Chapter 90 - The Cursed Ballpoint Pen (1/2)
Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97
Fan Yu’s aunt had also seen the scene inside the classroom. The children sitting at the tables with their heads lowered were similar to the students shot inside her brother’s group photo. After collapsing to the floor, fear was frozen on her face. She tried to stand up, but her limbs refused to listen to her command.
“Shush!” Chen Ge rushed to the woman’s side to grab her arm and half-dragged her out of the education block!
The rumors were real. Regardless of their cause of death, the students had all returned to that classroom.
“You saw it, right? Right‽” Seeing them in a picture and seeing them in real life had a completely different feeling. The woman’s eyes bulged out of their sockets, and her breath came haltingly.
“Let’s leave this place for now.” Chen Ge dragged Fan Yu’s aunt to the entrance of the education block. Before they left, he turned back to glance at the classroom. The door and windows were closed, and it was completely dark within.
I’ve been inside the school for so long already, and they haven’t actively attacked me. Looks like they aren’t malevolent spirits. Chen Ge had basis to believe that. The girl who was made insane by Fan Yu’s father had committed suicide in that classroom, and the one who came out to help her was one of the spirits from that classroom. The people who wrote the warning notes to Fan Yu’s father were the spirits. They were trying to protect the school’s students, even though their method was a bit wrong.
Chen Ge held Fan Yu’s aunt as they wandered over to Mu Yang High School’s front gate. They stood beside it to avoid the rain. It was already past midnight. Chen Ge did not think it is wise to stay inside that three buildings, plus he had a random variable in Fan Yu’s aunt to be concerned about.
At around 1 am, the rain started to slow. There was light coming toward Mu Yang High School. When Chen Ge saw this, he immediately turned on his flashlight and cried for help. As the leaves of the forest parted, a group of people forced their way through in their raincoats.
“Here! The suspect has already been detained!” Chen Ge was excited, but when he saw the person who was leading the way, his confidence dwindled.
“Why is it you again?” When Inspector Lee reached the gate and saw Chen Ge, his face began twitching. “The same person has called the emergency hotline thrice in a week. This is the first time that has ever happened in the station’s 35 years history. Did you know that? Even the officer who answers the calls felt like he can now recognize your voice.”
Chen Ge was made speechless by Inspector Lee. He too felt embarrassed. He quickly hauled Fan Yu’s aunt off the floor and led her to Inspector Lee. Inspector Lee asked his men to break the school’s gate open, and before entering, he asked, “She’s also a victim?”
“No, she’s one of the killers.” Chen Ge handed Fan Yu’s aunt over to one of the officers.
“One of the killers?” Inspector Lee flickered his flashlight thrice to alert his men. “There are other killers still hiding inside the school?”
“The other killer is already dead.” Chen Ge summarized everything he knew for Inspector Lee. “This woman’s brother was a voyeur, and after the brother’s wife found out, she used it to leverage a divorce. Unwilling to part, her brother killed his wife, and she happened to see her brother do that. To prevent herself from being killed, she killed her brother.”
“So, it was self-defense?” Inspector Lee caught onto the key question.
“If that was the case, she should have reported to the police after that. However, after she killed her brother, she cleared the crime scene and left. The murder happened three years ago, and there is no other witness. Everything I know, it was she who told me.” Chen Ge pointed at Fan Yu’s aunt. “So, it is not unlikely that she was lying.”