The empty table looked like nothing else.
Li Haoyuan stared for a while and didn't find anything unusual, but the palpitations at that moment could not be faked.
Tang Ning followed Li Haoyuan's gaze and looked at the empty table. The song that Xie Yunting had just sung emerged in his mind.
Where is the mouth
Mouth over eyes
The brain automatically constructed an image of a strange owner from this empty table. Its body was about the same size as the children around it, and its facial features were misplaced, like an abstract painting.
When other people looked at it, what they saw was its open mouth.
Tang Ning quickly retracted his gaze. There must be something wrong with that set of empty desks and chairs. When Li Haoyuan entered the classroom, the teacher did not arrange for Li Haoyuan to sit on that set of empty desks and chairs. Instead, he moved a new set of desks and chairs for him.
Was the crisis point on the first day of school that set of empty desks and chairs
The English teacher at the podium was still teaching. She would imitate wolf howls from time to time to make the students laugh, and would cue Li Haoyuan to answer questions from time to time.
At first, Tang Ning thought these were fatal questions, but when Li Haoyuan couldn't answer them, the teacher just smiled and asked Li Haoyuan to sit down, and announced the correct answers himself.
The class had a good atmosphere. We waited until the end of the class without any crisis.
It's break time, and the kids sit together.
"What's going on?" Xiao Lin Yun scratched his head. "I've been trying hard to memorize the English text, but the teacher only taught me a few words in the whole class, and there was no punishment for failing."
"Have you noticed that the flow of time seems to be normal?" Jiang Mianmian pointed to the clock hanging in the classroom, and everyone looked up at the same time.
The English class lasted for a normal 40 minutes, and it was not as long as one might imagine, as if several months had passed in one class.
"Indeed, I still feel full after eating the bread." Lin Yun looked down at her school uniform, "The clothes haven't gotten any dirtier."
Tangning looked at Lin Yun's head and said, "It's not even dirtier."
"Does this mean that the flow of time from now on is normal?" Zhou Kang asked.
"That's possible." Jiang Mianmian pushed up his glasses. "Perhaps the game wants us to experience the crisis of a young body because time flows too fast at the beginning. From birth to five or six years old, our bodies are fragile. This is a difficult problem set by the game for us."
"If we continue to grow rapidly, we will quickly get rid of our physical disadvantages." Jiang Mianmian guessed, "There are two possibilities. One is that the flow of time from now on will be like a normal day, and we will always maintain the physical state of six or seven years old. Another possibility is that the flow of time in the future will change irregularly."
"If there are no changes, then we will continue to have two elementary school classes, eat in the cafeteria, and go home after two classes in the afternoon."
When people heard about this arrangement, some were happy while others were worried. Tang Ning was one of the happy ones because he wanted his mother back.
The one who was most obviously worried was Lin Yun. He still didn't know what the exact state of his bankruptcy was like. He wouldn't just go back and sleep on the side of the road, right
"Xie Yunting, what did you say to your father when you called him earlier?" Tangning asked. Was it Xie Youqian who helped Lin Yun pay off her debts in one go
"I told my dad that he was reluctant to let Lin Yun leave." Xie Yunting said.
"What else?" Tangning continued to ask.
"My father said that he would let Lin Yun continue to stay and go to school with us." Xie Yunting said confidently: "Don't worry, my father will do what he said."
Well, at first glance, Xie Yunting now looks like a little kid who believes his dad is Superman.
What is certain now is that Xie Yunting’s parents and the various NPCs in this copy of Xie Yunting himself have a certain deterrent effect.
"Tang..." Tangning was too young now. Li Haoyuan didn't address Tangning as "Mr. Tang" as she was used to. He whispered, "I don't feel comfortable with that set of empty tables and chairs."
"Yes, Xie Yunting, what you just said..." Tangning stretched out her finger and pointed at her eyes.
Xie Yunting raised his finger and made a stern gesture to keep quiet. He did not tell Tangning much about this matter.
Jiang Mianmian held the mirror frame to look at the empty table and chairs.
"Did you see anything?" Tangning asked.
Jiang Mianmian shook her head. Li Haoyuan whispered in Tangning's ear, "I feel like that thing is not next to the table now. It may be hiding."
Zhou Kang and Lin Yun split into two groups. They took the initiative to ask other children in the class about the empty tables and chairs. However, those lively and laughing children simply ignored Zhou Kang and Lin Yun and continued to chat, chase and play.
Tangning also walked to a place where people were chatting animatedly. Before she could ask, the children smiled and said, "The class beauty is here, the class beauty is here..."
