"That's all I have to say."
After Xie Zhengyu finished speaking, he himself let out a sigh of relief.
Finally, he didn't have to keep these things bottled up inside him anymore.
"Streamer, is there any way to get out?"
Jiang Lin pondered for a moment and asked, "Are you sure that's all? Is there anything you've missed?"
Xie Zhengyu was puzzled but still thought carefully.
Then he shook his head, "That's all."
The important points had basically all been covered.
Jiang Lin looked at Xie Zhengyu, "If everything is as you say, then the end-of-evening-study bell should be the start and end of the cycle."
"This can be seen as an opportunity. As long as we can capture the spatial rift that occurs at the moment the start and end points interchange, we should be able to get out."
Xie Zhengyu listened intently, "Mhm, mhm, mhm!"
It really was different having a big shot guiding him!
He had found a way to end the cycle so quickly!
Jiang Lin said calmly, "Go back to your classroom first. After evening study ends, I'll take you out."
"Mhm, mhm!"
Xie Zhengyu believed that the streamer, being a ghost messenger, wouldn't lie to him.
Just as he was about to turn, he suddenly remembered something.
"Great Streamer, what about that 'Miejue'… Teacher Wang? She should be related to this cycle."
Shouldn't they deal with her?
Jiang Lin replied, "She's just a minor character. Leave her to me. You just need to remember to get out after evening study."
"Mhm, mhm! Thank you, great streamer!"
Xie Zhengyu bowed solemnly at a ninety-degree angle.
After confirming that the streamer had nothing else to say, he turned and walked back towards the classroom.
His footsteps became lighter.
Finally, finally he could get out!
Finally, he could end the cycle!
Once he got out, he would definitely distribute wealth to the viewers!
As Xie Zhengyu walked, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He looked up at the rooftop of the high school teaching building and saw a black figure.
Standing there against the wind.
He couldn't see the face clearly from so far away.
But his intuition told him that it was Miejue Shitai!
Xie Zhengyu's recently settled heart began to pound again.
Something was wrong, something was wrong…
Why hadn't the strange events of today occurred?
Who had died?
Could the streamer behind him be something he had imagined?
Or perhaps…
Was it someone impersonating them to make him lower his guard?!
"Xie Zhengyu!"
Jiang Lin's voice suddenly called out from behind him.
Xie Zhengyu turned around abruptly. How did he know my name?
Did I tell him?
Jiang Lin stood by the lotus pond, his expression indifferent, his voice clear and cold.
"Do you want to get out?"
His voice drifted through the cold wind.
Xie Zhengyu shivered.
He blinked and nodded vigorously, replying loudly,
"I want to get out!"
He absolutely had to get out!
Absolutely!
Right!
The most important thing now was to get out!
Whether he was impersonating or not didn't matter, he would get the answer tonight anyway.
At worst, he would just go through the cycle again!
"I must get out!"
…
The live stream chat scrolled rapidly:
"Go for it! You'll definitely get out!"
"The streamer is very reliable, don't worry!!"
Just as the viewers were offering a round of encouragement, a comment suddenly popped up:
"Hey, hey, you guys really haven't noticed, have you?"
A viewer nicknamed 'delicate.body.soft' sat in front of her computer screen, looking at the information she had just found.
Her body felt a chill.
As a short-video blogger, she often paid attention to various online information.
When the live stream first started, she felt a strange sense of familiarity.
So, she continued to watch the stream while searching various online keywords.
—Have none of the viewers in the live stream really noticed?!
She trembled as she typed, word by word:
"The so-called Miejue Shitai, and those students from Class 3, Grade 3, are all at Third Middle School."
"And Third Middle School is located north of the Eastern Territory."
North of the Eastern Territory… that was within the scope of the recent major earthquake!
The east and north had both been affected by the major earthquake!
Third Middle School had already collapsed in the earthquake!
All that remained at the scene was rubble.
Where was Third Middle School anymore! Where were the classes, the lessons!?
…
"!!!"
"@delicate.body.soft: Is that true?! I'll go check!"
Seeing the message posted by delicate.body.soft, a group of viewers were stunned for a moment.
Looking at the live stream footage,
As Xie Zhengyu's retreating figure disappeared, a chill spread from the base of their spines.
It shot straight to their heads, making their scalps tingle.
"No way, seriously?! (((;꒪ꈊ꒪;)))"
"...Actually, I sensed it earlier, but I wasn't sure."
"Oh my god! Is this for real QAQ, they're all dead?!"
If Third Middle School was gone, then what was all of this now?!
Was it all fake?
A ghost realm? A dream? A mental obsession?
If that were the case, then the strange occurrences in the school every day…
Why people died, why the dead would reappear…
Everything could be explained.
Wait, wait, that's not right.
"Then what about Xie Zhengyu? Did he also fantasize about the cycle?"
"Is there a possibility that he forgot he was already dead! Trapped in the land of death, cycling over and over!"
That's why he could never find the reason for the cycle!
That's why he could never get out!
That's why he repeatedly sought help from the outside world, making phone calls, all to no avail.
Either the signal was bad, or no one paid attention!
Because they were buried under the rubble and couldn't transmit any messages.
Because they had already fallen into eternal sleep, and no matter how much they cried out, no one would hear them!
…
"So that's how it is, so that's how it is…"
The viewers, as if their meridians had been unblocked, suddenly understood everything.
The moment they understood, they couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow.
All the teachers and students in the school…
Xie Zhengyu's desire to leave…
Loneliness, fear…
Being trapped, never seeing the next day…
So that's how it was.
"They… have no tomorrow."
…
…
In the live stream footage—
After Xie Zhengyu returned to his classroom, Jiang Lin also left the lotus pond.
He began to wander around the entire school.
From the junior high section to the high school section.
Every floor, every classroom.
Then he went to the old teacher's dormitory mentioned by Xie Zhengyu, and looked around the abandoned small courtyard in front of the door.
He looked at the soil and shovel at his feet, then looked up at the old dormitory building in front of him.
It was pitch black, with a chilling wind blowing, truly like a haunted house.
After viewing the old dormitory building,
Jiang Lin went to the cafeteria, the student dormitory, the administrative building…
The viewers in the live stream silently watched everything inside, following the streamer.
These scenes… which had been destroyed in reality.
"This is a bit troublesome."
Jiang Lin mused.
Just as he came out of the new teacher's dormitory building, a ghostly black shadow appeared behind Jiang Lin.
"Teacher Jiang, you shouldn't be walking around while students are in class."
Miejue Shitai, dressed in a black winter outfit and high heels, pushed her glasses up and said expressionlessly,
"Your students have already collected the homework and submitted it to your desk."
Jiang Lin nodded slightly and glanced at the sky.
The flow of time here was different from the outside.
The sky was already starting to darken, and evening study was about to begin in the school.
"I'll head back now."
He said, and then walked towards the junior high teaching building.
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip,
The sound of high heels on the floor followed closely behind him, at a not-too-close, not-too-far distance.
…