Chapter 116
They discussed countermeasures for a while but because they didn’t know if Ren Li had noticed that they’d discovered his identity, they didn’t dare stay away for too long.
When Lin Yi and Cheng Yang returned to the gate of Baoxiang Secondary School, they found that the gate had been opened.
Apart from the two of them, there was no one else at the gate. But looking towards the teaching building, one could still see the figure of one of the participants.
“They must have gone in.” Lin Yi said.
The opening of the school gate heralded the opening of the 8-4 Rule World. Cheng Yang shuddered: “Lin Yi Ge, then we…”
“We go in.”
The two of them walked into Baoxiang Secondary School. As soon as they passed the security booth, the guard uncle stuck of his head and said viciously, “You’re going to be late! Hurry up!”
Lin Yi and Cheng Yang were scolded and they hurried into the campus.
The teaching building was right in front of them, like a roadblock. It had a passage dug out in the bottom middle position. Through this, you could see more of Baoxiang Secondary School.
There was a road connecting one end of the teaching building and another building on the other end, which looked to be a dormitory.
A teaching building, a road and a dormitory comprised the entirety of Baoxiang Secondary School. But for some reason, Lin Yi had this feeling that something was strange, as if something was missing.
“Where are the others?” Cheng Yang looked around.
“They should be in the teaching building,” Lin Yi said.
They’d seen one of the participants enter the teaching building and followed him in. No one was visible on this road to the dormitory so they must be in the teaching building.
Baoxiang Secondary School is a township middle school. Naturally, their teaching building isn’t as good as those of schools in the city.
Judging from the windows, the teaching building has three floors, with only six classrooms on each floor.
There weren’t many classrooms, so it didn’t take long for them to join the group.
Lin Yi had been planning to look into each classroom with Cheng Yang. However, they found that in many of the classrooms, the teacher’s voice could be heard but door simply wouldn’t budge.
This was until they arrived at the first classroom on the second floor. The sign outside read: Class 1, High School 2.
Only the door to this class was open. Lin Yi pressed against the wall and secretly peeked in. Sure enough, the others were inside.
The participants weren’t the only ones inside the classroom. There were also a lot of other students and a person standing on the podium.
It was a female teacher dressed simply.
The female teacher kept counting the students present. “One, two, three, four,…twenty-three.”
She muttered, “There are still a few people absent.”
Lin Yi heard and reckoned she was probably talking about himself and Cheng Yang. Now that they had found the larger group, Lin Yi stopped sneaking around. He shouted, “Here!”
He attracted the teacher’s attention. “Hurry in.”
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The female teacher started counting heads again. “One, two, three, four…twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five…”
After a ‘tsk’, the female teacher muttered again, “Why is there still one person absent?”
Hearing this, Lin Yi raised his head and realized that even after he and Cheng Yang sat down, there was still one empty seat left in the classroom.
The female teacher didn’t seem to register that there was only one empty seat left in the classroom and it didn’t seem to occur to her to simply ask the students to count off so that she wouldn’t have to do it. She started counting over and over again.
Every time she finished counting, she would mutter, “Why is there still one person absent?”
The tone was exactly the same every time.
The female teacher’s strange looping action made the participants turn pale little by little.
Lin Yi took advantage of this moment to start familirizing himself with the participants.
Before entering the 8-4 Rule World, Wang Feihang gave him the list and information of students who would be entering the 8-4 Rule World.
Twelve people in total.
Eight boys and four girls.
Among the eight boys, there were four freshmen, including Cheng Yang and Lin Yi; three sophomores, including Ren Li; one junior and no seniors.
Among the four girls, there was one freshman, three sophomores and no juniors or seniors.
Cheng Yang quietly said to Lin Yi, “Lin Yi Xiong, I know that guy.”
He pointed to a boy sitting in front of and to their left.
Lin Yi asked, “Xia Hui?”
Xia Hui was the only junior student present.
“I don’t know his name.” Cheng Yang said, “But last time I was called to a meeting by Ou Ying Xue Jie, he and I almost got into a fight. He’s got a shit attitude.”
Lin Yi heard Cheng Yang and looked up at Xia Hui’s back.
Lin Yi found a notebook in the drawer and wrote down the names of the participants according to their seats. He then handed it to Cheng Yang and asked Cheng Yang to remember the people so that if something happened later, Cheng Yang’s description wouldn’t only be ‘that guy’ or ‘that girl’.
Cheng Yang took the notebook and started memorizing it.
During this period, the female teacher simply continued on counting the number of people. Lin Yi glanced at Ren Li. Ren Li was sitting by the window. The seating layout of the classroom was 1:2:2:1.
The seats by the window and the wall were all separate seats, without tablemates.
To be honest, Lin Yi never expected to discover the 8-4 Monster so early.
It could be considered a lucky hit but it wasn’t a good thing.
There were some things he hadn’t said to Cheng Yang yet, just because he was worried about scaring Cheng Yang. There is a high probability that when Ren Li targets him, he will also target Cheng Yang. From Ren Li’s memory, the Monster would know that he and Cheng Yang are close. But Ren Li doesn’t know that Cheng Yang is actually a rookie. In this instance, Cheng Yang was just following Lin Yi’s lead. A rising tide lifts all boats; when the master ascends so does his dogs and chickens.
