CH 31

Chapter 31: Classic Movie Appreciation (5)

Without talking nonsense, Zheng Wanqing started talking directly:

"We happened to be doing self-study when I came in, and just after I found out that I had become Feng Wan, I was dragged out of class by Sun Qian..."

After skipping class in a daze, she heard that Sun Qian kept going about gossips. The content was nothing more than who fell in love with whom, who gave a gift to the teacher, and who cheated on the exam. Most of them were nothing more than bad things about others.

However, the gossip covers the relationship of all movie characters. It was only then that Zheng Wanqing found out that Feng Wan's deskmate was actually Zhao Mingtao, and Wang Peng was the monitor of Class Three, and was severely criticized by the class teacher for sending Feng Wan a love letter. In short, it was not the same thing as the "dream" in the movie.

After speaking of the protagonists, she didn't let go of the supporting roles. For example, Qian Zhi was sinister and vengeful, and Zhao Mingtao, who had a good relationship with him, was also extremely narrow-minded. These two stupid students had always been jealous of the monitor Wang Peng and so on.

Finally, Sun Qian said mysteriously: "Li Xiaoyu, the one sitting at front, we should stay away from her in the future! I heard that she is studying some kind of magic recently, and it may be that she has a crush on Wang Peng. Ever since she transferred to another school, I felt that she is mentally abnormal. Thanks to my reminder, the whole class is now far away from her, so they won't be tainted with bad luck."

After hearing this, Zheng Wanqing blurted out without thinking: "Isn't this just school bullying?"

" ..." Sun Qian forced a smile on her face: "Feng Wan, why are you talking so badly? I'm kind."

"Can't I just beat you up?" Zheng Wanqing frowned, and severely criticized: "You are all in the third year of high school, you don't study how to get into college, you spend all your time thinking about how to gossip and spread rumors to harm others, are you worthy of your parents and yourself?"

After being criticized like that, Sun Qian couldn't keep her face. She sank down and made a gesture of grievance: "What do you mean? Did someone say something to you, why are you so aggressive today?"

At this moment, there were small chattering sounds near the corner of the wall. When she listened carefully, she found that the subject of the discussion happened to be Feng Wan. Talking about her being on two boats*, catching Zhao Mingtao while seducing Wang Peng, and instigating Zhao Mingtao to report, her words were full of contempt.

*a metaphor for cheating, you know, standing on two boats. The saying originally means that someone can't make up their mind because they don't have a clear understanding of things, or keep a relationship with two different aspects for the sake of opportunity. Now it generally describes the behavior of playing with other people's feelings, which has a derogatory meaning.

Sun Qian covered her mouth in surprise: "Oh my God, why did someone say that about you? It must be because they are jealous of your good looks!"

"Fart," Zheng Wanqing sneered: "This is the awful gossip you spread, and you deliberately let me hear it, no, let Feng Wan hear it. Do you think I'm stupid?"

Of course, Feng Wan was not a good person. Judging from Sun Qian's reaction, the two are like birds of a feather, taking pleasure in bullying and spreading rumors, but Feng Wan was more arrogant and brainless.

It didn't make sense. Amid Sun Qian's terrified screams, Zheng Wanqing picked her up like a chicken, intending to use force to find out the whole situation.

Hiss, hiss.

The sound of taking pictures suddenly sounded from the corner, and the two turned their heads following the sound, and saw a thin, short-haired girl hiding behind a corner, tearing up red paper with densely packed black names on it.

Li Xiaoyu!

Looking at each other, Li Xiaoyu smiled strangely, turned around and ran away.

Sun Qian suddenly screamed like she was losing her mind: "She's cursing us again! I'm going to kill this lunatic!"

After speaking, Sun Qian struggled to break free and chased after her.

Seeing this, Zheng Wanqing immediately ran after her. Who knew that as soon as she entered the teaching building, the surrounding environment began to fade and change, and the otherworld suddenly appeared.

"And then, I ran into you on the third floor." Zheng Wanqing patted her chest after finishing speaking in one breath, "I didn't dare to recognize you at first, now you look exactly like that Li Xiaoyu. Fortunately, there is that icicle."

