Chapter 657 - Elementary School (2/2)

“You’ll feel better after you let it out of your chest. And as I said, you can tell me about your dad’s abnormal behaviors anytime you want,” replied Zhang Heng.

“So that you can continue to study the subject of emotion serving as a trigger for crimes? I’ll pa.s.s. Although my parents always quarrel, they are not going to kill each other.” Bai Qing finished the last sentence quickly, pulling out her biology textbook from her schoolbag.

Zhang Heng had almost completely forgotten how he spent his high school years. Whether it was the phoenix trees outside the window or the sound of playing from the playground, they now seemed so foreign and unfamiliar.

And he did not remember too much about Bai Qing as well, who was sitting next to him, paying attention to the cla.s.s. There were no such things as aliens in the real world. Although the relations.h.i.+p between the two was amicable, they were cla.s.smates, and they did not go beyond that. She did not meet him at Wanda Plaza. The two had never eaten KFC together. Zhang Heng had also never listened to Bai Qing discuss her family matters.

After going to college, the two gradually lost contact with each other, just like most of his other friends in high school. Everyone met new friends in college, and each began to have new circles. Most of them did not meet up after that, and Zhang Heng only remembered that Bai Qing was enrolled in Fudan University.

Zhang Heng spent another day falling asleep in cla.s.s. At the end of the last period, all the students in the cla.s.s were almost gone. Bai Qing’s gel pen was still scribbled on the paper, and she handed her finished homework to Zhang Heng after a while. Once she entered her learning state, she would become as efficient as a machine.

“Well, this is the last one.”

“Thank you.” Zhang Heng took the homework from her and put them in his backpack. After thinking about it, he had been copying her homework for some time now. And Bai Qing even treated him to a KFC meal. He felt awful about it, so he took out his phone and checked on something

“Are you free Friday night?”

“Huh?”

“I will take you to a place after school.”

“Oh.” Bai Qing nodded. She did not know why she said yes to Zhang Heng. Her mother had been telling her to keep her distance from boys to protect herself. Traveling with a boy at night was something that her mother would never agree with. Perhaps it was because Zhang Heng had always given her a sense of security. Besides, he had “saved” her once, and it was hard to put her guard up against him. Thus, she unconsciously agreed to Zhang Heng’s proposal. “Oh, by the way, you can bring a friend with you. And I will bring a friend too.” Zhang Heng realized that Bai Qing might feel uncomfortable if she was the only girl that went with him. “Okay.” Bai Qing picked up her schoolbag as she bashfully bit her lower lip, “Then… see you tomorrow.”

“See you tomorrow.” After school, most students would either go home and slog on homework or make plans with each other. As for Zhang Heng, he had to work on the investigation immediately.

Zhang Heng hadn’t gained much information about the river, and he quickly realized that perhaps he had been heading in the wrong direction. Perhaps he should no longer be focussing on the three children but on what they found or discovered instead. What caused those creatures to attack them? Maybe their past lives could yield some answers? Zhang Heng found a school that one of the kids used to attend. He tore a piece of paper from his exercise book and wrote down the name of the school. An elementary school should have ended all their cla.s.ses by now, but fortunately, the cla.s.s teacher’s name was printed on the news. So, Zhang Heng took a taxi to the elementary school.

At that time, all the students had basically left the school and had returned home. The school’s gates, however, remained unlocked.

king for only a few steps, Zhang Heng was stopped by the security guard. “What are you here for?” the guard asked.

“Oh, I booked the badminton court at 7:00 in the evening, and my friend has already arrived,” Zhang Heng said calmly and confidently.

Many elementary and junior high schools had indoor gymnasiums. To generate some extra revenue, the indoor gymnasium would be opened to the public during non-schooling hours. Zhang Heng had checked everything out when he was in the car, which was why he knew exactly what to say at a time like this.