Chapter 6: Making Eye Contact With Her
*Pant… Calm down.*
*Don’t be such a coward, Juncheng An!*
*You’ve been fine in class for the past six months. If you just pretend not to know anything, nothing will happen!*
*If anything were going to happen, it would have happened already, right?*
*That’s right! Everything will be fine!*
*After reassuring myself like this, I returned to my seat. Everyone’s gazes made my steps stiff, and I couldn’t help but tremble like prey targeted by a hunter, my legs starting to shake.*
*However, perhaps because I don’t usually interact with others, not many people struck up a conversation with me.*
*That’s right. I just need to walk to my seat like usual and do what I should be doing… nothing will happen…*
*Finally reaching my seat, I pulled out the chair and was about to sit down.*
*I happened to catch a glimpse of the girl sitting behind me…*
*Necrophiliac Killer*
*Ji Lianbing*
*“Pfft!”*
*Seeing something I shouldn’t have, I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.*
*As a result, the sound attracted her attention. She looked up and shifted her gaze to my face.*
*“…Hmm?”*
*I accidentally made eye contact!*
*The moment our eyes met, Ji Lianbing’s expression changed subtly. She looked somewhat surprised, and she actually smiled?*
*Seeing that smile, I froze for another two or three seconds before reacting. I quickly averted my eyes, immediately sat down in my seat, and lowered my head.*
*That was terrifying!*
*Why did she suddenly smile like that, and why was it so beautiful!*
*And what’s with “Necrophiliac Killer”! Why isn’t it something like “Popular School Beauty”!*
*I never expected that → Ji Lianbing would be…*
*Speaking of Ji Lianbing, I think there’s no one in the entire school who doesn’t know her.*
*Countless people have confessed to her, and of course, many have also been rejected. She’s the dream girl and secret crush of most boys, and even young male teachers wish for a teacher-student relationship with her. A high-and-mighty beauty who remains unconquered to this day, a true teenage beauty, and one of the most popular school beauties.*
*As for why I’m sitting in front of such a school beauty… rather, because it’s me, I was able to sit in this seat.*
*After a year of high school, everyone knows I’m famously a lone wolf and don’t interact much with anyone. Although it’s not my intention, everyone seems to think I’m a cold person.*
*And precisely because I’ve shown no interest in Ji Lianbing, the class monitor placed me, a ‘safe person,’ in the front row of Ji Lianbing’s seat when assigning seats.*
*And I really wasn’t interested in her. What if she’s good-looking? In the end, won’t she grow old, become ugly, and die with the passage of time? Just a blooming skeleton… Cough, cough, that’s what I say, but she is indeed so beautiful that even I find her stunning. With just that appearance, she wouldn’t need to do anything for the rest of her life. If she could sing and act, she could completely become a top star. Someone like that would never interact with an ordinary person like me, so even though I’ve been sitting in front of Ji Lianbing for over a semester, the words I’ve spoken to her… I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to her.*
*Ah… Right, normally no one talks to me. How could a popular school beauty like Ji Lianbing talk to me… No, wake up! Juncheng An! That’s not the point right now!*
*Right now, to me, she’s not just a beautiful girl who is frighteningly beautiful, but she has an additional reason to be feared!*
*A necrophiliac killer… She’s actually a killer!*
*I never expected that our class would not only have freaks but also murderers!*
*This is too dangerous. It’s not strange to be targeted at any moment… No, if I think about it carefully, there’s no way she would target me. If anything were to happen, it would have happened already, and I’ve been sitting in front of her for half a year, and she hasn’t shown any interest in me.*
*The most crucial thing is, I haven’t heard of anyone in school going missing… Right, if she were to target someone in the school, it would be very troublesome. No matter how careful she is, she would definitely be noticed at some point, so Ji Lianbing probably only targets people outside of school.*
*In other words, as long as I don’t provoke her, she won’t target me?*
*But my outburst just now attracted her attention, didn’t it… What was that meaningful smile! I’m so scared!*
*Forget it, it’s useless to think about it. I should focus on class… as if!*
*At this moment, I completely lost the ability to concentrate on class.*
