This is too hilarious!

1. We all crave high definition when watching movies, and we want the ultimate dream experience!

Class 3, Grade 1, Yuncheng No.1 Middle School.

"It's the monthly exam today, so everyone be on your best."

Wearing black-rimmed glasses and carrying a test paper under his arm, Zou Shuhuai walked into the classroom and made the announcement directly.

"No way! Didn't we just take the exam last month? I thought it was a joke yesterday!"

A somewhat familiar wail sounded beside Bai Hui.

"Li Youye?" Zou Shuhuai pushed up his glasses, his tone serious. "Why do you think the monthly exam is called a 'monthly exam'?"

"Teacher Zou! Don't tell me!" Li Youye wailed, her face filled with despair.

Zou Shuhuai put down the test paper and stared sharply at him: "Li Youye, you came in last place in the 'Strange Tales' exam last month!"

"Still not reflecting on your actions? I deliberately arranged for you to sit next to Bai Hui. If you come in last again this time, see how I deal with you!"

He looked around the class and said in a slightly gentler tone, "The same goes for the other students. They should ask Bai Hui for advice more often."

He has three "dream devices" at home! If you don't understand something about ghost stories and are too embarrassed to ask the teacher, surely you could ask a classmate, right?

As soon as he finished speaking, all eyes in the class immediately focused on Bai Hui.

As the focus of attention, Bai Hui was completely bewildered.

Is this a high school classroom? My deskmate is indeed Li Youye... but what's this "Strange Tales Department"? Am I dreaming? This is too real...

The gazes of his classmates made him subconsciously look back.

Approaching thirty, he had long forgotten the faces of his high school classmates, but now they were unusually clear—only within the first semester of this "dream".

How could I still remember?

"Bai Hui?" Zou Shuhuai's voice interrupted his thoughts. "Did the teacher's words cause you any trouble?"

"Huh? No, no."

Bai Hui looked at the young Chinese teacher, who seemed to be a few years later in his memory... He suppressed his distracting thoughts.

"That's good." Zou Shuhuai smiled at him, then his face hardened. "The exam begins! Pass the papers!"

"In my dream, I became a top student? But why am I still in the last row?"

Bai Hui muttered to himself.

His gaze swept over the listless Li Youye.

"Could it be that this guy dragged me down?"

That makes sense, after all, this guy has been his "fixed frenemy" since high school.

Li Youye, who was slumped over her desk, unable to accept the reality, didn't see Bai Hui's gaze as the exam paper was passed to her.

The bell rang, and the classroom fell silent.

Although Bai Hui thought it was a dream, he still habitually looked at the exam paper—

But the first line of text made his heart skip a beat:

"During the ghost story exam, please do not try to see if a 'long-tongued parrot' appears at the security camera located on the left or right corners of the front wall of the classroom."

He subconsciously looked up—

Behind the monitor in the right corner of the blackboard, there was a parrot with beautiful feathers, about the size of a palm, but with a tongue twice the length of its body!

They were spying on the entire classroom!

[Facing something beyond reason, sanity points decrease by 15]

Bai Hui rubbed his eyes, suspecting that he had contracted floaters in his dream.

The parrot then opened its beak and gave him a strange and eerie smile!

The whole class buried themselves in answering the questions, while the teacher, Zou Shuhuai, looked around with his head down.

Bai Huichong nodded at the somewhat strange-looking parrot.

The parrot displayed a human-like bewilderment.

[Facing something beyond reason, sanity points decrease by 20]

Bai Hui looked down at the second line of the exam paper:

If you accidentally see a long-tongued parrot, please avoid eye contact with it!

He looked up again.

The parrot flapped its wings and dragged its long, blood-red tongue close to Bai Hui. The long tongue even brushed against the hair of Zou Shuhuai, who was on patrol!

[Facing something beyond reason, sanity points decrease by 40]

[Your sanity has dropped significantly. Please switch to higher graphics settings as soon as possible.]

Simple lines or vibrant colors?

Is there even a need to choose?

We crave high definition when watching movies, and we want the ultimate dream experience even more!

