Hell High School (7): Still like it

As a powerful entity supporting the core of the instance, Wen Yi was certainly not comparable to those ordinary ghosts and monsters. He could always remain clear-headed, was well-versed in the instance’s plot, and could control every corner of Yuying High School.

But one thing was that, like the other teachers and students in the school, he also hated these foreign players.

Tan Xiao was originally an outsider too, but he appeared before the script began, and he had an aura that Wen Yi found very familiar. So, he thought the other person was an NPC disguised as a human, just like himself.

But now that he thought about it, Tan Xiao was clearly a genuine human being, and the only outsiders could be game players.

There were many questions worth pondering here, such as why Tan Xiao was able to enter the school a few days early. It must be because of a special item.

A player who possessed such a special item must be one of the top players among human players.

On the first day they met, Tan Xiao easily agreed to stay at the school. It was very likely that he couldn’t leave on his own, so he used the item to deliberately provoke his own thoughts, prompting him to ask the other party to let him stay.

This way, the other teachers and students in the school would have no doubts about Tan Xiao’s identity.

As for his feelings towards Tanxiao, it was also quite understandable. It was inherently strange to be so fond of a stranger you’ve only met once. If this human used a special favorability item and was influenced by it, that would make more sense.

If that was the case, what could that special item be? Was it the Möbius ring platinum ring that Tan Xia wore around his neck with a red rope? It seemed very likely.

Once a person falls into conspiracy theories, they naturally become biased and their guesses become more and more absurd, as they will find all the details to validate their so-called speculations.

Realizing that Tan Xiao was a player and that the feelings between them were likely a deception under the influence of a prop, Wen Yi suddenly exuded an extremely terrifying aura.

Not to mention the other students sitting in the classroom, even the head teacher, Ms. Xu, standing at the podium, felt his legs go weak.

Due to the suppression of status, the teachers were stronger than most ordinary students, and the head teacher was even stronger than ordinary teachers. But at this moment, Ms. Xu, the head teacher, had to grip the podium tightly to barely maintain her composure.

Teacher Xu instinctively looked at seat 14 in the middle of the classroom. On the first day of the copy, in her eyes, seat 14 should have been empty.

But now, next to that chair sat a strikingly handsome transfer student, and on the empty seat 14, it seemed as if a humanoid flame of darkness was sitting.

Without any plot memory, she felt an instinctive, overwhelming fear during the day, when she was quite restricted.

The Small Freckles boy behind them, being so close, almost wished he could stuff himself directly into the narrow drawer: he needed a safe place to hide!

The NPC students were trembling, and the five newly joined players were no better off; their system panels displayed a Dread buff.

Under this buff, all their basic attributes were suppressed to 10% of their original values, and their sanity points were slowly declining.

Losing sanity in an instance was a very dangerous thing. Especially in this kind of supernatural instance, going insane in an environment full of ghosts and monsters would only turn them into fodder for the creatures.

Among the group of people, only the “culprit” Tan Xiao was blissfully unaware. After all, if the eerie ghostly energy were to wrap around Tan Xiao, regardless of what its master was thinking, the actual reaction of this ghostly energy would be to cling to its beloved.

These terrifying ghostly energies would only tenderly entwine with Tan Xiao, rather than torturing the despicable deceiver as he had imagined, forcing the other party to reveal the truth in agony.

Tan Xiao felt fine physically, and his vision was relatively normal. He noticed that the other students in the class seemed to be reacting strangely, and the homeroom teacher, Ms. Xu, was sweating profusely while holding onto the podium, her face as pale as a sheet, looking as if she had suddenly fallen ill.

The good student Tan Xiao suddenly stood up from his chair: “Ms. Xu, are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital?”

His words broke the terrifying atmosphere, and some of the oppressive fear surrounding Ms. Xu dissipated.

Teacher Xu wiped the sweat from her forehead: “I’m feeling a bit unwell, thank you for your concern, Tan Xiao. I’ll go back to the office for a bit, you all self-study for now.”