Class beauty
Tang Ning turned around to see if there were any pretty little girls following him. After looking around, he found that all the kids were pointing at Tang Ning and calling her the class beauty.
"Do you know why that set of chairs is empty?" Tang Ning asked.
The children just laughed.
I couldn't get anything out of my classmates, and it was almost time for the third class, a physical education class. The students from Grade 1, Class 1 walked out of the classroom and came to the playground.
The physical education teacher was a tall male teacher. He told the students in a casual manner that what they would learn today was table tennis. Table tennis requires teams to be divided into groups of two, but now they can form teams on their own.
After listening to this, Xie Yunting pulled Tang Ning to stand together.
The other children also formed teams. Tang Ning found that there was a little boy who was left alone. He was all alone in the corner.
"Okay, it seems that every one of our children has found the friends they want. Take the big serve rackets and ping-pong balls given by the teacher, and the children who get them can go practice directly." The physical education teacher seemed to ignore the little boy who was left alone.
Tang Ning frowned and looked at the little boy calmly. The little boy suddenly raised his head and looked at where Tang Ning was. Then, he looked at Tang Ning and lowered his head in panic.
"Let's go get the rackets." Xie Yunting held Tangning's hand and said excitedly, "Do you like playing table tennis? I actually prefer playing badminton."
"I'm not very good at it." Tang Ning had only learned table tennis a long time ago, and now that he hadn't practiced for such a long time, his skills were probably terrible.
"It's okay, I'll teach you." Little Xie Yunting patted his chest and promised.
After receiving the rackets and ping-pong balls, Xie Yunting energetically occupied a table in a good position. He first demonstrated to Tang Ning how to serve the ball, and even performed a difficult serve in a cool manner.
After Tang Ning looked at the elementary school students around him fighting each other, he realized that Xie Yunting's level was just too high, so Tang Ning served the ball freely without any burden.
At the moment of pitching, Tangning sighed inwardly. He threw the ball too early and would definitely miss the target.
When the yellow ping-pong ball was thrown to the highest point, it seemed to be suspended in mid-air for a brief moment. This sudden stagnation in the real world was very strange. Tang Ning blinked, wondering if he was hallucinating.
A gust of cold wind blew past him, and then the small and light ping-pong ball suddenly resumed its normal descent speed and landed precisely within the optimal hitting range of Tang Ning's racket.
“Pah.”
The racket successfully hit the ping-pong ball.
It also successfully answered the questions that were all over Tang Ning's mind.
Tangning was a little confused, but at this moment he still believed that this ball would fail, because the angle of his racket was not right, and the ball would most likely fly onto another table.
The ball spun endlessly in the air, as if an invisible hand adjusted the trace it left in the air into a perfect curve, and it flew precisely to Xie Yunting's racket.
When Xie Yunting's racket came towards him, the ping-pong ball dodged to the side as if it had its own soul and fell to the ground.
Tangning opened his eyes wide. At that moment, he felt another gust of wind. Was it the wind that changed the direction of the ping-pong ball? But this was still a little outrageous.
"You are good at playing table tennis," Xie Yunting praised.
Tangning said in confusion, "... No, it should just be a coincidence." If it wasn't a coincidence, it would be like there was an invisible being helping him play basketball.
This felt too weird, Tang Ning would rather it was a coincidence.
"No one is playing with him." Xie Yunting looked at a little boy standing alone not far away. The boy was squatting beside an empty table, staring at Tang Ning's table.
"Let's invite him in." Xie Yunting waved to the little boy, and the little boy walked over hesitantly with a racket in his arms.
As soon as the little boy came over, Xie Yunting stood next to Tangning. Tangning said, "Let's work together."
Two against one
Tang Ning felt that this was a bit of a bully, but Tang Ning thought about his own rookie level and felt that it would be the same whether he was there or not. The main battlefield was the competition between the little boy and Xie Yunting.
This time it was Tang Ning's turn to serve. Tang Ning was unfamiliar with the ball and failed the first time, failed the second time, and barely succeeded the third time.
The little boy looked even more nervous than Tang Ning. He clumsily launched an extremely ferocious attack.
Instantly, the sound of ping-pong balls rose and fell on the table. Tang Ning was completely unable to intervene and could only watch as Xie Yunting and the little boy fought to an unbeatable score.
The two sides were evenly matched and the winner was not decided until the end of the physical education class.
The class bell rang, and a bunch of ping-pong rackets and balls were handed over to the teacher. Jiang Mianmian walked over to Tangning and whispered, "I saw it."
