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If one had to pick someone in Class 13 who hated Situ An and the east city investigation centre the most, that would have to be Gao Ming. His eyes were practically glowing with the hope that his classmates would fight the teacher who represented Situ An’s rules.

Since the student council was busy, Gao Ming had the time to deal with Situ An. His classmates might just want to ruin Situ An’s rules, but Gao Ming wanted to find Situ An and trap him in his heart. Gao Ming’s gaze turned dangerous as he stared at the depressed female teacher.

Xi San, who sat beside Gao Ming, was ready to move too. He adjusted his position and silently extended his leg. He was ready to trip the teacher when she passed by him. Ji Jie led the class to go around the class rules. The student council members didn’t appear. The silence in the corridors formed a great contrast to the chaos in the classroom.

“As a teacher, you don’t give your students the correct guidance. No wonder this school is ruled by the student council.” Ji Jie came from a poor family. He had no talent for studying or making money. He had a straightforward personality and would inadvertently rub people the wrong way. Outside this haunted school, he needed to spend a lot of money to appear presentable. However, in the school, he had something other people didn’t for the first time: a very scary ghost had appeared behind him. His normal life became special. He morphed from the common majority into the shining minority. Carrying a ghost on his back should be something horrifying, but for Ji Jie, this was the first time he had something other people didn’t.

The moment he gained this ‘fortune’, something in Ji Jie’s heart started to grow. He believed he had obtained something other people didn’t. He not only had to enjoy the jealousy from others but he also had to shoulder the responsibility. It was his given rights. Since he had always been common, Ji Jie cared more about the common majority.

“You don’t seem to understand what’s happening.” The students were aggressive. The female teacher’s face was so dark. She took out a pure white box from under the podium. The following was written on it: Voting Box.

When they had the first poll, they also used a wooden box. However, Gao Ming remembered that the box from yesterday turned red and was moved away by the female teacher.

“I’ll put the box here. If there’s only one person who votes, then his votes will be the results.” The female teacher memorised Ji Jie’s face. “The voting starts now!”

“As long as none of us votes, then we can fix the mistake we’ve made in the past.” Yuan Hui shouted. His lips cracked, and his gum was stained with blood. It was hard to tell what had happened to him at the office building. “We’ve made the great mistake once already! We can’t vote again!” Yuan Hui’s voice was loud. His classmates were deep in thought. As for the people from Ma Tao’s bedroom, they all sat quietly and looked at Ji Jie with appreciation.

Ji Jie didn’t come to class yesterday, so he had no idea that Ma Tao’s bedroom had been taken over by ghosts. He merely thought that they looked at him with respect.

“What a waste of time.” Zuo Jun gripped his pencil tightly. He wanted to cast his vote, but he knew that would attract a lot of attention. If he were not careful, the whole class might vote for him to die.

“If you don’t vote, you’ll lose the chance to leave on the bus, and every one of you will be trapped here.” The female teacher’s voice slowly changed to become more emotionless and icy.

The situation was similar to what happened ten years ago. Perhaps this was the culprit’s goal all along. They had to vote to survive. Would they sacrifice the minority to live or stay in the darkness forever?

“There’s no need to sacrifice our whole class for three ghosts, right?” Qian Junran was confused. “If we can’t tell who the ghosts are, then I can understand the hesitation. After yesterday’s event, we can tell for sure who the ghosts are, so why are we still holding back?”

“Everyone needs to calm down to think about this…”

“There’s no need to take risks. You only need to vote out the enemies.”

The students had varying reasons. The female teacher smiled wickedly. She suddenly wrote down a string of numbers on the blackboard. “I know some of you are shameless, cowardly, weak and cunning. You do not dare to come forward to drop your votes. In that case, you can use your phone to message the name of the person you want to vote for, and I will cast the votes for you.” The female teacher put her phone on the podium. In less than a few seconds, her phone vibrated. The teacher picked it up and looked at it. Then, she took the paper and pen, wrote down three names and tossed the paper into the box. The pure white box took on a bit of blood. The blood was like a signal. From then on, the female teacher’s phone wouldn’t stop vibrating. Everyone stared at the phone on the podium. It became something horrifying. The vibration pulled at everyone’s hearts. Yuan Hui and Ji Jie wanted to stop this, but clearly, they had failed. There were ghosts, good people, bad people, outsiders, insiders and solvers who were wrestling for control.

The voting had started. Ma Tao and the other ghosts started to vote too. To survive, the ghosts voted for each other. They only hoped that their votes would be less than the other ghosts.

As more votes entered the wooden box, the box became bloodier and bloodier. The teacher’s eyes shone with excitement. She stared at the box like she wanted to crawl into it.

“There are 50 votes in total. So many of you claimed that you wouldn’t vote, but after I offered you another method, all of you raced to cast your votes. In the future, we’ll adopt this voting method.” The box was fully red. The female teacher wrote down the votes every student had won on the blackboard to divide the class further.

