Since it was evening self-study, the classroom was exceptionally quiet.
Or rather, not just the classroom—in this special time slot, the entire school was deathly silent, so quiet one could hear a needle drop to the floor.
However, along with the creaking sounds coming from the overhead light tubes, all kinds of noises began to emerge from the previously silent classroom.
Because power outages happened every so often during evening self-study, candles were one of the essential items every student at Yiyang Middle School kept on hand.
Some of the diligent top students had even taken out their candles from their desks in advance and made preparations beforehand.
As the saying went, habit became second nature. Based on their experience, once the creaking overhead began, a school-wide blackout would occur in roughly one or two minutes.
The school rules had to be obeyed. Those who broke them would encounter something very frightening.
For a minor matter like lighting candles during a nighttime blackout, if a student failed to successfully light their candle within one minute after the power went out, they would be politely invited out of the classroom by the Teachers patrolling the corridors.
...And after that?
They would never appear at the school again. It was said that they had been politely expelled by the school.
Because of this, after every unexpected blackout during evening self-study, a dozen or so unlucky students would permanently disappear from the school.
No one thought this was abnormal. In the minds of the students at this school, as students of Yiyang Middle School, they had to strictly abide by every rule of the school.
Failing to follow the rules or breaking them and thus being expelled by the school was the most normal thing in the world.
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