Student Disappearance 1: Other Players' Reactions and Gossip!

In fact.

Chen Han was dumbfounded at this very moment.

Chen Han was given a harsh fright when the female ghost was about to touch him.

Who wouldn't be afraid of a strange entity shedding black tears!

Chen Han was even afraid that she would eat him up!

Therefore, out of excessive panic, he accidentally moved the spoon forward quite a bit.

Fortunately--

Upon hearing the sound made by the spoon, the female ghost immediately pulled her hand back a lot.

Only then did Chen Han heave a sigh of relief.

But just as he was preparing to start eating.

He discovered a terrifying fact.

Which was why on earth green vegetables were buried inside the white rice?!

Chen Han naturally remembered that one of the rules prohibited eating boxed lunches containing green vegetables.

He hadn't expected the rules this time to be so sneaky!

They were actually capable of doing something like burying green vegetables in the rice.

Chen Han had no choice but to dump all the food out, then get back in line to get a new boxed lunch.

Seeing Chen Han act like this, Chen Yinuo looked somewhat puzzled.

"Chen Han, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Han shook his head indifferently.

"There are bugs in this portion of food, I can't eat it, I'm getting another one."

Bullet comments were sent in teasingly.

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter!"

"With Chen Han's acting skills, even someone like me who knows the truth was almost fooled by him!"

"Just how many people could avoid being deceived by that innocent little look?!"

While waiting in line.

Chen Han caught sight of Li Hebing, the lackey who had previously acknowledged him as big brother, and nodded at him to acknowledge his presence.

After all... they were a boss and lackey now, so he might as well say hello!

Upon seeing this, Li Hebing was extremely excited.

He was now completely won over by Chen Han.

Chen Han had given him another veiled hint!

He needed to keep a closer eye on every move Chen Han made from now on.

Following Big Brother Chen Han could not possibly go wrong.

Seeing Li Hebing undergo such a massive transformation, the live-stream chat blew up.

"The streamer is truly badass! Someone who was so arrogant before is now acting like a little lamb!"

"I'm dying of laughter. If Li Hebing didn't still have to maintain his persona, I feel like he'd just run up and plant two kisses right on Chen Han!"

"Speaking through pure strength is just different!"

Right at this moment, the sound of people collapsing came out in unison from several locations in the cafeteria.

There were three players in total, two males and one female.

Needless to say, they definitely had not noticed that green vegetables were hidden inside the white rice.

Therefore, after eating the white rice with green vegetables, they simply fainted on the spot.

The live-stream was also given quite a start.

"Holy shit, it hasn't even been long, and this many people have already collapsed?"

"Big Brother Chen Han is still the badass one, being the first to spot that something was wrong with the white rice!"

"Are they dead directly from this, I wonder?"

"Who knows? Looking at how some of their hands are still twitching, they probably aren't dead yet."

"How come nobody is coming over to help them up?"

After these players collapsed.

Not a single student surrounding them got up to lend a hand.

Instead, they just kept rigidly studying.

Did they have to hold a little booklet and read while eating even during meals?

Everyone in the live-stream audience was utterly baffled.

The other players also didn't dare to help each other up, because nobody else was getting up to assist.

If one stood up at a time like this, wouldn't they very quickly be found out to be acting abnormal?

Moreover, the majority of players in fact had not discovered that green vegetables were hidden within the white rice either.

It was only after watching player after player collapse that they suddenly realized in a flash of insight.

There were actually green vegetables inside the rice!

They all took turns gasping in astonishment and immediately chose to exchange their boxed lunches.

After getting a new boxed lunch, Chen Han returned to his seat and carefully poked through it.

Only after confirming that there truly were no green vegetables did he start eating.

From Chen Han's perspective, the food was actually really quite good.

One meat dish and two vegetable dishes.

The oil was a bit heavy, but there wasn't any other problem.

Although Chen Han carried the Cat Paw Badge and could go without eating or drinking.

Just to be safe, since all the students including the players had come to the cafeteria to eat.

Chen Han ate as well.

Eating it didn't do any harm either.

When Chen Han finished eating, he and Chen Yinuo returned to the classroom together.

Originally, Chen Han thought Chen Yinuo wouldn't wait for him to finish eating; after all, once Chen Han finished swapping his new meal, he still had to eat it.

