Chapter 157
Lin Yi didn’t know how many NPCs there were in Xiushen Academy.
Afraid of bumping into other NPCs on the way to Building 2, Lin Yi ran to Building 2 almost in one breath.
He temporarily hid behind a tree trunk outside Building 2 and looked around in the darkness for a while. After making sure that no one was hiding in the dark, he quickly ran inside.
Ah Shan’s statement gave Lin Yi the precise interview location.
Ah Shan had gone to Building 2 to find a place to hide. It would have been somewhere nearby, so the interview room should be next to the stairwell.
While Lin Yi was still in the stairwell, he slowed down his pace. He kept his footsteps quiet and slowly climbed to the third floor.
After taking a couple steps, he looked back behind him.
Probably influenced by the Monster’s impressions, the entire Xiushen Academy was dark, with barely any light.
There were no lights in the stairwell and even the air was heavy.
Lin Yi took a few more steps then stopped and looked back sharply.
There was still nothing behind him. The only thing amiss was the sound of footsteps, a little too late in stopping.
He had already stopped when he turned back, so he hadn’t been the one to cause that faint sound of footsteps.
Someone was following him!
Lin Yi’s heart tightened. He moved to the handrail side of the stairwell.
Then he looked down and was caught off guard by a pair of blood-red eyes.
At this moment, Lin Yi’s breathing turned heavy but this pair of blood-red eyes simply looked up towards him. Despite being discovered by Lin Yi, they didn’t suddenly run away but just looked at him quietly.
In view of this, Lin Yi steeled himself and made to have a better look at whom these blood-red eyes belonged to.
Qin Zhou had said that he should think about him first before making any decision but Lin Yi had thought about it.
Since the blood-red eyes were following him, they must have discovered his actions long before he noticed them. But the blood-red eyes were simply following him. Up until now, they showed no sign of attacking.
Lin Yi felt that he was still quite safe and his actions wouldn’t cause consequences that Qin Zhou couldn’t bear.
Thinking this, Lin Yi’s eyes focused into the darkness.
The narrow stairwell caused some obstruction to his field of vision. Before Lin Yi could make out who they were, the blood-red eyes seemed to have noticed Lin Yi’s inspection and suddenly disappeared, leaving only the unsettlingly quiet darkness. .
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That was why Lin Yi decided to try escape route D first.
But now, there was this pair of blood red eyes.
Were these blood-red eyes the ghost’s that everyone said had chased them? Did Ah Shan not notice the ghost’s footsteps because he was so focused on escaping? Or was there some other reason? Lin Yi didn’t have time to think about any of these things right now.
Lin Yi put his hand into his pocket and touched the two notes inside. After making sure he hadn’t lost them while running, he took a deep breath and continued on.
Since the blood red eyes posed no threat to him for the time being, Lin Yi no longer paid any mind whether there were footsteps behind him.
He arrived at the third floor of Building 2.
Thinking that the room must be next to the stairwell, Lin Yi slowed his breathing and moved slowly against the wall.
No sound was heard from the first room so Lin Yi continued to the next room.
There were muffled voices coming from the second room.
Lin Yi stopped moving and listened carefully to the conversation in the room.
“Do the children’s parents come often to visit and check the progress of their reform?”
“Generally speaking, we do not recommend parents to come and visit the children. The children’s life here is definitely not as good as with their families. The arrival of the parents can easily destroy all our hard work.”
“What do you think about how fearful of you the children who’d left Xiushen Academy are?”
It’s here. It was the same as what Ah Shan had recounted.
There were two voices inside. After the younger voice asked, the calmer voice paused for a moment and then laughed. “This is normal. Usually, parents who are strict with their children are always disliked by their children. Quotation marks should be placed on ‘dislike’. Hahahaha.”
“The voices accusing you on the Internet…,” the reporter asked.
Before the reporter could finish his question, the principal said, “All false accusations. If we really abused the children, parents wouldn’t be sending their children to Xiuxian Academy again.”
The reporter captured the key point. “Is there a child who was enrolled a second time?”
The principal said, “There is.”
The reporter asked, “Can you tell me about the child’s situation?”
The principal said, “I won’t reveal the child’s name.”
The reporter said, “No problem, I understand. It’s for the sake of the child!”
The principal continued, “It’s a boy. His parents divorced and custody was given to the mother. The boy had an older sister. After the older sister got in a car accident, the child’s mother was mentally and physically exhausted. She tried but was unable to properly discipline the boy. The child was young and ignorant and often ran away home. Every time he did so, the mother would be so worried, she’d be unable to rest or sleep for days and nights on end.”
Later, the child’s mother learned about Xiushen Academy and she researched about us online. In fact, at first, the mother also believed the rumors about us on the Internet so we invited her to come to the academy to see for herself. And once she did, all those rumors were proven false. We were then given charge of the boy.
The principal narrated, “At first, the boy performed very well and was very obedient, so much so that it even made our instructors wonder if the mother had made a mistake. So what had originally been a year’s course, the boy finished in three months. We handed the transformed child back to the parent.”
