CH 139.2

One is a respected Chairman of the School Board, and the other is an unmarried, pregnant girl with the label of “slut.” Who would the family believe based on one mouth alone?

When it comes to judging the authenticity of a relationship, the unequal status of the two parties often influences people’s judgment.

Of course, this was not an accusation against people’s judgment but rather the work of some people who use public opinion to protect themselves.

The PE teacher was already a big lesson, and Han Li probably knew about it all along.

By choosing silence, at least she could still leave in peace and quiet.

If she chose to resist, she might not be the only one who would be hurt, but her family might also be affected.

Su Fan stood aside, silently observing Bai Lixin’s expression.

When Bai Lixin raised his head, Su Fan sent a lighter over.

Bai Lixin’s beautiful, deep eyes looked at Su Fan, who coughed lightly, “What? I thought you’d want to burn this hellhole?”

“We’ll burn it later, let’s first see if there is a backup.” Bai Lixin took the lighter and said, “Don’t forget, we still have to find that dancing girl’s brooch.”

Bai Lixin looked at the time in the task bar, half an hour had passed since Chairman Huang had left.

It was time to seize the moment.

Both were efficient players of the thriller escape game, and it didn’t take them long to discover the things hidden in the mattress.

Rather than calling them “stuff,” it would be more appropriate to call them “trophies.”

Each item in the square box was wrapped in a see-through bag, to which a label was attached.

The labels detailed who the items belonged to.

There was a brooch from the dancer, a tie from Xiao Jing, a floral button from Han Li ……

There were over fifty items stuffed in the box.

More than fifty items, perhaps representing more than fifty people.

The relationships at Wensong High School were unequal; if the students were groupers in the ocean, then Chairman Huang was a shark.

Throwing a shark with an antisocial personality and a murderous ‘nature’ inside a grouper, one can only imagine what the consequences would be.

Bai Lixin got a pouch from his backpack and dumped the victims’ belongings into it, followed by all the tapes.

Items in the game could not be put into the backpack unless they were considered props by the system.

However, this pouch had a special feature: it was a prop itself, and when it is filled, the system would recognize the items as props and they could be put in the backpack.

While Bai Lixin stowed away the pouch, Su Fan prepared to light up the place on the other end.

They searched all the corners, but no video backup existed.

It should be that Chairman Huang was very careful, he wouldn’t make copies of such incriminating evidence.

After all, every time a copy was made, there was a possibility of it getting out.

After confirming there were no backups, Su Fan rubbed the threads for the ignition.

As soon as Bai Lixin started the fire, the dark basement was immediately invaded by thick, bright, fiery red flames.

The door to the basement was closed, another fire was started, and the entire third-floor of the office building was engulfed in flames.

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When Chairman Huang returned, all he saw was a raging fire.

Bai Lixin had long since left, the fire had engulfed everything in his room, including his efforts over the past fifty years.

The gentleness on his face could no longer be maintained. A teacher rushed in to put out the fire, only for Chairman Huang to stop him angrily, “Don’t go in!”

The secret that had been built up over the years on the negative floor would be discovered.

A teacher pulled the hose from next door, and a group of people squeezed the hose, not knowing what to do next.

Chairman Huang gritted his teeth and said, “Go in and save the third floor; I’ll go to the basement myself.”

It took ten minutes for the fire to be put out.

But everything was gone, the floors were full of wreckage and debris, the walls were burned black, and the fine sandalwood tables and chairs in the room had all turned to dross.

On the blackened walls, the yellowed group photo hung unscathed.

What was even more bizarre was that the walls were surrounded by a dense collection of graffiti.

There were stick figures of two children holding hands with smiles on their faces.

They were the same as the ones inside Class C on the fifth floor.

Chairman Huang’s face was very ugly, he looked at the stick figures with a stony face, and the other teachers were also silent, not even daring to breathe out.

He kicked the broken door to the basement and walked in alone.

The basement was in an even worse state than the places above.

Everything was burned to ashes, and all the videos he had produced over the past fifty years were destroyed.

However, he had no time to mourn those tapes now; he stared at the writing on the wall, his ever-arrogant face finally showing fear.

—“We will forever be best friends!

The handwriting was unmistakable—it was House dog!

He gulped and steadied himself before returning to the third floor.

No, although the handwriting and stick figures looked like they were made by House Dog, it couldn’t be him.

He was still locked up in the corridor, and he was too weak to come out.

Calm down.

Strong fortitude and poise quickly calmed Chairman Huang down, his face regaining its usual calmness as he asked in a deep voice, “Where’s Bai Lixin?”

