It was now 7 o’clock, and students were already lining up to come to class. A few janitors were hovering around the building, and when they saw that I hadn’t gone in, a tall janitor came over and asked me what was wrong.
I saw the janitor’s pale, zombie-like face and it scared me, but my reaction remained calm. After all, it’s written in the rules that you can’t show any emotion towards the janitors. “Ugly, you’re scaring me. Get out of the way.”
“……”
The janitor scanned back and forth around me, a little frustrated that he didn’t see what he wanted to see1As in, she didn’t show any fear on her face, which was one of the taboo conditions set out in the school rules at the beginning., before reminding me that it was time for class.
Sure enough, as long as you don’t show emotion and stay calm, these monsters can’t do anything to you. Students need to follow the rules, but the monsters also need to follow the rules. It should be the same for everyone except the headmaster in this school.
I once again came to the door of the faculty office and saw that it was open at the moment. The mountain of corpses and blood inside was nowhere to be seen. The grade director and the other teachers were all in their offices, which appeared to be normal at the moment, as if everything I had just seen was a hallucination.
I wouldn’t have resorted to using this method if my hands hadn’t been burned.
I suddenly screamed and cried, banging violently on the door of the faculty office. I complained that I was assaulted and molested by Mr. Hu Wei, a teacher in Year 1, Class 4.
“What?” The Head Teacher came out from inside. He was a rather plump middle-aged man with a bald head, and when he heard the commotion coming from my side, he immediately came out to check it out.
“What happened? Did you get hurt? Or do you need to go to the faculty office for tutoring?”
I repeated what I had just said, but unfortunately, the Head Teacher didn’t believe it at all.
“That kind of talk sounds like you made it up.”
“What kind of girl would defame someone with her innocence?” I lied with my eyes wide open and asked for a school-leaving certificate.
The Head Teacher wouldn’t agree at all. He looked at me with scrutiny and suddenly changed the subject, “Yesterday it was you who abused the teacher, wasn’t it? You’re a hopelessly bad student! I’ve decided to give you some punishment, or you’ll be ruined for life. How are you going to face your parents?”
I was getting pissed off. Why are you still trying to educate me? You don’t want me to prove it and you don’t believe in what I say. I started to go crazy again. A punch was thrown, but the Head Teacher was too nimble, and he suddenly dodged behind me. Immediately after that I saw strange images behind him.
It was an old couple with bags of fruit, biscuits, and snacks in their hands, and both of them were looking at me very angrily.
“Linlin-san, your parents came to see you at school today, but you’ve been really naughty.” The Head Teacher compelled me by my side.
Parents? Parents? How could I have parents? I don’t even know these people.
“You sinful child, you have disappointed us so much. I thought you would turn out to be a good girl in school, but I didn’t realise that you actually beat up your teachers and bullied your classmates.” Among other things, the mother cried at me, saying that she might as well have strangled me to death herself at the beginning, and that children like me were only born to collect debts from their parents.
I was delighted, “You’re all hallucinations inflicted on me by the Head Teacher.”
The father was very angry: “Good, you don’t even recognise your real family anymore. Let’s see if I don’t beat you to death. ”
I put on a grumpy face and cast my ability, “Spirit Boundary – Open.”
The two fake parents were instantly torn in half by my vigorous efforts. I used their intestines as rope, and frantically grabbed the Head Teacher by the scruff of his neck to strangle him with it.
The Head Teacher obviously wasn’t expecting this, “Why did you have no reaction, don’t you love your parents? You’re such an unteachable bad seed!”
I’ve changed my mind. Since the orthodox approach doesn’t work, let’s just kill through it.
It was as if the head teacher had read my mind. His body was gradually drying up in my arms and, in the end, all that was left was a giant human shell. I thought he was trying to escape. The fake parents that I had torn apart suddenly spaced out and flung themselves onto my back with their intestines swaying. The duo lamented the importance of raising children to protect them from old age: Sons are useless, only daughters are good.
Those two corpses started gnawing on my face after they said such disgusting things; they actually wanted to eat me. I desperately shook them off, but there was a strange power that bound me to them. “The ties of blood cannot be erased.” The voice of the Head Teacher came from beneath my feet. A large hand reached out from inside the human skin, and I was pulled into a dark space.
The live stream went black from here. After a few seconds, the screen teleported to a mysterious space with huge lights overhead, and two masked men with scalpels looking at the person lying on the operating table.
“Is this the Headmaster’s new meat?”
“It looks vicious. It won’t wake up in the middle of the process, will it?”
The Head Teacher at the door panted and told them to hurry up. “This bad student is full of wickedness, beyond saving. Proceed with the deep treatment, and you’d better do it fast or else she’ll really wake up in no time.”
Then, in the live feed, all the Dragon country viewers watched a human autopsy, but with the previous experience of a player using intestines as a rope, everyone was quite used to it this time around.
Silence returned to the operating theatre, leaving only the sound of slicing through skin and disturbing the internal organs.
【She’s begun to be dissected, so it’s completely over. Go back and wash up and get ready for the Strange World.】
【Isn’t this player still alive?】
【All her organs have been opened up. She’ll die soon.】
“Captain Li, she’s been disembowelled. There’s no hope.” The researcher looked to his leader, “Should we issue a warning announcement to the residents to stay at home?”
As the captain of this mission of the Dragon country, Captain Li was also very anxious inside, but he couldn’t show it. Just as he was trying to think of a way to hopefully revive the contestant, the player who was lying on the operating table and had already been disembowelled woke up on her own.