Tang Ning immediately pricked up his ears.
Jiang Mianmian said softly: "A scary ghost, it... its whole head is upside down."
Tangning was stunned for a moment, then listened to Jiang Mianmian continue, "The hair is connected to the neck. Can you imagine that? The mouth is at the top of this face because the head is upside down..."
Just by listening to Jiang Mianmian's description, Tang Ning couldn't help but get goose bumps on his arms.
Is this the weird classmate who couldn't see? Xie Yunting was right. Fang's mouth was indeed on his eyes. However, he thought the ghost had all five features flying around at first, but he didn't expect the whole head to be upside down.
"Is this the one that played basketball with Xie Yunting?" Tangning asked.
Jiang Mianmian nodded seriously.
So was it that ghost classmate who served the ball for him? If so, why did Fang do that
"Let's go." After returning the racket, Xie Yunting walked up to Tang Ning with full energy. A few beads of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose. It seemed that the physical education class had consumed a lot of his energy.
However, Xie Yunting is still energetic and can even jump while walking.
In comparison, Tang Ning was like a salted fish. He returned to the classroom from the playground with a lot of questions in his mind.
They started taking math classes. Elementary school math was simple, and Tang Ning could quickly solve any math problems the teacher listed. It was a rare moment for him to feel that he had successfully mastered math instead of being beaten up by it.
After the last class in the morning, the students did not rush to the cafeteria to eat because Zhou Kang had a lot of food in his bag. Although it was all dry food, it could save a lot of time. They could eat and discuss two things at the same time while sitting in the classroom. Xie Yunting did not stay. He looked at the bread with some dissatisfaction. Tang Ning said, "It's good for your stomach to eat something hot at noon."
"It's okay, I'll just eat this." Tang Ning took a bite of the dry bread.
Little Xie Yunting said quickly: "I'll go get you some food. I remember you said you like sweet food, right?"
Little Xie Yunting asked Tang Ning these questions when they first met on the bus.
Tang Ning nodded, and little Xie Yunting immediately rushed out, running like a little whirlwind to join the group eating in the cafeteria.
The players watched Xie Yunting leave. When Xie Yunting left the classroom, the adults could no longer hold back their discussion. "Tangning, is he your king?" "Is he the eighth player or an NPC?" "His eyes look like Mo Yunchu's." "Why did he help us so much?" "..."
From the time little Xie Yunting appeared until now, he has helped Zhou Kang put on the longevity lock, helped Tang Ning grab a chair and answer questions, and helped Lin Yun solve the issue of transferring schools. At the same time, he also indirectly helped Si Tai. It was little Xie Yunting's actions that made Jiang Mianmian know that the little red flower can be protected for fun.
If Xie Yunting hadn't appeared, their first day in this copy would never have been as smooth as it is now.
Tangning shook her head, "I don't know either. I don't know if he is my king or not. The card I used today is my mother's story card. This card will not summon a king to protect me."
"But he looks like Wang." Zhou Kang said, "Not only do they look alike, he is also very good to you, and he also took care of us."
"And he was born at the same time in the same hospital as us. Tangning, didn't you say before that your king is a player in the card game? Is it possible that this time he lost all his memories and became a pure player, playing this game with us?" Zhou Kang asked.
Tangning hesitated and said, "But he doesn't seem to know about the existence of the card game. There's no need for him to hide it from us. Did you notice that during the past few breaks, when we were constantly talking about the speed of time and the difficulty of the dungeon, he didn't seem to have any other reaction. I suspect that he is the NPC, and the card game has tampered with our discussion, so that what he heard turned out to be something else."
For example, it turned into Spider Solitaire, or the group of kids watched some cartoon together today, so Xie Yunting could look around like nothing had happened.
"But he pointed out that my clothes were dirty." Lin Yun said: "He pointed out the key to the problem. Is this just a coincidence?"
The players became quiet again.
Lin Yun expressed his guess: "I guess the card game fair has shaped him into what he is now, because if he is the king in adult form, his strength is too strong. If his mind becomes that of a pure child, even a smart child will definitely not be able to compare to the king in his prime."
"Regarding the question of whether Wang can understand the discussion of our card game, I remember that in the Ghost Mother copy, when Mo Yunchu first came to talk to me, he didn't seem to fully understand what I meant." Li Haoyuan said quickly.
Lin Yun asked curiously: "Mo Yunchu came to talk to you, what did he talk to you about?"
Li Haoyuan said honestly: "He asked me about Mr. Tang's love history."
Lin Yun's hand that was constantly scratching his head involuntarily changed to rubbing his ears, "... What? Did you tell me the truth?"
