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Chapter 191 The Strange School
At this moment, Xue Lude and the old undead directly slaughtered their way through the entire village.

But what puzzled them most about the entire village was that the old men and women, with their twisted branches, had no souls!

Or rather, their souls were extremely weak, so weak that they were like candles flickering in the wind, which would be extinguished with just a gentle breath.

As for Xue Dinglu, he couldn't understand why those guys were so weak. If it weren't for their special woody bodies, they would be even weaker than ordinary people, truly like "zombies".

“Young Xue, I sense something is wrong. The souls of those ‘undead’ are not normal. They are not weakened because their souls were obliterated after death, but because most of their souls were absorbed by something, making them so empty…” the old undead said.

Having appeared on Earth due to the "reincarnation of an evil spirit," he even felt a sense of familiarity with his kind.

"No, it's pretty much what I guessed. They're essentially 'zombies,' and zombies don't have strong souls. This is a common setting in zombie-themed works in our world," Xue Dinglu said.

"However, in their case, the source of the zombies has become the evil spirits summoned by Zigela and that group of corrupt mystics. In fact, given how popular zombie culture is today, it's not impossible that they might even have a zombie demon at their disposal."

However, just as Xue finished speaking, he saw a school at the end of the village.

From within the school came countless noisy voices of students reading aloud. The combined sounds of tens of thousands of students created an eerie and terrifying atmosphere in this strange village.

Xue Luding frowned.

The villages outside the school are full of zombies whose souls have been completely consumed, so why is the school here filled with the sound of reading?

Also, is Amei's school really that rigorous and serious?

According to Xue's Law, Amei's school has always been a happy education, and their children have never had to worry about school entrance exams or exams. Going to school is more of a formality, and they just make friends at school.

But this is actually a stereotype. Amei's public schools are like this, but the private schools are all upgraded versions of Hengshui ProMax, where students study and work like crazy.

They would even take out loans to buy stimulants, various hormones, and even specific "smart drugs" on their way to school, and then study for more than 20 hours a day after injecting themselves with hormones and stimulants.

This level of hellish intensity is arguably no less severe than that of Japan and the Korean Peninsula, and may even surpass it.

In reality, the academic elites in Japan and the Peninsula would never go so far as to inject themselves with hormones to study.

One reason for this is the high tuition fees of private colleges. Once they enter, they are basically burdened with decades of student loans. This is also the only way for countless rural students to change their social class and no longer be considered "rednecks".

That means studying to finish university, then taking on decades of debt to become a private doctor, lawyer, or politician for conglomerates—that's how one achieves upward social mobility.

Even with the help of hormones and stimulants, the success rate of redneck children in making it ashore is no more than 5%...

Most of them just get into ordinary universities, and then they can neither become the rural rednecks like their parents, nor the respected elites in the city. Like animals, they have to work four jobs a day just to barely support themselves after paying off their student loans.

They even had to sell their blood in their spare time to supplement their household income.

When they finally can no longer endure this kind of life, they will go bankrupt, lose their jobs, and become homeless...

It can be said that for the rednecks who make up more than 90% of the Amerindian population, their lives are summed up like this.

That's why politicians representing that segment of the population were able to easily defeat Harris, who represented the elite class, because for the entire US, the tragedy of those people had been repeated time and time again.

Of course, I only learned about Amei's Xue Law through "Reader" and "Yilin" magazines before, and I didn't know these secrets at all.

When Xue Dinglu entered the school, he saw countless people picking up books and reciting.

This school wasn't just a middle or high school; Xue Dinglu even saw elementary school students, middle school students, university students... white people, black people, Asian people, Latinos, Hispanics... and so on.

It seemed that students of all ages were crammed together, and the only constant was that they were all studying desperately.

Without the teacher's supervision, they naturally studied hard, and their enthusiasm even made Xue Lude doubt his eyes. He thought he had come to Maotanchang or Hengshui, instead of this Amei school.

The school gates were open, but not a single child skipped school. Unlike the schools in Amei's TV series where all that was left was bullying and dating, this was the kind of school that Xue Dinglu was more familiar with. They were closed off, confined, and every student was like a walking corpse.

