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“Playing the piano, what nonsense are you saying?”
Ning Xiuli’s face was full of doubt, “There’s no piano music in here, I can only hear you arguing noisily.
Ning Xiuli’s expression was extremely unsightly. She felt that this child was quite crafty, spouting out lies right in front of her, so she intended to immediately teach him a good lesson.
But right when she raised her hand, Bai Yan quickly said, “Teacher, I’m not lying, Lin Miaomiao is inside playing the piano right now. If you don’t believe me, you can go in and see!”
Bai Yan said this aggravatedly, causing Ning Xiuli to lower her arm, deciding to believe him for now.
After proving her authority this morning, she didn’t believe that there would be a student who would dare disobey her.
As a result, she stood by the door frame and probed her head in, and sure enough, she saw a little girl and a man sitting in front of a piano, their little and large hands hovering over the black and white keys, continuously landing on them.
Both the girl’s and the man’s bodies were sitting askew, as though their spines were slanted and were sitting in uncomfortable positions, which could make anyone who saw them feel a shiver down their spines.
The light in the utility closet was quite dim, and adding to the fact that all the items in the closet were covered with a layer of dust, the entire room’s hue was a dull gray color.
However, even though a ball was covered in dust, it still didn’t completely cover up its original red color.
The brightly colored cans, ripped-up wallpaper, as well as the shabby guitar… With the dust settling over them, their original color still existed, adding a small splash of color to the room.
In contrast to the items here, the two people sitting particularly stood out——
The two people’s clothes were normal, but a strange ashy color penetrated their skins, looking similar to an old discolored photo, a picture of two people who were playing the piano that had died long ago.
Ning Xiuli understood everything in an instant.
‘Why wasn’t there any music from the piano?’
‘Music played by the dead was naturally soundless!’
With a glance, Ning Xiuli had distinguished their identities.
They were ghosts!
They must be ghosts!
Ning Xiuli’s breaths stopped. Nearly screaming, she closed the door, using the key to lock the door tightly shut, before releasing a breath as though she was relieved of a heavy burden. However, fear deeply etched in her eyes was still there, and her face still contained a fright that was impossible to get rid of.
Ning Xiuli retreated a few steps back, seeing a standing Bai Yan at the side and realizing that she had forgotten herself in front of this little b*stard. Her lingering fear immediately transformed into rage, so she raised her palm high, benevolently giving it to this dead child. The slap on the face caused him to stumble, causing her heart to feel a bit more steady.
Seeing the emerging red mark on Bai Yan’s face, Ning Xiuli immediately felt a whole lot better, her heart thinking that hitting these dead children was a great way to relieve her stress.
After hitting him once, Ning Xiuli’s heart still wasn’t content and wanted to hit him a few more times, but she didn’t have her pointer with her. She was afraid of killing him without the pointer in her hand, so she could only resentfully let it go, sneering coldly, “What are you waiting for? Quickly go to the office and get me some tape and scissors! Hurry! Be late for even a minute, and I’ll bestow you another slap!”
Bai Yan covered his burning face, and without a sound, he obeyed Ning Xiuli’s command and ran to the office.
To get to the office, he needed to pass through the portrait of the headmistress.
As he ran through the corridor, the headmistress’s eyes also followed him, with a kind smile still hanging on her face, but only a tad bit weirder than last time.
On Bai Yan’s way to the office, Ning Xiuli stood in the empty corridor, all alone, a sense of danger fully consuming her body——
Just working in the ‘Special District’ for only a day, she had already encountered numerous ghosts. Will she truly get out of here alive?
Moreover, the girl playing the piano with her back in front of her was Lin Miaomiao, and she was deeply impressed by the girl to who she had given two lashes.
Early on, she had already known that ‘Special Districts’ had ghosts, but she didn’t think that when these dead kids die in the ‘Special District’, they would unexpectedly turn into ghosts too!
‘Was this really a separate phenomenon, or if a person died, one more ghost would be added?’
Thinking that after a few days, she would be standing on the platform giving a lecture, and below the platform were a bunch of blue-faced kids, gloomily ‘attending’ her lecture, Ning Xiuli was immediately covered in cold sweat.
“No, it can’t be. They won’t turn out like this. This was this dead child’s own bad luck that made her turn into a dead toy! If the other children die, then they’ll die and won’t come back to life! They are sons of b*tches trash, even their own b*tch mothers don’t want them. With this group of trash, there’s still this matter of turning into ghosts?!”
Ning Xiuli gritted her teeth and reviled curses, her heart feeling a sudden spell of weakness, her gut turning green from regret.
If she knew this before, she wouldn’t have spent that much money!
When Ning Xiuli was in university, she got into the bad habit of vanity. She enjoyed dressing in luxury items, enjoying the envious looks given to her by the women her age.
The jealousy from those ghosts made her want to continue, giving her a sense of superiority over them. Every time she raised her head and walked past a group of shabbily dressed students, she couldn’t describe how elated she was, wanting to chase this wonderful pleasure even more.
As a result, she became increasingly obsessed with designer bags as well as all kinds of famous clothing labels. With her ordinary family background, she naturally didn’t have much cash to spare.