One way or another, time would add up, and it wouldn't be a small amount.

Chen Yinuo had already finished eating.

Yet he patiently waited for Chen Han to finish eating before getting ready to head back to the classroom together.

To be precise--

He patiently started talking to Chen Han in an endless stream.

The topics primarily revolved around academics--

From the difficulty of major math problems and which detail in the English listening test he failed to notice, causing him to mishear and consequently lose points.

To analyzing different test-formulation approaches of various teachers, how to solve a single problem through multiple methods, and how to maximize time management in the exam hall...

He was simply reviewing the previous few quizzes and exams right there with Chen Han!

Chen Han was dumbfounded.

Chen Yinuo, did you fucking take him for a memo pad?!

What was even more speechless was that this fellow was still holding a physical science formula booklet in his hand in a pretentious manner, glancing at it from time to time.

Anyone who didn't know better would have thought he had been reading the little booklet the whole time.

After all, his mouth hadn't stopped moving for even a single second.

Chen Han maintained his silence the entire time.

this guy's words were numerous and dense, and his speech was extremely rapid.

Even if Chen Han wanted to chime in, he couldn't find a gap to breathe in.

Besides...

He couldn't understand any of it either!

Chen Yinuo was completely immersed in his own art, alright?

In this school, there was no midday break.

The time school let out just now was 12:00.

The afternoon class start time was 12:40.

Which meant that roughly by the time Chen Han finished standing in line and eating, and returned to the classroom to rest for ten-odd minutes.

Afternoon classes would begin all over again.

The live-stream chat also started grumbling.

"This is way too perverted!"

"I pity the students and the size of their psychological trauma."

"No wonder I saw so many students feeling drowsy this morning; so that's why they were sleepy!"

Upon returning to the classroom, Chen Han discovered that most people were sleeping.

There was only this brief moment of rest.

Therefore, most people were sleeping while pinching each other hand-in-hand.

Chen Han shrugged his shoulders.

Because he already possessed the physical enhancements and Cat Paw Badge brought by the system on several previous occasions.

He was naturally brimming with energy; being sleepy was out of the question, and he was even extremely spirited.

He sat back down in his seat.

He heard the person sitting behind him chatting in low tones with his desk mate about gossip.

People who gossiped existed anywhere, even in such a high-pressure environment-loose lips only got looser.

The person sitting behind Chen Han was named Li Zhan, and Li Zhan's desk mate was named Sun Taozha.

Since the cafeteria was already divided into male and female cafeterias, the seating arrangements must certainly consist of boys sitting with boys and girls sitting with girls.

Furthermore, the first and second rows were boys, while the third and fourth rows were girls.

Between the second and third rows, there was also a terrifying red line drawn on the floor from the front of the classroom all the way to the back.

Chen Han thought to himself that since the lines were drawn this clearly.

Why didn't this school just divide itself into a boys' school and a girls' school, and simply unify the teachers by gender as well while they were at it.

However...

Thinking up to this point, Chen Han suddenly discovered a blind spot.

The school's need to strictly demarcate between males and females was essentially to prevent early romantic relationships.

But what if--

Boys got together with boys?

Girls got together with girls?

What then?

Chen Han seemed to have thought of some heaven-shaking matter, and his worldview was currently in the process of generating...

At this moment, Li Zhan was carefully whispering to his desk mate.

"Well, you have no idea, students are disappearing from our school more and more frequently now!"

"Do you know how these students are disappearing?"

Sun Taozha shook his head, indicating he was very puzzled.

"Let me tell you, this piece of gossip is 100% reliable; student disappearances are definitely inseparable from that anonymous suggestion box!"

"Don't look at that anonymous box as if nobody uses it to complain normally; actually, people make submissions during times when nobody's around!"

"Rumor has it that there are Dean's Office spies among us students, comparable to the American CIA, alright!"

"They--they're specifically assigned to catch those who violate the rules. Once these rule-breakers are reported via the anonymous box, they get seized by the people from the Dean's Office!"

Speaking up to this point, Li Zhan deliberately lowered his voice, as if he were deathly afraid that someone else might hear.

"And then they get tortured to death by that bunch of people from the Dean's Office!!"