Chapter 161
A dark gray shadow appeared on the wall without anyone noticing.
It looked in the direction of the participants. For eyes, it had two circles, like light bulbs, on its head, lighter in color than the rest of it.
It only glanced at them before then sliding down the wall to the floor, heading Lin Yi’s direction.
There was light from the living room and Lin Yi’s shadow was cast on the shiny floor.
It quickly blended in and the shadow was pulled and deformed like magnetic fluid meeting the motion of an electromagnet.
Someone among the participants finally noticed the abnormality occurring in Lin Yi’s direction. Their eyes appeared slightly confused and wary.
The movement of the shadow didn’t stop because it had been discovered. Its movements even intensified. It was not until Qin Zhou looked over, worried about Lin Yi, that it regained its calm.
It lay so still, it was as if nothing happened.
Lin Yi couldn’t explain why he was so angry. He felt that worry for Qin Zhou must have accounted for most of it but the rest felt like guilt and powerless rage.
This feeling was uncomfortable so Lin Yi tried hard to find something to do to divert his attention.
He wandered around this apartment. The apartment had three bedrooms and a study room.
Tang Fei’s mother was in the master bedroom and Lin Yi guessed that the two other bedrooms belonged to Tang Fei and to Tang Fei’s sister.
It was easy to distinguish which bedroom belonged to whom based on the color scheme. The pink room belonged to Tang Fei’s sister while the blue room belonged to Tang Fei. Lin Yi found that these two bedrooms were both very clean. They must be cleaned daily.
However, Lin Yi found something on Tang Fei’s sister’s bed. There was a slight dent at the end of the bed, one that must have been caused by someone sitting in this spot for a long time.
In contrast, Tang Fei’s bed had no such indentation.
But the strange thing was that the door lock of Tang Fei’s room was no ordinary lock but a coded lock that could only be operated from outside the room.
Lin Yi made these observations and returned to the living room.
There were several photos on the TV cabinet. The photos were of Tang Fei’s mother and her two children.
In the photo, only Tang Fei’s mother was smiling, while both Tang Fei and his sister were solemnly looking at the camera.
Lin Yi’s eyes were first fixed on Tang Fei. He had seen Tang Fei before. When he was at that mass gravesite, he tripped over a broken tombstone. There was a photo of a boy on the tombstone. In that photo, the boy was also gloomily looking at the camera.
Tang Fei was the boy in the photo. To be precise, the photo on the tombstone was cut from this group photo here.
After looking at Tang Fei, Lin Yi’s eyes fell on Tang Fei’s sister.
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Lin Yi was familiar with these arms. They were the ones that strangled him when he was in the graveyard!
Later, as they were attempting escape route C, Blood-red Eyes had such a pair of arms.
When the fake reporter interviewed the principal of Xiushen Academy, the principal mentioned that the boy’s sister got into a car accident…
Car accident!
Wasn’t Blood-red Eyes’ appearance the same as people who got into a serious car accident?
Blood-red Eyes was Tang Fei’s sister.
This wasn’t difficult to guess. What was difficult to guess was why Tang Fei’s sister also appeared in the Xiushen Academy; why did she appear in Xiushen Academy looking like that and why was she preventing the participants from escaping.
Now, Lin Yi couldn’t even spare a single thought to the 0-1 Monster. He didn’t need to try to divert his attention. All his attention was focused on the three latest questions that arose in his mind.
Five escape routes, all Blood-red Eyes appeared in each of them.
On Route A running towards the gate, Blood-red Eyes appeared. After Ah Hao fell, it continued to chase the girls who were still running desperately.
On route B towards the back mountains, after Lin Yi entered the mass gravesite, Blood-red Eyes appeared and strangled his neck.
On route C, running to the left/south, it chased Xiao Chen to the river.
On route D, running into Building 2, Blood-red Eyes had actually appeared but it followed behind without making much noise.
On route E, running to the right/north, according to Qin Zhou, it also appeared and never gave up chasing after them.
Judging from these five escape routes, Blood-red Eyes had indeed been preventing them from escaping.
But now that route C was shown to be a dead end, Blood-red Eyes’ behavior of preventing them from escaping had become – preventing them from reaching a dead end.
In other words, Blood-red Eyes was saving them.
From this point of view — why did Blood-red Eyes go past Ah Hao after he fell? Because Ah Hao’s fall stopped him from reaching a dead end, so Blood-red Eyes continued on to stop the others.
He hadn’t been attacked in the gravesite. Blood-red Eyes had been trying to take him away.
For all the other escape routes as well, Blood-red Eyes wasn’t preventing them from escaping, but saving them.
Therefore, when the participants jumped into the river, not knowing its intentions, Blood-red Eyes shed tears. From the perspective of Blood-red Eyes, it was helplessly watching the participants heading to deaths.
Lin Yi stared at this group photo.
Because of his breathing, fog appeared on the glass of the photo frame. Lin Yi stretched out his hand to wipe it away.
Even more thought ran through his mind as he did this.
One character was missing from the photo, the children’s father.