The blinding surgical lights made me struggle to open my eyes, they were too hot and roasting. I had a stomach-ache, so I opened my eyes only to realise that I had been disembowelled.
“I can’t believe she woke up in the middle of an operation. Is she really human?”
The first thing I did when I woke up was kill both of the men who operated on me. The scalpel was on the cart next to me. I reached down, picked it up and stabbed the surgeon in the neck. As I sat up from the table, I looked angrily at my gaping viscera and internal organs. At that moment, I also let go of the emotions in my heart and got up to rip the head off of the assistant who was doing the operation.
“I can’t believe I’m not dead after being disembowelled, that son of a bitch. I still need to sew up my own wounds…..” Picking up what was obviously a needle and thread from the cart, I hurriedly began to roughly stitch at my stomach.
【Congratulations to the player who has unlocked the Operating Theatre and the Faculty Office. The clue file is unlocked and available for viewing by clicking on it. The game has reached 5% completion!】
I was prompted to look up by the system voice and saw the file I found earlier displayed in the system’s hint bar. It seems that if I want to complete this game to collect more clues, I have to unlock more scenarios in order to do so. It’s only 5% unlocked today, so I wonder what it would be like if 100% of the exploration achievements was unlocked.
My stitching was terrible, and the blood bar that hadn’t moved for a long time was now halved. The good thing was that the SAN value had already been restored by half because of the rest. I also noticed that there was a rage buff behind the status value, and that the lower the life value was, the higher my attack power would be.
I felt physically charged at the moment, and after stripping off the doctor’s clothes and putting them on myself, I gathered some more scalpels and various knives and stuffed them into my pockets, then saw a sheet next to the operating table.
(No. 1562; Quality : Health)
Attached to the sheet was a 4″ black and white photo of me.
The door to the operating theatre was knocked three times, and the Head Teacher, who had been waiting outside for a long time, inquired about the disturbance inside the operating theatre.
“Why aren’t you talking? Did you remove her internal organs?”
I glared viciously at the door to the operating theatre, my right eyelid twitching. In order not to arouse his suspicion, I hid behind the door and waited quietly for the Head Teacher to walk into the operating theatre.
Sensing that something was wrong, the Head Teacher did not open the door, but left instead. I continued to watch with a scalpel in my hand, when suddenly, there was a strange sound coming from the doorway. I could hear the fake parents summoning me through the door.
“Child, don’t let mum and dad be disappointed in you. It’s your only hope to change back to your old self. We all really want you to be as well behaved as you were when you were a child. Don’t talk back to your parents, and be diligent in your studies.”
I reached up and touched my ear; the bites from both of them were still fresh. I could sense from their words that the couple had a vested interest in their daughter. They seem to have developed an overwhelming sense of control over their child, that’s why they sent their own daughter to a school like this to be monitored by the teachers here. Even though they know that all the teachers here treat the students like prey, they remain immersed in their own world, believing that it’s for the best.
“Spirit Boundary – Open.” I cast my ability and then kicked the door down. I was shocked to find the pair of fake parents floating in mid-air in the same condition as they had been when they were torn to shreds by me. Seeing that I had come out of the operating theatre, they immediately burst out laughing and continued to persuade me, saying, “My dear girl, all the teachers here are trying to help you, so be obedient and don’t always contradict and insult the teachers.”
“And then what?” I asked back, “What else do you want to say?”
“Look at how you’re acting. When you become a good girl, you’ll be able to get married off as a grown-up in the future.”
Instead of looking at the fake parents, I flung the scalpel in the other direction. The sharp scalpel sliced through the air, impaling the Head Teacher who was hiding amongst the brooding shadows.
“This kind of illusion won’t work on me. What effect do you think moral abductions will have on me?” I gave a bloodthirsty grin, and became even angrier when I remembered that I had just been disembowelled. With the Rage+ Damage Crippling buff, I pulled out my scalpel and cut off the Head Teacher’s pig’s head with a single cut.
The moment his head fell, his huge body shrivelled up instantly, leaving only a layer of skin. The fake parents had disappeared along with the demise of the Head Teacher.
【Congratulations to the player who scored the hidden achievement: Kill the Head Teacher. You’ve been awarded with One Thousand Changes Skin. Wear the Head Teacher’s Skin, and you can become him. The current copy exploration level is 7%.】
I stared at the skin on the ground in disgust. Why do I have to wear an older man’s skin? Dragon country’s viewers were also frantically swiping pop-ups. They couldn’t see or hear the system’s prompts, and only watched as the braindead player actually draped the uncle’s skin that had fallen to the ground over her own body.
【Wow, you’re a god hunter, aren’t you? You’re wearing a god’s skin.】
【Someone please tell me what the hell she’s thinking.】
【Do you understand the idea of mental illness? In a world where rules need to be obeyed, this superwoman completed her escape.】
【It’s a church in America and a corporate monstrosity in China. The employees don’t sleep at all, and the players over there aren’t normal either. They interacted with the live audience and said that if they won, they would go back and just kill random people, regardless of whether they were men, women, children, young or old.】
【……. This group of randomly selected players, were they really randomly selected? Wasn’t it actually intentional?】
After donning the skin of the Head Teacher, a camouflage symbol appeared next to my status bar that read [Seamless Camouflage]. It seemed as if my body had become a little heavier after putting it on. My blood bar was in the process of slowly recovering, and even the open wound on my stomach was fading away.
It’s great that this skin actually has a recovery ability, it’s just the kind of thing I need.