The icicle talisman was one of the items that Tang Xinjue can exchange in the mall. One talisman is worth one point, and it was used in the same way as the frozen three-foot talisman. The first time she used it was when she met Zheng Wanqing on the third floor.

After listening to her roommate's narration, Tang Xinjue murmured: "The plot we saw is not too different, but the amount of information is still one-sided."

Li Xiaoyu hated everyone wholeheartedly. She seemed to know many things, but what she knew was locked in the book with password.

Feng Wan was domineering and brainless, and there was also her best friend Sun Qian who has a sweet mouth but a sword in her heart. It was estimated that she (Feng Wan) was also kept in the dark.

The biggest breakthrough now was actually Sun Qian and Qian Zhi.

"Sun Qian, who was alive, knew countless gossip in the school, and Sun Qian, who was in ghost form, said that Qian Zhi was afraid of her telling the truth. It proves that Qian Zhi has a secret, and Sun Qian understands this secret."

Tang Xinjue guessed: "This secret is possibly related to the dream of the movie, and it may also be related to their deaths. If we can find the story from Sun Qian's perspective, we can further reveal the truth."

If each of the four people in the dormitory enters a role perspective, then the one in Sun Qian’s perspective might be either Zhang You or Guo Guo.

Zheng Wanqing spirits were lifted up: "Then we'll look for the two of them... wait, how do we look for it?"

She was a bit dumbfounded when she realized this.

In fact, Zheng Wanqing still didn't understand what she did in the movie and how she met Tang Xinjue suddenly.

Tang Xinjue understood her confusion, "That's right, before we entered the otherworld, the Feng Wan I saw wasn't you, and the Li Xiaoyu you saw wasn't me either.

"From this point of view, we should be in different viewing latitudes, and we can only walk through our own plots from the perspective of our respective characters, and cannot intersect with each other.

"But only in one case, we can enter the same latitude and meet each other."

Zheng Wanqing suddenly realized: "The otherworld!"

Only when the otherworld is triggered, the four roommates in different dimensions of reality can see each other and exchange information.

Tang Xinjue nodded: "So if we want to find Zhang You and Guo Guo, we can only rely on the otherworld. It's just..."

Before she finished speaking, she glanced at the mirror behind Zheng Wanqing from the corner of her eye, and her voice was slightly lowered: "We can't wait for them in the other world all the time."

The mirror surface was smooth and clean, free of dirt and blood, which means that the normal world was returning, and they have to separate again.

Sure enough, Zheng Wanqing's body became more and more transparent, but she couldn't catch Tang Xinjue with her hand, and only had time to hear the other party's last words.

Tang Xinjue: "Look for Li Xiaoyu!"

Before she entered the otherworld, she saw Li Xiaoyu's ghost form in the restroom mirror, and Zheng Wanqing entered the otherworld because she was chasing Li Xiaoyu.

Li Xiaoyu might be the condition that triggers the otherworld.

As if the slight crackling sound of a broken mirror entered his ears, Tang Xinjue opened her eyes and regained consciousness, and found herself standing in front of the sink.

It was still the restroom on the third floor, without the smell of burnt blood and ghosts. Everything was just an illusion.

The mobile phone on the sink stopped playing at some point, and loud complaints came from the balcony.

"You broke my makeup mirror!" Feng Wan shouted.

"I didn't do it on purpose. It was a bunch of ghostly symbols on the back of the mirror that scared me." Sun Qian quickly explained.

They opened the mirror and saw that there were indeed a bunch of curse words. The two immediately concluded: "This bitch Li Xiaoyu must have done it!"

Feng Wan was so aggressive that she wanted to find someone to settle the score, but she ran into Tang Xinjue who was standing quietly outside.

"..."

Seeing the two of them, a smile appeared on Tang Xinjue's face, and she took the initiative to ask, "Why, is there anything we can't talk about?"

The two looked at each other, rushed over and threw the mirror in front of her, Sun Qian was aggressive: "Talk about it? Keep dreaming! You used to follow us and we tolerate your perverted peeping, but now you dare to go further? Didn't you get beaten enough last time?"

