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Chapters 5 and 5.6: The author has changed the setting these past two days.
Death, accident.

One by one, people stood up from their seats and recounted their past ignorant and cruel actions.

Terrifying words echoed in the fat man's ears, filling him with immense fear.

What on earth is this talk about?!
At this moment, the fat man's whole body went limp, and he wished he could collapse onto the table, but his last remaining will to survive kept him stiff and he dared not move.

Just then, the classroom fell silent.

The fat man looked up in surprise, only to find that everyone was staring at him.
They all wore the same smile, the curve of their mouths and the size of their eyes were exactly the same, like mass-produced smiling dolls.

"Teacher—" everyone opened their mouths at the same time: "It's time for you to tell your story."

Eyes were fixed on him from all directions, scrutinizing every single hair on his head.

At this moment, Ryuri also turned around with a smile.

"If you can't express it, it means that the teacher is not the same as us."

They were all smiling, but it sent chills down your spine.

The fat man shuddered violently, his lips trembling as he uttered, "I..."

"I……"

Everyone's eyes widened, revealing a hint of anticipation, and they eagerly opened their mouths:

"Say it!"

"Say it!"

"Say it!"

A chanting-like sound overwhelmed him, and the fat man broke down, his voice audible amidst a sea of ​​grotesque faces:

"I...I didn't! I didn't..."

But just as he was burying his head in despair, a voice suddenly came from the classroom doorway—

What are you all standing there for?

"doctor!"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, the fat man mustered up immense courage. He suddenly stood up and rushed towards the door, bumping headfirst into the person who had entered.

Gu Mian, who was wearing a white coat at the entrance, was almost hit and nearly killed.

Gu Mian was so breathless from being pushed so hard that she almost suffocated.

"What's going on?" Chu Changge walked out from behind Gu Mian and pulled the fat man over.

The fat man shrank behind Gu Mian, no longer daring to look at the students inside: "They...they..."

Liuli, who was standing on the podium, straightened her smile and walked over: "Teacher, we're playing a game, what are you doing here?"

Gu Mian pushed the chubby guy behind her, who was clearly quite frightened, aside: "get out of class is over, I want to familiarize myself with the environment first."

"Ah," Liuli said with a regretful expression, "But teacher, our game isn't over yet. Teacher Wang should finish saying what he has to say."

It seemed that he was determined to finish the game, and the fat man shuddered violently upon hearing this.

He almost burst into tears: "I won't..."

Gu Mian glanced at the fat boy, then bent down and patted Liu Li's head: "What do you think a teacher is? Break time is for teachers to rest, not for playing games with you, understand?"

Looking at Gu Mian's appearance, the fat man took a deep breath and found that Gu Mian's expression was even more terrifying than those ghosts.

At this moment, Chu Changge gently tugged at him: "Let's go."

The fat man was slightly taken aback: "What about Gu Mian?"

“Of course he has to go to class,” Chu Changge said softly. “Don’t you know that?”

I know, I know...

The fat man said anxiously, "But it won't work! You didn't see the students inside..."

"No need to rush," Chu Changge said, pulling the fat man a short distance away. "Gu Mian has experienced far more than you have, so there's no need to worry about him."

"What?" The fat man frowned in confusion.

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "Just wait and see, he's not like you."

At this moment, Gu Mian had already closed the classroom door and was standing on the podium.

Ryuri stood next to him, showing no intention of returning to his seat.

He looked up at Gu Mian: "Are you our new political science teacher?"

"Yes, my surname is Gu." Gu Mian bent down and gently patted his head.

Liu Li tilted her head back and asked, "Can I ask you a question? Uncle Gu, what do you think is the scariest thing?"

Gu Mian's kind expression instantly froze.

Everyone stared intently at him, seemingly eager to know the answer.

A strange smile appeared on Liuli's face as he stared intently at Gu Mian.

After a long silence, Gu Mian finally laughed, her laughter becoming more and more exaggerated.

He laughed as he bent down and leaned close to Liuli's ear, then made a sound that was almost squeezed out of his throat:

"Call me brother!" No student misbehaved for the entire class.

Gu Mian herself even left early.