The atmosphere here was too oppressive. Tan Xiao gave her an excuse, and Teacher Xu immediately took the opportunity to leave, her steps hurried as if there were demons chasing her from behind.

Tan Xiao suddenly stood up, instantly attracting the attention of several other players.

They glanced at the boy in the school uniform and noticed that although it was the same uniform, on some people it looked loose, big, and bulky, but on Tan Xiao, it looked liked he was a movie star. Compared to the other students around him, he was on a completely different level.

Even many male stars under skin-smoothing and beautifying filters couldn’t look like this. At a glance, it was clear he was an NPC, and not just any NPC, but one with a name and significant role in the storyline.

They felt that Tan Xiao couldn’t possibly be a player for many reasons. What normal player would take the initiative to care about whether an NPC teacher was feeling well? Even if he were a player, he wouldn’t receive friendly treatment from the NPC teacher.

Of course, one reason was that Tan Xiao had a very strong student vibe. There were many textbooks piled up in front of his desk, and after the teacher left, he focused on studying, unlike the players who couldn’t help but look around.

Moreover, although that face was extremely handsome, from the contours and skin condition, it also revealed the youthful innocence typical of this age, making him look like a high school student who was seriously studying.

In a place where the players couldn’t see, Tan Xiao sat back down as soon as the teacher left.

His seat was to the left of Wen Yi, with his right hand resting against Wen Yi’s left hand.

It was currently the morning reading session, and the books on the desk were open. Wen Yi’s hands were naturally placed on the desk, with his left hand holding the book and his right hand turning the pages.

When Tan Xiao sat down, he naturally placed his hand on the back of Wen Yi’s hand that was resting on the desk.

He didn’t have any messy thoughts; he just felt that his boyfriend’s hands were too cold and wanted to warm them up with his own body heat.

Taking advantage of the reading voice in the classroom, Tan Xiao lowered his voice and said, “Your hands are too cold. Let me warm them up for you, so your fingers don’t stiffen up while writing, making it hard to write.”

He looked completely serious, as if he weren’t the one secretly doing such things.

The benefit of being a desk mate was right here; both of them were boys, so just placing their hands together was enough. As long as they acted natural and didn’t hug or kiss in front of everyone, no one would think they were in a relationship.

Wen Yi was in a state of self-doubt, seriously questioning Tan Xiao’s actions, but Tan Xiao ignored the coldness emanating from him and chose to get closer.

Clearly filled with rage, but when Tan Xiao’s warm hand covered his, he found himself unable to pull away. His body seemed completely out of control, and his hand naturally intertwined with Tan Xiao’s pinky finger, then held on tightly.

If it were just a prop, would Tan Xiao go to such lengths to get the details right? Wen Yi had seen other people in love before.

In fact, this school had many secret couples. The small grove behind the school was known as the students’ rendezvous spot.

Sometimes, teachers would even use flashlights to catch couples sneaking dates on the playground.

Just in their senior class 8, there were four or five couples dating privately.

Wen Yi didn’t care about how others dated before, but he knew that Tan Xiao was really good for him.

What kind of high-level item could have such an amazing effect? If there were such an incredible item, Tan Xiao wouldn’t be able to use it all the time.

Perhaps Tan Xiao didn’t use any item on him at all; he just had an innate charm that made him likable.

Because there were other people in the class, Wen Yi couldn’t ask Tan Xiao if he was a player. Even though he could protect Tan Xiao, that question would still cause trouble for him.

He hardened his heart, forcibly straightened his pinky finger that was intertwined with Tan Xiao’s, and then suddenly pulled his left hand away from Tan Xiao’s.

After all, Tan Xiao had only lightly placed his hand on the back of Wen Yi’s hand, without intertwining their fingers, so Wen Yi didn’t need to exert much effort to pull away.

This was a small action that looked very natural, but only Wen Yi knew that he really had to exert a lot of effort to resist his body’s instincts.

Tan Xiao didn’t feel anything was wrong, after all, they were in the classroom, and Wen Yi might just be looking for something or flipping through a book with his left hand.

