It's so weird here, after all. You can only escape on your own. ”

"So, what do you need the two of us to do with the new kid?" I asked questions that I had thought about countless times. This girl has a strong planning ability, which can be seen from the puppet in front of the dormitory. Since he was able to steal such a big puppet out of the physiology classroom quietly, he hadn't violated the school rules. She, certainly not simple.

"There must be six people to escape a certain step." She replied vaguely, as if she didn't want to go into too much detail, "Anyway, trust me, according to my plan, you will definitely be able to escape." It's a dead end for you to stay here, so why not fight for it? ”

I glanced at her, "Since you're here, you must want to go out." But you don't seem to be very open-mouthed. ”

"I've said everything that needs to be said, and some things don't work." Yiyi squinted her eyes and stretched lazily "Although it is said that under the elm tree is the safest place, who knows if there will be ears on the wall?" ”

"Damn, why do you all say this elm tree is safe?" Zhang Guofeng scratched his head and said this sentence that I also wanted to ask.

"We don't know much about that." Yiyi seemed a little confused, "The seniors all said that it was safe here, and I have experienced it myself." As long as you break the school rules and run under the elm tree in the garden before you are punished, the punishment will go away. There are eight elm trees in total, which once belonged to different societies. But more and more people have died recently, and there are only four left in the community. ”

"Didn't you create your community?" I'm okay to ask.

"Of course not, the history of the community is still very long. It can be traced back to the beginning of the opening of this behavior modification school. It's just that I'm the only one of the club members I joined who died, so I became the president of the club as a matter of course. They were also invited by me one after another. She gestured to the three behind her.

"I see." I touched my chin thoughtfully.

Zhang Guofeng patted the trunk of the big tree with his hand, "It is said that the elm tree has the function of driving away ghosts, boss, do you say that this school is not opened by ghosts, specializing in eating human flesh and human blood, so you came up with so many strange school rules to kill you and eat you?" And the elm tree restrained them and made them dare not come, so this became the safest place! ”

Song Mao scoffed, "Idiot, how did I hear that the elm tree is the easiest tree to summon ghosts, and the willow tree is the one who exorcises ghosts." And, if the school was really run by ghosts, how could they possibly accommodate these elms that restrained them. It was cut down long ago. ”

"You're an idiot. Since it's something that can restrain them, what do you say they use to cut it? Zhang Guofeng retorted.

Song Mao said disdainfully, "Stupid, stupid stupid." They can take advantage of the school rules and tell us to cut down these elms. But they didn't, but let the elm tree remain, and it became a reasonable existence. ”

Yiyi and I trembled at the same time, yes, if the elm tree is really the safest place, it is not good for this school, and the school will definitely not allow the big elm tree to grow on the campus. But the elm tree has been preserved for a long time, right?

Yiyi bit her lip, and her face was cloudy.

Without saying a word, I walked up to the elm tree and pulled off a piece of bark with my hands.

After just one glance, his face suddenly changed.

Elm, known as "elm lumps", is said to be unenlightened, difficult to solve and difficult to cut.

And the elm tree in front of you is 25 meters high. The trunk is erect, the branches are more spread, and the crown is nearly spherical or oval. The bark I cut off was dark gray, rough, and irregularly longitudinal. It would have been typical of elm bark characteristics. But when I look closely, I feel a little different.

After thinking about it for a long time, I said, "This tree seems to have grown by tillers and grafting." ”

"Tillers? What is that? Yiyi and others don't understand this technical term.

I explained, "Tillering is the branching of plants such as grasses below or near the ground. Produced in larger and nutrient-rich tillers. The tillering node that is directly issued from the base of the main stem is called the primary tiller, and new tillering buds and adventitious roots can be produced at the base of the primary tillering to form the secondary tillering. In good conditions, the third and fourth level tillers can be formed. As a result, a plant forms many branches that grow together. The early tillers that can be tasseled and fruited are called effective tillers, and the late tillers that cannot be tasseled or tasseled without bearing fruit are called ineffective tillers. Effective tillering is directly related to the number of spikes per unit area.

For example, the number of tillers of wheat is affected by various conditions such as water, fertilizer, light, temperature, and agricultural measures. The conditions are appropriate, and there are many tillers. Theoretically, tillers are infinite. At present, someone uses a single wheat seed to cultivate 100 tillers and extract more than 100 ears of wheat. ”

"You're talking about grasses, and I think elm trees belong to the elm family. Can this also be tillered? Yiyi was very skeptical.