There was currently no clue as to where the children’s father had gone but it didn’t matter. Lin Yi could guess. He guessed that this was a single-parent family, with the two children being cared for by the mother.
It was undoubtedly hard for a single mother to take care of two children. Sometimes it was difficult to take into account the children’s emotions, resulting in some common conflicts between children and the parent.
Judging from the interview with the parent, Tang Fei was an ignorant child. After his mother experienced the pain of losing her daughter, he did not know how to be considerate of his mother. Instead, he became rebellious while his mother was physically and mentally exhausted. His mother was extremely disappointed in him and believing him to be a devil, sent him to Xiushen Academy to be reformed.
There was a huge contradiction here.
His mother said that Tang Fei wasn’t half as sensible as his sister, which angered Tang Fei into kicking down his sister’s tombstone.
But the facts reflected in the photo did not support this.
The role played by the more than 20 participants was Tang Fei and it was Tang Fei who was being saved by Blood-red Eyes. From this, we can get an answer for Sister Tang Fei’s expressionless face in the group photo. Sister Tang Fei’s disgust wasn’t directed at Tang Fei but at Tang Fei’s mother. Otherwise, it wouldn’t appear on every escape route, trying its best to stop Tang Fei from reaching a dead end.
The sister and Tang Fei were in the same camp.
Since the sister was sensible, how could she not understand her mother who had been going through so much hardship?
Unless the mother had been doing things that were difficult for the sensible sister to understand and agree with.
Such as the mother’s pathological monitoring of them.
This could be seen from the depression on the bed, where the mother had sat constantly, watching the sister’s every move.
But after all, she was alone and couldn’t look after both children, so a combination lock was placed on Tang Fei’s door, restricting Tang Fei’s freedom to come and go.
This parenting approach made Tang Fei and his sister hate their mother. So in the group photo they were unable to smile as they should as a happy family.
After the sister’s car accident, the mother was in great pain. She regretted not taking better care of her daughter.
As a result, her control over Tang Fei intensified. The year-round restriction and the death of his sister made things unbearable for Tang Fei. Tang Fei’s desire to escape was seen by his mother as a child’s rebellion.
She sent Tang Fei to Xiushen Academy. Without his mother’s control, Tang Fei could even take a breather in Xiushen Academy. He was very obedient, so he quickly ended his reform period and was sent back to his mother.
He was thrown once again into this oppressive existence. His mother took Tang Fei to pay homage to his deceased sister.
The mother said, ‘If only you were as sensible as your sister’.
This statement made Tang Fei’s psychological defenses collapse. Perhaps only he knew that his sister’s sensibility was just a way to gain a bit of space. He kicked down his sister’s tombstone, not wanting his sister to be supervised by his mother even after her death.
The mother hated Tang Fei and said called Tang Fei a devil.
So Tang Fei was sent back to Xiushen Academy once again.
After entering the palace for the second time, Tang Fei no longer obeyed and behaved. If he behaves, he would be sent back to his mother. However, he never thought that his life would end at the hands of the abusers at Xiushen Academy.
So there was Tang Fei’s tombstone in the mass gravesite. What was disappointing was that, just like his dead sister, he still couldn’t escape from his mother’s constant monitoring even after death. Forms of his mother filled the mass gravesite.
Lin Yi could understand that feeling. After he stepped into the graveyard, the eyes of the mothers had all zeroed in on him. He was always in the center of their eyes, there was no way to escape.
Lin Yi had found the main plot.
But he didn’t immediately share it with the other participants.
Although the Monster World here wasn’t restricted by rules, it was similar to the Rule Worlds in other aspects; that is, this world was created around the will and ideas of the Monster.
Just like the unreasonable location of Xiushen Academy in a deep mountains, the Monster fabricated its own world based on its intense personal feelings.
In fact, the five escape routes they analyzed were correct. It was the Monster itself who blocked their way out.
Escape towards the gate and there was a security booth. If they take route A, they would be discovered by the guards in the booth.
Escape to the back mountains, where there is mass gravesite and Tang Fei’s mother would personally bar their way.
If they run to the left, they will be taken to the police station by the villagers and then sent back to their mother by the police.
Escape to the right, where was the reception hall for the parents. The mother didn’t care whether Tang Fei suffered in Xiushen Academy or not. All she wanted was an obedient puppet who had no dreams of escape. The participants would be waiting in vain for help from the parent.
If they ask the reporter for help, the reporter would also be put in jail. The participants would only get their hopes up for it to later be dashed.
Perhaps Xiushen Academy has far more than these five escape routes but Lin Yi could guarantee that any escape route would be blocked by the Monster.
Monsters are bred by evil. The Monster blended in with the participants not to escape from the Xiuxian Academy with them but to maliciously watch the participants feel despair over and over again; experiencing the darkness that it had experienced in life as a human.
The only good in its whole world was the sister. But the sister could only prevents them from reaching a dead end. It couldn’t help them leave. Just like his sister took care of him when she was alive but still couldn’t change the final outcome.
The Monster had no intention of letting them live.
Oh damn!
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i feel so bad for the sister QAQ!!! aaaaaah awwwoooooooo QAQ!!!!