Hearing the reply of the lead senior, I nodded my head to express my satisfaction. I picked up the spine and put on my leather jacket, before heading downstairs to kill the dormitory manager. The manager of the boys’ dormitory was a big man, and when he saw me coming in disguise as the head of the school office, he immediately rushed up, shouting that I had broken the rules and that no one from the school building could come to the dormitory.
“Lao1Old Deng, get the hell out of here,” I raised my foot to kick him, but his body gradually became transparent, and a number of red-clothed female ghosts appeared around him. I stared at the group of translucent things passing through my body, but I didn’t give a shit.
“What are you doing, trying to scare people?” I cracked my knuckles, ” Spiritual attacks don’t work on me. If you want me to let you off the hook, then tell me how to escape from this school.”
The old man was scared by my fierce look. How could someone be immune to the attack of an evil spirit? He, like the girl’s dormitory manager, tried to hide in his own room when he saw trouble coming his way. I grabbed him without saying a word and started to box and beat him up.
“You’re, you ‘re the student that Mr. Headmaster ordered to be observed next… You’re breaking the rules.”
I took off my hood. There was no need for me to wear the human skin suit since I had already been recognised. I inquired with another punch, “The headmaster has named me for observation? Who has he alerted?”
“Everyone.”
“Is there a file?”
“…..” The grandfather had fainted. I dumped him on the floor and walked straight into his room in the boys’ dormitory. After another haphazard rummage, I found a red leather file, from which a biography of me had fallen out.
It’s got my name on it and a four-inch photo sent here from who knows where. My behaviour in school was also recorded, and the class teacher, who I beat to a pulp, became my proof of guilt. I became a bad student in the midst of a hazard level that needed to be intensively rehabilitated.
【Achievement unlocked: Headmaster’s Hatred. You have become the school’s sole worst delinquent. All NPC’s, except for your non-brainwashed classmates, will be hunting you down next, so be warned.】
“Anyway, this is the game world, right? I can do whatever I want. It doesn’t matter how many I kill as long as I can pass the game.” I raised my hands to the sky with open arms and cheered as if I had found the greatest joy in my life. This is my paradise2Could also be ‘playground’. There will be no doctors or nurses to tell me what to do, and there will be no social rules to constrain me. I can do whatever I want to do.
“Hahaha, I’m free!” Like someone who had won the lottery, I waved my hands and jumped out of the boys’ dormitory, tearing down the dormitory door in the process. Sure enough, as the system prompt said, there were already various teachers outside who had been waiting for me for a long time.
A few teachers stood in the doorway and stared straight at me with eyes that were completely black in colour. It looked eerie, “Student Linlin, after our first day of evaluating you, we believe that you’re an extremely dangerous girl. If you don’t get educated and corrected, in the future, you’ll forever be a useless person. In this society, people like you will only be the lowest level of rubbish. “
Not pretending anymore, huh? I raised the spine and head I was carrying and flung it over, kicked the two teachers who were fighting the head with their skills in full swing, and viciously confronted the group of monsters.
“I’m unbeatable!”
I launched a bloody hunt. The teachers, who used to be the hunters, have now become the prey in my hands. There are more than a dozen of them in total, and they still can’t be killed by me. Not only that, but a large group of janitors also came out from the school building and were ready to catch me. I saw there were too many people, and immediately hid in the bushes after killing a group of teachers. I then secretly climbed to the top of a large tree, and since this world is now the season of spring and summer, it is the time when the trees are growing thickly. I held my breath and hid in the branches of the tree without moving and watched the movements below.
Sure enough, after I eliminated that group of teachers there were several more groups – it was impossible to kill them all. The janitors were also mobilized, and all of them seemed to be manipulated robots. They mechanically searched for me along the prescribed routes, and all of the teachers that were killed by me in the distance slowly recovered their lives from death. They stood up from the ground one after another, followed by a few more dull-faced students who were walking along the corridors in all directions. They also followed the large force that searched for me like mannequins.
