Chapter 29: Classic Movie Appreciation (3)
"Li Xiaoyu? Li Xiaoyu?"
Zhao Mingtao had curly hair and stared at a pair of big black eyes. Seeing that Tang Xinjue didn't reply for a while, his face immediately turned ugly, "I asked you something, did you hear it?"
Tang Xinjue raised her eyes and looked back without emotion, making Zhao Mingtao feel terrified before she finally said, "What are you asking me for?"
Zhao Mingtao rubbed his nose. Inexplicably, he didn't dare to continue being presumptuous. Because it was a self-study class, he could only lower his voice: "Don't you like Wang Peng, do you know what happened to Wang Peng?"
"Li Xiaoyu" likes "Wang Peng"?
Taking this information down, Tang Xinjue looked around.
In the movie, "Wang Peng" and "Feng Wan" were at the same table, one was the hero and the other was the heroine.
But now, the person with the face of "Wang Peng" says he was Zhao Mingtao, and the seat next to him was empty.
Obviously, one person cannot be both Wang Peng and Zhao Mingtao.
Was the dream in the movie a fake, or was the "reality" at the moment fake?
Two seconds later, Tang Xinjue didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "Why did Feng Wan go?"
Zhao Mingtao subconsciously glanced at the empty seat of his deskmate, and curled his lips, "She must have played with Sun Qian again. They must know why Wang Peng was taken away by the head teacher, just refused to say. I really hate how you girls like being hypocritical. Li Xiaoyu, don't learn to be hypocritical from them, you got to have self-knowledge in your heart.*"
*The original text is "心里有点b数"; you have to have a b number (?) in your heart. [b数] is coming from a meme, it has the meaning of self-knowledge, having a bottom line of a certain situation, often used as a curse word. Saying that someone has no [b数] is calling someone mentally retarded.
Hearing this bossy tone, the girl was stunned at first, and then a faint smile appeared:
"So, are you teaching me how to do things?*"
*你在教我做事?; this is a sentence that is often seen in Chinese internet, came from a movie. It has the meaning of contempt, like, 'why are you telling me something I already know?' It is used to express that others shouldn't meddle in their business with unwanted opinions.
Zhao Mingtao: "..."
Hearing the soft voice, he was stunned for two seconds before reacting, and he became a little annoyed: "What do you mean? I shouldn't talk to you. You can't even understand human words. No wonder Feng Wan and the others never play together with you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the class bell rang, and the originally quiet classroom was suddenly full of voices. Someone came to ask him to play basketball, and Zhao Mingtao couldn't wait to get up immediately. Before he left, he still glared at Tang Xinjue: "Put the Chinese homework on my desk, I have to copy it in the next class, you know?"
The door was slammed shut, and in the lively classroom, the girl's expression sank alone, and a sense of indifference rose around her.
After thinking for a few seconds, Tang Xinjue began to observe her position—or the position belonging to "Li Xiaoyu". There was a storage space under the student's desk, which was full of very messy things. She took out the books and test papers on the outer layer, and rolled out a bunch of small glass bottles from the innermost side.
Tang Xinjue took out the glass bottles, and saw that some bottles were filled with paper strips, some were filled with various pills and capsules, and some were filled with red rope, red liquid, gravel, and indistinguishable substances.
When taking out the note in the bottle, she discovered that each note was marked with the time, and underneath it, written in small words:
"On September 5th, Wang Peng was taken away by the class teacher and lectured. I heard it at the door because of the love letter he wrote to Feng Wan was reported."
——This was probably what Zhao Mingtao asked. Tang Xinjue closed the note after reading it, and opened the next one:
"On the night of September 4th; I followed Wang Peng out of school, and was discovered by Feng Wan and the others. They laughed at me for looking like a dog."
"September 3rd; Earlier, I found out that Feng Wan brought her sanitary pads to school, and her period this time is later than last month, and it seems to be more painful."
"At noon on September 2; Zhao Mingtao had bleeding gums after eating stewed pork rice, and went to the toilet to rinse his mouth. It's a pity that I can't enter the men's toilet, and I can't see the severity of the bleeding..."
...
After reading more than ten notes, an image belonging to "Li Xiaoyu" was gradually built up in Tang Xinjue's mind:
A complete voyeur.
Judging from the note records, Li Xiaoyu not only likes to stalk people and secretly observe other people's privacy, but also likes to record other people's unlucky or injured states, then write them into notes and hide them in glass bottles.
In addition, two locked books were found on the desk. Without knowing the password, there was no way to get the information inside. Tang Xinjue temporarily put it down and reviewed the existing information.
Judging from what was happening now, the so-called "movie replay" actually pulls exam candidates into the movie, to experience it first-hand through the eyes of the movie's characters.
Now, she had become "Li Xiaoyu".
Pushing the table to get up, Tang Xinjue paced around the classroom, checking the environment here.
The horror movie "Death Record of Class 3-1" only had a plot of five minutes, and only three characters were involved——Wang Peng, Feng Wan, and the head teacher.
And the four people who appeared in the options, including Li Xiaoyu, were also students of this class. Coincidentally, they all appeared in Li Xiaoyu's note one after another. From the note, it could be seen that Li Xiaoyu harbored malice towards them.
So, could the ending of almost all the members turning into evil spirits in the movie be Li Xiaoyu's dream?
