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Chapter 420: Chapter 296: Turning Away from All Beings_2
Huang Zhongfei sat on the lectern, supervising everyone not to talk. However, Huang Zhongfei’s deterrence wasn’t really strong, and there were still faint discussions in the class.
Huang Zhongfei turned a blind eye and just let it pass without making a big deal of it.
"It has been raining for three days," Chen Siqing, propping her chin, looked out the window.
Bai Yuxia, holding her pen, daydreamed: "Yes, three days now, that’s normal."
Rain lasting several days was usual, sometimes even ten or twenty days without seeing the sun.
"It should have been postponed, right?" Chen Siqing muttered to herself.
The sports day she had in mind was under the sun, not under gloomy weather.
Jiang Ning gazed out the window, his sight piercing through the darkness, reaching the clouds.
The rain was about to stop, but the students didn’t know.
As the school celebration day drew nearer, some were still worried about the rain; on other days it would just make people feel gloomy, but now it was causing irritation.
Huang Zhongfei noticed this scene; everyone’s mood had been low recently.
Gao Heshuai got angry today because the students were not paying attention in class.
Huang Zhongfei thought for two minutes, undecided in his mind.
Finally, he made up his mind.
Huang Zhongfei took out a USB drive, plugged it into the USB port at the front of the multimedia, and turned on the computer.
The noise from the projector on the ceiling stirred everyone up.
Someone shouted, "Monitor, what are you doing turning on the computer?"
"Is he going to find us some problems to solve?"
Huang Zhongfei faced everyone and gave a gentle smile: "I want to watch a movie."
"Play a movie?"
The previously irritable classmates suddenly looked surprised, "Damn, playing a movie?"
"Does the class teacher know about it?"
Huang Zhongfei: "He doesn’t know, but I want to watch it. Are you watching or not?"
Cui Yu shouted: "As long as you dare to play it, I dare to watch it!"
Saying so, he patted his desk mate, Meng Gui, who was currently lying on the desk sleeping; he was very cold and needed sleep to alleviate his condition.
The class was abuzz; responses came from all corners, especially from the back rows, where a burst of cheers arose.
Jiang Yanan hesitated and said: "Monitor, if the class teacher finds out, won’t he blame you?"
Huang Zhongfei said, "No worries, the class teacher has no classes today; he went home."
Jiang Yanan: "But what if the grade director comes over and finds out, there would surely be trouble."
"Not to mention the head of the grade level and the security officers."
Indeed, this was a problem that Huang Zhongfei had overlooked.
At that moment, someone from the back row raised his hand and shouted:
"Monitor!"
The classmates all looked over and saw a thin boy.
He was Miao Zhe.
Recently, Miao Zhe hadn’t made much of an impression in class; after getting acquainted with his character, people stopped joking with him.
Miao Zhe was reclusive and kept to himself; if no one sought him, he wouldn’t seek others.
Unexpectedly, he took the initiative to speak.
The classmates looked at him together, waiting to see what he had to say.
With a neutral expression, facing the puzzled looks of his classmates, Miao Zhe said:
"Monitor, if you want to play a movie, I can go to the corridor and watch out for the security office and the head of the grade level for you."
"Eh?"
Miao Zhe’s words left the classmates looking at him in a new light; they had never imagined that Miao Zhe, who usually had a bad reputation, would offer to do such a thing.
Huang Zhongfei said: "Actually, there’s no need; if we get caught, we get caught."
Jiang Yanan: "That won’t do; we want to watch the movie, but not at the cost of you getting scolded by the teacher."
She added: "Miao Zhe, if you’re sure, we appreciate it."
Cui Yu felt uncomfortable hearing this; his beloved was showing concern for another man, which was like a slap to his face!
It was unbearable for any man!
But if the monitor was willing to play the movie, Cui Yu felt he could forgive Jiang Yanan this once, as if this had never happened.
Hearing this, Miao Zhe, without a second word, took a book and went out to keep watch.
The sentry was in position, and Huang Zhongfei hesitated no longer; he manipulated the mouse and selected a movie from the USB drive.
"Which one do you want to watch?"
The list contained about ten movies, including Transformers 3 and Iron Man.
"These are too long, and we might not be able to finish," one classmate said. "I want to watch the fourth one!"
Huang Zhongfei: "Okay, the fourth one."
The name of the fourth movie was "My Neighbor Totoro."
The movie was about to start playing.
