Chapter 75: The Terrifying Campus, The Weather Charm (13)

“Ahhh!”

Suddenly, several children’s frantic screams echoed across the campus.

Judging from the sounds, they came from the classroom where evening study was held. Tonight, the students whose Teru Teru Bozu dolls’ heads had been severed were all kept behind by Teacher Li to complete test papers.

Ten math test papers in total.

If they failed to finish them all before sunrise, they would be expelled.

Expulsion was a dire punishment.

No one dared cross the line.

Yet, as Pei Lübo, Ge Yangrong, and the others were only on the second test paper, the ceiling fan above suddenly broke free from the ceiling. Spinning with violent inertia, it sliced off Wei Mingzhe’s head.

Wei Mingzhe’s head rolled away, thudding to a stop. Blood pooled across the desks and floor.

The horrific sight left every student in the room stunned with terror.

“Oh god... are we next?” Pei Lübo clapped his hand over his mouth, his voice muffled by dread, his face twisted in fear.

“Wei Mingzhe was the first... next is me, Ge Yangrong, Wen Anyi, Liu Yuanming, and Wei Yingying...”

The more Pei Lübo spoke, the more he trembled.

“No, please... Tang Mo, we know we were wrong! We shouldn’t have bullied you, or gotten close to those who did. But the real culprits here are Liu Qiongying, Li Meiqi, Zi Yushu... it has nothing to do with us!”

“You can’t just kill indiscriminately because of your resentment, can you?”

As he spoke, Pei Lübo began kneeling and kowtowing frantically.

“Please, have mercy on us! We truly are innocent!”

But the classroom was eerily silent, save for the dull thud of Pei Lübo’s forehead striking the ground.

No one responded.

The commotion in the study room had already driven the rest of the students from their dorms in fright.

And the pounding of so many footsteps soon alerted the teachers.

When the teachers arrived, everyone thought salvation was at hand.

But when Teacher Li saw the headless, half-bodied child sprawled in the classroom, her expression remained utterly unmoved. As if the death of this classmate was no more serious than an accidentally torn math paper.

“Why are you all crowding around making a racket? Planning to skip class tomorrow?”

“But... teacher, he, he...”

“What about him?” Teacher Li snapped at the student who spoke. “He’s just lost his head, hasn’t he? If you can’t even answer 1+1=?, doesn’t that mean you’ve lost your head?”

The room fell completely silent.

“All right, those who failed today’s test, stay here and keep working. Those who passed, go back to your dorms! Stop mucking about all over campus. Focus your minds on your studies! If your chances of getting into a key middle school don’t meet the standard... you’ll see what happens!”

After scolding the students, Teacher Li left without a backward glance.

The remaining students shrank together, trembling, uncertain whether to stay or flee.

Not until the janitor, an elderly woman, came in with broom and dustpan, did any move. She swept Wei Mingzhe’s round head into the trash, then stuffed his body into a garbage can lined with a black plastic bag, shooting a sharp, mocking glare at the students.

“This is what happens if you don’t study hard.”

She was easily in her fifties or sixties, yet her words were as foul as ever.

“If you don’t study, once you’re out in society, you’ll end up just like me, sweeping garbage every day for two or three thousand yuan a month. Cleaning up all the school’s trash and waste.”

With that, she gestured to the garbage bag holding Wei Mingzhe’s remains.

“May you all end up swept into this trash can. After all, garbage doesn’t deserve a future or tomorrow.”

The students were speechless.

Once the teacher and janitor had left, the classroom erupted into chaos.

“What’s going on? Why did everything change after we did that strange test paper? Someone’s dead! Why did the teacher and janitor act like it was nothing more than eating or drinking?”

“I... I don’t know!” another student cried, on the verge of hysteria.

His hands and mind were numb with fear.

“It looks like the teachers won’t help. Maybe we should go to the principal? The principal has to do something—this is a matter of life and death...”

“Let’s go! To the principal!”

The principal’s office was on the sixth floor.

But suddenly, every light in the school went out.

A second wave of screaming rose.

It seemed to be Ge Yangrong this time.

They followed the sound, guided by moonlight—

And saw him hanging from the classroom’s electric wire.

For reasons unknown, the wire had come loose from its place on the wall and wound tightly around Ge Yangrong’s neck.

His feet dangled above the floor.

Gravity pulled his tongue out, his eyes rolled back, saliva drooled from his mouth...

He was in a terrible state.

“Help him!” someone shouted. They thought Ge Yangrong could still be saved, and hurried over—some grabbed stools, others fetched ladders.

They were determined to free him from the wire’s grip.

But just as their hands reached out—

Ge Yangrong’s struggling caused the wire’s insulating rubber to tear. Instantly, 220 volts of electricity surged through him, killing him on the spot.

As someone moved to touch Ge Yangrong’s body—

“Don’t touch him! You’ll die!” someone yelled.

It was Zi Yushu.

Zi Yushu, having already self-studied the middle school curriculum, understood electrical circuits well.

“There’s no saving him now.”

“But... wasn’t the power out? How did Ge Yangrong still get electrocuted?”

“It depends whether the power was cut before or after he touched the wire,” Zi Yushu said grimly. “Now, two have died. How many had their Teru Teru Bozu dolls’ heads severed for getting test questions wrong this morning? Who were they?”

“Six... six. Wei Mingzhe, Pei Lübo, Ge Yangrong, Wen Anyi, Liu Yuanming, and Wei Yingying.”

“But now two are already dead.”

“So the ones left to die are...”

The four remaining, realizing their fate, were seized with terror and dread.

“No, I... I’m so young, I don’t want to die!” Wei Yingying shrieked, clutching her head, panic wild in her eyes. “All I did was get close to Li Meiqi! Why are Liu Qiongying and Li Meiqi still alive, and Wen Anyi and I have to die? We never took part in bullying Tang Mo!”

“I’m innocent!”