CH 128.2

The creature cautiously poked its head out of the darkness, and despite its fear, it approached slowly.

The other party walked a long way and finally came to Bai Lixin.

The creature walked like a monkey, limping along with its limbs on the ground.

It was then that Bai Lixin finally saw the face of the creature.

A masked face was hidden in the thick and messy hair.

The mask did not cover the entire face, but left the eyes, mouth, and nostrils exposed.

Bai Lixin examined the creature’s hairline carefully and discovered that the mask was sewn on rather than worn.

The thread was so thick that he could even see where it was embedded under the scalp and the skin behind the ear.

Although the creature’s body was still thin and weak, it appeared much better than in the past.

Because they had been in the dark all year, the other party’s skin was pale white.

It was also hesitant to accept food. It appeared to want to get the food and leave quickly, but it also wanted to look at Bai Lixin more.

Because it appeared that the other side was attempting to trust and accept him, Bai Lixin squatted down and made his eyes parallel to the little creature’s, asking, “Is this food enough for you?”

Bai Lixin’s voice had been as warm as a clear spring, but it had now become even softer, and the kind and soothing feeling had crept into the little creature’s ears.

Bai Lixin picked the bread and held it out. The little creature first hesitantly nodded, then shook its head.

“It was not enough?” Bai Lixin’s face was soft, like a weeping willow on the banks in May. ” I gave you a small portion the first two times because I was afraid you’d eat too much.”

“I gave you a little more today. Don’t eat it all; keep some.”

The eyes beneath the mask were fixed on the bread that Bai Lixin was holding out. After struggling for several minutes, the little creature finally took it with a trembling hand.

It then nodded to Bai Lixin and pushed the board containing numerous small carcasses toward him.

“You’re so good,” Bai Lixin said with a smile on his face. “Thank you for your generosity. But I won’t take it.”

The little creature’s eyes immediately showed disappointment.

Bai Lixin laughed as he patted the little creature’s head through the crisscrossing railing. “Although I can’t eat it, I still thank you.”

The soft and warm palm stroked the top of the little creature’s head gently, and it instantly froze, neither pushing Bai Lixin away nor escaping.

It raised its eyes to the beautiful young man outside the railing. It noticed that Bai Lixin’s arm was using some effort to move his ha d, so it approached him with caution.

It was a sign of trust and familiarity.

Bai Lixin: “You can understand me, right?”

The little creature opened its mouth, biting into the bread with its jagged, sharp teeth, and nodded.

Bai Lixin patted its head, “Do you talk?”

The little creature stiffened for a moment and suddenly looked up at Bai Lixin.

Bai Lixin’s expression was still as gentle as water, “I’m sorry, I observed you. Your hands have five fingers, and you have Human skin. If I’m not wrong, you should be human.”

“Do you acquiesce to this identity?”

When it saw that Bai Lixin was not disgusted, the little creature relaxed its tense shoulders and shook its head slowly.

It then pointed to the stairs before quickly picking up the food and retreating to the dark corridor.

There were only a few minutes left before the running exercises ended.

The animal carcasses had not been disposed of so Bai Lixin pushed the wooden plank back inside the gate.

He then stood up, waved to the little creature hiding in the shadows, and entered the classroom.

As soon as he sat down, the hair in the table hole came out even before he reach out for it.

It was also the first time Bai Lixin saw the hair clearly.

Long, straight, hard-textured, and well-groomed black hair.

The hair came out of the table hole and formed a little man who sat cross-legged on the table’s surface.

The little man stretched out and formed a word with his hair.

——Hello.

Bai Lixin looked back calmly, and politely responded, “Hello.”

The hair continued to change into different words.

——[Can you do me a favor?]

Bai Lixin: “What’s the matter?”

——[Help me find my master.]

——[I can always hear his call.]

——[Then I can finally leave here.]

Bai Lixin: “Where do you hear his call from?”

——[Boys’ dormitory building.]

Bai Lixin was stunned. “Your master should be called Xiao Jing, right?”

The hair also froze for a moment, then nodded:

––Yes, how did you know?

“Maybe it’s because I’m predestined to meet you.” Bai Lixin’s fingers slid through the silky hair, and the eyes under the thick long eyelashes were serious. “I promise you.”

[Ding! Congratulations to the player. You have triggered the task [Help Ghost hair find its master]. The difficulty of the task is B. You will be awarded 6000 points upon completing the task.]

[Friendly reminder: The system will not punish you for failing to finish this task.]

[Accept/Reject]

Bai Lixin accepted quickly and then took a box from his backpack, asking, “Can you come in here?”