Taking advantage of this group of living dead going around the side of the dormitory building, I hurriedly jumped down from the tree and prepared to head to the school building. The spine and head that I had brought out in passing was already gone. It should have been taken away by the teachers and janitors.
Just as I was thinking about where to go next, a voice cautiously called out to me.
“Here, here …..” I followed the voice. Wang Meng’er poked her head out of the grass next to me and waved at me.
“If you want to unlock the secrets of this school to escape, I can take you to the library.”
I moved my body and slipped over to Wang Menger’s side, “Why are you helping me? How did you get out?”
“I was really anxious seeing you wandering around the school like a headless fly, so I broke the rules and snuck out. I was thinking of helping you out, so wouldn’t it be better if I could increase your chances of escaping?” Wang Meng’er smiled at me, “As I said, maybe you really are the messenger sent by the heavens to save us. I will help you, so come with me.”
I didn’t know whether to trust her or not, but from the time we met from yesterday to today, Wang Meng’er’s behavior had always been like she was warming up to me, as if that was her personality.
“Do you know the boy who jumped to his death in the campus legend? He is the son of the Headmaster, and I would like to take this opportunity to look for the Headmaster,” I followed her with my inquiry and complaint, “There were three creepy boys in room 404 of the boys’ dormitory, and that room happens to be one of the passages to the Headmaster’s office.”
Wang Meng’er nodded, “Since you were able to come out of room 404, that proves that you are indeed very capable. I can tell you what I know, but you must promise me that you will unlock the secrets of this school and save us all.”
This… Saving, all of a sudden. How can a gruff person like me save someone else?
“As long as you break the curse of the school, you’ll be saving us. In fact, I know the boy who jumped from the building. His name is Wu Liang, and he used to live in room 404 of the boys’ dormitory. Those three who were harvesting other people’s lives in the dormitory were Wu Liang’s three roommates.”
“Many people hated Wu Liang because his father was the headmaster of this school. Wu Liang, as the headmaster’s son, and also a failure in his own father’s eyes, lived with other classmates who were known to be defective. Some of the boys, who had grievances during the day, went to bully Wu Liang at night. I don’t know why he died after that.”
I looked at her curiously, “Why do you know so much?”
Wang Meng’er didn’t hide it and smiled bitterly, “I was part of the first batch of students to arrive since this school was established, and Wu Liang was my classmate back then.”
“Originally, you couldn’t just say his name in the school. In addition to the surface rules, there are invisible rules that exist in the school for the students. It was born from the need for each person to feel and explore, because there were so many people who used to talk about Wu Liang’s ghost. Many people died, and slowly everyone took the name as a part of the rules that couldn’t be stated explicitly.”
“In that case, you’re braver than your classmates in the boys’ dormitory. You’re not afraid.” I followed Wang Meng’er to the back door of the school building. She saw that a certain classroom window on the first floor was open and beckoned me in.
“It’s not that I’m not scared. The rules set by the Headmaster are going to get stricter and stricter, and all of us students are already treading on thin ice to survive here. Even though there are already students who are dead set on freedom who volunteered to become puppets, I’m still trying to find some way to be able to get out of here.”
The classroom that Wang Meng’er brought me to was the chemistry lab on the first floor. She crouched underneath the test bench, so I followed her example and squatted. Wang Meng’er looked at me wearing a cloak-like outfit and said meaningfully, “You look nice in this outfit. You’ve really done it.”
I tugged at this camouflage skin, “Oh, you mean this? It’s my trophy.”
“I didn’t mean to accuse you. The head teacher of the school affairs office was also a man-eating monster. He especially liked to eat girls…” Wang Meng’er hadn’t finished speaking when the sound of a group of people walking came from outside the chemistry classroom. The people pattered and talked to each other, before the crowd scattered. A male teacher stood outside the chemistry classroom, intending to push the door in.
The door of the chemistry classroom opened, and the pale-faced male teacher wandered around the classroom from east to west repeatedly. Wang Meng’er and I hid underneath the desks and chairs. She covered her mouth and nose in fear and didn’t even dare to gasp for breath. She glanced over at me across the room and found that I was unusually calm and didn’t have the slightest sign of fear.
