While the Female Teacher was floating on air from Jiang Liyue's flattery, Jiang Liyue picked up the white candle from the desk and left the classroom.
The Female Teacher saw Jiang Liyue's action of casually snatching the candle; she paused for a moment and immediately turned her head one hundred and eighty degrees.
She didn't see it, she didn't see anything at all!
After all, this cute student had praised her for being beautiful!
The Female Teacher held her face in her hands and withdrew her gaze in a good mood, but her eyes became terrifying again when she looked at the others in the classroom.
[Writing up to here, I hope readers can remember our domain name. It's super convenient to find good books on Taiwan Novel Network.]
Someone saw that Jiang Liyue had actually left the classroom so smoothly and immediately wanted to imitate her: "Teacher, I also want to hand in my paper early."
But the Female Teacher only walked gloomily up to him: "You want to hand in your paper early too?"
The person shuddered in fear, thinking, your attitude wasn't like this just now! Is it just because I didn't praise her?
The man thought about it and, facing the Female Teacher's unbearable face, praised her seriously: "Teacher, you are really beautiful."
Unexpectedly, the Female Teacher's face suddenly became even gloomier: "Are you harassing the teacher, student?"
The man's face collapsed: "No, no, that's not how it worked just now!"
The Female Teacher expressed that a cute little girl's praise could not be the same as food opening its mouth to praise.
***
After Jiang Liyue left the classroom, she casually stuffed the white candle into her pocket.
The first man to be eaten was because his candle went out; perhaps this candle is some kind of protective item.
Jiang Liyue didn't know that after she left the classroom, someone tried to imitate her by handing in the paper early and was eaten instead.
She didn't blindly think of handing in the paper early; in fact, the Female Teacher never said at the beginning that one couldn't hand in the paper early.
When she first entered the Game Context, Jiang Liyue had been prompted that she was just a student and only needed to follow what a student should do.
She finished the exam without affecting it; handing in the paper early was something a student could do, so of course it wasn't a violation.
Since staying in the examination hall would become increasingly dangerous, Jiang Liyue naturally chose to hand in her paper early and leave the dangerous place.
Coming out of the classroom, the outside was pitch black, with low-brightness streetlights in the corridor, and mottled red marks could be seen on the walls.
Faintly discernible words like [Die], [Help], and [Run] could be seen.
A faint smell of old dust was in the air, as if no one had been here for a long time.
There was no sound in the entire campus except for the wind; even the chewing sounds from the examination hall had disappeared.
It seemed that the twelve o'clock the Female Teacher mentioned for going to the Academic Affairs Office was midnight.
Well, since it's a supernatural school, having classes in the middle of the night is quite reasonable.
The examination hall was at the end of the floor, with no stairs nearby; Jiang Liyue guessed the stairs were at the other end of the corridor.
There was no clock, and she didn't know what time it was; she only knew the Female Teacher said the Academic Affairs Office was on the first floor, so she had to go there now.
Suddenly, a deep male voice came from behind: "Student, it is now exam time, why are you here?"
Jiang Liyue turned her head and found it was actually a boy in a school uniform.
The moment she saw his face, her first reaction was: what a handsome ghost!
Even in the entertainment industry, she had never encountered a handsome man of this level.
The boy was tall and lean, with the thinness of youth; the simple school uniform fit him perfectly. His features were well-defined, his skin very pale, but his lips were bright red.
She didn't know if it was because of the overhead lights, but Jiang Liyue found his eyes to be pitch black and exceptionally deep, staring at her without blinking.
At this moment, the livestream, which had been focused on the bloody scenes in the classroom, switched its view to outside.
[What's going on? Why did the scene change suddenly? I'm only halfway through my meal!]
[It's this person appearing early!!]
[It's actually this one. It's over; the little human is truly finished this time.]
[Didn't he usually appear at the end? Why did he show up right at the beginning this time?]