Tang Xinjue stopped in front of the first row of tables and chairs near the podium, right next to the door.
The passing wind blew away the textbooks on the table, and a name was marked on the title page: Wang Peng.
It seems that this was Wang Peng's real position.
Opening the book on his desk, the name was also engraved: "Sun Qian".
Then there is one last person left... Tang Xinjue turned her attention to Sun Qian's back table.
"Put your hand down! What are you doing?"
An unceremonious scolding suddenly sounded from behind. A scrawny boy rushed up and stopped behind Sun Qian's table. He glanced at the table vigilantly, and only lifted it after confirming that there was nothing missing. He raised his head, frowned and said sharply to Tang Xinjue:
"I warn you, if you dare to steal from me, I will cut off your legs, strip you naked and throw them on the playground to feed the dogs!"
Tang Xinjue looked at him: "You are Qian Zhi?"
"Nonsense. If I'm not Qian Zhi, then am I your father?"
The boy put everything into his schoolbag cursingly, and then came to push her, "I'm annoyed when I see you, roll." Before pushing her to the shoulder, Qian Zhi's arm suddenly sank, was actually held back by the girl. He sneered: "How dare you do this? I think you want to die... F*ck, it hurts!"
His words stopped mid-sentence. Qian Zhi opened his eyes in surprise, his arm struggled several times, but it was like being held by iron clamps. He couldn't move at all, but the severe pain from the bones made his facial features distorted, and he had to grit his teeth and shout for her to stop, and then fell into his seat after she released him lightly.
Tang Xinjue closed her hands as if nothing had happened, and said lightly, "Do you know where Wang Peng and Sun Qian are now?"
Qian Zhi rubbed his arms and looked at her as if he had seen a ghost: "How do I know...Wait, don't come here! I know, I know!" The boy spoke quickly: "Wang Peng is the class monitor, he must be waiting in the teacher's office to pick up the homework and send it back. Sun Qian must be staying with Feng Wan. I don't know where they are."
After speaking, for fear that Tang Xinjue would make another move, he picked up his schoolbag and was about to run, but his footsteps stagnated. The strap of his schoolbag was caught.
Qian Zhi: "..."
Tang Xinjue continued to ask, "I stole something before? When?"
Qian Zhi: "Uh, the whole class said that..."
Tang Xinjue pressed her hand hard: "Who said that?"
Qian Zhi swallowed and quickly changed his words: "It's Feng Wan and Sun Qian! They always tell others about you stealing things. You have to find them to settle the grudge, I don't know anything!"
After he spoke, Tang Xinjue loosened her strength, and he ran away.
The boy disappeared outside the door, and Tang Xinjue followed, but looking in the direction Qian Zhi ran, the corridor was empty.
The students who were chatting and chatting, the buzzing voices, and the people who came and went all disappeared.
Feeling the uncharacteristic silence, Tang Xinjue narrowed her eyes, and she realized one thing: if the movie was about a "dream", what she was now in was the reality before the dream, or was it something else? Another version of the dream?
Without hesitation, she used [Appraisal] on herself and the air respectively, and the information came to her mind:
[An ordinary human female high school student]
[An ordinary school, maybe there was a hidden story in it]
Not surprised by this result, Tang Xinjue closed her eyes and caught something in the sea of perception.
[Mind Control (Level 1): The first step in mind control is self-control. You have a fairly skilled knowledge of your own spirit.]
If this was a dream, then her mental power must be aware of it... After a while, Tang Xinjue opened her eyes and determined that this was reality.
Since it was reality and there was a gap in the space, there was only one possibility - the setting of the movie itself.
Turning her thoughts, Tang Xinjue walked deep into the corridor, and she didn't stop again until she heard a song in the silent corridor.
There was a restroom at the corner in front of her, and the music, singing and laughter are coming from it.
Walking in, Tang Xinjue saw two long-haired girls chatting by the window sill with their backs to the sink.
"No way, Wang Peng really wrote you a love letter?" The girl with hair tied in a bun asked the other long-haired girl.
The long-haired girl giggled: "Of course, I saw the love letter in the office. It's a pity that my deskmate Zhao Mingtao reported it to the teacher, and I can't see the content. Tell me, do they both like me?"
The girl with bun hair also laughed: "How do you know that Zhao Mingtao reported it?"
"The love letter was placed on my desk, and I wasn't there. Who else knows except him?"
The two chatted quietly, not even noticing that someone came in. Tang Xinjue walked to the sink and found a mobile phone on the sink. A song was playing, and a young girl's voice sang in it:
"If you see what I see"
"You will understand me"
"If you become me"
"You'll make the same choice"
"We're all the same"
"We're all the same"
"Welcome to our world"
"Know what we do—"
The rustling conversation fades away, and Tang Xinjue took a sudden step back, and the toilet plunger appeared in her hand to block something from falling.
The thing fell to the ground. It was a piece of peeled wall skin.
One piece, two pieces, and more and more pieces of wall skin fell off. From the top to the surrounding areas, the white wall quickly aged and fell off, turning dark yellow and full of stains. At the same time, the two girls on the edge of the window sill disappeared.
The mirror in front of the sink reflects the appearance of "Li Xiaoyu".
Pieces of skin peeled off from the withered body of the short-haired girl like the wall did, showing dark red blood stains vertically and horizontally. She grinned and looked at Tang Xinjue outside the mirror, showing a smiling face.
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