Chapter 481: Qiao Mu Private High School

The whole school was in an uproar.

"That's not ......" Mu Sicheng looked at the young, slightly familiar face in the stands, nodded and frowned, "Who is it again? Have I seen him before?"

Tang Erda is also frowning.

Lu Yizhan, isn't this Bai Liu's best friend? How come he appears in the game as an NPC?

--Is it the same situation as the previous Rose Factory?

Muke and Liu Jiayi both paused at the sight of this face and turned to Bai Liu without speaking.

Bai Liu looked calm and did not speak.

The headmaster was furious and tried to climb up and pull Lu Yizhan down: "What are you talking about Lu Yizhan! Get down from there!"

Lu Yizhan deftly dodges the approaching headmaster as he runs expertly around the stands with the microphone in his hand, reading his commentary at speed.

"These seventeen students were all students who improved to the top 100 in one of their senior exams, went up and then came back down the hill ......"

Mu Sicheng frowned and asked, "What does it mean to go up the mountain and then come back down?"

Lu Yizhan's voice, reading from the script, and Bai Liu's voice below, calmly explaining, gradually coincide.

" The students at that place on the hill at Qiao Mu High School are mobile and are judged on the results of each exam, and the top 100 students in each exam get to go up."

"The fact that they went up and then came back down means that these seventeen students were not in the top 100 before, but that by chance they made it to the top 100 in one of the exams, weekly or monthly, and managed to make it up the mountain, but in one of the subsequent exams they fell out of the top 100 in the school and so came back down."

Liu Jiayi was keenly aware of what was going on and she turned her head over, "You know this school so well, Bai Liu ."

"This school wouldn't be your high school, would it?"

The other four men gave a start and snapped their heads around to look at Bai Liu, who had no expression on his face as he watched Lu Yizhan, who was playing chase with the headmaster in the stands, without a word.

In the stands, the headmaster was chasing after him like a thunderclap, Lu Yizhan was dodging and fleeing in front of him like a dangling monster, and his voice was getting louder and clearer as he read from the script.

"Although the police have confirmed that the seventeen students did commit suicide, there is no reason why there should be a spate of deaths in one place after another."

"All people have the instinct to survive, and when seventeen people in the same environment cross the line of instinct and choose death, there must exist some reason that compels them to escape from an environment that makes it impossible for them to survive at the cost of death."

Offstage, Liu Jiayi walked up to Bai Liu, looked him straight in the eye and asked, "Did this copy land in your high school? What happened when you were in high school?"

"What is the relationship between these seventeen dead students and you?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment before he raised his eyes, "There were not seventeen dead."

"Not a single person died in my high school, and this copy failed to land."

"The landing failed?!" Tang Erda looked to Bai Liu in dismay, "How can any copy fail to land without strong external intervention?"

-- The previous failed landings at the Rose Factory and Ice Age were barely controlled by mobilising almost the entire Heretic Authority, with some deaths and injuries.

Tang Erda clearly remembered that the Qiao Mu private high school was not on the files of the Heresy Bureau, which meant that the Heresy Bureau had not come here to deal with the heresy and that the copy had failed to land itself without a single death.

How is this possible?!

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "There was a man who prevented this copy from being landed."

"One man stopped the landing of a copy?!" Tang Erda asked rhetorically, almost incredulously, "And without casualties?!"

"Hmm." Bai Liu lifted his eyes and he looked into the stands, "He won't let innocent people die on his own watch."

"He's such a rotten person."

Lu Yizhan and the tired headmaster were on opposite sides of the stand, and a crowd gathered around the headmaster's side to try to catch Lu Yizhan, but Lu Yizhan was so agile that he ran for 20 minutes without even being touched by the corner of their clothes.

The students on stage were already up in arms, many of them laughing and running around in the same way as Lu Yizhan.

On stage, Lu Yizhan, without a blush, held up the microphone with a proper smile as she negotiated with the group of teachers: "When a school lets seventeen children choose to end their lives, there must be something very wrong with that school."

"These are children who went up the mountain and then came back down before committing suicide... Have you ever thought, headmasters and teachers, that it might not be these seventeen children who are the problem, but the mountain?"

"The problem with the mountain?" Muke sensitively caught Lu Yizhan's meaning beyond the words, "Is there some kind of game clue on that mountain?"

"You could say there is." Bai Liu said blandly.

"What's on the mountain?" Liu Jiayi stared deadpan at Bai Liu, "Have you guessed how to pass this copy?"

"I have a rough guess as to how I can clear this copy in seven days." Bai Liu spoke plainly and explained, "Back in my high school, our school had a very strange school legend."

"What campus legend?" Mu Sicheng asked.

The headmaster in the stands gasped as he asked coldly in return, "What can these seventeen students have to do with something on the hill when they committed suicide on their own?"

Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan turned their heads at the same time, both of them looking towards the dark, dark mountain that stood behind the campus, their eyes falling on the top, their voices gradually coinciding.

"Gaucho Lake on the Hill."

The headmaster's expression changed as if he had been exposed, and he scolded him sternly: "What's this lake for the entrance exam? It's just a nice artificial lake, it's just some bullshit rumour made up by some students! Lu Yizhan, don't spread falsehoods to me!"

Mu Sicheng followed up curiously, "Gaucho Lake, what is it?"

" A man-made lake at Qiao Mu Private High School, up on the hill." Bai Liu explains unhurriedly, "I've never been there, but people who have been up there say it's a very beautiful man-made lake, right in the middle of the hill, reflecting the moon."

"The reason why this artificial lake is shouted as the lake for the entrance exam is because it is said that every senior who goes on the exam, as long as you walk around the edge of that lake alone three times on a moonless night with the moon reflected in the middle of the lake, three times on the front side and three times on the back side, you don't get a drop of water on the bottom of your feet, you don't get wet at all, and at this time you probe and look into the middle of the lake. You will then see the yellow moon in the middle of the lake disappear and turn into a single set of yellow tables and chairs."

"And in the middle of that table would be a set of papers." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "That's the GCSE papers from that year."

"GCSE Lake can predict the GCSE papers of the year."

"This is the time when you have to jump down into the lake, dive to the bottom and do the set of GCSE papers, and the marks you finish will be your GCSE marks for that year, and if you don't jump down, soon the set of tables and chairs will turn into the moon again and dissipate under the water."

Mu Sicheng was stunned: "Isn't that cheating?"

"You could say that." Bai Liu's tone was unruffled, "But that's supposedly why Qiao Mu Private High School once had a high promotion rate, and why many rich and powerful people went to great lengths to send their students here, up the mountain."

"It's because of the legend of that Gaucho Lake."