New Semester

The teleportation was still a blackout, but it seemed to take longer than usual. When Feng Xue woke up again, she was surprised to find that her hand was heavy. Looking down, she found that a School Bag had appeared in her hand.

A commotion arose behind her. Feng Xue turned her head and saw an open iron gate not far away, with the words "XX Higher Experimental Middle School" written in large characters at the top.

"Is it another thought blocking?" Feng Xue muttered to himself, looking at the blurry "xx". But what concerned him more were the men and women walking out of the school gate.

They were dressed in classic blue and white tracksuits, each carrying or holding a large bag of books, and they gathered in twos and threes, chatting as they left.

Feng Xue stood alone in the middle of the road, suddenly feeling out of place.

"This art style feels a bit off! I'd think I'd traveled back to my student days!" Feng Xue muttered to herself, then swiped her finger. Thankfully, the Game Panel appeared.

Game Name: New Semester

Game type: Survival

Mandatory Quest: Survive for 135 days

Optional Quest: Complete a semester's worth of coursework

Game Information: In the golden autumn season, for some reason, you transferred to the fully boarding XX Higher Experimental High School. According to the plan, you will spend an ordinary first semester of your second year of high school here.

"That's it?" Feng Xue looked at the game information, her lips twitching slightly. Then she glanced at herself in the roadside mirror and couldn't help but toss a bag of salt at the top of her lungs.

"Thank goodness I can customize my character's appearance, otherwise if a player in their forties or fifties came to school, they'd be killed right at the start."

Although that's what he said, Feng Xue felt that if the game was really as he imagined, not to mention those in their forties or fifties, even those in their seventies or eighties could sit in class and attend lessons.

"In any case, let's investigate first."

Feng Xue looked at the shops on both sides of the road, her brows furrowing slightly. Compared to the previous game where there wasn't a single living person besides the players, there seemed to be far too many "living people" here.

Although the school looks a bit old, you can see signs of cleaning, and the shops along the road are all open for business. Compared to a haunted school, this place is more like an old town that is out of touch with the times.

Carrying her School Bag, Feng Xue wandered aimlessly along the street and soon arrived at the Air Wall. After walking around this unseen wall, Feng Xue confirmed the area of activity for this mission.

The center of the event was the so-called Higher Experimental High School. Despite its name, it was not very large. It consisted of only a playground covered with plastic turf, a three-story Teaching Building, and a dormitory building. Conservatively speaking, it could accommodate no more than 500 students.

Outside the school, there's really only one street of activity area. There are fewer than ten shops on both sides of the street, all single-story buildings, mostly stationery stores, milk tea shops, and small restaurants. There's also a small bookstore that mainly sells various tutoring books and exercise books. There are no internet cafes, book rental shops, or hotels.

"Tsk tsk, according to the usual pattern, the school should be full of all kinds of ghosts. Boarding school means that once you go in, you can never come out. The only way for the player to survive should be to not go to school and spend half a year in the space of these shops on the outskirts. Moreover, according to the Student Kid, as the game progresses, the ghosts in the game will become more and more sophisticated, so now even these shops on the outskirts are probably not safe... No, they probably weren't safe before either, after all, the shop owners are probably not human."

Feng Xue pondered the basic strategy of the game, but wasn't worried. She casually found a corner and opened her School Bag to check.

The bag contained a lot of things, which was exactly what a high school student would need for school.

However, besides books and notebooks, Feng Xue unexpectedly saw two sets of school uniforms, which saved him the trouble of copying his classmates' uniforms.

Feng Xue took out Santa's sack, spread it out, and emptied all the contents inside. She then began to inspect each item. First, she was certain that none of the items were False Thing or Phantom Object.

The books seemed to be newly printed, still smelling of freshly opened ink, and the exercise books were all those old-fashioned, large notebooks, their quality somewhat questionable.

Feng Xue picked up a copy of "Mathematics 3" and glanced at it, but her brows suddenly furrowed. It wasn't because of any "toxic textbook" or anything like that; it was mainly because of the stamp on it that read—

Approved by the Ministry of Education in 1999

"Is there a problem with the timeline?" Feng Xue reached into her pocket and took out her phone. Although there was still no signal, the date that was automatically synced clearly showed 11:33 AM on August 31, 2001.

"I thought it was to prevent students from becoming addicted to games, but it turns out it's simply because there aren't internet cafes or book rental shops in this day and age?"

Feng Xue tidied up her things, but couldn't find what she wanted most.

Although that thing is almost non-existent for high school students, it is an essential element for Campus Supernatural.

Yes, that's the student code of conduct, or School Rules.

Although this school is far from being a place of supernatural Weird Tale, and you can't even see a Supernatural Tale Fire at a glance, considering the situation with that Big Head Ghost, it's certain that the ghosts here need to meet certain rules to kill people.

However, without Rule Book, predicting the rules becomes quite difficult.

"I really don't want to use brute force!"

Feng Xue sighed and decided to follow the normal student rules for now.

It wasn't that he was deliberately suppressing himself; it was mainly that in his mind, this game had become his possession. Nobody uses an axe to open a door in their own home, right?

"First of all, as a student, you need to have your stationery ready. Well, for the average player, this is probably the first hurdle. After all, this timeline is 2001, and giving them new money might be mistaken for counterfeit and trigger the rules."

However, this was not a problem for Feng Xue, who was like Money Printer. He quickly sorted out the stationery and even bought a set of every kind he could find in order to avoid rules such as "answer sheets must be filled out with 2B pencils", "Exam Paper must be written with blue-black ink", and "homework must be corrected with red pens".

Similarly, although he might not be able to write them, in order to avoid the problem of not being able to go out to buy them due to the full boarding school system, he also stocked up on all the reference books and exercise books he could use in his second year of high school. As a test-taking king who emerged from an era of fierce competition, he was very familiar with all kinds of rules that the school could think of.

After stuffing all sorts of bags into his fanny pack, Feng Xue was slightly surprised that he hadn't Ghost Encounter yet, but then he thought about it again and could only sigh.

He didn't Ghost Encounter, not because ghosts don't kill people on the first day, but because all his actions conformed to what a student should do at the New Semester. Conversely, would those players who didn't do these things be attacked?

"Good heavens, isn't this a bit like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs?"