Let Me Go Get Some Psychological Counseling

The deducers' first day at St. Jonas High School is Thursday, and the scheduled test is next Tuesday, meaning their first visible plot point in this instance is only four days away.

Four days later, the Principal will most likely return to school for the test, and the school will give a preference for graduation quotas based on the test results. Most of the students have already been eliminated, after all, they have lived in the school for three years, and the teachers know their grades almost inside and out.

The transfer students, who are the roles played by the role-players, still have a glimmer of hope. Although their grades in their previous schools have been recorded in their files, no one can know the educational capacity of their previous schools, what happened there, or how well the transfer students have adapted after transferring. Perhaps their grades will improve by leaps and bounds.

Therefore, this test will be a battleground between the school's original top students and transfer students.

After exchanging and summarizing all the key information points in the dormitory on the first night, the second day arrived.

The morning classes were Chinese, Biology, Politics, and History. Yu encountered four more strange teachers at once, each with their own crazy and malicious methods. One classmate unfortunately fell victim to one of them in Biology class and missed three or four classes afterward, and no one knew where he was taken.

At noon, they rushed to the cafeteria to grab food. The students' physical strength was completely insufficient to shake the few deducers who entered this time Wen Qinghuai was an exception; he was carried into the cafeteria by Zhao Yijiu.

To the astonishment of the students, they were the first to grab food at the bird-shaped window, but Qu Xuanqing deliberately veered off course and ended up at the back of the line, barely making it to the back of the bird-shaped window.

As the red-armband-wearing women stormed into the cafeteria, she suddenly frowned in front of one of them and muttered to herself in a voice loud enough for everyone around to hear, "The food here is awful, I'm going to find another place."

Then, amidst the jubilant gazes of those behind her, she voluntarily stepped out of the queue and casually switched to another window. The red-armbanded student who heard her speak stared at her retreating figure, a stiff and eerie smile involuntarily spreading across his lips.

Her actions were also seen by the four strategists who had returned to their seats first after getting their food. Zhao Mou's expression darkened, and he turned to look at Yu Xing, only to find that Yu Xing's expression was normal, as if she had known this would happen all along.

While he breathed a slight sigh of relief, his expression also became much more serious. "What's going on?"

Wen Qinghuai and Zhao Yijiu didn't know either, but one of them wasn't familiar with Qu Xuanqing, and the other rarely showed any change in expression. After hearing Zhao Mou's quiet question, they waited for Yu Xing's answer.

Yu Xing chuckled and shrugged, "She has her own plans, no need to worry too much."

"You're closer to her and can understand her thoughts, but it's not good to always keep things in suspense with us." Wen Qinghuai smiled gently, but her tone carried a hint of disapproval. "We're all in this instance. If we need to cooperate later, and we have no idea what she's thinking, it will cause problems."

"I'll tell you when I get back."

The cafeteria was crowded and noisy, and there was a red armband-wearing officer patrolling very close to them, so it wasn't a good place to talk.

After lunch, as is customary, the students went back to their dormitories for a nap. However, the students were not under much academic pressure and did not stay up all night studying like other students, so they did not need to catch up on their naps at noon. Instead, they wandered around the school, trying to trigger some special events.

With only half an hour left, they went back to their dormitory to change their afternoon textbooks, Yu Xing took the opportunity to tell them his guess about the reason for Qu Xuanqing's unusual behavior.

"She had a rather strange roommate who never appeared in the teaching building. Qu Xuanqing even noticed the unusual behavior patterns of those wearing red armbands on the first day at noon and intentionally imitated them. So I think her roommate was a girl wearing a red armband, but something happened that prevented her from continuing her studies."

As Yu Xing packed up her textbooks, she said fluently, "Then things are relatively simple. There are only a few possible outcomes. As you've probably noticed, the students wearing red armbands are gradually becoming alienated because they ate the food from those suspicious windows in the cafeteria. They still have their own thoughts and abilities now, but if the alienation reaches a certain point..."

