Liu Gaomei's expression looked very calm, but her tone faintly carried a trace of murderous intent.
That made sense.
Faced with such a situation, any normal teacher who cared deeply about their students' academic progress would definitely be angry.
“As a teacher, I am truly shocked. After all, our school is the best high school in Lingyang City, and the students we admit are always the most outstanding.”
She had barely said a few sentences when a flurry of footsteps echoed from outside the door.
A moment later, a middle-aged man opened the classroom's front door and glanced inside.
“Teacher Liu, these people behind me should be students from your class. I caught them wandering around outside just now, so I'm delivering them to you.”
Zuo Lin'an turned to look and found that this man was the grade director, and several figures were standing behind him.
The grade director occasionally patrolled the academic area. Finding so many students wandering around during evening self-study meant he would definitely bring them back; it was his job.
Zuo Lin'an's mind raced as an idea struck him. He turned his head and glanced directly at Xu Youyou, who was sitting behind him.
Noticing his gaze, Xu Youyou was stunned for a moment. Then, his eyes darted around, and he immediately caught on, flashing him an “OK” hand gesture.
These players who had to be brought back by the grade director were undoubtedly both foolish and weak. He would have Xu Youyou memorize their faces first. Once they entered the Scarlet Dream, he would have him target and kill these players first.
Liu Gaomei clicked her high heels as she walked outside, her sharp gaze sweeping over the students standing behind the director.
“Thank you for your trouble, Director.”
“It's no trouble. I'll leave them to you to handle. I still have other students to deliver over on my end.”
The grade director quickly left. Liu Gaomei was in no mood to scold anyone right now and simply pointed into the classroom.
“All of you, get inside. Do you need me to personally invite you?”
A total of thirteen people walked inside, all looking thoroughly deflated.
They slouched, hung their heads, and shuffled in with tiny steps.
They looked incredibly tense, not even daring to raise their heads to look at anyone.
After entering, they merely cast cautious glances around the classroom and then stood frozen in place.
Liu Gaomei sighed upon seeing this. She asked for their names one by one and then settled them all in according to the seating chart.
During the process, she even discovered that someone had sat in the wrong seat.
After a brief chaotic scramble, the classroom finally quieted down once more.
Liu Gaomei frowned, her face etched with exhaustion.
“Alright, everyone, put down whatever you're doing. I have a few things to say.”
First, she casually picked up a piece of chalk and wrote her name on the blackboard.
“This is my name. Remember it. In the future, you can just call me Teacher Liu, or simply Teacher.”
“Today is the first official day of school. Although we only have evening self-study, I still hope you will seriously preview the upcoming lessons.”
As she spoke, she wrote a list of classes on the far right of the blackboard.
In the morning: Chinese, Chinese, English, English. In the afternoon: Mathematics, Mathematics, Science, Science.
There were eight classes in total each day, plus evening self-study.
Even though the textbooks were for Grade Three, the class schedule was exactly like a high school's.
“From Monday to Friday, classes will be held according to this schedule.”
“As for Saturday, that will be exam day. This score will be closely linked to your subsequent class placement. It is extremely important, so I hope you will all take it seriously.”
“If your grades are too poor, you won't receive the school's focused cultivation when the time comes.”
Liu Gaomei babbled on and on from the podium.
“By the way, evening self-study starts at six and ends at nine. The dormitory lights go out at ten in the evening. Make sure you all remember this!”
“Also, during evening self-study, seven to seven-ten, and eight to eight-ten are break times. Pay attention to balancing work and rest.”
“Finally, I hope a situation like tonight's will never happen again.”
She spoke for so long, yet only the players actually took her words to heart. As for the NPC students, they only pretended to pay attention, letting it go in one ear and out the other.
As she kept talking, her enthusiasm flared up again. She rambled on until seven-thirty before finally leaving the classroom, looking as though she hadn't quite said her fill.
Once Zuo Lin'an saw the teacher leave the classroom, he finally tossed the pen he had been holding for show onto his textbook. Then, he slumped directly onto his desk, clearly intending to sleep.
As for Xu Youyou, he looked around, then quietly stood up and slipped out through the classroom's back door, his purpose unknown.
There were only a hundred student NPCs in the entire dungeon, divided evenly among twenty classes, which meant each class only got five. Thus, to the players, the five native students in their class were precious rarities.
Xu Youyou's departure naturally drew the attention of many players.
Many wanted to follow him, but they also knew this was a dungeon. While the natives could wander around at will, they could not. Consequently, they could only silently speculate on the purpose of Xu Youyou's excursion.
At this moment, Xuan Yi, who was sitting in front of Zuo Lin'an, tilted his head slightly toward Xuan Jingyuan.
“Master, should your subordinate go out and look for the school rules?”
“Earlier, when Xuan Er was moving back and forth between the dormitories and the cafeteria, and when your subordinate was walking around this academic building, we spotted several school rules in various places.”
“For instance, the precautions posted on a certain wall in the dormitory building, the signs in the cafeteria urging against wasting food, and also inside this building...”
He briefly recounted some of his findings.
“Your subordinate believes these should all be school rules. For safety's sake, we should gather all of them, or at least collect all the ones we can see.”
Xuan Jingyuan pondered for a moment, then raised his head to look at the clock hanging on the front wall of the classroom.
They hadn't recognized this device in the past, but after entering dungeons many times, they would inevitably come into contact with it.
Moreover, in this National War Dungeon, there was also a partial infusion of common sense and memories related to this dungeon. At the very least, they now had a clear understanding of clocks.
After seeing the time displayed on it, Xuan Jingyuan did not immediately agree.
“It is still a bit early for the break time the teacher mentioned. Wait a little longer.”
Xuan Yi replied, “Yes.”
Xuan Jingyuan added, “Also, you must return within ten minutes.”
Xuan Yi replied, “Yes.”
Gu Hedao spoke up in a low voice, “If nothing unexpected occurs, we have likely already violated the school rules today.”
Xuan Jingyuan asked, “Does Elder Gu mean... being late?”
“Indeed.”
His gaze drifted toward Zuo Lin'an, who was sleeping face down on his desk.
“And it is all thanks to this classmate, Zuo Lin'an.”
Hearing his own name, Zuo Lin'an slowly raised his head.
“Huh? Who called me?”
Gu Hedao nodded. “It was me.”
He let out a yawn. “What's the matter?”
Gu Hedao said, “Actually, I am quite puzzled, and I still want to ask Classmate Zuo once more: why did you do such a thing?”
Zuo Lin'an wore a look of sheer confusion. “What thing?”
Gu Hedao knew he was playing dumb.
“At the school gate, why did Classmate Zuo take those registration lists?”
Zuo Lin'an's tone sounded incredibly aggrieved.
“Oh, you've truly wronged me!”
“I only took one sheet. I didn't take any of the others. Don't go pinning this blame on me; I certainly won't accept it.”
“A scapegoat?”
Gu Hedao felt that this probably wasn't a false accusation.
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