Only that rabbit was here when the fire started, and although he looked soft and docile on the outside, appearances can be deceiving, so maybe he was the one who started it.

Teacher Sheng replied respectfully, “He passed out from fright and has just been taken to the infirmary.”

“Passed out from fright?” Chairman Huang turned to look at Teacher Sheng and asked, “What frightened him?”

Teacher Sheng: “He said he met a ghost.”

“It walked on all fours and had long hair. It suddenly barged in here, and then the place caught fire. He tried to put out the fire, but it was too strong, and there was an explosion in the middle. He was so scared that he forgot to call the police or inform us, we found him in the corner of the corridor, shivering with fear.”

“That’s right,” another teacher echoed, ” I saw that student cowering there as I ran past, his face was pale, and he looked scared silly.”

Chairman Huang finally calmed down.

Scared silly? It looked like Bai Lixin was really just a coward.

Was it really Family Dog that lit the fire?

But how was that possible?

“Did you just say that the figure that student saw had long hair and was on all fours? Was he wearing a mask?”

A teacher hid in the corner and asked Teacher Sheng in a low voice.

Teacher Sheng was silent for a few seconds as he tried to recall, “That didn’t come up, why?”

An elderly teacher had a frightened expression on his face. “This description is similar to the one locked up on the fifth floor of the school building, and doesn’t this room look exactly like class C now?”

There were gasps in the air.

The eyes of the crowd fell on the intact photo on the wall.

Chairman Huang spoke coldly, “Calm down, don’t scare yourselves, it might be a prank by someone. That monster has been locked up on the fifth floor, it can’t get out.”

One of the teachers’ expression changed even more; he held a black plastic bag in one hand, and raised it with a trembling hand, “Umm, Chairman, the corridor at the end of the fifth floor is actually empty.”

The air was even frostier, and Chairman Huang’s face was even uglier. “Empty? Weren’t you watching class C?! How come?”

The teacher was the new class teacher of class C who had just swapped places with Teacher Zhao, and under Chairman Huang’s fierce gaze, he gulped and stumbled over his words, “It was during the lunch break that I noticed the broken chains.”

Chairman Huang roared, “Trash! Where is that monster? When was the chain broken?!”

The teacher supported himself on the wall, very aggrieved, “I, I don’t know when it was, I had a lot of work in the morning and was not in the classroom. When I noticed it, I gathered the guts to go in and look, and all I found was this.”

He took a blood-stained mask out of the plastic bag, and the teacher respectfully placed it on the floor, saying, “That’s all there is.”

The hideous face mask was suddenly on display, with the two hollowed points looking upwards, as if gazing at the group of frightened teachers.

“Oh, wasn’t it said that the monster would die if the mask was removed?” The Class C teacher whispered, “Now there’s only the mask, so it should be dead, right?”

Teacher Sheng: “I’ve actually been wanting to ask, who said that the monster would die if the mask was removed?”

“Someone tried, ah, its body quickly heals the moment it’s attacked, but it screams in pain when you try to break the mask. The mask must be his weakness, and this was passed on over time.”

“……” Teacher Sheng couldn’t help but pour cold water over them, “When tearing off the fish’s scales, the fish will also jump up and down in pain, but does it die because of that?”

Idiots!

All the teachers: “……”

I think he’s mocking us, but we have no proof!

One teacher finally caught the point: “It might not have died?”

Chairman Huang’s arms and legs trembled, and he stumbled backward, falling in his chair and muttering under his breath, “How is that possible?”

———-

“I’m exhausted, shouldn’t you double the thank you gift you promised me?”

In the infirmary, the tall man with gold-rimmed glasses stood at the edge of the bed, looking down at the young man on it.

The young man who was “frightened,” as the teacher put it, was slowly drinking water; he glanced at the person whose face was bandaged on the next bed, then looked at Dijia and smiled, “It’s been a hard day for you.”

He didn’t eat after the morning self-study session today but had run over to ask for Dijia’s help with the operation.

Dijia prepared for over an hour, and during the second class session, Bai Lixin took a leave to go out and secretly got the little creature out from inside the fifth-floor gate and brought him to Dijia.

He was a bit scared at first, but thanks to Bai Lixin’s timely reassurance, he was able to calm down.

As soon as the anesthetic was administered, the operation began.

He hadn’t slept properly for a long time, so he was still asleep even now.

After the operation, Dijia waited for Bai Lixin to come for the mask, but to no avail, so he took the initiative to look for him, only to run into Su Fan and Teacher Sheng.