Acting with her new classmates gave Wang Meng’er superb courage, and she gradually calmed down. The male teacher shifted twice and then started to move the tables and chairs. I made a sneak attack to take the scalpel and slit his throat while he was coming over.
“Shinobi Kill.”
The male teacher didn’t even have time to look at us before I stuck his head into a flowerpot on the windowsill. With a few additional cuts, he shouldn’t be able to recover without a couple of hours.
At that moment, there was a sudden announcement from the school, which was played by an adult male.
【Attention. Attention. There is an extremely vicious and dangerous student running rampant in the school. We hope that the students will unite together to catch that undesirable student. Attention. Attention. This student is extremely vicious, has killed countless teachers, and is an extremely wicked and unteachable delinquent.】
When this announcement was relayed, a new message came over the radio once again.
【Next, we will play the latest announcement. Due to the observation of the school in recent days, we found that the personal behaviors of our students are still very problematic, so we are adding a few new rules for the school. Please keep them in mind.】
The added rules are:
- Chatting in the dormitory or roaming back and forth from the dormitory is prohibited.
- Due to the learning culture, the school intends to strictly check the attendance rate of students. Each student should pay attention to his/her own learning situation, and if the non-attendance rate exceeds 0.5, it will be handled appropriately by the respective homeroom teacher.
【More rules are being updated, so please look and check carefully. Teachers and students, I wish you all the best in your endeavors.】
The sudden emergence of these two rules sickened me. Wang Meng’er said it wasn’t good, and pointed to the corner of the chemistry classroom, “Look there, a surveillance camera suddenly appeared.”
I peeked, and found that the camera was slowly emerging from the transparent shadows. I truly think that the principal is an obsessive-compulsive pussy. He has nothing to do but to create so many rules, and for what? I immediately expanded my domain, and then stood on the table and tore the surveillance camera off. The place where the surveillance camera was linked to the ceiling was actually soaked with blood, and I heard a crunching sound, just like pulling teeth out of someone’s gums. The wall where the camera was originally located was not only oozing blood, there were also some transparent stains of liquid.
“Linlin, look. There’s a new rule over there. Isn’t that one the other rules that the announcement was talking about?”
Wang Meng’er and I walked next to each other to where the dumpster and bins were. There happened to be a rule for the students on day duty posted on the wall that read:
【New rules added: Day Duty Rules】
The rules are as follows:
- Students on duty should clean up carefully, please. If you meet a classmate or teacher looking for you to go out for something, please ignore it.
- Please clean up before the door or window is knocked on three times, and go to the rubbish room to take out the trash quickly.
- If a student you don’t know suddenly appears in the classroom, ignore him/her.
- If you see an indescribable substance in the course of cleaning, please clean it up immediately and throw it in the rubbish bin.
- Please keep quiet during the cleaning process and don’t get caught by the teachers on patrol.
- If something cannot be handled, you can go to the janitor immediately.
There were only six new rules, but I never realised that school rules could be patched up like this. There are more and more rules. It seems that the headmaster is able to make rules by virtue of his own ability. I have to find the headmaster as soon as possible before I can do so. It is not in my favour if I have to fight a protracted battle.
“Classmate Linlin, what are you going to do?” Wang Meng’er asked me worriedly.
I solemnly gathered the human skin cloak on my body and inquired, “Do you know who the person who was broadcasting just now was? Where is the broadcasting station? The only person who can make the rules here is the Headmaster. Even if the host of the broadcasting station isn’t the Headmaster himself, then the one who has access to the rules must be somewhat related to the Headmaster. Let’s go to the broadcasting station.”
Wang Meng’er nodded and replied, “The radio station is on the first floor of the school building.”
It seems that we need to take the risk of going to the first floor. There was a large number of people looking for us everywhere outside right now. If I go out recklessly I can indeed still do it, but I don’t have the energy to protect Wang Meng’er. She can still lead the way for me, and besides, if I am too high-profile, what if all of my targets run away?
I decided to switch my mindset and play sneakily.