"They'll turn into monsters," Zhao Mou replied, because as he listened, the process suddenly felt very familiar—wasn't it exactly the same as what they, the deducers, had envisioned?

As one gets closer to ghosts, Personality Assimilation Degree reaches a certain peak, one will transform from a human into an irreversible monster.

"That's right, there should already be a girl in Qu Xuanqing's dormitory who has turned into such a monster, so she's allowed to skip class. But Qu Xuanqing must have learned some privileges and information about the Red Armband members from this monster. So, when she deliberately behaves abnormally and imitates the Red Armband members, it means..."

Yu Xing packed her textbooks, slung her backpack over her shoulder, and prepared to leave. "She has decided to become a new Red Armband member by gaining the favor of teachers and establishing connections with the Red Armband students."

"Hey, hey..." Wen Qinghuai's expression became conflicted. Hearing Yu Xing's nonchalant tone, he hesitated, wondering about the relationship diagram information he had previously collected. "If she becomes a red armband, wouldn't that just mean her Personality Assimilation Degree will skyrocket in this instance, until she turns into a monster?"

Zhao Mou then discovered the difference between the two. "Wait, that's not quite right either. The Personality Assimilation Degree is the alienation of our spirit. Through spiritual pollution, it turns us into monsters from the inside out. The pollution that the Red Armband members suffer from eating in this instance is physical. Their bodies collapse first because of the incorporation of foreign substances, and then it affects their spirit in turn."

"While this is the normal process of food intake, how can you be sure that the contaminated aura of those ghosts hidden in this food won't directly affect one's spirit?" Wen Qinghuai was very meticulous. "To put it another way, whether it's the spirit or the body first, Qu Xuanqing's fate will be the same!"

"Eh..." Yu Xing had already placed her hand on the doorknob, ready to open the door, when she heard this, she turned around and uttered a single syllable.

Then, with a smile, she comforted him, "It's good to worry, but according to your thinking, is Qu Xuanqing a fool? Would she put herself in such a dangerous situation?"

That's definitely not the case.

Wen Qinghuai answered instinctively in his mind.

She rose to her current strength all by herself, and as a lone wolf, she is the best among everyone in the entire deduction system. How could she possibly make such a mistake?

"She made this decision simply because she realized her unique advantage after discovering the corruption rules of the Red Armband organization." Yu Xing said no more, opened the door and went out. There were still students coming out of other dormitories in the corridor, all preparing to go to the teaching building. For a moment, some noisy sounds broke into the dormitory room with the door open.

"... I get it. She's in the atmosphere, and I'm in the basement." Zhao Mou smirked, adjusted his glasses, and followed her out.

Wen Qinghuai calmed down and said expressionlessly, "I get it now, this is a little secret within your team, right?"

It was obvious that they had information related to Qu Xuanqing, but they didn't want to reveal it to him, an outsider, so they just told him not to worry.

Zhao Yijiu, who was once again simply playing a background role, glanced at him and thought that this statement should be taken for granted.

Only the members of their Broken Mirror Squad knew that Qu Xuanqing's Wicked Grace transformed her soul, sealing her true self into another dimension, while her daily activities were merely those of a shell, manipulated by her soul.

Simply put, a normal person's soul resides within their body, while Qu Xuanqing's soul floats behind the body. A normal person manipulates their body instinctively, but Qu Xuanqing's manipulation of her body requires her soul to pull the body like a puppet. Correspondingly, due to the separation of the soul and body, pain inflicted on the body cannot be transmitted to the soul.

Food contamination of the body will not affect the real Qu Xuanqing. Qu Xuanqing said that no matter how much damage her body suffers, it can be restored as long as there is ghost energy to replenish it.

With this advantage, Qu Xuanqing decided to disguise himself as an affected Red Armband member in the instance, thereby gaining the privileges of the Red Armband members and providing them with another level of support and protection.

However, the only place with privacy and security so far is the dormitory. Qu Xuanqing has not had a good opportunity to tell them about her plans because there are eyes and ears everywhere.

The communication barriers could only be overcome by Yu Xing and her tacit understanding.