*Even Teacher Xiaozhen, who was lecturing at the front, was a clone. It made me wonder if Teacher Xiaozhen was created through some secret experiment, just like Sister Misao… Perhaps the unit price was also 11,000 RMB…*
*Is this the original age now? Is there an adult version of Teacher Xiaozhen? Could she have reverted to a child by eating APTX4869? Occupied by such a series of fantasies, my mind wandered the entire class.*
*Although I usually liked to daydream or secretly look at my phone during class, this time I was completely staring at the teacher.*
*During class, even if you don’t look at the textbook, you absolutely cannot look at the teacher! Why? Because you’ll be called upon to answer!*
*Yes, and so I was called upon, but I wasn’t listening at all, so how could I possibly know the answer?*
*If it were before, I would have simply said “I don’t know,” taken a scolding from the teacher, and that would be the end of it. But today… being stared at by classmates I wasn’t particularly familiar with and now felt even more distant from, I became extremely nervous, to the point of wanting to vomit.*
*Oh, please spare me…*
*“The answer is C.”*
*Suddenly, a voice came from behind me. It was Ji Lianbing!*
*She actually told me the answer!*
*Why? Did my outburst make her curious? This is bad, this is bad…*
*“Classmate An?”*
*“Ah, ah! Uh, the answer is C!”*
*“Hmm… Such a simple question, why are you taking so long to think? Classmate An, are you alright? You seem a bit strange today?”*
*“Uh, well, I’m fine, I just stayed up late last night…”*
*“Boys always seem to stay up all night, what are they always doing?”*
*Male students in the class chuckled, and I nervously forced a laugh.*
*“Ahaha…”*
*“Really, you need to take care of yourself. You can sit down now.”*
*After sitting down, I still couldn’t help but overthink. Why did she suddenly become interested in me? What does she want? Could she be planning to kill me to silence me? But she shouldn’t know I discovered her identity, right? It’s not possible she’s fallen for me, is it? I really don’t want to be noticed by a murderer!*
*Now, Ji Lianbing’s image in my mind has completely transformed from a popular school beauty into a terrifying existence similar to Jack the Ripper.*
*And so, I spent the rest of the class worried…*
*During break time, I quietly observed the scene in the classroom, lost in thought.*
*The “Active Paraphiliac” in front of me was quietly cutting her nails. After finishing, she swept the clippings onto a book and walked out of the classroom with the book.*
*Further ahead, the “Mixed-Blood Werewolf” was asking the “Pureblood Vampire” a question.*
*The “Zombie (Awakened)” sitting to my right was eating bread early in the morning. The “Ghoul” and the “Ogre” walked over, and the three of them gathered together excitedly discussing what to eat for lunch…*
*The “Stalker (Beginner)” sitting behind me was chatting with her two friends, the “Peeping Tom (Intermediate)” and the “Eavesdropper (Advanced)”… chatting enthusiastically…*
*The “Intern Angel” took out her phone and quickly moved her thumb, contacting someone. She looked a bit nervous.*
*The “Self-Discipline Doll” patted the “Universal Home Appliance” in front of her, pointing to her wrist and saying something. Next to the two of them, the “Puppeteer” and the “Mad Scientist” also noticed and turned around to discuss something together.*
*The “Witch” came over to the “Magical Girl” with a fashion magazine, and the “Magic Master,” with a sly expression, leaned in, only to be hit by a beautiful liver attack from the “Witch” and fell onto the desk, groaning. The “Cultivator (Foundation Establishment Early Stage)” next to him looked contemptuously at the “Magic Master” and gave a thumbs-up to the “Witch.”*
*Seeing this scene, the “Flood Dragon” laughed heartily while clutching his stomach. He accidentally hit the “Qiongqi’s” head and immediately took a Rising Dragon Punch, falling backward and hitting the “Magic Master’s” head. The “Magic Master” was knocked down a second time.*
*In addition to these, there were also the “Tree Demon,” “Cat-person Beastman,” “Blood Elf,” “Mermaid Princess,” “Isekai Hero,” “Isekai Demon King,”…*
*Scary!*
*I only took a cursory glance at the doorway of the classroom earlier, and it was bad enough that I didn’t find any normal people. Now, looking closely, I still can’t find any normal people!*
*There isn’t a single one, damn it!*
*What kind of weird class is this!*
*What kind of weird school is this!*
*What the hell is all this!*
