Chapter 895: Hostages
Chapter 895: Hostages
As I exchanged information with Professor Bai, I suddenly remembered that I hadn’t used today’s opportunity to ask a question in ‘Heartbeat Q&A’ yet, so I asked a question while Professor Bai went to the washroom.
“Xiao Qin, would you be happy if my father and your mother got married?”
I took it seriously this time and tried to see how Xiao Qin could possibly react to this future scenario.
However, after a 5 second pause, the virtual Xiao Qin answered:
“I wouldn’t be happy! Why would the two of them get married? Ye Lin classmate, are you joking with me? You must be joking!”
Huh? It seems like Xiao Qin doesn’t support our parents’ marriage? Does she care a lot about whether we become step-siblings?
I wanted to continue the virtual Q&A with Xiao Qin on this issue, but I already used up my daily question. Since I was already in the Happy Science staff dormitory and talking to Professor Bai, I thought I might as well leave my phone backdoor mode and leave it on for three hours to get an extra chance to ask another question.
However, I did some calculations and discovered that there was a bug with the feature that Professor Bai mentioned saying you get 8 extra questions a day if you leave it on for 24 hours.
In the final three hours of the day, from 21:00 to 24:00, since ‘Heartbeat Q&A’ doesn’t carryover questions, then the 8th opportunity will be always be given away at the last second of the day and deleted right away. It’s basically an instant delivery and deletion, and there’s no time to even use it and ask a question. It’s even more deceptive than a telecommunications company!
After Professor Bai came back from the washroom, I reported the bug to him and expressed my discontent.
“Huh? Didn’t you receive my message?” Professor Bai was slightly surprised, “I’ve already sent you a message to specifically explain the eighth giveaway. Since it’s given at midnight the next day, it gets included with the next day’s questions. It would not delete it right after it’s given to you.”
I looked up Professor Bai’s avatar on ‘Heartbeat Q&A’. After double-clicking it, I found the explanation message, but I didn’t notice it before.
Even though Xiao Qin, the class leader, and Gong CaiCai were all virtual versions of themselves on ‘Heartbeat Q&A’, they were still girls. Isn’t it normal for people to focus on the girls and ignore the old man?
Since I was away from school today, I actually received texts from those three girls.
In chronological order, the first was from Xiao Qin. She didn’t see me after arriving at school at 7:40, so she immediately sent me a text asking me where I was and that I would be late if I didn’t come soon.
Do you think I would have told her I was helping Su Qiao dry her underwear? Fortunately, I held back last night, otherwise I would have felt that I was unqualified to reply to Xiao Qin’s text.
Since I hadn’t contacted Grandma Su yet, I didn’t know the specific arrangements for the day, so I texted back and told Xiao Qin that I had something to do today and might not go to school. I told her to study hard and don’t lower her standards because I wasn’t around.
Not long after, I called Xiong YaoYue to help me request a leave of absence. Shortly after Xiong YaoYue helped me request leave, the class leader sent me a text:
“I heard that you stayed up all night at an internet cafe? If that’s true, then you’re not taking good care of your body at all!”
It wasn’t really a checkup but more like she was blaming me. Since the class leader knew about my heart, she thought that staying up all-night was almost like committing suicide.
I replied to the class leader: “Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.” At this time, I received another text message from Gong CaiCai.
“Ye Lin classmate, if you believe hard enough that you can come to school, then you’ll recover quickly and be able to come to school. I hope you get well soon.”
She completely thinks of me as a fellow parishioner! Even if the law of attraction was true, most students won’t want to believe hard enough that they can go to school, but want to believe hard enough that they have to stay away from school!
I thought I could take advantage of Su Qiao’s incident and avoid going to school today. However, at 5:30 in the afternoon, I received shocking news —— seven people had rushed into class 3-3 of 28 Middle and held the students who didn’t leave yet as hostages. They called me out by name and said they would only release the students after they see me.
What the hell?! Why would something like this happen at our school! Also, why are they looking for me? I didn’t bother anyone!
I heard about it in a phone call from Xiong YaoYue while I was walking home after leaving Happy Science. At first, I thought Xiong YaoYue was joking.
“You can’t even lie! It’s already strange for one person to rush into a school. How could seven people rush into it at once?”
“There’s really seven people! They sneaked in by pretending to be parents who came to pick up their children!” Xiong YaoYue seemed anxious over the phone, “The police have already sealed off our school because those guys have gas tanks. They threatened us and said that if you don’t meet them quickly, they’ll blow up the gas tanks and kill all the hostages!”
Xiong YaoYue wasn’t usually a reliable person, but she wasn’t someone who would make such a bad joke, and her tone didn’t sound like she was faking it.
