In the third year of secondary school, the pressure of studying became more and more intense, and the accidents among classmates were increasing. Strangely, however, all accidents only happen to students with good grades.

One day at noon, when most of the students were walking on the way to and from the cafeteria and classrooms, a free-fall body fell from the roof of the teaching building, hit the concrete floor with a "bang", spasmed twice and then stopped, and the red viscous liquid began to spread along the free-fall landing site. This free fall is a little girl in class eight, who was a seedling with a great academic performance and a good chance to be admitted to the Sailing School. Perhaps because of the recent stress, or because of the recent abnormal performance in an exam, she chose to end her life in such a way because of her fragile spirit.

One morning, the security guard of the Enlightenment School found that the manhole cover next to the school gate was missing, and the security guard looked into the well and saw a boy lying motionless on the low well. This is a good student in Class 6, and he is also a seedling who is very likely to be admitted to Qihang School, but his recent grades have been very good, and his mentality is also very good, it is said that he has no reason to commit suicide, but after his body was found, the teachers and students of the school felt a little creepy.

The partners of the Excellence Alliance agreed on two things together: first, to do their best to be admitted to the Sailing School; Second, life is given by parents, and no one has the right to commit suicide.

But even so, there is no guarantee that there will be no accidents.

Sun Pengcheng is a student in the sixth class of the third and sixth classes of Qimeng Middle School, and in the first two years of his middle school years, he did not have any intersection with the Excellence Alliance, and he never felt that he would have anything to do with the Excellence Alliance in the future. He studied well enough, and his sports were good enough, and with his results, he was quite hopeful of being admitted to the Sailing School, but he was never a confident person.

Sometimes it is good to not be confident, for example, he dreams of living in the Pure Land, but he is not confident that he has the strength to be admitted to the Sailing School, which gives rise to the motivation for him to continue to work hard, so even in the third year of junior high school, even if his grades are at the top of the class, he still redoubles his efforts.

After school that night, he was so engrossed in revision that by the time he left school, there was no one on campus.

It had just rained, and there was a girl running on the slippery playground. But Sun Pengcheng didn't pay attention to her, he walked towards the school gate, and while looking down to think about a math problem that he hadn't solved just now.

Thinking about it, he suddenly stopped, because he saw two rows of footprints in the muddy earth after the rain.

It's not uncommon for the rain to have countless footprints in the ground, but it's not surprising that most of the footprints are from the classroom to the school gate. These two rows of footprints are not. Both rows of footprints were from the classroom to the bathroom on the side of the playground, and there were no footprints returning.

What's even stranger is that the two rows of footprints are, strictly speaking, one row is shoe prints, while the other row is real footprints, and the toe marks are clearly visible in the dirt.

At the end of the night, when school is over, how can anyone walk barefoot in the mud and go to the bathroom next to the playground. This is something that Sun Pengcheng cannot understand.

Out of curiosity, Sun Pengcheng walked towards the bathroom step by step.

Turn left for the men's restroom and right for the women's restroom. And the two rows of footprints walked in the direction of the women's toilet. This made Sun Pengcheng even more anxious and curious. Because the barefoot footprints were very large and wide, and they were clearly the footprints of a man.

Sun Pengcheng did not hesitate to turn to the direction of the women's toilet.

Then in front of the door of the women's bathroom, Sun Pengcheng almost screamed.

Blood, blood all over the ground.

A pale girl sat at the door of the women's bathroom, her eyes closed, her face pale. The sleeve of her left arm was cut open, and a deep, long knife cut along the veins in her left wrist. And her right hand holds a blood-stained, razor-sharp rhinoceros blade.

Sun Pengcheng had never seen such a standard suicide knife cut by cutting his wrists, and he almost fainted with fright. The blood was still pouring out with the girl's pulse.

But Sun Pengcheng didn't faint, he stood there and hesitated for five seconds, then quickly picked up the girl and ran towards the school infirmary.

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Because of the timely rescue, the girl's life was saved. Fortunately, she only lost too much blood, and after giving the girl an infusion, she woke up.

