Jiang Xi Cheng was the one who discovered the bodies of Zhou Zhou and Guan Qing, and the two had been stuffed into a washing machine.
It was a mystery how two adults could be forced into such a small drum.
Gu Yun and Zhao Zhenzhen vomited until they were lightheaded while handling the corpses. Director Wu and the other two teachers arrived, but they said nothing.
Nan Yue noticed that Director Wu and Teacher Gao visibly recoiled when they saw the three dead bodies today.
In contrast, Engineer Yang was as excited as before.
"With so many new teachers gone, I need to reassign the work."
"You, take over the Math class."
Zhao Zhenzhen's face was full of refusal, but she was silenced by a single sentence from Director Wu.
"If you refuse again, there will be no more suitable work for you."
Zhao Zhenzhen understood, so she fell silent, though she continued to frantically pick at the skin on her hands until both were stained with blood.
"You do not need to stay in the kitchen anymore."
Director Wu looked at Gu Xiang Kai. "Go and look after the children's daily lives."
Gu Xiang Kai said nothing and simply nodded. Gu Yun, on the other hand, did not want to stay with Engineer Yang, but no one asked for his opinion.
"That is all. It should be over soon."
Director Wu left behind a cryptic remark and walked away, leaving several exceptionally silent scavengers behind.
"Just... what happened?"
Jiang Xi Cheng spoke with some difficulty. There had been no trouble during the Dormitory Inspection before, yet two people had died as soon as something went wrong last night.
No one knew what they had encountered. Nan Yue remained silent as well, her brow furrowed, but her gaze shifted to the clock in the hall.
The first period after the meal was Dance class. Zhu Xi Ning went to class on her own, while Zhao Zhenzhen sought out Nan Yue.
Perhaps because she thought Bai La La was a deaf-mute, Zhao Zhenzhen did not avoid her presence.
"Sister Nan... do you know when Xie Qi Qi's Math class was scheduled?"
Nan Yue looked at her with some surprise. The girl no longer possessed any of the innocence and cuteness she had when they first entered the mission; her eyes were bloodshot, she looked neurotic, and her eyes were bulging unnaturally.
"Where is your class schedule?"
Zhao Zhenzhen fumbled in her clothes and placed it on the table.
Nan Yue looked at the class schedule, which had been smeared until its original form was unrecognizable. "This is..."
Zhao Zhenzhen was restless, constantly picking at the hangnails on her hands.
"I do not know when it became like this. No one touched it. It is impossible for anyone to have touched it."
Zhao Zhenzhen kept repeating herself. "Who touched it? It is impossible. Why would it become like this?"
Zhao Zhenzhen was a life teacher, so the class schedule did not mean much to her, which explained why she had not valued it.
"I can only tell you when my Chinese class is."
Everyone's schedule was different, so they could only use the process of elimination. Moreover, no one had thought to retrieve the class schedule from Xie Qi Qi's corpse.
"Do not worry too much. You can figure it out by asking the others. Besides, your original schedule might not have been accurate anyway."
Nan Yue comforted her, but Zhao Zhenzhen could not listen at all. Even though it was just a useless, ruined class schedule, she was already on the verge of a breakdown.
【This is my Drawing class.】
Bai La La wrote her own schedule on a piece of paper.
Zhao Zhenzhen stared at the note for a long time before finally nodding.
"Yes, ask the others. The others."
Watching Zhao Zhenzhen leave in a daze, neither Nan Yue nor Bai La La said anything.
Given Zhao Zhenzhen's state, she likely would not be leaving this mission.
Nan Yue's Chinese Language and Literature textbook today featured a story about a little girl who was harmed, targeted, and abused by the entire world.
The protagonist was very pitiful. She had lost her parents at a young age and was abused by teachers after arriving at an orphanage, where she was required to receive strange men.
Her friends were taken away one by one by eccentric people, auctioned off, or even tortured to death.
The concluding words made Nan Yue's blood run cold.
"The princess in the fairy tale will have a happy life, but only despair awaits me."
These words did not sound like something a child would say at all, feeling very disconnected from the preceding text.
The children's moods were very low, as the lesson must have triggered their own personal experiences.
"Do you want to leave this place?"
The children looked up at Nan Yue with expressionless faces. After a long silence, only Li Xue'er answered Nan Yue's question.
"We cannot leave."
"We only hope to have a teacher we like to accompany us."
After class, Nan Yue was blocked at the classroom door by Zhao Zhenzhen.
"You lied to me!"
Zhao Zhenzhen was somewhat hysterical, her entire being even more irritable than she had been in the morning.
"I went around asking everyone. Your Chinese class and Ideology and Morality class overlap!"
Nan Yue understood after thinking for a moment. Ideology and Morality was Chi He's class.
How could that guy obediently reveal the time of his classes?
Leaving someone to die was normal for him, let alone doing someone a favor.
There was no way Chi He would help Zhao Zhenzhen.
"I did not lie."
Zhao Zhenzhen simply could not listen. She glared at Nan Yue with hatred.
"You did it on purpose! You are holding a grudge against me because of Zhu Xi Ning, and you want to kill me!"
"You wicked woman!"
Nan Yue showed no expression and felt no anger, but instead, she felt a sense of sorrow.
Zhao Zhenzhen had been broken by fear. She probably realized she could not leave alive, causing her emotions to collapse completely.
"Chi He is also a newcomer. He has no grievances with me, so why would he lie to me!"
Nan Yue found it difficult to explain.
Zhao Zhenzhen's malicious words came one after another, like the final wail of a dying person.
"Teacher, why are you speaking like that?"
Because Zhao Zhenzhen had blocked Nan Yue right at the door, the children witnessed this farce.
At first, the children hid behind Nan Yue in fear. Later, as Zhao Zhenzhen's words became increasingly nasty, Li Xue'er, who had always been protective of Nan Yue, could not help but poke her head out to try and stop Zhao Zhenzhen.
Zhao Zhenzhen had lost all reason, and she sneered, "What does it have to do with you? You cannot even save yourselves, do you not know that? You are all demons!"
As soon as Zhao Zhenzhen finished speaking, Nan Yue slapped her hard.
The crisp sound of the slap caused the entire corridor to fall silent. The other scavengers watching the scene from the side held their breath, terrified by the sudden surge of killing intent radiating from Nan Yue.
Nan Yue leaned in and whispered into Zhao Zhenzhen's ear.
"You should be grateful that this mission is a team effort and that your death would affect everyone else."
Zhao Zhenzhen's shattered reason returned slightly as she understood Nan Yue's meaning.
Otherwise... Nan Yue really would have killed her.
Cries began to ring out one after another from behind her. Nan Yue turned around to see that many of the children had been frightened into tears by Zhao Zhenzhen's hideous expression.
Li Xue'er looked like a delicate little doll when she cried, making one's heart ache for her.
The few scavengers no longer dared to watch the drama and came over to comfort the children.
Even if these children were just NPCs, they did not want to see them so miserable.
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