Cui Yu raised an objection, "Turn off the lights? It feels right to watch in the dark, otherwise the atmosphere isn’t right."
Lying on the desk, Meng Gui and Wu Xiaoqi both raised their hands, their heads down, and said without looking up:
"Turn off the lights, turn off the lights!"
Turning off the lights is comfortable for sleeping!
Despite some doubts that once the lights were off, only their classroom in the entire teaching building would be pitch-dark, arousing suspicion.
But in the end, the call to turn off the lights became the majority.
Zhang Zhongfei turned off the lights in front, Wang Longlong ran to turn off the lights at the back, and the classroom plunged into darkness.
This feeling of sneaking around was thrilling; in the dark, everyone whispered secretly.
Some complained about their seats and even moved their stools to the aisle.
Within seconds, the screen beside the blackboard suddenly lit up, and the movie started playing.
Almost all the students looked forward, enjoying the movie.
Chen Qian stopped his pen, the light had gone, and he could no longer work on his problems.
But could this stop him?
Not at all!
Chen Qian closed his eyes, feeling the darkness, his mind filled with a string of various formulas.
From now on, he planned to reinforce all the formulas he had learned since the start of his first year in high school in his mind and then describe tonight’s events in English.
At the back, Guo Kunnan’s desk was piled high with textbooks, not just in front but also stacked on the side.
Between the layers of textbooks, a slot had been made to hide a cellphone in an emergency.
In the darkness, he quietly played with his phone, feeling utterly secure.
Outside the classroom.
Miao Zhe held a book in one hand, with a cellphone on top of it.
There was rain outside the corridor, and the wind was quite strong, bitterly cold, causing him to tighten his clothes and stomp his feet.
However, when he turned back to look at the class only illuminated by a single screen, a sense of responsibility surged within him.
Because of his presence, Miao Zhe, the class could freely enjoy the movie.
The reason why peace prevails is that some bear the weight and press on.
And the one bearing the weight and pressing on was Miao Zhe himself!
Class 8’s location was quite advantageous; standing at the door, Miao Zhe could see the movements at the building 1 in front.
He silently watched the security office; if someone from there came, he would immediately alert the class president.
The head teacher’s office was on the first floor of building 3 on the west side. Most of the time, around 90%, he patrolled from the west side; Miao Zhe could also spot any approach in real-time.
He was the sole watchman, unbreachable by many.
Miao Zhe picked up his cellphone, exceptionally contacting an online friend "Yun Ni." He typed a message:
"You told me not to get stuck in one place, to try things I’ve never done before. Today, I did that."
"I feel great now; thank you, Yun Ni. I’ll improve alongside you."
Miao Zhe waited for 5 minutes, but Yun Ni didn’t respond.
He felt slightly disappointed and then put away his phone.
No matter, Yun Ni would surely reply to him at night.
Standing in the corridor with darkness behind him, Miao Zhe gazed at the lights of building 1.
A surge of boldness welled up in his heart:
"From now on, I am the Night Watcher!"
Inside the classroom.
Jiang Ning watched the movie displayed on the screen.
He felt a sense of deja vu: ’It’s exactly the same as before.’
On this day in his previous life, Zhang Zhongfei had also played a movie, the same movie. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
Over the past half-year, many things had changed from his previous life; unexpectedly, a point of convergence appeared here again.
Jiang Ning almost felt as if time and space were intertwined.
However, the outcome tonight was not good back then.
Due to the lights being turned off, someone from the security office noticed an anomaly; only halfway through the class, the secret movie showing was discovered.
When confronted by the security office, the class president, Zhang Zhongfei, took all the responsibility, and it ended with a school-wide broadcast criticism.
Would it happen again?
Jiang Ning’s fingers twitched, crafting an Array that enveloped the whole class; a simple Illusion Array.
At this moment, if someone looked towards Class 8 from a distance, they would see the class still brightly lit, revealing no abnormalities.
Jiang Ning withdrew his hand, adjusting the overlaid curves of his past and present life.
Xue Yuantong nudged him with his elbow, "Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning, do you remember?"
"The evening self-study session when we just started our first year of high school, we also watched a cartoon?" In the dark, Xue Yuantong’s delicate brows and eyelashes shadowed her gleaming eyes.
Jiang Ning paused, "Yes, back then, we weren’t even desk mates."
For some reason, Xue Yuantong always felt that there was something hidden in Jiang Ning’s words; she moved closer and whispered,
"Let’s always be from now on."