The winners with the most votes were all from Ma Tao’s room. Fatty was ranked second. Ma Tao was lucky enough to be fourth. Zuo Jun had the fifth most votes. Zuo Jun was up there among the group of ghosts. It showed how many people hated him. Wang Jie and Xi San’s names were on the board too. There were six votes to kill Wang Jie. In contrast, Gao Ming had no vote at all. Even Xi San had two votes.

“It looks like I’ve shown my value in the art class. Keeping me alive will raise everyone’s survivability.” To survive, even Qian Junran, who despised Gao Ming, didn’t vote for him.

Hugging the bloodred box, the female teacher’s dark expression disappeared to be replaced by perverted joy. “You’ve made your choice to sacrifice the minority to save the majority. I hope all 51 students present will survive until the end and leave the school.” The female teacher only had eyes for the red box. She carried the box and left the classroom.

Seeing the names on the blackboard, the students stopped arguing. After the voting became anonymous, preventing people from voting became impossible.

“With each poll, you’ll be closer to death!” Yuan Hui pointed at Zuo Jun, “The tragedy is repeating itself. This is what he and the person behind him want to see. This traitor!”

“You have no right to accuse me.” Zuo Jun walked towards Yuan Hui after the teacher left.

“What do you plan to do?” Ji Jie and the others stood up, but they were too weak to stop Zuo Jun. Without using much strength, Zuo Jun shoved them away and grabbed Yuan Hui’s phone. After he forced Yuan Hui to unlock the phone, he showed everyone the messages on his phone. Yuan Hui also chose to trick the 51st student to come to the tunnel.

“I regret that!”

“What’s the use of regret?” Zuo Jun tossed the phone away casually and grabbed Yuan Hui by his collar. “You know very well what you need to do to survive. Stop acting!” Zuo Jun dropped Yuan Hui on his chair and looked at everyone. “You’ve attended the other classes yesterday. Compared to the school classes, the programs assigned by the centre are there to help you survive.”

“That’s not true.” Gao Ming folded his empty ballot paper. “There was a flood at the activity centre, and we were almost killed in the art room. Whenever we were in danger, it was the student council who rushed to save us.”

“What is your point?” Zuo Jun hated Gao Ming’s tone.

“If the student council wanted to kill us, they didn’t have to save us and repair the activity build and the art room. Therefore, the culprit has to be someone else.” Gao Ming was a psychiatrist who was good at playing with hearts. “No accidents happen during the centre’s classes, but accidents happen in every single class arranged by the school?! Don’t you think that is too much of a coincidence? Is someone trying to frame the school?”

“That’s nonsense!” Zuo Jun’s pupils narrowed. He also didn’t know why those classes became so dangerous.

“You’re right.” Xi San seemed to remember something. “The female teacher forced us to vote, and she’s from the investigation centre. Could it be that the investigation centre has been sending their teachers to harm us during classes held by the school? It has always been the investigation centre that wanted to kill us!”

“There are only two forces who are capable of creating accidents: Teachers with the teacher’s ID and the student council…” With the reminder from Gao Ming, they looked at Zuo Jun with increasing hostility. The students kept Zuo Jun so they could get info from him and find out the truth. As their understanding of the school improved, Zuo Jun’s existence became a thorn.

At that moment, the front and back doors opened. Investigators in centre uniforms and teacher’s IDs appeared. They had dull expressions like they were being controlled. Killing three ghosts was a good thing for Class 13, so most of them kept silent.

“Let me go! I just came this morning!” Fatty cried helplessly. He hadn’t even finished his breakfast, and he was finished by others.

He kept struggling, but no one came to his aid. Even Ma Tao, who sat beside him, said nothing.

“They came to capture the ghosts today, but they might come to capture humans tomorrow. It could be you or me.” Ji Jie moved to shut the classroom doors. “We voted out the dead?! I’ve never seen something so absurd! If none of you is willing to say anything, I’ll be the first to stand out!”

“That’s right! Why should we listen to the investigation centre?” Xi San said timidly, “Even ghosts are walking around us, and we still have to listen to them?! Are they crazy?”

“The investigation centre is slowly adjusting us to their increasingly-difficult demands to achieve their secret goal. Have you forgotten who was the one who tricked us into coming to this school? Who disrupted our normal lives? Who forced us to do these things?” Gao Ming was different from Yuan Hui and Zuo Bo. His emotions were even.

“If they are really out to protect us, they wouldn’t put us in danger in the first place; Since they don’t care about us, why would we allow them to control us?” There were many ways to solve a conflict, and one of them was to escalate the conflict.

For now, Situ An’s rules only wanted to kill three ghosts, but Ji Jie and Gao Ming injected them with the idea that if this were allowed to continue, the investigation centre would eventually kill all of them.

Gao Ming was the only active-duty doctor. When he saw that no one voted for him, he decided to come out to control the situation.

As the investigators walked towards Gao Ming, Ji Jie at the door spoke up again. “Gao Ming, back away. Don’t stand in front of me or you might get scared.”

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