[Is it because my waifu handed in her paper early that she ran into him?]
[Wait, can't someone give a hint? Who exactly is this? Isn't he just a slightly handsome pretty boy?]
[For viewers watching Xingfu Middle School for the first time, let me introduce: this is Pei Ji, the Student Council President of Xingfu Middle School, the Final Boss of this Game Context, and a terrifying existence who single-handedly dragged the completion rate of this Game Context down to 5%.]
[To add, he once had a record of killing ten players in the last five minutes of a Game Context; the 5% completion rate is only because he fell asleep that day.]
[My heart is dead. Is my fresh and lovely new waifu going to be gone just like that?]
Jiang Liyue didn't know who the boy was, nor did she know where he came from since there was clearly no path behind her.
Anyway, at this time and place, he certainly wasn't human.
And with looks like that, based on Jiang Liyue's experience acting in so many TV dramas, he couldn't possibly be a nameless NPC in the Game Context.
She lifted her small face, her voice sweet as she smiled and said, "Student, I handed in my paper early."
"So that's how it is." The boy took a step forward; with the light behind him, only his silhouette was visible, and his shadow seemed to envelop Jiang Liyue.
Jiang Liyue could feel the intense and scorching gaze he fixed upon her.
She smiled again, her tone carrying a bit of pride: "The questions weren't actually that hard; I finished them in just a few strokes."
Anyway, they were all multiple-choice questions, and she was best at those.
"Mhm." The boy slowly looked down at her and brushed past her.
Just as he had walked two steps away, Jiang Liyue suddenly called out to him: "Student, can you take me to the Academic Affairs Office?"
The already dim lights in the corridor flickered due to unstable voltage, preventing Jiang Liyue from seeing the flash of crimson in his eyes.
"Sure." He replied in the same voice.
Jiang Liyue was very happy.
She knew that generally, except for the last day of a Game Context, supernatural entities had to follow certain rules to kill people in the early stages.
As long as one didn't violate a taboo, it wasn't that easy to lose one's life. This Supernatural Entity clearly had no intention of eating her, so she naturally wanted to make use of him.
Regardless of what she thought inside, Jiang Liyue still maintained the appearance of a warm and innocent good student: "Then thank you so much, student."
She leaned in to thank him and noticed that a hint of a blush had actually appeared on his originally pale face, though his tone remained serious: "You're welcome."
A bit cute, Jiang Liyue blinked.
Not sure, let's keep watching.
The two walked side by side in the dim corridor. Jiang Liyue ignored the messy blood-red graffiti on the walls and took the initiative to speak to him: "Student, I'm Jiang Liyue. What's your name?"
"Pei Ji," the boy said in a deep voice.
"Pei Ji?" Jiang Liyue nodded. "I'll remember that, Student Pei."
She didn't notice that when she spoke his name, his body trembled slightly with excitement.
She also didn't know that after they left the corridor, a man and a woman appeared outside the examination hall.
The boy watched helplessly as Pei Ji took the initiative to talk to Jiang Liyue and even led her further away; he was currently stuffing his eyeballs, which had popped out from fright, back into his eye sockets.
He chattered incessantly: "Wait, why did Boss just go out like that? Does he want to eat that human? That human really smells good, I like her so much..."
The girl's hair was long and trailed on the ground, covering her entire face.
She lifted her hair, revealing a pale face where the flesh seemed to have been torn apart and sewn back together piece by piece, with maggots crawling under the skin.
She rolled her eyes: "Idiot."
If Boss really wanted to eat someone, would he go through all this trouble?
He doesn't need to care about any rules; who has ever seen him say a single word of nonsense to a human?
Clearly, Boss has taken a liking to that human, yet you still dare to try and snatch someone from him.
However, she still sniffed the air secretly, intoxicated by the scent, and cried in her heart.
Wuu wuu wuu, such a fragrant human. Boss is eating so well; when can I become a Boss too?