Li Haoyuan nodded.
Lin Yun looked at Li Haoyuan deeply. He began to feel lucky that he did not team up with Tangning to enter the Ghost Mother dungeon, because he, Lin Yun, knew too much...
"After Mr. Tang came out, he said that Mo Yunchu knew about the existence of the card game. I am now wondering if Xie Yunting's situation is the same as Mo Yunchu's before? It was not very clear at the beginning, but maybe he would understand his role in the game due to some opportunity?" Li Haoyuan expressed his opinion.
"But if he is my king, wouldn't that be too weird? It means that the cheat code given to me by the card game is too big." Tang Ning was a little troubled.
"I thought that only when I use cards like the Princess and the Pea card that can summon the King, will the King come to help me. Otherwise, what difference does it make whether I use those cards or not? Regardless of whether I use them or not, the King will help me." Tangning expressed her biggest confusion.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present fell into deep thought.
"But I can feel that he has no ill will towards me." Tangning said, "I am happy to be with him."
Suddenly, there was an inexplicable muffled sound in the classroom, as if some tables and chairs collided.
The players who were discussing the matter were looking around for the source of the sudden sound, but they could not find anything for a while.
"Okay, if Xie Yunting has no ill intentions, then let's not worry about him for now. Anyway, Tang Ning, you will definitely have the opportunity to use the card that can summon the king. Then we will see what impact Xie Yunting will have." Jiang Mianmian said.
Tang Ning had no objection.
"Our focus now is to think about what crises we will encounter on the first day," Jiang Mianmian said.
At present, they have fully experienced the life of primary school students. They can recite the primary school Chinese texts, learn a few basic primary school English words, and experience primary school sports activities. Then the question is, except for the first class in the morning when the eldest brother felt a crisis while fighting for chairs and reciting the Chinese texts, except for Lin Yun who almost transferred to another school because of his cards, the others did not encounter any danger during the play.
Li Haoyuan kept turning his head to look for the source of the sound.
Jiang Mianmian stood up and said, "Let's go out and talk."
Everyone walked out of the classroom. They had nowhere to go, and they couldn't go into other classes, so they stood in a corridor where the sun was shining. The sun was warm and it felt comfortable to stand on them.
"The empty desk and chair in the classroom should belong to a ghost. Its head is upside down, with the top of its head and neck connected together, and its chin facing upwards." Jiang Mianmian quickly told the information she knew.
Lin Yun asked: "Did you see it?"
"I only took a quick look. Its perception was sharp, so I didn't dare to look any longer for fear of being targeted by it. So what I saw wasn't clear." Jiang Mianmian explained: "My state is like you squinting your eyes to look at someone in the distance, but one thing I am sure of is that its mouth is at the top, the nose is in the middle, and the eyes are at the end."
This description gave everyone present a chill.
Even though Tangning had heard it once before, he still felt a chill. This chill didn't seem to be an unconscious shiver from hearing some of the descriptions, but more like...
Tang Ning blinked and saw that the large patch of sunlight shining on the corridor disappeared at some point, and everyone was enveloped in a slightly cool shadow.
Boom, boom, boom, my heart started beating violently at this moment.
Tang Ning raised his fingers, imitating the gesture of silence that Xie Yunting had made. He stared at his teammates who were about to speak, his eyes wide with warnings.
No one present was stupid. They all fell silent and thought of many things in an instant. For example, the classmates and teachers in the class all knew of its existence, but no one had ever mentioned it on their own initiative.
When facing an unknown being, the safest thing to do is actually to imitate the actions of the people around you.
"Ah..." A trickle of blood flowed out of Jiang Mianmian's eyes. She couldn't help but scream in pain: "My eyes..."
But her hand covered her opening and closing mouth.
The chilly aura grew stronger and stronger, as if a gust of cold wind was blowing through the corridor, blowing onto Tang Ning's tense neck and fragile eyes, carrying with it undisguised malice and coldness.
At the same time, hurried footsteps were heard at the end of the corridor.
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
At this point, when everyone should have gone to eat, the footsteps that suddenly appeared in the direction where Tang Ning was were becoming clearer and clearer. Each step seemed to step on Tang Ning's heart, turning his over-inflated heart into a constantly inflated balloon that could explode at any time.
"The meal is here." Xie Yunting ran over breathlessly and picked up the lunch box. His face was a little red, perhaps because of the sun or because he was tired. He smiled brightly.
The moment he appeared, all the shadows covering the corridor disappeared, and large patches of bright sunlight poured in again.