Chapter 497: Qiao Mu Private High School

" Miaomiao, are you okay?" Miaomiao's father worriedly picked up his bleary-eyed daughter, he put the phone aside, "You were unconscious and then unconscious after you drowned, you were fully conscious after a week or so, don't be so emotional, dad will be very worried about you."

"By the way, your class teacher and the headmaster and the others have come to see you."

Miaomiao looked up in a trance: "Who?"

Miaomiao's father repeated patiently, "The headmaster and the class master, Mr. Ren."

The headmaster looked at Miaomiao's father, pulled a smile from the corner of his mouth, and then looked at Miaomiao in her hospital bed with the salivating expression of a piece of cooked meat.

Miaomiao's father subconsciously shielded himself from such an uncomfortable gaze, but soon the headmistress collected her gaze and Mr. Ren, the headmistress of Miaomiao's class, came forward to negotiate with Miaomiao's father: "Miaomiao's father, Miaomiao has missed a lot of revision lessons recently, let me talk to you about how to remedy the situation. Let me talk to you about how to remedy the situation."

"How about going outside and talking about it?" The female teacher glanced at Miaomiao and lowered her voice, "I'm afraid Miaomiao will hear the anxiety."

Miaomiao's father got up hesitantly, and he finally nodded: "Let's go."

The door to the ward was open, but Wang Miao slept in one of the beds inside, with the blue curtain drawn so that she could not be seen from the outside. The headmaster stared at Miaomiao with a dark look on his face, and Miaomiao stared back at him in confusion, not recognising that the middle-aged man in front of him, with his sagging flesh and old age showing, was the same headmaster who had been so proud at the 100-day countdown.

"You've seen the GCSE papers, haven't you?" The headmaster spoke up abruptly.

Wang Miao was horrified, her mind snapped to attention and she subconsciously replied, "How did you know?

"How many questions can you still remember?" The headmaster's expression grew gloomier and gloomier, his hands propped up on the railing of the hospital bed, his tone even became aggressive, "Your grades are still okay, can you remember all the questions that you can do correctly for four or five hundred points?"

Wang Miao was terrified and cowered in fear, shaking her head from side to side, unable to speak a word.

The headmaster took a deep breath, lowered his hands on the railing again, stared at Wang Miao gloomily for a moment, and spoke, "The matter has come to this, so I'll give it to you straight."

"As I'm sure you know after seeing Gaucho Lake, all those rumours about Gaucho Lake are true."

"There's a special thing at the bottom of that lake that allows some specific students, the ones who are destined to fail their entrance exams, to see their future entrance exam results."

Wang Miao finally spoke up, her voice trembling as she asked, "How did you know?"

"Because I'm a player." The headmaster lifted his drooping eyelids, "What's at the bottom of this lake is the prop I redeemed from the game and put in."

These words became a confused alliteration to Wang Miao's ears, and she looked up blankly and asked in return, "What did you just say?"

The headmaster and the two teachers next to him looked at each other and spoke in a low tone, "She's not a player, where's Lu Yizhan over there who saved the day?"

The teacher next to me replied in a serious tone, "I've tried Lu Yizhan in our class over and over again, and I think he was simply passing by to save someone's life, and he's not a player."

" Lu Yizhan has circled the Gaucho Lake before, and his desire to not even open the Gaucho Lake does not fit the profile of the player."

"So who got all the questions right and still got out of this prop here in one piece and reported us?" The Headmaster's expression flushed with a few cruel and bloody tones, "And lured the Heresy Authority over to take in my prop."

"Have the people we've had contact with in the game been screened?"

A teacher nodded, "Screened, we're all in disguise in the game, we haven't been exposed, it shouldn't be possible for a player to deliberately chase us from the game into reality to target us."

"Then it should be our guess before." This headmaster sat down with a big horse as he smiled sorrowfully, "Some little bugger in this school went into the game, got out alive, found out that heretics and props still exist in this world, and then nosily came out and played us along."

"Right." The teacher next to him bent down and agreed, "How else could that [incorrectly done GCSE paper] prop that was placed at the bottom of the lake have been done correctly by someone and brought out the questions memorized? And then also take a complete GCSE paper and report us directly to both the investigation team and the Heresy Authority at the same time?"

"This one looks like something only a player could do."

Wang Miao looked at the headmaster and the teacher who kept talking in front of her, but she couldn't hear a word of it.

The teacher who was talking to the headmaster looked up at Wang Miao with a contemptuous look as if he was looking at an ant: "What about Wang Miao, an ordinary student?"

"Deal with it as you have in previous years." The headmaster waved his hand and got up to leave, saying impatiently, "Talk to her, I'm going to make a trip back to school."

The collapsed flesh of his cheeks trembled slightly from anger, and he spoke with hostility, "I asked the people below to sift through a list of students who might be players for me, and I'll verify them one by one when I get back."

"If I ever find this little bugger who spoiled my day ......"

The headmaster left the ward, and on his way out he exchanged a friendly greeting with Miaomiao's dad outside the door, not at all seeing that he was asking his teacher to explain something to his daughter.

In the ward, the teacher sits opposite Wang Miao and begins in an official manner.

" Student Wang Miao, you have already jumped into the GCSE lake to do the questions, and with the presence of the stuff at the bottom of the lake, no surprise, the questions you do will definitely become GCSE questions and you will definitely get the same marks you got at the bottom of the lake, you should be in a hurry to do the questions at the bottom of the lake, right? That's not a very good score."

"There are two options placed before you now, the first is to take the GCSEs like this and then have a haphazard end to the GCSEs."

Wang Miao retorted in a shaky voice, "I... I can repeat my studies!"

