Chapter 496: Qiao Mu Private High School

The head teacher eventually missed Bai Liu, who was hiding in the corner, and Spades, who was hiding on the side of the wall behind the ping pong table, waiting for the head teacher to leave with their hands in the air and their breaths confused.

"When we get back." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, the halo still on his face, but his tone was cool enough, "Don't disturb my studies."

Spades tightened his grip on Bai Liu's hand, and with an ooh, he asked, "So, can we come back here, tomorrow?"

Bai Liu didn't answer, he just slowly shook Spades' hand back.

In the midst of the busy school day, the days passed quickly, with some strange happenings in between, but they were soon revealed.

For example, a girl on the hill jumped into the lake because she believed in the legend of the high school lake, but was rescued by Lu Yizhan, who was passing by, and then Qiao Mu Private High School was reported for missing questions.

The whole school is in an uproar, a covert purge is taking place and the whole of Qiao Mu Private High School is in a state of disarray.

Bai Liu, a student admitted to the orphanage, was given special attention and the inspector called him out to ask him how he was doing, which was not official and stereotypical, but rather like a casual conversation.

"How's it going in here?"

"Has there been any thought given to what you will do in the future?"

"It's been a good improvement in grades lately."

The inspector gave Bai Liu a business card and said in a precious way, "I've learned a bit about your class and about you."

"And there's not much to say to you, but what I can tell you is that you're not without someone to turn to."

The man patted Bai Liu on the shoulder and said in a serious way, "Many people are willing to help you share, as am I, as are the orphanage, as are your friends around you, don't fight some injustices alone."

This was said to the point, as if to spare Bai Liu embarrassment, and without going any deeper to give away what was on him, he turned with a wave of his hand and was ready to go.

Bai Liu only found out later that he had been highlighted because the student who anonymously reported the omission of a question from Qiao Mu High School had mentioned him in relation to the many unfair situations in the school.

Even Xu Wei, a small fish at the bottom of the food chain, was affected. She was investigated for the title of senior teacher and the status of an outstanding teacher competition, and the inspectors suspended her from working in extra-curricular educational institutions.

Overnight, Xu Wei's monthly income dropped from just over $30,000 to $4,000, and the trend continued to decline, causing Xu Wei to come to class every day with a pale face.

Finally, one day, Xu Wei passed out in class.

It just so happened that day that she was found guilty of accepting almost $200,000 worth of gifts from parents and was asked to return them in full.

Gifts that have already been sold are converted into money to pay them back.

The classroom was in turmoil again, with Bao Kangle clutching Xu Wei, who had collapsed on the lectern like a dead mother, and screaming, "Mum! Mum! What's wrong with you, Mum!"

Looking at the fallen Xu Wei's face, white as death, the faces of the students who had used all kinds of money and power to do something outside the rules wore a look of fear that was visible to the naked eye.

...... What happens to Xu Wei today, could be what happens to them tomorrow.

The students and their parents were also being investigated, and the investigation team came to Qiao Mu High School as if it were their home, visiting one teacher or student at a time, as if they would never leave until they got to the bottom of the leak.

And instead of decreasing over time, these people have grown in number.

Sitting by the window, Bai Liu looked down at the arrival of another group of investigators - this one with an octopus-shaped badge on their shoulders - who had been respectfully welcomed in by the previous investigators.

In this case, Bai Liu, a student at the orphanage, was the focus of their attention, or protection, and no one in the school dared to speak or act disrespectfully towards him.

When Xu Wei was discharged from the hospital, the first thing he did at school was to call Bai Liu into his office and apologise to him.

"Bai Liu." Xu Wei was not yet fully recovered, his face was pale as he propped his thin body up on the desk, his voice was weak, and he did not have the same overbearing voice as before when he called Bai Liu over to lecture him, "The leaders of the investigation team have talked to me, did you bring this to their attention?"

Bai Liu gave her a nonchalant look, "Is that what the teacher asked me to come here to talk about?"

The implication was clear: he was going to leave if he continued to talk about such boring stuff.

Xu Wei looked up at Bai Liu's look of utter disregard for her and almost gritted her back teeth, shaking with anger, subconsciously opening her mouth to curse.

But then she remembered the investigators from Buming, the bizarre rumours she had vaguely heard about Gao Kao Lake, and Xu Wei stopped her mouth with a shiver at the back of her neck.

"...... No, the teacher called you over just to say sorry."

"Before the teacher scolded you, it was not intentional, just to see you are not upwardly mobile and anxious, said a few words about you, I did not expect that in your case turned into a degradation of your character, into an insult, if these things have hurt you, then the teacher here sincerely say a sorry."

"Hmm." Bai Liu gave a dispensable nod.

Xu Wei's eyes lit up as she slowly pushed a document in front of Bai Liu and bit her lip, " Bai Liu, if you understand your teacher, please sign this letter of understanding so I can show it to the leaders of the investigation team."

Bai Liu's indifferent gaze swept over this understanding before lifting his pen.

Xu Wei's eyes widened to their fullest.

Bai Liu signed the letter of understanding with the names [Orphan of the orphanage], [Social Asshole] and [Mental Patient], then looked blandly at Xu Wei who had a stunned expression: "Signed, teacher."