As if to prove that Xiong YaoYue was telling the truth, Xiong YaoYue’s phone was snatched away by the person next to her, and then a male spoke to me in a familiar voice:
“Ye Lin, I just arrived at the scene, but are these seven people your accomplices? Are they causing trouble for you because of your uneven distribution of the spoils? Anyway, it’s important that you come over quickly and rescue the hostages.”
It was the voice of Officer Ma from the anti-narcotics division. Whenever a case related to me occurred, regardless of whether it was within his area of responsibility, he would intervene to avoid missing the opportunity to collect evidence of my crimes.
As I got more and more information, I realized the severity of the situation and immediately took a taxi and rushed to school.
I was able to outline a rough sketch of the situation based on what the direct witness, Xiong YaoYue, told me.
Today was Thursday, September 12th. The last class was English class taught by teacher Yu. After the bell rang, everyone picked up their bags and walked out. Only a few students stayed because of class duty and other reasons.
Normally speaking, the students on duty should have been student number 30 (me) and student number 31 (Mu ZhongMing). Since I was away today, Xiong YaoYue volunteered to take my place on duty and the class leader didn’t object.
As everyone was putting on their bags and leaving, the class leader was standing next to the lectern and discussing the specific arrangements for the self-study session on the evening of the 16th with teacher Yu. The other people left in the classroom were Xiao Qin, who volunteered to be on duty for me along with Xiong YaoYue, and Sun Yu, who shamelessly pestered Gong CaiCai and asked if she wanted to go see a movie with him on Saturday.
Ever since the incident on Cui Song Mountain, when the whole class went crazy searching for the blue morpho butterfly, Gong CaiCai said, “500,000 US dollars is only about 3 million yuan. It’s not worth having an accident for that much money.” After saying that, Sun Yu wanted to make the first move. He wanted to get with the beautiful and rich Gong CaiCai before entering high school, so he could make his dreams come true.
Of course, Gong CaiCai always listened to her parents. Her parents forbade her from dating early and the school had rules against intimate contact between different sexes, so she didn’t agree to any of Sun Yu’s advances. Although Sun Yu wasn’t ugly, he always liked to put on airs in front of girls, which gave people a frivolous impression. The difference between him and Shen ShaoYi, was like the difference between heaven and hell. Even if Shen ShaoYi came to pursue Gong CaiCai in person, she wouldn’t agree, let alone Sun Yu.
The class leader was also disgusted with Sun Yu’s actions. She was going to scold Sun Yu after talking to Teacher Yu. However, at this moment, things took an unexpected turn.
Loud Mouth and Little Smart, who had already reached the door of the classroom and were about to leave, were blocked by seven adult men and then driven back.
BANG. The seven people entered the classroom and immediately took out the locks they prepared in advance. They locked the front and rear doors of the classroom and blocked the door with tables.
“Nobody move! This place is already under our control!” The leader, a tall and thin man wearing a white suit and white tie, with a sickly pale face, shouted to the remaining people in the room.
Xiong YaoYue, who was holding a broom, was startled. She looked up and saw a man with sideburns. He was holding a gas tank taken out of a rainproof bag and had a cigarette in his mouth. She immediately began to curse in her mind.
She read posts on forums daily about people running into schools and killing students, but she never expected it to happen to her! And seven people came at once! What do they have against society?
“That’s right! This place is under our control!” the white suit reiterated. What surprised her was that, other than white suit and sideburns, the other five people jumped in front. They were all varying in height, and size. The five people actually imitated the opening movements of the Eighteen Bronze Men of the Shaolin Temple from ‘God of Cookery’. Xiong YaoYue felt that they didn’t do it very well and looked more like the Ginyu Force from ‘Dragon Ball’.
“Ah —— hey!” “Yeah —— hah!” “The world’s martial arts…”
The performance of these five people made everyone in the classroom dumbfounded. The class leader and teacher Yu who were nearest to them were also dumbfounded.
When they finished their performance, the leader, white suit, glanced at Teacher Yu proudly, as if to show off how capable his men were, and then he cleared his throat and shouted loudly:
“From now on, everyone listens to my order —— I order to change our route and fly to Hawaii!”
The five people who had just performed stopped as soon as they heard and they all began talking at once:
“Boss, this is different from what we talked about! Didn’t we come to 28 Middle to cause trouble in order to find Fang Xin’s weaknesses? We can’t fly to Hawaii!”
“Yes, yes! Boss, you’re thinking of going to Hawaii for vacation again! This classroom doesn’t have enough gas, so I don’t think we could fly to Hawaii!”
“That’s true…” white suit easily accepted the reasoning that there wasn’t enough gas in the classroom. He waved his hand and said again:
“Let the student named Ye Lin come out to see me! I have to pry Fang Xin’s weaknesses from him! We can’t let Fang Xin lord over the Seven Heroes of Dong Shan! We are the true rulers of Dong Shan City Mental Hospital!”