Feng Wan grabbed the phone on the sink: "Do you still want to steal my mobile phone! What a thief!"

Tang Xinjue ignored the quarrel between the two, she closed the toilet door, slammed the lock, and then turned around and asked Sun Qian: "What's the secret about Qian Zhi?"

Sun Qian: "Ah ?”

She was stunned, her eyes flickering: “Li Xiaoyu, I don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t change the subject, wait, why are you locking the door?”

For some reason, Sun Qian suddenly had a bad feeling premonition.

Then, together with Feng Wan, she watched Li Xiaoyu, who was originally hunched and gloomy, straightened her back, with a smile on her face, and pulled out from nowhere a... toilet plunger?

The toilet plunger was smashed down on the sink, and a crisp crack appeared on the porcelain surface immediately.

"From now on, I hope you can answer whatever I ask, instead of waiting for me to do it, which would be a waste of time." Tang Xinjue said calmly.

Sun Qian was stunned for a few seconds. Instinctively stepping back step by step until she reached the cold wall, she shuddered suddenly and gave in instantly: "No, let's talk about it. What do you want to ask?"

"I'll say it, I'll say it all!"

In the restroom, "Sun Qian" rushed into the door, and locked the door behind her backhand, and then took a deep breath.

Flopping to the sink, looking at the face belonging to this body in the mirror, "Sun Qian" pursed her mouth and cried,

"Why am I so unlucky!!"

Guo Guo felt so pitiful.

She suddenly transmigrated into a student in the movie, and all her roommates disappeared. She had to bite the bullet and go through the plot, for fear of falling into a pit sometime.

As a result, after half a day of being cautious, joking around, and trying not to be OOC (Out Of Character), she accidentally discovered a secret, a secret belonging to the supporting role "Qian Zhi".

It doesn't matter if she just discovered the secret, but worse yet, Qian Zhi also discovered this fact at the same time.

Guo Guo wanted to keep joking around, but in the next second, Qian Zhi suddenly changed from a normal male high school student to a vicious one, picking up a knife and chasing her down!

Guo Guo turned pale with shock: "Didn't I just find out that you reported Wang Peng's love letter to the teacher? Is it necessary to kill someone!"

Qian Zhi, who has lost his mind, had become completely unlike a person: "As long as you are still alive, you may tell the secret. I must kill you, so that no one will know it again, hehe." Qian Zhi laughed very nervously: "I even blamed Zhao Mingtao, everyone thought it was Zhao Mingtao."

Guo Guo was very angry: "Why are you still proud? Should I praise you for being awesome?"

Qian Zhi still said to himself: "If found out, both Wang Peng and Zhao Mingtao will come to kill me, so I will kill you and cut off your legs, so that you won't tell the truth..."

"F*ck! F*ck you, did you hear that!"

*Original text 敲里吗 Qiāo lǐ ma literally means knocking in, but it's actually a swear word. It is homonym with 草泥马 Cǎonímǎ, aka grass mud horse / alpaca, which is also homonym to 操你媽 Cāo nǐ mā, which means f your mother.

Guo Guo burst into tears while barely throwing off Qian Zhi's pursuit, and then rushed into the restroom in desperation.

"It's okay, he can't get in, Guo Guo, it's okay, you have to calm down..." She poured water on her face to calm herself down, and Guo Guo began to think about countermeasures frantically.

The yin and yang eyes were useless at this time. Before the exam, out of the desire to survive, most of the protective shields she bought were props. After transmigrating into the movie, she was empty-handed, and now she only had a disposable shield on her body.

"Death record of Class Three..." Guo Guo read the name of the movie in a daze, and wanted to cry again. Now she finally understands why so many people died in Class Three. You all are potential murderers. Who else would die if you all don't die?

Wiping away her tears, Guo Guo held up the water drop pendant on her chest, ready to test herself for good or bad luck.

[Divination: Only those with psychic physique can trigger it, limited to three times a day, 0/3 has been used]

[Very ominous, your life is at stake, please stay vigilant!]