He naturally moved his right hand back and flipped through the textbook in front of him.

He had received his new school uniform and textbooks yesterday, but these textbooks were all brand new and blank.

There was no need to redo the notes; Tan Xiao just planned to see what the differences were between the two sets of textbooks and learn some different knowledge.

The textbooks spread out on his desk now had many neatly written notes, clearly organized and distinct. Of course, these were from Wen Yi. Tan Xiao’s blank new textbooks were on Wen Yi’s desk.

His dear boyfriend was the top student in the whole school. You have to make full use of resources, whether it’s test papers, textbooks, or notes. Tan Xiao just borrowed Wen Yi’s directly.

After the morning self-study session, Wen Yi suddenly wrote a note for Tan Xiao.

“Come out for a moment, I need to talk to you.”

Tan Xiao nodded and followed Wen Yi, who then pulled him into the supply closet in the hallway.

This small, narrow supply closet was the cleaning lady’s break room. Inside were cleaning tools, some discarded junk, and waste materials like cardboard and plastic bottles that the cleaning lady had collected.

He didn’t choose the men’s restroom, even though the school restrooms had doors and stalls, the smell was just too unbearable.

The storage room door was closed, and inside, there was only a dim yellow light bulb on the ceiling, making the space small and dark.

Wen Yi pressed Tan Xiao against the wall; he had too many questions to ask, so he couldn’t wait until noon when school ended and eagerly pulled Tan Xiao inside.

Tan Xiao’s face turned red, and he unconsciously looked shy: “Wen Yi… we’re still at school, this… this isn’t very appropriate.”

Although it was thrilling, there were still students and teachers passing by outside the storage room, and the diligent cleaning lady could come back at any moment.

Wen Yizhi stared at Tan Xiao with slightly bloodshot eyes and directly asked, “Tan Xiao, are you a player?”

If Tan Xiao could hear the system sound, he would see the panel continuously reporting errors, with the system issuing a stern warning.

[Warning! Warning! Player identity has been detected!]

But Tan Xiao couldn’t hear it, so he looked confused and asked, “What player?”

“XX Valley? Or are you a LAL player?” He had no idea that Wen Yi pulling him into the small dark room wasn’t for any bad intentions, but just to ask such a strange question.

What was wrong with asking such things in class? Although everyone was a high school student, they still played games and read novels in private.

In Tan Xiao’s clear eyes, Wen Yi saw no trace of lies.

He suddenly stepped forward, fiercely biting Tan Xiao’s lips, and instantly felt the completely different body temperature of another human.

Tan Xiao was clearly lying, yet he was so calm about it, making such poor choices in the details. Whether it was only eating human food, being very particular about temperature details, or other things, it all showed he was a flesh-and-blood human.

Tan Xiao was momentarily stunned by Wen Yi’s actions. He knew it! Wen Yi had pulled him into the little black room, clearly up to no good!

However, his lips were bitten painfully, and his tongue tasted a faint metallic rust flavor, the taste of his lip being bitten and bleeding.

Wen Yi was really too clumsy, not even knowing how to kiss. Although this was his first kiss, Tan Xiao was very confident in himself.

Watching more TV dramas; people kiss tenderly, not like a puppy biting someone. He thought that if he took the lead, he would definitely be better than Wen Yi.

Wen Yi endured for a while, and Tan Xiao gradually became moved.

The instinct of a male creature made him subconsciously choose to retaliate. He clasped Wen Yi’s head with both hands, pried open his teeth with his tongue, and then deepened the kiss.

In this dim little black room, it took only a few breaths for him to go from gently teaching like licking candy to losing control and sinking deeper.

The strong, broad-shouldered, long-legged high school boy displayed a beast-like aggression, almost wanting to swallow his lover whole.

With his legs turning to jelly and his whole body tingling from the kisses, Wen Yi declared his complete surrender: even though he was a despicable player who lied through his teeth and deceived himself, he still liked him.