Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

This time, the ghost baby did not respond quickly with babbling, but suddenly ran to a cabinet not far away with tears in his eyes, and then began to look for something by rummaging through the drawers.

Qin Shang was a little puzzled. What did this little thing want him to see? Why couldn’t it express it directly in words?

After a while, the ghost baby came over with a notebook that was almost the same size as his own body. Tears were welling up in his eyes and it looked like he was about to cry.

Seeing this, Qin Shang knew that this was a sentimental child, so he did not make a joke, but silently took the notebook and started reading it.

This thing looks like a notebook...

The first thing that catches your eye on the first page is a line of words.

"Mom and Dad, I still didn't follow your choice to study."

"The school gave me a subsidy of 800 yuan, plus the money I earned from my recent part-time job, it's enough for me to study for a year. You all say that I'm not suitable for studying, and that studying is a privilege only for children from wealthy families."

“But I enjoy knowledge and can easily immerse myself in the content of textbooks.”

"Every bit of knowledge the teacher taught me is fresh to me. I have found something I like to do. I don't plan to send these words out. Dad, Mom, we will see each other again if we are lucky."

When Qin Shang saw the beginning of the book, he immediately realized that this was a diary.

There was no so-called nine-year compulsory education in the 80s and 90s, and middle schools were still a rare thing.

Most parents would probably be willing to let their children go to school and finish elementary school, but as for secondary school...

This has created a clear watershed. Families with poor financial conditions will basically require their children to work or return to their hometown to help with farming when they reach middle school age.

The vast majority will no longer support their children's education.

The reason is also very simple.

First, it is because the high school tuition fees in that era were generally considered a high expense for most families.

Secondly, it is because the parents of that time generally had not experienced the college entrance examinations, nor had they been exposed to the circle of intellectuals, so the saying "knowledge changes destiny" contained a strong sense of ambiguity.

Of course, 80% of college students now have ambiguity about this statement and believe that academic qualifications are useless...

Indeed, unless you have an outstanding academic degree, it is really of no use.

But the purpose of letting you study is not to get a degree, but for knowledge!

It is said that knowledge changes destiny!

Therefore, in this society, 80% of people who advocate the uselessness of academic qualifications are because they have not only failed to learn knowledge, but also failed to enjoy the benefits brought by academic qualifications. That is why they like to say this sentence all the time and often like to give some very funny reasons.

such as……

If I hadn't gone to college when I was 18, I would have been an apprentice in a barber shop, and in four years I would have become a manager, earning 6,000 to 7,000 yuan a month. It's not like now, when I graduated from college at the age of 22 or 23, I can't even find a decent job with a monthly salary of 4,500 yuan. If I want better treatment, I have to do hard labor. If I had known this would be like this, I would rather not have studied.

Then, it is wrong to criticize the saying that knowledge can change destiny...

Isn't this a problematic chain of logic and thought?

It's not that knowledge is useless, but that the little knowledge you have is useless.

It’s not that academic qualifications are useless, but that your academic qualifications are not good enough.

In fact, in the early years, intellectuals in the 1980s and 1990s were still quite valuable...

If you don’t believe it, you can ask your elders at home. Basically, at that time, students had to walk or ride a bike for several kilometers to get to school. Students can also look at the resume of the middle school they are currently attending.

Currently, 90% of the secondary schools in the country have a history of more than years!

This is why, after entering the 21st century, many parents attach great importance to education. Not only because they have tasted the sweetness, but also because they are eyewitnesses of the times and have witnessed with their own eyes that people around them have changed their destiny through knowledge.

It’s just that many parents don’t have the right attitude and don’t understand that knowledge is not equal to academic qualifications, and academic qualifications are not equal to ability.

That’s all…

Qin Shang's heart immediately moved, and a clear idea emerged in his mind;

"So, this is a classmate's diary! It records what happened after he came to Changteng Private Middle School!"

"And this may very well be the turning point of this school's complete decline. No wonder you gave me this thing."

Qin Shang glanced at the ghost baby, and the little thing hung its head sadly.

"It has been a month since I came to Nagato Junior High School. It should be one month and eleven days in total. The content of the teachers' lectures is still very attractive to me, but I don't know why, I can always see Sakurajima soldiers wearing armor and military uniforms on campus. I told this to my homeroom teacher, and the teacher said that I might have heard too many rumors about this place and had hallucinations."

"But I never dreamed about these things. As for hearsay, I did hear about the school being haunted from many classmates, but aren't haunted things just rumors among the people?"

"A senior once left a very interesting sentence on the bedside table: Hell is empty and the devil is on earth. Yes, we are all afraid of ghosts, but what is more terrifying is the human heart. I always feel that the teacher's eyes changed when he looked at me after I wrote the report."

"It was no longer the innocent look he gave to a student as before, but now it was filled with pity, like the look a child would have when he sees a poor homeless man picking up trash on the side of the road..."

"A look of pity!?"

Qin Shang's gaze lingered on this word for a moment, and then he realized that something extraordinary might have happened.

The owner of this diary might have encountered some danger later.

The teacher knew the source of the danger, so he showed that look of pity.

Sure enough, it was soon written in the diary.

"Strange! A classmate who used to do things in a very high profile manner suddenly disappeared. As the class monitor, I thought I should care about my classmate, so I looked for several other people in their dormitory. As a result, something even stranger happened. This boy was the only one in their dormitory who was in our class, and the others were in other classes."

"But that's not the point. The point is... the classmates in that dormitory seem to have all disappeared. Their dormitory is empty, and for some reason, the rumors about ghosts among classmates have become more and more serious recently."

Qin Shang narrowed his eyes. He knew that he was not wrong in his guess. When those students were sent here, they saw their classmates or companions disappearing around them, their whereabouts unknown, and evaporating without a trace. They would always feel more or less fearful.

In addition, this school is indeed accompanied by some strange things. Just because the ghost baby will appear in students' dreams, many students will be in fear every day they stay here.

He continued to look at the diary.

"I discovered another strange thing..."

"Our school has been established for at least a dozen years, but we don't have a single senior. Yes, we really don't have one. Since Nagato Junior High School has accepted many orphans from welfare institutions, the age gap between students is actually quite large, but there isn't a gap."

"When I first came to school, the teacher told me that the other teaching building was for the sophomores and juniors. But when I passed by there today, I suddenly remembered the missing classmates. Could they have gotten lost or accidentally locked themselves in there? After all, don't boys like to explore?"

"So I secretly opened the gate of another teaching building, and it was empty inside. There were no classrooms at all. It was just an empty building, and there were no floors. It was just an empty building."

"What the teacher said at the beginning about the seniors living in the school like us and having the same classroom layout as us is completely a lie. There are no sophomores or juniors in Nagato Private Middle School."

"No, no, no, not only are there no sophomores and juniors, there aren't even sophomores and juniors... Everyone I've come into contact with so far seems to have only been in this school for less than a year."

"The classes we usually take are all first-year junior high school and first-year high school students. There are no other grades here at all."

"I had a bad feeling and told my roommate about it!"

Qin Shang's heart skipped a beat when he saw the last sentence.

broken!