This is the core of Qu Xuanqing's ability, and it is also information that must not be leaked now. Otherwise, some desperate deducers who have long wanted to kill Qu Xuanqing but have been puzzled by their inability to do so will definitely find a way to counter this ability.

Wen Qinghuai could not be the exception to this leak; just in case, no one except those in the team could say anything.

"It's rare for me to genuinely worry about my temporary teammates. Our feelings have faded, no, they were never deep at all," Wen Qinghuai muttered to himself, heading towards the teaching building with a heavy heart filled with the sadness of unrequited love.

Yu Xing was unable to attend his afternoon classes as scheduled, because the moment he and Zhao Yijiu stepped into the classroom, the Physics Teacher, who had been waiting for them, looked at them, feigning concern, and inquired about their mental state, before bringing up the matter of psychological counseling.

"The first period is physics, and the second period is your homeroom teacher Johnny's class. I've already spoken with your homeroom homeroom teacher, and I'll make the decision for you. You should go and talk to the Psychology Teacher during the first two periods."

The young Physics Teacher's every word seemed to be pushing them towards becoming Psychology Teacher. His eagerness even made Yu Xing begin to anticipate what lay hidden in the school clinic.

He nodded under the Physics Teacher's intense gaze. "Okay, Sam and I both need counseling from Psychology Teacher. Neither of us slept well last night. The scene we saw in the bathroom kept replaying in my mind. I had a lot of nightmares and woke up several times, and so did he."

Forced to comply, Zhao Yijiu hummed in agreement.

"Then let my physics class representative take you there." The Physics Teacher beckoned to the physics class representative, "You come here, take these two students to the school clinic."

The physics class representative readily agreed, even somewhat pleased, because he wanted to leave his seat whenever he had the chance. He didn't want to sit with his deskmate, whose mouth had been sewn shut and who had become increasingly gloomy and strange. Now, sitting in his seat, he always felt that his deskmate would pull out a knife at any moment.

"Follow me, I know where the school clinic is."

The physics class representative led the two away from the classroom under the silent gaze of many classmates. Zhao Mou leisurely observed the expressions of his classmates and found that these children looked like they were mourning two poor wretches heading to their graves.

Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu followed the physics class representative around and around, and finally arrived at the top floor of the teaching building. When they came up the stairs, he even saw the iron gate leading to the rooftop.

"It's just ahead. You see that... at the end of this corridor? That room with the red paper on the door is the school clinic. You guys, you can go there yourselves. I need to go back to class." The physics class representative led them into the corridor. There were no students on this floor, and it was unusually quiet. The three of them walked very quietly.

Seeing the obvious fear in the physics class representative's eyes, Yu Xing doubted whether he was chosen as the class representative because the teachers thought he was the most timid and his reaction to being scared was the most amusing.

He sighed, not wanting to make things difficult for the student. Although the student had lied during math class out of fear, causing his deskmate to be punished by having his mouth sewn shut, people like him were probably the majority in this school.

"Okay, you should go back to class now," he replied in a remarkably gentle manner.

The physics class representative immediately disappeared.

"... Is this place really that scary?" Zhao Yijiu looked up at the end of the corridor, where there was only one room. The red paper on the door was very eye-catching, and it rustled in the wind.

"Let's go take a look." Yu Xing's voice even brightened, and she strode towards the school clinic.

Zhao Yijiu: "..."

Okay, now that we've met the Psychology Teacher, who knows who might need the counselor's help more?

Amidst the chaotic footsteps of the two, the red paper eerily calmed down and quietly affixed to the door.

"Psychological Clinic." Yu Xing bent down to read the contents of the red paper, "This is a place to consult with students who have psychological problems for various reasons. We are available 24 hours a day."

After he read the words on the paper, the paper was suddenly eroded by black at its four corners and edges, and the entire red paper instantly turned into black paper. Conversely, the black words on the red paper turned into blood-red characters.

Even the words on the paper have become

"If you can't be cured, don't even think about leaving..."