"Yes, it's just that the survival rate is not high, and the methods are very harsh." I pondered for a moment: "Generally speaking, the tillering joints of the elm tree must be grafted on tall trees. ”

"So what's wrong with this elm." Yiyi looked at my face, and a trace of indescribable things flashed in her eyes, "After you looked at the bark just now, your face was not very good. ”

I threw the bark away from my hand, not intending to answer her question, "It's just a little cold." Let's explain the action! ”

"I'm afraid there's no time." Yiyi looked at the watch on her wrist and stood up, "If we can't escape before half past twelve, we will be in trouble." ”

"That's the explanation." I didn't move.

"I don't have time." Yiyi smiled slyly, "Unless you tell me what you just found." ”

"Let's go, then." I immediately stood up as well, as if I couldn't say anything.

Yiyi stomped her feet hard, her angry teeth itching, but she couldn't do anything about me. A group of six people cautiously walked out of the garden. I patronized all the elm trees along the way, and I cut off a little bark from each elm tree, but my face became more and more gloomy the more I looked at it. Gradually, a vague thought came out of my mind. Somebody idea for this school.

Yiyi waited patiently for me, and although it was very good, she never asked about the bark again. It took five minutes to get out of the small garden, and the darkness approaching midnight seemed mysterious to many, especially in the unlit mountains.

There are very few lights in Huayuan's bad behavior education heart, and only a few sparse street lamps glow dimly white along the way. Students were not allowed to leave the dormitory after 10 p.m., and the street lights seemed to have become superfluous.

The stars in the canopy were still very bright, and with the light of the stars, the nearby scene was not difficult to see.

Yiyi and the others seem to be familiar with the road, and it seems that they are stepping on points everywhere when they have time, and they have been planning the escape plan for a long time. The two of us followed them for more than 300 meters, when the person in front of us suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" I asked in a whisper.

"Shh Yiyi put her finger to her mouth to make a silent gesture, and she gestured with her gaze not far away.

In the dim light around me, I could still see a small note attached to the willow tree not far away, but I couldn't see the contents of the side.

"Is it a school rule?" I asked.

Yiyi nodded, "On the side is Article 102 of the school rules, anyone who wanders at night will be killed by a tree." ”

"Killed by a tree?" Zhang Guofeng asked strangely, "How to kill?" The tree has no hands. ”

"I don't know, and I don't want to know." Yiyi replied, "There were people who tried to escape late, but many were found hanging from the tree with the school rules written on it during the day. The appearance of death is particularly terrifying. The tongue was long, the whole body was dry, and there was not a drop of blood left in the body, as if it had been sucked clean by a tree. The shriveled corpse would hang on the tree for a whole day, and would not disappear until the next morning, presumably carried down by the school worker and buried somewhere at random. ”

The school does not hide the circumstances of the student's death, and seems to be deliberately trying to make an example of the monkey. I thought for a moment, "Do you have a way not to break the school rules?" ”

"Absolutely." Yiyi smiled smugly, "For this, we have been preparing for a long time." Although it is not clear what the specific punishment method of the school rules is, as long as it is a side-kick to bypass, it will definitely be fine. Xu Lu! ”

"Roger." Xu Lu casually picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it over. The pebble made an arc and gently passed through the tree, falling not far away.

Nothing happened.

He pulled something out of his backpack. I almost laughed when I saw it. It's actually a rabbit. The rabbit had grayish-brown skin, was small, and its legs were kicking and kicking in the air. Look at the fur and know it's a hare.

"Amazing, Xu Lu caught it in the garden with a trap." Yiyi explained, "The school rules here are very mysterious, but through a lot of observation, I found that they still have loopholes. ”

"I know a little bit about that, too." I replied, "The school rules only punish one person at a certain time, right, that is, one school rule corresponds to one person, and the punishment disappears." The penalty time is 27 seconds after the offense. ”

"Quite right, very right, so to speak. I didn't expect you to find so many after only one day. It took me more than half a month to find out by chance. Yiyi and the others seemed extremely surprised that I could say this, "But you must not know the rest of the points." The school rules only react to two things, one is an inanimate humanoid object.

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