"That's not even your name!" Xu Wei's expression became twisted and hysterical.

Bai Liu replied plaintively, "You know that's not my name, too, teacher?"

"Then why do you always call me that?"

Xu Wei's expression freezes as she looks dazed and absurd, her hands dropping off her desk in a desperate rush.

Yes ...... these are the words she has previously called out Bai Liu for.

It was now returned to her as it were.

Bai Liu put down his pen as if it were invisible and he turned to leave: "If you really want to apologise, show some sincerity, teacher."

"At least bring your fellow Bao Kangle students with you to apologise."

The small flower bed by the playground.

Fang Dian listened to Bai Liu's account of Xu Wei's apology and gave him a thumbs up: "Cool!"

Bai Liu averted his eyes to Lu Yizhan: "What was that thing at Gao Kao Lake? I heard from someone that you were the one who saved the people?"

"I ran into it." Lu Yizhan scratched his head and let out a long sigh, "I don't know why this girl suddenly jumped into the lake, but luckily I was quick enough to catch her."

Bai Liu's eyes narrowed, "Why did you happen to be around Gaucho Lake in the middle of the night?"

Lu Yizhan paused, "Because I was investigating the Gaucho Lake thing."

"What's going on at GCSE Lake?" Bai Liu asked.

Lu Yizhan's hands rested on his knees and slowly clenched: "I carefully probed the origin of the rumour of Gao Kao Lake and found out the exact conditions for its opening in the midst of this rumour."

"The specific conditions for opening Gao Kao Lake?" Bai Liu's eyes narrowed, "What is it?"

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath, "The rumour you heard down the mountain about the Gao Kao Lake might be that you can see the test papers when the moon is reflected right in the middle of the lake, but there is another version we heard from some teachers gossiping in private on the mountain."

"- is that the student who can open the GCSE lake must be the student who is destined to fail the GCSEs."

Lu Yizhan's eyes deepen: "This means that a student can only open the GCSE lake if he loses his future GCSE results."

"Suppose this rumour about the entrance examination lake is true, but it doesn't make logical sense, does it?" Fang Dian propped up her chin, "Being able to see future GCSE papers in the GCSE lake, having done them once, learning them and then going back to do them in the GCSE hall should be okay in any case, right?"

"It's not like that." Lu Yizhan's lips pursed into a straight line, his eyes deep, his tone rare and gruff, "You've done questions in the GCSE lake, and if you can't do them, then you'll never get them right again."

Hospital, Ward 301.

A girl with damp hair lay pale on the bed, the same girl Lu Yizhan had rescued from under the water last night, and now she lay weakly on the bed, her face not the least bit dishevelled from drowning, but full of excitement, her eyes darting nervously left to look at her mobile phone on the bedside table.

Her heart was beating extremely fast and she slowly reached out for this phone.

Press to turn on, screen unlocks, open your browser and start typing in a title search.

The ward is empty except for a senior girl who is looking almost manic, searching for questions, her chest heaving hard from the intensity of her emotions, her eyes reflecting the light of a miniature screen.

[What are cyanobacteria?]

[Is step by step the right idiom?

......

She saw it, she actually saw the GCSE paper underwater and she managed to remember and get a lot of the questions right!!!

The more she searched, the more the girl's breath caught, a quick flush flushed her otherwise pale face and her lips trembled unconsciously.

There was one question, a big chemistry organics question that she usually got wrong, and she remembered the stem hard enough to try to come out and search for it.

But the moment she tried to write the question out, her mind went blank.

She couldn't remember the question.

How?!

She thought and thought about it reluctantly, but the big fifteen mark, she-didn't-know question went round and round in her head as if it was stuck by some ineffable barrier that prevented her from writing it out, from thinking it through.

The girl pursed her lips.

Maybe she didn't remember and forgot, she looked at the types of big organic questions that are common in GCSEs and she knew the kind of questions!

But when the girl opened the collection of mistakes on her phone for the GCSE organic matter big question memo, her mind went blank once again. These vulnerable topics of hers, the big question stems she had tried to study carefully for over a month for the GCSE were now like rows and rows of alien text, twisting and shaking in her eyes, each word turning into a tiny worm with a human face growing out of it, grinning hideously at her outside the phone.

"Ah!" She dropped the phone in horror.

" Miaomiao, what's wrong?" Dad, who was guarding the door, pushed it open and looked at the wrong memo on his phone that had been thrown onto the quilt, he helplessly tried to pick it up, "Get some rest, just don't do the questions yet."

But Miaomiao, as if in a frenzy, grabbed the phone from her father's hand, looking over her catalogue of mistakes with an almost frightened and dumbfounded gaze.

The big organic question, which didn't work out at the bottom of the lake, and she can't see all the stems of the questions now.

The biology genetics question, which was not done at the bottom of the lake, remains the same.

Punch timer speed calculation questions for physics ......

She slowly put the phone down, her expression blank as she recalled the legend of the high school lake that her friend had jokingly talked to her about -

-- [The score that comes out of the Lake Bottom exam is your GCSE score].

She laughed at the time and argued, "How can a set of papers be the same score when you do them twice?"

Now she finally understands.

--because the questions that you didn't get the first time around are erased from your world.

No matter how hard you try in the future, you will never get it right again.