It would be fine if only he would be targetted. Lin Yi would only need to protect himself. But Cheng Yang being targetted made things a bit more difficult. He has to concentrate on taking care of Cheng Yang.
However, Lin Yi comforted himself that Cheng Yang had made noticeable progress. At least he didn’t faint after discovering that Ren Li was the 8-4 Monster and even managed to tacitly work with him.
Even if just to taste those crab pancakes, he had to make sure they both got out alive.
Then the task of finding the main plot now seemed urgent. Lin Yi turned his attention to the female teacher on the podium.
The female teacher was still counting the number of people, counting tirelessly over and over again. After countless time, she finally stopped.
The light in the classroom dimmed and Lin Yi looked out the window.
The sky was begining to darken.
“Class is over.” The teacher said, “The last student to leave the classroom must lock the door.”
Saying so, the female teacher left the classroom before the students.
Cheng Yang said, “This… this class is quite easy.”
Lin Yi gave no reply. After the other student NPCs left the classroom, he stood up quickly and shouted to Ren Li, “Ren Li Ge.”
Ren Li looked over at him.
Lin Yi asked, “What should we do now?”
He had done this deliberately and sure enough, the other confused and horrified participants followed Lin Yi and looked at Ren Li.
Lin Yi had learned this trick from Qin Zhou. Due to Qin Zhou’s status as the chairman of the student union, all the teachers and students in the school recognized Qin Zhou. Every time he entered a Rule World, Qin Zhou received a lot more attention and everyone treated him like a lifeline.
With more eyes on him, he has to be careful about his words and deeds. This was the main reason why Qin Zhou turns silent every time he enters a Rule World.
Now Lin Yi used this trick on Ren Li. He deliberately guided the other participants and instantly made Ren Li everyone’s backbone. This way, Ren Li would have to think twice before attacking him and Cheng Yang.
Ren Li said, “Let’s leave first.”
Lin Yi asked, while quietly approaching Cheng Yang, gesturing for Cheng Yang to work with him, “Leave the classroom? Where should we go?”
Cheng Yang has indeed made progress. He actually caught on. Cheng Yang himself felt incredible. He followed Lin Yi’s lead and asked Ren Li, “Ren Li Ge, is it safe outside?”
Ren Li was flustered by Lin Yi and Cheng Yang’s questions. “Didn’t you hear her say she wanted to have the door locked?”
Saying this, Ren Li took the lead and left the classroom.
Lin Yi and Cheng Yang quickly followed and Lin Yi shouted: “Ren Li Ge, wait for me.”
Seeing this, the other participants also followed.
Ren Li led them down the road. It wasn’t long and one could get to the end in five minutes if one was a fast walker. They arrived at the dorm building of Baoxiang Secondary School.
Lin Yi looked up at the dormitory building. It looked better than the dorm room in the 7-7 Rule World but only by a little.
Walking into the dorm, it wasn’t much different from a regular dormitory. There was also a duty room by the entrance to the dorm but here, it wasn’t called a duty room. The nameplate nailed to the door read: Mailing Room.
In addition, there was a row of small green lockers against the wall of the dormitory hall.
Each cabinet was numbered with yellow paint:
101/102/103/104/105
201/202/203/204/205
301/302……
Cheng Yang shivered when he saw the cabinet. “Lin Yi Xiong, this is… the delivery lockers.”
When the others heard Cheng Yang’s words, they all took on panicked expressions on their faces, as they stayed far away from the lockers.
Lin Yi glanced at the rules and then asked Ren Li what to do now.
Ren Li didn’t answer. After all, talking too much would be out of character for Ren Li and the Monster has to keep in character.
Ren Li went to the mail room and knocked on the door. The door to the mail room was pushed open from the inside.
Inside was an aunt in her 40s. She was holding a bowl of noodles in her hand and said while eating, “Is class over for the day?”
After saying this, she said nothing else. She wasn’t like the old dorm manager in the 7-7 Rule World who had to arrange everyone’s accommodation.
Just like how they were placed in Class 1 High School 2, the Rule World must have also directly arranged for their dorm rooms.
Lin Yi said to Cheng Yang, “Let’s go up and take a look first.”
He couldn’t always let Ren Li take the lead. He was worried that Ren Li would be offended.
After going up the dorm, just as Lin Yi had guessed, rooms had already been assigned to the participants.
In addition to the dorm number written in yellow paint, there were also their names written in red paint on the dormitory door.
Cheng Yang looked at the name on the door. The red paint was extremely conspicuous, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling.
He thought for a moment: ‘No wonder the debts and repayments are usually splashed with red ink.’
Lin Yi’s room number was 202, Cheng Yang was next to him in Room 203.
There was a key in the door lock.
Lin Yi stared at the dorm number, then moved his eyes down to look at the name painted in red.
He then lowered his head to look at the key inserted in the lock cylinder.
Next to him, Cheng Yang was about to reach out and turn the key to open the door, when Lin Yi suddenly said, “Hold on a minute.”
Oh? Something strange!
I know it’s not from this novel but I still have a feeling like I read it somewhere before 🤭🤔
Starting a new world is always so exciting. Wonder what’s up with the missing student? And the NPCs this time are weirder than usual.