The hair hesitated for a few seconds and quickly got into the box.

Ghost hair, Xiao Jing, the ghost in red.

Was there a connection?

When it was almost seven o’clock, the players who had finished the running exercises returned to the classroom.

Before Xia Chi and the others could warm their buttocks, Teacher Zhao’s cold voice came from the podium.

“Liang Xi, Xia Chi, Bai Lixin and Su Fan, you four come with me.”

It was time for the punishment of the small dark room.

There was a sudden silence in the classroom, and the players looked around, some with sympathy, some with sneers.

Bai Lixin scanned the classroom for an empty seat before leaving.

Because all of the seats were filled, the empty seat should be for the player who died unexpectedly last night.

Teacher Zhao walked at the front, chattering.

“*Avoid the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth day.”

“Even if the king of heaven comes, you will still enter the small dark room!”

“I don’t believe that anyone can save you.”

Bai Lixin interrupted Teacher Zhao and said, “Teacher Zhao, have you noticed that our class is missing one student?”

“Yes, I found him outside the school,” Teacher Zhao said coldly, returning his gaze to Bai Lixin.

They were killed by black scorpions.”

The group looked at each other, and Bai Lixin continued to ask: “Why was he outside? Did he climb the wall?”

Teacher Zhao said impatiently, “It’s his legs, how should I know?”

“You didn’t check the surveillance?” Bai Lixin could tell that Teacher Zhao was annoyed and quickly added, “or is it that our big school doesn’t even have surveillance cameras?”

Teacher Zhao came to a halt and gave the four of them a dismissive look. “Of course there is monitoring. But are students in Class C worthy of supervision? They will leave the school sooner or later. Instead of worrying about others, you should focus on yourself.

As they spoke, they left the school building.

Bai Lixin looked at the receding school building and asked, “Teacher, where are we going?”

Teacher Zhao: “Where else? Of course, it’s to the small dark room.”

Bai Lixin: “Where is the small dark room? How long are we going to be detained? Is it one room?”

Teacher Zhao, despite his impatience, responded to Bai Lixin’s questions: “The laboratory building houses the small, dark room. It takes four hours the first time, and the hours increase the more times you go there.

“You should think of the small, dark room as a punishment. If you are taken to the small, dark room, it means you still have a chance of redemption.”

Bai Lixin: “What happens when you reach the point of no redemption?”

“Oh,” Teacher Zhao sneered, “death.”

“The school is a place to cultivate pillars of the nation and talents, as well as a place to correct wastes. If the school fails to save you, that means you don’t deserve to live in the world.”

The expressions of the four Immediately became twisted.

Bai Lixin: “Then at what point does the school think there is no chance for redemption?”

Teacher Zhao: “If you have been in the small, dark room more than three times or have finished last in three consecutive exams,”

After he said this, he glanced at Bai Lixin, Sufan and Liang Xi, who had a twisted face. “A friendly reminder, you are already marked twice.”

Liang Xi’s face became even more twisted.

The students of Class C have never had a chance to enter the laboratory building and among the four, only Xia Chi had entered it several times.

Although there was light in the laboratory building and it was daytime, the whole corridor was dark because of the barrier.

Teacher Zhao seemed very familiar with the laboratory building and soon brought them to the end of the ground floor.

There was a huge door and after opening the door, they came to a small door inside.

“Let me see,” Teacher Zhao looked at their student numbers and divided the rooms in turn.

Xia Chi hesitated in the corridor, “Teacher Zhao, what’s in the small dark room?”

“Oh, are you afraid now?” said Teacher Zhao, his eyes cold. “What made you go out at night?”

“I should have taught you personally, but you four made mistakes all at once, so I invited other teachers.”

“I’ll come get you in four hours. I’m hoping you’ll still be alive.

Before Xia Chi could say anything else, the door to the small, dark room suddenly opened, and the four people were drawn in by an invisible suction.

There were four loud bangs.

And the doors closed.

“They are finally in,” Teacher Zhao said with a big smile, and he stood there with his eyes closed.

———————-

When Bai Lixin opened his eyes, he was tied to a cold bed.

A “man” in a suit stood in front of him.

The humanoid monster in front of him had human limbs, but its face was like old tree bark without facial features, and it was spiralling into a whirlpool-shaped face.

The monster was rummaging through a notebook.

“Let me see,” the monster said, its voice like a knife scraping on the old bark which was very unpleasant. “Bai Lixin, the second last at the first test, and tied with the last at the exam.”

“The first time, the problem was running slowly. This is a problem of ability so nothing can be said about that.”