She already did her best to beat and scold the two old coots at home, even squeezing out a large amount of money from their hands. But, these two old money bags’ savings completely couldn’t support her lavish spending.
So, out of desperation, she could only suffer and put the two geezers into a muddle-headed state inside a car, tearfully weaving the illusion of a car accident and getting her hands on the large insurance payout from swindling the insurance company.
However, a person’s greed could never be fully satiated.
The insurance payout was already enough for one person to live a prosperous life until a ripe old age, but due to her extravagant squandering, this money was also quickly spent.
Without money, she couldn’t purchase the latest clothes nor purchase the newest designer bags.
Ning Xiuli was at an impasse but begrudgingly gave up her extravagant interests.
However, her parents had long been dead, and she couldn’t make her parents die once more, to continue making her money.
Seeing that she couldn’t afford to buy the newest clothes, the people she used to look down on were mocking her.
Ning Xiuli gritted her teeth in rage and simply applied for numerous credit cards to keep up with the latest trends, which finally supported her for a time as she maintained face.
Unfortunately, good things never last, and not long after, she was blacklisted from many banks, forbidding her to borrow money from them again.
She was bare. Money, loan sharks, offering to sell her body… she used every kind of trick in her book, so falling from grace was only to be expected.
Soon, she fell into the abyss, not able to pay the loan sharks after exhausting all her means.
The loan sharks were all evil-hearted characters, and once they were sure that she couldn’t pay them, they began to cruelly collect her debt.
They sold off all of her branded clothes and bags, making her feel as though her heart was being cut out of her chest, suffering a pain that was heavier than her parents’ deaths.
Yet, this wasn’t the end. The group of loan sharks disliked that she was earning money too slowly, so they signed her up to work in a ‘Special District.’ At that time, she was almost beaten to death and readily agreed since she couldn’t take it anymore. But right now, she would rather take a beating every day than spend one more minute in this ‘Special District.’
As she was lost in thought, Bai Yan came back staggering with tape and scissors at hand.
Ning Xiuli took the scissors and looked at the weak little boy, her heart full of evil intentions.
Those bitter memories made her feel fidgety, leading her to want to jam the scissors into this little boy’s eye right now, torturing him properly.
But, she was afraid, afraid that she would accidentally kill someone. So, she could only seize the scissors and cut the boy’s face, leaving a bloody wound.
“Too slow! Where the hell did you go after running for a long time?”
With regards to the six-year-old child, his speed was already quite fast. However, Ning Xiuli didn’t care about this. Her wanting to find faults and scold kids wasn’t that simple, she didn’t need a reason to conveniently beat a kid up.
Pointing at his nose and stopping to scold the boy, Ning Xiuli felt a bit better.
She pulled on the tape and sealed the door while being on edge.
She knew that this wouldn’t work, but she still held onto her wishful thinking, trembling in fear as she stuck it to the door.
Ning Xiuli considered finding another teacher tomorrow to nail wooden boards on the door, trapping the two ghosts inside the utility closet.
Thinking about this, she heaved a breath when she looked at Bai Yan.
If it weren’t for these dead kids being too young to be useful, she wouldn’t need to use her own body to fight and be in imminent danger as she stuck the tape on herself?
Needless to say, she gave another slap on Bai Yan’s face, making Bai Yan feel at a loss—— What did I do wrong?
Ning Xiuli’s hitting people was actually too casual and on a whim, so Bai Yan couldn’t figure out the pattern.
Since Bai Yan was accustomed to the pain, he didn’t cry.
His calm and collected demeanor made Ning Xiuli’s mood worsen.
Seeing Ning Xiuli’s expression becoming unsightly, there was an inkling that she would hit him until he cried, which set off alarm bells in Bai Yan’s mind. So before her brain could fully react, his body obediently squeezed out two tears from his eyes, following the example of the other children crying, and began to sob in silence.
He didn’t dare cry out loud, and as expected, it pleased Ning Xiuli.
However, although Ning Xiuli stopped slapping his face, she still didn’t let him go.
‘Even though this dead child has no use, since he’s six years old, can’t he still do household chores?’
So, Ning Xiuli used a commanding tone to say, “Every day after eating dinner, go to my personal office and clean it up. I want it spotless! If I see even a strand of hair on the floor, I’ll tear your skin off, do you hear me?”
“I understand, Teacher Ning.”
A weak little arm was no match for a thigh. Being confronted by Ning Xiuli’s power, Bai Yan, a weak and small child, could only yield to her.
After closing the metal door, it was also almost time for afternoon classes.
According to the ‘Special District’s’ requirements, the students’ schedules needed to be arranged based on the timetable, without missing a class.
Although Ning Xiuli felt that this was simply just to eat one’s fill, this group of dead kids wouldn’t be able to get out of here with the knowledge they would gain, it was a waste of time to teach.
But, she couldn’t rebel against the ‘Special District.’ She was the same as a dog standing in front of the loan sharks. No matter how many ridiculous requirements there were, she had to strictly carry out the instructions, unable to act for herself in this aspect.