Guo Guo: "!!!"

A drop of red liquid suddenly fell on her hand. She raised her head, and the top of the space had already spread mottled blood. As the wall peeled off, a huge, ferocious scarlet smiling face appeared in the bloodstains.

The smiling face became clearer and more familiar, until Guo Guo suddenly realized: Isn't this Li Xiaoyu!

——that pervert who was so gloomy that she would be terrified at a glance!

Bang, bang, bang

There were slamming sounds from the inner single room and the outer toilet door at the same time, but while the inside seemed to be hit by a body, while the outside... seemed to be sharpened by a machete.

"Ah!!"

Shrieking, Guo Guo ran away, rushed to the window and tried to open the window and jumped from the second floor, but the window couldn't be opened as if it was welded to death.

Qian Zhi came in with strange smile, and the toilet door creaked and shook unbearably. It couldn't last long.

Can't just stand and wait to die. Guo Guo cried and picked up the mop next to her, mustered her resolution for half a minute, and then rushed out the moment the toilet door was knocked open!

The machete brushed past the top of her head and was just blocked by the mop pole. Guo Guo also almost hit the wall of the corridor because she lost her balance. Then she turned quickly, but saw a huge fist coming towards her face— it’s over, my life is over, she thought desperately.

However, in the next second, the fist in front of her turned and hit Qian Zhi's lower body directly. The boy's four legs tightened at the same time, and he let out a painful cry with distorted facial features.

"Let's go!" The visitor stopped, grabbed Guo Guo's arm and ran, galloping up two floors before stopping.

Guo Guo's eyes were blurred with tears, and he sniffed in disbelief: "Feng, Feng Wan?? No, no, you're not Feng Wan..."

"Don't cry! Seeing you cry like this, I know it must be Guo Guo." Zheng Wanqing took two pieces of paper and stuffed them into her hands.

"Da xiaojie*!!" Guo Guo wailed loudly, "You finally found me!!"

*Guo Guo's nickname for Zheng Wanqing, meaning Eldest Miss, since Zheng Wanqing is like a beautiful pampered princess (not)

In the corridor, Zhang You stood with her arms folded, her face tensed, and she had a headache.

Standing in front of her were two wheezing boys. They had just been forced to separate from a fight. Their bodies were bruised and purple, with eyeballs were protruding outwards, and their eyes were red. Obviously, they were not in the normal state.

If it wasn't forced by her status, Zhang You didn't want to stand here and face the two of them in their current state.

Her intuition made her feel danger.

"Dean." One of the boys gritted his teeth and said, "I fight for a reason. Zhao Mingtao copied my handwriting and wrote a fake love letter, and this f*cker also reported it to the head teacher!"

The other boy immediately cursed: "Wang Peng, you fart! I didn't report it before, and you wrote the love letter yourself! Dare to do it but dare not admit it, you are worthless!” After being cursed a few times, Zhao Mingtao was obviously overwhelmed with anger: “You came to spread rumors about me first. You steal the class fee every day to give gifts to the teacher, also going out to eat so we called your parents. I haven't said anything yet!"

"Bah!" Wang Peng cursed without cursing, and the two were about to continue to fight on the spot. Zhang You hurriedly ordered the two to separate.

She observed the two with the eyes of the dean, imitating a dignified tone: "Okay, I will investigate this matter. You go back and wait, I will give a fair judgment. If there is another fight, I will call your parents together! "

The two were silent for a while, Wang Peng spat bitterly and left, leaving only Zhao Mingtao standing where he was. His expression was confused and she didn't know what he was thinking.

"Okay, you can go back too."

Zhang You didn't want to stay here anymore, and turned around in a hurry after explaining. Before she could move her legs, her heart suddenly felt cold.

Her footsteps froze, and she opened her eyes wide.

Turning her head, Zhao Mingtao's ferocious face came into view.

"Teacher, I just remembered that Wang Peng also gave you a gift. You won't be partial to him, right?"

Then he pulled out the knife in his hand and stabbed Zhang You hard!