Hell App - Chapter 119 - Revenge

When life becomes unbearable, you can just go to sleep. But when you wake up the next day, you will find that …… life has become even worse.

Death and despair are just a part of daily life on campus.

Ever since Ning Xiuli ascended to the heavens in the office, the students started dying one after the other.

Seeing the number of their peers slowly decrease, the children’s faces became gloomier day by day, and even the delicious meals could not improve their mood.

However, Bai Yan’s mood was still rather good.

The only thing that bothered him was that his classmates were becoming harder to read.

Ever since Ning Xiuli announced the news of the final exams, the students’ eyes shone with a cruel light, no longer retaining the innocence from when they first entered the school.

Yes, tomorrow, the ‘Special District’ will conduct the final exams.

It will also mark the 30th day of their enrollment, and once the exams are over, a year will have passed.

Then, the students will become second graders.

Bai Yan thought that the concept of thirty days equating to one year was a little strange, but after a moment of confusion, he felt that it was quite normal.

Influenced by the ghosts that overshadowed the campus, Bai Yan ignored the irrationality of it. He happily got up to prepare for the exams. 

…

Because the final exams are tomorrow, it is natural to study beforehand.

Bai Yan finished his breakfast and came to the classroom early.

Many had arrived before him. They held tattered textbooks and were memorizing content with frowning faces.

“Hey, what word is written here? Damn it, I should have known better than to glue the textbook!”

Such lamentations could be heard from time to time. Unlike them, Bai Yan didn’t encounter this kind of problem because his textbooks were clean and unharmed.

Over the past ten days or so, quite a few people in Ning Xiuli’s Chinese class have died, resulting in Li Hua gaining many ‘new friends’. This caused the students to feel fear and disgust towards the literature textbooks, and many of them used glue to stick together the lessons they had studied to avoid looking at them. 

However, tomorrow is the final exam, and Ning Xiuli had reminded everyone with a smile that those who fail will be eliminated. 

The exam will definitely test the material they have studied, and the students who have survived until now are not stupid; they are all well aware of what elimination implies. Thus, they began to review the literature and mathematics textbooks, and those who had glued theirs together could only grit their teeth and tear it apart…

Seeing all his classmates fervently studying, Bai Yan walked to his seat and prepared to take out his literature textbook for review as well.

However, before he began to study, he noticed that there was something small sitting on his desk.

It was an exquisite dessert placed on a napkin.

Bai Yan easily recognized it.

Ever since the chefs died, everyone’s meals had significantly improved.

In addition to receiving three nutritious meals a day, they also get a small piece of dessert every afternoon.

The ghost chefs were much more proficient at cooking than when they were alive. The desserts they made were delicious, and it was one of the few comforts the children could enjoy at the school. 

Although Bai Yan was indifferent towards the desserts, he had seen his classmates eagerly devour them and therefore knew about everyone’s enthusiasm for them.

To the many children who had lost hope in life, the desserts were their only motivation to keep living. 

Now, looking at the small piece of dessert on his desk, Bai Yan couldn’t help but feel bewildered——

Ning Xiuli only gave each student one piece, and this is clearly yesterday’s pineapple dessert. How could someone resist eating it?

Who purposely left the dessert for him?

With suspicion growing in his heart, Bai Yan suddenly didn’t feel like studying anymore.

He stood his textbook upright and pretended to read it while scanning his surroundings with his peripheral vision. 

After a while, he discovered a girl named Xu Yue casting frequent glances at the dessert placed beside him. 

Bai Yan observed for a while and noticed that she was particularly interested in it.

Besides Xu Yue, the little fatty Ning Xiaobo also occasionally eyed Bai Yan’s water bottle. Bai Yan immediately understood what was going on.

Thus, he pretended to be memorizing the material in the textbook. After a while, he feigned thirst and grabbed the water bottle beside him.

Under the expectant gaze of the little fatty, Bai Yan lifted and lowered the water bottle several times, causing the little fatty to feel increasingly anxious.

Finally, he let go of the water bottle. It fell to the ground with a clatter——however, what spilled out wasn’t water, but viscous glue.

I knew it! You thick-browed big-eyed (1) little fatty wanted to harm me!

When he picked up the water bottle, Bai Yan had immediately felt that its weight was not quite right.

Even though he didn’t examine the contents inside, he knew for sure that other substances had been added.

After thinking about it briefly, Bai Yan concluded that this happened because he refused to lend a book to Ning Xiaobo yesterday.

Likewise, when Xu Yue left him the dessert, it was not an act of affection; instead, it harbored malicious intent.

Thinking back, Bai Yan remembered that the day before, Xu Yue asked for his dessert because she noticed that he didn’t enjoy it. However, not only did he refuse, he even threw it away right in front of her. It was probably this incident that caused her to hold a grudge against him.

After some thought, Bai Yan decided that these two people were not at fault.

Actually, apart from these two, there have been many classmates targeting him recently.

This is because Ning Xiuli announced that if everyone passed the final exam, the lowest-scoring students will be eliminated until only 20 are left overall.

Therefore, not only does everyone have to ensure that they achieve good results, but they also have to get rid of opponents. Except for a few overly confident individuals, no one can guarantee that they won’t perform the worst in the exam.

As a result, the past few days have been very intense. Two dull-witted students had even been eliminated early and died in resentment. 

Bai Yan did not mind that everyone was scheming against each other; in fact, he even found it entertaining. The only thing that frustrated him was that he was targeted a lot, as if everyone despised him!

Bai Yan felt wronged because he considered himself innocent.

Although he had kindly ‘helped’ his classmates overcome their fear of exams behind their backs, not being discovered means that those deeds weren’t done by him!

But even though they do not know that he is the culprit, his classmates still enjoy poisoning his food and tampering with his possessions.

Bai Yan could not figure out the motive, so he concluded that it was because he was too outstanding.

It must be his aura of a top student that caused his entire class to inexplicably turn against him.

Believing that he had found the root of his problem, Bai Yan brushed the matter aside and quietly kept Ning Xiaobo and Xu Yue in mind.

……

After studying all day, before the dinner bell rang, Bai Yan excused himself and returned to the dormitory early.

He opened the door and headed straight for his bed.

Crouching down, he cautiously checked his pillow.

Sure enough, his pillow had also been tampered with. The originally soft texture was now sharp and prickly, indicating that someone had stuffed nails into it.

Without a second thought, Bai Yan grabbed his pillow and switched it with the little fatty’s.

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1. Can mean that he is good-looking

TL note:

This is my first time translating so if it sucks, please tell me.