“For the second time…” The monster paused before raising his voice. “It was because he got out of the dorm late at night!”

The vortex where the monster’s face should have been begun to shift and travel to the top of its head as the monster flipped through the notebook several times.

“How dare you!”

With a roar, the monster’s face turned red and molten lava erupted from the vortex on its head.

The lava continued to erupt for half a minute before finally ceasing. “Do you feel my anger?” the tree-bark face asked, turning to face Bai Lixin.

Bai Lixin couldn’t move, but he avoided the lava flexibly.

The lava continued to erupt for half a minute before it gradually stopped. The tree-bark face turned to look at Bai Lixin, “Do you feel my anger?”

Bai Lixin: “…”

“I’m going to correct you,” the monster said, moving to one side and grabbing a hammer and a massive nail.

Seeing the monster slowly approaching, Bai Lixin suddenly said, “Teacher Zhao, how about making a deal?”

For a brief moment, the monster was stunned. “What did you say?”

“I said, Teacher Zhao, how about making a deal?” Bai Lixin continued.

“You, you,” trembled the monster, but quickly calmed down.

“I’m not Teacher Zhao.”

“Oh, really?” Bai Lixin lay on the bed lazily, “I was thinking that if you were Teacher Zhao, I would have given you an idea to raise your worth quickly and make you stand proud in front of other teachers.”

“It wouldn’t matter if it’s those of class A or class B, even the headmaster would give you respect.”

“Since you’re not Teacher Zhao, then forget it.”

The monster hesitated for a moment and put down the nail. “Er, why do you think I’m Teacher Zhao?”

Bai Lixin: “How should I say it, there are no two identical leaves or two identical people in the world?”

“Your words, your walking posture and tone of voice are quite consistent with Teacher Zhao.”

This was one basis, but there was actually another.

He once witnessed what happened in the small, dark room through the memory of a deceased student.

The teacher had a crayon face in the student’s eyes.

He used to believe that the crayon face was a result of fear. However, seeing the tree bark face made him realize that the girl had actually seen a crayon face.

The crayon face belonged to her class teacher, and Bai Lixin used this information to locate the child’s class.

Although he was not 100% certain, in nine cases out of ten, the class teacher is the one to give out the punishment.

Besides…..

Bai Lixin smiled, “Besides, you are the class teacher of Class C, the class for wastes. Where can you find four teachers to help you?”

The vortex on the head erupted again.

He stood there for a long time, staring at Bai Lixin, before putting the hammer down. “You stated that you could improve my worth. How?”

“If I’m guessing correctly, teachers, like students, have a point system, right?”

“Class A teachers make students work so hard because they are rewarded when students achieve high grades.”

“As for the teachers in Class B, it is difficult to manage due to the large number of students, so points are awarded for the students’ discipline.”

“Classes A and B must focus on studies and discipline, but what about the teachers of Class C?

“Is it catching ghosts?”

The treebark face stiffened and the voice said excitedly, “What are you talking about? Did Dr. Jia tell you this? He even told you this? He looks like he has sources!”

“That’s why you don’t teach us.” Bai Lixin said, “it’s so we’d have enough freedom to encounter something strange.”

“If I am not mistaken, that student died yesterday because he met something supernatural?”

The barkface did not reply for a long time, “If, and I mean if, what you said is right, what do you want to do?”

Bai Lixin put aside the topic: “Where are my three friends?”

For a long time, the barkface did not respond. “What do you want to do if, and I mean if, what you said is correct?”

Bai Lixin ignored the question, “Where are my three friends?”

For a few seconds, the bark face paused: “I appreciate your concern. I haven’t punished them yet,”

Bai Lixin: “The strongest ghost I’ve encountered is the one that eats other ghosts.”

He paused at the barking dog’s gasp and then continued, “Will it help improve your worth if I catch it for you?”

“Yes, yes,” Teacher Zhao said excitedly. “It definitely can.”

“Can you really help me catch it?”

Bai Lixin: “I can. Then can we go back to the beginning? Are you Teacher Zhao?”

The barkface nodded, “I am, little brother.”

Bai Lixin: “…”

‘Suddenly calling me “little brother” is making me uncomfortable.’

Teacher Zhao: “What do you want in return?”

Bai Lixin: “It’s very simple, just ignore us.”

“Please ignore us if we leave the dormitory at night.”

Teacher Zhao: “That is a little expensive. Let’s do this, I will give you a deadline, I want results before the next exam starts.”

“Before that, you are free to do what you want at night.”

“I will also protect you when other teachers catch you.”

Bai Lixin: “It’s a deal.”