Even though it used to be the norm to go to school 7 days a week and study for more than 15 hours a day, according to Xue's Law, this was the case.

But here, he could even feel their even more intense pressure to get into a good school. "Hey, don't wander off," a typical blonde American girl suddenly said, pulling Xue Lude along by the hand.

She looked to be under 15 years old and a high school girl, but compared to the blonde, blue-eyed American high school girls in TV dramas, this girl had faint dark circles under her eyes and looked listless, as if she hadn't had enough rest.

"What's wrong?" Xue asked in return.

"The consequences of not studying here are dire! Don't wander around, or something will come and grab you!" The girl, very familiar with the place, leaned close and whispered.

Xue Dinglu was not used to this natural and familiar attitude.

"Then why don't you go to study?" Xue Luding's doubts were palpable. In such a school, this "bad boy" dressed as a blonde bombshell was so conspicuous.

"Because I'm a bad girl, I can't afford to be lazy anymore, so I'll just open up and marry a good husband. If I'm lucky, I can get a large share of the property in a divorce, and my husband will have to send child support every month..." This seems to be the shameless words of a truant blonde hottie.

Xue Law: "..."

You're quite honest, aren't you? Whoever marries you will be incredibly unlucky.

Xue Dinglu was at a loss for words when it came to this girl. Similarly, she was the first "person" he had met since arriving here who could communicate normally with him and provide him with information.

Outside the school are twisted "zombies," and inside the school are all learning machines—he is the only person who can communicate with others.

"What exactly happened here?" Xue asked.

He wasn't just referring to the school, but also to the zombies outside who seemed to have been "drained."

"Haven't things always been like this here?" The hot girl seemed puzzled as to why Xue Dinglu was talking nonsense.

Xue Law: “???”

“This has always been the case here. Children are sent here and study hard until they graduate and get into a school. If they’re lucky, they can take on decades of loans and become private lawyers, doctors, or other elites. If they’re even luckier, they can become state or federal employees,” the hot girl explained to Xue.

"But if you're unlucky, then you'll just have to work your whole life with the loan. You might not be able to pay it off until you're old, or you might never be able to pay it off in your lifetime. Anyway, you can survive by selling blood. Work a little, sell some blood, and that's a pretty good life, isn't it?" She spoke of these terrifying things with an air of nonchalance.

This level of abstraction is something Xue's Law could never have imagined.

"And what about you? How come you're still able to stay curled up here?" This was Xue's biggest question. In this strange village and school, this seemingly normal blonde bombshell was actually the most abnormal one.

It's like if a world full of deformed, twisted, fleshy monsters suddenly appears, and a beautiful girl who conforms to traditional beauty standards suddenly appears, then that beautiful girl might not be a real girl, but an evil god...

"I told you I was slacking off, and I'll live off my husband for the rest of my life. Wait, let's go... the student council is coming to enforce discipline!" The blonde bombshell grabbed Xue Dinglu's hand and began to evade their scrutiny.

When Xue Dinglu turned his head, he saw a group of puppets with countless tangled threads behind them. They held forms in their hands, recording the situation of each class and classroom, and scoring each place.

Xue's Law observed that low-scoring classes were taken away, and when they returned, they were completely different...it felt almost mechanical...

But it seems there were no consequences as she described. One can only wonder if this child had been punished before, which explains the deep psychological trauma she carries.

“No, Xue, there’s something wrong with the girl next to you.” Old Barak put down his phone again and said to Xue Luding.

"I've known for a long time that she has a problem, but I just don't know exactly what it is," Xue Dinglu complained.

“You may not have noticed, but in the hour you were together just now, she seemed to have visibly grown up, like she suddenly grew more than a year older,” the old ghost said.

"Grow up?" Xue Luding asked, puzzled.

"When you first met her, her measurements were 72-52-70, clearly the figure of a little girl," the old ghost said. "But only an hour later, her measurements are now 77-52-72, she has obviously grown a lot."

Xue Law: “?”

No, even he, a local, doesn't know the meaning of size or how to measure it. You guys can measure size with your naked eye after going online?

(End of this chapter)