Bai Hui made a decisive choice—

【Ultimate Color】!

In an instant, the parrot transformed into a tangled mess of colorful lines in his eyes, a sight that made him dizzy and nauseous.

Even more bizarrely, the lines also contained a massive torrent of information, as if the students' inner whispers instantly appeared before his eyes and even flooded into Bai Hui's mind!

"Li Youye is such a fool, haha!"

"Here we go again! Bai Hui, Bai Hui, Bai Hui! So what if he bought the Dream Machine with his pension? I could do that too! Just a worthless piece of driftwood offered as a sacrifice!"

"Teacher Zou had mutton rice noodles this morning? It smelled so good..."

……

Besides these, there were countless blurry figures, seemingly elderly men and women, gossiping at the entrances of villages!

The overwhelming amount of information far exceeded the brain's capacity. Bai Hui's face flushed and paled, and amidst his dizziness, he felt his stomach churning.

"Ugh~"

He suddenly vomited.

The deathly silence of the examination hall was instantly ripped apart by a sharp, anthropomorphic bird's cry:

"Holy crap! Who came up with this question?! Bai Hui is sick of it!"

"Holy crap! Who came up with this question?!"

"Holy crap!..."

……

The sound of flapping wings was dense and overwhelming, and the noisy birdsong drowned out the classroom.

Li Youye stared in astonishment at Bai Hui, who was inexplicably vomiting beside her, while the classmates in front of her, startled, also turned around instinctively.

However, Bai Hui was vomiting, but strangely staring intently at the classroom ceiling.

At the same time, they also heard the noisy, anthropomorphic bird calls.

So, without even realizing it, they all instinctively looked up in the direction Bai Hui was looking—

"Li Youye stayed up all night playing on his phone again!"

"I like Yu Lian!"

"Luo Daiyun is so beautiful..."

"I'm already a freshman in high school. If both Tsinghua and Peking University accept me in three years, which one should I choose?"

"Hehehe, my feet stink! That's so stinky! Typical of me!"

"I shouldn't have eaten mutton this morning. Now I'm having morning sickness, and I still have to proctor the exam. It's just..."

……

The gossips and secrets in people's hearts were unleashed by the unrestrained shouts of the 'long-tongued parrots'.

The teachers and students in the class all changed color, and each of them found a piece of gossip that they could relate to.

Cut with simple lines! Simple lines!

Bai Hui was extremely distressed. The excessively high-definition "image quality" allowed him to understand the structure of the classroom camera and the true nature of the "long-tongued parrot," and he seemed to have gained some insight.

However, the amount of information it contained was too enormous for Bai Hui to handle. Just as he was about to go completely insane, perhaps out of the instinct for survival, Bai Hui hurriedly switched the 'image quality'. Instantly, the 'long-tongued parrots' transformed from disorder into order.

Long passages of text description came into view—

[Strange Tales: The Long-tongued Parrot]

[Description: Normally resembling a parrot with an extremely long tongue, it has an intense curiosity about the secrets in people's hearts and feeds on them.]

If eye contact is made with it, it will become active and broadcast gossip within its area.

……

Bai Hui was stunned.

The intense discomfort he felt from the "Ultimate Colors" finally made him realize that he wasn't dreaming.

Looking at the stick figures that had become a chaotic mess and now had names, Bai Hui finally remembered the names of his classmates as well.

At the same time, Bai Hui also realized—

It seems I've traveled through time?

So that means... your previous self was somewhat dead?!

Thinking of this, Bai Hui rolled his eyes and fainted.

The long-tongued parrots immediately started squawking even louder—

"Holy crap! Who set this question?! Bai Hui is totally stumped!"

"Holy crap! Who came up with this question?!"

Holy crap!

……

Hearing the noisy commotion in Class 3 of Grade 11, the teacher patrolling the corridor rushed to check, but halfway there he saw dozens of brightly colored long-tongued parrots flying out of the classroom's front and back doors and windows.

His expression changed drastically, and he quickly lowered his head, not daring to meet his gaze.

……