After he returned home, the boy was indeed more obedient than before. When we visited him at home, the mother thanked us repeatedly. But the change occurred three months after our return visit.
The reporter asked, “Did something happened?”
“Yes.” The principal said, “It was during the sister’s death anniversary. When the boy and the mother went to visit the cemetery, she said, ‘If only Xiao Fei was half as sensible as you.’ This was actually something the mother frequently said. But while she might not have meant it, to the boy, these words hurt. It caused the boy’s rebelliousness to skyrocket again. According to the mother, this time the boy got even more violent and even punched and kicked his sister’s tombstone. The child’s mother was heartbroken and reached out to us again. ”
“Indeed, this time the boy really hurt his mother’s heart. The mother changed from calling to boy ‘Xiao Fei’ to ‘Devil’. Sigh, to be honest, we felt sad after hearing this. It’s actually a simple thing. Unfair favoritism isn’t uncommon in families with children. The boy’s home situation was just little more complicated since the object of comparison is his dead sister. How can a living person compare to someone who lives only in memory?”
After listening to the principal’s account, the reporter asked, “So how is this boy doing now?”
“””The way we see it, there are no bad children, let alone devils. There are reasons why children are rebellious and disobedient. As long as we find the reasons and prescribe the right medicine, all bad children will become good and sensible children that parents like. Just like with the boy in this case, our instructors have been trying to make the boy understand his mother. How can there be a parent who doesn’t like their own child? Even two-children households, the palm of the hand or the back of the hand, either is still flesh. As long as the boy truly understands his mother, he will be a good boy that everyone will love in the future.”
“Can we go see the children?” the reporter asked again.
The principal apologized, “It’s not that we don’t allow the children to be seen and we definitely don’t have anything to feel guilty of as the netizens accuse us. Only that the children are still young and they have their entire future ahead of them. If we shove them in front of the camera, this will a stain on their future. What would happen to them then? So even though there are many rumors on the Internet, we choose to remain silent. It doesn’t matter if dirty water is thrown at us. The children may have temporarily lost their way but we have to consider their future!”
“I understand.” The reporter said, “Thank you very much, principal, for accepting our interview.”
“You’re welcome, you’re welcome.”
…
Lin Yi heard a beep in the room.
It was similar to the sound a machine makes when it shuts down.
There were concluding remarks being exchanged and the sound of the machine shutting down. Lin Yi estimated that the two would be coming out soon.
He dodged and hid in the stairwell leading to the rooftop. He then took note of the spots where the two would pass by, waiting for the opportunity to pass the note in his pocket to the reporter.
After a while, two people appeared.
Lin Yi was momentarily stunned.
He could clearly see that the two men were dressed alike.
Their attire was the same, but it wasn’t difficult to tell who was the reporter and who was the principal.
In terms of voice timbre, the reporter was younger and the principal was older.
And the reporter was holding a digital video camera.
Lin Yi held the distress note in his pocket.
How come the reporter and the principal were dressed the same? Was it a coincide?
Lin Yi didn’t think there was such a thing as coincidence in the Rule Worlds. The contradiction that was Xiushen Academy being built deep in the mountains made it even more unlikely that there would be coincidences here. There must be a reason why the two of them had on the same clothes.
Lin Yi stared closely at the two people walking down the corridor. He found that the clothes on the reporter did not fit well. The fit was so bad it was almost certain that these clothes didn’t belong to the reporter.
Due to the layout of the corridor, the two quickly disappeared from Lin Yi’s sight. Lin Yi raised his feet to follow but took a step and then stopped.
Xiushen Academy occupied a vast area, with buildings far apart and a large area of flat land.
If he just followed the reporter like this, he would be easily discovered. Even Lin Yi couldn’t determine whether the reporter was actually good or bad, he was, after all, also an NPC. It would have been fine it had just been the reporter but now, with two of them, the danger level has increased.
Out of consideration for Qin Zhou, he couldn’t follow for now.
After thinking about it, Lin Yi walked down the corridor to the room where the interview had been conducted.
He had only heard the door opening but not closing.
Sure enough, when we got to the interview room, the door wasn’t locked. It wasn’t even closed; as though they were in a hurry to do something and had no time to close the door.
Lin Yi pressed against the wall and quietly looked inside.
It was silent in the room.
After making sure there was no one inside Lin Yi stepped in, turned around and closed the door.
After closing the door, Lin Yi ran to the window opposite and opened it. In case someone broke in, he wouldn’t be blocked off without a way to escape.
Then Lin Yi looked at the situation in the room.
It was an office. It was much better than the room that thugs had prepared for him. It even had a wardrobe.
Lin Yi saw a coat draped over the armrest of the sofa. He reached out, took the coat and looked at it.
A bad premonition started to spread in his heart. Lin Yi ran to the wardrobe and flung both doors with open. When he saw the things inside, his bad feeling was immediately confirmed.
He knew why the two men were dressed the same.
This situation was bad.
Dun dun duuuuuun
I just realized what is this. This is Reform Camps.
Seriously some “parents” doesn’t deserve to be parents.