Weird story about rules: I can see hidden hints

Chapter 117 Deception Perception
Gu Shengyou opened his eyes and saw a pure white ceiling with an incandescent lamp in the middle and many traces of water around it.

Turning his head slightly, he met half-closed eyes, with a pale and unwavering face, which made people feel a little panicked at the sight.

"Get up as soon as you wake up." A cold voice came from the side.

Only then did Gu Sheng realize that he was in the infirmary. Teacher Mi was sitting next to him, holding a yellowed and broken book in his hand, studying it word by word.

After rubbing his face, Gu Sheng managed to wake up a little. He half-leaned on the head of the bed and asked softly, "Have you found it?"

Teacher Mi did not speak, but raised the thing in his hand to indicate that it was the book "About Pain".

When he saw the cover, Gu Sheng's eyes shone and he hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "Is this in the sports category? Let me take a look. The information we want to know is in it."

Teacher Mi was not so excited. He handed over the book and said, "It's unlikely. I didn't find anything valuable."

Gu Sheng grinned, tilted his head and said, "You can't find it, and I may not be able to find it either. You're a sports person, so of course you don't know anything about medicine."

His narrow eyes rolled his eyes at Gu Sheng, but he said nothing. He didn't know whether he was speechless or disdainful of being acquainted with someone like this husky.

Gu Sheng turned over the yellowed paper. On it were some descriptions of movements that can easily cause pain during exercise, as well as some professional recovery knowledge.

"No wonder this thing is in the sports category. It turns out that it has all these contents."

"But why did the previous school nurse repeatedly mention this book?"

Gu Sheng frowned and stared at the book in his hand, lost in thought. Teacher Mi next to him watched quietly and did not disturb him.

For a moment, the two people under the light fell silent, but the shadows of the two people outside the window overlapped infinitely, like a couple whispering.

After a long while, Gu Sheng still had no clue. He could only look up at Teacher Mi helplessly and said in a low voice, "Have you brought back the two books in my hand?"

Hearing him mention this, Teacher Mi frowned slightly and pondered for a few seconds before speaking, "Those two books are not in the school's borrowing catalog. Where did you find them?"

"something wrong?"

"There's no problem, it just feels a little weird. All the books in the school are printed by ourselves, and now there are foreign books..." Teacher Mi replied.

Gu Sheng sat up from the bed, grabbed Teacher Mi's shoulders with both hands, and asked with wide eyes: "Do you print all the books by yourself?"

Teacher Mi lowered his head and glanced at the hand on his shoulder. Gu Sheng also realized that his behavior was inappropriate, and he retracted his hand, but the curiosity on his face did not diminish at all.

"Yes, I started teaching not long after I joined the job, and using my own teaching materials, students' scores improved quickly."

Gu Sheng's fingers curled up unconsciously, always feeling like he had caught something, but he couldn't figure out where the clue was. He felt like there were countless ants crawling in his heart, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

He could only put his thoughts together and ask again: "Why aren't foreign books allowed into the school? Is it a rule or is there some other reason?"

Teacher Mi combed her hair and leaned back on the chair with her straight back. A flash of memories flashed through her slightly narrow eyes. Her voice was no longer cold, but became a little deeper.

"When I first entered the school and Principal Lu came to power, it didn't take long for her to deliver a speech and take a series of measures, with the purpose of improving students' enrollment rates."

"One of them is that books from outside are not allowed to enter the campus. Even the teachers' own books need to be inspected by the school and then re-printed in the school."

Gu Sheng couldn't help but interrupt loudly: "What do those books have to do with the students? Isn't it okay if the teacher doesn't take them out?"

"It's easy to say, but students are all-pervasive. There was once a student who stole a few detective books from the teacher and passed them around. As a result, someone copied the above method and caused the death of six students." "This matter was eventually exposed. When we got to the top, it was because of this incident that Principal Lu came to power. At the same time, the school was very afraid of parents coming to school."

Gu Sheng nodded reluctantly. The doubts in his heart were finally solved at first, but new questions arose again. He looked at Teacher Mi's side face and wondered whether he should ask what was in his mind.

Teacher Mi seemed to notice something, glanced at Gu Sheng and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Pan Nuannuan and others once told me that these students have been in school for two years. Is this true?"

"It's true." Teacher Mi nodded, but then shook his head, "It's also false."

"What do you mean?" Gu Sheng's tone was a little dissatisfied. He felt that this woman was looking for fun.

Teacher Mi did not answer. Instead, he stood up, walked to the window, looked at the dark sky outside, took a deep breath, and then explained.

"You are a medical student. You should know that the brain has the function of self-deception. Just like when you experienced that in the library, did it feel like the time was very long?"

"Every day feels like a year?"

"That's pretty much what it means. These children are living too hard. They have endless classes every day, endless papers to finish, and teachers are nagging them in their ears all the time."

"They naturally feel that time passes very slowly."

Suspicion flashed in Gu Sheng's eyes. This statement was unreliable. Even if the students felt that their days were like years, they shouldn't have been unaware of it for so long.

Moreover, the brain's self-deception will not last for such a long time.

Teacher Mi turned around, stared at Gu Sheng with cold eyes, and said slowly: "What if they have lost their perception of time."

"This is impossible, the clock on the wall shows..."

When Gu Sheng said this, he couldn't go on. Clocks are just dead objects that can be changed by humans. They can't be trusted at all.

When it comes to human body perception, it is even more untrustworthy. Some people sleep for one minute in the morning, but it is already noon when they open their eyes.

This is the loss of one's own perception of time in a hazy state.

"Why is that?"

"That's what you're looking for."

"What about you? You obviously know a lot of things. Why don't you go find it yourself? Instead, you try your best to let me do all this?"

Gu Sheng lowered his eyes and the veins on the back of his hands popped out. Ever since he entered the world of ghost stories, he had learned not to believe others easily.

Teacher Mi walked up to Gu Sheng, took his hand, put it on her cheek, and said softly: "You are different from all of us. There are some things that only you can find."

"Some truths, even if we see them, are of no use. We will block the relevant memories, and even personally destroy the truths that may evoke memories."

"I don't believe it, no one..." Gu Sheng shook his head, and just as he was about to continue speaking, movement at the door interrupted his voice.

"Brother, please help...my stomach hurts..."

(End of this chapter)