The nurse holds a pencil and moves it in front of the girl's pupils.

"Doctor, no." The girl's gaze followed the pen, and she said, "I'm conscious. ”

"Wen Yu! Scared mom to death! The girl's mother threw herself in front of the hospital bed, "Why are you so stupid!" It doesn't matter if you get in or not, don't think about it! ”

This life, which was saved by Sun Pengcheng's curiosity, was none other than Jiang Wenyu, a member of the Excellence Alliance.

"Mom? I, I didn't! Jiang Wenyu replied inexplicably, "I, what, how did I lie in the hospital?" ”

"Silly boy, how did you come up with the idea of committing suicide by cutting your wrists? Fortunately, a classmate passed by and rescued you, otherwise, how would you let your mother live......" said the mother, unable to cry.

"What, what?" Jiang Wenyu noticed that her left forearm was wrapped in layers of gauze, and she began to desperately recall what happened.

"Mom, I remember, when I was out of school, I wanted to go to the bathroom, and when I walked to the bathroom door, I felt someone bang my head against the wall!" Jiang Wenyu said in horror, she quickly remembered the events of that day.

"I remember, my head hurt very much, and then I fainted, I vaguely remember, it was true that my arm hurt, but it was definitely not my own wrist cut!" Jiang Wenyu recalled with certainty.

Jiang Wenyu was discharged after two days in the hospital. The first thing she did when she returned to school was to find this classmate named Sun Pengcheng from Class 6 to express her sincere gratitude.

"Thank you for saving my life!"

"Ah, you're welcome, I happened to be passing by too! Everyone is under too much pressure, but don't think about it! ”

"Thank you~ But you really misunderstood, I didn't commit suicide by cutting my wrists, someone wanted to harm me."

"Huh?"

"That day, when I came home from school, I walked through the playground and suddenly wanted to go to the toilet, but when I walked to the door of the toilet, someone grabbed my head from behind and hit the toilet wall hard, and I fainted."

"Is it a barefoot man?"

"Huh? Barefoot people? I don't know, I didn't see the man. ”

"I was going to go home directly from school, but I saw two rows of footprints walking in the king's toilet, one row is yours, and the other row is a barefoot footprint."

"Barefoot footprints?"

"Well, I'm sure! I was curious, so I walked over, but when I saw you lying on the ground with your wrists cut, I didn't pay attention to the bare footprints. ”

"Huh? Have you ever looked at those footprints later? ”

"It rained again last night, and the footprints were gone."

"The more I listen to it, the more scary it becomes...... I have to tell the school about this! ”

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The case of Jiang Wenyu's suspected murder has attracted great attention from the school, parents and students.

Everyone began to suspect that the previous series of suicides or accidents of good students were most likely man-made.

But what about motivation?

It couldn't be more obvious.

The number of places for Qiqi Middle School to enter the Sailing School is limited, and if it cannot be born as the Sailing School, it is equivalent to ruining the dream of students and their parents to live in the Pure Land in the future.

Almost everyone has a strong desire for this dream, so it is possible for students and parents to do anything drastic.

But it is impossible to verify whether it was done by a barefoot person, because Sun Pengcheng was the only person who saw this footprint, and the footprints were long gone, and the only thing everyone could do was to be more careful.

However, out of gratitude to Sun Pengcheng, the Excellence Alliance sincerely invited Sun Pengcheng to join. As a result, Jiang Wenyu's life-saving benefactor became the last member to join the Excellence Alliance. So far, there are a total of 11 members of the Excellence Alliance. They all have the ambition to be admitted to the Sailing School.

But they also know that it is impossible for everyone to be admitted to the Sailing School.

Take Enlightenment Middle School as an example, except for Cao Duo, the other ten members of the Excellence Alliance are all studying in Enlightenment Middle School, and the Enlightenment Middle School has only eighteen students who are promoted to the Voyage School every year, so it is impossible for more than half of these eighteen indicators to be accounted for by the Excellence Alliance, right?