With fifteen minutes left in get out of class, he said weakly, "That's all for today. I won't continue if you want to hear more. get out of class dismissed."

It's not that he's unprofessional; it's just that this political class is really hard to teach, and it's not related to his major. He can fall asleep just by reading from the book.

When Gu Mian returned to the office more than ten minutes early, the fat man was completely shocked.

"What happened to you..." He stepped forward and touched Gu Mian's white coat, then touched Gu Mian's shoulder: "Did you run out early because you were scared?"

Gu Mian pushed his hand away: "What are you scared of? I've discovered something."

Sitting at his desk, Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "What is it?"

There were only the three of them in the office at that time; the other three had said they were going to gather clues, but no one knew where they had gone.

"The dungeon says it's for twenty-nine vengeful spirits to be teachers, but I counted carefully and there are only twenty-eight students in the classroom. I asked around and they said the one who didn't come is named Li Quanmei, and the other twenty-eight people don't seem to like Li Quanmei very much."

The fat man still felt lingering fear when he talked about these students coming.

He touched his chest and said, "Dr. Gu, you have no idea what I went through in the first class. They said they were going to play a storytelling game and tell secrets, but the stories they told were more and more terrifying than the last..."

"It was alright at first, but it got scarier and scarier as it went on. I don't even dare to talk about it. If these things were in a novel, they would definitely be censored!"

Gu Mian looked at the fat man: "Then don't say anything."

But what if the person who was killed becomes a vengeful ghost and comes back to claim their life?

That's not very reliable. If you're going to take someone's life, you should only do it to one person. There's no need to kill the whole class at once.

Unless the entire class did something to the same person.

Gu Mian glanced at Ms. Kosaka's desk again: "Did anyone mention this teacher during the first class?"

The fat man shook his head.

"Are there any things they're talking about that have in common?"

Upon hearing this, the fat man carefully recalled the events.

"Some of them have abused animals, and some of them have bullied girls..."

Chu Changge, who was standing next to him, suddenly interrupted him: "A girl? Are they talking about the same girl?"

“I don’t know,” the fat man shook his head: “One person said the girl looked like a rabbit, and that he killed her pet rabbit, cut it open, and put it on her table; another person said he stole money and framed her, and that she almost had her leg broken.”

At this point, the fat man shuddered, quite fittingly.

If this refers to the same person, then this dungeon might be quite easy.

Since two people in this class had bullied this girl, it's very likely that others were also involved.

It must be this girl's revenge against the whole class.

However, things may not be that simple, and there are still many mysteries.

Chu Changge had obviously thought of this as well: "Now there are two problems: one is to figure out who this girl is, and the other is to figure out the significance of Kosaka's existence as a teacher."

Gu Mian looked out the window: "Since we have some free time now, we can take a walk around the school."

The bright sunshine outside the teaching building easily dispels the musty smell of decay.

Gu Mian first arrived at the school gate.

He had been curious about the seal on the gate for a long time.

Fatty and Chu Changge teamed up to explore the teaching building, leaving Gu Mian alone here.

The heavy iron gate was rusted long ago, and in some places it was even rotten with holes big enough for a child to pass through, but Gu Mian did not want to go out now.

He reached through the crack and peeled off the seal on the iron gate.

"Rongcheng City Public Security Bureau has sealed off Rongcheng City..."

Gu Mian pondered for a moment, then looked towards the area not far outside the iron gate, where a notice was posted in black and white on white paper. Because the print was so small, at first glance only the title was visible—

Fire Investigation Report

When Fatty and Chu Changge returned to the office, Gu Mian was already sitting at her desk with a report that had been taken down from the wall in front of her.

He broke through the iron gate railing and crawled out to uncover it.

He looked up at the two returning men: "What did you find?"

Chu Changge sat down: "We discovered a warehouse, like a storage room, at the end of the corridor on the sixth floor, which is the top floor of this teaching building, but it was locked tightly."

"The warehouse door looks like it's been replaced; it's much newer than the other doors, but the gaps in the door frame are black, as if it's been burned."

Burned by fire?

Gu Mian paused slightly, then pushed the report on the table in front of Chu Changge: "Look at this."

Chu Changge and the fat man both looked down.

"Fire investigation report..."

(End of this chapter)