrible wild boar while collecting nectar.
The wild boar pushed all the flowers into a mess, and the bees plucked up their courage and pricked him with their needles.
The story is just a prelude here, the wild boar actually invited a black wizard to come behind!
Fortunately, with the help of the elves, the bees transformed into human form, holding swords, and defeated the black wizard and the wild boar.
Chen Yan looked at Xing Nuo who had added a small red cape behind the bee suit and wanted to laugh, but he pursed his lips and tried hard to suppress his smile.
The parents next to them were already laughing so hard that they were falling down, and they kept shouting "ouch!"
"This is so fun! Just add a cape and you'll become a little warrior!"
"Who came up with this plot with so many twists and turns?"
Although the performance was more of a comedy, each of the little ones on the stage was holding a small wooden sword and trying to walk the plot that was already going in an unknown direction.
After the performance, the little bees and the wild boar held hands and bowed to the audience.
Xingnuo held the small wooden sword he brought from home and walked behind the curtain.
As a result, they ran into the next class that was going to perform. The two little guys bumped their heads together. Xingnuo sat on the ground and was pulled up by other classmates.
Xingnuo covered his head, not even bothering to cry out in pain, and hurriedly left the stage.
The teacher hurried to the backstage, took a look at Xingnuo's forehead, and told him not to walk around.
"I'll ask the school doctor to get some medicine to apply on you. The rest of the kids can go back first."
Xingnuo stayed obediently in the backstage, waiting for the teacher to apply medicine on him.
In the middle, Xingnuo couldn't help but go to the toilet. When he came back, he couldn't find the way. He wandered around with his little wooden sword in his arms, and he didn't know where he was.
Turning a corner, Xingnuo heard two arguing voices:
"Are you trying to kill yourself?! This auditorium is so dangerous!"
"Now that Lao Wu and Brother Liu are dead, there are only a few of us left. If we don't find the exit, we will be trapped here and die!"
Xingnuo listened to these incomprehensible words and wondered if the parents who came to school were lost?
However, the backstage of the school auditorium is indeed very complicated. Xingnuo came out to use the toilet by himself and couldn't find the way back.
But Xingnuo had a good memory. He turned his head to look at the layout in front and behind him, and soon understood roughly where he was.
Just as I was thinking about whether to leave first, the two people who were arguing suddenly spoke:
"Who?! Who is hiding there?!"
Xingnuo was frightened and his little bee wings shook twice.
When he looked up again, the two men had already arrived in front of Xingnuo.
"What's going on, a kid?!"
The man with a scar on his face was holding a cheap cigarette between his fingertips. When he saw Xingnuo, he crushed the cigarette butt on the ground.
"Kid, why are you here?"
Xingnuo explained obediently:
"I just went to perform, and now I have to go back to find the teacher."
The woman keenly caught a word:
"Performance? What performance?"
Xingnuo thought these two strange parents were stupid and pointed to the front of the auditorium.
"Today is the New Year's Eve party. Parents and children should watch the performance together. Our class will play the role of little bees."
Then, Xingnuo asked again:
"Uncle and aunt, why don't you go to the front to watch the show?"
The two players looked at each other with expressions of horror and confusion.
"That's not right. The background of our story seems to be the performance party in the auditorium?"
Players have a long background of system prompts.
The content was roughly that during the New Year's Day performance party, a fire suddenly broke out in the seating area of the auditorium, burning most of the auditorium.
Only the backstage of the auditorium was spared.
Players have to escape from this weird auditorium and defeat the real murderer.
The scarred man checked the time and spoke in a deep voice.
"It's a month after the fire in the auditorium, little one, and it's been a month since New Year's Day."
When Xingnuo heard what his uncle said, his eyes widened instantly and he shook his head vigorously.
"No, I was just performing, and my brother was recording me from the audience."
The players also couldn't figure out why Xingnuo was here, but they were afraid that he was a key figure, so they could only ask patiently:
"You said you were acting just now? Judging from your attire, you must be acting the little bee mentioned in the background?"
The player read that sentence aloud, making Xingnuo even more confused and panicked.
"After the Brave Bees performance, the auditorium was on fire and all the parents who came to watch the show were killed."
Xingnuo opened his mouth slightly, totally unsure of how to react.
How could that be?
The performance had just finished, but my brother was still waving at me from the audience!
Xingnuo was panicked, but his intuition told him that the two people in front of him were not lying!
Was the auditorium really on fire? !
Am I backstage at the auditorium one month later?
Xingnuo thought of something, picked up the small wooden sword, turned around and ran forward quickly.
He knew the way, so he turned a few times, came out from the backstage of the auditorium, and ran to the stage.
Xingnuo stood on the familiar stage and found that the seating area below the stage had been burned terribly. The smell of burnt food seemed to still be floating in the air.
Xingnuo jumped off the stage in panic, ran to the seat of Class 2, Grade 1, and looked at the seat frame with only an iron frame left.
After being stunned for a long time, Xingnuo finally recognized the seat where his brother had sat before.
Most of the seat had been burned, leaving only a piece of unknown object and a small piece of black plastic shell on the ground.
Xingnuo picked it up from the ashes and recognized it as the casing of a camera.
When Chen Yan was performing at Xingnuo, he did hold up a black camera to record him.
Xingnuo was confused and was about to look for it again when the two players following him sighed.
"Don't look for it. Everyone in the seating area was burned to death. Only the backstage area was not affected."
The female player had a guess:
"Kid, when the fire started, did you accidentally faint, or were you so excited that you forgot you had already spent a month here?"
Otherwise there is no way to explain why Xingnuo’s memory only stays after the performance.
Xingnuo tightly grasped the camera casing, pursed his lips, and shook his head.
"I didn't pass out or forget anything."
The female player and the scarred man looked at each other, and a guess even emerged in their minds:
"But you are the only character who appears in the plot. Could it be that you are the real culprit of the fire?"
Xingnuo became even more confused. He raised his little face and shook his head vigorously.
"What are you talking about, why would I set a fire?"
His brother is still in the audience!
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