The teacher gave Wang Miao a pitying look: "Repeating? Do you think you can still read the questions?"

"Didn't you hear what I said? This score must be your GCSE score, no matter how many times you repeat it."

"- it's a rule prop, which means that whatever method is used, it will definitely end up following that rule."

"No. 1, what's the second option?" Wang Miao's teeth were shaking, she didn't hear the second half of the question, she just asked it in a stereotypical way.

The teacher smiled, "You tell us the topics you remember and we'll make them available to students who need them, while offering you a substantial commission."

"What do you think, Wang Miao?"

Wang Miao's mind went blank, the sky spun before her eyes and she couldn't say a word.

Meanwhile, Xu Wei's home.

"Students who have been acting strangely in the class recently?"

Xu Wei was on the phone in the living room, nodding her head in humility and trepidation as she kept talking on the phone, "Yes, yes, that's right, Headmaster, yes, Bai Liu was acting particularly strange, I had received a book from him which showed him and another very strange creature with him every day."

"Yes, from about senior year onwards, this student suddenly became very strange, often talking to himself alone, saying things I couldn't understand, and then there was a dramatic and sudden rise in his grades, he was in a bad way early on, but senior year it was like he got help from something and things got better all of a sudden."

"Is there anything in particular that this Bai Liu student wants?" Xu Wei repeats the words from the phone.

"Yes!" Xu Wei's tone perked up as she stood up, "I've heard it before, he's particularly fond of money, he's screwed up quite a bit with that private charity orphanage thing before, just to get money, and is particularly fond of horror games and scary creatures, playing horror games when he has nothing better to do."

"He's particularly interested in horror games."

On the other side of the phone, the headmaster's office.

As the headmaster listened to Xu Wei's report, he narrowed his eyes, put a heavy red circle on Bai Liu's name on the list of students under his supervision and hung up the phone.

"These seventeen students are the ones screened out as key suspected players." The headmaster swiveled his chair and flung his men's list in front of his desk as he narrowed his eyes and looked up at the four teachers standing in front of him, heads bowed, "Find a way to get these seventeen students to jump off Gaucho Lake to see how they react to the props and sift out that real player."

"Especially this student named Bai Liu." The headmaster's finger tapped heavily on the first Bai Liu's name on the list of students, his tone obscurely Buming, "There's a good chance he's a gamer, and probably has props on him that he brought out of the game."

"Not now, and it will be in the future, focus on that and see if we can pull him into our ranks."

"But this student is also a key target for the investigation team and the people from the Heresy Administration who came over this time." A teacher below couldn't help but speak up, "He has a special status, he's a student at the orphanage, so it's not good for us to take direct action."

"And the people who are coming over to investigate this time are said to be the second team of the Heretic Authority, the leader of this team is very hard on players, it's best not to let him find out that we are players."

This teacher said, couldn't help but shudder and prompted politely, "...... Principal, how about we don't make a move and get ordinary people to try Bai Liu?"

The headmaster pondered for a moment.

"Principal, we're all strapped for points these days." This teacher couldn't help but persuade again, "Buying [the incorrectly done college entrance exam paper] has already cost us a lot of points before, and we've finally made it back in the past few years, and we're looking at making a profit, but this direct shot at players will definitely require the use of props again."

"We ...... don't have many points left to redeem for props."

The headmaster took a deep breath with a dark face, "Got it, then I'll spend some money and ask Xu Wei to test Bai Liu."

At two in the morning, Xu Wei picked up her mobile phone in a daze, and after two words she was instantly awake.

"What two and a half million?"

The headmaster's voice came over the phone unhurriedly, "I don't know if you're willing to do it, Mr Xu Wei, but I'll give you two and a half million dollars if you lead Bai Liu to jump into Gao Kao Lake."

"God knows this matter, you know it, I know it, and no one else will ever know it, and I can guarantee that nothing will happen to you if you do it."

"Jumping into Gao Kao Lake?!" Xu Wei couldn't help but pluck up her voice, but quickly suppressed it again as her voice shook harder and harder, "So Bai Liu ...... will drown? Will I be found?"

"What does it matter to you if you drown or not." The headmaster's tone began to get impatient, "It was supposed to be the final sprinting moment of the stressful college entrance exams, he naturally had a million reasons to go jump in the lake, and all in all, nothing will happen to you."

"Well, you've asked me to reconsider."

Xu Wei hung up the phone almost in a daze as she slowly slid to the ground and looked up at her new home in a daze.

The home, which she took out a loan to buy after she took up her job at Qiao Mu High School, is located next to the school, at $41,000 per square foot, in a notoriously affluent area.

Eventually bought it too.

But with a monthly mortgage of $20,000, she has to pay it back for 30 years, and because she has recently been investigated, she can no longer even afford the mortgage. Recently, even more so because Bai Liu refused to sign a letter of understanding with her, Xu Wei heard gossip that the investigation team had started considering revoking her teaching license because they said she had problems with her teacher ethics.

If she can't get money in the bank, she'll soon have to move out of here.

Xu Wei's eyes fall slowly, through the glass of the balcony, to the letter of understanding on the coffee table, pressed against the porcelain cup.

The name Bai Liu wrote on the letter of understanding is still the same [orphan from the orphanage].

She had only induced Bai Liu to jump into the lake. Even if she could be held responsible afterwards, she would at most be condemned on a moral level, and she would get two million dollars to walk away.

Xu Wei took a deep breath and was just about to pull himself up when he saw a humanoid shadow standing in front of the coffee table.

Bao Kangle's eyes were red and bloodshot, and his face was one of almost manic excitement: "Mum, I heard you, there's two million to be had."

"I'll help you get Bai Liu off the lake!"